Meeting the demand of low-income women: Lifespring’s maternal care in India
LifeSpring Hospital in India is innovatively meeting the growing demand of low-income women who deserve affordable and dignified medical care. By focusing on a particular niche, maternal care, and different cost-saving strategies, this hospital provides maternal care at one-fifth of market...
Private Sector Supply-Chains Incorporating Social Enterprises
Big business is supplied by big business, and breaking into the plc supply chain is beyond most small companies. Or so goes the received wisdom. But recently, a number of heavyweight corporate names, including 02 and accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have expressed an interest in using...
DFID plans to support development in fragile states
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has announced plans to support development in a number of fragile and unstable states, including Afghanistan, Somalia and the Congo. These plans support the Millennium Development Goals.
Transporting the sick and injured to private or government hospitals in ambulances-- 1298 Ambulance service in India
1298 is the first private ambulance company in India that provides service for all, regardless of income, and is one of just three organized operators in the country. In 2007, the company had 10 ambulances in Mumbai. Now it has more than 460 ambulances across Mumbai, Kerala, Bihar, Rajasthan, and...
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...
LifeSpring Hospitals' low-cost and high-quality maternity services in India have captured 48% of the baby delivery market
LifeSpring Hospitals Pvt. Ltd tries to bridge the yawning gap between the substandard maternity services offered by underfunded public hospitals on the one hand and expensive ones available in private hospitals on the other.
LifeSpring Hospitals help to achieve Millennium Development Goals in India
LifeSpring Hospitals, a privately owned company, is increasing access to maternal health care for low-income Indian women in partnership with Business Call to Action, a global initiative that works to motivate businesses to design responsible investments that help to achieve the Millennium...
New hope as chicken project takes off
Research Into Use (RIU) is a programme based in Dar es Salaam which aims at promoting innovations and utilisation of new knowledge and research output, to eradicate poverty.
Gap Inc. and the Door launched a programme to provide job training for underprivileged youth
Partnering with The Door, Gap Inc. designed a new approach to providing practical work skills training to young people from less advantaged neighborhoods . This program has leveraged Gap Inc. employee skills in various ways as they have played a key role in everything from shaping the vision of the...
Guardian Life Care works partners with VisionSpring to provide the poor with necessary access to eyeglasses
VisionSpring empowers local entrepreneurs to launch their own businesses selling glasses in their communities. Each "Vision Entrepreneur" receives all the materials and training needed to market and sell eyeglasses. Guardian Life Care buys low-cost wholesale eyeglasses from VisionSpring for its...