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Sustainable Swag - Gifts that Give Back!

This month’s blog is a reprint of an article authored by us for Corporate Meetings & Events Magazine appearing in the September 2012 issue. It’s a quick and fun walk through a story that illustrates how much impact socially sourcing your gifts can really have.

Recycled Paper Pens in Production in a Rural Village

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Video Blog Update Straight from the Village

For this month’s blog, we bring you a video blog update with Mercy Abraham Imondi, the Managing Trustee and leader of Mahalir Aran Trust and our partners in India. Enjoy!

A BRIEF BACKGROUND FOR CONTEXT

India, while a prospering and growing nation, continues to be home to 40% of the world’s poor [...]

The Advent Conspiracy on Steroids

EITHER/OR VERSUS BOTH/AND

Sometimes we get caught up in either/or thinking. Lots of people have been asking me what I think about The Advent Conspiracy given that our ZOË Challenge advocates for helping those in developing nations by buying gifts that are produced in accordance with fair trade principles.

This week’s blog is a summary of my [...]

Guest Blog - Janet Rogers on our work together in India

ZOË Alliance was named as such because we work in partnership with NGO’s, local business leaders, and corporations toward the creation of a global alliance that helps to break the cycle of poverty in developing nations. To date we are working in India, Haiti and Guatemala and each partnership looks a little different based on [...]

Haiti Update - Jobs, Micro-loans, and Housing Orphans

On Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Haiti was struck by a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake. It has been 6 1/2 months since that day. So much has happened since then, with many countries, organizations and individuals seeking to provide help to the people of Haiti. And as always, in the midst of incredible chaos, there are [...]

Scaling Up - Increasing Village Impact

Exciting days are ahead and we thought it would be fun to give you a glimpse into our future. In the past months we have been working alongside some great colleagues in international development to document our development model for rural villages and to articulate the framework to measure the true societal impact.

The challenges we [...]

Dishing Up A Great Story

This Thursday, just in time for Valentines Day Stories From Our Black Books is dishing up some great stories with the preview launch of Volume 2 of “STORIES FROM OUR BLACK BOOKS”. Not only is the book great fun to read, Stories has gone one step further partnering with ZOË Alliance to help women improve [...]

Meet Lilly

Recently, I’ve been working on an exciting initiative in Guatemala with CH Global. CH Global has been working in an impoverished rural community called Lake Amatitlàn, Guatemala for several years. They are a great organization that specifically focuses on enabling people with disabilities who are often marginalized in developing nations and experience close to 100% [...]

Congratulations - A New Production Unit in India!

In the Dharmapuri District of Tamil Nadu in southern India, ZOË Alliance is working with two incredible organizations, Mahalir Aran Trust, (MAT), lead by Mercy Abraham Imondi, and VIA Design lead by Janet Rogers.

Janet and Mercy in Krishnagiri

For full background visit http://www.zoealliance.com/en/community_dharmapuri.php)

For the past few years the Flowering Desert Production Unit of MAT has [...]

Medical Clinic Update from Dharmapuri, India

This past week I had the great joy of getting an update on the village with topics ranging from who has been recently married, the latest on the farm crops, and the new addition of free range chickens providing eggs and an income for the people of Mahalir Aran Trust. Next to actually visiting, this [...]

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