The World Health Organization estimates 1 billion people across the world live with disabilities, and Google’s philanthropy division, Google.org, just pledged $20 million to help improve their situations. The money is spread across 29 programs working on disability technologies — the average amount they’ll each receive is $750,000, with six of the grant winners getting
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UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency working globally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin with safe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflict and traverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, clean water and sanitation, health care and education. UNICEF has spent nearly 70 years working to improve
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Re-Read, a Doncaster social enterprise, is rescuing books destined for landfill and distributing them to young readers. Its founder talks to Alison Flood Jim McLaughlin measures books in tons, not pages. It was the sight of a skip filled with 10 tons of books which set the self-described environmental bibliophile on a path which has now
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KOTO Foundation, extending from Australia to Vietnam cares for the disadvantaged and underprivileged youth in Vietnam. The Foundation is supported by an international body of individual and corporate sponsors, donors, partners and Goodwill Ambassadors committed to the “KOTO – Know One, Teach One” principle and its efforts to improve the lives of Vietnamese youth. The
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We’re considered the country’s leading residential self-help organization for substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom. Our average resident has been a hard-core drug addict for sixteen years, abusing alcohol and multiple drugs and has dropped out of school at the 7th grade and has been institutionalized several times. Many have been
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We are a retail trade social enterprise that creates stylish products and brands using Philippine indigenous materials and produces value with community partners all over the Philippines. Since 2010, we believe in the potential of indigenous materials to be sustainable sources of design. We believe in the immense talent of community-based producers working hard to make
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Rise Kenya assists the community develop their capacity so that they are in turn able to fight their own poverty, famine, HIV/AIDs and environmental degradation. It collaborates with various funding companies both locally and internationally. Its programs range from Mango plantinh in Kilifi county to educational partnerships with Catholic University. They have provided Solar Lighting
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Globally, the births of more than 50 million children – representing 40 per cent of the total births worldwide – go unregistered each year. Without formal registration, children are unable to access vital services. They are also more vulnerable to exploitation, violence and abuse. The importance of legal identity has also been recognized in the
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With over 600 patents to his name, Jerome Lemelson – known to his friends and family as “Jerry” – was one of the most prolific and productive inventors in American history. Jerry and his remarkably creative intellect touch almost every facet of our everyday lives. Jerry received an average of one patent a month for
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