The World Challenge

The World Challenge

The World Challenge is a competition that was first hosted in 2005 by BBC and sponsored by Newsweek and Shell. It accepts projects from around the world that deal with social, environmental and community issues and uses business methods to try to improve upon those issues in the world.

The 2005 winners

*1st prize: Coconets, from a project in the Philippines called Juboken Enterprises
*2nd and 3rd prize: Reef rehab and I Do Foundation

The 2006 winners

*1st prize: Elephant paper by Maximus
*2nd and 3rd prize: Cards from Africa and NGO Dalit

The 2007 winners

*1st prize: T'ikapapa, Potato Goldmine project in Peru.
*2nd and 3rd prize: School for Success and Cooking without Gas

ources

[http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/ http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk]


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