Projects in Creating job opportunities
Samasource
Creating job opportunities, Innovate to help developing societies
Samasource is a nonprofit organization that brings dignified, computer-based work opportunities to people living in poverty around the world. The organization’s mission is based on the belief that poverty can be alleviated by tapping into the brainpower of the poor and empowering them as producers … Read more
Nockin
Education, Creating job opportunities
Nockin is a Spanish social search engine service that connects people that are looking for a service with those who are offering one. Are you looking for a Babysitter? So you want to earn some money by giving English lessons? Nockin is about entrepreneurship, self-management, … Read more
Red Social Koopera
Consuming, Education, Creating job opportunities, Exchange, share and repair
The Red Social Koopera works to include people who are in or at risk of social exclusion in the labor market, with activities mainly in defense of the environment or connected to responsible consumption. The Red Social Koopera believes in people, in their creative skills … Read more
Global Seesaw
Consuming, Education, Buy fair trade, Creating job opportunities
Global SeeSaw is an online shop, a social enterprise with the aim of creating sustainable employment for women who have been trafficked into prostitution. They import, retail and wholesale products from their manufacturing partners, like Freeset Bags, Sari Bari or Made by Survivors. Those are … Read more
Freeset Bags
Consuming, Education, Buy fair trade, Creating job opportunities
Freeset Bags is a social enterprise where women, who had been trafficked into prostitution and want to get out of it, get education, health care and an employment as bag producers, those bags then get exported and are sold Fair Trade in their online shop. … Read more
Sari Bari
Consuming, Education, Buy fair trade, Creating job opportunities
Sari Bari is an organization in the red light district in Calcutta, fighting against sex trafficking and helping women who want to get out of prostitution. The name “Sari Bari” comes from two symbols. A sari is the traditional clothing worn by women in India. The … Read more
Made By Survivors
Consuming, Education, Buy fair trade, Creating job opportunities
Made By Survivors helps survivors of slavery and trafficking all over the world to rebuild their lives after rescue from slavery, with sustainable income, education and help reintegrating into society. They work to prevent slavery in high risk communities such as red light and refugee communities. … Read more
Lantegi Batuak
Education, Creating job opportunities
Lantegi Batuak is a nonprofit company that is generating job opportunities for people with disabilities. For more than 25 years now, they are promoting a series of programs and projects aimed at improving the quality of life of their clients, giving them specific on-job training … Read more
Uddami
Education, Creating job opportunities
Uddami started in 1999 with the assumption that teaching practical computer skills to people in Calcutta would lead to good job opportunities and therefore a better life. Because until now, people are not treated the same, there still exists a hierarchical system where things work … Read more
