Tag: feminization of poverty

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

In 2017, Nuru International proudly joined a small but growing number of international development organizations endorsing ‘Minimum Standards for Mainstreaming Gender Equality.’ Now…

Nuru Nigeria Grows Its Programming in the Northeast

It is the heart of the rainy season in northeast Nigeria, and farmers’ fields are lush with groundnut and soybean plants. Just as…

Nuru Nigeria Addresses Childhood Malnutrition in Partnership with Vitamin Angels

Childhood Malnutrition  Around the world, more than 3 million children die from malnutrition each year. That means that every 11 seconds, a lifetime…

Healthy Behaviors and Building Resilience to COVID-19 in Kenya

Today is World Health Day, an annual celebration that aims to create awareness around a specific health priority determined by the World Health…

Celebrating International Women’s Day Every Day in Nigeria

It’s International Women’s Day! At Nuru Nigeria, we celebrate by putting women front and center of our programs, not just today, but every…

Vitamin Angels Partners with Nuru Nigeria

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 22, 2020  Contact: Tacy Layne | info@nuruinternational.org ABUJA, NIGERIA — Vitamin Angels recently partnered with Nuru Nigeria by donating…

On-farm Livelihood Diversification for Rural Ethiopia

Workenesh Nekeri is a Nuru woman farmer, mother, and a member of Shambara Primary Cooperative in SNNPR, Ethiopia. She and her husband became…