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Hope Children's Centre Verified non-profit organisation

Hope Children's Centre is a local, community initiated educational institute in Uganda that offers formal and vocational education mainly to less privileged children, with most emphasis on AIDS orphans. The Centre aims to provide the children with skills that willl enable them to live a sustainable...

Book Aid International

Book Aid International is a UK based charity that provides over half a million books and journals each year to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps, and schools worldwide in order to support local initiatives in literacy, education, training, and publishing. Book Aid International depends upon...

WORKAID

We are a charity based in Chesham, Buckinghamshire empowering young people in Africa (and the UK) to help themselves by developing the skills and knowledge needed to find gainful employment or start their own business. We do this by refurbishing donated tools to a high standard and shipping them to...

St Gregory's Foundation

St Gregory’s Foundation works in Russia and the former Soviet Union to tackle the social problems facing children, teenagers, parents and carers

Borderline Books

Borderline Books collects unwanted books from publishers, libraries and individuals and redistributes them free of charge to refugees, former prisoners, victims of domestic violence, homeless people and others who have little or no access to books. Many books come direct from publishers -...

Room to Read

Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. They seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift that empowers people to improve socioeconomic...

Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF)

The Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) provides immediate support to professional craftspeople facing career threatening emergencies such as fire, theft, illness and natural disaster. Forms of assistance CERF provides include financial support in the form of loans or grants, booth fee waivers, and...

Shanghai Sunrise

Shanghai Sunrise is a nonprofit, all-volunteer sponsorship program committed to help the most needy children in the greater Shanghai area obtain a well-rounded education. Additionally sponsoring libraries and used-computers-to-schools programmes in deprived areas, Shanghai Sunrise operates under...

RIPPLE Africa

RIPPLE (Recognising Individual Potential & Promoting Local Education) Africa is an NGO involved in raising funds in the UK to support a range of development projects in Malawi. The organisation assists local schools by providing funds for staff at primary, secondary and nursery schools, and is...

Yad Sarah

Yad Sarah, an Israel-wide network of volunteers, provides a spectrum of free or nominal-cost sevices designed to make home care possible for the sick, disabled, elderly&recuperating people and their families. Some of Yad Sarah's core services include: lending medical equipment, transportation...

Overseas China Education Foundation

Overseas China Education Foundation (OCEF) is an independent, non-profit organisation that raises funds to promote education in China, with a focus on helping less-privileged children in rural areas finish their education through the ninth grade. Funds are distributed to qualified aid applicants...

GriefNet.org

GriefNet.org is an internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss. It provides online help to people working through loss and grief issues of various kinds through e-mail support groups, an online library of helpful articles, and related resources and links.

Asia Foundation: Books for Asia

The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program provides books, software, and other educational materials throughout many countries in Asia. More than 90 percent of donations are new textbooks, mostly university-level, donated by US publishers. Used books are accepted from bookstores, libraries,...

International Book Bank (IBB)

The International Book Bank is a nonprofit organisation that procures new or nearly new books and other educational materials and distributes them to schools, community libraries, and other organisations in developing countries around the world. Donations come from US and Canadian publishing...

Book Wish Foundation

Book Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization providing financial and material support for reading-related programs targeting people in crisis worldwide. Through partnerships with organisations that work on the ground in distressed places and donations, the Foundation delivers reading relief...

Shelter Centre

Shelter Centre is an NGO supporting communities impacted by conflicts and natural disasters. It performs research, development, dissemination and implementation of humanitarian settlement and shelter policy, best practice, equipment and field programmes. Shelter Centre works independently and in...

Coopération Internationale pour les Equilibres Locaux (CIELO)

Coopération Internationale pour les Equilibres Locaux (CIELO) works in disadvantaged communities across Latin America. It establishes ‘toy libraries’ and aims to create safe places where children can play. It also provides early childhood development projects that emphasize ‘play’ activities as...

PeaceTrees Vietnam

PeaceTrees Vietnam is a Seattle-based humanitarian organization working in Central Vietnam to assist those whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the explosive remnants of war. It sponsors the removal of landmines and unexploded ordnance to promote a safe and healthy environment for...

Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya

Janashakthi Kantha Sanwardhana Samithiya is a Sri Lanka based NGO working to motivate women to be self-reliant and educate fatherless children. Key organisational activities include the establishment of a revolving fund for the use by members, the training of women in self-employment ventures, the...

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Founded in 1972, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's primary concern is to address issues of inequality and disadvantage, particularly in relation to young people. Support concentrates on projects in the UK which respond to these challenges through the arts and education. Direct support is also given to...