Lead Safe World Partners
The Lead Education and Abatement Design Group (LEAD) is a not-for-profit community organisation which develops and provides information and referrals on lead poisoning and lead contamination prevention and management. Our goal is Working to eliminate lead poisoning globally and to protect the environment from lead in all its uses: past, current and new. The LEAD Group Inc. also sells test kits which help you to identify if your workplace, home or yard is contaminated by lead. This kit can be used by parents, renovators, child-care centre operators, teachers, landlords, agents, pet-owners. Find out if dust soil, drinking water, toys, paint, ceramics, jewellery, and other items are safe for humans and pets by buying a DIY – sampling / lab analysis lead kit here. Each year The LEAD Group runs the Volcano Art Prize (VAP), which is open to children and adults world wide, and which produces a Catalogue of the winning 13 entries, printed in the Lead Safe World Calendar, available for purchase.
Lead Safe America Foundation (LSAF) was founded to help alleviate the challenges faced by so many parents of lead-poisoned children. We offer emergency intervention and support to families whose children have been diagnosed as positive for lead in their blood. We engage in outreach and education for the primary prevention of early childhood lead poisoning. And finally – and perhaps most important – we provide support to parent-advocates so the web of information has a framework that can spread across the country with parents getting the information and resources they need and then turning around to – in turn- help other parents in the same situation.
InformEd blog, by Open Colleges, based in Australia but with Outreach Specialists in the Philippines, etc. InformED is a blog about all things education. The blog helps educators stay up to date with the latest education technology, join the conversations in pedagogy and understand the psychology of a developing mind. Open Colleges runs numerous online courses such as and the InformEd blog helps educators by compiling information such as 50 Non-Profit Organizations That Educate People In Need”.
Dr Cory Couillard is an international health columnist who works in collaboration with the World Health Organization’s goals of disease prevention and global health care education. For the Inaugural International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action (20-26th October 2013) – an initiative of the World Health Organisation and United Nations Environment Programme, Dr Couillard’s article “Save children from lead poisoning” was published in news or medical news publications in Ghana, Panama, the Caribbean, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis (including on their Sugar City FM radio station website) AND Nigeria.
The LEAD Group Inc. is a partner of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private initiative led by the by the United Nations Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean cooking solutions. Learn more at www.cleancookstoves.org.
Sustainability Now is an Australian organisation dedicated to providing businesses and strata with specialised energy efficiency solutions. Since 2009 Sustainability Now has worked with many small to medium businesses and over 300 strata buildings to undertake energy and water audits or implement energy and water efficiency upgrades. Sustainability Now has recently been a key auditor partner in the City of Sydney and NSW Office of Environment & Heritage Smart Green Apartments Program and Ku-ring-gai Council Smart Units Program. Sustainability Now’s aim is to help our clients meet their corporate, household or personal sustainability goals and reduce their impact on the environment through triple-bottom-line solutions that are: Financial achievable, ecologically sustainable and ethically sound. As a partner of The LEAD Group Inc. Sustainability Now’s services help clients rely less on and to use more efficiently, traditional forms of power generation and in turn lower the amount of lead pollution released into the environment via the burning of fossil fuels which naturally contain lead and other toxic metals. Learn more at https://sustainabilitynow.com.au/.
Cryoprep Australia is a surface preparation company, servicing the painting industry in Australia. We are specialists in removing lead based paints and various other coatings where alternative methods are unsuitable. Cryoprep uses a blast process which employs a combination of dry ice and a range of conventional grit media. Dry ice sublimates on contact with a surface leaving it dry, clean and paint ready. A significantly reduce amount of selected abrasive media is used to create the specified profile suited to the coating system being applied. As a result Cryoprep offers a superior environmental solution in comparison to other methods. Because Cryoprep can deliver combined, selected aggregates at extremely low pressure, this allows us to remove coatings effectively, while maintaining the integrity of the substrate. Reduced secondary waste, while improving work rates and efficiency, also reduces the cost of transporting and disposal of prescribed waste. It is for these reasons we believe our blast stripping method can provide a superior outcome in a shorter time than other systems. For more information go to https://www.cryoprep.com/ and we look forward to providing Cryoprep solutions on your next project.