SKI Charities

Tag: community

  • At SKIC, Community is Everything

    SKIC has been a community-minded organization since day one. But now, more than ever, the organization is seeing the importance of maintaining and stimulating communities in both of its operating sites – Lebu, Chile and Mutare, Zimbabwe. LEBU, CHILE | Lebu is a rather isolated city, with a static population. It relies heavily upon people-to-people connections…

  • Empowering Transformational Female Leaders

    In a previous post, “Why Focus on Women?,” we discuss the importance of SKI Charities’ focus on empowering female entrepreneurs and providing education for young women. In the traditional communities of developing countries like Zimbabwe and Chile, where SKIC works, already-marginalized women are often made powerless by circumstances of conflict and unrest, with men historically and culturally standing as the heads of…

  • Africa’s Mobile Technology Rise

    The technology that has long provided convenience in most daily lives is now transforming opportunities available to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Mobile technology in Zimbabwe has risen to more than 71 percent, supplementing the work of SKImfi and allowing women in Zimbabwe to expand, organize, and promote their entrepreneurial efforts. Mobile technology in Africa has created…

  • Faces of SKImfi: Prudence K.

    Faces of SKImfi: Prudence K.

    When Prudence and her SKImfi group members gather for business meetings, they begin each session with a chant: “High high, it lifts you high. SKImfi lifts you UP!” Prudence K., a 30-year-old mother of three, launched an electrical supplies business after attending a Selection, Planning and Management workshop with SKImfi Zimbabwe. She accessed a $100…

  • A Conversation with Shyam: How We Find Talent

    “Everyone has talent, but not everyone is given the opportunity to take advantage of it,” says SKIC founder, Shyam K. Iyer. Though SKIC chooses participants selectively, beneficiaries end up being role models for their friends, families, and communities at large. Listen in to hear about how important talent is to SKIC, and how the gifted…