Kaïcedra is doing concrete things to support sustainable community initiatives in Burkina Faso. The Good Times reported back in October 2010 on the new primary-school building the Swiss not-for-profit association built in the village of Gorin in northern Burkina Faso. The Members of Kaïcedra have understood that learning requires more than a safe learning environment, books, school supplies […]
“Human Nature” is a company that produces organic cosmetics to help the children and poor in the Philippines. The purchase of one of this company’s items helps pay public school teachers in the south of the country so children there stay in school instead of becoming child soldiers. The company aims also to help the country’s farmers and […]
It’s called “The Passage” and this Creative for Good campaign is also a winner. The number of homeless persons has increased by 8% in London since the start of the economic crisis, according to the Creative for Good project team. So this campaign was started to raise money for “The Passage”, an important center for the homeless in England’s […]
A few days ago The Good Times reported on an initiative called “Creative for Good“. It deserves a lot of attention — not least because their media outreach in their own words are “imagined, communicated and delivered in ways that move individuals, communities and whole societies to change the way they think and act” for the betterment of […]
Truly amazing: hens helping to teach basic agricultural management and entrepreneurial skills, thereby addressing hunger, unemployment and the lack of education and business skills. Here’s how. The Innovation Empowerment Programme and its chief project, One Hen Campaign, was founded in 2009 by 4 Kenyan students from the University of Nairobi who were inspired by their studies […]
What does mixing water with ownership and microfinance produce? Water.org and its initiative WaterCredit, a program that helps microfinance organizations get into the business of making water and sanitation loans. Loans? you ask. Why loans? Why not simply count on wealthy philanthropists to build wells, maintain pumps or provide sanitary services, doing that all over the world, thus […]
This is the story of an amateur boxer turned social anthropologist who decided to do something about the violence affecting street children in Brazil’s favelas. An impossible task? Luke Dowdney’s passion for boxing allows him to reach even hard-core young drug traffickers on Brazil’s streets. How is it possibly, you may ask, for anyone to […]
What if we could transfer the excess calories on many of our plates in the developed world to those who need calories in the developing world. TFT, short for Table For Two, does just that. It aims to “shift the global food imbalance by ‘transferring excess calories’ from the developed to the developing world, working to […]
Want to give a bit of joy? It might only cost you 60 cents. And that joy will bring a brand new smile. Check out Operation Smile. What do they do? In their words: “Operation Smile provides free surgeries to repair cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities for children around the globe.” More […]
The Womanity Foundation is “accelerating progress for women and their communities”. Currently, the independent philanthropic foundation and Radio NISAA FM, the first all-women commercial radio station in the Palestinian territories, are producing a radio program in Arabic called “Worth 100 Men” on the role of women in society. The story illustrates the trials and tribulations […]
