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Keeping Migrants Safe

May 21, 2020

“I decided to go to Malaysia because I was desperate,” says Chantrea Soun, a mother of four in the Kampong Cham province of Cambodia. Soun and her family were living with her aunt in a small village near a rubber plantation, just scraping by. Soun’s husband, Kiry (names have been changed), made a meager living […]

Boosting Women in Bangladesh

March 4, 2020

At Winrock, a cross-cutting theme throughout our projects is promoting the role of women through education and leadership development.  This is a story of how leadership training transformed one woman and — and through her, the village and region she represents. It was originally published in May, 2018. Photos by Misty Keasler “I have helped […]

Winrock and Kasetsart

February 19, 2020

A Winrock Legacy Story  Winrock International’s connection with Thailand’s Kasetsart University began before Winrock itself. Only 12 years after Kasetsart was established in 1943, one of Winrock’s founding organizations, the New York City-based Agricultural Development Council (then known as the Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs), began helping Kasetsart University form an agricultural economics program.  It was […]

Girl Power in Zambia

November 12, 2019

Like many girls in Mphunda Village, Zambia, 17-year-old Rabecca Mtonga dropped out of school at the age of 11. With no prospects for reentering school or getting vocational training, she married Bruno Nyirongo at age 15 and now has a young son. Despite dropping out of school, Mtonga still dreamed of running her own business […]

The Man with a Plan to End Child Labor

October 28, 2019

If you could design the person best suited for ridding the world of child labor, you’d probably come up with someone much like Dalitso Baloyi. The African regional director of the Achieving Reduction of Child Labor in Support of Education (ARISE) project, implemented in partnership with JTI, Baloyi has studied the subject and devoted much […]

Changing the Face of Clean Water Supply in Tanzania

October 17, 2019

It’s Friday morning in Hembeti, a rural village in eastern Tanzania, and Irene Lemelo is hard at work. Members of the local community update her on their progress digging trenches for water pipes, and Lemelo answers their questions about a gravity-fed water system now under construction. When she finished her engineering degree a year ago, […]

Hamro Samman Activity Launches Two New Initiatives to Promote Greater Private Sector Engagement in Combating Human Trafficking in Nepal

July 30, 2019

KATHMANDU, NEPAL – July 30, 2019 – Today, at a program to mark World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) supported Hamro Samman Activity, which is implemented by Winrock International, launched two initiatives: the Hamro Samman Innovation Challenge and the Responsible […]

US and UK Partner to Combat Human Trafficking in Nepal

June 13, 2019

June 13, 2019 – Today, the development agencies of the United States and United Kingdom announced a partnership that will support the Government of Nepal in reducing human trafficking. This new partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) will expand USAID’s ongoing Hamro […]

Tailor Made for Success

June 10, 2019

When John Ayivor of Kansakrom, Ghana, left junior high school, the last year of compulsory education in his country, his future looked bleak. As the eighth of 11 children born to poor cocoa farmers, Ayivor knew he would not be able to go to secondary school. He hoped to become a mason, but he had […]

Tuning in to Rural Communities with Radio in Zambia

February 12, 2019

Shortly after midnight on August 1, 1981, MTV broadcast its first music video, the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.” The choice of the song was a statement of purpose – television is ascendant, radio’s old news – in the same way the internet and social media later brashly elbowed their way into public consciousness. […]
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