Long-Term Dairy Partnership With Danone Helps Producers – and the Environment
A decade-long project in Mexico shows how climate-friendly practices make good business sense for small-scale producers
How Women Cocoa Farmers are Making Life Sweet
Meet Dara Obispo, a 19-year-old single mother living in Peru’s Amazon basin. With tailored agronomy and financial literacy training, she has increased her cocoa production seven-fold — and gained a new outlook on life.
How One Woman is Challenging Gender Roles in Mozambique
Bernadette Sambo is a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman. Using the insights and knowledge she gained from a TechnoServe training, she has been able to balance being a working parent and transform her business at the same time.
The “Queen” of Koto Soap Achieves Her Business Dreams in Benin
Determined to support her family, Dossi Degui turned to TechnoServe for better business skills. Now she sells her artisanal soap around the country--and can't keep up with demand.
How A Young Ugandan Woman Breaks Gender Barriers in a Job Dominated by Men: “I Have to Put in Double the Effort”
Ruth Nabatanzi couldn’t afford to stay in school, and struggled to make ends meet. After a TechnoServe training, she launched a career as a welder, an unusual occupation for women in her country. Now she is earning significantly more income – and breaking gender stereotypes.
Cherly del Carmen López Shows Her Daughters What Perseverance Looks Like
A coffee farmer in Nicaragua raises her two daughters alone after her partner left. She’s doing it while enrolled in a TechnoServe training program – and it’s paying off. Farmer trainers from TechnoServe stopped by to see how she was doing.
New App Features Help Women Across Mozambique to Control Their Own Savings
After separating from her husband, Albertina Chirindza turned to an innovative digital savings product to help her children get ahead. It’s helped her to diversify her business, buy land, and send her daughter to college.
“I Couldn’t Reconcile Working and Looking After My Children”: How a Small Business Owner in Mozambique Defied COVID-19 to Turn Her Salon Around
A business skills training program helped Gilda Lourenço find a way to care for her family while helping her small business survive the pandemic. And now she’s ready for more.
Towards Community and Sustainable Income: Sinderi’s Tumultuous Coffee Journey
A farmer’s tough journey to a sustainable income through coffee highlights the resilience of smallholder farmers. Hear about how Sinderi turned a challenge into an opportunity – and brought her community along for the ride.
Leading By Example: Mónica Momade Is Chef, Mother, and Small Business Owner
Even though she would rather be cooking delicious meals, a chef in Mozambique works to revamp the business side of things to keep the food flowing out of her kitchen.
