Dance 4 Peace is a global peace education nonprofit that engages young people through dance and creative movement to transform violence, conflict and bullying in schools. 
Computer Aid International has finished building the prototype of a new portable, solar powered cyber café, which will give rural communities in Africa the chance to get online.The portable cyber café is a standard 20 foot shipping container, which has built-in solar panels on the roof. The idea is that it can be shipped to Africa, and dumped at any remote location, and offer a connection to the Internet 
The shock of being forced to drink human blood and watch his teenage sister be raped and butchered to death during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war caused a young Sahr Yillia to lose his eyesight. Such was the extent of the trauma. Yet now, despite his blindness, he heads the Child Rescue Mission, a Sierra Leonean not-for-profit organisation that rescues street children and reunites families separated by the cruelties of war 1 billion people live without access to clean water; 5000 children around the world die each day from waterborne illnesses. Bushproof is developing fast, low-cost, sustainable approaches to bringing safe drinking water to poor people. Ingenious designs such as the Canzee Pump are simple, reliable, and easy to maintain, and bring access to clean water even to remote or war torn regions. 
The Southwark Circle community believes that people can be each others' solution, and backs it up every day, week and month by helping each other out with life's practical bits and pieces. 
Sompop Jantraka has put his life on the line to save young women sold into prostitution by poor farming families. He is also proving that these women can be far more valuable to Thailand as educated members of the work force than as sex slaves. Jantraka offers the poor families of young women between the ages of 8 and 18 (who are often desperate for income and easily deceived by brothel owners) an alternative to sending their daughters into prostitution by providing the girls with education, job training and employment assistance. 
Discarded plastic bottles filled up with water and a bit of bleach light up the slum houses of Manila. With little more than waste plastic bottles filled up with water, social entrepreneur Illac Diaz has found a new way to provide slum dwellers in the Philippines with light. Diaz’s smart solution, originally invented in 2002 in Brazil and further developed by students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is as simple as it is brilliant. Punch a bottle-sized hole in the corrugated iron roof of a shack. Insert a one-liter plastic bottle into the hole and seal it there—about a third of the bottle remains above the rooftop, exposed to the sunlight, two thirds of the bottle is suspended inside the home like a giant bulb. 
Many of the countries that have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions will be the worst affected by global warming, a “climate injustice” that highlights the link to human rights, experts told a gathering in Geneva. Via pdjmoo 
Karrus Hayes left Liberia in 1996 when the civil war intensified. He fled by boat and ended up at the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana. Today, more than 45,000 refugees live there permanently. Through sheer dedication, he has managed to raise enough funds to set up a free school for over 500 Liberian children living in the camp 
Concerned about the health and environment issues created by the absence of public toilets in most Nigerian cities, Isaac started the first mobile toilet initiative in Nigeria to provide decent toilet facilities in strategic locations across the country. Improper disposal of human waste contributes to the heavily polluted waterways, rivers, and seas in and around Nigeria. Since most Nigerians rely directly on unfiltered water from these sources for their cooking, drinking, and washing, the spread of diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera is widespread and dangerous. THE CHIKUKWA PROJECT is a feel good story out of Africa. For
These are some scenes of a film for which they are seeking postproduction funding. It's about the amazing permaculture project in Zimbabwe which has transformed the lives of 7,000 Shona Africans living in Chikukwa. 
Stop irresponsible multinational companies who are lobbying hard against effective new laws that could help to lift millions out of extreme poverty. 
Over the last decades, rapid and sustained urbanisation has swelled existing slums, and spurred the creation of new ones around the world. Today, more than one out of ten people on the planet live in a slum. To highlight the critical humanitarian and medical needs that exist in urban settings worldwide, Médecins Sans Frontières is now launching Urban Survivors - a multimedia project in collaboration with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions. |
Kiva Innovations: Lending to support fair trade. Money is power -- and the way we use it has consequences. When you're scanning the aisles of your local super market or checking for sizes at the department store, it's easy to ... Via Visionary Values 
No matter how bleak the situation, humans are able to come up with ingenious solutions to help each other.Thanks to just a few simple components: filtered water, plastic bottle, sealant and bleach, 643 homes whose inhabitants were formerly living in complete darkness are now illuminated. 
Amazing ways entrepreneurs are solving world poverty. 
In rural areas of the developing world, where there are great distances and poorly-maintained roads bikes make a huge difference for people World Bicycle Relief (WBR) has dedicated itself to connecting people across sub-Saharan Africa with sturdy bicycles . Over a 10 mile trip biking instead of walking can free up three hours each day. And bicycles can help economic development by increasing the capacity to carry goods while decreasing the effort involved in transport. 
Testimonies and improved living conditions of beneficiaries of a pilot social cash transfer program in Bomi County, Liberias poorest county, are overwhelming and speak volumes of the program's success. The SCT pilot scheme was launched in 2010 to protect children living in poor and vulnerable households. Bomi County, organizers said, was selected to pilot the program because of its exceptionally high level of food insecurity. Bomi has one of the lowest levels of food consumption in the country. In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. Via axelletess 
TOMÁŠ Sýkora, a sixth-year medical student from Bratislava, has deep feelings of responsibility after spending three months helping children in Ethiopia. Though five months have passed since Sýkora returned from Africa, he instantly recalls Zanis, a little girl suffering from malnutrition who carried a plastic bottle tied into a scarf on her back to imitate carrying a baby. Sýkora, who participated in a programme battling malnutrition says the children of Ethiopia continue to inspire him 
Wind turbines made by Kenyans, for Kenyans. Access:energy’s approach to energy provision is quite different from solar power projects – they build turbines from scratch at small workshops in Kenya, install them as energy hubs in rural villages and distribute power locally.They create skilled jobs in the places where people need them most. Ashoka believes that everyone can be a changemaker. Our vision is that each individual has the freedom, confidence, and societal support to address any social problem and drive change on the systemic level 
The struggles of the street and garbage dump children of Cambodia are brought to life through their eyes as they share the stories of their lives 
Infinite Family inspires and motivates teens who have very limited resources or support networks in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, enabling them to build the confidence, skills and global perspective that help promote success. 
The One Acre Fund hopes to lead a revolution in chronic hunger alleviation in Africa, moving away from stop-gap measures like food aid towards a permanent solution. The vast majority of Africa’s hungry are farmers who grow their own food. Studies have shown that with basic farm tools, these farmers could at least triple their yield within six months. The One Acre Fund will unlock this permanent growth potential for even the poorest of the hungry by providing a comprehensive service bundle: farm inputs on credit, weekly farm education sessions, and access to output markets. In Africa, hunger is the number one contributor to childhood death. The One Acre Fund works with populations in which 15 percent of children die before reaching adulthood and 40 percent are physically stunted from a lifetime of severe hunger. Food means life for their members. |
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