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Running Water International

Running Water International (RWI) is an NGO working in Kenya to ensure that the community can access clean and safe water but using an enterprise model for project sustainability. RWI works on water treatment, sanitation and hygiene in rural and peri-urban areas. New projects will include water...

Africa Aid

Africa Aid is committed to engaging nonprofit organisations, corporations and policy makers across the globe in putting an end to extreme poverty in Africa. The Africa Aid model involves the integration of foreign aid projects into American university curriculum, allowing university students and...

GroFin

GroFin is a multi-national financier and advisor to small and medium enterprises in emerging markets. The company offers business finance solutions tailored to suit individual clients and aims to increase the success rate of SMEs by providing them with additional services from an inhouse local...

Aid for Africa

Aid for Africa is a partnership of some 80 charities, all dedicated to solving the complex, inter-related challenges facing Africa. The partnership believes that its members can be more powerful together than on their own in relation to Africa's issues. Among the tasks undertaken by the...

Women's Development Businesses Group (WDB Group)

Three organisations comprise the WDB Group (the WDB Trust, WDB Micro Finance and WDB Investment Holdings). They are interdependent and integrated in working towards the promotion of the economic empowerment and social upliftment of women in South Africa. The WDB Trust’s flagship beneficiary...

Chaka MarketBridge

Chaka MarketBridge is an American company that exists to provide customers with access to high-quality and stylish, handmade products; to provide undiscovered, impoverished artisans with the global market they need to grow and succeed; and to connect artisans and customers in both fair trade and...

Shell Foundation

Shell Foundation focuses upon projects which address long term social and environmental issues in which energy companies have a particular responsibility.

Business Figths Poverty

An online platform facilitating a global community of professionals fighting poverty through business. This network supports enterprise development in developing nations by the pooling of aid and development expertise and resources.

Leverage BD Financial Service

Leverage – consists of all the protégés those evolved with in this land who are harvesting the mighty knowledge from all around the world. They can give you the service related to money market and capital; market. Leverage BD’s motto is “knowledge does not trade on borders”.

Caritas Internationalis - Egypt

Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and...

African Angels

African Angels seeks, receives and distributes sponsorship for the education of African children (the Angels) identified as needy and unlikely to receive a continuous and good quality education (early childhood to matriculation) unless sponsorship is received. African Angels is an educational...

Cafédirect

Cafédirect is a UK-based alternative trading organisation. It is currently one of the largest Fairtrade hot drinks companies in the world. As well as coffee, Cafédirect has a hot beverage range that includes 100% Fairtrade tea and hot chocolate. Cafédirect works with over 260,000 coffee, tea,...

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)- Italy

FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...

CARE International - Nepal

CARE is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian organisations, committed to helping families in poor communities improve their lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty. CARE began its work in Nepal in 1978. It implements a range of activities to enable poor and...

Institute of Cultural Affairs

The institute aims at facilitating competent institutional skills for members of the Community Development Associations in order to enhance the long-term sustainability of the CDA programme activities. They are providing training programmes and guidance in project implementation in the following...

Cards from Africa

Cards from Africa is a company that markets greetings cards made by a needy Rwandan community to shops around the world. Since its beginnings in September 2004, the company has been operating on a fair-trade basis, and now provides a steady income for 40 young Rwandans. Cards for Africa also...

The Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation is a social entrepreneurship organisation that aims to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems. Social entrepreneurs are proven leaders whose...

UP Micro-Loans

UP(= Unlimiting People) is a small German NGO/charity group that funds and monitors micro-loans (or micro-loan projects). Micro loans are small loans, usually starting around US$ 50 with low or no interest rates. The recipients are mostly women, single parents and families in poor and developing...

Fair Trade Group Nepal

The Fair Trade Group Nepal (FTG Nepal) is a consortium of fair trading organisations that work together to improve the socio-economic status of underprivileged and marginalised producers in Nepal.

Heifer Project International (HPI)

Heifer was founded on a simple belief: ending hunger begins with giving people the means to feed themselves. Heifer International combats hunger, alleviates poverty, and restores the environment by providing appropriate livestock, training, and related services to small-scale farmers worldwide....