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Commitment Award
The Commitment Award is a yearly prize for fascinating, new social projects. In the last 4 years, 12 of these prizes were awarded with a total sum of €20,000.
2016 Winners
Water for Small-Scale Farmers
Water, food, and air, these are the most basic requirements for life to exist and to be sustained. However, when you live in an arid
Save our Future
Harini Suresh won 2nd place for the 2016 commitment award with her project titled “Save our Future”, a project that seeks to spread awareness about
Computer Literacy in Niassa, Mozambique
Computer literacy may not be the first form of literacy that comes to mind, however, due to technology and its impact upon our world, in
Previous winners
Weaving for independence
Around 115.000 war widows live in Sri Lanka, because of this, over 100.000 households in...
PROACTIV – Legal help for refugees
After 60 years of violent conflict, Colombia ended up with more than 5 million internally...
Open Sky School
The streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, transformed into open-air classrooms for street children with the help...
Mango-factory for Gambian women
In Gambia, food processing and storage, especially of grains, is considered a household chore, and...
Support-A-Girl
The effects of puberty on girls in grades 6-8 in Kenya often get in the...
Water for School-children
Scarcity of drinking water is one of the prominent problems faced by the people living...
The LoveChild Project
Providing basic childcare items to less privileged families in Ghana is what LoveChild is all...
Improved sanitation for rural children
Many schools in the rural areas of Cameroon lack basic sanitation facilities. This is no...
Prevention and Health Care for Women
Essential knowledge on health care is rather limited for many women living in the slums of...
Reading on Wheels
Life isn’t easy for children living on the streets of Cagayan de Oro, one of the...
Shelter to educate
Drop-our rates for schoolgirls in Cameroon are closely linked to the problems of housing in...
Zorko Tomato Farmers Initiative
With 98% of the Zorko region inhabitants depending on agriculture, sufficient supply of water is...
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