Nuru International

Implementing Holistic Solutions to Poverty

Fast Facts

Location:

Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria

Sponsored by:

Rick Agresta

Grant Years:

2009

Category:

Health, Job Training, Job Creation

Website:

nuruinternational.org

How Nuru International Is Making a Difference

Nuru International is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair social fabric and pave a pathway to peace.   

Work of Nuru International

  • Establishes locally-led organizations in fragile, conflict affected rural regions.
  • Strengthens rural livelihoods through market-based agribusiness and smallholder farmer cooperatives.
  • Develops connected systems (markets, government, private sector) to reinforce stability and social fabric.
  • Cultivates inclusive models with particular emphasis on women’s leadership and participation.
  • Integrates solutions across agriculture, healthcare, education, water, sanitation and financial inclusion.

Initiatives Supported by Project Redwood

2009:  $25,000 for loans to construct household water-catchment systems.