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Entrust Foundation
The Entrust Foundation is an Australian NGO that identifies and manages projects to help the poorest of the poor in the forgotten corners of the world. The Foundation specialises in collaborative partnerships with donors and manages the projects at no cost to the project or donor, paying for all...
Disability Initiative for Sustainable Development
The Disability Initiative for Sustainable Development (DISUDE) is a Ugandan NGO. The organisation works on advocacy and capacity building programmes.
Le Déclick establishes a digital workshop for the mentally ill
Le Déclick, a Canadian NGO established to assist young people with a range of mental and physical problems with re-entering the workforce, has set up a digital workshop in partnership with a private company, Les Chantiers Numériques inc.
L'Occitane Foundation funds cataract operations in Burkina Faso
The L'Occitane Foundation, established by L'Occitane, a French company that makes beauty and healthcare products, has donated 75,000 fCFA. for 5 years to help pay for cataract operations in Burkina Faso, where it is estimated that 65% of blindness is caused by cataracts. The project has been...
L'Occitane Foundation offers support to visually impaired children
The L’OCCITANE Foundation has lent its support to Helen Keller International’s ChildSight program, helping improve the eyesight and academic potential of economically disadvantaged children in the U.S.
The L'Occitane Foundation helps to fund an eye care centre in Bangladesh
ORBIS, an international NGO fighting against avoidable blindness in developing countries, is working with the L'Occitane Foundation to establish an opthalmology unit in Bangladesh. The unit will be established in an urban hospital and will have three satellite centres which will provide eye...
Cheval Dire and Sanofi Aventis cooperate in a new form of therapy for disabled children
Since 2005, Sanofi S.A., a French multinational pharmaceutical company based in Paris, has provided donations of funding and equipment to Cheval Dire, a French NGO working in children's health and the rehabilitation of mistreated animals.
Sanofi Aventis and Handicap International cooperate to help earthquake victims in Pakistan
On October 8, 2005, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale struck the north of Pakistan, causing over 73,000 deaths and nearly 3.5 million homeless. Sanofi-aventis reacted by donating medicine for emergency kits sent by TULIPE (Emergency Transfers from the Pharmaceutical Industry),...
Handicap International and Sanofi -aventis develop a programme to fight diabetes in developing countries
In 2006, Sanofi-Aventis launched pilot programs to help improve diabetes disease management in developing countries, in conjunction with the NGO Handicap International, Sante Diabete Mali and other local NGOs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Ticket CESU helps integrate disabled people in the work place
Since 1992, Ticket CESU, a range of services for employees developed and provided by the Edenred Group, paid for in full or in part by participating employers, has offered a specific programme for people with disabilities. The programme helps to integrate people with disabilities into the companies...
Lilial and Disability Dreams and Freedom cooperate to send aid to Morocco
The French NGO Handicap, Rêve, et Liberté (Disability, Dreams and Freedom) has been assisting people with disabilities in Morocco since 2005, by sending equipment for the use of people with disabilities, setting up workshops to repair the equipment, and by training health workers and people with...
Tree Of Hope Children's Charity
The Tree of Hope offers hope to the families of sick and disabled UK children who need specialist surgery or additional medical treatment and therapy, in order to save their lives, and to give a better quality of life, and to help free them from suffering, by funding the treatment required.
Open Door Family Medical Centers of Westchester County awarded Dannon's Next Generation Nutrition Grant
The Dannon Company, Inc. awarded Open Door Family Medical Centers of Westchester County its 2011 Next Generation Nutrition® Grant and $30,000 in support of its Fit for Life programme.
Link Rural Based Organization (LIRUBO)
The Link Rural Based Organization (LIRUBO) is an NGO in Uganda. Since its inception, LIRUBO has trained 700 students in life skills and 70 teachers in life skills and child rights. The organisation has also carried out a Rural Community OVC Intervention project in Kassanda Sub-County, conducting...
Veolia Foundation assists Moroccan children with disabilities to attend school with their peers
The Veolia Foundation, a French environmental organization, has provided financial assistance to Pinocchio, a Moroccan NGO, to assist the integration of children with physical and other disabilities into mainstream education.
Veolia Foundation helps children with disabilities to enjoy music while in hospital
The Veolia Environment Foundation has made a grant to the Toulouse les Orgues Association to help expand the NGO’s music appreciation project designed to help children with psychiatric problems in hospital wards in the Midi-Pyrénées region in France.
The Veolia Foundation assists day care centres for children with cerebral palsy
The Association Pour L’éducation Thérapeutique Et La Réadaptation Des Enfant Infirmes Moteurs Cérébraux (APETREIMC), a French NGO, provides group accommodation for young children suffering from cerebral palsy in order give them a good start in life.
The Veolia Foundation provides a scanner to help children with disabilities
The Veolia Environment Foundation has helped the Centre de Rééducation Fonctionnelle (CRF) of the Ellen Poidatz Foundation to acquire a “Vicon MX” scanner.
The Veolia Foundation helps to improve conditions in Cambodian orphanage
The Veolia Environment Foundation provides financing and advice on the best sanitation system to be installed, by the the Association Droit, Développement et Partenariats Francophones (ADDPF), in an orphanage in Cambodia.
The Veolia Foundation helps Bulgarian children with disabilities to experience outdoor activities
The Veolia Environment Foundation has made a grant to the Get Involved" Project of Outward Bound Bulgaria, an organization that provides outdoor adventure courses for young people.