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Nuru Ethiopia Partners with Health[e]Foundation to Bridge Health’s Digital Divide

| April 6, 2024

Last year, Nuru Ethiopia launched a partnership with Health[e]Foundation. Together, these organizations are committed to ending preventable maternal and child mortality in southern Ethiopia by bridging the digital divide. Through this partnership, Nuru Ethiopia and Health[e]Foundation expanded their opportunities for supporting expectant women by enhancing the capacity of Health Extension Workers (HEWs) through blended learning. …

GIZ and Nuru Nigeria Recognize International Women’s Day

| March 20, 2024

GIZ and Nuru Nigeria Jointly Celebrate International Women’s Day 2024 in Partnership with Adamawa State First Lady and Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Social Development  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 20, 2024 Contact: info@nurunigeria.org  Yola–Nuru Nigeria is proud to announce the successful commemoration of the International Women’s Day 2024, spearheaded by the First Lady of Adamawa …

International Women’s Day: How Nuru Nigeria Inspires Inclusion

| March 8, 2024

International Women’s Day  Today, we come together with others around the globe–organizations, businesses, governments, and individuals–to recognize International Women’s Day. We utilize this day to both celebrate the strides we have made in increasing inclusion as well as the critical changes still necessary to achieve a more equitable world for all. This is “a day …

Dairy Livelihoods: A Lifeline for Kenyan Farmers

| October 31, 2023

Nuru Kenya launched its rural livelihoods program in 2017 with dairy cattle in Migori County, Kenya. Through the rural livelihoods program, Nuru Kenya aims to increase milk yields and incomes for farmers. Nuru Kenya’s recently released dairy impact report details the significant achievements of this program over the last five years and the difference it …

Nuru Nigeria Partners with GIZ to Empower Women

| July 30, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2023  Contact: Simon | info@nuruinternational.org Abuja, Nigeria–Nuru Nigeria, in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),  is proud to announce the successful distribution of 2,500 ewes and 250 rams as part of its gender-transformative approach to equipping smallholder farmers with the tools needed to chart a path out of …

International Women’s Day: How One Woman Leader Chooses to #EmbraceEquity

| March 8, 2023

On this International Women’s Day, the Nuru Collective is honored to join with people across our global community to #EmbraceEquity.  The Nuru Collective is proud to take this moment to celebrate its women leaders whose expertise and insights have paved the way for meaningful choices for vulnerable families and their communities. One of these women …

Mary Joel: A Woman Farmer’s Story of Resilience

| March 31, 2022

In this final blog post for our Women’s Month series, we look at the way one woman farmer’s life has been positively impacted through Nuru’s gender-transformative approach that creates opportunities for women to share in household, community, and organizational decision-making. Nuru Kenya Launches Dairy Program In an effort to provide rural farmers with the opportunity …

From Minimum Standards to a Gender Transformative Approach: The State of Women at Nuru

| March 23, 2022

In 2017, Nuru International proudly joined a small but growing number of international development organizations endorsing ‘Minimum Standards for Mainstreaming Gender Equality.’ Now five years later, we’re taking a look at where our journey has led since endorsing the standards. In assessing the ‘state of women’ at Nuru, we’ll also discuss why gender mainstreaming is …

Vitamin Angels Partners with Nuru Nigeria

| December 22, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 22, 2020  Contact: Tacy Layne | info@nuruinternational.org ABUJA, NIGERIA — Vitamin Angels recently partnered with Nuru Nigeria by donating 5,432 bottles of vitamins and deworming medication. These are to be distributed at no cost to underserved women and children in northeast Nigeria.  Included in the donation are vitamin A, Albendazole, and …

On-farm Livelihood Diversification for Rural Ethiopia

| December 23, 2019

Workenesh Nekeri is a Nuru woman farmer, mother, and a member of Shambara Primary Cooperative in SNNPR, Ethiopia. She and her husband became members of the multipurpose cooperative by paying 100 ETB each, about $6 USD, for their ownership shares in the business. They paid for these shares with income from their primary on-farm business …

Learning trip inspires farmers to invest in dairy farming

| December 16, 2019

Nuru Kenya has significantly improved the rural livelihoods of communities in Migori County by supporting the establishment of 14 farmer-led, farmer-managed, and farmer-owned cooperatives (co-ops). Support includes capacity building through training on: modern agricultural practices, governance, business skills, food security, and nutrition, as well as market linkages that support the community in sustainably diversifying their …

Nuru Nigeria: Cultivating Resilience Through Permagardens

| November 29, 2019

Mothers around the world are busy, and the Nuru Nigeria Women’s Farmer Association members are no different. They invested in two days of permaculture training to learn how to produce more food at home using a minimal amount of money and time. Permagardens use permaculture and bio-intensive agriculture principles to create a productive kitchen garden …

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