Global Inequalities

Health Care

  • Vision Spring: provide eyeglasses, eye exams and training to local doctors

  • Infant Warmer: Embrace Infant Warmers keep premature babies' temperatures at 98.6 degrees to give 1,000,000 premature and underweight babies in the developing world a better chance at life.

  • Vaccine Delivery: Shot@Life aims to ensure that children around the world have access to lifesaving vaccines. They strive to decrease vaccine-preventable childhood deaths and give every child a shot at a healthy life.

  • GAVI: Vaccine Alliance: An international organization working to vaccinate all people against COVID-19

Environment/Electricity/Technology

  • Maya Pedal: Create bicimaquinas, or bicycles hooked up to simple machines to provide power.

  • Eco-leña & Biofuel: Legacy Foundation provides simple machines and training to make eco-friendly fuel sources

  • SunSaluter: Solar panel rotator that uses the power of gravity with a water clock to enable a solar panel to passively follow the sun throughout the day, boosting energy output by 30% and producing four liters of clean drinking water.

Women's Issues

  • Days for Girls: Washable, reusable menstrual pads so that girls don't have to miss school when they are on their periods.

  • Girls Not Brides: A global partnership committed to ending child marriage


Education

  • Campaign for Female Education: CAMFED is an international non-profit organization tackling poverty and inequality by supporting girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change.

  • Raspberry Pi: This $35 stripped down minicomputer teaches coding.

  • Mary's Meals: Every child receives one daily meal in their place of education.

Finance/Economics

  • CARE: Community-based efforts to improve basic education, increase access to quality health care and expand economic opportunity for all.

  • Grameen Foundation: Provides micoloans (loans in very small amounts) to lift people out of poverty.

  • Trees for the Future: By planting specific types of fast-growing trees, fruit trees, hardwoods and food crops over a four year period, families can positively change their lives forever.

Food/Agriculture/Sanitation

  • Gardens for Health: provide seeds and hands-on trainings in skills like composting and creating pesticides to malnourished families to enable them plant home gardens full of diverse vegetables.

  • Peepoo: a personal single-use toilet that sanitizes poop shortly after defecation, preventing the feces from contaminating the environment.

  • Sodis: Teaching healthy water and sanitation habits in Potosí, Bolivia