I\'m a Bay Area Photographer who has started a Photo Book project for print publication. This photo book will document and publish portraits of 30-50 selected homeless people throughout the Bay Area. Below each image there will be a short paragraph of their biography explaining how they ended up on the streets, where they came from and their future goals, etc. My goal is to increase awareness about the San Francisco, Bay Area homeless community and to show everyone that they are still people...
The Genocide Intervention Network empowers individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. It is a non-profit organization that concentrates on helping the unfortunate victims of genocides and ethnic cleansing that are still going on today.
Renewed violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has triggered a humanitarian crisis forcing more than 250,000 people, many of them already displaced, to flee their homes, bringing a forgotten crisis to the world\'s attention. In the last three months alone, hundreds of thousands of innocent children, women and men displaced by the conflict have lost their homes, their belongings, their family, their friends and their hope. Please donate to the \'Gimme Shelter\' appeal. Thousands...
Give a Kid a Camera is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization that works with children of limited means teaching them photography paired with writing as a means of expression.
Good Samaritan Children Home Uganda is registered as a non government community organization, which was established in April 2007 and officially launched on15th June 2008, with the aim of upholding the sanctity of human life by meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of children, women, men and generally people facing welfare problems through a participatory approach with the grass root communities, to ensure that they have improved livelihoods. Cause:Orphans and other vulnerable...
GrassRoots United connects relief workers, social groups and humanitarian organisations to local resources in order to streamline small-scale, disaster response operations via our portable platform. Currently, we are based out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Growing Together works to provide opportunities for children from lower-income families to gain basic fluency in English, giving them a base for learning with a greater choice of sources of information. Long-term Growing Together aims to provide an alternative model in education and to function as a community center for all-round development, sustainability and self-reliance.
Haitian Development Group (GHAD) is an organization that promotes enterpreneurship in Haiti. Founded in 2007, it is a yield of the Movement of Backing and Social Aid (METAIDS) and aims to help young people retrieve ways to success and avoid poverty. It organizes training sessions, cultural activities and create products and services in Haiti. One of the Group\'s products will be the Private Institute of Management and Enterpreneurship. This institute must open in September 2007. Now we have an...
HAND aims to make medical treatment and advice available to the most disadvantaged people in the Yunnan Province of China. This is achieved by the provision of training, education and medical facilities. HAND hopes to alleviate some of the desperation found in the rural areas by helping people to help themselves.
Hands On Shanghai strives to establish and develop long term sustainable relationships with charities in Shanghai. Servicing the long term needs of our partners, we organize short-term projects that are sensitive to the schedules and interests of volunteers.