Category Archives: Equity & Women’s Empowerment

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    Celebrating Opportunities for Women

    Written on Mar 8, 2013 1:58 pm, by

    In celebration of International Women’s Day 2013, our Community Outreach Coordinator, Cristina Hall, wrote an article about some of the actions Groundswell is taking every day in support of social equality and women’s empowerment. Groundswell believes that social equity is critical...
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    Images of Haiti’s rural communities building the future

    Written on Jan 15, 2013 11:23 am, by

    Since 2009, Groundswell International and partner organization Partenariat pour le Développement Local (PDL), have been working to strengthen rural communities as a foundation for Haiti’s development. The devastation of the January 2010 earthquake further reinforced the need to invest in...
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    Improving household livelihoods in Burkina Faso

    Written on Dec 30, 2012 9:45 pm, by

    Like the other countries in the Sahel, Burkina Faso is facing a food crisis and widespread hunger. Almost two million Burkinabe do not have enough to eat. Much of this hunger is concentrated in rural areas, where many communities suffer...
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    Improving agricultural production and food security in Ghana

    Written on Nov 20, 2012 8:49 pm, by

    Since 2010, Groundswell International and the Center for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) have worked together to spread agro-ecological farming to improve food security among the rural population of the Lawra District in the Upper West region of Ghana. ...
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    Elena Tenelema

    Written on Nov 15, 2012 9:20 am, by

    “I dreamed of being a leader in my community since I was 16 years old,” said Elena Tenelema. She lives in the tiny village of Tzimbuto located in the central Ecuadorian highlands about 10 miles from the city of Riobamba....
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    Progress report on agroecology, saving and credit program in Ghana

    Written on Mar 7, 2012 1:18 pm, by

    In July 2011, The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) joined Groundswell International’s global partnership, and in September CIKOD and Groundswell launched a program to promote agro-ecology, women’s savings and credit and related activities in the Upper West...
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    Momentum… keep it going in 2012

    Written on Dec 21, 2011 11:39 am, by

    Dear Friends, Like Cilianna Mars in La Victoire, Haiti, who leads work in her community to improve health through disease prevention and the production of natural medicines, we are happy with our progress and greatly appreciate your support. We have...
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    Women farmers lead the way in Burkina Faso

    Written on Nov 29, 2011 8:37 pm, by

    Nearly a year has passed since field work began in Burkina Faso. The results have been incredible! Here are just a few of the many achievements: 397 farmers, including 159 women, from 19 villages participated in awareness raising sessions on...
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    Women Farmers Feed the World

    Written on Oct 27, 2011 10:29 pm, by

    In West Africa, women’s resistance to the new Green Revolution shows that the question of agricultural sustainability is also a question of equality. It’s harvest season in Burkina Faso. Throughout the West African nation’s rural regions, small farmers—mostly women—are harvesting...
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    Progress in Promoting Ecological Agriculture and Food Security in Eastern Burkina Faso

    Written on Sep 6, 2011 4:33 pm, by

    Between January and May 2010, Fatou Batta, Groundswell’s Co-Coordinator for West Africa, organized a series of planning workshops that brought together representatives of a number of government agencies, non-governmental and community-based organizations working in the field of agroecology to define...