Move to Mutualism

22/05/2026

🌿mari bi - a new source of prosperity tapped by the Falwel community

In a partnership between Kula and Potentiel Terre, the women cooperative AMANA has launched village venture in Falwel in Niger 🇳🇬 , by processing local crops. With a community chest that holds a revolving fund, consisting of their own savings as well as some foreign capital, the investment in their village venture was made.

The guiding principle? Receipts are systematically reinvested to finance new production cycles, ensuring the building of long-term financial autonomy without external dependence.

🏗️ Moving Toward Industrializing a Local Spice production
The production unit is now semi-mechanized, featuring: ✅ A milling unit and a dehulling machine (a local first!). ✅ A storage warehouse, a standardized kitchen, and a processing facility. ✅ A structured labor organization to ensure continuous production.

📈 Concrete Results in Just 4 Months activities
65 bags of sorrel processed and sold - generating a profit. ✅ some funds allocated in livestock fattening loans to 20 women retailers, creating the first marketing circuit connecting residents. ✅ some funds invested in AMANA members and local youth workers loans.

🌍 Community Impact Beyond Expectations
More than just numbers, this project is a shared abundance factory : 👥 46 direct jobs created (41 women and 5 outh): 21 processors, 20 local retailers, and 5 youths workers. ⚡ Labor relief: A significant reduction in exhausting manual labor for 10 villages. The machines now allow for the automated dehulling of millet, maize, and sorghum, radically easing the daily lives of local women. 📍 09 new villages impacted: The host village and 9 surrounding communities of AMANA. 🌱 Agricultural transformation: Sorrel is no longer just a subsistence crop; it has become a high-potential cash crop for the future.

🤝 This could not have happened without the government for the institutional support and tax exemptions.

This could not have happened without the intention from the start to rust the community, and to share our abundances with these communities in need of inclusion.

17/05/2026

Join forces to build thriving local economies.
📅 June 16-18, 2026,
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

We are on a joint journey —where Indigenous wisdom and grassroots movements are already reweaving local economies. This gathering offers an inspiring opportunity to learnfrom Brazilian experiences and strategies, and a space to connect and explore with others how we work towards a shared global to local, while remaining deeply rooted in our own places.

The Summit focuses on practical pathways for strengthening hashtag , with local hashtag as a key entry point for wider transformation.

Be part of a global movement reimagining the future of our economies from the ground up.

Find more information here:
https://www.movetomutualism.org/shared-efforts/planet-local-summit-brazil/

25/04/2026

Watch this Funding Circle with 30+ indigenous women-led groups. The launch of the Naapu fund for justice is a historic milestone!

Why?
💥 It is a shift in power.
🏆 It is recognition.
🫶🏾 It is trust placed directly in the hands of women who have long led change with little support.

For years, grassroots leaders have protected nature, defended their rights, brought positive change in the community, while navigating severe resource gaps. If financial resources reached them, local leaders were expected to execute and implement, and were at best consulted. Women solidarity groups have held communities together—often without recognition or access to funding due to systemic barriers. This funding circle marks a shift to community empowerment and is coming with actual decision power.

Read more here:
https://www.movetomutualism.org/sparks/a-funding-circle-with-30-indigenous-women-led-groups/

Picture credits go to Naapu

07/04/2026

Our Vidushi – Njambi Njoroge shares her insights from the last part of our Global Mutualism Fellowship program: an immersion visit in Assam and a pilot with a community in Nashik, India 🇮🇳 . When she traveled to India for the cross pollination program she expected to learn about systems. Instead, she learned about people.

Learn how the actual process of commitment pooling - a solution supported by Sarafu Network that works for communities in Kenya 🇰🇪 is brought into being in India. And how the community self-organising structure - called Swavalamban Samitis, by the award-winning Drishtee - is brought to Kenya.

Get inspired by her insights here : https://www.movetomutualism.org/support/community-solutions-cross-pollination-between-kenya-india/

26/03/2026

Meet Aparajita and the change her 'pack' realised in their village

In a small village in Sivasagar, in India 🇮🇳, we met five women who wanted to start something of their own. With just 5,000 INR, they took their first step and started making incense sticks.

It wasn’t a smooth journey. Every day came with challenges—rising costs of raw materials, expensive packaging, and the constant uncertainty of whether they could keep going. There were moments when it could have stopped there. But sometimes, all it takes is someone to stand beside you.

Through support, guidance, and collaboration Drishtee became a part of their journey. Read Aparajita’s story: https://www.movetomutualism.org/sparks/aparajitas-story/

Sometimes, all it needs is a supportive partner: join us and be one!

20/03/2026

Local leaders realising a pool-based basic income for all - ❤️‍🔥

In Kenya 🇰🇪, in Kilifi County, there’s this Kiriba solidarity group. Members regularly support one another in house construction, land preparation, harvesting, digging pit latrines, and so on. Their mutual support and solidarity has reduced individual labour costs already. Now this groups takes the next courageous step: a basic income for all. How?

Well, the group started to pool all their commitments which strengthens cooperation. Beyond mutual support amongst themselves and in their larger community, it also extends mutual support opportunities to supportive partners. Like FairSpirit foundation, a partner stepped in and contributed, for example with community cash. This added support strengthens the hashtag and helps members make more frequent and reliable hashtag , resulting in a pool based basic income for all members.

This Kiriba group demonstrates how partners and communities can come together to jointly solve problems, growing our shared prosperity. Read more here: https://www.movetomutualism.org/sparks/basic-income-through-community-commitment-pooling/.

May this 🌟 spark 💫 your imagination what one hashtag can do. Don't hesitate to step in, and be(come) a supportive partner to communities too.

photo credits go to FairSpirit Foundation

09/03/2026

Care is a powerful engine in a community. Caring actions feed into collective actions. That's why expressing that we care and want to take care, is paramount.

This what this hashtag in Nepal 🇳🇵 sings, each time they meet. What happens when all of us around the world would do this, in our respective community groups we're part of? It's a good question to reflect on.

It's about commitment. It's about trust and hand work in togetherness. It's about caring that everyone can participate and thrive. Looking after each other.

There is this Chinese proverb about unity in knowing and action. Who knows, when we start singing this tune, we might act more upon it? We might take more caring actions. Let's sing this song together. All of us, together.

06/03/2026

Social media might have shaped our world into a global village. Still most of us need to really feel the , before being able to participate in this interconnected community. Here's a wonderful opportunity for those of you in New York City (NYC) 🇺🇸 , to meet some Indian 🇮🇳 communities. Beautiful connections can be made by a single beat... trust us.

Thanks you for your leadership on this.

https://www.movetomutualism.org/shared-efforts/connecting-with-local-communities-in-india-in-new-york-city-nyc/

04/03/2026

Don't miss out on this one! Groundswell International's Field-to-Film Festival - watch this one this weekend, it's free!

This Latin America and the Caribbean edition features short films created by youth storytellers from smallholder farmer hashtag , centering the role of women farmers in sustaining agroecology, cultural heritage, and hashtag across diverse landscapes.
📆 March 6
⏰ 3PM-4:30PM EST // 9PM - 10.30PM CET
💬 Spanish and Haitian Creole with English interpretation

Read more and reserve your spot here: https://www.movetomutualism.org/shared-efforts/watch-this-field-to-film-festival/.

26/02/2026

Don't miss out! Groundswell Intl Field-to-Film Festival - watch this one from South Asia 🇳🇵, this Saturday!

This short films is created by youth storytellers from smallholder farmer communities, centering the role of women farmers in sustaining agroecology, cultural heritage, and community well-being.

📆 February 28 – ⏰ 7:30PM-8:30PM NPT (8:45AM EST)
💬 Nepali with English interpretation

Reserve your spot & more info here: https://www.movetomutualism.org/shared-efforts/watch-this-field-to-film-festival/

25/02/2026