Mao Zedong Perhaps this is one of the most beautiful word pictures that I have ever heard to describe the role of women across the globe. It is not about being better, targeting a specific role or taking over the world. It is about being recognised for our...
Have you ever wondered why the Foxglove Project supports the Focus Cambodia project? Like so many things, it all comes down to a person. And in this case, that person is Lesley Hewett. Lesley was a fifty-something widow when she first ventured to Cambodia in the mid...
Late last month, life in Rwanda was returning to its new form of normal. People were returning to working life and domestic travel, although still impacted by the COVID pandemic. A news article on 29th September 2020 noted that, “Today, with large parts of the economy...
With the rise of technology, social media and globalisation have arrived stories of poverty and international crises bringing us ever closer to the plight and struggle of others. Particularly those in the Developing World. And we have responded with generosity and...
As Australia looks forward to plans that will reconnect people and kickstart our economy, countries like India continue to agonise about the future. How will this end? When will it end? Foxglove partners are working with pavement and slum dwellers in Chennai, one of...
It’s been a tough patch for Foxglove in many ways across the first half of 2020. In most respects we’re not orphans but in the last month, we’ve had a particularly difficult and heartbreaking challenge. We’ve lost the founder of Focus Cambodia (our project in...
