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Prestigious List Recognizes the 50 Most Community-Minded Companies in the United States
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The organization leverages Khoros’s industry-leading online community to help members learn, connect, collaborate, take action, and recharge with like-minded individuals from around the world
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty with Engineers Without Borders Thu, 02/24/2022 - 12:35 Subheader A Q with Xylem Watermark’s Project Leader in Malawi Type of Content Blog Layout Media Gallery Body For many communities, access to infrastructure is a key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Xylem Watermark’s Emma Housman spoke with Vinesan Govender to learn about his work with our NGO partner Engineers Without Borders, and his experience working with a team of Xylem volunteers and engineers in Malawi to
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In 1999, with the country ravaged by HIV and its future existence literally in doubt, Botswana embarked on an aggressive plan to curtail the transmission of the virus from mother to child.
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Return of the Roar on World Lion Day Thu, 08/13/2020 - 14:00 Type of Content Blog Layout Standard Format Body In just one year since the release of Disney’s “The Lion King” in 2019, fans like you have helped the Disney Conservation Fund, and collaborators around the world, to make huge strides in protecting lions and their habitats across Africa. As we celebrate World Lion Day today, we’re excited to share some of the progress we have made together toward “protecting the pride,” and healthy land
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Grants include additional geographies, areas of focus and disease targets
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Signet Jewelers Limited, the world's largest retailer of diamond jewelry, releases its 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility report.
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10 programs selected to help support healthcare capacity building in
resource-constrained countries
More than $1 million in total provided to expand essential cancer
care services
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There’s no arguing with the majesty of elephants. These intelligent, complex and emotional beasts have come to symbolize wildlife conservation efforts around the globe. Across the African continent, they are under threat from encroaching human settlements and continued poaching — in the summer of 2018, an aerial survey in Botswana found 87 elephants had been killed and their tusks cut off for their ivory, the biggest slaughter in recent years. But elephants are part of a complex ecosystem and sci
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How do you treat 11,000 new cases of pediatric cancer annually with only five pediatric oncologists? With those numbers, it’s not surprising the mortality rate for pediatric cancer in Botswana, Malawi and Uganda in southern and east Africa is as high as 90 percent.
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Network Infrastructure from Gilat will Connect the Communities of
Bufundi in Rubanda and Kibuku in Ntoroko; Enhance Economic and Social
Programs
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TriLinc Global Impact Fund announced today that it has approved an
additional $22.7 million in term loans and trade finance facilities to
companies operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Southeast
Asia, bringing total financing commitments as of December 31, 2017 to
$380 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development
through its holdings in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast
Asia.
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Debswana, a joint venture between De Beers Group and the Government of the Republic of Botswana, has already invested P6.5 million in the programme.
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The finalists, three from each of the company’s southern Africa producer countries of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, were selected from more than 130 entries.
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The three events were all under the umbrella of the ‘impact week’ showcase – three days (Tuesday to Thursday) designed to position Botswana as the centre of gravity for the diamond industry and the benefits it can bring. A host of high-profile speakers from government, industry and academia as well as fashion, the media and sports addressed the conferences.
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Companies across the U.S. have stepped up for refugees who struggle to find a community and a place to call home. Here at Viacom, Nickelodeon’s pro-social team recently participated in UNICEF’s Refugee Welcome Dinners, along with the organization’s local partner agency, Purpose, and Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play partner Playworks, which uses play to improve children’s physical health and social and emotional learning. UNICEF brought kids and families from Guatemala, Mexico, Guinea, Venezuel
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Supported by the Baxter International Foundation, the Prestigious
Award Recognizes Dr. Richmond’s Research on the Psychological Effects of
Violence and Injury
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As a business that has so many touchpoints with different parts of Botswana society, simply contributing through royalties, dividends, taxes and employment is not enough for De Beers Group. We need to look constantly for ways in which we can embed the opportunity for further economic development and diversification.
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Students with learning difficulties at a school in Botswana have moved into a new P1.3 million (US$124,000) classroom block funded mainly by Debswana.
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De Beers Group strengthened Botswana communities in 2016 through major investment in local goods and services, according to its latest Report to Society.
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De Beers has stepped in to support Botswana as a leading tourist destination at the world’s biggest travel trade show.
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His Excellency the President Lieutenant General Dr. Seretse Khama Ian Khama of the Republic of Botswana, the Honorable Minister Dorcas Makgato of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers (TXCH) and Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital (BIPAI) through public-private partnerships with the governments of Botswana, Uganda and Malawi, announced a $100 million initi