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Valentine’s in Bloom
February 14, 2017
It’s no secret that kids and vegetables don’t always get along. Just don’t tell that to the students at Municipal Elementary School São Valentim — Saint Valentine’s School — located in Linha Campestre, a poor rural community in southern Brazil. In April 2014, the Achieving Reduction of Child Labor in Support of Education (ARISE) program, […]
‘Can You Imagine This World Without Forests?’
February 3, 2017
By Chris Warren **Dr. Sandra Brown passed away at her home in Wales on February 13, 2017. Winrock International joins her family, friends and professional colleagues in mourning her loss. Please click here for an obituary.** The issues being discussed in the Guyana Forestry Commission’s (GFC) sparsely decorated, wood-paneled conference room are complex and consequential, […]
The legacy of Winthrop Rockefeller lives on in Winrock International
January 26, 2017
Winrock International began as a humble farm atop Petit Jean Mountain and has grown into a leading organization in international development… Click here to check out this special feature by Arkansas Times.
Saving the Forests
January 19, 2017
By Chris Warren There were a lot of unknowns when Norway and Guyana first began discussing the possibility of a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) deal that would limit forest loss in the South American nation. Perhaps the most important question was how to ensure that the goal of preserving Guyana’s tropical […]
Vu Thi Vinh
January 12, 2017
This portrait is part of the USAID Vietnam Clean Energy Program’s series on women champions in the Vietnamese construction sector, featuring women who have made strides in this male-dominated field, coming from diverse backgrounds and with different interests, but bound together by the common themes of a strong work ethic, love of country, a strong […]
Devex Features Winrock Work Protecting Cambodian Forests
January 11, 2017
They arrive on foot wearing tall rubber boots and faded army fatigues. Others appear on motorbikes, baseball hats pulled low against northern Cambodia’s steamy afternoon haze. They trickle in until 11 men and three women stand around a heavy wooden table or sit on rough-cut stump stools. They’re the community forest patrol of Kunpheap, a […]
A Conversation with Vicki Walker
December 22, 2016
As the lead for Winrock’s Child Labor Prevention and Protection portfolio, Vicki Walker’s experience includes implementing and advising on past projects CIRCLE 1 and 2 in more than 30 countries, CLASSE and ECHOES in Ghana and Côte d’ Ivoire, TEACH in Tanzania, CHES in Cambodia and REACH in Rwanda in addition to ongoing projects: ARCH […]
Winrock’s Canto-Lugo Named Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteer of the Year
December 20, 2016
On December 5, Winrock nominee Neelam Canto-Lugo was named the Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Volunteer of the Year at VEGA Alliance’s International Volunteer Day Forum and Awards Celebration in Washington, D.C. Canto-Lugo completed her first assignment with Winrock’s USAID-funded F2F program in rural Nepal in May 2016, working with the Women’s Development Advocacy Center (WDAC). There she […]
USAID Mission Director Praises Energy Simulation Measures for New Hanoi Training Center
December 15, 2016
USAID Mission Director for Vietnam, Mr. Michael Greene, applauded the implementation of energy simulation measures and the efforts toward energy saving during his visit to the Energy Manager Training Center (ETC) construction site in Hanoi on December 8, 2016. “I’m glad to be here to see the energy-saving solutions implemented in this building,” he said. […]
Faces of the Value Chain
December 14, 2016
When Kumar Thapa was a young boy growing up in the green, rolling hills of midwestern Nepal, he knew exactly how he wanted to occupy his days. “I wanted to study,” says Thapa, now 24, as he sits amidst rows of ripening tomato and chili plants that cover the hillside plot of land where he […]