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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
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.
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,...
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...
Children Toy Foundation (CTF)
The Children Toy Foundation (CTF) is a Mumbai-based NGO that aims to educate children through play. CTF collects toys and games and sets up toy libraries in places such as orphanages, schools, creches, industrial sites, prisons and slums. Children and other users are encouraged to have fun and to...
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme
Eurasia Foundation - Uzbekistan Programme, operated out of the Kazakhstan office of the Eurasia Foundation (EF), assists selected of local partners in the improvement of the education system. EF does not currently operate in Uzbekistan. From 1994 to 2006, EF maintained an office in Tashkent, where...
Mission Enfance
Mission Enfance is a NGO based in Monaco that specializes in providing assistance to and education for needy children globally. The organization runs literacy campaigns, teacher training and basic education. The philanthropy organization helps to strengthen the school systems so as to make...
Energize
Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Energize, Inc. is an international training, consulting and publishing firm specialising in volunteerism. Energize developed its web presence in 1997 and contains volunteerism resources, including a referral network and an online library of articles,...
Asian Health Institute (AHI)
Group of medical practitioners that provide both preventive and curative health care programmes, and medical training for local communities in Asia.
Romanian Aid Foundation
The Romanian Aid Foundation works with Romanian people to bring help to the needy. They distribute clothing, furniture, food, kitchen equipment, bedding and basic medical equipment, to improve the lives of people in rural communities. Projects include supporting hospitals and clinics, schools and...