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Ministry to Street Children
Ministry to Street Children is one of the ministries provided by the churches in Zambia, to support and help the orphaned, abandoned, vulnerable and abused children in the community. It provides them education, training, medical care, humanitarian support, spiritual development and advice about...
The World Bank (Banque Mondiale) Burundi
The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...
Missions Ablaze
Missions Ablaze is a group of missionaries that aim to help the poor and needy, especially children, with food, clothing and shelter. They are involved in the preparation and distribution of food to the poor through a number of soup kitchens. They lead Bible studies among children and youth and...
Kemondo Orphan Care Centre
Kemondo Orphan Care Centre is a Lutheran orphanage operating in Tanzania. The children at this orphanage are mostly AIDS orphans. The centre operates in the Kagera region and has a regional intake. The orphanage is financed by international NGOs. This support enables the orphanage to provide food...
Hope for The Orphan Children - Sierra Leone
Hope for the Orphan Children is a project supported by Children of the Nations International in Sierra Leone to build a new Village of Hope in Banta Mokelleh for orphaned children and provide them homes, schools, churches, medical clinics, nutrition and whatever they need in their fight against...
Voluntary Integration for Education and Welfare of Society (VIEWS)
Voluntary Integration for Education and Welfare of Society (VIEWS) is an Indian NGO working in Odisha. The organisation aims to improve the living conditions of the poor and marginalized by adopting strategies through community collective initiative and people's participation. Interventions are...
Engineering for Change
Engineering for Change (E4C) is a growing community of engineers, technologists, social scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local community advocates who are passionate about improving quality of life. E4C seeks to enable this growing community to design, apply and share...
Wumenu Community Farm Ho Volta Region of Ghana
The Wumenu Community Farm is a community development project aimed at helping the disadvantaged and poor of Wumenu village near Ho, in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa. The project is funded through fund raising events, donations from the general public in Scotland and through programs such...
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...
SEKEM: A Holistic Egyptian Initiative
After living in Austria for 21 years, Ibrahim Abouleish returned home to Egypt to do something about the difficulties he observed during visits. In 1977, he founded the Sekem initiative to promote social and environmental development through economic and cultural activities.
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is known for its thrift stores and charity work that operates in over 120 countries. It is deeply committed to fighting human trafficking and has sought to reduce the worldwide phenomenon of abuse of individuals or groups of people for personal and inhuman gain. To achieve...
Women Initiative for Prosperity (WIP)
The Women’s Initiative for Prosperity (WIP) is a Ugandan community-based NGO. The organisation uses a holistic approach in its development projects. This ensures that projects are not only focused on restoring people and their communities to their pre-crisis conditions, but also on establishing a...
IHOP Restaurants helping children one breakfast at a time
IHOP restaurants across Oklahoma provided a free short stack of pancakes to customers in return for donations to raise money in support of Feed The Children.
Construmex: Facilitating Remote Housing Investments for US-based Mexican Migrants
Construmex, an initiative of Mexican construction and building giant CEMEX, was launched after the company’s success with Patrimonio Hoy, a socially minded business initiative targeted at low-income consumers. Since its inception in 2001, Construmex has helped more than 14,000 Mexican migrants in...
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...
Integrated Tamale Fruit Company: Organic Mangoes Improving Livelihoods for the Poor in Ghana
The Integrated Tamale Fruit Company—operating in the Savelugu-Nanton District in Ghana’s Northern Region, an area of widespread poverty—cultivates certified organic mangos for local and export markets. To boost its power in the export market with higher production volumes, the company established a...
PETSTAR: Adding Value to the Chain of Recycling While Improving the Scavengers’ Working Conditions
With about 85,000 tons of waste generated every day, Mexico is the 10th largest garbage producer in the world. At the same time, tens of thousands of scavengers, including children, are making a living by collecting saleable items from open-air dumps in very poor, informal conditions.
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,...
SELCO partners with India's state banks to bring sunlight to rural India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to the economically impoverished people in India. SELCO’s mission is based on a simple but powerful idea that the economic conditions of the impoverished can be improved substantially if they are made...
TEMASOL: Providing Energy Access to Remote Rural Households in Morocco
In Morocco, despite the government’s efforts to expand its grid-based coverage, about 9% of the rural population could not be cost-effectively connected. Given that Morocco enjoys 3,000 hours of sun per year, solar energy was therefore thought to be a cost-effective alternative. TEMASOL is a...