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MASS Design Group
United States of America
MASS Design Group is a nonprofit architecture firm. Their first project the Butaro Hospital (Rwanda 2011) employed architectural solutions to mitigate the transmission of airborne disease and spurred local markets by hiring and training over 4000 community members. Today the team works across Rwanda Uganda Liberia Haiti and the US conducting immersive research in communities not only to build context appropriate safer and healthier facilities but also to leverage local material markets lead training workshops spur craft development and foster economic empowerment. MASS believes that this inclusive process is the key to healthier and more resilient communities and so invests in people to drive positive change.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Sseko Designs
United States of America
Sseko Designs is an ethical fashion brand that hires high potential women in Uganda to make sandals to enable them to earn money through dignified employment that will go directly towards their college educations and ensure they will continue pursuing their dreams. To date they've enabled 47 women to continue on to university. They currently employ 50 women in Uganda from all walks of life. They believe that every woman has a dream. When she is given the opportunity to pursue those dreams they are collectively walking towards a brighter and more just and beautiful world.
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Sustainable Health Enterprises
United States of America
SHE is a social venture that invests in people and ideas that are typically overlooked (and often taboo) as vehicles of socio economic change. Their first initiative SHE28 addresses girls' and women's lack of access to affordable menstrual pads resulting in significant costs to their reproductive health educational achievements work productivity and dignity. Coupling these new businesses with public health and hygiene education and advocacy will have a significant social and economic impact on these communities.
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