The Sustainable Development Goals on 1%Club in 2019
By: Isanne Ten Have
Tags: Onepercentclub, 2019, Crowdfunding, Sustainable Development, Sdgs

Currently, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be found everywhere, for instance in high schools, global corporates and advertisement. The campaigns on 1%Club actively contribute to the SDGs as well. But what do they look like in practice? We want to give you an idea of the different ways in which a project can contribute to these goals. To do this, we have highlighted some campaigns from 2019 for you.

We believe that if you add all of the small and local campaigns of 1%Club together, they contribute to something bigger and impactful. That’s why, since november 2018, we have been integrating the SDGs in the campaigns on 1%Club, to show how these local projects have a global impact. In the past year, the 1%Club campaigns contributed to 14 out of 17 SDGs, of which most had an effect on more than one goal. In this blog we highlight some interesting projects that contributed to different SDGs, to show the wide variety in projects and contributed goals.

The Sustainable Development Goals

First things first: what are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? The SDGs were created by the United Nations. They were brought into life to stimulate countries to partner up and use strategies to reach common goals. There are 17 goals that each concern improving a different aspect of the planet, such as ‘no poverty’, ‘gender equality’, and ‘climate action’. On 1%Club, the projects that were realized in 2019 contributed to no less than 14 of these 17 goals, with the most projects focusing on SDG 3 (‘good health and well-being’) and 4 (‘quality education’).

Sustainable Development Goals the campaigns on 1%Club contributed to in 2019

Interesting projects

To give you a face behind these numbers, here is a selection of interesting projects to give you an idea of the different ways in which a project can contribute to these goals.

Join the journey of THE GOOD SPICE

Assam, India — €2.330 — 54 supporters — SDGs: 8 (decent work and economic growth), 10 (reduced inequalities), 12 (responsible consumption and production)

Iona Mulder, a social entrepreneur, impact-researcher, and chef, started this initiative to change the spice trade. Her goal is to start up THE GOOD SPICE and use this to create a fair and stable income for small-scale, traditional spice farmers, thereby supporting decent work and economic growth and helping to reduce inequality. It simultaneously stimulates an increase in the quality and sustainability of the spices, contributing to responsible consumption and production. With her crowdfunding campaign, she successfully collected the funds to travel to India and personally collect her first samples of spices.

GLOBUS Music Art & Eco Festival

Wageningen, the Netherlands — €2.105 — 81 supporters — SDGs: 11 (sustainable cities and communities), 13 (climate action)

Sustainable in not one, not two, but three ways: that is the goal of the GLOBUS Festival. Eight students got inspired to use a festival to save tropical rainforest by using sustainable products in the organisation, inspiring visitors about the fun side of sustainability, and donating the profit to protecting tropical rainforest in Costa Rica. Thanks to their campaign, they are now able to finance the artists and materials needed for the festival. The preparations are in full swing to contribute to sustainable cities and communities and to take climate action!

Watch the video of the goal of their project here.

GLOBUS team: “We can cheerfully say that the early bird ticket sale has opened, that the first artists are being booked and the layout of the terrain is being created.”

A world of music part 2

Jacodu, Romania — €1000 — 24 supporters — SDGs: 3 (good health and well-being), 4 (quality education), 10 (reducing inequalities)

Why do one crowdfunding campaign when you can do two? In the first campaign, instruments were collected and refurbished for Roma children in Romania. This follow-up sent two musicians to Romania for a week to teach the children how to play them.

This campaign aimed at reducing inequality in terms of both gender and social and ethnical groups, by teaching children and especially girls that are discriminated against to play music. This way to express themselves also adds to their well-being. According to the campaigners, every child has a right to not only basic education but also to a broader development of talents as part of quality education. It turns out that they are not the only ones, because they collected over 150% of their original goal!

Check out this video to get a glimpse of their time in Romania.

Jaap Mulder: “The studious and amazing children of Jacodu have a new, beautiful experience. We (Jaap and Frank) had a hard time saying goodbye to them. The team of Love Light Romania is overwhelmed and impressed by the happening. The set-up left all parties wanting more.”

Clean Water for Hope

Sana’a, Yemen — €9.373 — 288 supporters — SDGs: 3 (good health and well-being), 6 (clean water and sanitation)

Clean drinking water in Yemen is currently a scarcity due to the ongoing war. Through a very successful crowdfunding campaign on 1%Club, two VillagePumps could be bought and shipped to Yemen. The first pump has been installed, which has already improved the access to clean water and thus improved health and well-being for no less than 1600 people; a number that will grow when the second pump will be installed.

Watch the installation of the first pump here!

Improving the lives of the fishing community in Tanzania

Mwanza, Tanzania — €4.900 — 131 supporters — SDGs: 2 (zero hunger), 8 (decent work and economic growth)

Fishers at Lake Victoria dry their catch in the sun on the beach, which leads to a loss of up to 30% of the catch and to lower quality. Improving the amount and quality of the catch can help to decrease hunger and lead to an increase in work and economic growth. Four students at Delft University of Technology therefore decided to start a crowdfunding campaign in order to be able to realise Project Dagaa, which focuses on designing a sustainable drying solution for these fishers. Their campaign enabled them to travel to Tanzania to work with the local community and to design and test a prototype of the drying installation.