Yudala made the first drone delivery in Nigeria during its Black Friday sale. A group of spectators and several media organizations came with camera crews to watch the drone take off from the Yudala headquarters in Gbagada. The drone delivered a Nokia smart phone to a customer who ordered from the Yudala website. It flew […]
The MicroSave international consulting agency has been operating for more than 20 years. The organization uses micro-financing techniques to create value-led projects and organizations in India in order to counter poverty. Their team consists of more than 175 professionals in the field, who use their skills to assist professionals in underdeveloped countries. Their work focuses […]
The Borgen Project has received lots of praise for an innovative approach that has taken the global poverty fight to the political level, but there are numerous aid organizations doing great work. The United Nations offers consultative status to 3,900 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with roughly one-third of these located within the United States. While most […]
Humanitarian aid organizations provide various employment opportunities for any individual seeking to assist nations and communities that experience poverty, war, natural disasters and other conflicts. However, once you figure out that you want to do something it can still be difficult to determine the right humanitarian job that matches your skillset. We have put together […]
David Beckham’s adoring fans will have the opportunity to take a piece of him home thanks to the David Beckham: The Man exhibition and auction this year. Phillips will host a viewing and gala auction for David Beckham: The Man at its London gallery that is open to the public. This innovative international gala auction […]
The World Food Programme (WFP) recently announced it will award a $20 million grant over the next two years to fight food insecurity in Sri Lanka. Health officials say the grant will primarily be used to improve childhood nutrition in rural communities, where an estimated 21 percent of children under the age of five are […]
British film star Alan Rickman narrated a charity video relating to the aid of refugees shortly before his cancer-related death on Jan. 14. The 30-second video was created in collaboration with nonprofit OneClickGiving and features a tortoise eating a strawberry. Throughout the video, Rickman explained that by watching and sharing, viewers have an opportunity to […]
Women in Kabwe, Zambia’s central province are establishing clubs and associations to help fight poverty. Through these organizations, Zambian women are educated on aid programs available and encouraged to take advantage of them. Kabwe is a rural province with an 80 percent poverty rate. Women are especially vulnerable to poverty because of the tradition of […]
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) defines the poverty rate as the ratio of the number of people in a given age group whose income drops below the poverty line, which is taken as half the median household income of the total population. Nordic countries have some of the lowest poverty rates in the […]
2015 has been an active year for global education. The fourth Global Goal in the new Global Goals for 2030 focuses on education. But according to Results, The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is the only international partnership exclusively dedicated to achieving education for all. The Global Partnership for Education had five major accomplishments over […]
