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.

Joining the Because Accelerator in 2019 helped Sadik grow his business into one with 200 acres of land and 500 jobs for women in Ghana.

From graphic design to trauma healing, read how Kentucky-born Liza ended up in Lebanon running a business with Syrian refugees.