By Tom Bird |
Thanks go out to all those who have helped the Human Capabilities Fund to get off to such a fast start!
We’ve just posted a new project from Women for Women (see link below). It supports their efforts to scale a microfinance program in Bosnia that has successfully proven its model over the last few years. The next step is to roughly double the portfolio in two years, while building the systems that will maintain overall quality. If successful, the learning will be brought to other WFW locations.
The Global Health Delivery initiative (see link below) featuring Partners in Health is in a very active stage. Paul English (Kayak.com founder) has just pulled together a team that has already made some excellent progress towards the technology goals. They hope to link health professionals on the ground into a network hub at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. And the case writing efforts (aimed at the training bottleneck) are getting underway.
KickStart is ending the year well. They sold their 70,000th irrigation pump, and the new $35 Hip Pump is starting to gain traction. Martin Fischer reports, “The rains in Tanzania ended abruptly this year, but thanks to our pumps, hundreds of farmers were able to save their crops and save their families from poverty and starvation.” See their GlobalGiving project link below.
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