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Braille Without Borders (BWB)

Braille Without Borders (BWB) was founded with the determination to bring down the barriers of social exclusion that prevent blind people from playing a full role in society. BWB aims to literate blind people with the use of the Braille script so they gain access to literature and a vocation. The...

Landesa

Landesa is an international nonprofit organization working to secure land rights for the world's poorest people, those 3.4 billion chiefly rural people who live on less than $2 a day. The organization’s attorneys have helped tackle the land problem with great effect, using law and policy to confer...

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program - Tanzania

The Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Program - Tanzania, operated by the Global Service Corps, offers participants opportunities to learn about and teach organic farming methods while living with local families. Volunteers work with Tanzanian community groups, farmers and non-governmental...

Non-Profit Career Network

Non-Profit Career Network operates a resource centre for non-profit organisations seeking staff, and job seekers looking for employment opportunities within non-profit organisations.

ACCION

ACCION International is a non-profit that fights poverty through micro lending. It provides microcredit and training to micro enterprise entrepreneurs. ACCION also offers an internship programme that provides an opportunity to learn about microenterprise development.

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), an independent research organisation, conducts and facilitates action-oriented research and learning that informs and influences policy and practice. AREU also actively promotes a culture of research and learning by strengthening analytical capacity...

Aschiana

Aschiana assesses the needs and promotes the welfare of vulnerable street working children and their families in accordance with basic child and human rights. Aschiana also provides services to create opportunities for developing life survival skills, basic education, literacy and numeracy, skills...

Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)

Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), an international fund company, aims to encourage entrepreneurs in emerging markets and help sustain the new economy. SEAF invests in small and medium size businesses that are unable to obtain long-term equity due to their size or location and provide...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Venezuela

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN global development network promoting national solutions to support the efforts of countries to eradicate poverty. In Venezuela, UNDP has been raised to build alliances to strengthen the capacities of men and women, organizations and...

Odamiyat Association

Odamiyat Association assists the poor, disabled and elderly in Dushanbe, with a particular focus upon veterans. Odamiyat runs a medical clinic, food bank and social club for veterans and helps find employment opportunities for elderly veterans who need additional income to supplement their pensions.

Mercy Corps (formerly NetAid)

Netaid is a network of people and organisations that aims to mobilise those in developed countries to help make ending extreme poverty a global priority. Netaid works in partnership with the UN and the private sector through educational programmes, campaigns and other poverty-fighting projects....

The Arc Mercer

The Arc Mercer is a private non-profit agency dedicated to reducing the incidence and limiting the consequences of developmental disabilities through prevention, education, and advocacy. Programs are provided for those who need them and opportunities for integration in the larger community are...

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)

The American Near East Refugee Aid, ANERA, is an American NGO. Initially ANERA sought to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians by providing emergency relief. ANERA now also addresses the long-term economic and social needs of Palestinians, Lebanese and Jordanians through its...

Aga Khan Humanities Project (AKHP)

The Aga Khan Humanities Project (AKHP), headquartered in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, promotes pluralism in ideas, cultures, and people by supporting the development and implementation of innovative humanities curricula based on the cultural traditions of Central Asia. AKHP initiates and supports...

Lotus Children's Centre

The Lotus Children’s Centre is a Mongolian non-profit, non-government organisation working with vulnerable children and families to provide the basic human rights of shelter, food and education. Initially set up to provide basic needs for survival for just a handful of children in one apartment,...

Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) - Tajikistan

Project HOPE's mission is to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world. The essence of Project HOPE is teaching - the basis is partnership. Identifiable to many by the S.S. HOPE, the peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now conducts land-based medical training and health care...

Premature Baby Foundation of Taiwan (PBF)

The Premature Baby Foundation of Taiwan (PBF)works to ensure that every premature baby has access to proper medical care of the best possible quality. The Foundation seeks to raise awareness of prematurity as a serious problem and to educate the public to reduce the rate of premature births. ...

CARE International - Azerbaijan

CARE is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian organisations, committed to helping families in poor communities around the world and operates programmes in over 65 countries. They aim to provide economic opportunity, emergency relief in times of disaster, support...

The Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID)

The Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) implements a range of civic education, civil society development, socio-political survey and research and anti-corruption programmes in Namibia. These programmes aim to strengthen civil society and the public’s capacity to interact with government at all...

Swisscontact-Ecuador

Swisscontact is a Swiss non-governmental organization that has been working in developing, newly industrialized and transition countries, since its foundation in 1959. The aim of all its activities is to reduce poverty by promoting private economic and social development in selected countries in...