ESG News For Nepal

Zayed Sustainability Prize celebrates innovators driving global progress at 2025 Awards

Topcon Positioning Systems announces support of the global nonprofit organization Wine To Water (WTW) through sponsorship of a WTW Filter Build®. The event was held during the Topcon Technical Xperience in October for distributors from around the world, including North America, Latin America, and Australia, at the Topcon Positioning Systems global headquarters in California, USA. Participants built 200 filter kits that will be distributed worldwide to provide clean, potable water. It is estimate

Armenia and Nepal are the first of 29 countries to receive BRUKINSA

Pure Earth’s “Rapid Market Screening” (RMS) study, the largest and most diverse of its kind to date, found high rates of lead contamination in metal and ceramic foodware, paint, cosmetics, and toys, posing potentially serious health risks to those exposed to themNew World Bank research published in The Lancet Planetary Health reveals a dramatically greater burden and cost of lead exposure on IQ loss in children and on cardiovascular deaths in adults, six-fold greater than previously thought, and an estimated global cost of US$6 trillion.Pure Earth unveils a seven-point action plan to address the lead contamination crisis and calls for increased investment to scale proven solutions.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, global education organization Room to Read today announced She Creates Change, the first nonprofit-led animation and live action film project to promote gender equality through the stories of young women around the world. The multi-media initiative — which in addition to a six-episode film series also includes books and audio stories — boldly aims to reach all 432 million adolescent girls (ages 12-18) in the world with content and educational curricul

Grant to Fund Nutrition Services for Underserved Communities in Chad

Wine To Water seeks volunteers for service trips to Nepal and Dominican Republic

“I am thrilled and honored to be board chair of this extraordinary organization, which hastransformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the world’s neediestregions." - Jon Krakauer, American Himalayan Foundation

AAF donates USD 250,000 to support climate-smart, sustainable feed management and animal husbandry systems among smallholder farmers in Nepal.

Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced its launch today of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. The new annual prize awards a talented literary translator with book publication. The winning manuscript, selected by a jury of peers, will be a translation of a literary work from one South Asian language into English.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.

– Funding Will Reach Under-Resourced Communities Most Impacted by the HIV Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic –

Amazon deployed relief supplies from its Disaster Relief Hub, an emergency supply facility near Atlanta where Amazon pre-positioned over 500,000 relief items and logistical support

Room to Read mobilizes capital and resources in response to education crisis as latest wave of COVID-19 keeps kids from learning.

The two organizations were honored for using data to combat poverty in Nepal

Facedrive Inc. (“Facedrive”) (TSXV: FD), a Canadian “people-and-planet-first” tech business ecosystem, is pleased to announce that HiQ, a recently social app developed by HiRide Share Ltd. (“HiRide”), Facedrive’s wholly owned subsidiary achieved over 250,000 user downloads within 2 weeks of launch.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200714005346/en/HiQ (the “App”) is a socialization and gaming mobile application that encour

The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation today announced plans to donate much-needed medical supplies to 10 more countries in Asia.

Representing a Diverse Group of Men and Women from Advertising, Banking, Communications, Education, Media, Nonprofit, Sports, Technology and US Armed Forces

Led by the Zayed Sustainability PrizeAdvancing global progress towards the UN SDGs, a range of technologies and solutions will be deployed to empower vulnerable communities in 20 countries, by the end of 2020 Aiming to widen the global reach and accessibility of impactful sustainability solutions and innovations, the collaborative initiative builds on the UAE’s leading global role in humanitarianism and sustainability, and champions the values of inclusiveness and compassion outlined in the UAE’s Year of Tolerance Solutions and technologies being donated, were developed by Zayed Sustainability Prize winners and finalists across its Health, Food, Energy and Water categories

This is Bank of America’s first locally denominated loan for commercial and industrial solar financing in India as part of its global Environmental Business Initiative, which will help expand Fourth Partner’s distributed solar impact

Grants to help strengthen health systems and reduce health disparities in underserved communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Takeda’s founding mission to serve patients, wherever they are, drives its increased commitments to disease prevention, capacity building, and access to healthcare in developing and emerging countries, in partnership with the global community. Through its annual Global CSR Program, approximately 20,000 employees worldwide cast their votes, selecting City Cancer Challenge, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), SeriousFun Children’s Network, UNICEF, and the UN Foundation as 2019 partners.With these programs, Takeda's contributions through its unique Global CSR Program total 10.5 billion yen for a total of 14 programs since its 2016 launch.

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

Partnership With VisionSpring Set To Reach Goal And Serve As Call To Action To Other Retail Brands

The new global impact initiative includes 25 projects spanning 15 countries and extends the company’s Blueprint for a Better World platform

More than 1 Million Fans Join the Energy Conversation to Create a More Sustainable Future

West Elm is encouraging shoppers this holiday season to consider the power of their purchases by participating in Giving Tuesday, a movement that celebrates giving back. On November 28, West Elm will donate 100 percent of its profits* on select holiday gifts, decor, tabletop and accessories designed in collaboration with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Building and infrastructure improvements have impacted the lives of nearly 2,000 students to date

Xylem donates $1 million in financial and volunteer aid to hurricane relief in the US & Caribbean, and financial aid to relief efforts in South Asia.