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World Harvest
World Harvest is an international relief and development humanitarian organisation that was founded in 1989. World Harvest works with poor people in transforming their lives mainly through health care, food security, micro enterprise, education and awareness process. Initiated in Indonesia, World...
Asian Community Trust
The Asian Community Trust (ACT) is a national fund-raising public good trust established in 1979 to help the needy people of Asian developing countries. Its objectives are to encourage sustainable social and economic development in Asian communities through financial support to local, self-reliant...
Tribal Enterprises (Bible Hill Youth Club)
Tribal Enterprises, an initiative of the Bible Hill Youth Club, an Indian NGO, is a social enterprise that provides provides skill training and produces market-based eco-friendly products, including women's clothing and traditional clothing designed by young people for young people.
Yayasan Talkis (Talkis Foundation)
Yayasan Talkis (Talkis Foundation) is an Indonesian NGO that provides health education and services.
PT. Karisma Aradi Healthcare (KAHC)
PT. Karisma Aradi Healthcare is a healthcare company operating in Bandung West Java Indonesia. The company is currently building a small hospital (100 beds) in Cimareme, West Bandung, and is aiming to develop an electronic medical record system which will be available to all hospitals and clinics...
Mundi Cura
Mundi Cura is a Canadian NGO. The organisation works with young people, giving talented but disadvantaged young people opportunities to achieve their full potential. Mundi Cura also promotes healthy, safe environments for at-risk young people including children, adolescents and young adults who...
Yakkum Emergency Unit
Yakkum Emergency Unit (YEU) is a younger sister of Yogyakarta based CD Bethesda (Community Development of Bethesda Hospital). YEU was established in 2001 based on pressing concerns within YAKKUM (Yayasan Kristen untuk Kesehatan Umum - Christian Foundation for Public Health) regarding the...
TNT
TNT Express is a global company operating in 200 countries around the world. It provides a range of express services to transfer goods and documents around the world. TNT Express is able to offer its customers an extensive domestic and international network, integrated with the latest technology....
Mercy Huts
Mercy Huts is a small Christian organisation registered in Australia that aims to establish an eco-friendly beachfront surf retreat that will provide financial support, employment and training in hospitality and tourism for families living in poverty on Rote Island, Indonesia.
Lumbung Yusuf Indonesia
Lumbung Yusuf Indonesia provides health, education, relief, and social services.
PAK Orphanage Project Rantepao
The PAK Orphanage Project in Rantepao, Indonesia provides necessities including food, clothes, school materials, and furniture to orphaned children. It also takes the children on field trips and seeks to expose them to people from other countries for the children's benefit.
The Asian Development Bank and Non-Governmental Organizations: Working Together
The Microcredit Project in Indonesia, established by the Asian Development Bank and approved in 1994, focuses on microenterprise support, recognizing the potential of microenterprises to create jobs at low capital input costs and raise the income levels of the poor.
Child Safe International
Child Safe Network is an international network which consists of local and international people, businesses and groups that protect children from abuse and prevent them from being placed in abusive situations, exploitation and trafficking. Child Safe was created and is managed by...
Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
David Roll, a lawyer based in Washington DC, is Managing Director of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a network of 160 law firms (with 20,000 lawyers) offering pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs all over the world.
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...
Clean cookstove in action
This video is about a project carried out by Kopernik in the community of Pucung, Indonesia, introducing new clean cookstoves to the villagers.
Edison International contributes to Asian Tsunami disaster relief
It is not often that the world’s collective sense of solidarity and compassion is captured by a single event. The earthquake-spawned tsunami that ravaged so many countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa in December 2004 was one such event. Proving once again how committed they are to making a...
Rajawali’s Express Taxi: Working with Taxi Drivers as Business Partners in Indonesia
The 1997 Asian financial crisis created a job vacuum in Indonesia, with companies forced to lay off 1.4 million workers. A decade later, unemployment rates continue to rise and poverty defines the context for Indonesia’s economy, social relations and security. Express Taxi, a subsidiary of the...
Working with the community to grow coconut tree business in Indonesia
Due to the abundance and ubiquity of coconut trees and plantations in Indonesia, there are potentially enormous social and commercial benefits that can be gained from integrating local communities in the production of high value coconut-based products. Indonesia has about 3.7 million hectare of...
Coffee company benefits small scale Indonesian farmers and increases employment
P.T. Toarco Jaya, subsidiary of Key Coffee Ltd., a large Japanese company, established a brand of specialty coffee called “Toarco Toraja” by procuring Arabica coffee from Indonesian farmers, and by running its own coffee plantation in the country.