Dear friends and supporters, I want to take this opportunity to wish you a magical and blessed 2019 💫 I’ve spent the past four years building the foundation for UpEffect in both a part and full-time capacity and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the consistent love and encouragement you’ve shown since our launch in 2016. We’ve …
Think of Good Zing like Yelp or GoCompare, but instead of finding restaurants or insurance, it is for finding health tips for all your everyday health and wellness issues. We are a web based platform bringing together user-generated and expert remedies, tips and tricks from around the world into one place, allowing users to have a menu of options to …
It is no surprise that people tend to sleep less and wake up more throughout the night as they age. While more sleep is required and recommended for children than adults (according to the Centers for Disease Control), a recent study published in Neuron shows that older adults don’t simply wake up and sleep for shorter periods because they require …
1. Your health Getting enough sleep contributes to abundant health benefits through release of tension. Also, the endocrine system works effectively with enough sleep, impacting hormones that control appetite. If you’re a short sleeper, your likelihood for obesity is 7.5 times greater and your likelihood for diabetes is 2.5 times greater! Full regeneration of the mind and body requires a …
“You simply say, go back to where you came from. I say, I don’t know where that is anymore.” -Behind the Netra This week we celebrated World Refugee Day to support those across the globe with the courage to flee violence and those with the compassion to welcome them. By 2016, there were a record number of people (nearly …
“As social entrepreneurs, we believe that businesses are a part of a community. In a world where more and more news about global issues are escalating, we seriously feel the need to think about how we can gear our business operations toward creating societal solutions.” ‘My Community… A City for Everyone’ was launched in November 2013 by HH Sheikh …
“We can read the unbroken record of the Earth’s atmosphere that extends back over the last 800,000 years. In all that time, the amount of CO2 in the air never rose above 300th’s of 1%. That is, until the turn of the 20th century. It’s been going up steadily and rapidly ever since.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime …
25-year-old Social Entrepreneur, Zobaida Falah has leveraged TOMS one-for-one model to create The CURE Bar, a natural, no preservatives, no sugar snack bar. It’s a durable healthy snack that anyone can enjoy to replace starchy,fat filled snacks. They also include an ingredient that has never been used in the snack bar industry before – the black seed. For every CURE bar sold, …
We recently caught up with Khizr I. Tajammul, the founder and CEO of Jaan Pakistan – a social enterprise, researching and producing affordable energy solutions for low-income communities across Pakistan. Jaan Pakistan won the Rwanga Social Startup Competition at the fifth One Young World summit last year and is currently working on introducing solar cook stoves to urban slums in …
Founders Lara and Julie have created a beautiful ethical fashion brand made from high-quality, soft, organic cotton – better for the environment, better for local farmers and better for the skin. AmaElla manufactures all products ethically and is backed by experts with previous experience at Alexandra McQueen, Tom Ford and DKNY. The two met whilst studying for a Masters in International …