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Stay247 partners with Leukaemia Foundation and Cystic Fibrosis

Stay247.com is an online accommodation specialist offering discount rooms up to 4 months in advance all over Australia for Hotels, Motels, Resorts, Apartments, Holidays, Business Travel or Quick Breaks. Stay247.com is pleased to be a corporate partner of both the Leukaemia Foundation and Cystic Fibrosis. Under this agreement stay247.com will donate $1 from each booking made [...]

Climate Change and Poverty: the Global Threat

Over the past years, the global temperature has reached an alarming scale causing climactic volatility, which led to frequent and extreme weather events. The sudden shift in the climate system not only resulted to environmental threats, it also made a great impact on poverty. Climate change had made the lives of people in poor communities and [...]

2009 YSEI fellows announced

Five Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) Asia 2008 Fellows to receive USD75,000 start-up funding. Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is pleased to announce its Asia 2008 Start-up Stage fellows. The five young social entrepreneurs who have been selected from the YSEI Asia 2008 programme have showed great commitment towards realising their business idea. [...]

Our Youth Entrepreneur Fund Phase 2 Launched

I’m writing this from the launch of Phase 2 of our youth fund (www.ysei.org) in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. We’re holding the launch of the YSEI Fellowships 2008 at the GKP Pavilion at the WCIT 2008 Exhibition Area The Fellowship recognises the potential of young social entrepreneurs in contributing to socio-economic growth and provide sstart-up support [...]

Social Outsourcing community launched

SolvePoverty launches Social Outsourcing community. You can now outsource work to a Telecentre with a Social Mission. Social outsourcing means “IT outsourcing with a human face; with a social conscience and a development agenda”. You can now outsource jobs that can be performed remotely such as website creation, link building, article submissions, Blogs. data entry, [...]

letIThelp Telecentre Philippines

Outsource your web development and SEO projects to the letIThelp Telecentre in the Philippines!. cDOT are the community telecentre program of award winning Philippines web development firm, Syntactics. Located in Cagayan de Oro in the Southern Philippiness, Syntactics offer Software Development, SEO, Internet Marketing and Website Design. Their team of professional web designers and developers all [...]

Win a WorldNomad Documentary Scholarship to Cambodia, 2008

WorldNomads.com will send one exceptional student on assignment to visit a Fred Hollows eye camp in remote, Cambodia. You will receive training from ABC Radio Journalist and Executive Producer, Tim Latham. Staying at the eye camp for three days witnessing sight restoring cataract surgery to local villagers and gaining special access to interview The Fred [...]

Make a Donation

We’re working with 8 youth led, award winning social business ventures on a new project we co-created with partners the GKP, TRN and Mitra. It is called The Youth Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (YSEI). We have already raised the initial funds to provide the 8 YSEI fellows with US$15,000 each plus knowledge tools and mentorship however [...]

How you can help

Clicking the red button once a day! That’s the big one on the front page of solvepoverty.com. Every time you click it (once a day only) you release Euro 0.05 cents currently paid for by paid by Unisys who are a sponsor of our partners the Global e-Inclusion Movement The funds released by [...]

The 1st sustainable telecentre for disadvantaged youth in the planet’s newest country, East Timor is now underway.

……SOLS have raised the initial funds to start the 100 seat computer centre. We’re now looking for volunteer computer teachers to help us with the setup and initial training. Accommodation will be provided at the SOLS telecentre plus you’ll be working on one of the most exciting and award winning, youth social entrepreneurship ventures in the [...]