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She is the Solution
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Trickle Up is committed to helping women break the cycle of extreme poverty for themselves and their families. Here's how... {view video} |
I Have a lot of Dreams ~ A Video Journal by Kathleen Donovan, Trickle Up Board Member
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Follow Trickle Up Board member Kathleen Donovan as she walks us through her recent trip to India to witness Trickle Up's program in action:
This past January, I was invited along with my son Michael and other members of the board to visit with some of the women in Trickle Up's India program. We visited a number of different villages in the state of West Bengal such as Cholagora, Ghat and Dikhi.
Being so far from the places Trickle Up works, it's difficult to fully understand the impact we have. Sitting in a board meeting on 6th Avenue in New York City, it's hard to make a connection to these women's lives. Being in India in January and listening to the women tell me how they've transformed their lives through their courage, perseverance and the Trickle Up program, changed that for me.
I could go on about the amazing women I met on my trip, but I'd like to show you rather than tell you. {view video}
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The Mothers of Barbe Village (Mali, West Africa)
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On a recent trip to Mali, West Africa, Trickle Up President Bill Abrams was fortunate to meet a savings group in the village of Barbé. Many of these women are proud mothers who, as a result of their Trickle Up supported businesses, can now afford to send their children to school. {view video}
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My Fear has Gone Far Away: Defining Success
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Trickle Up staff visited participants in West Bengal in January 2011 to monitor their progress. See how they are meeting our definitions of success.
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Meet Lakhimuni Murmu
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Lakhimuni Murmu is a Trickle Up participant from India. Here she shows us how she used her Trickle Up grant to purchase goats and to cultivate her vegetable garden.
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A Invitation to Glenn Beck from Bill Abrams, President of Trickle Up
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On Wednesday, February 16th, the conservative TV host, Mr. Glenn Beck, oddly dragged Trickle Up into his commentary against Google on his national Fox news show, calling Trickle Up a “leftist” charity. ( Click here to watch)
One of the reasons Mr. Beck gave for his personal boycott against Google, aside from his privacy concerns and Google’s relationship with the government, was that Google has given money to Trickle Up. His criticism stemmed from the fact that Trickle Up is a “recipient of cash from the Tides Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Institute.” According to Mr. Beck, that classifies Trickle Up as a “leftist” charity.
We at Trickle Up were shocked to be included in his commentary, as we believe that poverty alleviation transcends politics. If Mr. Beck saw first-hand what we do, we believe he would agree that lifting a woman and her family out of extreme poverty is important to people on both sides of the political aisle, Fox viewers included.
In response, Bill Abrams, President of Trickle Up invited Mr. Beck to a rural village in India to better understand Trickle Up's work {view video}
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A Hike to Tonisaj, Guatemala
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Join us on our hike through the mountains of Guatemala to the remote village of Tonisaj. Along the way, you'll meet Trickle Up's Guatemala staff and partner agency, Talita Kumi, and witness a Trickle Up grant disbursal to some of our newest Trickle Up participants.
by Susannah Hopkins Leisher, Trickle Up's Vice President of Programs & Strategic Planning {view video}
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A Thank You from Diando
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While I was in Mali last month, I had the pleasure of meeting a Trickle Up participant by the name of Diando Koulibaly. Diando talked to me about her successful new business selling fish, how she can now overcome the hungry season and about her positive outlook on life.
I can think of no better way of conveying thanks to you than to let you hear it from Diando herself.
Thanks,
Bill Abrams
President, Trickle Up
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Anna Mimran and her Mali Video Journal
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Trickle Up's Program Associate for West Africa, Anna Mimran, went to Mali in the Fall of 2010 for a field visit of our programs in the region. She kept a fantastic video journal of her experiences there which she brought back to share.
Watch and learn about how the Trickle Up's program works, meeting women as they share what they learn in the Trickle Up trainings, and receive the Spark Grant that will start them on their journey out of extreme poverty.{view video} |
Trickle Up Mali: Meet Diando Koulibaly
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Diando Koulibaly, 41, joined the Trickle Up Mali program in January 2010. Listen along as she talks to us about her successful new business selling fish and overcoming the hungry season, and tells us about her savings group and outlook for the future! {view video}
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Trickle Up India: Meet Sanaka Sardar
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India's rural poor—those living on less than $1.25 a day— face a daily struggle. Learn how Sanaka Sardar broke this cycle of poverty with the support of Trickle Up.
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Why Trickle Up?
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With 1/5 of the world's population living on less than $1.25 a day, this video showcases how Trickle Up helps the extreme poor take their first steps out of poverty.
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Imagine A Village
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"Imagine a Village" examines the dire conditions of Mali's poorest, most isolated people—those living on less than $1.25 per person per day—and demonstrates what can happen when women are given the support they need to take the first steps out of poverty.
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Featured Film: The Test of Poverty
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The Test of Poverty follows two women living in extreme poverty in West Bengal, India, as they participate in Trickle Up's program and work to change the effects that generations of poverty have had on their families' lives. The film shows that addressing the needs of the ultra-poor –those living on less than $1.25 day– involves more than just providing them with capital, and must be viewed through a wider lens. The film also captures the powerful effects that increased self‐confidence and empowerment that come from participating in Trickle Up's program have in helping women break the vicious cycle of extreme poverty.
The Test of Poverty was directed by Gautam Bose and produced with support from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), which is spearheading a global effort to understand how safety nets, livelihoods, and microfinance can be sequenced to create pathways for the poorest to graduate out of extreme poverty.
The Test of Poverty shows how Trickle Up helps the ultra-poor holistically and with lasting results.
To view a shorter 4 minute version, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_bUTKI2Lq0 {view video}
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Seed A Dream with Trickle Up
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Maggie Gyllenhaal puts it best: Your support, however small, can seed a dream and change someone's life forever. {view video} |
Trickle Up India: The Lift Irrigation Song
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It is as plain as any structure could be. A concrete block house on the edge of the Chaka stream, in the hamlet of Nimtalakuli, in the village of Majhihira, an hour’s drive from the town of Purullia, which is a six-hour train ride from Kolkata. The block house has a corrugated metal roof, and the man who tends it has to bang the rusty handle with a hammer to open the door. Inside it is dark and damp, and all you can hear is the heartbeat of an eight-horsepower diesel pump. A green plastic hose leads to the pump from an eight-inch square hole in the wall of the blockhouse; the hose delivers water from the Chaka, and a second hose carries the water out of another opening on the opposite side of the building.
That's all it has taken to improve the lives of the majority of the 120 families who live in Nimtalakuli, which is among the poorest villages in all of India. The method, which uses the pump and gravity wherever possible, is called "lift irrigation," and has been so beneficial for the village, the lives of its inhabitants have changed dramatically–so much so that this Trickle Up project has been honored with a folk song.
Written and performed by Nibaran Mohato in Manjhihiri, a village in India.
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Trickle Up Mali: The First Steps out of Poverty
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Watch how people living on less than $1.25 a day in Mali, West Africa are taking their first steps out of poverty through Trickle Up's unique microenterprise development program! {view video} |
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