FIRST
“Inspiring innovation that fosters well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. Their mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programmes that build science, engineering and technology skills. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is an organisation founded by inventor Dean Kamen […]
Project Prakash
“Prakash in Sanskrit means ‘light’. The goal of Project Prakash is to bring light into the lives of curably blind children and, in so doing, illuminate some of the most fundamental scientific questions about how the brain develops and learns to see. Project Prakash was launched in 2003 by Prof. Pawan Sinha. Since that time, […]
Freeset
“Freeset exists specifically to provide freedom for women from the sex trade, women who were forced into prostitution by trafficking or poverty. These women didn’t choose their profession — it was chosen for them. Now, they’re being offered a real choice. When they choose to work at Freeset, they can start new lives, regain dignity […]
Save the Cape Coast, WOW
“The Cape Coast is literally in every other way giving Hawke’s Bay ‘an edge’. Here you will find everything that makes Hawke’s Bay a wonderful region for locals and tourists alike, an area of historic, natural, cultural and ‘national significance’. This rugged iconic coastline where the waves beat on stone and gravel, ionising and invigorating […]
Go Girl Go!
“It starts with one girl. Go Girl Go! is the primary programming focus of the Women’s Sports Foundation designed to combat the alarming physical and psychological health hazards affecting America’s young girls. Go Girl Go! uses sport and physical activity as an educational intervention that supports girls’ health and wellness in childhood and early womanhood. […]
