Our trustee Andrew Yeoward has recently returned from a 10-day trip to Zambia where he visited eight projects we have been funding there, including meeting the teams who manage the…
Category Archives: Empowering women
We’re helping to fund a project that empowers women farmers in Tanzania, connecting them with the tourism industry and helping them access the fruit and vegetable supply chain within the…
The Halcrow Foundation is helping to fund a project that will bring transformative and sustainable improvement to the lives of 2,500 families in West Bengal. The project is run by…
Florence was one of the first women to join the MicroLoan Foundation project in Kapiri, Zambia, which is funded by Halcrow Foundation. Here’s her story. A determined and driven entrepreneur, Florence was already running a business…
Halcrow Foundation is improving the livelihoods of 300 women and their families, by supporting fuel-saving stove businesses in Metema Woreda, Ethiopia. Working with Action Ethiopia and its sister organisation, Sunarma,…
The Covid-19 pandemic caused India to go into lockdown in March 2020. Since then, the Karuna Trust and its partner in India, Jan Sahas, have worked hard to maintain the…
The Halcrow Foundation has helped fund a project which supports teenage girls in Zambia to finish their secondary school education. Many girls in rural Zambia find it impossible to attend…
The Halcrow Foundation is proud to be part of the multi-million pound Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme, which is run by British Asian Trust and funded by a number of donors,…
The Halcrow Foundation is funding a volunteer training programme at Swindon Women’s Aid, a charity that provides emergency accommodation, advice and support to victims of domestic violence and abuse in…
Manual scavenger women in Madhya Pradesh, India, are escaping lives of poverty and discrimination thanks to funding from the Halcrow Foundation. Manual scavengers remove human excrement from toilets and carry…