Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Eliminating Hunger Through Technical Philanthropy

Half a world away from New Orleans, the General Mills Foundation tackles a very different challenge: saving lives through the African Women & Children’s Hunger Project. In Lester’s country of Malawi, women farmers produce 80 percent of the food, do 90 percent of the food processing, and 80 percent of the work to transport and store the food. Yet they own only 1 percent of the land. Generally undernourished, illiterate, and lacking a voice in the decisions affecting their lives, these women reflect generations of discrimination. General Mills’ goal is to train and invest in the women of this region, helping them to attain self-reliance, because they have proven over and over again that their ...