Livelihoods

Stories and updates from partners using community-centred media to improve community livelihoods. You may also be interested in our page which lists posts addressing food security

Lets start a business

Let’s start a business, to end poverty

By Jon Hargreaves / January 17, 2019

“Tuanze Biashara” is Swahili for “Let’s Start a Business”, a poverty alleviation project integrating a community radio station, social media, training workshops and a savings and loan association. See how…

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Two women

“Even I Can Start a Business!”

By Jon Hargreaves / December 18, 2018

I’d like to introduce you to Flora and Hadiya, two budding Kenyan entrepreneurs who really mean business. In the absence of finding jobs and struggling to make ends meet, these…

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Hancy Funana

Getting down to business in Africa

By Jon Hargreaves / May 1, 2018

There is an old proverb that says, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to fish, and you feed him for a…

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