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Unilever’s Hygiene Brand Domestos To Break Taboo Of The Loo
LONDON And ROTTERDAM, Nov. 19 /CSRwire/ - Unilever, through its leading hygiene brand Domestos, today – World Toilet Day - announced new initiatives to raise awareness for the global sanitation crisis. ‘Toilets for Health’, a white paper by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Domestos, gives new insights in the sanitation crisis.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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salaUno Receives Support From the IBD to Fight Blindness in Mexico
The Mexican social enterprise salaUno will benefit from a technical cooperation of $250,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) to strengthen the capacity of their business model and start an expansion pilot in the country.
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- Health Care
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Italians, Israelis aim to fight hunger in Senegal
Trilateral agricultural development project seeks to eradicate hunger by providing farmers with technological know-how.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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eBay founder’s investment firm makes a grant to global health consortium
Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, is making a $1.5 million grant to a global consortium supporting innovation in healthcare and medical technology. The grant has been made to Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Global Health to support the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech).
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Duke Receives Award for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator
Durham, NC - Duke University will be able to draw on its expertise in social entrepreneurship and innovation to tackle global health challenges, thanks to a $10 million award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that was announced Thursday in Washington.
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LifeSpring Hospitals: Providing Affordable, Quality Maternity Care to India’s Middle Class
Last year, when 24-year-old Madhuri Satyanarayan, a resident of Neredmet village in Andhra Pradesh, found out that she was pregnant, her joy was tempered with anxiety about the medical costs. At the nearby private hospital where she went for her check–ups, the cost of delivery was estimated to be around US$500.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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‘Over 60 percent of land projected to become urban by 2030 yet to be built’
Global urbanisation will have significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystems if current trends continue, with knock-on effects for human health and development, observes a new assessment by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Runa Tea’s Low-Calorie, High-Impact Model: With revenues reaching $1M Runa is generating income for 2,000 farming families.
A great-tasting, caffeine-containing, calorie-conscious tea WITH a sustainable environmental impact? I didn’t think such a product could exist until I looked into Runa Tea, one of the latest brands in the business with social impact space. Currently, Runa has revenues hovering around $1,000,000 annually and in turn is generating over $100,000 of direct income per year for 2,000 farming families. Founder Tyler Gage shares the inspiration behind the company.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition
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