Update to the Global Board (October 2008). Emphasis on food security, health and education has created extensive progress. Crop yields have increased by 40 percent, over four thousand women and men have been educated in preventative health and 115 literacy centers were opened.
Update to the Global Board (October 2008). Due to unfavorable farming conditions, microfinance partners have faced challenges repaying their loans on time. However, with the help of the epicenter and loan committees, partners have increased their repayment rates by 13 percent.
Holding the Africa Prize sculpture are Fadiop Guèye Sall, Hunger Project Council member, Senegal; Chief Bisi Ogunleye; Nagbila Aisseta; and Dr. Speciosa Kazibwe.
Burkina Faso has some of the lowest human development indicators in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment and income.The Hunger Project has been working in Burkina Faso since 1997 and has
been incredibly successful in empowering close to 200,000 partners in 14 epicenter communities to end their own hunger and poverty.
The African Woman Food Farmer Initiative (AWFFI) microfinance program is designed to address the critical missing link for the end of hunger in Africa: the economic empowerment of
