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GOONJ
GOONJ was founded in 1999. It collects goods to be delivered to the needy population of India, especially in the aftermath of disasters. Some of the main initiatives of Goonj are based on the following: • Just by re-using our old clothes the problem of clothing for the poor can be solved to a...
Disaster Mitigation Institute
Disaster Mitigation Institute (DMI), India, is a community based action research, action planning and action advocacy non-governmental organisation. It works to reduce disaster risk of vulnerable communities by promoting mitigation efforts, through learning and action. These include food, water,...
Adopt Sri Lanka
Adopt Sri Lanka is a group of individuals and businessmen whose objective is to assist rebuilding and rehabilitating local communities on the coastline of Sri Lanka to get their lives back to normal as quickly as possible. Having originally worked with other NGOs, Adopt Sri Lanka is now principally...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - El Salvador
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people to build a better life. The UNDP began its operations in El Salvador in 1975, and has since...
Methodist Relief and Development Fund (MRDF)
The Methodist Relief and Development Fund (MRDF) is an independent charity rooted in the Methodist Church in Britain. It aims to support the poorest of the poor through long-term development, humanitarian aid and education. Their activities include providing funding to partner organisations...
Red Cross of Equatorial Guinea
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. The Red Cross of Equatorial Guinea carries out...
Cooperazione E Sviluppo (CESVI)
Cesvi, established in 1985, is a secular, independent association, working for global solidarity. Cesvi provides three broad category of services to people in need around the world: immediate help to ensure survival and to overcome emergencies; rehabilitation and reconstruction of systems destroyed...
Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (Gte.) Limited
The Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) is an association of agencies working in, and supporting work in, Sri Lanka. CHA focuses on two main roles: functioning as a network with like-minded organisations and implementing projects on behalf of, and with, its members. Through project...
Oxfam - Sudan
Oxfam is a development and relief agency that helps people worldwide in the struggle against poverty. It has been present in Sudan since 1983. In March 2009, the Sudanese government expels Oxfam from northern Sudan and its programmes in Darfur, Khartoum and Red Sea State - assisting nearly 600,000...
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) - Indonesia
OCHA is assisting the people and the Government of Indonesia in response to humanitarian crises caused by both natural and man-made disasters. OCHA Indonesia assists the UN Humanitarian Coordinator to ensure humanitarian coordination with all actors in order to fulfill the humanitarian needs of...
Sudanese Red Crescent Society
Sudanese Red Crescent Society, a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, strives to: strengthen the capacities of different community sectors, alleviate their suffering, enforce their accessibility to technical tools during emergency/ development situations,...
MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries (MFM)
MorningStar Fellowship of Ministries (MFM) equips, oversees and supports related ministries and promotes interchange, understanding and friendship between them. A key organisational offshoot, MorningStar Disaster Response, provides disaster relief, and offers training to in disaster preparedness to...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Chile
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
A Community Oriented Rehabilitation Network (ACORN)
A Community Oriented Rehabilitation Network (ACORN) offers assistance to and initiates income generating project for children and widows amongst the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq. ACORN also supports a children's rehabilitation centre in the Altai Republic of the Russian Federation. ACORN has...
Urgence Réhabilitation Dévelopment (URD)
Group URD was established in 1993 as an institute of research and evaluation for the improvement of humanitarian practices in disasters and during the transition between relief and development. Today, Groupe URD works on themes which are specific to each operational sector (Nutrition, Water and...
AHS Foundation
The AHS foundation is a charity dedicated to saving lives, improving conditions, and rebuilding communities and infrastructures in areas affected by natural disasters. AHS Foundation are committed to providing training initiatives that empower local communities, enabling them to rise out of poverty...
Yayasan Gaia
Yayasan Gaia is a Indonesian NGO that works on poverty and disaster relief together with a range of international partner organisations. Projects include a house building programme, sanitation and provision of clean water, mobile clinics and livelihood recovery. The organisation also operates a...
World Health Organization (WHO) - Indonesia
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialised agency for health (established in 1948) aims to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services. Health is being defined in WHO's Constitution as state of complete physical, mental, and social...
Yappika
Yappika (Yayasan Penguatan Partisipasi, Inisiatif dan Kemitraan Masyarakat Indonesia) is an alliance for fostering civil society. It used to be Yapika (one P), Yayasan Persahabatan Indonesia-Kanada (Canada-Indonesia Friendship Foundation), and known as channelling agent for CIDA fund.
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
ISDR's goal is to enable all societies to become resilient to the effects of natural and technological disasters, in order to reduce human, economic and social damage.