Programme Spotlight

Building resilience in drought-stricken Mauritanian communities

The MDG-F is helping to combat an alarming increase in malnutrition in two southeastern regions of Mauritania, where 40% of children are moderately to severely malnourished.

Youth take aim at poverty in Colombia

The MDG-F invites youth from Colombia’s Chocó region to aim their cameras at their communities’ richness and diversity, and look for ways to move out of poverty and ...

Chinese farmers switch crops to adapt to climate change

For decades, farmers like Mr. Ma grew spring rapeseed, but climate change has forced them to abandon the practice. The MDG-F is introducing crops and techniques to help growers adapt to ...

Reducing violence against women in Haiti

Every week, this women’s organization sees 5 cases of physical and sexual assaults on women. The MDG-F is working on many fronts to reduce conflict in Haiti and to increase services for ...

Protecting Timor Leste’s women

Three quarters of married women in the Pacific nation of Timor Leste have suffered physical or sexual assaults at the hands of their husbands or partners. The MDG-F has supported the ...

Building a “Big Apple” in the slums of San Salvador

Transformed shanty-town will soon provide water, electricity, private toilets and new livelihoods to families living in extreme poverty on the edge of El Salvador’s capital.

Reducing child deaths in Mali

The nutritional status of children in Mali is grim. When Habi Karembé was brought to a MDG-F-supported village health center last spring, she weighed just 4-1/2 pounds. Today, she is ...