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United Nations Online Volunteering

Through the Online Volunteering service volunteers can take action for sustainable human development by supporting the activities of development organizations over the Internet. Volunteer opportunities to address development challenges exist with many grassroots organizations, international NGOs,...

Associacion par la Paz y Desarrollo (APD) - Nicaragua

Associacion par la Paz y Desarrollo (APD) is a Spanish based NGO committed to promoting gender equality, equitable redistribution of resources, and the improvement of life quality among men and women living in poverty. It runs projects and programs in 15 countries around the world to achieve ...

Straight Talk Foundation

Straight Talk Foundation is based in Kampala, Uganda. The Foundation aims to increase understanding of adolescence, sexuality, and reproductive health and to promote safer sex, life skills and child and adolescent rights. Straight Talk began as a newspaper in 1993 and in 1997 grew into a registered...

Centre for Volunteering

The Centre for Volunteering, based in Sydney, promotes and supports volunteers and community participation. The centre provides volunteers to community organisations and NGOs through its service delivery arm, and offers accredited and non-accredited training through the School of Volunteer...

Hogar Bambi - Venezuela

Hogar Bambi is a Venezuelan NGO established in 1992 to care for abandoned children. The organisation opened its children's care centre in Caracas in 1996, and currently cares for 60 children under the age of 9. The centre provides round the clock care, medical attention, food and education....

Centro Shama

Centro Shama is a Christian NGO established in 1999 to work with and care for street children in Lima. The Centre currently has a staff of 30, who offer psychological counselling, education and training to the young people with whom they work. The Centre also provides accommodation in its own...

Aid and International Development Forum

The Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) is the world leading forum specialising in disaster relief, resilience, mobile for development, food security and water security. We unite all stakeholders from government, UN agencies, intergovernmental agencies, NGOs and the private sector by...

SOS Children's Villages - Niger

SOS Children's Villages is an international social development NGO active in the field of children's rights and concerns in 132 countries worldwide. Children's Villages provide long-term family centred care for vulnerable children. The first Children's Village in Niger was built in 1991, providing...

Promotion and Human Development Centre

The Promotion and Human Development Centre is a Togolese NGO focused on fighting HIV/AIDS and poverty through medical support and education as well as by providing humanitarian and economic support to clients of the Centre. The organisation places an emphasis on assisting victims of extreme poverty...

Action Aid - Brazil

Action Aid is an international NGO founded in the UK in 1972 to promote quality education and local services in the developing world. Today, the organisation works in 50 countries world-wide. Action Aid has been working in community development with local partners in Brazil since 1999. Current...

ChildHope Brazil

ChildHope Brazil is an NGO which is part of the international Consortium for Street Children, headquartered in the UK. The organisation works for the welfare and rights of children and adolescents at risk and in poverty. ChildHope Brazil sponsors projects in Rio de Janeiro and in Salvador and...

Pathfinder do Brazil

Pathfinder do Brazil is an independent organisation affiliated to Pathfinder International, a US-based organisation working on reproductive health worldwide. Pathfinder do Brazil works with regional groups and local NGOs in the North East to implement the annual HIV/AIDS State Programme of Action.

Care Highway

Care Highway is an international aid organization that works through volunteers to help people whose lives have been affected by catastrophes caused by man or nature. The organisation focuses on education and on improving health through medical missions. Care Highway also delivers emergency aid,...

Douma Society

The Douma Society is a Syrian NGO involved in a range of projects randing from relief work to education and disability services.

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...

Norwegian Emergency Preparedness System (NOREPS)

Norwegian Emergency Preparedness System (NOREPS) is a partnership between the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning, the Norwegian Red Cross, major Norwegian NGOs and selected Norwegian suppliers of relief goods. NOREPS is designed to...

Greenpeace - East Asia

Greenpeace is an international NGO which aims to defend nature and promote peace. Greenpeace East Asia focuses on crucial threats to biodiversity and the environment. Greenpeace China campaigns on stopping climate change, saying no to genetic engineering, toxic chemicals, and protecting forests and...

Plan International - Niger

Founded during the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Plan International is one of the largest child-focused development NGOs. Aiding deprived children in developing countries, Plan International is non- political and has no religious affiliations. In Niger, Plan operates in over 60 villages located in the...

Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)

SSP is an Indian NGO that works for the improvement of living conditions of local communities through grass root women’s empowerment. It supports micro credit projects and networks of self-learning and self-help groups made by women. It also has a programme for disaster response.

Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)

Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) is an independent national association of Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the field of international aid and development with over 80 members. It administers a Code of Conduct committing members to high standards of...