Projects via Buy-1-Give-1
What is B1G1? (and how did it start)
Recognising that trying to find money to give to charities from profits (as a company) or from wages/salary as an individual was not always easy, in 2007 Buy-1-Give-1 was born from a simple thought: "What if every business or consumer transaction in our world gave back (or gave 'forward') in a way that really impacted lives directly?
The idea was immediately supported by a small group of business people, and by 2009 over 150 businesses and 600 projects had become part of B1G1. By end of 2015 that's grown to 1,300 business-partners making over 70 million 'micro-giving' activities. Find out more by clicking on the map below:
What is Social Enterprise?
The future of all ‘business’, not just word-of-mouth referral, especially in a changing world where there feels like less time to connect and appreciate each other: a business not just for ‘economic purpose’ either but based on the fundamental principle of ‘giving’ as the first 'built-in' act, in every transaction, for the good of other people, in infinite ways and projects.
So how does FOTW use Buy-1-Give-1?
FOTW exists intially to contribute to direct 1-1 projects in S E Asia and Central America with real people who are now friends, and whom I've had the honour to meet and work with as I travel. Like buying scarves each year from Maria in Guatemala, or supporting Tenzin Kunga in computing college in Nepal".
We also exist to contribute to a more empowering world through touching people's lives, especially in their health, personal freedom of expression and so much more that then becomes possible.
B1G1 helps us give even more leverage now, so that for every bottle of Body Balance purchased (direct from Life Force as a result of our referrals), a Burmese child in a Thai refugee camp gets a nutritious meal, for example.
I think words like Dignity, Validation and Friendship are key to what we do here (not to mention food, shelter, love.....). Everyone deserves access to these very basic necessities of life. (..read our full Buy-1-Give-1 profile here).
Connecting with Friends all around the World
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