ILF, in partnership with the Adventure Project, scaled the project to Haiti after the earthquake hit.
The most actively traded in that universe if the iShares Latin American ETF (ILF), which is obviously top heavy Brazil.
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The ILF stove is coal powered, but uses half the amount of coal of current stoves and has very low emissions.
The stoves are produced locally, and ILF trains a sales force of female micro-entrepreneurs to sell the stoves in rural villages.
More than 19, 000 people in the UK get payments from the ILF.
Without the benefit of a large brand name behind them, small private labels like ILF and Ellen Christine Millinery must work twice as hard to be seen and worn.
While entrepreneurial-minded concerns like the Adventure Project and ILF in many ways represent the future of social impact work, corporate, foundation and civic giving practices remain largely charitable in nature.
The ILF was established in 1988, but the government decided in 2010 that it had become "no longer appropriate or sustainable" to keep running the scheme outside the mainstream social care system.
This will be within a care system "based on the principles of personalised budgets, the findings of the commission and recognising the importance of the support that ILF users have built their lives around".
"Removing the ILF will leave already cash-strapped local authorities even worse off - and they in turn will be looking at ways of cutting back on the support that they provide for disabled people with very high support needs, " he said.
Among the largest underlying components of ILF, in trading today Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ( NYSE: ITUB) is off about 1.2%, Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. ( NYSE: PBR) is down about 0.4%, and Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AMBEV ( NYSE: ABV) is lower by about 0.1%.
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Among the largest underlying components of ILF, in trading today Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ( NYSE: ITUB) is up about 0.8%, Banco Bradesco S.A. ( NYSE: BBD) is up about 0.2%, and Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AMBEV ( NYSE: ABV) is up by about 1.1%.
Among the largest underlying components of ILF, in trading today Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ( NYSE: ITUB) is up about 0.4%, Banco Bradesco S.A. ( NYSE: BBD) is up about 0.4%, and Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AMBEV ( NYSE: ABV) is higher by about 0.2%.
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Among the largest underlying components of ILF, in trading today Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ( NYSE: ITUB) is up about 0.6%, Banco Bradesco S.A. ( NYSE: BBD) is up about 0.6%, and Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AMBEV ( NYSE: ABV) is up by about 0.7%.
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Among the largest underlying components of ILF, in trading today Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. ( NYSE: ITUB) is down about 0.5%, Banco Bradesco S.A. ( NYSE: BBD) is down about 0.1%, and Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AMBEV ( NYSE: ABV) is lower by about 0.5%.
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