215 thousand tons of plastic waste were generated in Tanzania in 2018—but Christian Mwijage aims to change that.  

Limb Kind Foundation provides children around the world with free prosthetics, fitted with pairs of The Shoe That Grows.

One in five Kenyan girls has a baby or is expecting. Read about Drawing Dreams Initiative and how The Shoe That Grows helps.

Omar Negron Ocasio is the CEO and founder of Remora, a Puerto Rico-based business producing a solar-powered water filtration device.

The Because team travels to Kenya to work with children impacted by jiggers and distribute The Shoe That Grows.

A Because Accelerator alumnus distributes 350 pairs of The Shoe That Grows to children in his community of Burundi, Africa.

Read about Patient Baraka’s experience as a refugee and how it inspired his Uganda-based business, Botanica Repellent.

CBC Store promotes accessibility to STEAM learning for primary school students in Kenya with a low-cost science lab kit.

Deaftronics is a Botswana-based organization that developed the first solar-powered, rechargeable hearing aid battery.