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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....
HaoHao SE
HaoHao SE provides the social enterprises with a online marketplace for them to directly sell their products online or do advertisement. This organization aims at promoting social enterprises to the society and it also provides consulting services for companies to set up social enterprises. ...
Kopernik
Kopernik is an on-line marketplace to bridge the gap between innovators, developing communities and financial supporters in order to distribute life-changing technology effectively to the developing world. The website showcases the latest technologies that the local groups (NGOs) can choose what...
African Centre For Technology Studies

The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an international, inter-governmental organisation located in Nairobi, Kenya. Founded in 1988, the Centre's mission is to strengthen the capacity of African countries and institutions by harnessing science and technology for sustainable...
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Sierra Leone

USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channelled through...
CARE - Malawi

CARE Malawi is a country office with unique programming approaches in the following areas: food security, agriculture, education, economic empowerment (especially in women), social protection and emegency response with the funding from donors including EU, USAID, AusAID, DfiD, CARE Canada and CARE...
ActionAid - China

Action Aid - China, a country office of the UK-based ActionAid, conducts policy research and puts forth advocacy work in the areas of natural resource management, rural finance, eco-agriculture, preservation of traditional knowledge, climate changes, and the impacts of trade and globalisation....
World Vision Bolivia

World Vision is a Christian relief and development organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities in the fight against poverty and for social justice. World Vision has been working in Bolivia since 1983, and currently runs programmes in health care, education,...