SUCCESS STORIES
September 14, 2018
June 2, 2017
San Nicolas is a community in the sub-central part of Sik´imira, a municipality of Vila Vila, located in the department of Cochabamba, in Bolivia. In April 2015 when WN first visited and presented our development approach to the community, participants did not show much interest.
March 20, 2024
October 13, 2021
Check out this video about our USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance funded work in Indonesia. The film captures the rare beauty of this South East Asian […]
September 23, 2021
Read about the profound impact our USAID-funded project on Increasing Community Resilience in Timor-Leste, Oecusse is having on the people of this remote region.
September 7, 2021
Listen to Chris Macoloo, World Neighbors Regional Director of East Africa, on BBC’s World Service Business Daily, originally aired on September 6, 2021. To […]
March 8, 2021
This International Women’s Day, World Neighbors (WN) is excited to celebrate the success of our partnership with The Starbucks Foundation. In 2018, WN received a generous […]
August 4, 2020
Laxmi B.K., age 35, lives in the rural village of Sindhupalchok in Nepal. She is a member of the Dalit community of Chautara Sangachokgadi Municipality, ward […]
July 10, 2020
By Randy Mulyanto and Nicola Smith Almost half of Timor-Leste’s more than 1.2 million population still lives in extreme poverty with little access to healthcare and […]
March 5, 2020
By Larisa Epatko The global picture for girls is improving with more girls attending school than ever before and countries outlawing child marriage, said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres […]
March 5, 2020
By Rob Fletcher A programme that encourages the adoption of pond-based fish farming in Kenya is raising household incomes and halting the spread of sexually transmitted […]
February 7, 2020
In November 2019 Kate and a team from around the US visited our program sites in Guatemala. While there, Mike Barber shot this beautiful video! Check […]
March 1, 2019
The Starbucks Foundation and World Neighbors Work to Empower Women in Huehuetenango, Guatemala Thanks to a generous grant from The Starbucks Foundation, a year ago, World […]
February 5, 2019
Amid all the plastic-bashing of single-use water bottles, the benefits that many people enjoy from innovative uses of these bottles have been lost in the shouting. […]
June 2, 2017
The World Neighbors supported, Bihar Integrated Rural Development Program (BIRDP), is operating in Madhubani district, Bihar,India. The program covers 43 villages from 4 blocks - Phulparas, Ghoghardiha, Andhratharhi and Khutouna.
April 9, 2024
October 13, 2021
Check out this video about our USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance funded work in Indonesia. The film captures the rare beauty of this South East Asian […]
May 18, 2021
Check out USAID/Indonesia’s Annual Report. World Neighbors is cited on p. 80 for our work in disaster risk reduction.
June 2, 2017
Mrs. Masnah is 50 years old and lives in Dara Kunci Village on the Island of Lombok in Indonesia. She has four children. Mrs. Masnah was very enthusiastic when she attended a training on the manufacturing of cashew fruit and wheat crackers which was facilitated by the staff of LPSDM, a World Neighbors local partner.
March 6, 2025
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June 7, 2022
By Peter Coy Bamboo makes a fascinating case study of how to do developmental assistance right. Take Nepal, where the fast-growing plant (technically a grass, not […]
June 7, 2021
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: COVID-19 is still raging in South Asia, and a lot of the attention has been on India, which has broken records for cases […]
June 7, 2021
India’s desperate COVID-19 situation is driving attention around the world, and with good reason. Cases and deaths are rapidly rising. The health care system is overwhelmed and, tragically, […]
February 9, 2021
Chemical pesticides and fertilizers can be problematic—they are dangerous to ingest, they contaminate soil and plants, and they are dangerous to store and use. In poor, […]
September 25, 2020
Since COVID-19 hit, households in developed countries have been planting kitchen gardens. For some, this provides necessary food in the face of economic upheaval. But for […]
August 4, 2020
Laxmi B.K., age 35, lives in the rural village of Sindhupalchok in Nepal. She is a member of the Dalit community of Chautara Sangachokgadi Municipality, ward […]
July 1, 2020
By Srijana Karki More Nepalis abroad than in Nepal have contracted and died from the coronavirus. At least 33 Nepalis in the UK, 15 in the United […]
June 2, 2017
Jeet Bahadur Tamang is a 40-year-old lead farmer from Gairimudi, in the Dolkha District of Nepal. Jeet currently owns and farms two-thirds of an acre. He used to work as a porter in another village, carrying heavy loads of goods on trekking routes. Jeet earned just enough to survive and no one in the village would give him a loan – not even a small amount.
June 2, 2017
Gufadanda Gaukhet is a small village with a poor and marginalized community under the Ichok Village Development Committee (VDC) in the Sindhupalchok District of Nepal. There are 15 households with a population of 91.
November 4, 2022
By Lionel Vigil Fish farming has exploded over the past 20 years, especially in Latin America. But there are serious environmental concerns, including concentrations of fish waste […]
July 11, 2022
Peru’s economy is recovering from the shutdowns and other measures taken to address COVID-19, which hit the country’s people especially hard. But like the rest of […]
October 7, 2021
Oklahoma City – Oct. 7, 2021 – World Neighbors today announced a new collaboration with The Starbucks Foundation. For the next two years, The Starbucks Foundation will […]
June 2, 2017
Pelagia Mendoza Sicha, from Peru, was engaged in various agricultural activities, including raising dairy cows. The raising of cattle for milk production was producing discouraging results because production and maintenance costs were very high.
June 2, 2017
Vacahuasi is a rural community in the district of Ocros in the Ayacucho Region of Peru where Magno Castillo lives with his wife Primitiva Gutierrez and their five children. Magno is happy and enthusiastic about his new guinea pig farm. He started working on it in May 2015, when World Neighbors was implementing a community led assessment of the region.
September 23, 2021
Read about the profound impact our USAID-funded project on Increasing Community Resilience in Timor-Leste, Oecusse is having on the people of this remote region.
July 10, 2020
By Randy Mulyanto and Nicola Smith Almost half of Timor-Leste’s more than 1.2 million population still lives in extreme poverty with little access to healthcare and […]
July 1, 2020
By Edd Wright To date, Timor-Leste has only 24 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and no deaths. It hasn’t registered a new case since 24 April. This is […]
February 5, 2019
Amid all the plastic-bashing of single-use water bottles, the benefits that many people enjoy from innovative uses of these bottles have been lost in the shouting. […]
June 2, 2017
Generally, all farmers in Oecusse, Timor-Leste practice slash and burn to open new farmland. The mountainous, geographic condition of Oecusse means most of the farmland is on steep, sloping land that make the impact from slash and burn even worse, as the top soil washes down and away during the rainy season.
June 2, 2017
On the small island nation of East Timor or Timor Leste, Aldea Fatunababu is a small village in Suco Usitaco with 58 households. The main livelihood in this area is dry land agriculture. Fatunababu’s geography is mountainous, with a lot of waste and rocky land which is prone to landslides.
November 14, 2024
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March 5, 2020
By Rob Fletcher A programme that encourages the adoption of pond-based fish farming in Kenya is raising household incomes and halting the spread of sexually transmitted […]