Armtrac Ltd

Armtrac Limited is a privately owned company, based in Cambridgeshire in Eastern England, which designs and manufactures the Armtrac range of armoured mechanical demining machines to operate in areas contaminated by landmines and other unexploded explosive ordnance and to provide a means of...

Reducing Disaster Risk

Business Contributions to Disaster Risk Reduction

In March 2015, the UNISDR (The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) is gathering government, business and NGO leaders, from around the world, to develop a framework that will make the world a safer place in today’s disaster...

Dunster House Ltd

Dunster House Ltd, is a UK manufacturer trading since 1994. Having recently entered the humanitarian sector, the company seeks to provide sanitation, solar, shelter and cooking solutions to Governments and NGOs to help tackle problems across the globe.

Salad Greenhouse Inc.

Salad Greenhouse is a company in British Colunbia, Canada, that produces vegetables in a specialist greenhouse powered with a biomass generator that produces heat and electricity from renewable fuels.

Berigold Group of Fashion

Berigold Group of Fashion is a new small scale fashion enterprise in South Africa. The organisation aims to teach fashion skills to unskilled and unemployed young school leavers from rural areas where poverty and crime is on the increase. Skills to be taught include shoe making, garment...

Red Taxi Sourcing Ltd

Red Taxi Sourcing Ltd is a Hong Kong and Australian owned company that manufactures ethically sensitive and environmentally sustainable organic cotton uniforms using fairly traded products. The company runs a One+One programme, providing school uniforms and funding to developing countries for every...

British MP tours Bangladesh with CARE International UK

British MP, Rushanara Ali, Labour Shadow Minister for International Development, speaks about her tour of Bangladesh during which she spoke to female garment workers.

Ganesh Himal Trading

Ganesh Himal Trading has been supplying shops and retail customers in North America with high quality, handcrafted clothing, jewelry, textiles, and paper since 1984. The company imports directly from small cottage industries in Nepal, including development projects working to improve the lives of...

Honey Care Africa

Honey Care Africa was established in 2000 as an innovative private sector social enterprise to promote sustainable community-based beekeeping in Eastern Africa. It was set up with an explicit triple bottom-line agenda, with an emphasis on generating economic, social and environmental values...

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...

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...

Kit Kat gives cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire a break

The Fairtrade Foundation hailed Nestlé's 2009 announcement that Kit Kat is going Fairtrade as a breakthrough for cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), as well as for Kit Kat lovers in the UK and Ireland.

Athena Naturals

Athena Naturals is a female-owned American company that manufactures handmade soap and sells fair trade items produced by women cooperatives from around the world. The company's social mission is to educate consumers locally about fair trade and eco-friendly shopping products. Students associated...

Ecotact's Ikotoilet concept -- Sustainable sanitation services in Kenya

Ecotact is a Nairobi-based company established in 2008 to improve the urban landscape for low-income communities through environmentally responsible projects in sanitation and housing. Under the Ikotoilet project, Ecotact builds and operates high-quality, public pay-per-use toilet and shower...

Cartay

Cartay is a Spanish company that manufactures a range of emergency kits. The company has a long term agreement with Unicef and also supplies the IFRC. Cartay keeps large stocks of hygiene and emergency items, and can supply these within 24-48 hours to any part in the world.

Relief Supplier

Relief Supplier is an Indian company that exports a range of relief items for use in emergencies. Items stocked include blankets, tarpaulins, buckets, kitchen sets, mosquito nets, education and recreation kits, tents, hygiene kits and body bags.

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Founded in 1984, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit scientific research organisation based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. With research projects in 21 countries in Asia and Africa, IWMI focuses on the sustainable use of water and land resources in agriculture. Its...

Engineering for Change

Engineering for Change (E4C) is a growing community of engineers, technologists, social scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local community advocates who are passionate about improving quality of life. E4C seeks to enable this growing community to design, apply and share...

A to Z Textile Mills: A Public Private Partnership Providing Long-Lasting Anti-Malaria Bed Nets to the Poor in Tanzania

Malaria, transmitted through mosquito bites, kills a million people worldwide each year. In 2004, A to Z Textile Mills of Tanzania became the sole African producer of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets, able to kill mosquitoes on contact for five years without retreatment and resistant to...

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.