Disability issues
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Plan Canada
Plan is a global movement for change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to support social justice for children in developing countries. Plan is one of the world’s oldest and largest international development agencies, working in partnership with millions of people around the world...
Plan USA
Plan USA is a global partnership of caring people founded in 1937 to bring hope and help to the world's poorest children. Their community-based programmes assist more than 10 million children in 45 developing countries.
Christian Coastal and Interior Minstries Association
The Christian Coastal and Interior Minstries Association (CCIMA) is an Indian NGO in Andrha Pradesh. The Association works among the poor and needy, particularly in regard to rehabilitation and health. The organisation provides food, clothing and other necessities to members of the communities in...
For the Love of Children Society of Alberta
For the Love of Children Society of Alberta assists children with special needs in Alberta with medical equipment, supplies or services that are not covered under provincial health care. For the Love of Children Society of Alberta also brings school supplies, toys, medicine, entertainment and funds...
Smile Foundation
The Smile Foundation is a South African NGO for children. The organisation is in the business of changing the lives of disadvantaged South African children with facial deformities. The Foundation assists by putting the smile back onto children’s faces with free corrective facial reconstructive...
Annai Theresa Social Welfare Action Trust (ATSWA)
Annai Theresa Social Welfare Action Trust (ATSWA) is an Indian NGO that works for economic empowerment and social justice in North Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. ATSWA works with the rural poor, orphans, children and women, people with disabilities, senior citizens, commercial sex workers, and...
L'Occitane Foundation offers support to equine training programme for the visually impaired
The Fondation L'Occitane is offering support to ARAC, a French NGO that works with visually impaired people to develop riding and associated skills.
Youth Development Project
The Youth Development Project is a Gandhian voluntary NGO established by a group of disabled youth activists in India. The organisation works for the welfare and rehabilitation of people with disabilities and fight for their rights.
In partnership with the Wheelchair Foundation, Chevron donates wheelchairs to Angola
Chevron has donated 240 new wheelchairs to the most disabled country in the world.
American Autism Association
The American Autism Association’s is an NGO whose aim is to increase awareness of the many and varied difficulties individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder face as children and adults. The organisation exists to help low income families struggling with autism to reach their potential and live...
Shanghai Rotary donates wheelchairs to NGOs in China
In 2006, the Rotary Club of Shanghai partnered with the Rotary Club of Burlingame to provide new wheelchairs to needy people in and around Shanghai.
Society for Disabled Women Pakistan
The Society for Disabled Women Pakistan is an NGO that works for and with women with disabilities. The Society aims to raise awareness in the general public of the basic rights of women with disabilities and their right to live independently. The Society's long term aim is to ensure that all girls...
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),...