Have you heard the saying, “money follows money”? It means that once you’ve received some grant funds or donations momentum builds and...

When you think of the work of girls’ empowerment, you might not think of bathrooms. But a changing room and bathroom is exactly what Hope...

by Margaret Ikiara, Founder and Director Community Initiatives for Rural Development (CIFORD) Kenya CIFORD is one of SIA’s grassroots...

Slow Food Seed and Food Fair Report from Samuel & Peris Nderitu, Directors of The Grow Biointensive Agriculture Centre of Kenya (G-BIACK)...

At the end of 2016, the Namaylana Women’s Self-Help Group received a grant to build a curio shop to sell their traditional handicrafts to...

Mary Nyonges lives in Mundindi village, in the rural areas near the western boarder of Kenya. She is a member of the Matungu Community...

Chicken is the most common source of protein in Kenya, and still it is not available to everyone. Many people eat mostly maize and other...

Last May, as the last bit of twilight faded, I met with the leaders of the Manyamula COMSIP Cooperative in Malawi. The twelve of us sat...

This past weekend, on April 15th, the book I’ve been co-editing with Jennifer Lentfer for the past 5 years, was printed! It is now...

I often toss around the word “partner” when I talk about our work. Who are these partners? How did we come to know them? Canaan Gondwe...

I left our meeting with the grassroots organization Progressive Volunteers feeling very optimistic. As I sat in their office in Nairobi,...

At the end of last year, Canaan Gondwe, a SIA partner living in rural Malawi, gathered together forty-one other people to form the...