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Catholic Charities

Catholic Charities is one of the largest voluntary social service networks in the USA. The organisation works with more than 1,600 community-based agencies and institutions across America, seeking to reduce poverty, support individuals and families and empower communities. Programmes supported by...

Child Rights Information Network

The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) is a global network that distributes information about the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights amongst NGOs, UN agencies, government organisations, and educational institutions. It has a large index of over 1,400 charities involved in...

Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS)

The Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS) is a voluntary welfare organisation working to further the educational, vocational and social needs of the intellectually disabled. Servicing around 2400 individuals, MINDS operates 4 Special Education Schools; 3 Employment...

El Hogar Infantil Bethel

El Hogar Infantil Bethel is a Christian orphanage in Buenos Aires. Founded in 1952, the home has cared for more than 1,500 orphaned, abandoned and abused children, providing them with care and the best possible education. Many of the children have gone on to study at university level. One of the...

Western Disaster Centre

Based in California, the Western Disaster Centre (WDC) is a non-profit applied research institute that focusses on the use of technology to save lives and minimise economic loss from disasters. The WDC includes: 1) Institute for Search and Rescue, which works on advanced technology development...

Mercy Logistics

Mercy Logistics' mission is to reuse and transport unwanted, appropriate, good-quality equipment from the UK to projects working to fight poverty in the developing world. Its services: 1: Locating and Shipping resources: Mercy Logistics locates and receives donations of appropriate reusable...

Mission Harvest America Inc

Mission Harvest America Inc (MHA) provides global disaster and humanitarian aid donations of materials for free distribution only. In response to the Haiti earthquake, MHA sent over 260 containers of relief goods. 5 semi-truck loads were sent to the northern states in response to Hurricane Sandy...

Rural Action Alliance Programme (RAAP)

The Rural Action Alliance Programme (RAAP) is an NGO that aims to tackle poverty in Ghana. RAAP works in the Upper West, Northern, and Brong Ahafo Regions of Ghana with its headquarters based at Hain in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region. RAAP’s mandate is to combat poverty in...

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.

The Microcredit Summit Campaign

The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a project of the RESULTS Educational Fund, a U.S.-based grassroots advocacy organization committed to ending hunger and poverty.

BancoSol

BancoSol is a Bolivian microfinance bank that provides financial services to micro-entrepreneurs. After over eighteen years in business, BancoSol has disbursed more than USD 2 billion for more than 1.5 million micro enterprise projects. Currently, the Bank has more than 130,000 clients who...

Camfed

Camfed (Campaign for Female Education) is an international charity that is dedicated to the education of girls in Africa. More than 1,065,710 children in impoverished areas have benefited from Camfed's innovative education programmes. Camfed uses a holistic community-based approach to its work....

Cafédirect

Cafédirect is a UK-based alternative trading organisation. It is currently one of the largest Fairtrade hot drinks companies in the world. As well as coffee, Cafédirect has a hot beverage range that includes 100% Fairtrade tea and hot chocolate. Cafédirect works with over 260,000 coffee, tea,...

Best Buddies

Best Buddies is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with mental handicap by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships.

International Centre For Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV)

Background Information ICENECDEV (International Center for Environmental Education & Community Development) was established in 2005, with registration number: 43/G.37/D.14/1/ VOL.BAPP/ in accordance of law Number. 90/53 of December 1990 under article 7 relating to the formation,...

Hope for Orphans and Widows Community Association (HOWCA)

Hope for Orphans and Widows Community Association (HOWCA) is a Ugandan NGO established in the wake of the war in the north that left many widows and orphans without basic resources. The organisation trains widows in micro-business skills, helps them with small business loans to start or boost ...

The Spirit of Sharing

The Spirit of Sharing (SOS) delivers sporting and educational goods donated by Australians to underprivileged children in Fiji. SOS have partnered with sports-goods providers, companies and individuals to collect and ship over $1 million dollars worth of donated brand new and second hand...

Westfields Sports High School

Westfields Sports High School is a co-educational high school in Australia that caters for 1,600 boys and girls in years 7 - 12. The school has an extensive sports programme.

Kenya Orphans Rural Development Programme

Kenya Orphans Rural Development Programme (KORDP) is an indigenous NGO working with under-served communities to improve their quality of life through responsive and innovative programming, service delivery and capacity building in Kenya and across borders. The organisation focuses on providing...

BethanyKids // Bethany Relief and Rehabilitation International

The death rate for children born with a congenital anomaly is about 100x higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than it is in North America with an average of only 1 pediatric surgeon for every 3 million children across the continent. As one of the first organizations to begin training pediatric surgeons...