Water Remediation

• Hundreds of millions of people around the world lack safe drinking water. Chemists Without Borders is collaborating with Professor Abul Hussam, winner of the 2007 Grainger Prize for the development of the SONO filter, to expand the filter's applications beyond South Asia. Widely used in Bangladesh, this filter successfully cleans drinking water contaminated with the dangerous levels of arsenic that lead to arsenicosis, cancers, etc. Arsenic Project Field Event - March 12th 2011

E-waste Initiative

• The enormous problem of electronic waste from the developed world ending up in the developing world has been widely reported.  Workers living in extreme poverty, without alternatives, extract precious metals, etc., from the waste under extremely hazardous conditions which also expose their children. Chemists Without Borders' China Initiative attempts to address such issues.
  

Green Initiative

• Chemists Without Borders seeks to promote green science education in developing countries by partnering with existing providers.

• Chemists Without Borders seeks to implement green and sustainable solutions in all its operations, both at home and in the field, as well as the operations of its partners and constituents through collaboration with those who already have solutions in hand.

Self-Reliance Education

• Chemists Without Borders focuses on empowering and enabling people to improve their economic condition through education and development of social enterprises.

Medicines and Vaccines

• From its inception, Chemists Without Borders has sought to bring existing medicines to those who need them most. We collaborate and partner with AIDSfreeAFRICA which is building pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in Africa to be owned and operated locally. We seek to accelerate AIDSfreeAFRICA's growth, and help replicate its effort in many parts of the world.

Open Access

• Chemists Without Borders has taken a strong position in support of open access to information by using open source tools and seeks to enable people in the developing world, often well beyond their economic means, to access up-to-date information which is key to their leapfrogging into modernity.

Emergency Response Network

• Chemists Without Borders seeks to develop and activate an emergency response network to address the needs of the areas hit by devastating disasters, for examples, the Kashmir earthquake in 2005, the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China, the tsunami and hurricane Katrina that hit in 2009, and the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile in 2010.