Blog posts about Food and Income

Selina Kerketa (aged 28) is the Secretary of a farmer group with 30 all female members in Durgapur Village, Rangpur, Bangladesh.

Women farmers working together

28 year old Selina Kerketa is the Secretary of an all female farmers group from Bangladesh. She talks of her ambitions for the future.

The food revolution that could transform life behind bars

Poor nutritrition makes people in prison more vulnerable to infection, increasing the risks to communities around them. Grow-your-own initiatives could be a simple, innovative way to improve health behind and beyond bars.

Volunteering couple Jan and Ann with children in Rwanda | VSO

Happy bellies for brighter futures: Volunteers' project feeds hungry children

Shocked by levels of malnutrition in the country, volunteering couple Jan and Ann started their own project to give a hundred nursery aged children in Rwanda a hot meal at school every day.

Living with HIV in Rwanda

After her husband had an affair, Beretilde became HIV positive. Life is hard for Beretilde. But after joining a local cooperative things are looking up. She is now making a better living, providing for her children and investing in the future.

Celina Kisha Chibanda owner of Chi products with one of her jars of peanut butter

Despite the odds Celina turned her passion for food into a successful business

Celina Kisha Chibanda, 59, runs a small food processing business from her home in Iringa, Tanzania. But succeeding has not been easy.

Volunteer Stephanie with women Shea nut processors in Ghana

Shea joy as volunteer Stephanie returns to progress in Ghana

British volunteer Stephanie Green spent two years in Ghana working to help Shea nut processors become financially independent businesswomen. She returned earlier this year- and was delighted to see that the women are thriving, independent of VSO support.

Members of PECAW Group, a trades company in Tanzania supported by VSO

Delivering job-ready graduates in Tanzania

Before VSO's project, fewer than one in three graduates were in work within two years of leaving vocational training. Now more than half are employed within six months.

Sam Obang inspects the beehives that his community has built

Business is growing for farmers in northern Uganda

Volunteer Sheila Rushforth discusses the improving situation for farmers in Northern Uganda, an area that has long struggled with development after years of conflict.

Abdul Latif is from Kafikhal village, Bangladesh

Farming together for better profits

Abdul Latif has been farming all his working life, but he has still learned a lot of important lessons from being part of the Bugra Para farmers group. Abdul discusses the benefits of farming together.

Liz Hunt volunteer in Bangladesh with farmers

Growing together in Bangladesh

Volunteer Liz Hunt, an employee of Syngenta, discusses her role supporting VSO's 'Growing Together' programme - working to increase the skills and abilities of 10,000 small-scale rice, potato and vegetable farmers in the Rangpur and Dinajpur districts of north western Bangladesh.

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