Activism
Activism
We donate 1% of all sales to organisations, foundations and charities, who are addressing the major issues and challenges facing today's global community.
We are committed to building support in seven core issue areas: Climate change, Water and Land; Education; Hunger, Clean Water and Sanitation; Health and Well-Being; Peace and Justice; Inequalities; Poverty.
Please read below to find out more about each issue.
Climate Change, Water and Land:
Climate change is affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising and weather events are becoming more extreme. Saving lives and livelihoods requires urgent action to address the climate emergency.
The ocean drives global systems that make the earth habitable for humankind. Our rainwater, drinking water, weather, climate, coastlines, much of our food and even the oxygen in the air we breathe, are all ultimately provided and regulated by the sea.
There is currently continuous deterioration of coastal waters owing to pollution, and ocean acidification is having an adversarial effect on the functioning of ecosystems and biodiversity. This is also negatively impacting our small-scale fisheries. Saving our ocean must remain a priority.
Nature is critical to our survival: nature provides us with our oxygen, regulates our weather patterns, pollinates our crops and produces our food.
Human activity has altered almost 75% of the earth's surface, squeezing wildlife and nature into an ever-smaller corner of the planet.
The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever, affecting the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.
Deforestation and desertification - caused by human activities and climate change - pose major challenges to sustainable development and have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people.
Furthermore, as we continue to encroach on fragile ecosystems, we bring humans into ever-greater contact with wildlife, enabling pathogens in wildlife to spill over to livestock and humans, increasing the risk of disease emergence and amplification.
Education:
About 260 million children were still out of school in 2018 - nearly one fifth of the global population in that age group. More than half of all children and adolescents worldwide are not meeting minimum proficiency standards in reading and mathematics.
These statistics are important because education enables upward socioeconomic mobility and is one of the key's to escaping poverty.
Hunger, Clean Water and Sanitation:
Current estimates show that nearly 690 million people are hungry, or 8.9 percent of the world population. A profound change of the global food and agriculture system is needed if we are to nourish the more than 690 million people who are hungry today - and the additional 2 billion people the world will have by 2050.
Additionally, worldwide, one in three people do not have access to safe drinking water; two out of five people do not have a basic hand-washing facility with soap and water; and more than 673 million people still practice open defecation.
Health and well-being:
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. More efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues.
By focusing on providing more efficient funding of health systems, improved sanitation and hygiene, and increased access to physicians, significant progress can be made in helping to save the lives of millions.
Peace and justice:
Conflict, insecurity, weak institutions and limited access to justice remain a great threat to sustainable development. The number of people fleeing war, persecution and conflict exceeded 70 million in 2018, the highest level recorded by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in almost 70 years.
Inequalities:
Reducing inequalities and ensuring no one is left behind are integral to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Despite some positive signs toward reducing inequality in some dimensions, such as reducing relative income inequality in some countries and preferential trade status benefiting lower-income countries, inequality still persists.
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
Many challenges remain: discriminatory laws and social norms remain pervasive, women continue to be underrepresented at all levels of political leadership, and 1 in 5 women and girls between the ages of 15 and 49 report experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner within a 12-month period.
Poverty:
More than 700 million people, or 10% of the world population, still live-in extreme poverty today, struggling to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, and access to water and sanitation, to name a few.
Furthermore, one out of five children live in extreme poverty. Ensuring social protection for all children and other vulnerable groups is critical to reduce poverty.
sustainable development goals [Online] [Accessed on the 29th April 2021] https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Who do we support?
Rewilding Britain:
Rewilding Britain are the first and only country-wide organisation in Britain focusing on rewilding and the amazing benefits it can bring for people, nature and climate.
Rewilding can help reverse species extinction, tackle climate change and improve our overall health and wellbeing.
Rewilding takes a big picture approach, aiming to restore the wider natural processes that support life, for example: grazing, flooding, natural woodland regeneration.
Save the Children:
Save the Children was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities.
The organisation promotes policy changes to gain more rights for people - especially by enforcing the UN Deceleration of the Rights of the Child.
Through co-ordinate emergency-relief efforts, Save the Children, provides aid and helps protect children from the post effects of war, violence, disasters and other conflicts.
Oxfam:
Oxfam is a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. It is a major non-profit group with an extensive collection of operations.
Oxfam works on fair trade, trade justice, education, debt and aid, livelihoods, health, HIV/AIDS, gender equality, conflict and natural disasters, democracy, and human rights, and climate change.
National Trust:
The National Trust is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Trust was founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley to "promote the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation of lands and tenements (including building) of beauty or historic interest".
The National Trust are currently working to address the twin crisis in climate and nature by planting 20 million trees over the next 10 years.
British Red Cross:
The British Red Cross (BRC) aims to mobilise the power of humanity so that individuals and communities can prepare for, deal with and recover from crisis, summed up by the strapline 'refusing to ignore people in crisis'.
In 2019, the BRC spent £197.5 million on their charitable activities. In the UK, this was split into areas such as crisis response, first aid education, refugee support, and supporting people between home and hospital. The remaining funds were spent on providing help overseas.
What's Next
Pangaea hopes to help more charities, non-profits and foundations in the future; eventfully, expanding its charitable giving portfolio to aid start up non-profits, who require resources, help and support, to accomplish their mission.
We hope to do this by establishing the Pangaea foundation, to further support our charitable activities, through awarding grants and donations, to organisations and institutions, that are addressing the same global issues as we are.
* All of our Pangaea customers will receive a report at the end of the calendar year with information on who received our donations, how much they received and why we chose to donate to them.