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Glasgow the Caring City
Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow the Caring City (GCC) works in many countries across the globe. In Glasgow the charity runs a cafe for children with special needs, and provides for the care and welfare of asylum seekers daily. GCC has a fleet of vans and a warehouse where aid is collected and...
Christian Missions Charitable Trust (CMCT)
Christian Missions Charitable Trust (CMCT) provides various social, educational, and vocational programmes for the poor to empower them to be financially stable, independent and living in dignity.
Global Hand Principles
Global Hand, and its parent NGO, Crossroads Foundation, aims to ensure that aid given is good aid. You can find a range of standards, specific to sectors of the disaster and development spectrum, in our Standards, Guidelines and Toolkits section. A high level summary of Global Hand's standards...
Aquafilta Limited
Aquafilta Limited is a UK company that has designed and developed a new water filter that can be used in emergency and disaster situations. The company is working with a leading UK filtration company to manufacture the units.
Standards
Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
Helping Children
Helping Chldren is a Sri Lankan NGO that focuses on children and young people. The organisation is involved in a range of programmes including early childhood development, protection of children's rights, protection of the environment, entrepreneurial development, education and training, health...
HELP for Peace
HELP for Peace is an NGO in the Philippines that cares for people affected in complex health emergencies and disasters. The organisaion also works on community health development. Its flagship programme is the Barefoot Doctors programme (villagers empowered to care and heal in their own...
Muslim Charity
Muslim Charity is a British based organisation that aims to become a global catalyst and partner of choice to end poverty. The Charity works in 17 countries and in the past few years has reached more than one million vulnerable people. The Charity aims to assist in emergencies by saving lives and...
Foundation for Health and Social Economic Development Africa
The Foundation for Health and Social Economic Development (HESED) Africa is a Kenyan NGO that addresses problems facing children, women and youth in the context of health and social economic empowerment while integrating cross cutting issues such as HIV/AIDS, human rights, peace building and...
Shanti Volunteer Association (SVA)
The Shanti Volunteer Association is a Japanese NGO that was established to support Cambodian refugees in Thailand. SVA currently implements educational assistant projects including school construction, capacity building for teachers/ librarians and publishing picture books in refugee camps in a...
Syrian refugee crisis – January 2014
More than 2 million Syrians have fled the nation's brutal conflict to neighbouring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, with more streaming across borders daily. The crisis is so immediate that the UN has mounted its biggest ever campaign to give assistance to the hundreds of thousands...
Gaplink International
Gaplink International is an NGO in Kenya. The organization exists to provide relief to needy people around the country, focusing on health and sanitation, disaster and humanitarian aid, human rights and advocacy, public policy, research and sustainable development. Examples of such projects include...
Creative Development Organization
The Creative Development Organization (CDO) is a Pakistani NGO in the Khyber PakhtunKhwa. CDO works on issues related to governance, education, health and disasters, providing technical support in mobilization, disaster management, reporting, data collection and information management. In...
Christian Peace Foundation (CPF)
The Christian Peace Foundation (CPF) is an NGO in Pakistan. CPF works with grassroots communities and with people who believe in human liberation. The organisation aims to raise awareness about education, poverty, health and ignorance among the poorest and most marginalized communities. and to...
Creative Hands
Creative Hands ia a Nepalese charity that builds and operates schools, aims to improve family health and welfare, protects street children’s rights, and provides assistance to disabled people who cannot work. The organisation provides food, clothing, fresh water, health care, and educational...
ChildsLife International
ChildsLife International works globally to provide care for children in need through four core programs: HIV/AIDS, education, food and nutrition, and infrastructure. ChildsLife works with local partners, local staff and local ideas, and is closely involved in the communities that it serve.
Mary's Meals
Mary’s Meals, a programme of the Scottish International Relief, is an international movement to establish daily school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The organisation not only addresses the immediate needs of a hungry children by...
Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd
Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd (RAWCS) is the Australian arm of Rotary International that assists Rotary Clubs with the development and management of international community service projects. Whether it's projects to help rebuild in the aftermath of disaster, programs to bring...
Mission Without Borders Australia
Mission Without Borders Australia is an international faith-based organisation, founded in 1960, dedicated to serving the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those suffering the effects of poverty or persecution. Mission Without Borders recognises the dignity of the individual and strives to...
Union Rescue Mission (URM)
Union Rescue Mission (URM) is a non-profit, interdenominational Christian organisation dedicated to serving the poor and homeless. URM operates several gift-in-kind projects such as the Toystore, which provides toys for low-income and homeless families. URM also receives car donations and donations...