Meet a
changemaker:
A changemaker is someone who inspires inclusive, positive change in the world. Meet some of the people who inspire us.
In our new series, Corus Changemakers, we celebrate community champions and staff around the globe making impactful change to support sustainable livelihoods, health care access and capacity strengthening. Their stories and tireless passion drive our efforts to inspire innovation and end extreme poverty once and for all.
CORUS CHANGEMAKERS
A changemaker is someone who inspires inclusive, positive change in the world. Meet some of the people who inspire us.
In our new series, Corus Changemakers, we celebrate community champions and staff around the globe making impactful change to support sustainable livelihoods, health care access and capacity strengthening. Their stories and tireless passion drive our efforts to inspire innovation and end extreme poverty once and for all.
CORUS CHANGEMAKERS
A changemaker is someone who inspires inclusive, positive change in the world. Meet some of the people who inspire us.
In our new series, Corus Changemakers, we celebrate community champions and staff around the globe making impactful change to support sustainable livelihoods, health care access and capacity strengthening. Their stories and tireless passion drive our efforts to inspire innovation and end extreme poverty once and for all.
CORUS CHANGEMAKERS
meet a
changemaker:
Corus organization Lutheran World Relief has been working with local partner Center for Comprehensive Development of Communities (CEDINCO) since 2011 to improve food security, strengthen livelihoods and support health and nutrition in Castrovirreyna. Through our Promotion of Favorable Environments for Food Security and Family Nutrition in Castrovirreyna project, we work with CEDINCO to increase yields of nutritious food by training Indigenous farmers on organic production methods, including seed banks, post-harvest storage and family greenhouses.
We work in communities around the world to sustainably improve food availability, diversity, access and utilization through a focus on strengthening rural economies and agricultural livelihoods. By focusing on climate-smart agriculture, we advance nutritional outcomes for farmers and their families that protect land and water resources for the long-term. When smallholder farmers increase and diversify their production, have greater market access and improve their participation in their products’ value chains, incomes rise and resilience grows.
Areas of Expertise:
Food Security
Irene: Championing food security in Peru
Corus Changemaker Irene is committed to improving nutrition for children and families across the remote Andean region of Castrovirreyna, Peru.
Corus organization Lutheran World Relief has been working with local partner Center for Comprehensive Development of Communities (CEDINCO) since 2011 to improve food security, strengthen livelihoods and support health and nutrition in Castrovirreyna. Through our Promotion of Favorable Environments for Food Security and Family Nutrition in Castrovirreyna project, we work with CEDINCO to increase yields of nutritious food by training Indigenous farmers on organic production methods, including seed banks, post-harvest storage and family greenhouses.
We work in communities around the world to sustainably improve food availability, diversity, access and utilization through a focus on strengthening rural economies and agricultural livelihoods. By focusing on climate-smart agriculture, we advance nutritional outcomes for farmers and their families that protect land and water resources for the long-term. When smallholder farmers increase and diversify their production, have greater market access and improve their participation in their products’ value chains, incomes rise and resilience grows.
Corus Changemaker Irene is committed to improving nutrition for children and families across the remote Andean region of Castrovirreyna, Peru.
Irene: Championing food security in Peru
Areas of Expertise:
Food Security
Corus organization Lutheran World Relief has been working with local partner Center for Comprehensive Development of Communities (CEDINCO) since 2011 to improve food security, strengthen livelihoods and support health and nutrition in Castrovirreyna. Through our Promotion of Favorable Environments for Food Security and Family Nutrition in Castrovirreyna project, we work with CEDINCO to increase yields of nutritious food by training Indigenous farmers on organic production methods, including seed banks, post-harvest storage and family greenhouses.
We work in communities around the world to sustainably improve food availability, diversity, access and utilization through a focus on strengthening rural economies and agricultural livelihoods. By focusing on climate-smart agriculture, we advance nutritional outcomes for farmers and their families that protect land and water resources for the long-term. When smallholder farmers increase and diversify their production, have greater market access and improve their participation in their products’ value chains, incomes rise and resilience grows.
Areas of Expertise:
Irene: Championing food security in Peru
Corus Changemaker Irene is committed to improving nutrition for children and families across the remote Andean region of Castrovirreyna, Peru.
Food Security
Only one out of every four Lebanese women participate in the country’s formal workforce. Increasing women’s roles in the Lebanese business world can significantly contribute to the country’s economic rebirth as they bring expertise, innovation and talent to the national economy. Corus organization Lutheran World Relief implements the USAID-funded Women’s Global Development Prosperity: Expanding Women’s Labor Force in Lebanon (W-GDP: EWLFL) project. By increasing business development opportunities for women entrepreneurs and strengthening the capacity of women-led enterprises, the project helps women become catalysts of entrepreneurial development.
nancy: Breaking gender barriers in Lebanon
Corus Changemaker Nancy is making an impact in her community by expanding her business and providing employment opportunities to other women.
For Corus, strengthening local capacity means leveraging and elevating the existing capacity of local partners to advance mutual learning and to drive innovative, transformational change. We approach local capacity strengthening as a dynamic, purposeful process where local partners strengthen and continuously improve their ability to achieve their mission and adapt to change. Our approach to local capacity strengthening derives from our steadfast belief in locally led development and the right and ability of local voices and institutions to advocate for and implement their own development agenda.
Areas of Expertise:
Local Capacity Strengthening
Only one out of every four Lebanese women participate in the country’s formal workforce. Increasing women’s roles in the Lebanese business world can significantly contribute to the country’s economic rebirth as they bring expertise, innovation and talent to the national economy. Corus organization Lutheran World Relief implements the USAID-funded Women’s Global Development Prosperity: Expanding Women’s Labor Force in Lebanon (W-GDP: EWLFL) project. By increasing business development opportunities for women entrepreneurs and strengthening the capacity of women-led enterprises, the project helps women become catalysts of entrepreneurial development.
For Corus, strengthening local capacity means leveraging and elevating the existing capacity of local partners to advance mutual learning and to drive innovative, transformational change. We approach local capacity strengthening as a dynamic, purposeful process where local partners strengthen and continuously improve their ability to achieve their mission and adapt to change. Our approach to local capacity strengthening derives from our steadfast belief in locally led development and the right and ability of local voices and institutions to advocate for and implement their own development agenda.
Corus Changemaker Nancy is making an impact in her community by expanding her business and providing employment opportunities to other women.
nancy: Breaking gender barriers in Lebanon
Areas of Expertise:
local capacity strengthening
Only one out of every four Lebanese women participate in the country’s formal workforce. Increasing women’s roles in the Lebanese business world can significantly contribute to the country’s economic rebirth as they bring expertise, innovation and talent to the national economy. Corus organization Lutheran World Relief implements the USAID-funded Women’s Global Development Prosperity: Expanding Women’s Labor Force in Lebanon (W-GDP: EWLFL) project. By increasing business development opportunities for women entrepreneurs and strengthening the capacity of women-led enterprises, the project helps women become catalysts of entrepreneurial development.
nancy: Breaking gender
barriers in Lebanon
Corus Changemaker Nancy is making an impact in her community by expanding her business and providing employment opportunities to other women.
For Corus, strengthening local capacity means leveraging and elevating the existing capacity of local partners to advance mutual learning and to drive innovative, transformational change. We approach local capacity strengthening as a dynamic, purposeful process where local partners strengthen and continuously improve their ability to achieve their mission and adapt to change. Our approach to local capacity strengthening derives from our steadfast belief in locally led development and the right and ability of local voices and institutions to advocate for and implement their own development agenda.
Areas of Expertise:
Local Capacity Strengthening
Funded by USAID and implemented by Corus organization IMA World Health, the Counter-Gender Based Violence Program (known locally in Swahili as “Tushinde Ujeuri”) establishes community-based networks in the Democratic Republic of Congo to prevent and respond to gender-based violence with the goal of combatting stigma, reducing violence and improving care for survivors. The project uses a holistic approach to meet survivors’ needs, including urgent medical care, psychosocial counseling, legal support, village savings and loan associations, literacy circles, women’s empowerment groups and more to help survivors gain financial independence and social support.
Rosette: Addressing gender-based
violence in the DRC
Corus Changemaker Rosette is a doctor and project facilitator who is breaking gender barriers and preventing gender-based violence in her community.
We are committed to preventing, mitigating and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) globally. GBV is not only a violation of human rights that undermines the safety and dignity of individuals, but it is a public health crisis that destabilizes the economic stability and security of communities and nations. Corus understands the magnitude of GBV and its profound impact on families, communities and development outcomes. By embedding evidence-based approaches into program design and implementation, we work to reduce community tolerance to violence while decreasing the vulnerability of households and individuals, especially women and girls.
Areas of Expertise:
Addressing Gender-based violence
Funded by USAID and implemented by Corus organization IMA World Health, the Counter-Gender Based Violence Program (known locally in Swahili as “Tushinde Ujeuri”) establishes community-based networks in the Democratic Republic of Congo to prevent and respond to gender-based violence with the goal of combatting stigma, reducing violence and improving care for survivors. The project uses a holistic approach to meet survivors’ needs, including urgent medical care, psychosocial counseling, legal support, village savings and loan associations, literacy circles, women’s empowerment groups and more to help survivors gain financial independence and social support.
Learn more about our work in the DRC.
We are committed to preventing, mitigating and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) globally. GBV is not only a violation of human rights that undermines the safety and dignity of individuals, but it is a public health crisis that destabilizes the economic stability and security of communities and nations. Corus understands the magnitude of GBV and its profound impact on families, communities and development outcomes. By embedding evidence-based approaches into program design and implementation, we work to reduce community tolerance to violence while decreasing the vulnerability of households and individuals, especially women and girls.
Corus Changemaker Rosette is a doctor and project facilitator who is breaking gender barriers and preventing gender-based violence in her community.
Rosette: Addressing gender-based violence in the DRC
Areas of Expertise:
Adressing Gender- Based Violence
Funded by USAID and implemented by Corus organization IMA World Health, the Counter-Gender Based Violence Program (known locally in Swahili as “Tushinde Ujeuri”) establishes community-based networks in the Democratic Republic of Congo to prevent and respond to gender-based violence with the goal of combatting stigma, reducing violence and improving care for survivors. The project uses a holistic approach to meet survivors’ needs, including urgent medical care, psychosocial counseling, legal support, village savings and loan associations, literacy circles, women’s empowerment groups and more to help survivors gain financial independence and social support.
Rosette: Addressing
gender-based violence in the DRC
Corus Changemaker Rosette is a doctor and project facilitator who is breaking gender barriers and preventing gender-based violence in her community.
We are committed to preventing, mitigating and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) globally. GBV is not only a violation of human rights that undermines the safety and dignity of individuals, but it is a public health crisis that destabilizes the economic stability and security of communities and nations. Corus understands the magnitude of GBV and its profound impact on families, communities and development outcomes. By embedding evidence-based approaches into program design and implementation, we work to reduce community tolerance to violence while decreasing the vulnerability of households and individuals, especially women and girls.
Areas of Expertise:
Addressing Gender-based violence
Through the Improving Health and Nutrition in Guatemala’s Western Highlands project, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief partners with FundaSistemas to improve nutritional outcomes and strengthen agricultural development in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. Applying innovative behavior change methodologies, the project utilizes home visits, technical assistance and an arts-based community development (ABCD) curriculum to promote healthy food consumption, agricultural diversification, maternal and child health and WASH best practices.
Biviana: Promoting health
and nutrition in Guatemala
Corus Changemaker Biviana is a community leader and health promoter who supports women and families to improve household health while serving on her local council.
Our WASH programming prioritizes social behavior change and utilizes a public health approach to water during emergency responses, as well as a holistic, sustainable water resource management approach for long-term development. Guided by IMA World Health’s expertise, the Corus family continues to integrate WASH intearventions into livelihoods projects as well as broader primary health care delivery and health systems strengthening projects. Through engagement of government, health and community leaders, we ensure WASH capacity is established at all levels of response and is underpinned through the availability of sanitation and hygiene infrastructure.
Areas of Expertise:
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Through the Improving Health and Nutrition in Guatemala’s Western Highlands project, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief partners with FundaSistemas to improve nutritional outcomes and strengthen agricultural development in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. Applying innovative behavior change methodologies, the project utilizes home visits, technical assistance and an arts-based community development (ABCD) curriculum to promote healthy food consumption, agricultural diversification, maternal and child health and WASH best practices.
Our WASH programming prioritizes social behavior change and utilizes a public health approach to water during emergency responses, as well as a holistic, sustainable water resource management approach for long-term development. Guided by IMA World Health’s expertise, the Corus family continues to integrate WASH interventions into livelihoods projects as well as broader primary health care delivery and health systems strengthening projects. Through engagement of government, health and community leaders, we ensure WASH capacity is established at all levels of response and is underpinned through the availability of sanitation and hygiene infrastructure.
Corus Changemaker Biviana is a community leader and health promoter who supports women and families to improve household health while serving on her local council.
Biviana: Promoting
health and nutrition
in Guatemala
Areas of Expertise:
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Through the Improving Health and Nutrition in Guatemala’s Western Highlands project, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief partners with FundaSistemas to improve nutritional outcomes and strengthen agricultural development in the San Marcos department of Guatemala. Applying innovative behavior change methodologies, the project utilizes home visits, technical assistance and an arts-based community development (ABCD) curriculum to promote healthy food consumption, agricultural diversification, maternal and child health and WASH best practices.
Biviana: Promoting health
and nutrition in Guatemala
Corus Changemaker Biviana is a community leader and health promoter who supports women and families to improve household health while serving on her local council.
Our WASH programming prioritizes social behavior change and utilizes a public health approach to water during emergency responses, as well as a holistic, sustainable water resource management approach for long-term development. Guided by IMA World Health’s expertise, the Corus family continues to integrate WASH interventions into livelihoods projects as well as broader primary health care delivery and health systems strengthening projects. Through engagement of government, health and community leaders, we ensure WASH capacity is established at all levels of response and is underpinned through the availability of sanitation and hygiene infrastructure.
Areas of Expertise:
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
In the VRAEM region of Peru, one the country’s poorest and the epicenter for coca leaf production for cocaine, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief employs an innovative market systems approach with the women-led Qori Warmi cocoa cooperative. By strengthening the resilience and sustainability of the cooperative, Lutheran World Relief increases participating families’ agricultural productivity and environmental responsibility, strengthens entrepreneurial capacity and leadership within the cooperative, as well as promotes cocoa as a legal and high-value crop alternative to the illicit coca production.
Elsa: Advocating for
gender equality in cocoa
Corus Changemaker Elsa is an agronomist who is dedicated to breaking gender barriers in cocoa production and promoting sustainable livelihoods.
With Lutheran World Relief’s expertise, Corus has a long history of strengthening livelihoods in the cocoa sector. We employ a climate-smart agricultural value chain approach to improving access to inputs, technical resources and capacity, post-harvest processing and export markets. We promote gender and age diversity in the membership and leadership of farming cooperatives and encourage the use of agroforestry in the management of cocoa crops, thereby helping farmers not only produce more cocoa and preserve the land’s fertility and biodiversity, but also realize an important triple bottom line of people, profit and planet.
Areas of Expertise:
Cocoa
In the VRAEM region of Peru, one the country’s poorest and the epicenter for coca leaf production for cocaine, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief employs an innovative market systems approach with the women-led Qori Warmi cocoa cooperative. By strengthening the resilience and sustainability of the cooperative, Lutheran World Relief increases participating families’ agricultural productivity and environmental responsibility, strengthens entrepreneurial capacity and leadership within the cooperative, as well as promotes cocoa as a legal and high-value crop alternative to the illicit coca production.
With Lutheran World Relief’s expertise, Corus has a long history of strengthening livelihoods in the cocoa sector. We employ a climate-smart agricultural value chain approach to improving access to inputs, technical resources and capacity, post-harvest processing and export markets. We promote gender and age diversity in the membership and leadership of farming cooperatives and encourage the use of agroforestry in the management of cocoa crops, thereby helping farmers not only produce more cocoa and preserve the land’s fertility and biodiversity, but also realize an important triple bottom line of people, profit and planet.
Corus Changemaker Elsa is an agronomist who is dedicated to breaking gender barriers in cocoa production and promoting sustainable livelihoods.
Elsa: Advocating for gender equality in cocoa
Areas of Expertise:
Cocoa
In the VRAEM region of Peru, one the country’s poorest and the epicenter for coca leaf production for cocaine, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief employs an innovative market systems approach with the women-led Qori Warmi cocoa cooperative. By strengthening the resilience and sustainability of the cooperative, Lutheran World Relief increases participating families’ agricultural productivity and environmental responsibility, strengthens entrepreneurial capacity and leadership within the cooperative, as well as promotes cocoa as a legal and high-value crop alternative to the illicit coca production.
Elsa: Advocating for gender
equality in the cocoa sector
Corus Changemaker Elsa is an agronomist who is dedicated to breaking gender barriers in cocoa production and promoting sustainable livelihoods.
With Lutheran World Relief’s expertise, Corus has a long history of strengthening livelihoods in the cocoa sector. We employ a climate-smart agricultural value chain approach to improving access to inputs, technical resources and capacity, post-harvest processing and export markets. We promote gender and age diversity in the membership and leadership of farming cooperatives and encourage the use of agroforestry in the management of cocoa crops, thereby helping farmers not only produce more cocoa and preserve the land’s fertility and biodiversity, but also realize an important triple bottom line of people, profit and planet.
Areas of Expertise:
Cocoa
Corus International is an ensemble of global leaders in international development and humanitarian assistance committed to ending poverty and building healthy communities across Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa. Corus is made up of global health leader IMA World Health, international aid and development organization Lutheran World Relief, technology for development company CGA Technologies, impact investing fund Ground Up Investing, and direct trade coffee producer Farmers Market Brands.
Together, Corus organizations take a holistic approach to urgently end poverty, suffering, and injustice wherever they afflict humanity, with enduring passion, partnership, and expertise. They integrate disciplines, approaches and resources, designing solutions that are innovative, scalable and move the needle towards transformational change.
WHo is corus?
Corus International is an ensemble of global leaders in international development and humanitarian assistance committed to ending poverty and building healthy communities across Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa. Corus is made up of global health leader IMA World Health, international aid and development organization Lutheran World Relief, technology for development company CGA Technologies, impact investing fund Ground Up Investing, and direct trade coffee producer Farmers Market Brands.
Together, Corus organizations take a holistic approach to urgently end poverty, suffering, and injustice wherever they afflict humanity, with enduring passion, partnership, and expertise. They integrate disciplines, approaches and resources, designing solutions that are innovative, scalable and move the needle towards transformational change.
WHo is corus?
Corus International is an ensemble of global leaders in international development and humanitarian assistance committed to ending poverty and building healthy communities across Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa. Corus is made up of global health leader IMA World Health, international aid and development organization Lutheran World Relief, technology for development company CGA Technologies, impact investing fund Ground Up Investing, and direct trade coffee producer Farmers Market Brands.
Together, Corus organizations take a holistic approach to urgently end poverty, suffering, and injustice wherever they afflict humanity, with enduring passion, partnership, and expertise. They integrate disciplines, approaches and resources, designing solutions that are innovative, scalable and move the needle towards transformational change.
WHo is corus?
