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…
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…
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…
Liberian Women for Peace and Social Entrepreneurs Build West African Economy
Chid Liberty, co-founder of the first Fair Trade factory in Africa, shares the impact social entrepreneurship has made on Western Africa’s economy. Liberia has been a country torn by civil war until a group of women for peace ended it…
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.…
World Bank Reports on Millennium Goal to End Extreme Poverty
Hear how you can participate and how microfinance is reaching the bottom billion to help eradicate extreme poverty. See below for the 7 actions you, personally, can take. In 2000, The United Nations set 8 Millennium Goals, the first of…
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…
