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The saucepan and the corn flour: Ugandan atrocities leave their mark

“We knew the rebels’ message was serious: If your teacher comes to school, tell him to bring a saucepan and the students to bring corn flour.” As a former child soldier told us this story, we listened, bewildered. Why was that message ‘serious’. What did the saucepan and corn flour mean?

Business Linkages: Enabling Access to Markets at the BoP

By International Finance Corporation, International Business Leaders Forum, and the CSR Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School

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Saraman builds earthquake- proof houses in Iran

Saraman, a start-up company in Isfahan, central Iran, is an example of addressing housing and construction challenges in a profitable way. The company designs, fabricates and erects affordable, earthquake-proof pre-fabricated steel structures for houses, schools and hospitals.

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Developing Inclusive Business Models - A Review of Coca-Cola's Manual Distribution Centres in Ethiopia and Tanzania

A research paper on inclusive business by Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Underwear for Eastern Europe: A Global Hand match story

It made no sense. The young widow, a trained teacher in Eastern Europe, had battled for years without employment. Natalka (not her real name) had three children to bring up. A colleague found her a job in a high school where she expected the widow to thrive.

St Vianney Junior School Parents Association

St Vianney Junior School is an orphans school located at Nangabo Sub-county in Wakiso district, Uganda. The school cares for 248 orphans by providing them free primary education, free lunch meals and medical care. Ther are 56 ophans residing in the school dormitories. They have no families to cater...

Kibuuka mixed Day and Boarding Primary School - Nansana -Uganda

Kibuuka Mixed Primary School is a school in Uganda. This School Is Located in Nansana West Ward Parish, Nansana Division Subcounty, Wakiso District Of Uganda. It is a mult-racial and multi-denominational community. There are children coming from Kenya, Tanzania, Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, Rwanda,...

Green Valley Infant School

The Green Valley Infant school is a community based mixed primary school in the Kasese District of Uganda. The school was established to provide good basic education to poorer children, including orphans and children with disabilities. The school aims to prepare its students to do well and compete...

Computer for Schools Kenya

Computers for Schools Kenya (CFSK), is a non-profit organization established in October 2002 with the vision of establishing an information-rich Kenyan society actively contributing to sustainable national development. CFSK seeks to empower youths and communities for life in a knowledge-based...

Searchligh School

The Searchlight School is a primary school in Mamfe,Cameroon. The school has two kindergarten classes in addition to its primary classes. There are 420 pupils in total aged between 3 and 10, 130 of whom are orphans and have their fees paid by the school. The school tries to set itself apart from...

Meri Pehchan - My Identity Schools

Meri Pehchan (My Identity) describes the spirit of these free schools in Faisalabad city in northern Pakistan. The name was chosen by the students who are living in the low-income areas and whose families can’t afford the local schools. Mission The Meri Pehchan schools are designed to offer a...

School for Life Foundation

School for Life Foundation is a not-for-profit organization working in rural Uganda. The school aims to empower communities to help themselves and create their own opportunities. To do that, the foundation builds schools to provide communities with a quality education, including primary and...

Kimuta Primary School

Kimuta Primary School is a public Primary school established in 2014. The school since its establishment has not had an ICT infrastructure to assist in digital literacy programme. Digital literacy programme was rolled out in Kenya to assist young pupils to acquire digital skills which will enable...

Notre Dame High School - Uganda

Notre Dame High School is a Catholic secondary and vocational school for boys and girls in Uganda. Founded by a group of voluntary educationists and teachers, the school caters for disadvantaged and orphaned children, including those whose parents have died of AIDS. The school does not charge fees,...

Slough Grammar School

Slough Grammar School is a school for 11 - 19 year-olds, which prides itself on its high academic standards. The school aims to give all pupils the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and to develop in the way which suits them best. The school has a sixth form, and supports a wide range of...

Fulfillment Fund

The Fulfillment Fund identifies and helps promising, yet educationally underserved and economically disadvantaged, students achieve high school graduation and access to and completion of higher education.The Fulfillment Fund works closely with the school district and school staff in seven target...

Liphook Infant School

Liphook Infant School is a school for children between the ages of 5 and 7 in Hampshire. The school teaches the children the skills needed to progress to primary school at age 7.

Island School, Hong Kong

Island School in Hong Kong provides international education with a lower school, middle school and a sixth form, creative subjects, humanities, languages and technology. Island School prides itself on the provision of extra curricular activities such as sports, arts and crafts, drama and music.

Mustard Seed Christian School

Mustard Seed School was established in Sacramento in 1989 to provide free schooling for homeless children between 3-15 years old. The School provides a safe, nurturing and structured environment, survival resources, medical and dental screenings, immunization, counselling for children and parents...

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...