Pollinate: Powering Affordable Energy for The Last Mile
1.3 billion people globally lack access to modern energy services like electricity and clean cooking facilities. In India, the world’s third largest emitter of CO2, more than 300 million people depend on fossil fuels – like kerosene, which negatively impacts health and contributes to climate change – for light. Since 2012, Pollinate has been working […]
Celebrating Women: GHI
This week, Vera is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the work of some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. Our third installment features Gardens for Health International, an organization working with Rwandan mothers to tackle childhood malnutrition. While Rwanda’s agricultural industry […]
Celebrating Women: FMCH
This week, Vera is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the work of some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. The Foundation for Mother and Child Health provides preventative healthcare and balanced nutrition to mothers and young children in Mumbai’s economically underprivileged […]
Celebrating Women: I-Care
This week, Vera is celebrating International Women’s Day by highlighting the work of some of our partners who work to advance the rights, health and livelihoods of women and girls around the world. Today, we’re profiling I-Care, an organization working to improve women and girls’ access to menstrual hygiene management in East Africa. In Kenya, […]
Fighting Substandard and Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals with Salesforce
In May 2013, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) established the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) in Accra, Ghana. Through CePAT, USP aims to improve access to quality medicines in Sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, staff conduct trainings for local regulators and industry and also provide quality control testing services to assist government institutions, […]
Women Win – Using Salesforce to Monitor and Evaluate Girls’ Empowerment Programs
This story was originally published online by the Salesforce Foundation. Vera has worked with Women Win over the last two years to implement and support its Salesforce-based monitoring and evaluation system, which is now being used by more than 30 partners around the world. Women Win is an internationally recognized center of excellence on gender […]
Population Services International: Revolutionizing Rural Supply-Chain Management and Health Service Delivery in Mozambique
Population Services International (PSI) is a global health organization dedicated to improving the health of people in the developing world using Social Marketing. Central to PSI’s approach is the principle that health services and products are most effective when they are accompanied by robust communications and distribution efforts that help ensure, through accessibility and affordability, […]
SHOFCO: Managing Community Development Programs in the Slums of Nairobi
Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, is home to an estimated 1 million people. Here, access to even the most basic necessities, like electricity and potable water, is a challenge. Services that so many of us take for granted such as trash collection, medical care, education, or even public spaces are almost completely unavailable to most of […]
Sanergy and Captricity: Appropriate Technology for Challenging Environments
About 2.3 million people, or 60 percent of Nairobi’s population, live in slums, and most have little to no access to formal sanitation services. Stagnant rivulets of human waste that trickle past homes and alongside narrow dirt roads in the tightly packed neighborhoods are as common as the diarrheal diseases they carry with them. Sanergy, […]
U.S. Soccer Foundation: Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Underserved Communities
The U.S. Soccer Foundation is using soccer to combat childhood obesity and promote healthy lifestyles for children in under-served urban communities through a free after-school fitness program called Soccer for Success. The U.S. Soccer Foundation partners with community organizations throughout the U.S. to run it’s program, focusing on the core components of physical activity, nutrition, […]