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Clean hands, healthy kids

In Manila, a mothers group partnered with school administration to implement two different Agents of Change initiatives that would make improvements to handwashing stations at a public elementary school. The result was a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for schoolchildren and increased awareness of hand hygiene.

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Teresa had made Buri palm–leaf bags in the Philippines for over 20 years when the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to close her small business. With an Unbound entrepreneurship grant in 2022, she bought new materials and relaunched her bag-making business, which now provides her family’s main income.