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Monda African Art Ltd
Monda African Art is a limited liability company established in Nairobi, Kenya in 2005. It strives to create and produce original high-end handicrafts, including beaded sisal bags, fashionable jewelry and utilitarian soapstone items. The company is managed by a competent and experienced partnership...
Maasai Treads
Maasai Treads was established in August 2005, as part of an initiative to assist young creative shoemakers to earn a reasonable wage through recycling initiatives. Maasai treads makes footwear as well as a range of Maasai treads essentials. Maasai treads aims to show the global marketplace that...
Machakos District Co-operative Union Ltd (MDCU)
MDCU was established in 1964 as an umbrella organisation of primary co-operatives in Machakos district, Kenya. Today it assists mainly marginalized producers in the handcraft sector with products such as wood carvings, baskets, soapstones, etc. The mission of MDCU is to improve the quality of...
Kazuri 2000 Limited
The mission of Kazuri is to provide and sustain employment opportunities to the disadvantaged members of the Kenyan society. Kazuri began in 1975 as a tiny workshop experimenting with making handmade beads. It started with two Kenyan women and soon discovered that there were many other women in...
Bosinange Juakali Soapstone
Bosinange Juakali soapstone is a private limited group that produces soapstone carvings (Arts), which are handcrafted by Kisii artisans in Kenya and sold locally and internationally to help them to alleviate poverty and improve their livelihood. The group was started in late 1980s under the...
Global Mamas
Global Mamas is a fair trade clothing cooperative located in Ghana, West Africa supporting the sustainable development of women artisans by producing Fair Trade products. Global Mamas infuses business social responsibility in all aspects of their work while promoting Fair Trade clothing for...
Bundu Designs
Bundu Designs is a social venture and online marketplace that is transforming the awareness and consumption of contemporary African design products with a core philosophy of ethical, sustainable and fairly traded products. They currently work in collaboration with over 25 largely women's community...
Kitengela Hot Glass
Kitengela Hot Glass started September 2000 with a desire to make flat and blown glass in Eastern Africa. It employs over thirty people, and has trained many more in the various disciplines that they are proficient in. Kitengela Glass is located opposite the Nairobi National Park, at the end of a...
Books4Cause Inc.
Books4Cause is an American company that runs book drives and book donation campaigns which help fund and support various initiatives locally, nationally, and around the world. The organisation reprocesses donated books in several ways. Books with resale value are sold in online marketplaces. For...
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...
Mindframe Stage and Screen provides advice for the TV, film and theatre industries on mental illness and suicide themes in media
Mindframe Stage & Screen (MSS) is a project funded by the Australian Government's Mindframe National Media Initiative, aiming to promote accurate and sensitive reporting and portrayal of suicide and mental illness.
ONGOING OFFER: Visual artist skills and training
As an artist I intend to provide art skills, creative knowledge and encourage young talent to develop by using cheap available material in order to earn a living and be able to help others too. This is not a one-off offer. It is ongoing.
Q-dance Australia
Q-dance Australia is the Australian branch of the Q-dance B.V brand located in the Netherlands. The company promotes large scale festivals targeting a broad age demographic with the concept of recycling trash and turning it into art. Q-dance Australia is involved with the Sydney arts community...
Kodak supported NGOs in Tsunami photo project in Sri Lanka
After the South Asian Tsunami hit the eastern shore of Sri Lanka in 2004, Merlin, the UK medical NGO, immediately responded to the disaster and asked for partnerships.
Kodak supported Bam Project in partnership with NGOs
On 26th December 2003, Bam City was devastated by an enormous earthquake. exhibition marking the first anniversary of the earthquake. Five months later, Picture People, a UK based Charitable Trust, went to Bam and began the 'Bam Project'.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF)
The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) provides immediate support to professional craftspeople facing career threatening emergencies such as fire, theft, illness and natural disaster. Forms of assistance CERF provides include financial support in the form of loans or grants, booth fee waivers, and...
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Founded in 1972, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's primary concern is to address issues of inequality and disadvantage, particularly in relation to young people. Support concentrates on projects in the UK which respond to these challenges through the arts and education. Direct support is also given to...
Long Live Nepal China Friendly Association
The Long Live Nepal China Friendly Association is a Nepalese NGO established to bring together groups of people or organisations through social interaction, cultural exchange programmes and empowerment workshops.
Zindua Africa Safaris
Zindua Africa Safaris is a travel agent based in Kenya. The company provides opportunities for short-term, long-term and group volunteer placements in East Africa. Currently areas of international volunteer placement available include: teaching; working with children; dental and medical care;...
Malindi Handcraft Co-operative Society
The Malindi Handcraft Co-operative Society was registered in 1986 under the Kenya Co-operative Act with a beginning membership of 30 highly skilled woodcarver artisans. The primary aim of the formation of the co-operative was to give the power of business ownership back to the people, in this case...