It is the time of the day right now where the sun is hitting the tips of the sugar cane like a mini flashlight is inside each of the stalks lighting them up from the bottom. This is the view I have from the design room where we are currently camping out with our [...]

I’ve begun my MWB assignment with the All India Artisans & Craftworkers Welfare Association (AIACA) this month as a business development associate in their enterprise support program. AIACA works towards enhancing the competitiveness and incomes of craft producers in India through advocacy and policy research, enhancing market access and creating more commercially sustainable models for [...]

So why did I leave Paris? A large part of me didn’t want to leave. I was making great friends there and was quite literally having the time of my life. It seemed almost illegal to have that much fun and be so happy. But I knew as soon as I applied, [...]

Before coming to Swaziland, I had pictured a country in misery – dry dirt roads with shacks that house worn out bodies drawn thin from disease, from AIDS. Swaziland has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world. A startling 40 % of adults are HIV positive and the average life expectancy has now [...]

BIO: Ling Ling is passionate about the creation and growth of businesses for economic development in Africa and Asia. She has worked both in the public and private sector in business analysis, financial services, microfinance, information technology, systems design, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting, microenterprise development, value chain development, and biofuels. Ling Ling has [...]