As we celebrate Human Rights Day this year, we can look to Albie Sachs and his work toward a free and fair South Africa to learn about how we can make a difference.
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Two years ago today, we lost the incredible Nelson Mandela. His words continue to inspire us every day in the fight to end extreme poverty and remind us that change is always possible.
Here are six quotes from Nelson Mandela that keep us doing what we do. Click to share your favorite on Facebook!
Take action to honor Nelson Mandela today. Support Global Goal #1 to end extreme poverty once and for all today!
Today alone, women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa will waste 21 million hours fetching water for their families. However, when a clean water access point comes to a community, those women are given the most wonderful gift–the gift of time.
As more Africans move out of poverty, job creation is the necessary next step and having bright young women at the helm providing employment is a way of directly addressing and eradicating the adverse effects poverty has on women!
Economic empowerment made possible by connectivity isn’t just good news for women-- women and girls invest 90% of their earned income into their families and communities!
Ara sees it as a critical duty to recruit thousands of bone marrow donors of African descent so that blood cancer and anemia patients will have a higher probability of finding a match and a greater likelihood of recovery from these diseases!
“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” –Social activist and writer Marge Piercy
Simply put, the Caterpillar Foundation’s mission is to alleviate poverty and place people on the path to prosperity. As we work to address the root causes, systematic injustices and long term effects of extreme poverty, we know we cannot do this alone. It will take collaboration between public, private and non-profit entities. Together, we are stronger.
To that end,...
"It was a mild September night, and I was in Kenya’s northern frontier district, Laikipia. The Samburu Trust had arranged for me to spend a couple of hours with a Samburu elder and his family... I just wanted to capture a tiny slice of their everyday life."
Whether through music, dance, books, films, or even graffiti, art has the power to address some of the world's more pressing issues!
"More people have access to a mobile phone than a toilet." "1 in 10 people in the word lack access to safe water." Check out our list of the most SHOCKING global poverty facts that we're willing to bet you didn't know.