Disability issues
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Yamini Educational Society
The Yamini Educational Society, located in Hyderabad, India, has established a school for mentally challenged children. The Society provides shelter, formal education and skills training, medical aid, transportation, food and clothes for the pupils, and is involved in lobbying and advocacy on...
Child Rescue Ministries Uganda
Child Rescue Ministries Uganda (CRM) is a community-based Ugandan NGO that supports children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable children and their households. The organisation aims to provide educational opportunities for the children together with appropriate skills training, and to help...
Caritas Internationalis - Armenia
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and...
United Nations (UN)
Founded in 1945, the UN is a humanitarian agency dedicated to maintaining peace and security in the world, solving global problems, and protecting human rights. The UN funds projects that seek to reduce poverty and to make the world a better place for all people.
Reservoirs of Compassion (RECO)
Reservoirs of Compassion (RECO) is a Christian non-governmental organisation based in Kampala, Uganda. Organisational activities are broad in focus, and include community development (such as through micro-enterprise initiatives), assisting HIV/AIDS victims, running adult literacy programmes,...
World Bank - Sierra Leone
The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...
Central Asian Partners
Central Asian Partners is involved in a wide variety of projects from rural village medical clinics and maternal health projects, to providing visiting professors to teach university seminars, as well as locating and shipping equipment and supplies needed by field personnel.
Missionaries of Charity
Missionaries of Charity provides shelter, medical care, education, and food aid to refugees, ex-prostitutes, the mentally ill, sick children, abandoned children, lepers, AIDS victims, the aged, the dying and convalescent.
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - United States
The U. S. Committee for UN Population Fund was formed in 1998 to raise moral, political and financial support in the United States for the work of the UN Population Fund, which provides voluntary family planning and reproductive health services, ensures safe motherhood, prevents HIV/AIDS and other...
Earth Solution Foundation
The Earth Solution Foundation is a Ghanaian NGO that focuses on tree planting and water preservation; advocacy on environmental issues; health; and rights for people with disabilities.
Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect)
Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) is the leading service provider for people with an autism spectrum disorder in Australia. Aspect provides a broad range of specialist services to people with autism regardless of age or degree of disability. The main aim of Aspect is to overcome the isolation of...
Shanghai Charity Foundation
Shanghai Charity Foundation raises funds, organizes charitable activities and promotes philanthropy to aid orphans, street children, widows and widowers, and the disabled. The foundation is also the United Way affiliate in Shanghai.
Hope and Service to Mankind Foundation
Hope and Service to Mankind (Hope For Rural Dwellers) is an NGO in Ghana. The organisation brings groups of young people from various backgrounds together to work on projects of benefit to the community. The Foundation focuses on educational projects, and also works with street children, people...
Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation
Founded in 1959, the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation is a non-profit organisation assisting the disabled in Hong Kong. Using medical personnel such as nurses, physiotherapists and social workers, the Society provides self-help courses and workshops on rehabilitation exercise training, pain...
Hong Kong Society for the Blind
Established in 1956, the Hong Kong Society for the Blind (HKSB) is a voluntary agency that assists the visually impaired. HKSB provides a variety of services for those who are visually impaired, including career counselling, home management skills development and vocational training. HKSB also...
Coanil
The Coanil Foundation shelters and educates mentally disabled children and adults in social risk situations in Chile. It aims to stimulate the potential of each person that needs their support, so they can integrate in society and significantly improve their quality of life. Coanil runs several...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Kazakhstan
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 157 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide. In Kazakhstan, UNICEF's activities include supporting programmes in social policy,...
Delhi House (Sewa Ashram)
Delhi House was the name of a house for the homeless founded in 1997; relocation in the year 2000 saw the adoption of a new name - Sewa Ashram. Housing up to 120 individuals (and some families), Delhi House is a community-based rehabilitation centre and clinic for the destitute, with a goal to...
Deepalaya
Deepalaya is a large Indian NGO based in Delhi. The organisation works with socially and economically disadvantaged children, including the physically and mentally challenged. The overall aim of the organisation is to ensure that the children in its care become self-reliant and are enabled to enjoy...
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channelled through...