Groundswell’s 2021 Annual Report: Highlights
Each year, we release our annual report to illustrate the impact our organization and our partner organizations have had on sparking change in rural communities around the world. In 2021, the world continued to be plagued by crises, but we witnessed and were inspired by the resiliency of people who have committed to improving the lives of their neighbors and communities. A few highlights from the 2021 Annual Report In Honduras, Groundswell is collaborating with Vecinos Honduras to promote and scale ground-up alternatives that can reverse decades of extractive agricultural practices; political …
Report From The Field: Honduras
By: Chandi Guntupalli As Groundswell International’s newest staff member, I had the privilege of doing my first field visit to our partners in March 2022, along with our Executive Director and co-founder Steve Brescia. Steve and I traveled to Honduras at the end of March 2022 for five days to meet with our partner, Vecinos Honduras, to discuss our plans for the Central American Dry Corridor. The Central American Dry Corridor is one of the most vulnerable parts of the world, one that’s been highly affected by climate change. This region extends throughout El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and …
Voices From the Field: Interviews with Steve Brescia
At Groundswell International, collaboration is at the heart of what we do. We have always worked closely with local farmers in West Africa, the Americas, and South Asia and partner organizations in those areas because we know that the needs of every community are unique, and no one understands those unique needs better than the locals experiencing them. While our focus has always been on enabling local farmers to support their communities by creating healthy farming and food systems, we believe we can do even more. Currently, the world, including the US and the international commun …
Listening to Local Voices : Storytellers Around the Globe
In the US, there is a heightened sense that the rules of our political and economic system seembroken, and that our legacies of racism and colonialism are connected to that. But what dothese issues look like from the perspective of storytellers around the globe, namely Groundswell International’s partner organizations in Africa, the Americas and South Asia? Groundswell works to address big-picture challenges by starting locally. To do so, we try to staygrounded in the insights, wisdom and priorities of our partner organizations and thecommunities they work with. Over the last six months I’ve m …
Improving the Food Security, Incomes and Nutrition of Women-Led Families in Central Nepal
Groundswell International and our partner on the ground in Nepal, the Baudh Bahunipati Project Pariwar (BBP-Pariwar), have been able to work with women from the Dalit caste living in the remote areas of the Kavre, Ramechhap, and Sindhupalchowk districts of Central Nepal thanks to a grant provided by the Hapke Family Foundation and other support. Our Work in Nepal Our work supports some of the most marginalized women in Nepal. The situation in rural Nepal is especially difficult for women from the Dalit caste due to centuries of culturally instilled gender inequality and discrimination. These …
Learning from COVID-19 in the Philippines: Why Growing Our Own Food Is Essential
By: Rene Lucero, Guest Writer Cebu is an island province in the central part of the Philippines that hosts the country’s second-biggest city, Cebu City. Agriculture is one of the main economic activities on the island, along with fisheries, industry, and tourism. Being a major tourist destination, Cebu suffered so much from the COVID-19 pandemic. The first COVID-19 case in the country was an international traveler who entered Cebu. The first lockdown that was enforced in March 2020 shocked everyone. All of a sudden, people lost their jobs and sources of livelihood. Those who were working in th …
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