Attendance at the first financial planning workshop for Farming Savings members was 185! 186, if you count the cow that wandered inside during the workshop at Sirori Simba. Apparently, this is a good omen in Kuria. I was excited about the attendance. My field officers were excited about the cow.
At Nuru we try to avoid starting programs that run parallel to the development responsibilities of the national government, such as building our own private schools, repaving public dirt roads, or providing electricity to remote villages. Instead, our approach is fundamentally based on partnership with the community. That means that we intentionally work within the …
Over the last few weeks, I’ve heard stories of different people running marathons and using their feet to accomplish a great feat for ending extreme poverty. Here are just a couple. Brittani has been a huge fan of Nuru and has participated in awareness events like Be Hope To Her in the past. As she and …
An update from CED Program Manager Vivian Lu outside a Farmer Savings Program Workshop.
Nuru International is humbled to be featured on Apple.com’s Hot News feed. Apple’s Hot News picked up a story written by Jim Dalrymple of The Loop Insight website entitled, “Non-profit organization Nuru utillizes Macs to end extreme poverty.” The Nuru Media team is in heaven since we’re all HUGE Mac fans! Thank you to The …
Nuru International’s National Tour Poverty Campaign departed from Morgantown, West Virginia this afternoon on a 3 month, 20,000 mile, 50 city tour to catalyze a movement of hope to end extreme poverty in our lifetimes. Three young poverty fighters will drive around the country in a beat-up, old passenger van for ten weeks to answer …
Nuru International has made it easier than ever to subscribe to blogs on our website by incorporating RSS feeds. Here’s what to do: Go to your favorite Nuru blog (Agriculture, Water & Sanitation, Healthcare, Education, Community Eononomic Development, Grassroots Movement, Research, BH2O+) Click on the RSS button in the right-hand column. At the top of …
Mind the Gap – Gapminder I can’t stop looking at and playing with this website: Gapminder. It’s really amazing. It gives you, at just a glimpse pretty much every kind of socio-economic and environmental data (and then some…I just spent some time looking at livestock statistics…not sure where they fit in to those two categories) …
The other night, a man came to the health center. The only nurse, Stephen Sangara, works eight hours per day and then sleeps on the premises. But he’s on call 24 hours a day, every day. The man awoke him, shouting in the night. Mr. Sangara came to the gate and opened it. The man …
In just a couple of weeks FT3 will be hosting the first team of outside observers to come and critically evaluate the work the foundation teams have been doing on the ground over the last year. The evaluation team will be here for almost an entire month gathering data on all five of our development …
Nuru International is pleased to announce that renowned film composer Tyler Bates has created an original score for the Nuru’s short film, The End (Jake’s Story). The sought-after composer, best known for his work on blockbusters 300 and The Watchmen, has created an evocative score that highlights the story of Jake Harriman, CEO of Nuru …
I have a scar on my right shin from trying to start a crappy motorcycle that I stalled out in the mud. There’s kind of an art to gracefully negotiating sub-par motorcycles on the goat paths and rutted hills of Kuria West, an art that I am better off leaving to other people, like the …
Nuru Intronational announces its most important fundraising campaign to date – I Am Nuru. I Am Nuru is a sustainable giving campaign where individuals or families donate monthly to support Nuru’s work in Kuria, Kenya. There are 1,000 families in Kuria that need continued access to Nuru’s lifesaving Agriculture, Water & Sanitation, Healthcare, Education and …
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Today Nuru International’s visual essay How Nuru Works was featured on Motionographer, the world’s premier motion graphics and visual effects website. Nuru’s Bjorn Amundsen wrote, designed, directed and animated the piece in collaboration with Nuru’s media team. When asked about his reaction to seeing How Nuru Works on the Motionographer website, Bjorn replied, “I was …