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Back in 2024, iDE excitedly welcomed Support Her Enterprise — aka SHE — into the fold. SHE is a Cambodian organization that specializes in providing business training to female entrepreneurs. Women in Cambodia struggle to access and benefit from business training. There aren’t many networks to connect them, and business training isn’t tailored to their …
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Northern Ghana is a dry zone, with a rainy season from May to October, and a dry season from November to April. During the dry season, very few people can farm, which means families don’t get the nutrition they need. But, farming in the dry season is possible, with the right innovation! Thanks to generous …
She didn’t want to see the flowers. Not at first anyways. When a young mother finally received her first pair of prescription glasses — just moments after arriving at a pop-up eye clinic — there was only one thing she cared about: “I want to see my baby. And my husband.” Up until that moment, …
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July 2025 We’re excited to share that the Her Time to Grow project was recently highlighted in the Government of Canada’s Report to Parliament on international assistance! 🌟 Your support makes achievements like this possible, thank you! You can read the full post — featuring entrepreneur Annie Muleba — at the link below. https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/stories-histoires/2025/iar-rai-her-time-grow-son-heure-gloire.aspx?lang=eng
Your joyful support of Her Time to Grow is helping women in Ghana feel at ease trying a new, and slightly nerve-wracking way to earn income — beekeeping. Three white beehives sit in the shade beneath some trees in the rural village of Kalbeo. As you approach the hives, you can smell the sweetness of …
Ethiopia Ghana News Newsletter Zambia
Thanks to the enthusiastic support of our iDE Canada community, WE’VE REACHED OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL OF $780k FOR ‘HER TIME TO GROW!‘ We needed your help to leverage a $7.8 million dollar grant from the Government of Canada, and donors like you came through in record time. The ‘Her Time to Grow’ project is well …
How your support is helping make bathroom facilities more affordable in rural Ghana. Hamidatu had an idea. Working in sales at iDE Ghana, she knew that buying a bathroom facility (a structure that includes the toilet, floor, walls, roof, etc.) was becoming too expensive for rural customers. That meant people weren’t getting access to safe …
Ethiopia Ghana Newsletter Zambia
Maybe you can relate to this? Many women in Zambia, Ethiopia and Ghana noted the challenge of dividing their time between various roles — mother, wife, homemaker, and income earner. We heard this over and over again in interviews for Her Time to Grow, our project supporting women in agriculture — a project you passionately …
The Polak Fund is risky. That’s the thing about big ideas. You don’t know if they’ll work or not until you test them. As Nadia Campos, iDE’s Director of Global Design says; the Polak Fund “was meant to support projects [and] experiments that other donors will never dare to do.” That’s why we are so …
Ethiopia Ghana Newsletter Zambia
Your enthusiasm and support of the Her Time to Grow project has been inspiring! In just over one year, you have donated nearly 70% of the matching funds needed to see this project through its four-year implementation. That’s $527,996!! That is a HUGE accomplishment – THANK YOU! Another thing that’s needed to get big projects …
