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Bethany Relief and Rehabilitation International
Bethany Relief and Rehabilitation International is a Canadian faith-based medical NGO working in East Africa for children with disabilities. Much of the organisation's focus is on providing surgery to children with a variety of medical conditions including spina bifida, hydrocephalus, burns,...
Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...
The Global Partnership Social Investment Fund seeks investments in Latin America
The NGO Global Partnerships is redefining microfinance and moving beyond the concept of microloans as working capital. It aims to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by combining these loans with affordable social investments, such as health services, training and low-cost pensions and...
Mi Tienda helps small grocery stores in rural Mexico to grow their businesses
Small, family-run grocery stores, known as tiendas de abarrotes, are essential for supplying basic goods and services in thousands of low-income rural communities in Mexico.
CEMEX mobilizes public and private resources to pave streets in Mexico
CEMEX, a multinational cement company based in Mexico, has devised a plan to mobilise both public and private resources to pave streets in low-income neighbourhoods.
Vision Banco partners with Habitat to provide low-income housing in Paraguay
Thousands of low income Paraguayans will be able to make home improvements with credits provided by a Vision Banco-Habitat partnership.
Sabritas incorporates small farmers into sunflower supply chain
Incorporation of small, low-income producers into the supply chains of larger companies in rural Mexico is increasingly becoming a powerful way to break the cycle of poverty.
OuagaNet Inc
OuagaNet Inc is an NGO based in Florida, USA, operating in Burkina Faso. The organisation works in the areas of education, women's empowerment and rural development. OuagaNet helps local villagers by providing them with the means to fight extreme poverty, for example, goats to raise, seeds and...
Public-Private Partnership for Low - Cost Housing Investments
Thousands of Salvadorans with no credit history can access loans now to make home improvements and expand their home businesses. El Salvador has developed a unique and sustainable financial business model that enables low-income consumers to improve and expand their homes by mobilizing...
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. Samaritan’s Feet is distributing the sackpacks, which contain essential school supplies, along with...