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Giving Money Back To Donors
Upaya has done something novel in the past few weeks – novel for us, at least – we’ve written checks to our donors… and it feels great.
This Mother’s Day We Wish For Dignified Jobs For All Mothers At Work
This Mother’s Day, as two working mothers at Upaya, we reflected on what it would take to create dignified jobs for mothers from extremely poor households. Despite their hardships, these women have the strength and ability to address the difficult battle of being a worker, a woman, and a mother, but they can’t do it alone
Economic Justice Requires More Than Money Alone
The world has made great strides in cutting extreme poverty in half in the past 20 years, notwithstanding the devastating effects of COVID. But it is also a basic fact that we live on a planet that could easily provide adequate food, shelter and healthcare for our entire population. And yet over 700 million people continue to live in unjust poverty.
Covid Reminded Us Not To Become Complacent In Our Mission Against Poverty
For most of Upaya’s existence, our momentum has mirrored a consistent trend of reducing extreme poverty in the world
Let's Not Waste This Crisis
We must take the lessons from the last 30 years of fighting poverty to build a dam against this slide back into poverty for too many. One of those lessons is that people experiencing extreme poverty are not helpless
Now More Than Ever
When the mammoth proportions of the global pandemic became clear, something else became clear to those of us who spend our days thinking about and fighting global poverty. It was clear that this crisis would not hit everyone equally.
How India Overcame Its #1 Extreme Poverty Ranking
It is great news to hear, as an Indian national, that India is no longer the nation with the largest poor population, as per a study published by US-based think tank Brookings