MEDA makes shortlist for $1 million prize
MEDA has been selected as one of 10 finalists for the 2006 Alcan Prize for Sustainability.
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Buyers lining up for starch plant shares
Two starch plants in Paraguay are performing so well that local businessfolk want to buy MEDA's shares in the venture.
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Muslims, Mennonites working together
Daily newscasts keep telling us about friction between Christianity and Islam, but when you look at MEDA's work you get a different story.
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What's coming up
Here's a sample of what's new in MEDA's world of faith, business and development...
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Tending the Tajik garden
In a remote part of Tajikistan MEDA’s Farm to Markets project is helping village women to hone their agricultural skills and thus boost their food supply, nutrition and income. The following report by Beate Schoreit, MEDA’s project field manager, shows how the greenhouse initiative is helping set up a village based “layer” of extension workers to engage as many women as possible.
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Haiti work lives on to
Work got underway this March on a new urban repair project in Haiti by FON'EDE, a new agency established by former staff when MEDA closed its Haiti operations last year.
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Paraguay's president opens new starch plant
With great fanfare, and a speech by the president of Paraguay, a second starch processing factory was opened this spring in the eastern part of the country by members of MEDA Paraguay.
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Agencies say, Thanks, MEDA!
This past year the Member Services department has worked at clarifying the meaning of MEDA membership in response to changing social attitudes.
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eBay tycoon joins microfinance fan club
Pierre Omidyar knows a thing or two about great ideas. More than a decade ago he came up with a hugely successful one of his own – how to hold an auction that anyone with a computer can attend.
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Testing, testing
MEDA staff are gauging the market interest and economics of distributing small solar lanterns in Pakistan.
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Coming soon: Malaria wars
Winnipeg filmmaker Andrew Wall has been busy making videos of MEDA programs. He recently travelled to Tanzania and Uganda to gather footage for two new videos that will be available shortly.
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Players on the world stage: Are we influencing policy? You bet!
When it comes to grassroots development in small business and subsistence agriculture, MEDA is a trendsetter. But how about at the public policy level where broader issues of global inequity are handled?
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