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Glory Inventing & Research Mission
Glory Inventing & Research Mission is a relief and development charitable organization providing training in employable skills to youth and children, and providing care for widows and the elderly.
Lycée André Resampa Antsirabe non-profit high school
The school is a non-denominational institution which aims to educate and train up young people who live in the city of Antsirabe and surroundings. Given the results of the annual school examination at the baccalaureat, the school has a very significant performance given the number of students per...
Stichting Bulamu
Stichting Bulamu (Bulamu Foundation Uganda) is registered at the chamber of commerce Rotterdam, The Netherlands and in Kampala Uganda as Non Profit Organisation. The website is in Dutch, much information about the activities of Rene and Jolanda Nieuwenkamp, Founders and Voluteers of Stichting...
Red Taxi Sourcing Ltd
Red Taxi Sourcing Ltd is a Hong Kong and Australian owned company that manufactures ethically sensitive and environmentally sustainable organic cotton uniforms using fairly traded products. The company runs a One+One programme, providing school uniforms and funding to developing countries for every...
Action First For Progress (AFFP)
Action First for Progress (AFFP)is a Kenyan NGO whose main objective is poverty alleviation in rural and semi-arid areas where small business owners are in urgent need of help to expand their businesses. The organisation aims to educate such people in business techniques to help them develop...
Christian Development Foundation
The Christian Development Foundation is a faith-based community development organization based in Guyana. The organisation runs projects in a number of countries in South America, targeting people and communities in need. The organisation also assists organisations to develop business plans. ...
Synergy Uganda
Synergy Uganda is focused on empowering and creating change within the country through a community based approach. The NGO offers support and assistance to communities throughout Eastern Uganda through a variety of skills training and education classes, literacy and basic business classes. Synergy...
Voluntary Action for Development (VAD)
Voluntary Action for Development (VAD) is a Ugandan NGO that works with rural poor and disadvantaged communities in Wakiso , Mpigi and the North-Eastern districts of Uganda. VAD aims to improve livelihoods through the implementation of development oriented programs/projects includiing water,...
Leprosy Mission Trust India
The Leprosy Mission Trust India rehabilitate people affected by Leprosy. We provide them Vocational training. The organization is an offshoot of the Leprosy Mission, which was formed in 1874 to help those with leprosy in India and is currently headquartered in Middlesex, England.Tthe Leprosy...
Poultry innovation platform (entrepreneurship)
RIU Tanzania is building up a programme of poultry-related activities in partnership with a range of private sector organisations. The programme is seeking to develop agri-business entrepreneurship capacity through poultry farming for sustainable income generation and enterprise development in the...
The "Cocoa Plan" between Nestlé and cocoa farmers
Nestlé is guided by the principle of creating shared value for shareholders and society in a manner that is integrally linked to its core business strategies and operations. It is called "Creating Shared Value (CSV)"; value created for shareholders, employees, farmers, consumers and the communities...
Educational Social Cultural Organization ( ESCO)
The Educational Social Cultural Organization (ESCO) is a US based NGO dedicated to providing relief and charitable assistance to alleviate poverty in India. The organisation strives to bring hope to the poor through education and socio-economic development. ESCO has set up a health centre and...
Anglican Development Services of Mt. Kenya East
Anglican Development Services of Mt. Kenya East (ADSMKE) is the development arm of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The organisation sponsors programmes in the following areas: sustainable food production and security; environmental conservation; community-based health care; water and sanitation;...
Divine Chocolate
Divine Chocolate Limited, formerly the Day Chocolate Company, is a manufacturer of Fairtrade chocolate products in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was established in the UK in 1998 as a partnership between the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers' collective and the alternative trading...
Bead Nana
Bead Nana is a mobile arts and crafts centre, a social entreprise made up of art ethusiasts whose goals are to bring meaningful arts experiences to children and women in Ghana, to lay the groundwork for children and women to be creative problem solvers through arts, and to nurture the developmental...
Alter Eco
Alter Eco is a French-based alternative trading organization, founded in 1999, which specializes in the import and distribution of Fairtrade products. Alter Eco products are offered in several French mass retailers such as Monoprix, Cora (hypermarket)|Cora, Match, System U, Leclerc and...
Ganesh Himal Trading
Ganesh Himal Trading has been supplying shops and retail customers in North America with high quality, handcrafted clothing, jewelry, textiles, and paper since 1984. The company imports directly from small cottage industries in Nepal, including development projects working to improve the lives of...
Monda African Art Ltd
Monda African Art is a limited liability company established in Nairobi, Kenya in 2005. It strives to create and produce original high-end handicrafts, including beaded sisal bags, fashionable jewelry and utilitarian soapstone items. The company is managed by a competent and experienced partnership...
Maasai Treads
Maasai Treads was established in August 2005, as part of an initiative to assist young creative shoemakers to earn a reasonable wage through recycling initiatives. Maasai treads makes footwear as well as a range of Maasai treads essentials. Maasai treads aims to show the global marketplace that...
Machakos District Co-operative Union Ltd (MDCU)
MDCU was established in 1964 as an umbrella organisation of primary co-operatives in Machakos district, Kenya. Today it assists mainly marginalized producers in the handcraft sector with products such as wood carvings, baskets, soapstones, etc. The mission of MDCU is to improve the quality of...