by Deborah Kendall | Dec 3, 2019 | Africa, Africa climate change, African drought, African women, Climate change refugees, economic empowerment, Kenya, Making a Difference, Microfinance, microgrants, News, Our Work, REAP (Rural Entrepreneur Access Project), Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP), The BOMA Project, Uncategorized, Women
Today, Giving Tuesday, your gift to BOMA will have twice the impact. Starting at 8 a.m. on Giving Tuesday your support can go even further to help women like Ntiru Lekatap (left) forge a pathway out of extreme poverty, so she no longer has to borrow food from...
by Deborah Kendall | Sep 24, 2018 | Africa, Africa climate change, African drought, African women, economic empowerment, Global, Kenya, Making a Difference, Microfinance, microgrants, News, Our Work, REAP (Rural Entrepreneur Access Project), Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP), The BOMA Project, Uncategorized, Women
At the BOMA Project, our mission is to help vulnerable people in some of the world’s poorest and most remote regions–the drylands of Africa–become self-sufficient and forge their own paths out of extreme poverty. Our proven poverty graduation model...
by Deborah Kendall | Sep 19, 2018 | Africa, Africa climate change, African women, economic empowerment, microgrants, News, Our Work, REAP (Rural Entrepreneur Access Project), The BOMA Project, Uncategorized, Who We Are, Women
Manchester, VT, September, 2018– The BOMA Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit that implements a high-impact, gender-focused poverty graduation program in the drought-threatened arid lands of eastern Africa, announced the election of Frank F. DeGiovanni as a member...
by Deborah Kendall | Sep 13, 2018 | Africa, Africa climate change, African drought, African women, economic empowerment, Girls, Kenya, microgrants, News, REAP (Rural Entrepreneur Access Project), Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP), The BOMA Project, Uncategorized, Women
Did you know that women comprise 56% of the 1.7 billion adults globally without access to formal financial services? The gender inequality is more pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 30% of women have an account versus 39% of men. Low incomes, illiteracy and...
by BOMA Communications | Feb 26, 2014 | African women, economic empowerment, microgrants, Northern Kenya, The BOMA Project
A great article ran today in Business Daily Africa about BOMA’s work in Kenya: Boma seeks to improve families’ incomes and access to basic food and household items by helping women in northern Kenya open small convenience stores. Participants receive training...
by BOMA Communications | Mar 29, 2013 | Africa, Africa climate change, economic empowerment, Global, Kathleen Colson, Kenya, microgrants, Northern Kenya, REAP (Rural Entrepreneur Access Project), Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP), The BOMA Project, Uncategorized
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) entered a statement into the Congressional Record on March 21 that included a great mention of BOMA as a Vermont nonprofit with a “far-reaching contribution” that’s “doing innovative work to improve the...