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Supporting Her Business, Around the Globe

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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Her Time to Grow featured in Canadian Parliament!

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

Andrea Wiebe

Ethiopia Ghana News Newsletter Zambia

You did it!

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 …

Andrea Wiebe

Ghana News Uncategorized

Hamidatu’s idea, come to life!

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 …

Andrea Wiebe

Ghana Newsletter

Do You Dare?

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 …

iDE Canada

Ethiopia Ghana Newsletter Zambia

Creating Opportunities Together: How Your Generosity is Helping Women Grow Their Businesses

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 …

iDE Canada