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The Veolia Foundation assists day care centres for children with cerebral palsy

The Association Pour L’éducation Thérapeutique Et La Réadaptation Des Enfant Infirmes Moteurs Cérébraux (APETREIMC), a French NGO, provides group accommodation for young children suffering from cerebral palsy in order give them a good start in life.

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University of Texas Map Library - Serbia and Montenegro

A large database of maps from around the world, with many links to maps on other sites. Has a huge collection of maps of political and relief maps of Serbia and Montenegro, city maps of Belgrade, links to maps of other Eastern European countries. Other relevant maps include political and transport...

Kawempe Youth Centre

Kawempe Youth Centre (KYC) is part of Uganda Community Libraries Association (UgCLA). The Centre runs programmes aimed at building literate communities. These programmes provide access to resources where there is no other meaningful access and thereby supports the information needs of...

Associação Livro Aberto

Associação Livro Aberto serves to nurture the development of children’s literacy skills by coaching adults to provide access to quality literacy models, materials, and learning experiences that motivate children to learn to read and write, ultimately fostering a culture of reading for pleasure in...

Bring Me A Book® Foundation

The Bring Me A Book® Foundation (BMAB), an award winning literacy nonprofit, was founded to serve children who do not have access to quality books and who are not read aloud to on a regular basis. BMAB provide libraries of quality, hardback children’s books and read aloud training to over 181,000...

Foundation Center

Established in 1956, the Foundation Center is one of the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis, and training, it connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on...

Fever Relief Fund

The Fever Relief Fund (FRF) is an NGO based in the USA that works for disadvantaged young people and single parent families in the USA and in Ghana. The Fund runs a number of projects, for example, after school soccer programmes, mentoring and training in social skills. The Fund also works with...

Books Through Bars

Based in Philadelphia, Books Through Bars works to empower prisoners through the provision of reading materials to support their self-education. Each month, many packages are sent directly to prisoners, while boxes of books are also provided to prison libraries. The organisation's other activities...

Bookfriends International

Bookfriends International, NFP is an American NGO that seeks to provide educational resources to secondary school age children in Africa by providing them with text books, library books and reference materials that are in short supply in their local villages. The organisation collects used books...

FLY Nepal- Travel and Volunteer

Flynepal Volunteering Organization (FVO) is an officially registered non profit and non governmental local volunteer organization which specializes in providing cheap and affordable volunteer programs in Nepal for the benefit of several disadvantaged communities. Recruiting volunteers from abroad,...

Educational Model Organization (EMORG)

EMORG (Educational Model Organisation)is a community-based NGO providing educational resources to the residents of the Kisongo Village area in Arusha, Tanzania. The main aim of the organisation is to provide the community with free library services, pre-primary, primary, and later in service...

World Vision Verified non-profit organisation

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. We serve...

Carlson College

Carlson College (CC) is a private, non-profit institution that works for the improvement of young people under the government's cooperation and provides a good learning environment for students. It is a college under the Institute of Further and Continuing Education (IFCE), founded to meet the...

Education Aid

Education Aid takes donations of surplus books from publishers, book sellers, schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, businesses, and individuals. The books are then given free to educational institutions in poor countries.

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...

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...

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.