Success Stories
The following examples illustrate how TechnoServe is transforming lives in many countries.
Featured Work > Tanzania
Tomato Farmers Reach New Markets in Tanzania
Martha Mtenda once struggled to make a living through her half-acre farm in the village of Mbigili in Iringa, a region in Tanzania's Southern Highlands.
Featured Work > Colombia
Colombian Women Take Tourism Business to Next Level
Colombia’s Nuquí region abuts the Pacific Ocean, in an area where the sea meets lush mangrove-forested foothills, making it a hotbed of animal and plant biodiversity.
Featured Work > Honduras
Honduran Farmers Find Success Through High-Quality Coffee and Cocoa
High in the mountains of western Honduras, the 25 coffee farming families of the Flor del Pino cooperative are staging a quiet revolution.
Featured Work > Chile
Chilean Business Turns Waste Into Sustainable Incomes
In Santiago, TechnoServe is helping a burgeoning small business to provide the local industry with low-cost raw materials – and at the same time protect and preserve the natural environment.
Featured Work > Guatemala
Guatemalan Woman Finds Independence Through Fruit Juice Business
Mónica Jacinto once struggled to support herself and her four children. Today, she is helping her children achieve the promise of a better future through her thriving fruit-juice company.
Featured Work > Haiti
Hope for Haiti
TechnoServe is helping Haitians break the downward economic spiral that has plagued the country for decades.
Featured Work > Coffee Initiative
Brewing Good
Our Coffee Initiative is helping East African farmers to build better lives, one coffee bean at a time.
Featured Work > Honduras
Turning Palm Oil to Profits in Honduras
With support from TechnoServe, palm oil farmers have doubled their profits and laid the foundation for future growth and sustainability.
Featured Work > Tanzania
Feeding Economic Growth in Tanzania
Navyn Salem is running Industrial Revelation, a company based in her family's homeland of Tanzania that is dedicated to selling economically and socially viable treatments for malnutrition. TechnoServe is providing key support in several areas.
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Featured Work > Guatemala
Guatemalan Woman’s Entrepreneurial Drive Revives a Community
A TechnoServe-supported entrepreneur is bringing jobs and opportunity to poor women in rural Guatemalan community.
Featured Work > Mozambique
Poultry Promotes Prosperity in Mozambique
TechnoServe works across a value chain to help create and support a thriving domestic poultry industry, transforming the lives of thousands of farmers.
Featured Work > Kenya
Moving Towards Profitability
TechnoServe-assisted Nyala Dairy is targeting training programs at local women to improve farming techniques and raise incomes.
Featured Work > Tanzania
Higher Coffee Incomes Transform Lives in Tanzania
TechnoServe works with coffee farmers to produce higher-quality beans for the premium coffee market.
Featured Work > Swaziland
Breakthrough for a Baby-Vegetable Farmer
TechnoServe is helping Themba Dlamini to develop a thriving produce business that can lift his community out of poverty.
Featured Work > Guatemala
Running a Business Empowers Guatemalan Women
Selling products made from an abundant natural resource generates incomes - and a new world of opportunities - for a group of rural women.
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Featured Work > Swaziland
Honey Industry Offers Swaziland a Sweet Future
Through training, seminars and strategic support, Technoserve is helping Eswatini Kitchen to flourish. Its success has created employment opportunities for vulnerable youth.
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Featured Work > El Salvador
A Craft Business Blooms
El Salvador's business plan competition helps a committed entrepreneur to expand her handicraft business, bringing new economic opportunities to women in a struggling rural community.
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Featured Work > Uganda
Making the Most of a Staple Crop
TechnoServe is helping develop Uganda's matooke banana industry, benefiting thousands of small-scale farmers.
Featured Work > Nicaragua
Cocoa Offers New Hope for Nicaraguan Farmers
It’s a long way from the poverty and devastation of civil war to prosperity. In Nicaragua, TechnoServe has helped a farming cooperative make that journey by harnessing the potential of undervalued crops.
Featured Work > Ghana
A Business Community Chips In
A wide range of partners come together to make Africa's first Believe Begin Become business plan competition a success.
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Featured Work > Kenya
Young Women in Kenya Learn Entrepreneurial Skills
Kenya’s Young Women in Enterprise program empowers young women like Cecilia Katungwa to launch businesses that impact their communities and transform their lives.
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Featured Work > South Africa
Entrepreneur Helps South Africans Eat Better
TechnoServe’s South African business plan competition has helped Sindi Mbambo jump-start a fresh and frozen foods business which supplies the market with healthy food options.
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Featured Work > Swaziland
Pepper Farm Creates a Brighter Future for Swazi Residents
TechnoServe helps a Swazi Mission hone its farming techniques so that it can harvest and sell chili peppers, creating revenue that benefits HIV/AIDS patients and orphans.
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Featured Work > Peru
Bolstering Entrepreneurs in Peru
Through participation in TechnoServe/Peru’s business plan competition, three entrepreneurs have developed a product which benefits both the producers and buyers of animal feed.
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Featured Work > Nicaragua
Nicaraguan Farmers’ Business Takes Off
As part of a USAID-funded program to link small-scale producers to more lucrative markets, TechnoServe helps rural farmers in Nicaragua pull themselves out of poverty.
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Featured Work > Ghana
New Business Gets Off to a Fresh Start
Isaac Bohulu has high hopes for his blossoming pharmaceutical business, a past winner of Ghana’s business plan competition that promises to benefit the region’s economy as it continues to grow.
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Featured Work > Nicaragua
Helping Farmers Cash in on Specialty Coffee
TechnoServe assistance is helping Nicaraguan coffee farmers to boost their incomes by catering to the more lucrative and expanding specialty coffee market.
Featured Work > Honduras
Helping Honduran Farmers Serve Better Markets
TechnoServe helps a group of farmers to increase their incomes by expanding and improving their product line and linking them to higher-value markets.
Featured Work > Kenya
Harvesting the Fruits of Success
Meru Greens Horticulture is selling high-quality produce to a booming domestic urban market, creating jobs and increasing the incomes of thousands of small-scale farmers on the foothills of Mt. Kenya.
Featured Work > Tanzania
Artemisia Farming Opens Door to a Better Life
A TechnoServe program to boost Africa's production of an anti-malarial ingredient increases incomes while fighting disease.
Featured Work > Nicaragua
Reaping the Benefits of Hard Work in Nicaragua
A farming family is transformed when they begin selling improved products to one of Nicaragua's largest supermarket chains.
Featured Work > Peru
Developing Communities around Mining Businesses
TechnoServe is helping a range of small businesses in a Peruvian mining community to capitalize on the mine's presence and use it as a springboard for broader economic growth.
Featured Work > South Africa
Investing in the Future
A poultry cooperative is being helped to grow and create new income opportunities in a region hard-hit by South Africa's apartheid history.
Featured Work > El Salvador
Grounds for Success
TechnoServe is helping Central American coffee groups such as El Salvador's BEXCAFE to increase rural incomes by tapping into premium coffee markets.
Featured Work > Mozambique
Revitalizing an Island Gem
TechnoServe helps a historic Mozambican island develop a tourism industry plan to bring much-needed jobs and business opportunities for local residents.
Featured Work > Nicaragua
Rising to the Top
TechnoServe helps Nicaraguan dairy farmers to capitalize on a growing export market.
Featured Work > Guatemala
Cultivating a Home-Grown Entrepreneur
Guatemala's business plan competition helps an entrepreneur expand a produce business that creates jobs and higher incomes in indigenous communities.
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Featured Work > El Salvador
Helping Small Fruit Farmers Become Exporters in El Salvador
With TechnoServe’s help, Beto Gonzales and his fellow jocoteros have turned a floundering business into a successful cooperative that provides Salvadoran migrants in the US with goods from their homeland.
Featured Work > Nicaragua
From Conflict to Coffee
With the help of TechnoServe, Nicaraguan farmers are using coffee profits to transform the lives of their families and community.
"One lesson I have learned from institutions like TechnoServe is that with concentrated effort...coupled with knowledge, finance and committed people on the ground, you will successfully advance rural economic development."
BASIL MRAMBA
Former Minister of Finance, Tanzania