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Reaching Hand
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Reaching Hand is an Indian charitable trust established in 1996 to work with vulnerable children, marginalized women and deprived families, empowering them to lead a life of hope, self-worth and dignity. The organisation aims to act as a catalyst for social change through the provision of...
Faith Banjara Orphan Home
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Faith Banjara Orphan Home is an Indian NGO that works among rural and tribal areas on community development and awareness raising. The organisation sponsors health programmes, and safe water and sanitation projects. Currently, the organisation is trying to raise funds for its orphanage.
Helping Hands Welfare Association Baltistan
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Helping Hands Welfare Association Baltistan (HHWAB )is a Pakistani NGO working in the general areas of health, education (both formal and technical for male and female), and the environment. HHWAB aims to develop comprehensive strategies with partners to ensure the provision of good health and...
SELCO makes solar-lighting accessible to poor families in India
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SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to economically impoverished people in India.
Profiles of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS) practices of Philippine mining firms
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The increased awareness of environmental impacts, the socio-economic implications of mining and a downturn in productivity, have highlighted the need for mining companies to adjust their business management process.
Partnership to help farmers in Africa increase crop yields and hope for the future
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In 2005, Millennium Promise launched with a vision to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. As the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise believes that innovative partnerships and an...
The Asian Development Bank and Non-Governmental Organizations: Working Together
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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.
World Vision - India
World Vision India is a child focussed, community based development organisation that works for the upliftment of the poorest of the poor in India. Children, being the future of nation, are the main focus of their work that is aimed at building up the community around them so that they step to a...
Youth Development Project
The Youth Development Project is a Gandhian voluntary NGO established by a group of disabled youth activists in India. The organisation works for the welfare and rehabilitation of people with disabilities and fight for their rights.
Smart Communications: Low-cost Money Transfers for Overseas Filipino Workers
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A leading wireless telephone services provider in the Philippines, Smart Communications, Inc. recognized that at least 8 million Filipinos work and live abroad—about a quarter of the domestic labour force. In 2005, Filipino workers overseas sent $10.7 billion in remittances, with at least as much...
Creating Shared Value: It's the Future
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FSG illuminates the potential of "shared value" in this short motion graphic.
Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan - Creating Value for All: Community-Based Tourism
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Tourism is a rapidly growing industry throughout the world. It can contribute to poverty alleviation through creating new jobs and providing entrepreneurial opportunities for people from a variety of backgrounds, skills and experiences. Community-based tourism - a type of tourism that is owned and...
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...
Thames Water supports WaterAid through its consumer campaign
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Thames Water has partnered with the non-governmental organization, WaterAid, to improve access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities.
Revival Tabernacle Fellowship
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The Revival Tabernacle Fellowship is a Christian organisation in India. The organisation is involved in rescuing needy children and training them to become missionaries. The organisation aims to give each child a quality education thus breaking the cycle of illiteracy.
STOP THE TRAFFIK
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STOP THE TRAFFIK was founded in 2006 by Steve Chalke MBE as a campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to human trafficking worldwide. It is a global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to prevent human trafficking around the world. Initially Stop The Traffik was...
SIDUR and water.org help local family to access clean water and make a profit
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SIDUR is one of several local partners of Water.org doing life-changing work in Tamil Nadu, India. This short documentary shows the impact of Water.org's WaterCredit and hygeine grant work in the urban regions.
A Little World: Facilitating Safe and Efficient M-Banking in Rural India
A Little World (ALW)is an Indian company facilitating safe and efficient mobile-banking in rural India by offering a secure, low‐cost technology driven delivery platform for financial services through special mobile phones.
Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: Phone ladies
In partnership with ITU (the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies), the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their...