CLEVELAND, OH—The 2016 Republican National Convention events are beginning to unfold in Northeast Ohio. While most media headlines will surely center on the Republican presidential candidate, many important conversations will be taking place off-camera across the 1,200 ancillary events surrounding the convention. One nonpartisan thought leader who will be hard at work is Jake Harriman, Founder …
WASHINGTON, DC—InsideNGO honored Nuru International’s Director of Finance, Elizabeth Atherton, with its 2016 Excellence Award in Finance at its annual conference held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The InsideNGO Excellence Awards were established in 2010 to recognize professionals within the development sector who are innovating, collaborating and ensuring operational excellence within their organizations. …
Teachers in Kenya do not get many training opportunities once they are assigned to schools. This means they aren’t always exposed to the latest, innovative teaching techniques. That’s why Nuru Kenya Education put on a two-week teacher training during the break between Term 1 and Term 2 of the 2016 school year: to help teachers …
WASHINGTON, DC—Professionals from 200+ organizations will converge at The Mead Center for American Theater on June 14, 2016. The first global development event of its kind, Devex World is a full day of inspiring, interactive, collaborative sessions encouraging attendees to discover new technologies and innovations, build new partnerships and chart the future of global development. Devex covers the …
BOSTON, MA–Classy, the world’s first social impact platform with the goal of helping organizations solve social problems more effectively and efficiently, announced Nuru International as a finalist for the 6th Annual Classy Awards. The Collaborative + Classy Awards bring together top social innovators from around the world for a unique three-day experience of speaker series and …
WASHINGTON, DC—500 state leaders from across the country are gathering for the 2016 USGLC State Leaders Summit hosted by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition on June 13-14, 2016. The purpose of this two-day event is to highlight the importance of American global development and diplomacy overseas and garner support for a strong international affairs program budget. Attendees will …
WASHINGTON, DC—Nuru International is among the presenters at “Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts – The Power of Integration”, the first FHI 360 summit on integrated development centered on how to harness the power of multisector approaches in the Global Goals era. Moderated by JustActions Founder, Leith Greenslade, this interactive event on Monday, June 13, …
As I reflect on the exciting nature of the past three weeks—the sound of water filling a 100,000-liter tanker which had been empty for 8 years, community members cheering at the site of clean water flowing out of water sources that hadn’t worked for 5 years and jerry cans of all sizes waiting to be …
As my flight neared its destination, I tried to remember how I felt during my first descent into Addis ten years ago when it was not just my first trip to Ethiopia or Africa, but my first outside of the USA. I would spend a semester with Doane College professor, Betty Levitov, and 14 other …
In 2016, Nuru Ethiopia expanded its Agriculture Program to serve farmers in two new kebeles in Kucha, a region north of Boreda where Nuru Ethiopia has been working since 2014. In this interview with Berhanu Gumara, a native of Kucha, he shares about his work as an Agriculture Extension and Rural Livelihoods Field Officer with …
The 2016 long rains season has begun with great expectations for maize farmers like Eunice in Kuria, southwest Kenya. Eunice Maroa has attended the trainings in readiness for the season. She has planted maize and millet as her preferred crops. Both her maize and millet are already doing great and she has just applied her …
In March of 2016, Nuru Kenya Leadership completed its first round of training for cooperative leaders—equipping 60 leaders across five cooperatives with knowledge and skills to effectively manage their cooperatives and make informed decisions that will support the long-term sustainability of community projects. Nuru Kenya Leadership is a sustainability program. As such, its goal is to ensure that community leaders …
Working through farmer cooperatives allows Nuru to address the financial and food security of smallholder farmers in Kenya. Through farmer cooperatives, Nuru is addressing the links that do not function well along a specific value chain. Nuru Kenya supports maize, millet and sorghum value chains right from the planting stage by providing input loans to …
After a tough year of drought in 2015, Nuru Ethiopia Agriculture, in partnership with farmer-owned, farmer-run cooperatives, is offering a comprehensive loan package of maize and haricot beans inputs, extension services, training and market linkages to more than 2,000 farmers. Nuru supports its cooperatives by constructing small granaries to store seed and fertilizer inputs and later …
Zablon Murimi, a Nuru Kenya farmer, thanks his mother, Boke, for keeping their family healthy and strong. #MyMomIsStrongBecause she undertakes household chores perfectly like tilling our farm, cooking delicious meals for the family and caring for the young children. My mum helps my dad in heading the family and keeps our family in good health. She ensures the …