June 20 is World Refugee Day. Together, we honor the dignity and resilience of children and families around the world who are refugees.

Based in Sweden, ECOLOO is a waterless and enclosed sanitation system that transforms urine into liquid fertilizer for organic farming.

In response to mounting waste issues, Eco Ways upcycles plastic waste into durable furniture and fencing poles in Uganda.

India-based reCharkha employs local women to make sustainable textiles using the traditional charkha and handloom.

Nivine Hachem is the CEO of Two Better, a Lebanon-based social enterprise that creates raw building materials from plastic waste.

In response to the housing shortage in Indonesia, Rawhaus creates sustainable tiny homes with a waste-to-material method.

Learn how The Shoe That Grows inspired the launching of Because International’s free, virtual incubator—the Because Accelerator.

Catch up with two Because Accelerator alumnae on how the program has impacted the trajectory of their social enterprises.

Read about the evolution of The Shoe That Grows from garage prototype to helping kids around the world.