Community Management Committee Encourages Income Generating Activities through Fabric Dyeing Session
Our year-end fundraising campaign concludes today. Throughout this campaign, we have been highlighting different stories from Community Management Committees (CMCs) – democratically selected groups in each community trained in project development and […]
The Power of 20 Watts
Volunteering is a time of self-discovery for many, and it wasn’t very long into my time with Tostan in Guinea-Bissau before I realized that throughout most of my life I […]
Africa-Middle East Microcredit Summit
Cody Donahue, Tostan’s Coordinator of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning reports from Nairobi, Kenya on the Africa-Middle East Microcredit Summit. This week, Nairobi is the meeting place for over 2,000 […]
A Community Management Committee Harnesses Solar Energy in Rural Guinea-Bissau
Our year-end fundraising campaign is going strong! As a part of our campaign, we are highlighting different stories from Community Management Committees (CMCs) – democratically selected groups in each community […]
Portrait of a Leader: Oumou Ndiaye
Redefining Women’s Empowerment in Mboss, Senegal It takes initiative, innovation and courage to stand up and say,”What we are doing is not working.” It is assertions like this one that […]
Community Management Committees (CMCs) Ensure Sustainability: Nutrition in The Gambia
Our year-end fundraising campaign has begun, and this year, the Greenbaum Foundation will match every gift received, which means your impact will be instantly DOUBLED! As a part of our […]
Afternoons in Samba Tacko, The Gambia
Situated under a mango tree, the shade providing a slight reprieve from the 100-degree weather, a group of 25-30 women were arranged in a circle around a blackboard. Some women […]
Portrait of a Leader: Ubah Abdilahi Hirsi
My name is Ubah Abdilahi Hirsi. I am 48-years-old and I live in Daami, a village in Somaliland. I participated in Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program (CEP) from 2007 to 2010. I am […]
The Unlikely Solar Engineer
Imagine spending all your life in your village of 500. You only ever leave to walk three hours to the nearest village with electricity to recharge your cell phone. On […]
MDG3 in Action: The Community Empowerment Program
In support of the Global Citizen Festival, we will post a story each week during the month of September featuring Tostan’s commitment to Millennium Development Goal 3 (MDG3), ‘Promoting Gender Equality and […]