Educating and empowering women and girls is a well-accepted strategy in global development to help them thrive. But what does this look like in hard to reach rural communities in Kenya where the practice of FGM (female genital mutilation) still takes place and dropping out of school and early marriages/pregnancies are commonplace for young adolescent girls? This short video features participants in Dandelion Africa’s highly successful Girls for Leaders program which has brought much needed hope, confidence, mentorship and leadership skills to thousands of girls from vulnerable communities. The stats tell the story too—98% of girls in Dandelion's program successfully...[ Read More ]

In 2020, Pangea Giving is proud to award $111,410 in grants to 16 partners. After receiving recommendations from our three regional grant pods, the Board approved our final grants on February 23. Grants are being transferred to partners in March and early April. Latin America The Latin America Pod awarded $36,667 in funds to five organizations operating in Oaxaca, Mexico or Guatemala. These organizations are all returning grantees and address issues including gender equity and women empowerment, gender-based violence prevention, sexual and reproductive health education, nutrition, and indigenous rights and cultural education. Learn more about our Latin America grant partners....[ Read More ]

The Oaxaca Site Visit team converged at the lush garden filled Hotel Las Golondrinas on a Sunday night in time for a first sampling of the enticing local cuisine and a planning session for the week ahead.  The group, consisting of two men and two women from four different decades, came together after spending the previous days visiting a variety of locations: water projects in Ecuador, the sights of Mexico City, and an exemplary Rotary Project supporting hydroponic green houses in rural Oaxaca. How often can we travel with a small group diverse in age and gender, where we together...[ Read More ]

Stories from individuals who benefit from our funding are powerful and this one is no exception. A student from Lenana Girls High School, a boarding school in rural Kenya, speaks of the urgent need for climate change adaptation and the importance of education. The school is the brainchild of our long-time strategic partner, Common Ground, in Kiminini, Kenya. Pangea Giving members have supported Common Ground’s Biointensive Farming Programs and Lenana students over many years. Right now humans are cutting off the branch they are sitting on. April 22, 2019 was Earth Day, a day on which we no longer have resources to...[ Read More ]

We are very excited to share our 2018 Impact Report. The report documents the incredible power a small group of people can make with their resources through grant giving and the always impressive work of our partners. Special thanks to intern Elan Wong for compiling the report. Download the PDF

Chronic undernourishment in the Tzutujil Maya community of San Pedro la Laguna is significant, especially in young children. High rates of poverty and lack of access to nutritious foods contribute to this problem. In addition, studies indicate that the extensive use of synthetic chemical fertilizers is the main cause of contamination of nearby Lake Atitlan. Young Mayan girl works with instructor The vision of our new partner Communidad Intercultural Educativo Taa’Pi’t (Taa’Pi’t) is to help people consciously achieve their full potential and contribute to an empowered society that is comprehensively educated and productive, based on their ancestral Mayan culture and...[ Read More ]

Sarah* is one of a dozen children in her family in Namagera village, Jinja district, Uganda. At 16 years old, she dropped out of school because her family lacked funds and the government-aided free secondary school was too far away from her house to walk. When a local organization announced a scholarship program in her village, she promptly interviewed and impressively landed the scholarship. However, six months into the scholarship program, Sarah became pregnant and dropped out of school. After having the baby, Sarah could not re-enroll in secondary school because she had no one to care for her child...[ Read More ]

Hilda is 19 years old and is the second of nine children. She is from the Las Ventanas community, which is located about 16 miles by dirt road from the municipal seat and location of the closest secondary school. To travel from her home to the municipal seat, Hilda must hitch a ride in the back of a truck. Even hitching a ride is no simple endeavor - Hilda must walk four and a half miles to a place called Tres Cruces to wait and hope another truck arrived soon. When Hilda completed primary school, her family told her that...[ Read More ]

Growing up with a profound disability in an economically impoverished environment is hard, very hard. Only 5% of deaf children attend school in Tanzania. There are no pre-school or kindergarten programs that accept deaf children. Most deaf child who do go to school start at 7-10 years old and finish their primary grades when they are 16-22. Often children are thrown off the bus or out of shops because of the stigma against the deaf. Tanzania Deaf Child (TADEC) was founded in 2008 by a group of deaf mothers led by Sarah Nsenga, now the executive director. The deaf mothers...[ Read More ]

Women Peace Makers engages young people throughout Cambodia with on-site trainings and social media campaigns as part of its Gender and Peace Leadership Program. The program equips these young people with mediation and leadership training to promote peacebuilding and gender equality in their communities. Soeung C. Chhayheng is a 25 year old from Pursat Province who participated in the program. I used to be confused with the term gender as well as the definition of sex. I thought that gender meant elevating a girl’s rights or any type of activity where to allow women to get more opportunities than men....[ Read More ]