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How to strengthen your capacity and change your community: The story of the Women's Hub in Ukraine

The Women's Hub, a partner of the Women of Ukraine project, has strengthened its organizational capacity to become an entity to be reckoned with by local authorities and other stakeholders in Khmelnytsky. The organization can already boast of a successful advocacy case—successfully...

A mother in Ukraine finds strength, income with support from Pact's WINGS project

In June 2022, when Kateryna Hilinich first met with a WINGS project coordinator, she felt desolate and devastated. Six months of war, the shelling of her native city of Bila Tserkva, difficulties with earning a living, feeling anxious for her child who needed constant medical supervision...

As a DRC community recovers from conflict, improved rice farming fosters prosperity

Tanganyika, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a province plagued by inter-community conflict, and the city of Nyemba has not been spared. The Nyemba-Kinsunkulu axis in particular has seen violent clashes between the Twa and Bantu communities, prompted by the March 2022 assassination...

With Pact’s support, a mother in DRC builds peace and fights poverty through farming

  Perpetue Ramazani, 45, has long farmed in her rural village in Tanganyika, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But her yields of cassava were barely enough to sustain her and her husband and their eight children. They certainly weren’t enough to sell to generate income...

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In Malawi, data-driven design paves the path to health services for fishing community youth

Pact has long worked with Malawi’s fishing communities to improve their lives. Through this work, we saw a clear need for better access to family planning and reproductive health services in fishing communities, especially among adolescents and youth.

As war rages in Ukraine, women entrepreneurs find strength, hope in business

For Natalia Chukhil, sewing children’s toys has long been a way to cope amid war and instability. When Russia invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014, Chukhil was forced to leave her home in Donetsk. To take her mind off her stress, she attended a master class on making soft toys. A baby elephant...

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Leveraging data, Pact fights Covid-19, boosts vaccination in Eswatini

When the Covid-19 pandemic began, sources of accurate information were scarce. That was the case in Eswatini, where Pact-supported community case workers were already working with thousands of vulnerable families to combat HIV through the USAID-funded Insika ya Kusasa project.

Community case workers: The heart of Pact's support for children vulnerable to HIV

Although they were surviving, life was extremely difficult for Kinyamagoha and his grandmother. At 15, Kinyamagoha is HIV-positive. His grandmother can no longer walk and crawls to move around. They had little money to live on in their town in Southern Highlands, Tanzania. All they really...

Pact’s health and social systems strengthening creates lasting change

Dr. Nandera Ernest Mhando has a big job. As Tanzania’s Commissioner for Social Welfare, she oversees efforts to protect and improve the lives of the country’s most vulnerable children. Her purview includes Tanzania’s foster care and adoption systems, juvenile justice and complex issues...

With support from Pact, communities along the Kenya-Ethiopia border work together to end raids, build peace

  It was a dangerous situation that could have ended very differently for communities along the Kenya-Ethiopia border that have long been at odds. In the spring, a group of Dassenach youth stole a herd of camels, goats and sheep belonging to the Gabra communities of Buluk. Reliable...

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