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Care South Rift Kenya
Care South Rift Kenya is a community-based organisation. The organisation promotes community based approaches to addressing conflicts in the Mau forest area, and works for peaceful ethical cohesion in the South Rift area of Kenya, bordering the Mau Forest complex. The organisation also aims to ...
MYC4
MYC4 is an online marketplace that connects people from all over the world – just like you and me – with African entrepreneurs, who lack capital to develop their businesses. With the Internet as infrastructure, MYC4 bridges the gap between people with needs and people with means. Investors who...
AIDS Orphans Education Trust (AOET)
Action for Empowerment (AOET) is an American non-governmental organisation (NGO) with offices in Uganda, Kenya and Zambia. AOET provides formal and vocational education to street orphans whose parents have died of AIDS and places these orphans into foster families. It also provides scholarships and...
Gemkit Enterprises Limited
Gemkit Enterprises Ltd was established in 1996 as a gemstone mining and exporting company. It has now moved into jewellery manufacturing in order to retain value in Kenya to benefit small scale miners and promote Kenyan designers. Gemkit Enterprises is involved in sapphire mining in the Dusi...
Malindi Handcraft Co-operative Society
The Malindi Handcraft Co-operative Society was registered in 1986 under the Kenya Co-operative Act with a beginning membership of 30 highly skilled woodcarver artisans. The primary aim of the formation of the co-operative was to give the power of business ownership back to the people, in this case...
Farmers Own Trading
Farmers Own was established in 1997 and works with groups of poverty stricken subsistence farmers in Kenya to help them eradicate their poverty by Fair Trade business developments. In compliance with a Fair Trade supply contract, Farmers Own collects the produce and sells on in the market,...
Bombolulu Workshops
The Bombolulu Workshop for the Handicapped was founded in 1969 with the aim of providing training opportunities and sheltered employment to men and women with physical disabilities who are from disadvantaged families. Bombolulu Workshops is one of the projects of the Association for the...
African Orphan Outreach
African Orphan Outreach, a US nonprofit humanitarian orphan organization, cares for over 200 orphans who live at the Ushindi Children's Homes in Western Kenya. They have built two of the three orphanages where the children live. The AOO Sponsorship Program provides the basic needs for the children...
Kizazi Kkipya RHS
A Kenyan organization specializing in providing free family planning services, maternal and child health care and general reproductive health services, to poor women in both rural and urban areas.
Draft Two SFTMS (Sustainable Fair Trade Management System) Standard
SFTMS is the new worldwide standard for the independent certification of organisations which demonstrate Fair Trade business practices. The requirements of this standard are applicable to any organisation applying Fair Trade principles in all its business processes regardless of the nature of...
The Impact of the second-hand clothing trade on developing countries
Supporters of the second-hand clothing (SHC) industry point out that the trade creates employment in the receiving countries (transporting, cleaning, repairing, restyling, etc.). It also provides low-cost clothing for people living in poverty. There are concerns that the trade may be undermining...
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
The Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), is an initiative of the UN to provide constantly updated news and analysis for the humanitarian community (with respect to natural and man-made disaster situations). The networks target decision-makers in relief agencies, host and donor...
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is an international development federation which provides skilled volunteers to advise and train local individuals within developing countries.
UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) - TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System) - Kenya page
The TRAINS country notes summarise the trade control measures, tariffs and other import regulations.
Magic Bank Case Studies A-Z Index
The MAGIC website is UNICEF's (United Nations Children's Fund) response to the Oslo Challenge of 1999, which called on media professionals, educators, governments, organisations, parents, children and young people themselves to recognise the enormous potential of media to make the world a better...
Kenya Humanitarian Customs Regulations
This document was submitted in response to a questionnaire distributed by Global Hand regarding humanitarian customs information. It provides regulations for importing humanitarian aid into Kenya.
Namaris Charity
Namaris Charity provides assistance to Maasai warriors in Ukunda, Kenya.
Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC)
Action for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) works to break cycles of violence, hatred and despair by providing psychological, emotional and educational support to the survivors of conflict. AfCiC focuses its activities on children and young people, who have the greatest capacity to transcend the...