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Partnerships allow Maison Energy to provide energy to rural communities in Morocco
About two million people live without access to electricity in Morocco, mostly in remote rural areas where scattered and unevenly distributed homes make their connection to the national power grid difficult. As a solution, the National Office of Electricity (ONE) opted for a decentralized system of...
In collaboration with NGOs, Philips helps provide rural healthcare in India
Philips Apollo Hospitals, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) and the Dhan Foundation join together to create The DISHA (Distance Healthcare Advancement) project, an initiative aimed at enhancing the access to primary health care services to the approximately 275 million people in India who...
Microcredit : a success-story from Nepal
Mahila Sahayogi Sahakari Sanstha (MSSS), a micro-credit provider in Nepal help the women in the country earn money by providing micro credit loans. The employees of the micro-finance institution come to their doorsteps to provide them credit and the borrowers do not have to offer their property as...
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...
Linking Traditional Banking with Modern Finance: Barclays Microbanking - Susu Collectors Initiative
Susu collection, practiced for more three centuries in Africa, is an informal arrangement for mobilizing savings deposits from clients. Operators collect a predetermined installment of money from their client, daily or weekly. With about 4,000 active Susu collectors in Ghana and each serving...
Save the Poor International (SPI) NGO
Save the Poor International (SPI), is a charitable entity, a non-profit, non-political and a non-governmental organization (NGO) legally registered with these government agencies; the Registrar General’s Department and the Department of Social Welfare in the Republic of Ghana. As one of the most...
Save Their Lives
Save Their Lives is an NGO in Haiti. The organisation aims to help the poorest of the poor through projects that include relief for earthquake, flood and hurricane victims, care, education and sponsorship programmes for orphans and other vulnerable children, housing; medicine and health care and...
Save the Poor
Save the Poor isd a Tanzanian NGO that works in a holistic way on issues related to poverty. Among the issues the organisation has tackled or will tackle in the future are health, education, food security and entrepreneurship training.
Save Life Initiative
The organization was established as a voluntary non-religious, non-governmental organization for the purposes of supporting orphans and single parent families within Sierra Leone Africa. Save Life Organization will provide a temporary home for children whose families were facing financial...
Basazemaggya Development Initiative
Basazemaggya Development Initiative is a Community Based Organisation started by the residents of Bulenga Kikaaya Ssumbwe in Wakiso District of Uganda. It is registered with Wakiso District Community Based Services Office registration number WCBO/21/7304. OBJECTIVES 1.To undertake...
JOMIGO Family Enterprises
JOMIGO FAMILY ENTERPRISES is a comprehensive community engagement initiative with a wide range of unique and strategic agricultural activities to polarize the neighborhood families into meaningful actions for survival and positive livelihood transformation. The vision of the enterprise is to...
Save the street child foundation
Save the street child foundation is based in Nigeria, the organization is working with homeless street children and homeless street young adults to provide them with a one-year residential training where they have access to medical care, shelter, skill development, and at the end of the training...
Key Farmers Savings and Loans Cooperative Society Limited - KEFACCUL
Key Farmers Savings and Loans Cooperative Society Limited - KEFACCUL was formed in 2012, after the food riot in Cameroon in 2008, to provide financial support to needy farmers and small business investors in under-served rural communities in the Republic of Cameroon and beyond. Since most...
Yaweh Save Life Foundation Ghana
Yaweh Save Life Foundation Ghana is a non governmental organization registered under the companies code of Ghana. The Foundation helps children, including the most vulnerable, access quality education and attain functional levels of literacy, numeracy and essential life skills for the children....
The Hunger Project-Ethiopia
The Hunger Project (THP) is a global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Ethiopia, THP has set up a number of "epicentres", through which integrated rural development programmess are delivered. Current projects include a savings and credit...
International American Relief Society IARS
The international American Relief society IARS is a humanitarian organization specialized in tackling poverty worldwide. IARS saves the lives of underpriviledged people and their families and works with them to preserve and restore their livelihoods with dignity. In situations of conflict,...
R.E.A.C.T. Tajikistan
Abnormally cold weather conditions in Tajikistan, causing heavy snowfall and frozen rivers, have damaged water and electrical supply systems and isolated mountain villages. Snowfall in December 2007 was 245% above the historical average for the month. Temperatures of between -8°C and -25°C since...
New version of Global Hand - January, 2010
Following the launch of the new United Nations site (business.un.org), built by Global Hand, we have re-launched our own website at the end of January, 2010. This happens to fall in the immediate wake of the tragedy in Haiti which is necessitating rapid global response, given the breadth of...
R.E.A.C.T. Haiti Earthquake
On January 12th, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck 17km south-west of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. Tens of thousands are feared dead, many more are injured, and unknown numbers are still buried under the rubble. The entire capital appears damaged or destroyed, including...
Micro Enterprise success in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Krishi Bank was established in 1973 with the objective of strengthening the rural economy by extending credit support to the agricultural and agro-based sectors. In consideration of the importance of Micro-Credit and with the objective of generating employment as well as encouraging...