Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Agriculture
Business and Industry
Children
Climate Change
Development
Economics and Finance
Education
Energy
Environment
Extreme poverty
Family
Financing for Development
Food
HIV/AIDS
Human Rights
Humanitarian Affairs
Indigenous Peoples
Micro-Credit
Population
Science and Technology
Social Development
Sustainable Development
Volunteerism
Water
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Financing for Development:
Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
Mobilizing international resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Indigenous women
Men and boys
Millennium Development Goals
The girl child
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women and health
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Women in power and decision-making
Population:
Morbidity and mortality
Population growth
Reproduction, family formation and the status of women
Social Development:
Disabled persons
Employment
Indigenous issues
Information and Communications Technologies
Poverty
Social policy
Youth
Statistics:
Demographic and social surveys
Development indicators
Sustainable Development:
Agriculture
Capacity-building
Climate change
Consumption and production patterns
Desertification and Drought
Education
Energy
Finance
Forests
Freshwater
Gender equality
Health
Poverty
Protecting and managing the natural resources
Rural Development
Sanitation
Science
Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable development for Africa
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Technology
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
United Republic of Tanzania
Ethiopia
Malawi
Uruguay
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Ensure environmental sustainability
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2009 |
| Organizational structure: |
The organization was founded by Sivan Borowich Ya'ari, who has worked in Africa for over ten years, first for a major multinational corporation and then briefly with the United Nations Development Programme. Sivan founded the organization in 2008, and has since assembled a Board of Directors, Advisory Board and staff. The Board of Directors consists of two former ambassadors--His Excellencies Isaiah Chabala and Ousmane Moutari, who served at the United Nations representing Zambia and Niger respectively--as well as several major donors and experts in the field of energy, business, and healthcare. Our Board of Directors contribute to our work financially, and help us to find new sources of support. Our Advisory Board is comprised in experts in the sectors in which we are working, such as Professor Dov Pasternak, founder of the African Market Garden and Jonathan Hollander, CEO of a private investment and consulting firm specializing in alternative energy. Our Advisory Board helps us identify new technologies with practical applications in rural Africa, build relationships with those technology companies, and work on our maintenance and sustainability practices in Africa. In addition to Sivan, who currently serves as the President of the organization, the staff includes 4 full and two part time employees in New York, and 3 full-time employees in Israel, who run the organization administratively, in addition to planning events, running educational programming and engaging in business development. Many of our staff members have experience living and working in Africa and bring their programmatic knowledge to the organization's US operations. In Africa, we have local staff as well as partners and local contractors. Our local staff serve as project managers in each of the countries in which we are working. We have two employees in Uganda, and one each in Tanzania and Malawi. Their job is to identify, implement and monitor all of our solar and agricultural projects. Our local contractors--all carefully vetted, and often recommended to us by the in-country UNDP office--perform our project installations. Finally, local NGO partners help refer us to meaningful projects. For example: Goods4Good has a network of high-performing Community Based Organizations in Malawi that provide orphan care, HIV/AIDS education and counseling, vocational training and homework help. We are now powering their facilities with solar energy in order to allow them to continue their activities into the evening and provide them with computer labs so they can offer IT courses as well. |
| Number and type of members: |
We have over 750 volunteers worldwide, over 60 are active in New York City. We have a mailing list of over 22,000 individuals and our website receives on average 6,000 unique hits per month. |
| Funding structure: |
Fees for education and training services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
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