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Mercy Corps teams up with Sesame Workshop in Haiti

Mercy Corps has teamed with Sesame Workshop to integrate Elmo, Cookie Monster, and other Sesame Street characters into the emotional recovery work the organisation is doing with children in Haiti.

2010-2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign

Cities and local governments need to get ready, reduce the risks and become resilient to disasters. For the next two years and beyond, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) will campaign together with its partners for this to happen.

The Glass Power Campaign improves earthquake safety

In earthquake prone areas, broken glass window panes can cause serious damage and render evacuation shelters unusable. The Asahi Glass Company has developed laminated glass, a product which stays in the windowpanes when broken. The Glass Power Campaign was then developed to educate the community...

Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergencies

Even In Chaos is a book edited by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., President of the CIHC, advocating the importance of education in times of emergency.

TNT works with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to fight world hunger

TNT’s groundbreaking partnership with the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) began in 2002 and adopted the title of ‘Moving the World’ – a very apt description given that TNT committed knowledge, skills and resources to helping finance the work of the WFP and also to the physical delivery...

Office Depot Foundation and Samaritan's Feet International help 40,000 schoolchildren

The Office Depot Foundation has donated 40,000 new sackpacks to Samaritan’s Feet, the humanitarian aid organisation that washes the feet of deserving children and provides them with new shoes.

Mobilink Turns Billboards to Bags

The Mobilink Foundation, the non-profit arm of Mobilink, Pakistan’s leading cellular and Blackberry service providers, is turning plastic billboard skins into school bags for underprivileged children. The bags are distributed free of charge.

Pro Bono / In-Kind / Donated Services for Mission-Based Organizations When, Why & How?

There are all sorts of professionals who want to donate their services -- web design, graphic design, human resources expertise, legal advice, editing, research, and so forth -- to mission-based organizations (nonprofits, non-governmental organizations, schools, etc.). And there are all sorts of...

Rural communities in Serbia have IT services provided

Rural communities in Serbia are confronted with less infrastructure and opportunities, and hence higher levels of poverty. Access to IT facilities and computers/internet in particular remain a major challenge. This prevents people from accessing information such as job vacancies, buying machinery,...

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...

ITT partners with Mercy Corps to provide emergency relief

ITT Corporation announced a strategic partnership with Mercy Corps as part of its corporate philanthropy program, ITT Watermark. The partnership includes a three-year, $1 million commitment to help provide safe water during emergencies created by natural catastrophes such as floods, droughts and...

Scaling Up Inclusive Business: Advancing the Knowledge and Action Agenda

This is a report produced for the International Finance Corporation. It is based on 14 IFC client case studies and draws on other research undertaken by IFC and the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School on inclusive business, including recent research supported by the Bill & Melinda...

What will it take to achieve the Millennium Goals? An international assessment

Based on a review of 50 country studies, this review by UNDP finds that the resources and know-how necessary to achieve the MDGs exist. Acceleration of progress over the next five years (2010-2015) will need to focus on continuing proven strategies, policies and interventions and making a radical...

Purple Cake Day - Kids helping kids

Purple Cake Day® is a celebration of children. It is a day of fun, education and action. Purple Cake Day encourages our children to think about their role in the global community, to become aware of children with less educational opportunity and to take action.

Jubilee and Olympic mosquito nets to save lives in Africa

Thousands of mosquito nets emblazoned with the Union Jack left over from last year’s Diamond Jubilee and Olympic celebrations will now be helping to save lives in Africa after they were donated through a humanitarian match-making website.

Raise the Roof Academy

Raise the Roof Academy (RTRA) began operations on March 7th, 2011, in greater Masaka, Uganda. It’s a registered indigenous Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with NGO file number MIA/NB/2019/09/3003 and Permit number INDP0003003NB serving the grass root community. Originally serving just 30...

RURAL MOVEMENT INITIATIVE (RUMI)

Rural Movement Initiative (RUMI) is a community based organization founded in 2013 and officially registered as a CBO by the government of Uganda in August 2015, Registration No 3954. RUMI was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Byamukama Brian to respond to the needs of the vulnerable youth, children, women...

Intercontinental Christian Academy Verified non-profit organisation

Intercontinental Christian Academy (ICA) is a school located in the village of Umuode in Osisioma Ngwa LGA, Aba, Abia State south east Nigeria. The school started on 23 September 2010 and was born out of the Intercontinental Christian Centre (ICC), which was established in 2008. Both have one aim...

Youth and Women's Alliance for Rural Development (YAWARD) Verified non-profit organisation

Youth and Women Alliance for Rural Development (YAWARD) - is a Ugandan-based indigenous, community empowerment voluntary organization and char4itable self-help organization founded in 2007 and fully registered by Ugandan Government for these and allied purposes functions in communities where needs...

Reproductive Advocate Health Education-Ghana

Support 570 Vulnerable children send to school in Kasoa, Ofankor in Awutu Senya Districts of Central Region-Ghana Summery: This project provides study materials to 570 vulnerable children in the least developed Tribal and dalit areas of Kasoa, Ofankor in Awutu Senya Districts of Central Region....