Activity Description: In developing countries like Cambodia and Laos, low levels of education and poverty reinforce each other. Young adults are often forced to forgo education and take unskilled low-wage jobs. The situation is even more difficult when compounded by a physical disability, deceased or missing parents, or when young women are subjected to the horrors of the sex trade. Digital Divide Data is connecting the power of education and training programs with real job opportunities for disadvantaged individuals.

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Founded by three Dutch men in 2005, Kamworks is a Cambodian company that aims at the production and sales of solar energy and other off-grid systems to promote rural development through commercial activity in Cambodia.

Kamworks produces an ultra-high efficiency solar fridge and freezer, a community solar electricity generator, and "Angkor light," a portable solar lantern.

Kamworks has been announced as a winner in the World Bank Development Marketplace Competition with an innovative distribution model for the Angkor Light, in a joint project together with the Khmer Foundation for Justice Peace and Development.

Activity Description: Since 2001, The American and International Federation of Red Cross network has partnered with an outside NGO supply chain ( International Development Enterprises, IDE) in Northeastern Cambodia in the Prey Veng Water project, to provide over 9,000 portable, low-cost, ceramic water purifiers to poor households. Thanks to seed money from the World Bank Marketplace, the project succesfully transitioned from subsidized, import-driven sales to full-cost, locally-produced (by the Cambodian Red Cross) sales of ceramic filters. Earnings from sales now recover production and distribution costs. IDE is also developing larger ceramic filters to service communities.

Activity Description: DTW designs, develops, and produces appropriate, cost-effective products based on mechanical engineering technology in developing countries. Through its projects, DTW creates employment opportunities for abled as well as disabled people. When the design and manufacturing process is finished and the product has reached production maturity, the whole process is transferred to a local enterprise - ei