Sarah Lelesiit and her family lived in a leaky-roofed hut, and hunger stalked them constantly. Those days are gone. In 2017, Sarah enrolled in the BOMA Project’s poverty graduation program and graduated in June 2019 as a proud owner of a bustling livestock business,...
Our partners at TaroWorks who created the mobile field service app that helps BOMA field staff record and manage the data necessary to keep track of our participants’ progress, recently posted a blog about how technology helps organizations working with the...
BOMA participants like Rose Lelesiit embrace the opportunity to become business owners and pull themselves and their families out of extreme poverty. However, an often overlooked challenge is the fact that many people, especially women, living in last mile regions...
Our partner, the University of California, Davis, will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural families out of poverty in developing countries. The Feed the Future...
By Amanda Teppo, BOMA Project Intern Each moment is a chance to make history. At the BOMA Project, participants in our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) are not only breaking the cycle of extreme poverty but driving social change as well. A new market, only 4...
We are thrilled that our Executive Director John Stephens has joined the Board of Directors of InterAction, a convener, thought leader, and voice for nearly 200 NGOs. InterAction works with and through its member organizations to strengthen policies and programs to...
