Tagged: empower communities
Asylum application process can take years to complete which can inevitably be very frustrating for refugees. Enter, Startup Refugees, a network that want to harness the intellectual capital of refugees, combined with the Finnish entrepreneurship...
Underprivileged students struggle to get into creative careers due to lack of access and advice on opportunities to pick on “soft skills”. PitchIt, a social enterprise in London, believes that a student’s background should...
The internet was made possible by people who connected their networks and allowed traffic to pass through their servers for free. The Things Network is doing the same for the Internet of Things by creating abundant...
In the past, we have highlighted companies like Ecovative – that uses mushroom to replace plastic foam, and Eco-BLAC, which uses industrial waste to make bricks. Now, we would like to introduce Re-Materials, an innovative start-up...
People in developing countries don’t have access to proper waste management. As a result, plastic is often thrown onto the streets which eventually makes it’s way into ocean. It is estimated that about 8 million tons of...
Lack of proper sanitation contributes to millions of deaths every year in developing countries. Even the best sanitation systems become useless if it breaks down and no one in the area knows how to fix them. This problem is now...
Considering the amount of alcohol people consume everyday, we are left with a lot of empty glass bottles. Though some manufacturers recycle their bottles, most end up in the landfill or are piled up somewhere. My Little Garden,...
It’s a mind boggling fact that over 1.3 billion people live under extreme poverty conditions around the world. Kiva, an online lending portal, is on a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. They...
We are all ears if you can show us how to turn “trash” into something useful while benefiting the community and environment in some way. We had highlighted (B)Energy in the past that utilizes organic waste to provide households...
Waste Management is a huge issue in developing countries. With no proper disposal system in place, people throw inorganic waste like it’s nobody’s business. Hug It Forward has made it their mission to change that...