The Adventure Project

The Adventure Project (sometimes referred to as TAP) is a nonprofit organization that creates jobs in developing countries in an effort to end poverty. The organization was founded in 2010.[1]

History

Becky Straw and Jody Landers met in Liberia and founded TAP in 2010.[2] Becky Straw had a degree in International Social Welfare from Columbia University and had worked for UNICEF and charity: water.[3]

Reception

The Adventure Project has been covered by a variety of media outlets, including Fast Company,[4] the Huffington Post,[5] and Upworthy.[6] In 2015, co-founders Landers and Straw received the Diane von Furstenberg People’s Voice Award.[7]

gollark: Fear it:
gollark: (Taiwan holds basically all leading edge semiconductor production and I believe a lot of the older stuff. Invading could physically damage it in hard to fix ways, and would probably lead to the loss of most of the people working on it and their knowledge; even ignoring this, it relies on materials from elsewhere which could be cut off. Basically everyone needs the chips produced by TSMC, and if they just stopped existing so would... roughly all consumer electronics for several years.)
gollark: It would not.
gollark: I don't think they can actually militarily do anything to Taiwan without imploding the entire world economy for several years.
gollark: It's unreasonable that people's life chances are affected by who they happened to be born to.

References
  1. "This Entrepreneur Says There's A Much Simpler Way To Solve Global Poverty". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  2. "Co-Founders Story". The Adventure Project. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  3. "Becky Straw – The Adventure Project | Oliberté Footwear". www.oliberte.com. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  4. "The Adventure Project Brings Clean Water to Indian Villages, With Help From Female Water Mechanics". Fast Company. 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  5. Skibola, Nicole (2011-05-31). "The Movement to Kickstart Rural Agriculture". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  6. "A before-and-after snapshot shows the incredible impact of clean cookstoves". Upworthy. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  7. "The DVF Awards". www.dvf.com. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
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