Meds & Food for Kids

Haiti

Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) is leading the charge to cure child malnutrition in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.
Our goal is “Alive at Five”: to ensure that children remain well-nourished and healthy through the toddler years, giving them a chance for normal growth and development into adulthood.

Organic Blooming

Ecuador

Organic Blooming’s mission is to become the leading producer and exporter of organically certified cut-flowers in Ecuador. This start-up company aspires to be environmentally conscious and socially responsible, while contributing to the well-being of the local community. Organic Blooming grows organic calla lilies on its farm, Hacienda El Manantial, and plans to expand into other cut-flowers and produce.

Futbol Con Corazon

Colombia

Low-income children in Barranquilla, a city in the Caribbean Coast of Colombia, do not have mentors, have a lot of free time, suffer from violence within their families, and do not have acces to after-school programs. They are in constant risk of drug addiction, alcoholism, criminality and gangs.
Futbol Con Corazon (aka Soccer for Peace Foundation) will a contribution in achieving higher levels of peace and equity in Colombia using the power of soccer and its value-centered methodology.

Solar Aid

Zambia, Tanzania

Two of the biggest threats facing humanity today are climate change and global poverty. SolarAid helps to combat both, simply by bringing clean, renewable power to the poorest people in the world. Solar power can enable poor people to cook food, pump clean water, run fridges, light homes, schools and hospitals, farm more effectively, and much more.
PATH (Vietnam, Cambodia)

Vestergard Frandsen

Nigeria, Sierra Leone & Pakistan

Vestergaard Frandsen is a rapidly growing international company. VF is committed to the goal of basic disease prevention by providing safe drinking water and protection from malaria and other vector-borne diseases. Over the years, it has been associated with many non-governmental organisations and UN agencies, as well as ministries of health in countries worldwide.

Karibu Fair

Tanzania

The “Karibu Travel and Tourism Fair” jointly organized by Tanzania Association of Tour Operators, Tanzania Tourist Board together with the Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism, is a four day International Travel and Tourism Fair which is held at Magereza open grounds Arusha Tanzania. The Fair has since grown into East Africa’s biggest tourism event of the years. This event has been conducive to informal networking and getting to know each other better among all stakeholders on Tourism industry.

Menakshi Mission Hospital

India

Streetwires (South Afiica)

Streetwires focuses on the unique and dynamic genre of wire art, and, through its Proudly South African project, is providing the skills training, support and raw materials necessary to enable over 100 formerly unemployed men and women to earn a constant income. Streetwires currently exports to 14 countries and also supplies to several large domestic retailers.

CHF International

Haiti

Since 1952, CHF International has worked in more than 100 countries worldwide. Currently we work in an average of 30 countries per year. Our mission is to be a catalyst for long-lasting positive change in low- and moderate-income communities around the world, helping them to improve their social, economic and environmental conditions. Each day, CHF International transforms promise into progress. CHF International is successful because it brings together the people, organizations and resources necessary to ensure steady, sustainable change.

Heartland Alliance

Guatemala

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights champions the human rights and improves the lives of men, women, and children who are threatened by poverty or danger. For more than 100 years we have been providing solutions—both through services and policy—that move individuals from crisis to stability and on to success.
ECATH (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda) – www.ecatradehub.com
The TRADE initiative was launched to assist African businesses take better advantage of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), passed by Congress in May 2000. The Act establishes a framework of incentives to encourage greater economic growth and self-reliance through enhanced international trade and investment in Africa.
The East and Central Africa Global Competitiveness Hub (ECA AGCI Hub) in Nairobi, Kenya is one of three trade hubs established by USAID.

Terrafertil

Ecuador

Terrafertil is located at 3200 meters above sea level, next to lagoons which were formed out of the thaws at Andean snow-capped mountains, occupying a unique and privileged place, given it’s ecological surroundings. Our approach aims at keeping artisan processes in order to assure high quality in all our lines of production. Terrafertil is a pioneer in the market of exotic products in Ecuador. Our products are intended for both the final consumer and the food industry, which may use them as intermediate raw materials.

Proteak

Mexico

Proteak Renewable Forestry began its commercial operations in 2006 following six successful years of operation as a forestry company along Mexico’s Pacific coast. During those six years, Proteak transformed itself into the major grower of teak in Mexico and one of the largest in the western hemisphere. With over seven thousand acres under cultivation, Proteak is positioned to be the most reliable source of sustainable plantation teak and teak wood products for years to come.

Fonkoze

Haiti

Fonkoze is Haiti’s alternative bank for the organized poor. In fact, it is a family of three institutions working together shoulder-to-shoulder towards a single compelling mission: building the economic foundations for democracy in Haiti by providing the rural poor with the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty. This mission is reflected in our name, Fonkoze, which is an acronym for the Haitian Creole phrase “Fondasyon Kole Zepòl” meaning “Shoulder-to-Shoulder Foundation.”

CEIHD

Uganda

The mission of Centre for Entrepreneurshp in Internatioanl Health & Development
(CEIHD-pronounced “seed”) is to improve the health of low-income families in developing countries by drawing on the power of science and entrepreneurship to deliver health-enhancing products and services at affordable prices. As a nonprofit with close ties to the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, CEIHD provides thought leadership, tools and case studies to the field. CEIHD acknowledges the importance of scale in creating measurable change in health status at a population level and chooses its projects with this overarching objective in mind.