Social Businesses

Seed of Life – Excellent for the Health, Excellent for our Planet
Seed of Life is a health food company from Negotino, North Macedonia, that produces organic, raw, and “guilt-free” food in the form of crackers and

MaMaOrgana – the ECO Company
MamaOrgana is the first eco-social company in North Macedonia. On their web blog, you can find bits of advice, ideas, and DIY (do it yourself)

Treebanks – You Book Your Trip, We Plant a Tree for Free
Treebanks is a simple but powerful concept. With each booking customers make through their partners they plant a tree for free. It does not cost

Edistraw – The Straw You Can Eat
A large number of countries are working on banning plastic and implementing strategies on how to reduce the waste caused by it. The European Union

Catering for Students at Affordable Prices on Campus
Lowbousky Fabian Kaalushu is a social entrepreneur, a young achievers empowerment youth project member, and an APLI (African pathfinder leaders initiative) ambassador. With the high

Leonard Talent Management – International Is Not Impossible
Carlos Leonard is an entrepreneur, personal development speaker actor and commercial model. In 2018, his childhood dream came true – he attended a life changing

Olupandu Foundation – Digitalizing Nambian Schools
Namibia Economic Growth Summit 2019 concluded on how to close gaps in Namibia through digitalization, a process of changing from analogue to digital form. Information

Urban Waste is the Solution – Improving Agriculture in Beira
Flore Roura is a French social entrepreneur and business manager that began her idea of improving soil with the help of urban waste with the

LevasFlor- Social Impact Forestry!? What is that?
Mozambique has been of the fastest growing economies in the world and has abundant natural resources such as forests, natural gas, coal and precious stones.

Baisikeli – Wheel by Wheel Towards Better Future
In Denmark, hundreds of thousands of bicycles are thrown away for scrap every year. In large parts of Mozambique there is a great need for

3R – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Waste: from Resource to Business Opportunity
Beira, the second largest City of Mozambique Beira with around half a million inhabitants produces more than 300 tons of waste every day but has

Everyone Codes – Training For Newcomers
In the summer 2016 an idea for action rose in the minds of the everyone codes founders when Vienna was facing the arrival of many

Erdbeerwoche – Breaking the Bloody Taboo
Every woman uses about 17,000 tampons or pads during her lifetime. But how many women have thought about the impact that the use of these

Taraba Virtuala – Healthy Products Just a Click Away
Taraba Virtuala (Romanian for Virtual Stall) is one of the best known businesses with social impact in Romania. And for good reason. They manage to

Sacosa De Panza – A Better World Starts With A Bag
Sacosa de panza (Romanian for “Canvas bag”) is one of the most longevous social businesses in Romania. Their activity started 10 years ago, in 2009,

Mesteshukar ButiQ – Social Entrepreneurship Meets Great Design
It’s hard to tell how many Roma people actually live in Romania. During the last census, up to two thirds of them decided not to

IziBAC – When Technology and Education Join Forces
Just like many other countries in the region, Romania still has a lot more to go when it comes to modernizing its education system. While

Harare Sunshine Group – Waste to Everyone, Money to Us
“We started with clean up campaigns in Mabvuku, where I grew up. We can clean today, but the next day the streets would be littered

Flora PIERA Enterprises – Partnerships for Growth
Ngaatendwe Murimba is the managing director of Flora Piera, a fresh produce supply company, established in August 2018. An Agronomist by training, Ngaatendwe has always

Die Fairmittlerei – Vienna Start-up Against Wastefulness
More than 2 thousand tons of unused drugstore items are thrown away by their producing companies annually – just in Austria. Blemishes like wrong or

Vollpension – The Best Cake is Grandma’s Cake
In the two Vollpension-Cafés in Vienna, young and old come together. In these “generation-cafés” the cakes and sweets are prepared by retired seniors working as

Tamba Washables
“When I bought 3 washable diapers for my son, I could see a remarkable reduction in the volume of household waste we produced and cost

Shift Organic Technologies – Transforming Farming for Better Yields
Shift Organic Technologies “My passion is to see the transformation of organic farming from the perception that it is labour intensive and not profitable. I

NIKHITA WINKLER DANCE PROJECT – Driven by Passion for a Purpose
NIKHITA WINKLER DANCE PROJECT – Driven by Passion for a Purpose Nikhita Winkler founded the Nikhita Winkler Dance Theatre (NWDT) in 2016, which encapsulates the

Paradise Eco-Hub Foundation
Before the start of the Paradise Eco-Hub Foundation located at Itambira Island in Lake Bunyonyi in South-Western Uganda ten years ago, communities around Lake Bunyonyi

From Girls to Women
In Uganda, especially the Western Region, Girl-Child Education has been a tag of war and an initiative that was never seen profitable and appreciated. Tradition

LANMAN
“I and my siblings suffered tremendously right away from childhood which compromised our essential and basic rights to food, shelter, medical care and education”. Arigye

Social Innovation Academy
What if marginalized youth create social enterprises and job opportunities for their peers, using their wounded past as a competitive advantage for social impact? https://youtu.be/4XCkbGUCm3Q

Dobre&Dobré Cafè
How to help socially and economically disadvantaged people living in the streets to step further and start again? How to help them in the research

Pure Junk
“Creative approaches and innovations, through re-use of waste and its exploitation that is what PURE JUNK stands for.“ It is written by a simple life

Radnička
Café where you can your coffee served by cheerful waiters. Not so common. Even less common that this café is employing 6 trained disabled people

Včelí (k)Raj
„63 six years old family tradition that has turned out into a?social business. We have turned our attention towards the people and started to sell

Wasco
Laundry! Simple but effective idea of social business. Currently employing 24 people in the village of Slovakia called Valaská, region Banská Bystrica. Where 30 tons

Abien Arts Centre
Fabien Akimana, the Founder of Abien arts centre helping children discover their artistic talents. Fabien attended the first ever Children Summit in 2004 where the

Inzuki Designs
Inzuki Designs by Teta Isibo is creating modern designs to support women and youth traditional artisans. A long time admiring African designs and patterns and

Imagine We
”If you want to hide something from African, hide it in a book,” I used to hear this phrase repeated so many times by my

Cow Horns Jewellery
Cow Horns Kigali Social Enterprise crafting jewellery and handicrafts to support street children. “In 2009 I was still in High school and at only the

Ki-Pepeo Children Clothing Line
Ki-pepeo by Priscilla Ruzibuka, a children’s clothing line that is transforming the lives of poor women.Kipepeo means butterfly in Swahili. The butterfly is that it

Kerakamika Café
Following the mantra: “If we can make or reuse it, let’s not buy it!” Kerakamika Café is a successful business with social responsibility, in Macedonia.

Freshys
”The First Healthy Food Restaurant with a Social Business Model in Macedonia” It’s the 21st century, yet in our developing country, Macedonia, there are still

Face to Face
Face to Face – a voice and power for the voiceless & vulnerable! In Macedonia, in the last 4 years, the street paper Face to

Pokrov
What makes them different is the inclination towards social entrepreneurship, which encourages positive social change and social inclusion of all clients that fully complete the

Good Earth
Nasha Dobra Zemja (Our Good Earth) is the first organic food cooperative of consumers in Macedonia. They started as an informal group of 20 families

Benson Masai Kijana
Animal toys like giraffes, elephants, rhinos, warthog tortoise and many others created out of the worn out flip-flops. Benson started in a very humble beginning

Esango Cash
“If you are going to get anything done in Africa, in Kenya and by extension in my region Kisii, then you have got to be

Niftecs
The residents of Kisii and the neighbouring towns seemed to be in need of ICT services but they didn’t know who to exactly turn to

Precious Plastics
Alice Moraa started by creating a small group of youths whom she paid some few cash for street sweeping, garbage collection and solid waste transportation

Refugeeswork.at
Asylum seekers do not have free access to the labour market. However, under certain conditions, we match asylum seekers with volunteering positions or apprenticeships. Last
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The first student think-tank and implementation center for ecological-social projects, initiatives and companies in Vienna. Many students are studying at the universities, but once they

Digital Coach
It is not an app, but an innovative training concept for young people! Young people deal most intuitively with digital media, while this is the

Whatchado
We interviewed more than 6,000 people, who have already found their professional happiness. From Youtubers to company founders, on our platform you can find a