Operated by the STREETS International trainees, this coffee shop and cafe serves tasty food and delicious coffee alongside a strong underlying social mission. STREETS runs its nearby restaurant and this coffee shop as social enterprises supporting the organization's hospitality and culinary training program for street kids and disadvantaged youth in Southeast Asia. The coffee shop is ideal for any travelers needing a solid cappuccino, or a Western sandwich or snack.

Advocafe is social enterprise that supports the indigenous people of the Philippines efforts for sustainable living.The cafe serves a range of fair trade coffee and tea with profits going back into the community and towards their programs, which include education, environment and livelihood programs.

This wonderful coffee shop started as one village's effort to grow and sell their own coffee at fair prices has become a small but growing number of coffee shops in Thailand. Buying a cup of this artisanal coffee directly sends funds back to a small village outside of Chiang Rai. 

Artisans Angkor has developed from the ambitious belief that it is possible to revive ancient Khmer Arts & Crafts while improving the lives of thousands of people living in rural areas.

Offering cultural programs and guided tours to learn about Canada's Inuit peoples, as well as community supported ways to visit all that the arctic has to offer, from the Northern Lights to whale-watching, to polar bear migrations, and more.

A delicious vegetarian cafe and bakery in town - one of the best options in Sangkhlaburi outside of hotel and guest-houses. The bakery supports an orphanage outside of town and is run completely by locals and the support of international volunteers. In addition to the bakery, the organization runs an internet cafe, used bookstore, and sells handicrafts made by the children and their local caregivers. Further location details: located on Nongloo Rd, across from the wat, or view this town map: http://www.baanunrak.org/sangklaburi_map.html

The Bali Street Kids Project is a not-for-profit organisation caring for Bali street kids since 2007. They provide a home, education and care for vulnerable children in and around Denpasar. The organisation supports themselves by selling handicrafts, dolls and greeting cards in their local shop which you can visit and purchase goods to help fund this wonderful cause.

Bambike is a socio-ecological enterprise based in the Philippines that hand-makes bamboo bicycles with fair-trade labor and sustainable building practices. They run eco tours around Manila on the bicycles made by Gawad Kalinga villagers here in the Philippines.

Big Brother Mouse is proudly Lao-owned. The group is based in Lao, with a Lao staff and aims to bring books to Lao children. In Lao, access to these types of learning materials is very difficult so Brother Mouse publishes and distributes books that encourage literacy and reading. Travelers in Laos can visit one of the organization's office (in Vientiane and Luang Prabang) and pick out books to handout as they continue traveling through towns and rural regions. The books are a wonderful way to support the local communities for those who feel compelled to give something to the children and communities they encounter. Clear directions to the two Big Brother Mouse offices: http://www.bigbrothermouse.com/visit.html

Bloom Microventures, a non-profit social business, offers socially-responsible poverty-fighting day tours (microfinance tours) to marginalized communities in the developing world. Tours are conducted in a small village outside of Hanoi. All tour members will visit the recipient of the microloan their tour fee is funding.