As exchange students at the University of Ghana in 2008, we were stunned by the magnitude of two issues: child homelessness and environmental damage. In Accra, Ghana’s capital, an estimated 60,000 children call the streets their home. Street children fend for themselves, often working in unhealthy, dangerous environments, eating poorly, and sleeping in unsanitary conditions.

 

Accra’s streets are not only filled with homeless kids, however; they’re also overflowing with trash. Since Ghana does not have an effective waste management system in place, people are forced to toss their trash directly onto the ground. The 40 tons of waste discarded each day have resulted in extensive environmental degradation.

 

So far, we have worked to address both forms of neglect through the following objectives:

1.     Decrease pollution and the number of children on the streets
aBAN on Neglect pays street children to collect waste and craft it into unique, handmade goods that we sell online and through school fundraisers. Since 2008, we have helped these kids make and sell over 1,000 bags and provided 20 kids with sustainable incomes for food, shelter, and education.

 

With the support of grants and other sources of funding, we aim to expand our programs and address the following objectives:

 

2.     Incorporate both a savings and an educational model into our program to help children attain their long-term financial goals.

3.    Increase public awareness of the issues by creating a city-wide campaign to educate the public about the urgency of child and environmental neglect in Accra.

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 The Amber Initiative has been working closely with the hill tribe people in Thailand that have been marginalized for centuries. Amber is working with Blessing Home, a youth hostel currently serving 60 Lahu youth and children, to increase English and Mandarin proficiency for the students in the surrounding areas, especially students that have no opportunity to continue education in their villages. Through enhancing the programs in Blessing Home, we envision this to be a center of choice for quality linguistic skill development as well as extracurricular activities such as music and sports. Using Blessing Home’s current space as a center for these programs, Amber is working with the local leadership in the area to reach out to even more hill tribe youth in Chiang Rai, in particular youth that have been forced into marriage at an early age. Thus this program is three-fold: 1) Critical language development, 2) Extra curricular development through sports and music and 3) Educational resources and classes for young women who are married as there currently exists no programs for them.
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Founded in 2008 by a student and a Sierra Leonean, Planting Promise is a community-based organization, whose mission is to create sustainable enterprise in Sierra Leone to support educational projects. By developing locally conceived and administered businesses, our charity provides free education to over 600 children. Additionally, our businesses empower the people of Sierra Leone by offering wealth, employment and prospects: and through these, genuine economic and human development.

OUR LOCATIONS:

We currently run 3 primary schools in Sierra Leone, educating a total of 600 children, in addition to an adult education course teaching basic literacy and vocational skills to a class of 50 women. Teachers are locally recruited and qualified, and will soon be assisted by volunteer experts from the UK, so improving the quality of the schooling we deliver.

However we don’t believe you help people by making them dependent. So instead of foreign funding, our schools are funded by our businesses, promoting growth in the Sierra Leonean economy. We farm 1200 acres of rice and cassava, and run 2 food-processing units and an internet café in Freetown, reinvesting all profits back into the organization.

OUR STRUCTURE:

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT:

• We provide a free and otherwise inaccessible education to street children and subsistence farmers 
• We are 100% sustainable – our businesses pay for all running costs
  
• We already have a proven record of success after operating for less than two years
  
• All our activities are vetted and administered by a team of experienced local professionals

For more information, please visit our website: www.plantingpromise.org.uk
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“Child’s Play” is an arts education program that develops communication skills in underserved children.  Research has demonstrated that "at risk" children benefit academically and intellectually from arts education - and solid presentation skills are vital to any future job or career. 

This course has been successfully implemented for 4 years in 2 U.S. cities -- helping students improve vocabulary, diction, and reading skills, as it builds teamwork, fosters self-esteem, and teaches students the intrinsic value of serving others.  Its mission is vital – and its potential is limitless. childsplay0580.0

  Africa in general and Nigeria in particular has been traumatized by poverty, ignorance, diseases and corruption. I could go on and on about the level of decadence that has characterized our existence, but the important question is; where is the way out? We are the solution, I’m totally convinced of only one way out and that is “STUDENT”. The student as a body will have to lead this crusade against depravity. I reckon that the greatest need of our society is to succeed because we have been so battered by failure in all aspect of life and by my definition of success, ‘it is looking out for human need and reaching out to meet that need’. I believe strongly that the moment students understand success and its technical know-how, then our society will undergo change positively because we are the salt of the earth and the light of our world. We would have to take the destiny of our continent in our hands and change it for good, stand up and redefine societal value and push our society into greatness.

 

  On my part, I have no problem with our leaders and their predecessors because I don’t think am better of until I’ve done what is meant to be done. If in quote they’ve all failed us, including our parent as it were, are we also going to fail posterity that depends on us?

Education is paramount in a society. If this is so, we would need to redefine educational standard, ready to give what it takes, it input and output in our society and this can only be achieved by students who understands the technical know-how of success and how it is achievable in a society. Had kept on mentioning students and not masses because we are truly the bedrock of the society.

Talking about the masses, I realize that it is impossible to change the mindset of an African man, Nigeria in particular from its initial state by just mere speech; it doesn’t walk that way in this part of the world. It is obvious they are tired listening to agitations, suggestions made by so called doctors, lawyers and the likes. They want doers, men in action, people who are ready to take that position of true leadership.

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Loyal Label is a for-profit socially conscious clothing company focused on connecting people to causes they care about through sustainable and stylish apparel. The company is made up of seven lines, each connected to a different cause. The first six lines are Water, Hunger, Life, Earth, Learning, and Peace. Profits from each of these lines will fund initiatives with relevant partner charities. The seventh line, Loyal, is tied to our own cause, The Loyal Foundation, which distributes grants to young aspiring social entrepreneurs. The company is unique in that every item in the product mix is tired directly to a tangible outcome.

Items in each line will be tied to a direct action. For example, a t-shirt from the Hunger line will give a child 20 meals, while one from the Earth line will cover the cost to plant five trees. This model of creating a connection between a customer and a solution is what distinguishes Loyal Label from other companies in the apparel market. We call it the “Consumer/Cause Connection.”

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Tengo un Sueño (I Have a Dream) is a long-term educational program designed to make the attainment of education possible for low-income families in Nicaragua. As a group, we have offered a long-term commitment to 34 Dreamers in Hermandad Maryknoll Elementary school in the  rural community of Chacraseca. Throughout their elementary and high school education, the 34 Dreamers will be provided with school supplies, uniforms and shoes, an afterschool tutoring program, an extra teacher in the classroom, and two program coordinators. We are committed to support each child in this program, build a community library, and eventually open up Tengo un Sueño programs in the other 13 Chacraseca schools.

Tengo un Sueño is rooted in the belief that we cannot save the world with a project, but we can change a person's life. We can empower 34 Dreamers to become educated leaders in their community who will potentially grow up to improve their communities. felix.acuna350.0

FashionACTION is a new alternative that can transform our conventional ways of giving. An online marketplace, FashionACTION brings together buyers and sellers with the ultimate goal of promoting and increasing charitable giving towards programs that empower women and girls. Investing in girls has proven to be an effective tool in breaking the cycle of global poverty. FashionACTION aims to generate awareness of local, national and international organizations that operate programs to address this issue and help these charities in their efforts to eradicate poverty and injustice. In this unique marketplace, sellers donate designer accessories to be auctioned for buyers to bid on. Proceeds of a winning bid will be given to support a charity of the buyer’s choice. The seller will be able to select from a list of charities that the buyer must choose from.  However, all charities will centre around three common themes of women and girl’s empowerment: increasing health and safety, improving access to education and enhancing livelihoods.

FashionACTION will engage people who would not necessarily directly donate to a cause by providing them with a revolutionary avenue for them to purchase new and used luxury goods at a discounted price. Fashion meets altruism on this platform where both the buyers and the sellers can immediately see the difference they make once the transaction is complete. Charities will also benefit from an innovative online fundraising solution to help them build their financial base, so they can continue providing essential services that invest in women, children and communities worldwide. FashionAction1020.0

Literacy in India is key for socio-economic progress. Enrollment rate is 82.5% but the drop out rate is 34.9% - 52.8%. The most vulnerable group among this is the marginalized rural poor. The primary reason for low enrollment and high drop out rate is child hunger. A hungry child is less likely to attend school regularly as hunger drains them of their will and ability to learn. Chronic hunger leads to malnutrition which delays or stops the physical and mental growth of children. This leads them into a vicious circle of illiteracy, malnutrition and low economic productivity. To counteract this problem Indian government started Mid Day Meal Scheme in rural schools with a huge investment and running costs. The scheme is not very successful as it encounters various problems as- corruption, lack of funds, failure of delivery mechanism, failure of quality control, lack of infrastructure and others. Our project 'Poushtak' proposes a public private partnership model to counteract this grave problem. It is an innovative food product which is semi cooked and is nutritionally well balanced. It will be produced and distributed using the Social Business approach. Community women, the key facilitators will monitor and evaluate the project. Daily ration of nutritious mid day meal will be provided to 120 million rural school children so as to increase enrollment, retention and improve their nutrition status. The project will then be extended to open market so as to earn profits which will be reaped back into the rural project to make it self sustainable. The project will make use of technology and supply chain management to provide the product in possibly minimum cost.

 

 

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         Innovations play key roles in the life of every person. Children are acquainted with technological innovations through violent computer games. Not to allow it to happen our team would like to establish a kindergarten where children, with a help of video conferences, could communicate with other kids from all over the world.
          Just imagine kids from all over the world sing songs together, do joint exercises, learn foreign languages, and most important realize the effect of technology from the very positive side. Children watching rainbow on other continent, or sharing their drawings, it is possible. You need just to imagine.

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almost 70% population of Pakistan dwells in rural areas. surveys conducted amongst the poor population of these areas show that the female mortality rate is quite high. when analysed in detail, it was revealed, that as income is insufficient to fulifill the needs of all individual, the bread earners choose to neglect women and their basic life needs. consequently, these women catch severe diseases and end up dying a terrible death. thus, they are 'killed' because they are women. my idea is to build a center 'NIJAAT- The Salvation' for these women. NIJAAT will not only provide them a better place to live in but will also give them a purpose in life. the women brought here will be trained by professionals in their areas of interests for example, handicrafts, stitching, parlor courses, interior designing, typing and shorthand, first aid etc, then, their products (incase of handicrafts jewelleries and clothes) will be exposed to wider markets and also, a job portal will be set up which will bring the corporate sector to a new set of workforce to choose from. these women will be given jobs through this portals or in the former case, they'll be given the shops. in this way, they'll be self-sufficient. this will be a profitable venture because 50% of the total income will be given to the women while 30% will be sent to their families and 20% will be kept by the admin. this 20% of each individual's earning will be our profit. my idea, the NIJAAT helps these helpless women to transform their lives and become successful working individuals of the nation. layla.rajani90.0

Over 15 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS – equivalent to the number of people living in New York, Paris, and Bangkok combined. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, over 12 million children have been orphaned by the pandemic. Experts believe that millions more orphans remain unaccounted for in India, China and Russia.

In addition to the psychological trauma of losing a parent, orphans are often subject to discrimination and are less likely to receive healthcare, schooling and other needed services. Deprived of protection, education, support and love, they face malnutrition, illness and HIV infection and are easy prey to many forms of exploitation: forced labor, prostitution and child soldiering.

Too little attention is given to orphans and vulnerable children. Few resources are reaching the families and communities that provide the front-line response.

SPARSH is committed to bring the needs of these children to the forefront of the battle against HIV and AIDS. The team is committed to ensuring that people are educated about this pandemic and the situation of these AIDS orphans by reaching out to individuals and communities around the world. We would manage all donations made by individuals, communities and organizations and ensure that the funds are disbursed to the rightful beneficiary who has a good past record and a zeal to make a change. People such as Sekani Nyasulu who have sold their own belongings to support a family of 30 AIDS orphans.

The name SPARSH which is Hindi for “Touch” is aimed at dispelling beliefs that AIDS can spread through touch or direct contact with an AIDS affected patient. It also emphasizes our commitment to bring about a change by reaching out and touching the lives of all those affected by this pandemic.

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BACKGROUND:

Investment in education always pays the best interest! Lack of quality education, poverty and underdevelopment are interlinked with each other. Secondary education bears tremendous importance: 1. It’s a determinant of an individual’s basic cognition and moral. 2. It is also a gateway to higher education.

 

Ground-reality:

In Nepal, rural students’ access to quality education is difficult, due to the lack of manpower and infrastructures. Further, the decade-long conflict has affected the national mechanisms. It will definitely take a considerable time to develop an efficient system to solve the problems. But then, can we afford to wait? NO! There’s a need of doing something effective that helps in addressing the problem.

 

IDEA:

Employing the miracles of technology to disseminate quality education to the rural students (Audio, Video resources: ‘Comprehensive learning with Ease and Fun’)

 

How will we do it?

We aim to develop learning resources and make it accessible to the students of rural areas. TV channels and FM radios will be used as the medium. Nepal has a good network of community radios; it’s the best medium for the places deprived of electricity. Similarly, audio and video materials will be disseminated to the rural schools.

 

How can we make a real difference?

When the materials get distributed, a large mass of students are likely to benefit. They get exposed to the simple and effective explanation of subject matter. Apart from the effectiveness and flexibility in learning process, the venture is awesome in terms of economy and time saving.

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Unemployment problem is a cause of concern for many contries.  Developing countries as well as developed countries  are facing this problem. Moreover, economic slowdown is adding salt to the wounds. According to "International Labour Organization"  the global unemployment rate for 2009 is estimated at 6.6 % with a confidence interval (CI) from 6.3% to 6.9%.  "Planning Commission of India" shows that employment rate was 8.36% in year 2006-2007 and they are planning to bring it down to 4.83% till 2011-2012. My innovation involves "Unemployment  reduction" in India. This will also cover Poverty reduction, Economic Development, Development in Education, Social awareness. I will also focus on importance of Small scale industries ,Development of Rural areas.

The economic growth rate should be increased at faster rate so that everyone should get employment. That's why labour-intensive, employment objective techniques have been illustrated.
(A) The small scale industries should be promoted in larger numbers and even heavy industries made dependent on them for auxiliary components.
(B)Eductional system should be vocational
(C)Infrastructure development should be accelerated.
(D)Optimization of natural resources.
(E) Awareness through social-networking sites and college friends.
(F)Local community co-operation
(G)Active participation by young students.
(H)Reduction in population growth

these all objectives will be met by my team to ensure employment for each and everyone.
 

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  JeepNeed is a mobile computer center in the Philippines that serves to meet the invisible costs of education for promising youth on or below the poverty line.

This project redesigns local public transportation (the Jeepney). Among functional redesign features (pull out writing surfaces, storage spaces, tarpaulin extensions from the jeep roof, etc,) the jeepney will also use an engine that runs on vegetable oil, significantly reducing daily expenses by 90%. A single jeep will cost $6000, and cater to 15 students, hold 10 laptops with internet access, 1 printer and necessary project materials.

Outside of transportation to and from school, and after school resource availability, the vehicle is a for hire service for employees within the city. The for-hire nature assures sustainability and allows it to earn back initial investment within 6 months of maximum use. The mobile nature of the center will also allow it to take students on a program of leadership based field trip experiences aimed at building supportive peer communities, expanding social capital and extending learning experiences outside the classroom.
 
The pilot project will target graduates from an elementary in Manila (CENTEX) that the team has worked with in the past. Graduates from this elementary have been identified as high performing students with significant economic need. The pilot project will seek to build from existing efforts of CENTEX by supporting their graduates through high school. tantu20s230.0

CIPLI is the unique EDUCATIVE MEDICAL SERVICE, in the world, created to recover patients with: Mental Illness and Conduct Disorders (Psychological Problems), WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS. We offer treatment/prevention service and guarantee patient integral recovery.  CIPLI’s theory has been approved in seven World Congresses and 20 International Congresses of Psychiatry since 2005 (World Psychiatric Association WPA, WASP, WADP, EPA, etc).

CIPLI has been created to RECOVER any type of Mental Illness and also restitute, to the patient, the direction of his internal energy: getting a permanent Homeostasis. All those help in the treatment of different diseases, among them: Cancer and other many regressive forms of the Being, WITHOUT THE USE OF MEDICINES. Medicines do not have the capacity to grant a permanent homeostasis, and therefore it does not get us to total health restitution. There is a lack of scientific tool to solve:

a) Corporal energetic anarchy, due to “Inversion in the direction of the Internal Energy.”

b) Internal conflicts (contradictions) which sometimes people silence or look for disguised aid to not ‘complicate’ the situation.

Thus, this service is for hopeless or declared terminally ill people or for the public who feel that nobody can entirely understand them.

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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for imparting Education in the history of our world. By now every country and many Organizations (Profit making and non- profit making) have put in their efforts tangible and intangible to spread literacy throughout in different formats in last few decades. The critical factor that needs to be considered while learning from all earlier attempt is strive for sustainability. The ugly truth is the corporate social responsibility doesn’t help the best possible way. No doubt, that they really help but the matter of concern is the World needs more!  From Florida to France, Paris to Patna or on bigger scale the image is crystal clear no country or no continent is 100% Literate just a simple Why?

We have a dream that one day this world will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal with right to education."

We have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the farmers and their sons will be able to sit down at the table of brotherhood and discuss a better world.

We have a dream that one day even the all the continents rather all the direction, will be transformed into an oasis of education.

We have a dream that our children will one day live in a world where they will take this dream forward like science.

We believe to setup an organization which markets and provides education, if water, air and around the world can be bought as marketed surely education will be too! We aim to provide education worldwide helping existing education systems to make them more efficient and effective for a child to an adult who just wants to learn!

 We have a dream today!

Need identified: Sowing education

Target segment: Every developing individual who is striving to gain knowledge

How it’s going to be  rolled out:

Initially a survey would be conducted to determine the areas striving of education. Virtual mobile classrooms powered by solar energy and generators (fifty people to be educated at one time per class room) will be used for imparting education thereby involving low cost. Every fortnight practical workshops would be conducted by experts to enhance the skills and knowledge of students and transform them into a better individual.

Key differentiating factors: Social yet profit making. Courseware will be specially tailor made to meet the needs of these students. Imparting education in regional language along with English. Making earth a better place to live.

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 A venture project by MIT students, Ed Masse is a web-based application that aggregates subject knowledge resources from high school till undergraduate level with the intention of providing continuous learning avenues to students who either cannot afford expensive education or are motivated to supplement their education.

 

Ed Masse uses a combination of online videos, text material, customized curriculum and student collaboration platform to provide a valuable medium of education. It will leverage already existing resources on the internet like MIT’s Open Courseware® and also tap into the potential of retired professors /Graduate students body in countries like India and also within the Graduate student community across respected US schools.

Subjects will have complete curriculum designed by experts and updated yearly and all the freely available knowledge resources will be available in a single location without charge to students. The students will have the option to access online tutoring and make use of expert consulting services for placements in reputed colleges, at relatively cheap prices.

We aim to target students in India and United States to begin with, and further expand the model into other countries.

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Greenscape aims to revolutionize the lawn care and landscape industry by simultaneously addressing food security and youth unemployment.  Our mission to promote local food systems while providing safe access to healthy food for the community’s most impoverished is sustained by our innovative revenue generating business model. 

Tapping into a $40 billion dollar market, Greenscape operates an eco-friendly lawn care and landscape service operated by teams paired by senior gardeners and at-risk youth.  We utilize manual or electric equipment powered by renewable energy to make our operations as environmentally sustainable as possible.  To promote the value of local food as a significant factor in a community’s sustainability, Greenscape implements backyard organic micro farms in the numerous single dwelling homes that characterize the North American city landscape.  A portion of the food yields from gardens that our teams service is donated to a food bank for emergency relief.  Revenues that we generate go towards the support of community garden development in the inner city, with the long term goal of aiding the construction of a small greenhouse on one those lots for year round food production. 

Greenscape therefore synthesizes the mission of youth employment and mentorship, the organic food and local economy movement, and the goal of increasing the environmental sustainability of communities nationwide. 

 

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