Stories from the field

The people we work with, in their own words — and the lessons we are learning along the way.

Why annual pad distributions fail — and what happened when women started producing their own.
Young mothers qualified for our training but could not attend. What we learned about childcare and inclusion
In Lagos, extreme heat costs informal workers their health and their income — and no insurance covers it.
Refugees and host community members trained side by side in Ogoja. Then local demand outgrew what they could make.
Inside the social impact fund model that is quietly rewriting how humanitarian support works.
How displaced women in Ogoja turned a cassava cooperative into a fund for their own community’s needs