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Getrade (GH) Ltd Fps
Getrade (GH) Ltd Fps is an export house for Ghana small scale producers. Getrade deals with export handling for members and partners, marketing, freight services and domestic sales. The company produces bolga baskets, woodcarvings – toys (oware), furniture (stools), authentic African art,...
Bundu Designs
Bundu Designs is a social venture and online marketplace that is transforming the awareness and consumption of contemporary African design products with a core philosophy of ethical, sustainable and fairly traded products. They currently work in collaboration with over 25 largely women's community...
A to Z Textile Mills: A Public Private Partnership Providing Long-Lasting Anti-Malaria Bed Nets to the Poor in Tanzania
Malaria, transmitted through mosquito bites, kills a million people worldwide each year. In 2004, A to Z Textile Mills of Tanzania became the sole African producer of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets, able to kill mosquitoes on contact for five years without retreatment and resistant to...
Research Foundation of Lund Vietnam Childhood Cancer Program
In 2008, IKEA Social Initiative entered a six-year co-operation with the Research Foundation of Lund Vietnam Childhood Cancer Program, Lund University Hospital, Sweden. The programme aims at making a permanent improvement of cancer care in order to increase the number of children surviving and...
Mi Tienda helps small grocery stores in rural Mexico to grow their businesses
Small, family-run grocery stores, known as tiendas de abarrotes, are essential for supplying basic goods and services in thousands of low-income rural communities in Mexico.
The Emancipation Network (TEN)
The Emancipation Network is an international organization, founded by Sarah Symons and John Berger in 2005, dedicated to fighting human trafficking and modern slavery. It helps survivors of slavery rebuild their lives after rescue from slavery, through economic empowerment, education and help...
Freeset
Freeset is a fair trade business that offers employment to women trapped in Kolkota's sex trade. It makes quality jute bags and organic cotton t-shirts, but Freeset's business is freedom. The objective of Freeset is to see the 10,000 sex workers in its neighborhood empowered with the choice of...
Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. (RICHEMONT)
Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. is a South African luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by the South African businessman Johann Rupert. The group’s activities and products include jewellery, fine watchmaking and premium accessories, which encompasses writing instruments, leather goods...
COLORS
COLORS is a social business that provides impoverished people across the world an opportunity to provide for themselves by teaching them creative skills, and also by providing an outlet to sell their hand-made goods. COLORS’ specific goal is to bring social injustices like human trafficking to...
Starbucks and Earthwatch: sustainable coffee
This video introduces a unique field-research programme created by Starbucks and Earthwatch.
Starbucks and Fair Trade NGOs partner
Starbucks, TransFair USA and Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International join in support of small-scale coffee farmers through a $20 million loan program.
Air Terminal Gifts and Catholic Community Services provide donations and employment opportunities for refugees
Catholic Community Services (CCS) has, for decades, helped hundreds of refugees start new lives in Utah. Air Terminal Gifts has donated $12,000 to the CCS refugee resettlement program. Both companies work in partnership, employing refugees and trying to recognise and respond to their immediate...
Body Shop & MTV partner with NGO to help prevent HIV/AIDS
To illustrate the power of the word Yes when it comes to safe sex, The Body Shop and MTV Networks International have created a one minute promotional film, "Yes, Yes, Yes to Safe Sex". The film shows young people from different backgrounds illustrating the film's message in various ways.
Body Shop campaign 'Trafficking is torture' to support the Helen Bamber Foundation.
At least 4,000 women and girls are trafficked into the UK each year and forced into prostitution. Trafficking for sexual exploitation doesn't just affect women, children are trafficked too. NOTE: this video contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.
H&M gives back to the community
"Our Responsibility by H&M" is a short film about how H&M takes responsibility for how the company's operations affect people and the environment in connection with the production of its products.
Starbucks join the Conservation movement
Conservation International has worked with Starbucks Coffee Company for more than 14 years to promote coffee production practices that conserve biodiversity, maintain healthy ecosystems and support economic and social development in coffee production landscapes as embodied in the company’s...
Sustainable Cashew Production in Guinea
Guinea grows about 5,000 tons of raw cashew nuts a year. Meanwhile, its much smaller neighbour Guinea-Bissau, with similar soil and climate, produces 80,000 tons. Encouraged by the growing consumer demand for cashews, Guinea has begun to focus on expanding cashew production—a good candidate for...
Amanco: Providing Irrigation Systems to the Rural Poor
For decades, small farmers in Latin America have faced a grim outlook: low productivity and inefficiency. That was the background for the decision of Amanco, a subsidiary of the conglomerate GrupoNueva, to develop a hybrid value chain model for serving low-income markets. As part of that plan, the...
Danone Poland: Affordable Milk Porridge for Low-Income Families
In 2006 Danone Poland launched a breakfast product which has a high nutritional value for children and is affordable for low-income consumers. A milk porridge product based on semolina and milk. Milk Start is enriched with vitamins and minerals. To make the initiative financially sustainable,...
Food for Development in Nigeria
In 2004, the Nasarawa State Government (NSG), under the mandate of Nigerian President Obasanjo, collaborated with Tetra Pak West Africa (TPWA) in the development of a state‐wide school feed programme using Nutri‐Sip, a maize‐based meal supplement that had been developed and deployed in South...