economic empowerment

Giving Tuesday 2019

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...

Thanksgiving 2019: Thank you for the lives you have changed!

Ever wonder what your donations accomplish in faraway places you have never heard of, may never visit, for people you may never meet?

We can answer that.

Report from the Field: Tech Aiding the Ultra-Poor in Kenya’s Arid Lands

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...

Can You Use Digital Finance If You Can’t Read?

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 Partnership with the New Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

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...

Making History in Northern Kenya

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...