A small company on a big mission. That is One Difference. They’re here because they create brilliant, quality products, and every time one is bought they donate 100% of the profit to life-changing projects in developing countries. What’s cool about One Difference is that every one product funds a like-for-like equivalent, so for example, One Water bottles fund clean water projects in Africa, One hand soap funds sanitation projects, One Eggs supports chicken and egg farms.
One was founded in 2003 by a group of like minded friends. Shocked by the fact that over 1 billion people in the world didn’t have access to clean water at the time, they created a brand of bottled water which gave profits to fund drinking water wells in Africa. One Water rolled off the production line in 2005 and since then the little company has snow balled tackling huge issues on sanitation, HIV, nutrition, finance and healthcare. The One foundation has raised £6.9m and influenced the lives of over 1.5 million. 700+ water solutions have been installed, giving free, clean water to African school children. 4,000 individuals have benefited from One’s vegetable gardens and over 12,000+ people have been tested for HIV and counselled.
Products: One Water, One Eggs, One loo roll, One Vitamin Water, One Condoms, One plasters
The One Foundation: charity that provides support for projects in developing countries
Projects: http://www.youtube.com/user/1difference#p/u/3/Oe-IO4jQYh0
Money given back: £6.9million
Alqulty Africa Fund: Less than 2% of poor people have access to financial services from sources other than money lender. Alqulty hopes to change that in partnership with One Difference through micro finance programmes
Most likely to find their products: In festivals and the shelves of our major supermarkets!
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