EcoBrick are our vehicles to address multiple social challenges. Made by compressing plastic waste into bottles, EcoBricks protect the environment whilst creating a low-cost building material. We support needy preschools by sharing this concept and exploring transformations that follow.
We fight delinquency and poverty through the teaching of sports to the children of a marginal neighborhood. Empowering the kids and adolescents so they can grow as the new agents of change.
ARKA’S main goal is to ensure that children and youth have the same opportunities in order for them to enroll in high level education institutions and overcome the poverty trap. To achieve this goal, the beneficiaries and their families are provided with psychological, pedagogical and nutritional aid.
Isolation sums up the lived experience of the indigenous Andean peoples of the Lares Valley. Our program seeks to break the cycle of absolute poverty that is deeply rooted in isolated communities by identifying, educating on, and eventually growing local, high-impact solutions: Healthy Meals.
Through books, apps & cartoons we tell the story of ‘Detective Dot’, an 8 year old female coder, who goes on global adventures to find out where all her *stuff* comes from e.g. her confused t-shirt who finds his roots in Uzbekistan via China. Dot inspires kids to ask ‘who made this?'.
Engineering for Kids is an educational initiative with a vision to develop the creative and innovative minds of an average Nigerian child to become the next generation inventors and innovators.
Abdullah is building an empowerment path for children and youth from state institutions to integrate with society as equal citizens, to develop essential life skills and ultimately become leaders and participants in social change.
Focusing on preventive health, sanitation and hygiene, the “Area Health Minders” are changing the physical and social environment in which they live following the concept of “each one, teach one”.
Hacienda Tranquila is a local organization in the Galapagos that employs reforestation, organic agriculture and community action projects to help the environment and people. The team of three, international volunteers and locals share their talents for a more sustainable, food secure community.
Clothes sell. In fact, garments accounted for more than 14% of Bangladesh’s GDP in the 2013-2014 fiscal year. As this industry skyrockets, we are using Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) to discover solutions that simultaneously increase the welfare of sector workers and the businesses themselves.
