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Grassroots award recognizes activists from Zambia, Indonesia, Turkey, Finland, Brazil, and the United States
Live ceremonies to take place on April 24 in San Francisco and April 26 in Washington, DC
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New grants increase investments to locally-led organizations
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Additional Strategic Development includes Equity Investment by Titanium Industry Veteran
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Prestigious List Recognizes the 50 Most Community-Minded Companies in the United States
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7 Projects Across 5 African Countries Expected to Deliver 3.5 Million Devices and Avoid 50 Million tCO2e of Emissions Over 15 Years
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Jessica Menon, Tetra Tech’s gender integration director for energy, has advanced gender equality and social inclusion globally for more than 15 years. Based in Lusaka, Zambia, she manages Tetra Tech’s USAID Engendering Utilities program, oversees a team of technical experts who also support USAID Enhancing Equality in Energy for Southeast Asia (E4SEA), and provides technical support to gender specialists across Tetra Tech’s international energy services projects.
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From creating tools to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines to helping address food insecurity, this year's notable changemakers are rising to the occasion in a year unlike any other
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Announcement of Ichikowitz Foundation Winning 2021 SABRE Award Africa for African Youth Survey 2020
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Tetra Tech’s Patricia Malasha shares how establishing community resource boards to manage natural resources can increase women’s participation and create opportunities for leadership.
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Today, clean water flows again in Kalomubo, thanks in part to Weathermatic and Fifth Third Bank. For every gallon of water a client saves, Weathermatic provides a gallon of clean drinking water to a community in need by drilling water wells.
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As a second wave of COVID-19 is emerging in Africa, Africa Mask Week aims to sustain and increase mask-wearing as a protective measure among populations in Africa
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OvareVentures has acquired BE Outfitter, an innovative outdoor gear company based in San Diego, California.
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Zambia is home to some of Africa’s most spectacular landscapes, premier national parks, and Africa’s Big Five game animals—lions, leopards, rhinoceroses, elephants, and African buffalo. Each year, nearly 1 million visitors make wildlife tourism a major contributor to Zambia’s economy and one of the few sources of formal employment for communities in rural areas.
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The Company Pledges $100,000 to The Hunger Project, Dedicated the Month of May to Women and Hunger
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Herbalife Nutrition (NYSE: HLF), a premier global nutrition company, along with the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF), today announced that it has a new nonprofit partner, The Hunger Project, under its Nutrition for Zero Hunger (NFZH) initiative. The Foundation has made an initial donation of $30,000 to fund the organization’s women-centered, community-led development and educational programs. Together they will invest in rural communities around the world affected by food insecurity and maln
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Michelle Meade began her work in Zambia after her brother founded Tiny Tim & Friends, an organization working toward zero transmission by providing high quality treatment, care and support to HIV+ children, adolescents and pregnant women in Zambia.
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This couple currently buys from traders and co-ops across South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda and Swaziland. Through eBay for Charity, sales from their business also support charities that work to reduce poverty in local communities across Africa.
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TriLinc Global Impact Fund announced today that it has approved an additional $3 million term loan transaction, bringing total financing commitments as of August 31, 2019 to $441.5 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development through its holdings in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Emerging Europe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Students at Lambton College installed solar drip irrigation systems at schools in Zambia, Africa, providing a varied diet to students using clean, solar energy. Enactus Lambton College has been named the 2019 Scotiabank Environmental Challenge National Champion by this country’s largest student leadership development organization, Enactus Canada, and proud program supporter Scotiabank. The national competition took place at the 2019 Enactus Canada National Exposition in Vancouver.
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FLIR to Donate $3M in Thermal Imaging Equipment and Support for
Deployment Across Kenya
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Recap of CSR stories on Business Wire
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Astria Learning, USA and MTN, Zambia has partnered to help eliminate the cost of internet for students studying online in Zambia.
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Mannatech and M5M on Pace to Provide 16 Million Meals to Malnourished Children in 2018
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Five years ago, Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) – a major public-private partnership – set the ambitious goal of reducing maternal mortality by half in target districts in Uganda and Zambia, and later Nigeria.
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Custom suite in Andaz London Liverpool Street hotel to benefit (RED)’s
fight against AIDS
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Tetra Tech’s Dr. Matt Sommerville, senior associate with Tetra Tech International Development Services, participated in a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) LandLinks expert interview that highlights the innovative approaches used for customary land documentation in Zambia and ways the Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) project institutionalized land reform at the local, regional, and national levels. All opinions expressed in this post are the author’s own.
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Read the Merck for Mothers April 2018 newsletter to catch up on everything being done to help end maternal mortality.
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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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We’re proud to share that we have joined the Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health) and its network of partners to help strengthen community health systems in Africa by increasing access to quality healthcare. With our support, AMP Health will be able to scale its existing programs in Malawi, Kenya, and Sierra Leone by building the capacity and leadership necessary to set in place critical systems of thousands of community health workers. Pfizer’s previous grant contributions will a
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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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Product Assortment Includes Exclusive Designs from Aden + Anais,
Butter Super Soft, Chocolate Skateboards, Fatboy, Global Brands Group,
Junk Food, Kidrobot and Moschino
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Grants support students, teachers, first responders and community
members in more than 30 countries
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Healthcare worker Dismus Mwalukwanda is on the front line of the battle against malaria. Saving lives is his priority\r\rDismus Mwalukwanda works on the front line of the battle against malaria, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. He’s a community healthcare worker responsible for testing and treating patients in a remote part of rural Zambia, as well as teaching people how to combat the illness.
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Twenty-four professional and 14 amateur golfers from Namibia, South Africa and Zambia battled for the top honours at the Namdeb Sperrgebiet Open. It was played over 54 holes on three days (9-11 June) in Oranjemund.
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Five years ago the Nutrilite™ Power of 5 campaign partnered with the Alliance for Children Everywhere to serve the nutritional needs of children and families in Zambia, a landlocked country in southern African.
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The Power of 5 Campaign has been operating in Zambia since 2011, working with established nongovernmental organizations to distribute Nutrilite Little Bits to children who need it, educating families on good nutrition and tracking each child’s progress. This video captures the program in action.
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Helping communities in Tanzania, Panama, and Zambia secure safe, clean, and sustainable water supplies.
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On April 4-8 2016, the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) held a Symposium on Parasitology in Lusaka, Zambia, bringing together international and local experts in the field with the aim of engaging in productive scientific exchange on parasitic diseases - including malaria, sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis), Chagas, leishmaniasis, and cryptosporidiosis. Experts engaged in discussions over target product profiles for these diseases and shared the latest accomplishments
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Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a US$2.2 million grant to Plan Netherlands to help the nonprofit deliver digital, technical and life skills training to more than 6,000 disadvantaged youth in Tanzania and Zambia.
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Tetra Tech partnered with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to help build a high school in Lumwana West, Zambia. Through the EWB Mid-Columbia Professionals (EWB-MCP) chapter in Washington state, Tetra Tech employees Lisa Dukes and Brian Peters are involved directly in helping complete the project. Lisa is a chapter member, and Brian is chapter Treasurer.
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