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“The Foundation is dedicated to combating childhood obesity by changing the way our children understand, appreciate and eat their food, and by educating and mobilising the community to provide healthier dietary habits for children. They have developed a comprehensive experiential learning programme that makes healthy food fun, and they work to make healthy food available […]
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“Is about finding the right formula between conservation, communities and commerce. Great Plains Conservation’s model takes stressed and threatened environments, surrounds them with compassionate protection and intelligent management. It’s an initiative to help curb the downward spiral of our threatened natural world by being proactive today, and by applying what they know best. This is […]
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“It’s name means ‘A New Light’. It was founded with a belief in welfare and preventive policing. With a handful of supporters and great deal of determination, they began their endeavors cautiously but confidently treading unchartered waters to help more and more people, gradually changing the mission to ‘help for helpless’ and then towards ‘self […]
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“Initiated in response to the global landmine problem APOPO recognised that most mine-clearance techniques in use were slow and expensive. The humanitarian community had called for a more efficient method for the detection of landmines and un-exploded ordnance (UXO) in order to facilitate the repatriation of refugees and distribution of emergency aid. An analysis of […]
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“Around the world, women face some of the greatest obstacles YET also represent tremendous opportunity for lasting social and economic development. As a result of war and conflict, women and girls often lose everything that ever mattered to them, including their sense of self. Their voices are silenced. And even if they were to speak, […]
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