Latest Impact Stories

• Impact Story

  Benetton acts on story of leather tanneries in Kenya

  The story prompted the Italian fashion company Benetton to contact the United Nations to get involved in such a project.

  30 June 2017
• Impact Story

  Feature on Gender Violence in Kenya Prompts Funding Opportunities from US, Canada

  A powerful feature by Foundation journalist Zoe Tabary prompted two funding opportunities from readers in the United States and Canada.

  26 June 2017
• Impact Story

  The Thomson Reuters Foundation helped me uncover the loss of billions of dollars from the Egyptian economy. Then the law changed.

  One Egyptian journalist uncovered a way in which companies could easily avoid tax in her country. Her investigation was then used to create a new law.

  19 June 2017
• Impact Story

  Ending child marriage in the US, one state at a time

  TrustLaw, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s pro bono legal programme, partnered with advocacy group Unchained At Last to support its fight to pass legislation that would ban child marriage in the US.

  7 April 2017