EXETER — A local Pilates instructor recently embarked on a journey to Kenya, Africa, with a suitcase filled with more than 1,500 pairs of girls underwear. Lindsey Burns, of Club Pilates in Portsmouth, ...

Catholic Sisters across Africa are transforming charity into sustainable enterprise, reshaping communities and rewriting the ...

Microfinance lending is often lauded as a key tool in reducing poverty at the bottom of the income pyramid. But in Kenya, critics say it has played a part in stoking violent anti-government unrest.

Nairobi, December 14, 2023 – Kenya has in the past been successful in translating economic growth into improved living standards of its citizens. Despite progress, the challenge going forward is to ...

African leaders are drawing on the painful history of slavery and colonialism to confront modern forms of exploitation. And as 2025 comes to a close, the lessons from addressing past injustices reveal ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment ...

Until recently, Molly struggled to imagine life beyond the end of each repetitive day: work in someone elses fields and earn enough to eat, rinse, repeat. "It was a vicious circle I could not escape," ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 17 - Africa has taken a major political and strategic step towards eliminating Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), one of the - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.

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Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment. [Photo: Courtesy] World Bank has ...