The idea that rural Africans are self-sufficient subsistence farmers who grow what they eat and eat what they grow was only ever partly true. But it is becoming less relevant with each passing year.
The lanky young man in skinny joggers grew up in the town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but after completing school in ...
In villages without running water or rain-harvesting tanks, the journey can take hours, navigating steep paths and carrying heavy jerry cans back uphill. As communities age, the burden is increasingly ...
This blog post was written by Mpho MacChambers, ONE Strong Girl Ambassador. There is an old African proverb that says ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. In my experience, it takes a village to ...
In the sleepy town of Asebu, a few miles inland from the Atlantic along Ghana's Cape Coast, a serene 5,000 acre rural settlement is rising out of... The Sunday Story: The Diaspora's Troubled African ...
SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...
In 2012, when Moses Aloo inherited a plot from his grandfather, his neighbourhood in Kisumu, western Kenya, had plenty of farmland. But over the past decade, as Kisumu has grown, Nyamasaria has become ...