Hands4Others (H4O), high school and college students, are fighting extreme poverty by bringing clean water to villages globally. Jeanne David, Executive Director for H4O, and Spencer Dusebout, founding student, share the goals and achievements made in only 2 years by…
Social Impact, Fair Trade, Business in Africa Grows with Liberty and Justice
The only fair trade factory in Africa is saving lives while bringing business to Africa, the new continent for outsourced savings. Chid Liberty, the co-founder with Adam Butlein, of the first fair trade factory in Africa, shares the success of…
Sustainable Preschool Education in India Combats Extreme Poverty.
At the end of British rule, India’s literacy rate was less than 12%. It has grown to 74% but is still below the world average of 84%. It is difficult work to grow education in India due to the level…
Education, Jobs in Afghanistan Fight Terrorism.
Push Play to hear how one woman, Hassina Sherjan, is helping prevent terrorism in Afghanistan through education and creating jobs. Both men and women, girls and boys are being educated in Afghanistan by Hassina Sherjan and the 19 schools she…
A New Maasai Rite of Passage Stops Female Circumcision.
Teri Gabrielsen of (ASK) reports the changes in the Maasai community as 52 girls enjoy an alternative rite of passage rather than the pain of female genital mutilation (FGM). This ancient tradition of female genital cutting is slowly changing although…
Social Entrepreneurship Brings Sanitation to Urban Slums in Extreme Poverty
David Auerbach from Sanergy, a social enterprise in Kenya that has been identified and supported by Eleos Foundation, has grown into an opportunity for impact investors. Saner.gy builds sustainable sanitation in the urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. So you…
Fight Extreme Poverty: Outsource Data and IT Enabled Services
Outsourcing data and IT Enabled Services can fight extreme poverty by educating and employing youth from impoverished areas of developing countries. Jeremy Hockenstein of Digital Data Divide (DDD) shares how they have successfully educated and lifted over 1500 youth in…
UN Code REDD: Combat Global Warming, Conserve Wildlife, Build Jobs.
Mike Korchinsky of WildlifeWorks shares how the United Nations’ REDD initiative of carbon credits is helping build jobs, education and conserving wildlife while combating global warming. Wildlife Works‘ mission, Consumer Powered Conservation, is to harness the power of the global…
Vote Today to Address Healthcare and Safe Water for India’s Extreme Poverty.
Jim Villnueava of The Eleos Foundation shares how you can help save the lives of millions in India by voting for Healthpoint’s virtual medical clinics and safe water. Healthpoint is a virtual medical clinic that consists of four economically sustainable…
Save Lives with Clean Water Filters in Areas of Extreme Poverty
Ning Jiang, UCSB PhD student, shares her research and progress on developing a clean water, bio-sand filter for people living in extreme poverty. A new, inexpensive bio-sand water filter is being developed to help Safewater International provide clean water to…
What Is Extreme Poverty and What Microfinance Does to End It.
Microfinance helps end extreme poverty, the greatest violence against mankind. The Bottom Billion Fund provides money for micro loans through microfinance institutions (MFIs) located in countries where a large portion of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day.…
Fight Extreme Poverty: Bring Light on Earth Day with Unite-to-Light
Listen to how Unite-to-Light is fighting extreme poverty with LED solar-powered light. Unite-to-Light, an organization founded through the collaboration of Engineers without Borders and Nobel Prize Laureate at UCSB, manufactures and distributes a small ultra-bright LED solar-powered lamp worldwide to…
Safewater International on Socially Conscious Investing
Safewater International works to reach some of the most difficult populations of people living in extreme poverty to provide them with clean water. Safe drinking water is critical to people living in such conditions because illness due to the bacteria…
Fabric Of Life Saves Girls and Women from Lives of Despair in Poverty.
Socially Conscious Investing online radio interviews Carol Schillios, the founder of Fabric of Life, this week. The organization’s work facilitates microlending, education and health care in the developing world. Fabric Of Life was born from the Schillios Development Foundation, formed…
The Eleos Foundation: For-Profit Investments in the Developing World
This week on Socially Conscious Investing, Andy Lower of The Eleos Foundation is interviewed on Wednesday, May 11. The Eleos Foundation is an organization dedicated to catalyzing capital in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty with compassion and effectiveness. Following…
Unite-to-Light Helps Fight Extreme Poverty
This week, on May 4, Claude Dorais of Unite-to-Light is interviewed on Socially Conscious Investing airing on WomensRadio.com. Join us to hear how University of California Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) Institute for Energy Efficiency joined with Engineers without Borders and others…
