See why Nuru members are celebrating this holiday season, and listen as Jake invites you to help 1,000 more families join our lifesaving programs, which will teach families to increase their maize harvest and save the earnings to pay for clean water, healthcare commodities and children’s school fees. To learn more, visit our holiday page.

Happy Birthday Nuru International Experience a few of the over 10,000 stories from our first three years, and see a sweet map of Kuria.

Nuru International's Fellows Program is an opportunity for talented and motivated professionals to use their skills to affect real social change by working directly with communities in rural Kenya to end extreme poverty. For more info visit the Jobs & Volunteer page.

Elias Sinda: "I used to farm maize and harvest six sacks per acre. This was not enough to feed my family and I couldn’t sell any to pay my children’s school fees. When Nuru came they taught us new farming methods and provided loans for those who could not afford to purchase fertilizers and topdressing for planting. Now I get 16 bags of maize from one acre. We have enough (maize) to eat and I can sell some to pay for my children’s school fees."

Margaret Matinde: "I was living in a mud thatched house and I couldn’t afford to send my children to school. When Nuru came I joined a savings club. After saving for 12 weeks I took a loan which I used to start a restaurant. My business has done well and I was able to pay off the loan. Now I can pay the school fees for my children."

Nuru International is proud to be the first organization in Africa to implement the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT), a new measurement tool developed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations. To download Nuru's 2011 MPAT Summary please visit the Monitoring and Evaluation page.

"When I was just a child, I always wondered why we were poor." Philip Mohochi is the Chairman of Nuru International - Kenya. He grew up in extreme poverty in Kuria, Kenya, and now leads all of Nuru's Kenyan staff as they partner together to lift their community out of extreme poverty forever. To learn the answer to Philip's question, watch this video. Music donated by Hammock. To get involved, click here.

A special holiday message from Nuru members in Kuria, Kenya and CEO Jake Harriman.

"Since Nuru has come, my life has really changed. ... They gave us a loan of good seeds and fertilizer. We were able to get 18 bags of maize per acre."  - Milka Marwa

Click here to watch Francis: One Man's Story, the companion piece to this video.

1500 participants at 26 college campuses and city centers (including Florence, Italy) joined with Nuru International to walk in solidarity with women and girls in extreme poverty. Click here to learn more. Music donated by Savoir Adore. 

Road trip anyone? Join the Nuru Tour team as they criss-cross the U.S. inviting people to join the fight against extreme poverty. To learn what you can do, visit the Do Something page.

Nuru CEO Jake Harriman served as platoon commander in the Infantry and Force Recon. After earning a Bronze Star fighting the war on terror, Jake saw that the only chance we have to end terrorism is to end extreme poverty. He enrolled at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and with the help of classmates, professors, and Silicon Valley venture capitalists, he formed Nuru International. This is his story. Original score by Tyler Bates.

Mobile banking technology is providing financial services to Kenyan farmers living in extreme poverty. Nuru International's savings-led Community Economic Development Program integrates Mifos and M-Pesa to disburse microloans as one of many different poverty solutions.

Nuru believes that leadership is key to ending extreme poverty. As Nuru expands into neighboring communities in desperate need, we recognize that more and more leaders must be equipped. That's why we're building the Regional Training Center.

"Life before Nuru was like living without light. ... After going through the program with Nuru, we now have money [so that] our children can stay in school."  - Francis Mwita

Click here to watch Milka: One Woman's Story, the companion piece to this video.

Walk through a Nuru member's maize field with CEO Jake Harriman and learn how Nuru's revenue generation model is empowering farmers to become financially self-sustainable. To learn more about our Agriculture program, click here.

To donate and join with us in ending extreme poverty, click here.

Healthcare Program Manager, Lindsay Cope and Wat/San Program Manager Matt Lee give an update on Nuru's Community Health Worker Training. For more information on our Healthcare Program, click here.

Have you ever realized how connected everything is? Nuru has. Learn about our innovative, holistic approach to ending extreme poverty. To learn more about how Nuru Works, click here. Original score by Tim Anderson.

They are Nuru - are you? Hear from some of Nuru's biggest fans about why they are Nuru, and then join the I Am Nuru campaign to empower 1,000 families out of extreme poverty forever. Chalk art by volunteer Maria Sierra. Featuring an original score donated by Kendall Combes of the Charlie Hall Band. To get involved, click here.

Go inside Nuru's brand new granary with Nuru CEO Jake Harriman and hear some exciting news about our farmers' second harvest. To learn more about the agriculture program, click here.

Watch the highlights from '09 - all under 3 minutes! Music provided by the Go! Team. Have more questions about Nuru? Click here.

Millions of women and girls in the developing world spend hours each day gathering water, which is necessary for survival, from often polluted sources. Our event "Be Hope to Her" (BH2O+) allows us to literally walk through that experience in solidarity with them. Join us this April, as we help to awaken our generation to the great need in our world: Clean Water. To get involved with BH2O+, click here.

BH2O+ (Be Hope to Her) is an event designed to turn students on campuses across the United States into advocates for those needing clean water access in the developing world. Visit nuruinternational.org/takeaction/bh2o.html to find out ways you can become an advocate and get involved in providing education and clean water solutions to the developing world through BH2O+. To get involved with BH2O+, click here.

Montage of images from BH2O+ 2009. Featuring music donated by Green River Ordinance. To get involved with BH2O+, click here.