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Practical Action
Practical Action, formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group, aims to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries. Practical Action plans to tackle the underlying causes of poverty by campaigning to influence policies,...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
With 187 member countries, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development. Through providing a knowledge network, and sharing policy expertise, FAO aims to raise levels of nutrition and...
Amity Foundation
The Amity Foundation (AF), an independent Chinese voluntary organization, was created on the initiative of Chinese Christians to promote education, social services, health, and rural development from China’s coastal provinces in the east to the minority areas of the west. Amity responds to survival...
BKA Logistics LLC
BKA Logistics is a fully licensed international freight forwarder providing expert logistics services for commercial, food aid and humanitarian customers. The company is based out of Washington DC, and comprises industry veterans and offers personalized service in providing logistics excellence.
Red Cross - Uruguay (Cruz Roja Uruguaya)
Red Cross - Uruguay (Cruz Roja Uruguaya), a member society of the International Federation of the Red Cross, provides medical and humanitarian assistance during disasters. The organization also offers education and trainging for emergency situations and risk management.
Red Cross Society of Eritrea
Red Cross Society of Eritrea, a member society of the International Federation of the Red Cross, promotes disaster response, disaster preparedness, and health and community care.
MERCY Malaysia
MERCY Malaysia is a medical relief organisation dedicated to providing humanitarian aid in crisis and non-crisis situations irrespective of race, religion, culture and boundary.
Oxfam - Scotland
Oxfam is a development and relief agency that helps people worldwide in the struggle against poverty. Local shops, found on regional sites, receive goods to raise money for Oxfam. They aim to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice by working with the local people, including the...
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) - Switzerland
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is an independent humanitarian agency established in 1984 for the specific purposes of individual and community development and disaster relief. ADRA helps people in need, especially those most vulnerable, such as women, children, and...
Obor Berkat Indonesia
Obor Berkat Indonesia (OBI) is a non-profit humanitarian organization focusing on healthcare service(social work, medical clinic, mass operations involving cleft lip, hernia and cataract and improving nutrition of children) and on education( school adoption, pre-kindergarten, community learning...
Rotary Club of Macau
Rotaract Club of Macau is an affiliated Rotaract Club of Rotary International. It has been carrying out projects mainly in Mainland China including water and sanitation provision and building schools. The Club has also helped sending humanitarian aid to countries which were affected by the tsunami...
CartONG
CartONG is a French NGO that provides information management services through mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) to humanitarian relief organisations. CartONG works particuarly in the area of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP), promoting the use of geospatial data to...
Burma Border Consortium
The Burma Border Consortium is an alliance of 11 international NGOs acting as a humanitarian relief and development agency working with refugees and the displaced people of Burma on the Thai-Burmese border through local NGOs. The Consortium adopts a rights-based approach to its work, and engages in...
Muslim Aid
Working in over 70 countries across Africa, Asia and Europe, Muslim Aid is striving to help the poor overcome the suffering endured due to natural disasters and lack of life's basic necessities. The organizaiton works with all in need, regardless of their race, religion, gender, nationality or...
Red Cross - Bolivia (Cruz Roja Boliviana)
Red Cross - Bolivia (Cruz Roja Boliviana), a member society of the International Federation of the Red Cross, provides medical and humanitarian assistance during disasters. The organization also offers education and training for emergency situations and risk management.
Hogar Corazonista Hermano Policarpo
Hogar Corazonista Hermano Policarpo is an orphanage in Colombia that provides food, clothing and medical assistance for the 75 orphans who live in the organisation's two facilities. The orphanage also provides one meal a day to 350 children who live in a nearby refugee camp.
Southeastern Ohio Disaster Relief Network (SEODRN)
The Southeastern Ohio Disaster Relief Network (SEODRN) provides relief and assistance for victims of natural disasters in Southeastern Ohio, United States. SEODRN offers debris clean up, the tearing out of wet house material, trade skills for house rebuilding and repairs and accepts a number of...
MapAction
MapAction specialises in the mapping of disaster areas and supplying geographical information for humanitarian relief operations. Using up-to-date geographical information system (GIS) technology they aim to produce instant, real-time maps of a disaster - such as an earthquake or flooding - and...
GOAL
GOAL is an international charitable organisation founded in Dublin in 1977. The organisation works towards ensuring that the most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental needs and rights of life, i.e. food, water, shelter, medical attention...
Caritas Internationalis - Dominican Republic
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 Dominican Republic carries out development work in the broad...