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05 Mar Facilitating the socio-professional integration of refugees in Paris

Posted at 16:15h in Agriculture, Business, Community, Education, Environment, Exploitation, Food, Migrants, Refugees, Social Enterprise, Social Justice, Sustainable Development Goals, Volunteering, Youth by Esme Yates 0 Comments

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Café Bienvenue is a social enterprise based in Paris that facilitates the socio-professional integration of refugees, promotes sustainable production and consumption, and offers high quality drinks and snacks in a warm and welcoming community space. In January, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres presented his report on the...

07 Nov Working towards Sustainable Education in Indonesia

Posted at 16:34h in Children, Community, Education, Village by Ayendha Pangesti 0 Comments

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Although some may say Ayendha has sacrificed a lot to teach in a remote village in Indonesia, she believes that the simplest acts can yield the best results. I’m a young Indonesian who has recently graduated from the Food Science and Technology Department in Bogor Agricultural University. Helping children is...

11 Oct Sustainable Development Projects in Uganda

Posted at 16:23h in Agriculture, Community, Conservation, Education, Environment, International Development, Refugees by Chris Goodship 0 Comments

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Anglican International Development works in partnership with local churches in Sub-Saharan Africa to transform lives through long-term, sustainable solutions that empower and enable citizens I started working for Anglican International Development (AID) just over a year ago. We are a relatively small charity working in Sub-Saharan Africa...

11 Oct Influencing Policy to Tackle Poverty in the USA

Posted at 14:50h in Accountability, Advocacy, Community, Education, Homelessness, Policy, Poverty, Social Justice by Qiana Torregano 2 Comments

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Results uses real experiences of poverty to advocate directly with members of Congress to push for change. This powerful platform influences policy in USA, while also challenging harmful misconceptions about people who live in poverty. I am Qiana Marie, a rose from the concrete. Born and...

03 Oct Providing Support to People in Crisis in England

Posted at 08:59h in Community, Food, Philanthropy, Poverty, Refugees by Rachel Hastings 0 Comments

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Rachel explains how Storehouse helps turn the lives around of people in crisis through simple acts of support. On my first day at the Storehouse Project, my new coworker sat me down in the small meeting room that also doubled as our office. As she began...

26 Sep Supporting Early Years Education in Fiji

Posted at 13:21h in Children, Community, Education, Food, Healthcare, International Development, Music, Sport, Volunteering, Young People, Youth by Rosie Littlejohns 0 Comments

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Rosie shares her experience empowering disadvantaged children through education and sport in Fiji. Last summer, I was a teaching and sports volunteer in Fiji with the organisation Think Pacific. Despite having previously taught at a lycée in France for eight months, my first week in Kindergarten...

12 Sep Empowering HIV+ people in Belize

Posted at 08:58h in AIDS, Community, HIV, LGBT by Erika Castellanos 0 Comments

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The Collaborative Network for Persons Living With HIV (CNET+) offers people living with HIV in Belize a sense of community and support My name is Erika Castellanos and I am a transgender woman who has been living with HIV since 1995. During the early days of my...

11 Sep Helping Vulnerable Women on the Streets of Scotland

Posted at 13:33h in Community, Empathy, Gender, Girls, Homelessness, Philanthropy, Poverty, Volunteering, Women, Young People by Nicki Bradwell 0 Comments

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With the help of her friends, Nicki has been spreading bags of kindness to homeless women in central Scotland I woke up this morning to hot water for a shower, clean clothes, food to eat and a safe home and neighbourhood to live in, surrounded by...

25 May In Conversation with Vivian Onano

Posted at 12:52h in Advocacy, Child Marriage, Children, Community, Education, Girls, Healthcare, International Development, Leadership, Philanthropy, Policy, Poverty, Social Justice, Sustainable Development Goals, Women, Youth by Eva Grant 0 Comments

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Here’s what young changemaker Vivian Onano has to say to young people about following passions, remembering community, and making a difference in 2017 and beyond. If the term ‘old soul’ were still in vogue, twenty-something wunderkind Vivian Onano would be the bell of that ball....

17 May Reaching the Nicaraguan Coffeelands with Education

Posted at 13:53h in Agriculture, Business, Children, Community, Education, International Development, Leadership, Philanthropy, Social Justice, Sustainable Development Goals, Women by Kristin Van Busum 0 Comments

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7 in 10 children in the Nicaraguan coffeelands will not make it beyond primary school. Kristin Van Busum founded Project Alianza to provide them with the education and skills they need to break free of generations of poverty. I was raised by a single mom, and I...