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CENIT- El Centro de La Niña Trabajadora
CENIT (Centre for the Working Girl) is an Ecuadorian NGO that supports child labourers, both boys and girls, providing educational, psychological, and medical programmes, as well as job training, for them and their families, thus helping to improve their quality of life. CENIT works in conjunction...
Borderless Sky Project
The Borderless Sky Project is an NGO compromising volunteers from the alumni, faculty, staff, and students of Andrews University in the USA. The Project aims to provide relief aid and development through micro-enterprise schemes, and to promote primary education and child welfare. The Project's...
Awana Wasinchis
Awana Wasinchis is an organization that promotes fair trade in native communities in Peru and helps to gain fair prices for producers.
Congo Leadership Initiative
The Congo Leadership Initiative (CLI) is an American NGO that trains young Congolese leaders through an intensive leadership development curriculum, "The Leadership Institute". The programme recruits talented Congolese youth from all fields of study and with different ambitions, and prepares them...
Biosand water filters for families in Haiti
According to the World Health Organization, Haiti is the most water impoverished nation in the world. It is also one of the world's poorest nations in real terms. Water related illness is the the most prevalent type of illness in Haiti and predominantly affects Haiti's children who have not yet had...
Clean Water for Haiti
Clean Water for Haiti builds and installs water filters in Haiti and sells them at a subsidized price to make them affordable to Haiti's poor. The organisation specializes in biosand filters and has installed over 18,000 of these filters to date in areas of Haiti stretching from Port au Prince to...
Books4Cause Inc.
Books4Cause is an American company that runs book drives and book donation campaigns which help fund and support various initiatives locally, nationally, and around the world. The organisation reprocesses donated books in several ways. Books with resale value are sold in online marketplaces. For...
South Central Windward Producer's Co-operative Society
The South Central Windward Co-operative Society is a rural community co-operative organization in the State of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island in the southern Caribbean). The Society's philosophy is based on a central theme that production and productivity must be maximized in developing...
Volunteers for organisation working for mentally challenged adults in New York
Our organisation is an NGO based in New York. We assist mentally challenged adults, aiming to help them integrate into the community and to retain their dignity. We aim to provide services that will help each individual reach his or her maximum potential Setting up a day centre with tailored...
Athena Naturals
Athena Naturals is a female-owned American company that manufactures handmade soap and sells fair trade items produced by women cooperatives from around the world. The company's social mission is to educate consumers locally about fair trade and eco-friendly shopping products. Students associated...
Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Initiative)
Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement) is an American NGO whose mission is to promote the sustainable development and growth of rural Indian communities. In partnership with local community members and social enterprises, the organisation identifies issues central to itd...
Human trafficking and business: An E-learning course on how to prevent and combat human trafficking
The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and the End Human Trafficking Now! Campaign (EHTN!) have developed an eLearning course which is a modular training programme for business leaders, managers and employees of business companies.
LexisNexis and The Polaris Project fighting human trafficking together
LexisNexis and The Polaris Project have collaborated in the fight against human trafficking. This video is an extract of a segment on NewsChannel 8 in USA talking about this partnership.
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Relief Web
ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996 by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). ReliefWeb is a comprehensive source of information (including documents, maps and agency contact details) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. It provides timely, reliable and relevant...
Projects Abroad
Projects Abroad is an organisation registered as a company limited by guarantee in the UK. Established in 1992 to send university students from Sussex University to teach English in Eastern Europe, Projects Abroad now employs 20 people in the head office in the UK, and has nearly 500 trained staff...
Simunye
Simunye is a Canadian NGO that provides life changing opportunities to young people with a talent for soccer living in poverty in Zimbabwe. The young people selected for the programme must also have academic ambitions. Simunye aims to provide financial assistance and scholarships for these young...
Grupo Inzamac, S.L.
Grupo Inzamac (Inzamac Holdings) is a group of Spanish enterprises which provide consulting and technical services, including quality control, in the area of engineering and construction to companies world-wide. The company has branches in Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Poland, Portugal and Algeria.
Red Salud UC - Facultad de Medicina ( Network of Health of the Faculty of Medicine)
Centro Medico Alcantara makes its health services available through a professional team of doctors, nurses and other professionals of health of the Catholic University of Chile. The services available are in medicine, familiar health, obstetrics, pediatrics, surgery, gynecology and psychiatry. It...
Grameen Foundation
The Grameen Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC with an office in Seattle. The Foundation was established in 1997 by friends of Grameen Bank to help microfinance practitioners and to spread the Grameen philosophy worldwide.