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Children, youth and family welfare

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Shoes and other necessities for school children in Nairobi

Our organization targets disadvantaged youth, youth in school and out of school between the ages of 12-35. In discussion with school principals, we have identified a need to reach out to boy children alongside girl children. So much has been written about needs of girl children that the...

Help HIV/AIDS affected households through micro-credit in Uganda

We are trying to help HIV/AIDS affected women and youth headed households in the Rakai & Lwengo Districts to improve their resource management and develop their ability to generate income. This will reduce their vulnerability. We want to do this through vigorous training of the...

Education and training for orphans and disabled people in Uganda

We are an NGO that works for people with disabilities and also for vulnerable children, providing education and vocational training. We also run an orphanage where we provide food, support and health care. We want to extend our ability to support the children in our care and to work with other...

Financial and material support for community project in Kenya

Our organisation is helping children and women as well as the youth and the general community with their development agendas. We do this by providing trainings on HIV/AIDS, providing feeding program, supporting resource centers, sponsorships, building community schools, providing uniforms,...

Start up capital for small business that will support education in Bafaka Balue, Cameroon

This project is in line with our program to aid children who cannot afford basic academic materials like books and uniforms. We also intend to help pay fees in part or full for children whose parents are either dead or are disabled in Bafaka Balue. This way the project will be helping both the...

Looking for Volunteer NGO Managing Director, Uganda

Twerwaneho Orphans Community Initiative (TOCI) is a small locally run community initiative that focuses on helping HIV/AIDS affected orphans, child headed households and children with disabilities and special needs to live healthy, sustainable and successful lives. The organization seeks to recruit...

Protect children in Pakistan

PRSP is a newly established organization interested in thematic areas like education, child protection, GBV, and women's empowerment. We have been involved in a child protection survey and have established the need for a child protection intervention. We have had some help and guidance from World...

Support orphanage in Uganda

Change Life in African Orphanage is a Ugandan NGO that promotes self-reliance and sustainability and works for people affected by and infected with HIV/AIDS. Among the people we assist are widows and orphans. We reach out to the orphans and underprivileged children with a message of love and...

Help to build a town for girl victims of sexual abuse in Bolivia

We want to help girls in Bolivia who are victims of sexual abuse by providing a safe environment for them, a place where they will receive the support necessary for their development and rehabilitation. This is part of our overall objective of trying to eradicate all forms of sexual violence...

Help to fund libraries and volunteer to read with children in Hong Kong

Bring Me a Book Hong Kong (BMABHK) is a Hong Kong registered non-profit organization that was founded in 2006 to improve family literacy in Hong Kong. We serve children who do not have access to quality books and who are not read aloud to on a regular basis. BMABHK reaches out to underserved...

Building a vocational training center in Kumbo, North West Cameroon

In 2005, we started a project on "Rural Education for the Underprivileged" in three areas and in 2012 we established vocational training centres in those villages. The main aim of this project is to provide free education to the less privileged in these areas. The project is on going but we do...

Building a Children's Town in Kossodo and Zaghtouly, Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is, at present, one of the 30 poorest countries in the world. The poverty in the country is not caused by war or political corruption but, rather, by desertification, which causes the Sahara Desert to advance further and further south every year. The poverty has brought about famine...

Help to create micro-enterprises for women in Mazini, Swaziland,

We are aiming to assist underprivileged women in Manzini to attain financial independence through the creation of micro-businesses that will generate income. In Manzini, the most densely populated town in Swaziland, there are very few possibilities for self-advancement. Women, in particular,...

Volunteers needed to assist the Institute for Integrated Rural Development, Hong Kong)

We aim to assist the people living in poverty-stricken rural areas of China to improve their livelihoods and raise their ability to fulfill their potential. Our goal is to ensure that the children and women in impoverished rural areas of China have access to quality and affordable health care...

Help to fund a well to irrigate crops and an orchard that supplies orphanages and feeding centres in Romania

Street children are common in Romania. Children are hungry, cold, dirty and left to fend for themselves. Families who cannot feed their family often fall apart when one or both parents must leave in search of scarce economic opportunity. We have set up Feeding Centres is some of the poorest and...

Bakery equipment for Romanian orphanage

Street children are common in this part of Europe. Children are hungry, cold, dirty and left to fend for themselves. Families who cannot feed their family often fall apart when one or both parents must leave in search of scarce economic opportunity. We have set up Feeding Centres is some of the...

Provide supplies for Romanian orphanage and feeding centres

We have set up Feeding Centres is some of the poorest and most remote villages in Romania at the invitation of local authorities who have no other safety net to offer. There are currently 19 of these feeding centres in Romania which we have set up and continue to supply from our warehouse in...

Providing a solar power system for an orphanage in Sierra Leone

We are a volunteer humanitarian organisation operating in Sierra Leone. We promote the interests of underprivileged children by providing shelter and education. We run a children's village in Tombo Township. This village is made up of 4 homes, 2 toilet facilities and a rotunda. 45-50 children...

Help vulnerable young children in Johannesburg, South Africa

The Noahs Ark Project aims to combat homelessness among vulnerable children in Gauteng, and to give them a sense of belonging through the provision of shelter (a place called home), and education. Only through personal relationships can a sense of individual responsibility be reestablished among...

New Covenant School Building, Faisalabad, Pakistan

There are an estimated 600 brick kilns in the district of Faisalabad, Punjab. Their economic and social conditions are extremely poor. The kiln owners' behaviour towards the workers is neither humane nor moral, considering their workers to be slaves and making them work as if in a "hard labour"...