Hunger Blog

The Hunger Blog is an open dialogue that highlights how microfinance, when combined with lifeskills and health services, empowers women to improve their incomes, safeguard their childrens’ health and achieve lasting food security.

Grover Thomas's Bio and Posts

J. Grover Thomas Jr. became the Chair of Freedom from Hunger’s Board of Trustees in 2007. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustmark Mutual Holding Company and has more than two decades of leadership experience in the insurance industry. Mr. Thomas spent 20 years with Fortis Inc., a multinational insurance and banking firm, most recently as Chairman of its Fortis Family Life Insurance Company in Atlanta and Fortis Health in Milwaukee.

Measuring Success

I have been out in the field the last couple of weeks with our partners in The Philippines and India. As Chairman of the Board of Trustees, I believe it is important to understand well what we are actually doing with our women clients to solve the problem of chronic hunger in a sustainable way. I also wanted to understand our follow-up and measurement systems so that we can fulfill our commitment to ourselves and donors to have an effective tracking system in place for our results.This week I participated in two focus group sessions in the village of Gangodanga Para in West Bengal, India. Our initiative, Reach India, has been conducting sessions called “Learning Conversations” for groups of adolescent girls and their mothers. (more…)

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