Right Sharing of World Resources

09/17/2026

Join us on Thursday, September 24th at 3 pm ET for a public Zoom conversation about RSWR’s work in Kenya. RSWR Executive Director Traci Hjelt Sullivan and Director of Community Development Yasmin Khan will share stories about their recent trip to visit our team in Kenya and answer your questions. Register for the Zoom link at: https://rswr.org/event/learning-from-kenya/

Photo: The Limado Self-Help Group received training from RSWR in 2026 and has applied for grant funding.

Please note we will not be discussing how new potential women’s groups can apply to the program. All information regarding the application process can be found on our website.

Right Sharing of World Resources has been working in Kenya for decades. Since then, the program has supported deep and lasting change—for participants and for RSWR itself. Join RSWR Executive […]

08/20/2026

In this episode of the Quakers Today Podcast, Right Sharing's Traci Hjelt Sullivan and Nathan Kleban share about who the economy is for and ancestral wealth. Traci and Nathan are also part of the discussion in two other episodes of the Quakers and Money series.

Listen to the series: https://quakerstoday.podbean.com/

In this third episode of our season-long exploration of Quakers and Money, Peterson Toscano and Diana Yañez turn toward one of the largest and most difficult questions of the series: How do Friends live with integrity inside capitalism? Last month, we explored relational finance and asked whether t...

08/18/2026

“Women Feed the Nation” is the motto of the Mulegoma Women’s Group in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, but it could describe the work of nearly every women’s group Right Sharing partners with across the West African country. While some groups run small businesses, the typical group also maintains a collective farming project, sometimes with help from Right Sharing’s country coordinator, Sallian Sankoh, who organizes land access when groups need it.

Farming in Sierra Leone happens against a backdrop of shaky food security, made more precarious by climate change. Rains arrive unpredictably, bringing drought one season and flooding the next. In Songo, the Tamarreneh Women’s Organization farms without irrigation, planting instead on low-lying land referred to as swamp, where “water comes from the ground.” There they grow corn, rice, cassava, groundnut, hot peppers, bananas, and plantains, along with a leafy green called krain krain, similar to spinach. Coconut and palm are pounded by hand into oil for cooking and selling, and the women also tend citrus, pineapple, mango, and other tree fruits. These crops feed families at home and also make their way to market.

Read more on our website: https://rswr.org/news/women-feed-the-nation/

07/27/2026

Money shapes our perception of what choices we have. How do we practice generosity in the present while also balancing our sense of security for the future?? What does sharing look like when we don’t have enough in the present?

Over the past year, opening space for these conversations has involved meaningful sharing and lots of laughter. Sharing deeply together in a supportive community, we can make new and different choices towards a wiser relationship with money.

If this sounds interesting to you, join us for the online workshop “Money, Self, and Community.” It begins on September 17th and takes place over 4 weekly 90-minute sessions. Through experiential exercises, we’ll trace our relationship with money from the past and into the future.

https://rswr.org/event/money-self-and-community-a-virtual-workshop-2/

07/16/2026

Hermelinda is known by those in her community of Maraxcó as a hardworking woman and a kind neighbor. She has known profound joys, like the joy of being an abuela, and deep sorrows, including the murder of her husband, a security guard, and the deaths of several children.

To sustain her household Hermelinda started her own food business. She knows how to make everything: tamales, cornbread, egg bread, milk cakes, banana cakes, and corn cakes. For years, she sold breads and cakes from her home and traveled selling milk in jugs and making cheese. However, inflation and the rising cost of supplies left her exhausted with little profit.

Read the rest of Hermelinda's story on our website: https://rswr.org/news/god-willing-my-goal-is-to-build-my-oven/

06/22/2026

From the mountains of Colorado, across the plains of Illinois, and to the foothills of Appalachia, the staff of Right Sharing visited with five Yearly Meetings last week. We hosted workshops, enjoyed fellowship with Friends and spent time in collaborative discussions with fellow Quaker organizations. Be on the lookout for a Right Sharing staff member visiting your area later this summer. Interested in hosting a Right Sharing workshop in your community? Learn more: https://rswr.org/activities-resources/

06/09/2026

The Right Sharing newsletter is here! We’re grateful for your connection to Right Sharing and excited to share stories of the impact made possible through this community. From the Mentima Women’s Groups’ confrontation of an abusive husband to our upcoming virtual workshop “Money, Self, and Community", support from people who care impacts people all over the world.

You can find our newsletter on our website: https://rswr.org/rswrnws_q2-2026/

Photo: Two members of the Mentima Women's Group in Sierra Leone sit with their group's bank-in-a-chest. The group received a grant from Right Sharing in 2025.

05/27/2026

Have you listened to the recent episode of the Quakers Today podcast (Friends Journal) where they explore Relational Finance? It features our very own Nathan Kleban and Traci Hjelt Sullivan.

Nathan asks: "How do we reorient ourselves towards community and towards relationships we can nurture each other outside of this very extractive economy? Instead of just like, how do we just make a lot of money and then use it to get our needs, but how do we do something?"

Traci explores: "It’s about how can we support each other in leading good lives? We may have different definitions of what a good life is and what the markers are, but that we all do need community to thrive."

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/P3qgL8UmMmA?si=7NF6_yr8zHSuEPCo

05/19/2026

Small gifts create lasting change.

When you drive into Radhika’s town, you see the factories right away. Big buildings with piles of clay lamps stacked outside. That’s where she learned this work, pressing lamps for hours for someone else’s business.

It was steady work, but it wasn’t her own.

At some point, Radhika started thinking about doing it differently.

“Why not buy my own machine? Having my own business is better than going and working for someone else.”

Around that time, she joined the Sevvandhi Self-Help Group and went through business training. It helped her think about the work she already knew how to do as something she could own.

She took a 24,000 rupee loan, about $260 (USD), and bought a clay press.

Now she works from home. About five hours a day, making around 5,000 lamps. Her small oil lamps are used in temples, ceremonies, and festivals. Read the rest of Radhika's story at: https://rswr.org/news/small-gifts-create-lasting-change/

04/27/2026

Join us for our next Right Sharing Conversation: Generosity and Enough on Tuesday, May 19th.

What does it mean to live with “enough”? How might generosity reshape our relationship with money, resources, and one another?

In this interactive, spirit-led conversation, we’ll gather in community to reflect, listen, and share stories about abundance, scarcity, and the choices we make each day. These monthly conversations create space for meaningful dialogue and connection, rooted in Quaker values and lived experience. This session will be facilitated by Carolyn Lejuste of Red Cedar Friends in Lansing, Michigan.

Learn more and register: https://rswr.org/event/generosity-and-enough-right-sharing-conversations/