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This an urgent appeal for the poor sick children in the Gambia who need urgent overseas life saving medical treatment whose parents are unable to pay for their treatment. We also want to medical facilities or build a paediactric clinical centre to treat these children and train local medical staff.
Task Brasil’s mission is to provide: 1. socio-educational projects to help disadvantaged young people have better prospects in life. Vocational training, educational, cultural and social activities will enhance their formal education. 2. assistance and guidance to our ex-residents and their family.
AbleChildAfrica specialises in childhood disability in Africa. We work with local partner organisations to create sustainable change to improve the lives of disabled children and their families so that they can achieve their full potential and fully participate in the world around them.
APT works with churches in Burkina Faso, West Africa, to bring God's blessing to their communities through church planting, education, poverty relief, and community development. APT also partners churches in Burkina Faso with churches around the world.
Accounting for Africa identifies projects in Africa supported annually through The Times Leadership Challenge (www.challengeafrica.co.uk). Projects range from teaching in communities, to supporting small businesses and building schools. All are designed to help African people help themselves. 100% of all donations are spent on the ground in Africa. The charity deducts no administration costs.
ABC Trust is dedicated to helping the street children and most vulnerable young people of Brazil. By raising funding and awareness, we support the work of local, community-led organisations that give these children the hope, education and inspiration that they need to transform their own lives.
For over 20 years, Action Village India has provided long-term support to six Gandhian organisations working for change across rural India. Projects we support include; women's empowerment and training, girls' education, rights awareness and advocacy, organic farming and women and children's health.
Advance Aid is a new charitable initiative that will enable emergency supplies for Africa to be made in Africa and stored in strategic locations - in advance of any emergency. This time-saving new model for disaster relief will save thousands of lives when disaster strikes. It will also stimulate a healthy culture of trade, not just aid, on the continent of Africa.
Aegis believes that genocide is preventable. Aegis supports survivors, protects those at greatest risk, educates about genocide and holds perpetrators to account.
Afghan Action’s Training & Business Incubation Centre in Kabul educates young people and trains them to weave carpets or make clothes. In Britain, “Building Bridges” brings Afghans and others together to raise awareness about Afghanistan, working with schools, faith groups, businesses and the media.
The Afghan Appeal Fund (AAF) - a charity run by families of British soldiers - aims to give the children of Afghanistan the chance of a brighter future through education. The charity has funded nine school projects across Afghanistan giving over 6000 children the opportunity to go to school.
Afghanaid has worked with Afghan communities since 1983 to address the issues of poverty. Through 300 local staff it works in agriculture, animal health, micro-finance, income generation, basic health education and women's resource centres.
Asian Foundation for Philanthropy (AFP) facilitates a broad movement of engagement with development initiatives in India. Through three programmes of international volunteering, development awareness and donor programme it works at the grassroots level to ensure that the poorest people can improve their lives, livelihoods, and have a stronger voice in decisions that affect them.
The African Space Trust exists to support the work of local development initiatives, in the areas in which African Space groups stay, through fundraising and active involvement. With all administration costs met by African Space, we can guarantee that all monies raised are spent in Africa.
Providing support, love and care to the community of Ekudzeni, Swaziland including, primary and pre school education, feeding programmes, sustainable agricultural/ animal breeding projects,HIV awareness through sport/football projects and emergency accommodation for orphaned/vulnerable children.
Association for India's Development (AID) is a non-profit, volunteer organisation, focused on empowering the disadvantaged in India by initiating and supporting grassroots efforts in areas such as education, health, sustainable development, women's empowerment and social justice.
The charity was established to relieve poverty and sickness amongst the most vulnerable people in some of the poorest villages in Malawi, specifically with feeding programmes, education, provision of better water supplies and food production
Akamba Aid works among poor rural communities in N.E. Kenya, relieving poverty by supporting primary and secondary education for both sexes, and affordable health care. It encourages self-help among local families, providing access to safe water, and assisting in construction of community buildings.
The Alexander Ewart Fund for Nepal was set up in 2004 in memory of Alex who lost his life in a rafting accident while a volunteer teacher in Nepal. The fund supports development of education in Nepal through providing both buildings and support for students and teachers.
FQMS works to advance medical education throughout Palestine and the medical school at Al Quds University, Jerusalem, supporting visiting lecturers, examiners, teaching materials, student and faculty participation in conferences, clinical supervision, specialist training, the development of e-learning & video conferencing, shelter for students on clinical rotation under curfew.
Alsalam Foundation is a charitable trust which aims to serve its local community. We work with a diverse community of many races, genders, ages, languages and backgrounds. Our mission is to serve the needs of the local community through welfare, education and leisure.
The Andrew Grene Foundation (AGF) is a charity dedicated to supporting Haitian people through education, loans and building projects. Our work is dedicated to the memory of Andrew Grene, a UN worker and one of the many thousands of people who died in the Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010.
The Anglo-Thai Foundation provides education grants to poor children in Northeast Thailand from primary school to college and university level to enable them to complete state education. The Foundation pays hardship and disability grants, and provides schools with clean drinking water systems.
In the slums of Dhaka, 4 million people live in shacks with no running water or sanitation. If their children become ill, they are likely to die as they can't afford medical treatment. We are working to help improve life for these often 'forgotten people.'
Asha Nepal is a human rights organisation working for women and girls in Nepal. It supports projects to help those from abusive and exploitative situations such as trafficking into the sex industry and domestic labour. Its aim is to empower females through education, training and security, giving them a voice.
This is an international membership organisation that supports rural women and their families through education, training and community development programmes. It gives women a voice at International level through its links with United Nations agencies. It has administrative offices in London and organises a conference every 3rd year.
The Atiamah Charitable Trust aims to provide relief to HIV/AIDS sufferers and their families in Ghana. The first priority for adults and children is to help them survive by providing care, basic drugs, dressings and nutrition. Education and counselling are also essential to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Trust currently supports the work of a Home Based Care project in Bolgatanga so that they can increase the number of trained workers, supply more drugs and nutrition and provide transport to enable more people to receive home based care.
B3P exists to promote the formation of an internationally-recognised trans-national Peace Park straddling the borders of Montenegro, Kosova and Albania. In pursuance of this objective, it runs training courses and English language summer schools and supports local sustainable development.
It runs a nursery school and associated development projects in the poorest region in the Gambia and sponsors children from the village through primary school and beyond.
BkB raises funds for its sister charity in Uganda to bring education, health, work skills leading to a sustainable future.
BEHT helps to educate children from under privileged backgrounds. It has helped to build 2 educational centres in Gujarat, India which are educating about 2000 children. It also helps towards the welfare of the sick and elderly in India and also helps towards any disaster relief operations.
The Bhopal Medical Appeal funds a clinic giving free treatment to survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Disaster (the World’s worst industrial disaster). It also treats thousands of people who are being slowly poisoned by drinking water contaminated with chemicals never cleared-up from the disaster site.
Big Hearts is dedicated to rescuing abused and neglected animals in former USSR countries. All money donated goes directly to emergency medical care, food, neutering, re-homing of cats, dogs and recently a former circus tiger. We don't pay anyone salaries and only work with dedicated volunteers.
Birmingham Diocesan office for the Church of England
PC David Rathband's Blue Lamp Foundation raises money to support personnel of the Emergency Services who have been injured in the line of duty as a result of a criminal act.
BLA aims to break the cycle of poverty in Southern Africa through supporting a range of projects focusing on varying needs including health,education and skills development.All projects funded by BLA are carefully monitored to ensure accountability,efficiency and effectiveness.
The immediate problem of poverty is addressed by distributing 2500 food baskets every single week to impoverished families all over Israel. Eleven Children's Afternoon Enrichment Centers are also operated, providing schoolchildren with tutoring and needed therapies, in addition to a nourishing lunch, in order to help them break out of "the cycle of poverty."
Brooke relieves the suffering of hundreds of thousands of horses, donkeys and mules working tirelessly for the world's poorest communities. Its dedicated local vets and support teams provide free veterinary care, education and training to the heart of communities in parts of the Middle East, Africa, South America and Asia. .
To advance the Christian faith by working with children & young people in schools, colleges and other establishments; and by providing relief to those who are in conditions of need or hardship or are aged or sick. To do this in Burscough, in the UK and overseas.
It supports orphaned and vulnerable children in Tororo, Uganda. The children are cared for in extended family units and the charity provides help with food, clothing, accommodation, health care and education.
The Cambodia Trust works with disadvantaged disabled people to enable them to participate as equals in education, employment and community life. The Trust aims to reduce poverty and increase self-sufficiency, through rehabilitation, community work, training and advocacy.
We provide needful aid to poorer nomadic herding families living in harsh conditions, helping with essential resources by refurbishing disused wells, giving vet aid to their vital horses, and supplying hay-making equipment. These measures help sustain livelihoods in a hostile fragile environment
A Christian organisation providing practical and spiritual support to the poor and needy community of Dorohio, in Northeast Romania, providing three course meals, food bags, assistance and counselling. It also has a playground and play area and a children's club. All to show God's Love In Action.
Chacolinks supports the indigenous Wichi of northern Argentina in their struggles to protect their forests and to press for their rights to their ancestral lands.
Chennai Challenge helps disadvantaged communities in Chennai, South India. This includes work in community centres, schools and orphanages. Each year a team of volunteers from the UK visits Chennai to help at projects and allocate funds to improve conditions.
Children of the Andes is a UK charity dedicated to supporting Colombia's most disadvantaged children by working with local NGOs. With project partners it aims to provide relief from the effects of violence and poverty and promote longer-term development through a range of education, health, social care and conflict resolution initiatives.
Chinthowa, Malawi,a village of approx. 900 people about 50 miles from Lilongwi. Over the last 7 years we have worked to make it self sustaining, supporting 84 orphans, providing wells, seeds and lifestock. We are in the process of providing a school for primary and adult education.
It supports a primary school and school for the deaf in Kamuli, Uganda; runs community development programmes in Kamuli District and runs volunteer trips to Uganda, including Dental Missions
The charity provides relief to disadvantaged and vulnerable people living in Romania and Moldova by giving families, churches and medical organisations financial gifts, providing humanitarian aid and medical supplies, and setting up projects to provide long term benefits and independence.
The CIFA Trust is a small but highly effective UK charity supporting the work of CIFA Kenya and CIFA Ethiopia to facilitate the promotion of healthy, peaceful, enlightened and self reliant communities. All donations received are sent overseas.
Our mission is to provide affordable, appropriate & sustainable education for the children of Nepal, particularly in remote areas where they have no other support. We want all children to have the chance to achieve the School Leaving Certificate, and thereby help realise their potential.
Community Link project, linking Ickenham in West London with Rukiga in South West Uganda.The two communities learn much from each other. CLICK Rukiga has helped provide Clean water and is now assisting Kamwezi Parents School, Kyabuhangwa Women in Development and St James Church, Buhangezi.
Cocoa 's mission is to improve the conditions for babies and children in China's orphanages, by enhancing their quality of care and providing equipment, medicine and trained staff. Cocoa is a non denominational UK registered charity founded in 1995.
Comfort Rwanda works with Rwandan partners to help genocide survivors, orphans, widows and the poor. It funds a street kids project (a vocational training college is being set up), income generating projects, practical healing and reconciliation, education, pastors training and community support.
CI seeks to explore the British-Indian community experience and look forward to understand how as individuals and a community we can continue to make a meaningful contribution in the world. CI programmes are designed to enhance personal leadership, community service and deepen identity.
Copts in Need is a charity based in the UK, which aims to help people in Egypt and Sudan who are living below the poverty line. Its aim is to provide food, shelter, education, healthcare and financial support to families for hope of a brighter future.
Craft Aid UK supports two projects in Uganda, a slums outreach and residential home for street children in Kampala and a community village project aiming to provide life saving medication for HIV and to combat the current infant malnourishment problem. To learn more please visit www.craftaiduk.com
Crossflow works with partners in Nepal and India to provide health and education to vulnerable communities and the excluded.
Cubafriend was set up in 2008 to help Cubans in the Holguin area of Cuba recover from hurricanes Gustav and Ike. It has since gone on to provide much needed help with resources for schools, housing, healthcare and sports and recreational activities.
Every penny of every pound donated to DAFA is put where it is needed with those who help administer the charity or are involved in facilitating any of its projects doing so entirely at their own expense. DAFA works predominantly in Zambia through a range of projects focusing on health care, education and self-help.
The Dalitso Trust has been successfully working in partnership with rural villages in Malawi since 2002. Our focus is on changing lives through development in a sustainable way. We believe change comes through investing ourselves in others, one person at a time. We do this in 3 main ways; <br><br> Dalitso Health: working with families to create healthy villages <br> Dalitso Leaders: mentoring and equipping local leaders <br> Dalitso Play: pioneering educational play and parenting skills
Charity Registration No:1143109. Supporting under-privileged children and young people in Darjeeling, DCTrepairs schools, provides equipment and basic facilities, organises child sponsorship, provides books and a travelling librarian to visit schools, and supports children in two orphanages.
Dental Project Peru seeks to provide emergency dental care and education to the most impoverished and rural areas of Peru. We travel to the most remote communities at high altitudes of over 4,000m where there is often no electricity or water. Once there, we treat children and adults, extracting and restoring teeth thus relieving pain that they have often lived with for years.
Our mission is to provide Tanzanian communities with vocational education for needy children, access to clean water and other actions based on an intimate and thorough understanding of its social and cultural needs.
The Donald Woods Foundation is dedicated to fighting poverty through education, health and community-building programmes in South Africa. Current programmes include screening over 1,000 people a month for HIV, supporting and caring for those who are HIV positive and an orphans and vulnerable children programme. The new 100 schools programme is designed to address any and every aspect of a school's development in deeply impoverished, rural communities, working in partnership with the Dept of Education.
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It helps to raise funds to provide wells for fresh water and latrines to improve the health and sanitation for communities in Tanzania
Encourages and supports a wide spectrum of development projects in the kingdom of Lesotho
Eagles Wings provides food, water, clothing, shelter and healthcare to children and families and those living in desperate circumstances in Kenya, Uganda, India and Russia through trusted partners. 2011 target: to build a maternity clinic in Nebbi, north Uganda. Two acres of land has been bought.
It helps relieve suffering and poverty amongst disadvantaged people and communities primarily, though not exclusively in Southern India. It supports the development of education and training of disadvantaged children and women. It provides healthcare and educational programmes.
ECRAD is a Scottish Charity which works together with ECRAD Malawi to drive forward a programme of improvements to alleviate the suffering and deprivation brought about by the HIV/Aids virus which has badly hit this already impoverished nation. Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjfhOlCIqlA
Provides opportunities in rural Morocco for girls to continue their education beyond primary level. Educate a girl and you educate the next generation www.educationforallmorocco.org
EDSA supports Saturday Schools and other educational initiatives which give disadvantaged young people living in the poverty-stricken townships and informal settlements around Cape Town the chance to fulfil their potential. EDSA believes that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and crime, the abiding legacy of apartheid.
EI works in Developing Countries world-wide through practical, caring action and culturally sensitive mission - to meet the needs of people practically,spiritually and emotionally. They go to some of the most needy areas of the world to serve less fortunate people.
All money is spent in Malawi. It provides food for 400 to 500 orphans a day at feeding stations. Funds have been provided to build two village clinics and two classrooms at a village school.Other items like mosquito nets water treatment tablets and seed packs have also been provided.F.R.O.M Scotland has no administration costs.
The Farmers Overseas Action Group, FOAG, is an independent charity whose mission is to aid social and economic development in Uganda’s rural communities. FOAG provides support to 12 projects in four key sectors; health, education, economic empowerment and the environment, with the overall goal of alleviating poverty. FOAG concentrates on small scale constructive action for community development through the funding of innovative projects that are often too small for the objectives of larger international charities. FOAG was founded in 1981 by a nucleus of Worcestershire farming families to practically address the needs of Uganda’s agricultural development. The core group has expanded over the years and is now supported by an ever increasing number of Associate Members and organisations. FOAG works in a direct and personal way and ensures that all projects are monitored on a regular basis. (<u>www.foag.co.uk</u>)
We support work to eliminate poverty, deprivation and discrimination in Brasov county, Romania. We work primarily with destitute families within the marginalised Roma communities, and typically support educational and housing projects and programmes that promote a route to self-sufficiency.
Feedback helps the poor in Madagascar to improve their livelihoods and their environment, sustainably and on their terms. It operates community development programmes focussing on health, education and natural resource management (especially in the areas of farming and forest conservation).
It helps the families and child victims of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in Ukraine. It personally takes out humanitarian aid 3 times a year in its 3 Transit vans. It also helps deprived children in the UK particularly via HMP. and single parent families at Christmas.
we help vunerable children in ethiopia through our sponsership program and building project.
Our Vision: "A South Africa without hunger and malnutrition" Our Plan: 1)Spur co-operation among those fighting hunger 2)In urban areas, feed people from foodbanks operating Food Rescue and Procurement programs 3)In rural areas, eliminate hunger and create jobs by making small holder farming viable
The Friends of Kadzinuni is a UK based charity established in February 2003 supporting Kadzinuni Primary School and its rural community. It aims to advance the education of the young people in the district of Kadzinuni, near Vipingo in Kenya, and to advance the provision of local health care for the people of the district.
Friends of Kampala Music School supports the development and future of Kampala Music School. KMS opened its doors in 2001 following a successful “Pianos for Uganda” scheme, which spread 80 donated pianos across the country and is now fund raising to support the move into new premises.
"Friends of Meru" is a Perth based Scottish charity that raises funds to promote health, housing and education projects within the Meru region of Kenya. It is a "not for profit" organisation comprised of health, housing and social care professionals.
Friends of The Citizens Foundation (FTCF) raises funds for The Citizens Foundation (TCF); Pakistan's leading education charity. TCF has built 730 school units nationwide and provides formal quality education to 102,000 children, almost 50% girls, regardless of ethnicity, gender, caste or religion
ADEPT is a charity working to protect the unique landscape of the Tarnava Mare area in Transylvania, Romania which is of European importance. It conserves the biodiversity of the grasslands and forests linked to sustainable agriculture and livelihoods, developing high quality local food products, rural tourism and traditional crafts. www.fundatia-adept.org
"Giving the Street Children of Today a Better Tomorrow" <p> Future Hope was founded in 1988 to help to provide a home, an education, health care and opportunity for street children in Kolkata.<p> Find out more at www.futurehope.net and sign up for regular news at www.futurehope.net/newsletter <p>
The charity helps to reduce extreme poverty in the rural areas by increasing the productivity of working horses and donkeys through welfare and management training. It provides basic veterinary assistance, teaches in schools and to farmers groups, and provides scholarships for paravets at college level.
Generation Rwanda (UK) is dedicated to helping orphans and socially vulnerable young people in Rwanda pursue a university education and ultimately become leaders in driving economic development and social reconciliation. We provide scholarships to the future professionals and leaders of Rwanda.
Ghanalink (IW) is a Christian chariy.It seeks to encourage and resource links between churches, schools and individuals in the Isle of Wight, and their counterparts in Ghana. It aims to bring mutual benefit though social, spiritual, educational, cultural and financial exchanges.
Global Action Nepal's chief focus is on educational and social improvement throughout Nepal. Its major project areas include teacher training, supporting the education of disadvantaged children, building adequate sanitation and water facilities and developing the skills of Nepalese youth.
The GFCF is a grassroots grantmaker working to support institutions of community philanthropy around the world. It helps these local institutions to strengthen and grow so that they can fulfil their potential as vehicles for local development, poverty alleviation and citizen participation.
Go Help is a UK registered charity that works with local communities in Central Asia to improve their access to healthcare and education services. Go Help fundraises for its projects by challenging people to undertake incredible adventures like the Mongolia Charity Rally and Roof of the World Rally.
We provide support to people living in the district of Musoma in Tanzania. We offer a volunteering opportunity for people to use their skills to make a positive difference, by working with the local people. We also promote Christian faith in action.
The Good Shepherd Project aims to break the cycle of poverty, violence and despair that traps children from the shanty towns of Brazil through the provision of education, skills-training and healthcare. We work in areas of social deprivation protecting children and tackling root causes of poverty.
GLO works in partnership with local organisations in Central Africa (notably Burundi), to help the people who help the people, providing financial, logistical and advisory assistance. Main focus is evangelism and discipleship through churches and schools, printing and teaching materials, fighting AIDS, street children and orphans, and encouraging an informed dialogue between different ethnic and religious groups (Muslims and Christians).
Half the Sky supports orphans in China through infant nurture and preschool programs, personalised learning for older children, and loving permanent family care and medical care for children with disabilities. Because every child matters, and every child should have a chance for a bright future.
The HALO Trust is a non-political, non-religious NGO that specialises in the removal of the hazardous debris of war.
HAMLIN FISTULA UK supports the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - a hospital caring for women with horrendous injuries sustained in childbirth.
Hanna's Orphanage is a small charity set up to help the children of Ethiopia by supporting the maintenance and expansion of Hanna Orphans' Home.
Health for All was initially developed by the doctors, staff and patients at the Bridge and Littlebourne Health Centres, Canterbury. Aiming to "preserve health and relieve sickness and suffering in the less developed countries of the world" it supports partnership projects in India and Africa.
HELP supports families of the tsunami which devastated the East Coast of Sri Lanka. It funds two orphanages, after-school classes and scholarships for orphaned children. It also funds micro-finance schemes which support 90 single mothers.
We are a church and at present are engaged in supporting a food , health and education project in Swaziland.
Homes in Zimbabwe was established in 2004 to provide funds for the maintenance of Old People's Homes in Zimbabwe. The homes then were in serious need of help on account of the economic decline and high inflation that had completely eroded their financial reserves. Today we have had to divert almost all our resources to supplying food and fuel to safeguard the very lives of the elderly of all races living in residential homes and many still living at home often alone.. The local currency is now worthless removing any buying power from all local pensions, and although food is now available, it is priced in US$'s - a currency out of reach to most pensioners.
Established in May 2007 Hope 4 Kidz gives children a sense of hope and support, the wellbeing of youngsters who require various degrees of extra care, whether they are suffering from a physical or mental disability, living with a serious/prolonged illness, or need respite from poverty/abuse.
The charity supports orphans and vulnerable children affected by AIDS in the Chilubula region of Northern Zambia. It provides food, clothing, education and sponsorship for the children and young adults as well as providing employment opportunities for the community.
Hue Help works in central Vietnam to improve the health, education and future prospects of disadvantaged children. Working through local partners we provide mobile health care, support a home for children, run swimming training for children in flood zones and operate a volunteer programme.
iDE UK is a UK based charity working to alleviate world poverty. We work with farmers and aspiring entrepreneurs living in poor rural areas all over the world. With them, we invest in what’s possible. We empower them to develop their land, create new business and establish market-based economies.
Izara Khom Loy Trust helps ethnic minorities and stateless people in SE Asia by providing kindergarten education, food and running income producing projects such as producing handicrafts. Currently it is running projects in the mountains between Thailand and Myanmar/Burma.
We are a non profit organisation set up to help the poor and vulnerable in The Gambia, particularly but not exclusively in the provinces where the need is greatest, initially the Jarra West District.
For the rest of 2011, JDI are pleased to support HOOPS 4 HOPE who help young people become healthier, more productive, adults. For more than 15 years they have done this through organising programmes around basketball and other sports in Zimbabwe and South Africa. www.hoopsafrica.org/skills-4-life
Jeevika Trust tackles the roots of Indian poverty by revitalising rural communities. We work with people on the margins of rural society, low-caste and tribal people, especially disadvantaged women, to help them build and sustain their individual, family and community livelihoods.
Jesuit Refugee Service UK accompanies, serves and advocates on behalf of asylum seekers from their first arrival until they are settled satisfactorily. We especially work with detained asylum seekers and destitute asylum seekers. This work then feeds into our campaigning and lobbying activities at a local, national and international level.
JNF is an apolitical organisation benefiting all races and religions in Israel. It raises money for water projects, reservoirs and water conservation and has recently expanded its scope to run diverse projects for underprivileged people such as a hospital, a riding school for the disabled and a youth village.
Joliba Trust supports grassroots development work with farming and cattle-raising communities in some of the poorest areas of Mali. Our particular focus is on projects to help women, and environmental work to sustain rural livelihoods.
TKT supports the education and health of children attending three primary schools in Uganda. At Rock of Joy Children's Centre it provides funding to enable 350 children to receive free education and healthcare from its School Nurse. It also provides funding for developing self sustainable activities such as Poultry Projects.
The trust supports Karen refugees from Burma who have been forced to take refuge in the border area of Thailand. Most of the assistance is provided through support for the Mae Tao Clinic run by Dr Cynthia Maung.
The Karen Woo Foundation provides grants to provide healthcare to Afghans, in particular women and children, to train healthcare providers (eg doctors and midwives), to provide medical supplies to healthcare providers particularly in rural areas and to provide healthcare education to Afghan women.
KSDP provides educational and other practical support to young Karenni refugees living in camps on the Thai/Burma border. Our motto is to 'help the Karenni to help themselves' and we provide education and support facilities to enable them to achieve this objective. Administrative costs are kept to a minimum with virtually 100% of our donations going to the Karenni .
Karuna supports educational, health and cultural projects throughout South Asia that are helping thousands of oppressed women, men and children to develop the skills, dignity and confidence to transform their lives and take their rightful place in society.
The Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre (KAT Centre) is dedicated to helping Nepal's animals. Over 20,000 dogs live on the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal. Many suffer from abuse, starvation, and worse. The KAT Centre is creating a healthy, rabies-free street dog community. Learn more at www.katcentre.org
The Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre is a project to create a world-class arts centre in Kathmandu. It is a unique opportunity to help contemporary artists in Nepal who, over decades, have become isolated by politics and geography. The charity (reg. no. 1121118) was founded in October 2007 to fund-raise for the project. Please visit www.kathmanduarts.org for further information.
KEP invests in capital equipment within schools within Kenya
The Kenya Trust raises money to improve educational facilities in poorer rural areas where needs are great or in schools for disabled children. Last year the Trust financed the building of two new classrooms at The Salvation Army's school in Kibera, a vast township on the outskirts of Nairobi. Their current project is to build a 7 classroom school, along with an administrative block and toilets, at Irukose in western Kenya, an area with high levels of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty. The Trust is also involved in developing music and provides The Salvation Army with musical Instruments of all kinds and sponsors territorial music schools.
Kanaama Interactive helps women in Kashare, south-west Uganda, tackle poverty. Donations enable microcredit loans (£60) to unblock the pent-up initiative of enterprising people. Professional training and support foster a culture of financial literacy, independence and grass-roots solidarity.
The Kileva Foundation provides support and encouragement to underprivileged Kenyan children and their families. Its two major projects are the building of the Kileva Eastfield School in Mwakoma and the Kileva Medical Dispensary in Kirumbi which are remote villages about 15 km from the town of Voi in Kenya.
The Kilimatinde Trust (est 1997) assists the poorest region (Singida) in Tanzania in education, health and development. Thanks to the generosity of Grundfos a solar pump installation will assist the drought stricken village of Londoni in 2010. In 2009 the Sunderland Royal Hospital donated 140 beds and other generous supporters have enabled the hospital to be solar panelled so half the wards can be lit at night. <p> The Trusts 2010 priorities are: install a water purification unit, complete the hospital infusion unit, solar panel the remaining wards, support poor patients through a food fund, support HIV/AIDS orphans through a health insurance scheme and renew many outdated pieces of hospital equipment.
Kubaru is a peer-to-peer microlending platform that allows you to change the life of a borrower with as little as £10. The Kubaru site offers a fully transparent, automated and user-friendly microlending site that allows the user to fund entrepreneurs around the world.
One of the unique qualities of the Lady Fatemah Trust is that it operates on zero administration costs ie every penny that you donate will go to the project that you nominate. It focuses on Microfinance, Education, Medical treatment, Disability Rehabilitation, Water projects and disaster relief.
Latin American Foundation for the Future* is dedicated to helping young and vulnerable people who have been forgotten and abandoned by family or society, such as street children. LAFF offer grants and assistance to grass-roots projects - working at local level to achieve maximum impact. They only support projects that aim to be self sustaining, with the aim of creating independence from outside help not dependence on it.
LBMT, a Christian charity seeks to support the Anglican church in East Africa especially in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Projects supported include housing pastors, training pastors and leaders, church buildings, evangelism, schools, sponsorship of children's education and building guest houses to help generate income.
The charity buys roundabout wells for communities in Africa. As children play on the roundabout they pump clean water up into a large holding tank. A single well costs just £6,500 to install and can provide up to 2000 people with fresh water.
Leket Israel Table to Table UK was established to rescue from food prodcuers excess food for redistribution to the needy.
Liberty Foundation exists to provide care, rehabilitation and education for abused and abandoned children in Belize, Central America.
Libya Aid Relief Effort (LARE) was set up to provide emergency relief in Libya. We are now focused on providing assistance through long-term initiatives. Help us raise funds for a rehabilitation centre and help the victims of the conflict integrate back into society.
Lifeline Network is a growing and dynamic body of people who are united in fighting the poverty, injustice and hardship that afflict our world. Members across the globe help one another rebuild communities through exchanging knowledge, expertise and resources. We currently operate in 13 countries.
Link Romania, a Christian charity which exists to rebuild lives and communities in Eastern Europe supporting the poorest and most marginalised people through education and social care projects in Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Moldova and Romania working with the poorest elderly, children and families
Love Ghana supports projects helping some of the most vulnerable people in eastern Ghana. The projects include a microfinance scheme, building a new school, a craft project, giving crisis aid and helping children living in poverty. Visit us at www.loveghana.org.
It helps villagers to survive and break out of the cycle of poverty, deprivation & disease and is saving lives. All live below the international poverty line. Many die as a result of AIDS, TB, Malaria, Cholera and dirty water.
Our aim is to raise attendance and standards of learning of Ugandan schools through the sustainable provision of midday meals. Schools grow crops which go into kitchens to feed the children. We already have 45,500 pupils benefiting but the demand is high.
The Mad Foundation helps people in some of the world's poorest countries to help themselves, by working at a grassroots level to develop much needed sustainable community resources. Their objective is to advance education and alleviate poverty in any part of the world. They have helped build and renovate hundreds of schools, built orphanages, clinics, workshops, water and sanitation systems, helped kids with educational scholarships and helped provide sports and health resources throughout Africa, South America, and South East Asia. Money raised for the Mad Foundation will always be used on appropriate projects with the most immediate need.
A neutral, impartial humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict, enabling recovery and assisting the development of affected people. We consult with communities to reduce the threat of death and injury, release safe land and vital resources, and help to develop their potential.
The Makhad Trust provides a meeting place ("makhad") in nomadic regions where there is a powerful relationship between the environment and the human spirit. Working through community leaders it sets up projects to assist the economic and social wellbeing of a community whilst seeking to protect their environment and culture.
MoF exists to raise money in support of the Home of Hope orphanage in Malawi, which provides, nurture, care and education for more than 600 orphans.
We support the people of Mandimba in Northern Mozambique - one of the poorest areas in the world - in their struggle towards better health and economic prosperity. We work to provide water, food, education, healthcare support. Full details of the charity can be seen at: www.ma-ma.co.uk
MANINGA grows change in rural Mozambique through education, development, farming and care for orphans, elderly and the vulnerable. This work recognises the need for long-term sustainable development and education alongside immediate aid and care.
Helps the work and projects of the Anglican Church in Mozambique and Angola
Mat-to-fore exists to reach out to those living in poverty, showing them the love of God in real and practical ways. The needs of children are of special priority. Established in 2006, the charity is currently working in the village of Kotei in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
The Maun Homeopathy Project runs free homeopathic clinics for people living with HIV and AIDS in Maun, Botswana. It works in partnership with agencies in the local community and travels light with mobile outreach clinics for those most in need. It is training three local people to become homeopaths.
Mercy in Action helps the poorest of the poor in South East Asia, working with adults and children to feed, educate, house, and provide medical support for the vulnerable and abandoned. Our many projects change peoples lives, providing them with the tools and training to build a brighter future.
It gives a hand up not a hand out to the community of Mityana, Uganda. Priorities include Fire Safety for children; sustainable development and increasing democracy for the community [particularly women] and building a Community Resource Centre. It works with the community and responds to its needs.
We at the Mo Farah Foundation are committed to providing aid to those most in need in the immediate short term and foreseeable future. The crisis facing the Horn of Africa is a recurring issue of which is very close to Mo’s heart and as a result he founded and created the Mo Farah Foundation.
The Montfort Missionary Society is a Religious Congregation in the Roman Catholic Church, which exists to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world, through means which include missionary work in under-developed countries.
The Aim of the trust is to provide support for the orphans of Bertoua, Cameroon and the surrounding villages by providing; foster care, healthcare and education. To provide education and facilities for the villages to become self sustaining in the support of the orphans.
Mowgli provides mentors who inspire, support and empower entrepreneurs in achieving their business and personal potential, encouraging sustainable job creation and social and economic development. Mowgli mentors work in developing countries throughout the Middle East, as well as within the UK.
Msaada supports self-sustainable and humanitarian projects for the benefit of the people of Rwanda.
It works with the National Centre of Arts and Music Schools (CNEArt) in Cuba to send and distribute materials to children and young people for music and performing arts education in Cuba.
CAN YOU HELP PROVIDE CLEAN WATER IN WEST AFRICA? Since 2006, Myra’s Wells has installed numerous wells in Burkina Faso providing water to about 50,000 villagers, and also to training centres, schools and orphanages. The wells are overseen by local churches to ensure all are welcome to use the water.
Founded by Natalia Vodianova in 2005, the Naked Heart Foundation runs two programmes: - “Playgrounds with purpose”, creating safe and inspiring play areas in Russian cities. 67 facilities in 47 Russian cities have been built by now. - «Every Child Deserves a Family» programme www.nakedheart.org
Ncuda helps develop capacity and skills in socially and economically disadvantaged communities in Cameroon. It supports institutions of learning, advances education, of people of all ages, supports business development initiatives and funds community development projects to enhance social cohesion, build capacity, skills and confidence to participate more fully in society.
The Nepal Trust is working with Health, Education, Renewable Energy, Heritage Preservation and Eco-Tourism in the far NW of Nepal. Its main objective is to help create community projects that emphasize local participation and responsibility and give hope to the people of this very remote and impoverished area, where every day is a struggle for survival.
We rebuild lives and communities destroyed by war and genocide by tackling the psychological and economic consequences of conflict. Focusing on education and health, our projects promote economic and community development, enabling women and children in particular, to break the cycle of poverty.
New Futures Nepal gives disadvantaged children and adults in Nepal and India hope for a better future. It works with the children and their carers towards independent adulthood. It provides loving homes; educates children and adults; provides specialist medical care and provides shelter for hundreds of street children in Kathmandu.
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The Niall Mellon Township Trust was started by Niall Mellon in 2002. The aim of the charity is to build quality social housing for impoverished families living in shacks in the townships of South Africa. The charity operates a year round house building programme. Since the charity first started it has built 13,500 homes and that figure continues to grow. To find out more about what we do visit: www.nmtownshiptrust.com
The Trust aims to help some of the poorest and most marginalised people in Malawi by working to improve access to justice, access to healthcare, and access to education. www.nickwebbertrust.org.uk
NIICCA was founded in early 2001 but became a registered charity in December of the same year. It was started when Ruth Bell found out about thirty abandoned babies in run-down, desolate hospitals in Simferopol, the Capital city of Crimea. Since then, the charity has grown and spread across Crimea.
Nsumbi Trust works in partnership with the Stephen Jota Children's Centre in Kampala, Uganda, providing education, regular meals and healthcare to 500 children in a secure, caring environment. "If we do not show the children love, they will never know in the whole world that there is anything called love" Pastor Stephen Jota, Uganda.
Nyumba Ya Thanzi - The House of Good Health - is a UK based charitable trust working in Malawi to support locally designed development initiatives. Nyumba works with Malawians who have ideas about how to improve the lives of people in their country but often lack the resources to put their plans into action. They work with people who are passionate, committed and have realistic, workable plans.
To raise awareness of the plight of HIV+ orphans in Nairobi slums and funding for specific projects. To date: equipped slum clinics, funded tertiary education, literacy and IT resources, solar power, water distribution, medical equipment and built houses. Yearly visits by volunteer teams. Join us?
Oasis serves people and builds inclusive communities. Oasis is doing all it can to confront injustice in practical ways and it has been pioneering life-transforming housing, healthcare, education, computer training and youth work initiatives across the globe for over twenty years.
Helping to deliver self-reliance and hope to refugees and displaced people by grant giving.
It raises funds to provide for the relief of children in Malawi suffering from hardship and distress. In particular providing funds for the support of the Open Arms Infant Home, Blantyre, a transition Home for orphaned, neglected and terminally ill children, its associated Homes, outreach programmes and new projects.
Oundle Africalink will be building a new school house for a local primary school in Pomene, southern Mozambique. Their present building is made of illegally harvested Mangrove poles and has no seats or basic teaching facilities.
Oxfam is a vibrant global movement of dedicated people fighting poverty. From saving lives and developing projects that put poor people in charge of their lives and livelihoods, to campaigning for change that lasts. Oxfam is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 202918) and Scotland (SCO 039042).
Papua Partners is committed to transforming lives in West Papua through tackling the causes and consequences of poverty and social injustice. Papua Partners works with local organisations and churches to empower and improve livelihoods in local communities. We do this through provision of technical support, organisational development and funding of innovative initiatives.
Peace Direct supports local action against conflict. We have a network of trusted and effective peacebuilders in Africa and Asia, people who are everyday saving lives, and bringing hope to their communities.
PEPAIDS is a UK based charity which provides financial and administrative support to SAPEP, an HIV/AIDS awareness initiative that operates in two rural districts in Southern Zambia. As well as educating and raising awareness, SAPEP equips young people with the life skills they need to overcome cultural pressures and avoid contracting HIV.
A Christian church that reaches out, with practical help for needy communities, to global locations (Africa, Europe, South America as well as the UK). Medical, education, building & financial aid combined with the Christian message of hope & love, fundamental to its beliefs and motivation.
The Pervez Musharraf Foundation's primary goal is to give the best value per donation with 95% of funds donated reaching people who need help. The Foundation's first port of call is to provide the fastest and strongest support possible to those millions affected by the flood disaster.
The Trust supports long-term improvement in Vietnam in terms of poverty reduction, healthcare, education, the natural environment, and national infrastructure via small-scale projects not easily addressed by other agencies. Current activities include bursaries for Vietnamese students intending to work in the Trust’s key areas and small projects related to child welfare.
Phoenix- India raises funds in the UK to support the work of CRTDP and DWCDI in Nagpur, India. CRTDP work in rural areas motivating landless labourers and establishing cottage industries. DWCDI is concerned with promoting women's rights and childcare.
PONT is a link between South Wales and Mbale, Uganda. It helps with poverty issues by creating long term partnerships to provide support to improve life in one of the poorest regions of Africa. Funds are raised in many ways to support the work of individual projects and the work of PONT as a whole.
Positive Steps was established in 1989, it is a care and support organisation dealing with vulnerable people In Scotland and internationally. Your donation makes a huge difference and allows it to continue to offer real people real solutions.
The Princess Margarita of Romania Trust (PMRT), an Incorporated British Charity was founded in 1991 with the aims and remit to support the work of the Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation in Romania. The PMRT's main activities are related to fundraising for the Foundation's programmes whose principal beneficiaries are children and the elderly in disadvantaged communities in Romania.
Project Peru, a small, lively, totally voluntary UK-based charity running a children's refuge in the shanty towns near Lima, offers food, clothes, education, shelter and fun to those in need in Peru where nearly half the population exists below the national poverty line. www.projectperu.org.uk
Prospect Burma invests in the democratic future of Burma through its young people by funding education for Burmese citizens - many of whom have been forced to flee overseas -through a scholarship programme. Aung San Suu Kyi actively supports Prospect Burma and gives us income from her Nobel Peace Prize money, but every year we have to turn away hundreds of requests from students due to lack of funds. This year we are supporting 160 bright but underprivileged Burmese students who are committed to return to Burma with their unique skills and help to rebuild civil society when democracy is restored.
Puentes' mission is to create and finance projects that contribute to the well-being of children living on the street and in already existing rehabilitation centers in Lima, Peru.
Pump Aid's mission is to provide vulnerable people in Sub-Saharan Africa with sustainable access to clean water. Improving community health and wellbeing through innovative, cost effective and sustainable technology; the Elephant Pump and Toilet.
VPO / Que Rico! want all the children and communites we support to have a future - one that is not determined by their poverty. We want the communities in which we work to blossom and flourish and we want to protect the environment for the benefit of future generations.
Rainbow Trust Africa works to improve the lives of people in Southern Zambia. Operating from a 12-acre site in Livingstone the Trust was established in 1996 and provides, amongst other things, education for 500 children, healthcare to five remote locations twice weekly and support for destitute grannies and their orphaned grandchildren.
Re~Cycle collects unwanted bicycles in the UK and ships them in containers of 400+ at a time to partners in Africa. Here they are distributed to people as a low cost and environmentally friendly means of transport, improving access to water, health care, education and employment. Over 29,000 bicycles sent to date. <p> Please see Re~Cycle's information on doing sponsored rides and raising money, here: http://www.re-cycle.org/How_To/Sponsored_Bike_Ride_Charity
REACH supports the work of REACH in Rwanda to promote reconciliation after the genocide, working through local people in local communities
RTU serves the poorest families and communities in a remote area of southern India. Alongside healthcare and community development work, RTU cares for over 1000 children – abandoned or orphaned, often through AIDS. They live with foster mothers in four specially built “Children’s Villages” and are educated and supported to adulthood.
Regenerate works in Kenya and SW London. In London Regenerate aims to mentor, equip and provide positive experiences to enable young people on estates to improve their lives. In Africa it gives young people from London Estates opportunities to help with projects in Kenya, training, educating and employing street children.