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Relief Web
ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996 by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). ReliefWeb is a comprehensive source of information (including documents, maps and agency contact details) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. It provides timely, reliable and relevant...
End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT Philippines)
ECPAT International is a global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their...
Bangkok Free Ambulance (BFA)
The Bangkok Free Ambulance (BFA) is a service in Thailand that assists with Thai and foreign accidents and/or deaths. Its primary service is the provision of medical care. The BFA also works with other foundations, police, government, communities, and embassies in EMS care and education. BFA is...
Caritas Internationalis - Thailand
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and...
ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)
End Child Prostition, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) is a network of organisations and individuals working together to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children. It tracks what governments are doing in this area and publishes the results,...
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...
Ramada Encore Bangkok
Ramada Encore Bangkok is one of the regional arms of the Ramada International hotel chain operated by the Wyndham Hotel Group. The Wyndham Hotel Group franchises hotels and provides property management services around the globe. The Ramada Encore Bangkok Hotel, located at the heart of Bangkok,...
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...
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.
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...
MTV EXIT Foundation (End Exploitation and Trafficking)
MTV EXIT Foundation is a registered UK charity launched by MTV Networks Europe in 2003 to use and maximise the power and influence of MTV's brand and broadcasting network to educate young people, especially European youth, about the critical social issues affecting their lives, and other young...
Accor and Plan International work together to change the lives of many children around the world
Accor, hotel and services group, and Plan, have worked together in 16 countries. The aim of the partnership is to promote child sponsorship and project funding to Accor staff, partners and guests. Highlight of achievements to date: * more than 1,100 children are now sponsored throughout the...
Big business with the UNHCR helps refugees
The UNHCR Council of Business Leaders joined forces in 2005 to unlock the potential of more than 30,000 refugees around the world.
Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts: Crafting a Brighter Tomorrow for Disavantaged Women and Minorities in Vietnam
Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts (MVH) is a small and successful business, founded in 1990 by two passionate and energetic women. Building on the belief that social development is intricately tied to economic self‐reliance, Mai Vietnamese Handicrafts reaches out to artisans in underdeveloped areas and...
Handicap International and Sanofi -aventis develop a programme to fight diabetes in developing countries
In 2006, Sanofi-Aventis launched pilot programs to help improve diabetes disease management in developing countries, in conjunction with the NGO Handicap International, Sante Diabete Mali and other local NGOs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (DEPDC/GMS)
The Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (DEPDC/GMS) is a community-based organisation offering education and full-time accommodation for children to prevent them from being trafficked into the sex industry or other exploitative...
World of Good Inc sells brand to eBay, wholesale division acquired by GreaterGood/Charity USA
World of Good Inc., a social venture founded in 2005 that connects artisans from developing communities with mainstream retail markets, announced in March 2010 that eBay acquired its brand and related assets. World of Good Inc. also announced that GreaterGood/Charity USA acquired its wholesale...
Siemens helps to create a portable water filtration unit
Natural disasters often affect water infrastructure leading to contaminated drinking water and outbreaks of water born disease. As a part of their Siemens Caring Hands programme Siemens collaborated with SkyJuice Foundation to create SkyHydrant a portable water filtration unit.
Safe Kids Walk This Way and FedEx promote child pedestrian safety.
Together with Safe Kids Worldwide, FedEx established the Safe Kids Walk This Way program to teach safe behaviors to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities. The goal of the joint initiative is to prevent pedestrian-related injury to children.
Merrill Lynch commits $5 million to develop "Worldwidekids" Initiative
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organisation behind Sesame Street, and Merrill Lynch have teamed up to launch the WorldwideKids initiative, a groundbreaking financial literacy program for children.