Oct 13 2020
Aisha was born 24 years ago in Yangon, Myanmar’s energetic cultural center, and lives there today with her parents and four siblings. But she says her true community resides somewhere …
Oct 13 2020
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A bird’s eye view of a mini-grid and the essential services and businesses it powers in the village of Derni in Bihar, India.
Oct 13 2020
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Solar mini-grids have transformed communities and local businesses in Jharkhand, India through improved agricultural productivity and access to markets resulting in increased GDP and decreased greenhouse gas emissions.
Oct 07 2020
Meet the Top Visionaries
Welcome to Araku, Wardha, New Delhi, India, year 2050. Ichemma wakes up before sunrise, and after sending her two cows off to the nearby community grazing land, she packs some millet …
Oct 07 2020
Meet the Top Visionaries
Welcome to India, year 2050. It’s 5 am in Dehradun in Uttarakhand, and Amit, a data scientist, is awoken to the ring of the doorbell. A neighborhood volunteer has brought a …
Sep 24 2020
From the arid plains of Myanmar’s Dry Zone to the forests of the Amazon, mini-grids are starting to play an indispensable role in the mission to connect millions of people …
Power Asia
Sep 15 2020
In the last few years, India has made phenomenal progress expanding electrification to every part of the country. However, many rural households still do not have access to a reliable …
Power Asia
Sep 14 2020
Video
This video is about The Rockefeller Foundation's legacy and current supports in Thailand. The objective is to reinforce to Thai stakeholders that RF remains very committed to Thailand. Although the …
Sep 10 2020
Perspective
I was born my parents’ only child and a girl—not the preferred gender in those days in India. My father’s response? He treated me like a boy. He pushed me …
Sep 10 2020
Perspective
When Durreen Shahnaz first floated the idea of creating a new financing vehicle explicitly to help underserved women entrepreneurs in Asia, bankers and financiers advised her against including the word …