American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
Jewel Kilcher has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold 27 million albums worldwide, and almost twenty million in the United States alone.
Jewel debuted on February 28, 1995, with the album, Pieces of You, which became one of the best selling debut albums of all time, going platinum 12 times. During her career, she has released several albums, frequently switching genres between working on her albums. Jewel released her first independent album Lullaby in May 2009. Her single "Stay Here Forever" is available on the 2010 movie soundtrack Valentine's Day and appears on her latest album—Sweet and Wild, released on June 8, 2010.
In November 2008, Jewel began work on a project with several dozen singer-songwriters to write and auction their lyrics with donations benefiting her "Project Clean Water" charity.
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Give a Drop is a partnership between Clean Water Project, Virgin Unite and the Voss Foundation to address the worldwide water problem.
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Lack of clean water is a growing global emergency
More than a billion people around the world lack access to clean water and sanitation, causing over two million deaths every year. And, in the coming years, factors such as climate change, population growth, and increasing urbanisation with only exacerbate the crisis.
Water affects many aspects of our lives
Lack of clean water not only severely impacts peoples health; it also suppresses economic growth and negatively impacts education, women's advancement, and overall family and community well-being. In many places, water collection [mainly by women and children] takes up many hours of each day that could otherwise be spent earning income, growing food or going to school. The UN estimates that some 40 billion working hours are lost each year in Africa to carrying water! Also, an unbelievable 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases. Furthermore, many children are forced to quit school to help their families collect water.
Project Clean Water
In 1997, recording artist, author, and philanthropist Jewel founded Project Clean Water. The non-profit charity foundation is working to improve the quality of life for millions of people by helping to provide clean water on a global scale. The foundation targets villages around the world with clean water problems, and works with the communities to find sustainable solutions to provide them with safe drinking water. To date, project clean water has helped more than 30 communities overcome their individual drinking water problems in 13 different countries, on five different continents.
Who are we?
Since October 2006, when Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize, local and international interest in Professor Yunus’ work has continuously increased. In order to address this ever-growing attention, an organization aimed primarily at promoting and disseminating Professor Yunus’ philosophy, with a special focus on social business, was created in the form of the Yunus Secretariat. In July 2008, the Yunus Secretariat was renamed the Yunus Centre. The Yunus Centre has since been the one-stop resource centre for all Grameen social business related activities both globally and in Bangladesh. It keeps the spirit of the global social business move ment very high through various events, social media, publications, and websites. The Yunus Centre also helps forge lasting, productive relationships among all social business institutions around the world. The Centre is chaired by Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and its Executive Director is Ms. Lamiya Morshed.
What is Grameen social business?
Professor Yunus has long been promoting the creation of Grameen social businesses, which he believes will address the problems still left unsolved in the world and not addressed within the present capitalist system. In simple terms, a Grameen social business a non-loss, non-dividend company dedicated entirely to achieve a social goal. In social business, the investor gets his/her investment money back over time, but never receives dividend beyond that amount. The Grameen Bank is a prime example of social business, with poor people being its shareholders! The ultimate goal of the Yunus Centre is to create poverty museums, after bringing an end to poverty in each area --- in villages, cities, counties, provinces, and countries. The Centre strives to engage individuals and organizations in creating, promoting, and maintaining social business by spreading the concept through workshops, internships, projects etc.
What does the Yunus Centre do?
The Yunus Centre’s activities include, but certainly are not limited to, the following:
Professor Yunus has long said that poverty is an unnecessary imposed by society on people, and that creating a poverty-free world is a matter of will. Yunus Centre will coordinate the Poverty-Free World Campaign encompassing partners and networks around the world. Yunus Centre will be working to promote the UN Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh and around the world, and the campaign for Bangladesh to be free of poverty by 2030.
The Centre also aims to aggrandize Professor Yunus’ existing international network of individuals and institutions that work in the field of poverty eradication. The development of social media (including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) focusing on the work of Professor Yunus will enhance the exposure of his ideas on a global scale.
The Yunus Centre acts as a resource centre for existing and potential social businesses – by assisting each venture in adhering to social business principles and, by extension, achieving the targeted social goal.
Disseminating Professor Yunus’ ideas on poverty eradication by contributing articles and other media to renowned publications around the world is one of the Centre’s primary activities.
The Yunus Centre assists in the development of academic programs focusing on social business within academic institutions.
The Centre is currently working towards archiving the awards, honors, prizes, degrees and other distinctions that have been received by Professor Yunus, with the aim to create a museum showcasing the milestones of his career since the early 1970’s. A digital library comprised of a unique collection of video and audio tapes of Professor Yunus’ speeches and publications is also in the works.
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