lives of hundreds of millions of people. Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that invests in the growth of agricultural enterprises. It sees to the growth of rural prosperity in poor, and environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by lending capital and delivering financial training to farmer associations and various private businesses to aid their development and transforms rural communities. OVAMBA is a Johannesburg Founder Institute portfolio company and its aim is to support central African economies by improving access to credit for small and medium-sized enterprises thereby delivering financial access and capital markets to a lot of small and medium-sized businesses, Ovamba is dedicated to helping these small and medium businesses to grow by giving them the tools to invest in their own futures. US Based Organizations In the US there are over thirty-three thousand tax-exempt organizations working on issues related to UN SDG 8, according to data filed with the Internal Revenue Service –IRS and aggregated by X4Impact. X4Impact, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and Giving Tech Labs, created a free online interactive tool Decent Work and Economic Growth in the US. This online tool enables users to see work and economic indicators nationally and by state, as well as relevant information for over thirty-three thousand tax-exempt organizations in the US working on issues related to UN SDG 8. The nonprofit data in the tool is updated every 15 days while the indicators are updated annually. Challenges Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy was growing at a slower rate than in previous years notwithstanding improvements in labour productivity and unemployment. The pandemic has quickly and greatly disrupted it, pushing the world into a recession. The extraordinary shock to the world's labour markets is expected to result in a decrease of around 10.5 per cent in aggregate working hours in the second quarter of 2020, equivalent to 305 million full-time workers. Small and medium enterprises, workers in informal employment, the self-employed, daily wage earners and workers in sectors at the highest risk of disruption have been hit the hardest. With companies shutting down and small scale business being affected as a result of the pandemic it is reported that chances of employment will continue to decrease. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic not only results in a global economic recession, but also