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McDonalds funds the education of Australian children on the importance of supporting seriously ill children
The McDonalds Camp Quality Puppet Program is an educational puppet show for Australian primary school children, using puppets to help them be more aware of the need to be caring and supportive of fellow schoolmates with major illnesses such as cancer. The school puppet program is funded by...
Veolia supports the Australian National Stroke Foundation
Almost 50,000 Australians suffer from a stroke each year, of which one third die within twelve months. With the aging population, this figure is set to rise to a staggering 74,000 Australians dying from stroke by the year 2017 if nothing is done in the interim. In 2003, Veolia sponsored the...
Sainsbury's assists a charity gardening enterprise
Mow & Grow is a not-for-profit enterprise set up by Sainsbury's employee Trevor Lynn in 2005. It offers a free gardening service for elderly and vulnerable people, and provides work experience and training for local volunteers. Since it started, Mow & Grow has helped over 500 elderly and vulnerable...
NIKE Village Development Project
Nike in partnership with the Population & Community Development Association (PDA) and local villages, established the ‘NIKE Village Development Project’in Thailand. The Project has setup revolving funds to provide low low-interest loans to local villagers so they can finance income-generating...
China Photovoice Project
Eastman Kodak is partnering with The Nature Conservancy on an innovative program that provides cameras and film to remote villagers in order to learn about local needs in southwestern China. Called Photovoice, the project is an integral part of The Nature Conservancy's effort with local government...
H&M supports WaterAid
Each year H&M designs an exclusive bikini with a 10% contribution to WaterAid for each bikini sold. The money raised through the bikini supports water and sanitation projects in Bangladesh, where some of H&M's clothing is produced. In this way, H&M can have a direct impact on improving the lives...
Microsoft partners with aid agencies to provide essential technology
In 1999, Microsoft employees from the European offices responded to the Kosovo crisis by creating The Refugee Field Kit - a computer-based method of providing displaced people (most of whom had been stripped of identity papers when fleeing Kosovo) with new official identity cards and an easier...
Human rights training of judges in Nigeria
A three-year partnership between Statoil and the Legal Defence and Assistance Project is introducing Sharia judges in northern Nigeria to human rights issues and legislation.
Chevron subsidiary partners with local charity to engage impoverished communities in Angola
Search for Common Ground, an organisation dedicated to conflict transformation, has been working in Angola's oil-rich enclave of Cabinda since October 2006. In a private-public partnership cofunded by USAID and Chevron's local oil subsidiary, SFCG has collaborated with nine impoverished fishing...
Advocacy partner sought for HIV / AIDS awareness
As an umbrella CHARITY NGO, we are actively involved in Integrated Development Projects/Programmes in the fields of HIV/AIDS, School Education, and Micro-credit. HIV/AIDS: Since year 2000, we have been actively implementing HIV/AIDS activities/projects in our rural communities in Ghana; sharing...