Corporate Social Responsibility
We are offering a selection of opportunities for UK based enterprises to improve their Corporate Social Value performance and Environmental Profile through supporting Environmental and Social Initiatives around the World.
Does your business use vanilla in its products? Did you know that 80% of world vanilla comes from Madagascar? Did you know that Madagascar is the fourth poorest country in the world? It’s time to step forward and support your suppliers’ communities.
Are you a jewellery business or an ethical fashion brand? Help empower women in Ethiopia who produce jewellery from bullet cases and weave cotton scarves by hand. These women escaped from sexual exploitation and found a new life with the help of this initiative.
Benefits for the Business
- Improving supply chain sustainability performance and transparency
- Bespoke approach. Having received your request, we match projects with your strategic goals.
- Making your company more competitive when bidding for contracts and funding.
- Sharing progress updates (including video and photos) with your customers, investors and other stakeholders.
- Your company will be able to show that it is supporting certain specific UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Creating a long term positive sustainable impact on the environment and societies in need
How This Works
Some examples the companies can become involved with are:
- helping educational programs for homeless children or kids from families in extreme poverty by providing books and other resources
- improving sustainability performance of their suppliers in developing countries
- supporting training for local farmers in sustainable agriculture practices
- helping to reverse deforestation including contributing to native tree planting in various regions of the Planet
- assisting programs that help disadvantaged women support themselves and their children in developing countries
Available Projects
Currently we can connect you with 5 projects in Madagascar, Ethiopia, and India while projects in Rwanda, Mozambique, Gabon and Mexico are coming soon. These can be of interest to any UK business that would like to deliver a positive social change to a local community in a developing country, and to reduce their environmental footprint. At the same time the companies will improve their own sustainability performance and reputation.3