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Open Door Family Medical Centers of Westchester County awarded Dannon's Next Generation Nutrition Grant
The Dannon Company, Inc. awarded Open Door Family Medical Centers of Westchester County its 2011 Next Generation Nutrition® Grant and $30,000 in support of its Fit for Life programme.
Mirakle Couriers : A Courier Service Run by the Deaf in India
Mirakle Couriers is a courier delivery company with a difference. They employ underprivileged deaf people who have almost no other means to earn a livelihood. India has one of the highest deaf populations in the world. NGO’s and charities try to help individuals marginalized by society, but they...
Marks & Spencer gives disadvantaged people an opportunity for employment training
Marks & Start is Marks & Spencer's work experience programme for those who are homeless, disabled, single parents and young unemployed. Every year 650 people complete the programme which involves a two or four week placement in a store or office. In addition to training, participants have the...
The Veolia Foundation helps to save jobs for people with disabilities
ESAT (établissement ou Service d'Aide par le Travail) an organisation run by the French NGO, CPRH, employs 130 people with disabilities. Employees are involved in environmental activities (horticulture, creation of open spaces) and packaging. As the market in these two areas has declined, jobs at...
Jonas Foundation helps social inclusion of Armenian children with disabilities
The Jonas Foundation, a Swiss charity that supports people with disabilities and other marginalised groups, has established a partnership with the Human Dignity and Peace Foundation (HDP), an Armenian NGO involved with work for children with disabilities. Through a grant from the Swiss charity,...
L'Occitane Foundation funds cataract operations in Burkina Faso
The L'Occitane Foundation, established by L'Occitane, a French company that makes beauty and healthcare products, has donated 75,000 ff. for 5 years to help pay for cataract operations in Burkina Faso, where it is estimated that 65% of blindness is caused by cataracts. The project will be led...
The Veolia Foundation helps to improve conditions in Cambodian orphanage
A French NGO based in Lyon, the Association Droit, Développement et Partenariats Francophones (ADDPF), is working with the local Cambodian community to improve conditions in an orphanage on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. In addition to working to improve the the educational facilities at the...
The Veolia Foundation assists day care centres for children with cerebral palsy
The Association pour l'éducation thérapeutique et la réadaptation des enfant infirmes moteurs cérébraux (APETREIMC),a French NGO, provides group accommodation for young children suffering from cerebral palsy in order give them a good start in life. In order to facilitate their integration into a...
Veolia Foundation helps children with disabilities to enjoy music while in hospital
The Veolia Environment Foundation has made a grant to the Toulouse les Orgues Association to help expand the NGO's music appreciation project designed to help children with psychiatric problems in hospital wards in the Midi-Pyrénées region in France . For the past three years, a team from the...
The Veolia Foundation assists children with disabilities to access education in Calcutta
Two Indian NGOs, Calcutta de la Rue a l'Ecole, and Tomorrow's Foundation, have received a grant from the Veolia Foundation that will enable them to install a mobile education unit on a bus which crisscrosses Calcutta every day. Both NGOs work with children with physical and mental disabilities...