FairTrade online retailer
The case study for Trade As One, a fair trade online retailer aiming to provide a route to US markets for developing world entrepreneurs.
Solar Power
ToughStuff has developed a modular range of affordable solar powered energy solutions to the three main power needs of poor consumers in the developing world – lighting, mobile phones and radios. Our products are designed to be extremely tough whilst combining high performance and durability.
Internet Job Creation
Aid For Trade is a free global internet resource for high integrity job creation. There is a need to create jobs/income for the poorest people. The opportunity is to use the rapidly expanding global penetration of the internet to help meet this. Helps generate income for sustainable poverty reduction in very poor communities through microenterprises (Max £3K start up) with potential to grow and/or replicate.
Business Training
Many of the poor had taken out Microfinance loans to establish businesses, and most had paid them back, but many of their businesses had stagnated for easily avoidable reasons concerning customer focus & financial control. This training aims equip people who want to set-up small businesses with the key skills and understanding necessary to sustain their business & make them successful.
Leadership Training
The vision is help corporate entities in the public and private arenas to develop a genuine mid to long term relationship with a development project that they fund with a pre-agreed sum of investment per journey.
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