Giving Back

Community

A portion of Ceresist’s profits are reinvested back into our global community.  We believe in giving back to help those in need, and to raise awareness on social issues that plague our world.  We wholeheartedly support the following organizations, and commend them for their outstanding work in making the world a better place for all of us.  Please join us in supporting these organizations.

 

MAD4Kids
293995c4971f7c410cb326d43332d195_9uc5Ceresist supports MAD4kids (Making A Difference for kids). This nonprofit was created with the intent of bringing social and global issues into communities, and giving those communities the challenge of acting.  MAD4Kids was founded by students at Eisenhower Middle School in Wyckoff NJ and Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes NJ who meet after school to organize activities that make a difference for kids in our communities and around the world.  They raise awareness and funds for United Nations Girl Up, Invisible Children, and Two Degrees among others.

For the past two years, members of MAD4kids from Wyckoff NJ, Birmingham MI, and Guatemala City, Guatemala, joined together in rural Guatemala. They installed cookstoves with HELPS International, helped build a school out of recycled bottles with Hug It Forward, and spent time with kids at Safe Passage. 24 youths aged 12-19 improved the lives of over fifty families, demonstrating that kids can make a difference.

View a video their incredible work in Guatemala.

MAD4Kids is a registered 501C(3).  Visit their website at www.mad4kids.org

 

Hug It Forward
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Hug It Forward is a grass-roots organization that facilitates education and awareness by empowering communities in Latin America to build “bottle schools.”

Bottle schools are schools built using “eco-bricks:” plastic bottles stuffed with inorganic trash. Entire communities come together to make the dream of educational opportunity a reality, by building their own bottle school.

Hug It Forward’s goal is to share the bottle school technology so that communities all over the world can build their own bottle school.