Happy New Year!
"Words are windows (or they are walls)" Marshall Rosenberg Ahimsa Fund wishes you a happy and healthy New Year 2020!
Faith inspired organizations and engagement towards UHC
During the last Ahimsa Forum, which took place in June 2019, a focus was put on Faith Communities and Universal Health Coverage. Those two days of reflexion has been introduced by a presentation of the WHO Handbook on social [...]
#AhimsaInnovation
Thank you to all participants for their precious contribution. The full report is available here.
About Innovation
When we talk of innovation, it is primarily in the context of developed countries, the countries for which it is accessible and that can afford to finance it, as innovation can be expensive. Innovation is based on significant profits [...]
Brazil’s HIV policy for indigenous people
by Adele Benzaken, Deputy Director, Department of AIDS, STI and Viral Hepatitis, Ministry of Health, Brazil Presently, Brazil harbors around 1 million indigenous persons – an estimated 750,000 of whom live within indigenous lands and territories that occupy around 12% [...]
Innovation: the power of partnership
One of Ahimsa’s clearest messages is also the simplest: the potential power of partnership, cooperation and networking. It is a message important in all of Ahimsa’s work, but perhaps most obviously when addressing difficult questions of accessibility: how to [...]
Bangladesh on February 2018
Bangladesh is a country with a population of 180 million, three times that of France, yet is only a quarter of the size. A country in which a tiny minority of the population is very rich, often more so [...]
The Impact Investment Summit 2018
During my visit to Kenya and participation to the 2018 TBN Conference, March 2018, we saw that a much greater emphasis needs to be given to the part that business and enterprise can play in reducing poverty. Aids through [...]
5th GK Social Business Summit
At the fifth edition of his summit, Gawad Kalinga showed that all of its efforts remain focused on the pursuit of its goal: eliminating poverty ...
Mexico in the aftermath of the Sept 2017 earthquake
Without a doubt, September 2017 was one of the hardest months that Mexicans have lived through for many years. The aim of this visit to Mexico was to examine ways in which Ahimsa Fund could participate in the reconstruction effort.