The bakery that kept a street fed through the siege
In a district cut off from markets for months, a cooperative of twelve women turned one shared oven into a lifeline — and, quietly, into a business that now steadies thirty households.
What two hundred goats taught us about resilience
A livestock scheme designed by the women who run it is outlasting every drought forecast we were handed.
A midwife’s notebook
Kept between shifts over eleven weeks, these pages hold what the statistics leave out — and what keeps her returning to work.
We stopped saying ‘beneficiary’. Here’s what changed.
One word reshaped how our teams design programmes — and who gets to decide what help looks like.
The seed bank the women built
After the floods washed away a season, a group of farmers pooled what little remained. It became the region’s most reliable supply.
Home classrooms, one kitchen table at a time
When the school gates closed, learning moved indoors. This is how a network of quiet rooms keeps a generation reading.
After the water: rebuilding on higher ground
Relocation is rarely a single move. It is a hundred small decisions about what to carry and what to leave behind.
Three years of cash-first, in the women’s own words
We handed decisions — and budgets — to the households we serve. Here is what they chose to do with them.
Solar, soap and a small business plan
A lighting grant became a soap-making cooperative became a savings group. Compound interest, the human kind.
Notes from a field kitchen
Two thousand meals a day out of a space smaller than most people’s living rooms. The logistics, and the people who make them work.
