Success Stories
Muslimah's yard garden is so bountiful that she rarely has to buy vegetables anymore. She is saving the money in hopes of putting her three children through university when they grow up.
HUNDEE Oromo Grassroots Development Initiative is a partner organization in Oxfam Canada’s Engendering Change Program.
Wildfires have long been a major problem in Ethiopia. Hunters use fire in forests to flush out wild life and smoke out honey bees. Farmers use fire in fields to control brush. Many people cook with fire.
In Eastern Sri Lanka, Oxfam and local partner Sarvodaya established 60 village livelihood groups to help hundreds of women start profitable activities. It was through one of these groups that Jeevagolin received training that led her to establish a sucessful sari embroidery business.
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) is an innovative approach to community development that shifts emphasis from needs and problems to community strengths, assets and opportunities.
Suliha's life changed when Oxfam and Sri Lankan partner FORED formed a self-help women's group in her community and provided training in goat rearing. Suliha, a 37-year-old mother of six, was elected leader.
Navamany had the drive to overcome resistance from her husband and family to show that women can be farmers, too.
Nurlia led a village health post and worked as a money lender when she was encouraged to get involved in formation of a women's economic group in Oxfam's Restoring Coastal Livelihoods project in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Inspired by Oxfam’s Engendering Change program in Ethiopia, Momina Anota set off on a path that led to self-confidence, increased family income and dignity within her community.
Before connecting with Women on Farms Project, Jacoba felt isolated and powerless. The only examples of leadership she’d seen had been brutal white male landowners, and that style wasn’t reflected back when she looked in the mirror. But there are a lot of ways to be powerful. And that’s something that has become clear to Jacoba, who now sits on the board of Women on Farms Project.
