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Vision Aid Overseas
Vision Aid Overseas is a charity that helps people in the developing world with poor eyesight, particularly where glasses can help. It works by sending abroad teams of volunteer optometrists and dispensing opticians who set up clinics, screen large number of patients and provide appropriate glasses.
Disability Sport Events
Disability Sport Events is an events agency that provides, develops and co-ordinates opportunities in sport and recreation for people with disabilities in the UK. The organisation also has opportunities for volunteers to assist at sporting events, and welcomes applications from volunteers with...
Handicap International
Handicap International aims to provide people with disabilities or vulnerabilities with the appropriate rehabilitation services and support for integration within their communities. Handicap International is an independent international aid organisation working in situations of poverty and...
Project Concern International - Hong Kong
This organisation aims to provide medical and charitable service to the low income sector of the community. Provides services for children, young people and the elderly. Project Concern is also involved in providing rehabilitation services and operating mobile dental clinics and eye services in...
New Life Foundation
The New Life Foundation was established in 1964 under the patronage of H.R.H. The Princess Mother. During the past 39 years, the Foundation's main activities have been to help underprivileged Thais with a physical or mental handicap in 3 villages located in Northern part of Thailand. The New Life...
Christian Blind Mission (CBM)
Christian Blind Mission (CBM) is an independent Christian development organisation dedicated to preventing and curing blindness, as well as to the education and rehabilitation of people who are blind or have other disabilities.
Better Life Organization (BELO)
Better Life Organization (BELO) works towards the self-development and medical, social and educational rehabilitation of disabled persons, with a focus on children ages 0-18. BELO promotes education for girls, and works with women’s groups to help women become economically empowered. One of...
Help-one Women's Organisation
Help-one Women’s Organisation is a philanthropic organisation aiming at improving women’s living conditions and social status in Uganda. Its projects focus on empowering women through socio-economic activities, providing vocational training for women, including tailoring, design, IT and poultry...
Mother Theresa Development Research Institute(MTRI)
Mother Theresa Development Research Institute (MTRI) works for the upliftment of the downtrodden and vulnerable sections of Indian society especially women and children, youth, disabled, aged, dalits, tribals and minorities. MTRI provides research and action programs in human rights, formal and...
Beam of Hope for the Disadvantaged (BEHOD)
The Beam of Hope for the Disadvantaged (BEHOD) is a registered Non-government Organisation, which started as a community based Organisation in 2006, with an aim of uplifting the education standard and the socio-economic status of the disadvantaged youths (Disabled and orphans) in Uganda. The...
One Just World
One Just World is a partnership that organises a national series of free, after-work speakers’ forums aimed at involving the community in conversation and debate on key international development issues facing Australia, the Asia-Pacific and beyond. It is a partnership between World Vision...
Hope for Children Uganda
Hope for Children Uganda is an NGO established by a group of young people and community members in the Bugiri District to address issues faced by the most needy and vulnerable, including orphans, neglected children, people with disabilities, women and the elderly and HIV/AIDS victims. The first...
Kenya Disabled Development Society (KDDS)
The Kenya Disabled Development Society (KDDS) was established to develop the disabled persons educationally, socially and economically, through programmes designed to empower and generate income for disabled beneficiaries. Future projects includes developing a database of accessible tourism,...
Health Promotion Clinic Trust
The Health Promotion Clinic Trust is an organisation in Zimbabwe that provides a professional wheelchair and seating service for persons with mobility disabilities. The Trust advocates for wheelchairs to be assessed for individual users to prevent secondary deformities and complications.
NZEVE
NZEVE is an organization of deaf and hearing people that promotes the right of deaf children and adults to participate fully in society. NZEVE provides audiological and educational services, communication skills and vocational training through a preschool, projects for deaf adults and support to...
Hope Haven
Hope Haven is an American NGO dedicated to providing services to children and families with a range of educational, developmental and mental health needs. Established in 1926 at the height of the tuberculosis epidemic with a mission to serve malnourished and TB infected children, the organisation...
Barefoot College
Established in 1972, the Barefoot College is an Indian NGO that provides basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities with the objective of providing sustainable ways to become self-sufficient. These ‘Barefoot solutions’ can be broadly categorised into solar energy, water,...
Re:Motion Designs
Re:Motion Designs is a company that designs high-performance, low-cost prosthetic components for developing world amputees. Its initial product, the JaipurKnee, is a polymer-based polycentric knee joint that can be manufactured for a cost less than USD 20, and has been featured by Time Magazine,...
Shri Panchmahal Anusuchit Jati Education Trust, Adadara.
The Shri Panchmahal Anusuchit Jati Education Trust, Adadara is an Indian NGO that runs a school for 110 deaf children in Godhra. The Trust is aiming to provide better facilities for the children, most of whom come from very poor families with few resources. Currently the school, which provides...
SPDA (Special Persons Development Association)
SPDA (Special Person Development Association)is a registered NGO working for the welfare of people with disabilities in Peshawar. The Association's activities include promoting social justice, raising public awareness of disability issues, health and education and advocacy on behalf of people...