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Faith Banjara Orphan Home
Faith Banjara Orphan Home is an Indian NGO that works among rural and tribal areas on community development and awareness raising. The organisation sponsors health programmes, and safe water and sanitation projects. Currently, the organisation is trying to raise funds for its orphanage.
SELCO makes solar-lighting accessible to poor families in India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to economically impoverished people in India.
Partnership to help farmers in Africa increase crop yields and hope for the future
In 2005, Millennium Promise launched with a vision to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. As the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise believes that innovative partnerships and an...
World Vision - India
World Vision India is a child focussed, community based development organisation that works for the upliftment of the poorest of the poor in India. Children, being the future of nation, are the main focus of their work that is aimed at building up the community around them so that they step to a...
Youth Development Project
The Youth Development Project is a Gandhian voluntary NGO established by a group of disabled youth activists in India. The organisation works for the welfare and rehabilitation of people with disabilities and fight for their rights.
Creating Shared Value: It's the Future
FSG illuminates the potential of "shared value" in this short motion graphic.
Thames Water supports WaterAid through its consumer campaign
Thames Water has partnered with the non-governmental organization, WaterAid, to improve access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities.
Revival Tabernacle Fellowship
The Revival Tabernacle Fellowship is a Christian organisation in India. The organisation is involved in rescuing needy children and training them to become missionaries. The organisation aims to give each child a quality education thus breaking the cycle of illiteracy.
STOP THE TRAFFIK
STOP THE TRAFFIK was founded in 2006 by Steve Chalke MBE as a campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to human trafficking worldwide. It is a global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to prevent human trafficking around the world. Initially Stop The Traffik was...
SIDUR and water.org help local family to access clean water and make a profit
SIDUR is one of several local partners of Water.org doing life-changing work in Tamil Nadu, India. This short documentary shows the impact of Water.org's WaterCredit and hygeine grant work in the urban regions.
A Little World: Facilitating Safe and Efficient M-Banking in Rural India
A Little World (ALW)is an Indian company facilitating safe and efficient mobile-banking in rural India by offering a secure, low‐cost technology driven delivery platform for financial services through special mobile phones.
VisionSpring creates a new method of distributing reading glasses in India and other developing countries
This video introduces VisionSpring, a project jointly implemented by the SCOJO Foundation, Goldman Sachs, and various other groups in the private sector.
Apne Aap Women Worldwide (Apne Aap)
Apne Aap Women Worldwide (Apne Aap) is a non-governmental organization which was founded in 2002 by twenty-two women from Mumbai’s red light district with a vision of a world where no woman can be bought or sold. Apne Aap's mission is to increase choices for at-risk girls and women in order to...
Freeset
Freeset is a fair trade business that offers employment to women trapped in Kolkota's sex trade. It makes quality jute bags and organic cotton t-shirts, but Freeset's business is freedom. The objective of Freeset is to see the 10,000 sex workers in its neighborhood empowered with the choice of...
Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
David Roll, a lawyer based in Washington DC, is Managing Director of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a network of 160 law firms (with 20,000 lawyers) offering pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs all over the world.
Edison International contributes to Asian Tsunami disaster relief
It is not often that the world’s collective sense of solidarity and compassion is captured by a single event. The earthquake-spawned tsunami that ravaged so many countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa in December 2004 was one such event. Proving once again how committed they are to making a...
SELCO partners with India's state banks to bring sunlight to rural India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to the economically impoverished people in India. SELCO’s mission is based on a simple but powerful idea that the economic conditions of the impoverished can be improved substantially if they are made...
11 Indian law firms ponder ‘long overdue’ pro bono start with new UK tech NGO
Eleven law firms, including six of India’s largest, Ashoka and the UK’s former attorney general Lord Peter Goldsmith QC have discussed how to develop a pro bono culture in Indian law firms as i-Probono, a UK not-for-profit and online portal seeking to connect lawyers to social sector projects, will...
India Financial Inclusion Fund raises $90M kitty
The India Financial Inclusion Fund (IFIF), an equity fund that invests in companies that provide financial services to low-income clients, has, after its final closing, raised USD 90 million worth of capital in the last fifteen months. The fund will be used to invest in microfinance institutions...
Adidas is to make €1 trainers for millions of people around the world who cannot afford to buy shoes
Reebok International is working to develop a "sustainable business model" as part of its German parent Adidas AG's plans to sell "one dollar shoes" in India. After conducting a pilot test for 5,000 pairs of shoes of an existing design of Reebok in three villages in Bangladesh last year, the firm...