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Power Living - International Yoga Day

30 May International Yoga Day 2023 This year international yoga day falls one day before the winter solstice – which makes it the perfect time to revisit your 2023 intentions and infuse your daily rituals with the things that make you feel nourished and inspired.  Some ways you can honour your practice are … 1. Get On Your Mat We have some beautiful yoga classes lined up at each of our studios…

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Body Mind Life - Unleashed

Body Mind Life – Unleashed

The Hunger Project just launched their 2018 ‘Unleashed Women’ campaign and have invited us to take part. This campaign is dedicated to empowering women around the world to use their skills, passions and resources to raise money for women who are living in poverty – in Africa, India, Bangladesh and Latin America.

By supporting this campaign we would be supporting their larger commitment – to…

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Meet Ndeye

Featured Image  – Property of The Hunger Project.  Story written for The Hunger Project – Australia. Taking part in workshops run by The Hunger Project got Ndeye Ndiaye thinking about her future. She had learned to read and write in school and had also taken literacy classes but she had never been inspired to put her skills into action. When she was mentored by Coumba – a Hunger Project animator…

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Meet Alawatu

Featured Image – Property of The Hunger Project (C).  Written for The Hunger Project – Australia Alawatu is a midwife in her local health clinic in the Coki village of Boffel. Before The Hunger Project health clinic was established in Boffel, Alawatu had to deliver babies in people’s homes with no medical facilities or specialty care available to help her. Many women and babies died as a result.…

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NDEYE’S VISION FOR A BETTER FUTURE

NDEYE’S VISION FOR A BETTER FUTURE

Written for The Hunger Project Australia Featured Image – Property of The Hunger Project (C) Ndeye Loum is a volunteer who has been trained by The Hunger Project in Coki, Senegal.  She lives in a village called Kane’ene Khar and says, before her training, there was no way she would have spoken in front of a group of people to talk about the issues affecting her and the wider community.  Before…

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Meet Sunita

Story Edited for The Hunger Project – Australia Sunita Meena is the President (Sarpanch) of Aakodiya Block, Chaksu District, Jaipur. We met Sunita with her ward members in the village meeting hall.  Next door was a creche – set up for around 10-15 of the poorest children in the village. When we asked her what made her happy, she spoke about the previous week where she’d successfully re-enrolled 8…

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#2030 Leaders

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#2030 Leaders

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CREATING A UNITED VISION OF SELF-RELIANCE

Published on The Hunger ProjectThe Hunger Project – Australia – website The pathway to self-reliance is paved by unity, information and empowerment. When people living in hunger and poverty are inspired by a united vision of a healthier future, and when they are educated to understand how they can achieve this, the wheels of change begin to turn. When people are empowered to become the solution…

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EMPOWERED WOMEN OF INDIA – LEADING CHANGE

Published on The Hunger Project – Australia – website Women’s roles as village council (Panchayat) leaders, is transforming the way people live in India. Although they often have much adversity to overcome – due to social conditioning and attitudes around gender – women are emerging as powerful leaders motivated by a desire to provide better lives for their families and communities. When women…

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HEALTH CARE AND VACCINATION – PREVENTING DEADLY DISEASE

Published on The Hunger Project – Australia Website Health clinics within our Epicentre communities are providing essential vaccinations to protect children against life-threatening diseases that are entirely preventable. Without vaccination, tens of thousands of children die every year from diseases like malaria, pneumonia, diphtheria, meningitis, whooping cough and more. In Benin alone,…

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‘HIV ANIMATORS’ REDUCING THE SPREAD OF HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA

Published on The Hunger Project – Australia website According to UNAIDS, more than 36 million people in the world are living with HIV/AIDS. It is estimated that half of those people are unaware of their HIV status. In order to stop the spread of the disease, reduce the incidence of related deaths and remove stigma, it is essential that effective educational programs are widely accessible. In…

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EMPOWERING WOMEN WITH FINANCIAL FREEDOM Published on The Hunger Project - Australia Microfinancing programs provide a powerful platform from which our village partners can transform their lives.

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LOUISE LANGI – HELPING WOMEN OF BENIN REALIZE THEIR DREAMS

Published on The Hunger Project – Australia Louise Langi is a 42-year-old woman from Benin, who is committed to helping women in her village realise their dreams.  Louise and her husband farm and deal in fruit, corn and peanuts to provide for their 6 children. Through The Hunger Project’s Vision, Commitment, Action (VCA) workshops – Louise has learned financial literacy and healthcare skills that…

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INSPIRING CHANGE IN HER VILLAGE – GLADYS RETURNS TO SCHOOL

Published on The Hunger Project – Australia Gladys came to the attention of The Hunger Project when our volunteers visited her school to talk to girls about the harmful impact of child marriage. She stood out from her friends because she was the only child amongst them who had been married, divorced, given birth to a baby and returned to school. As a young girl, Gladys was told by her father that…

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CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION SAVES LIVES

CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION SAVES LIVES

Written for The Hunger Project – Australia Unclean water supplies and poor sanitation are still amongst the biggest threats to many peoples’ health in developing regions. With up to 950 million people worldwide still practicing open defecation and up to 2.5 billion people living without adequate sanitation, vast improvements are yet to be made. In India, 80% of disease in rural areas can be…

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DECJUCA RELEASES LIMITED EDITION POUCHES TO HELP END HUNGER

DECJUCA RELEASES LIMITED EDITION POUCHES TO HELP END HUNGER

Written for The Hunger Project – Australia Decjuba have just released these fabulous, limited-edition pouches, each pouch was hand-made by our village partners in Bangladesh!  The pouches have been crafted in a range of colours and sizes and are available in store and online. 100% of proceeds from the sales will go directly to the work of The Hunger Project –  empowering women to end hunger in…