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Across Four Continents tells the story of the Sudanese refugee diaspora on four
continents through individual lives. Multiple conflicts in Sudan over the past five decades have forced individuals and families to flee their homes in search of safety and security. Many of these
displaced people th...
We are a group of documentary photographers acting for social change, convinced in the power of photography as a vehicle of change through awareness. We seek to bring awareness to issues and situations that we believe create social injustice, through images that question the society in which we live...
The Afghan Disabled Union ADU is a national organization serving the disabled segment of the Afghan community since early 2004. The organization conducts training on leadership and Management and rights and disability awareness training for the Afghan people with disability throught Afghanistan.
A British registered charity to help the poor children of Nepal. Specifically but not exclusively to provide a higher standard of education.
AIM Abroad works to provide volunteering opportunities for those who want to travel with a difference and enthusiastic workforce for grassroots organizations. Your skills can be a valuable asset which they would not be able to afford otherwise.
The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading 501(C)3 nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Founded in 1940, the American Diabetes Association conducts programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, reaching hundreds of communities....
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, ...
AMREF is an international African organisation headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
AMREF’s mission is to ensure that every African can enjoy the right to good health by helping to create vibrant networks of informed communities that work with empowered health care providers in strong health systems....
PRONAT is a private Finnish-Nicaraguan project for training girls and women from the poorest quarters of Granada, Nicaragua. It was founded in 2004 and registered two years later in Nicaragua under the name of APIMUNIC (Asociación por la Igualdad de la Mujer en Nicaragua). It is an uncommitted, no...
An NGO run by Sudanese people living in Portland, Maine.
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, we have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professio...
Empowering Rural Poor Communities towards Sustainable Development
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Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD) is a social community based organization, was established in 2001-2002 and registered under the Societies Registration ACT: 1860 of XXI, in May 17th 2003. T...
When Dan Haseltine, Jars of Clay's lead singer, visited Africa in 2002, he had to struggle to accept what he saw. Poverty and physical and social suffering in Africa shook him, challenged him, and changed him.
Haseltine returned overwhelmed by despair, transformed by hope and called to action. He...
Our mission is to promote empathy and compassion through action. We want to inspire humanity to make a difference in the world by implementing programs that increase understanding and kindness
Works with private and public schools to provide access to education for all students. Bricks and Books has worked hard to make sure the schools we work in have adequate supplies, and in addition we work with teachers to improve their ability to provide the students with a high quality of education...
The Cambodia Trust is an NGO working with and for landmine survivors and other disadvantaged disabled people in the developing world. Our vision: equal rights for disabled people in a barrier-free society.
We offer a helping hand out of poverty through physical rehabilitation, community-based reh...
"The Center for Orang Asli Concerns was established in 1989 to advance the cause of the Orang Asli – whether via the greater dissemination of Orang Asli news and views, assisting in court cases involving Orang Asli rights, or in developing arguments for lobbying and advocacy work."
CERDH is a centre for studies and research in the field of human rights and democracy with its basis in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was founded by a group of young Congoleses pushed forward by Maître Yav Katshung Joseph.
Its missions are:
- to take care that the law is ...
WHY WATER.
Right now, 1.1 billion people on the planet don't have access to safe, clean drinking water. That's one in six of us.
WHO WE ARE.
charity: water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. We give 100% of the money raised to direc...
Children of Abraham is a non-profit organization that seeks to build an international community of Muslim and Jewish youth that celebrates their religious identities through photography, online learning and programs.
ColaLife is a campaign to try and leverage the distribution muscle of a multi-national corporate institution to get life saving medicines to children in developing countries.
It was launched by Simon Berry, who had
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Community Voice Mail (CVM) helps people living in poverty, transition and homelessness rebuild their lives by connecting them to jobs, housing, information and hope. We do this by customizing and distributing communications technology via a national network of community-based services.
The Contrast Project works with Palestinian youth groups in the West Bank to use photography as a tool for expression and activism. Youth participate in trainings in basic film photography, and choose issues in their local community to document with the camera and describe through writing. Their i...
Creative Corners; The Global Arts Project is a new, unique not for profit agency for cultural sector volunteering created especially for artists. Volunteers worldwide with creative skills can apply for a range of projects in South and Central America.
Why not devise a play in a Bolivian orphana...
Creative Corners is a not for profit volunteer organisation that specialises in creative projects for creative people. 2 month projects from just £600!
We match people like you to projects where you are best suited and return profits to communities that need them most - a WIN/WIN scenario.
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Critical Exposure teaches young people to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change.
Creating a community & center dedicated to
the education, production & advocacy of the documentary arts in Asia
Dreams Can Be Foundation is a US 501 c3 nonprofit charitable supporting organization and a Brazilian NGO dedicated to aiding street children and impoverished youth in Brazil. We work in partnership with local organizations and NGOs to provide: education, moral and social development, humanit...
Earthen Vessels, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Massachusetts corporation founded by Brian and Marie-Claude Thompson in 1980.
The mission of Earthen Vessels is to empower at-risk inner-city children and teens from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds in Boston to build self-esteem, self-confidence, se...
Empowerment International (EI) addresses poverty by facilitating the education of children in at risk situations and impoverished nations. EI removes a part of the heavy financial burden of attending public schools by assisting with the purchase of the mandatory materials and uniforms. EI also ...
Encore provides meal delivery service for home-bounded seniors, as well as organizing senior visiting program to bring companionship and love to the seniors.
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EWOW was founded to counteract the loss of ongoing arts education in public schools. Many children have little chance to learn about the arts--let alone develop their talent--yet studies show how vital arts education is to our children and their future. We find children with a passion o...
The objective of Focal Point is to set up projects focused on one tangible situation somewhere in the world that could use a little help. A school in Asia that needs a bus, a hospital in Central America that needs supplies or a village in Africa that needs a pump for drinking water, to name just a f...
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 t...
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 ...
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, ...
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 a...
Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God’s love and can live and grow i...
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 activitie...
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 he...
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.
Help Channel Burundi was started in response to the humanitarian crisis experienced in Burundi during the 1993-2005 civil war, in an effort to alleviate the suffering of Burundians most in need. We are committed to humanitarian response, to sustainable development and to the empowerment of all Burun...
Homegrown for Health and Economy was founded as an internet awareness campaign aimed at educating the public about the many benefits of home gardening, and assist those interested in getting started on their own gardens.
Hope in Shadows is a unique project based around a photography contest for residents in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The prize-winning photos are then used to create a calendar that gives a glimpse of the hope, spirit and courage of people living in Canada's poorest neighbourhood.
Hundreds of D...
To bring Government and NGOs in the East Asia and Pacific together to cooperate and learn from each other’s experiences in their efforts to combat human trafficking.
The mission of the Institute for Photographic Empowerment (IPE) is to support the study and practice of participant–produced documentary projects in photography, film, and digital media.The Institute is a resource for people from around the globe—photographers, filmmakers, academics, researchers, an...
The John Dau Sudan Foundation, founded by Lost Boy of Sudan John Dau, aims to transform healthcare in Southern Sudan. JDSF provides financial and technical support to build and sustain healthcare clinics in Southern Sudan. The Foundation currently operates the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in Duk County, Sou...
The John J. Carroll Institute on Church and Social Issues (JJCICSI), formerly known as the Institute on Church and Social Issues, has been working with and for the poor and the marginalized since its founding in 1984. It has continually devoted its energies in improving the conditions of the poor an...
Placement organization for volunteers.
The fundamental mission of Kids International Dental Services (KIDS) is to provide pro-bono dental care to impoverished children in developing countries. Other aspects of our mission includes (a) providing a platform for young dental professionals to perform community service world wide, and (b) to ...
Breaking barriers through play - Creating inclusive play spaces for children of all abilities
Kilikili's purpose is to create public play spaces that can be used by all children, with or without disabilities. We see inclusive play spaces as an important step in creating an inclusive society that ...
The Kivu Kids Tour is a seven day cycling tour through Eastern Congo and Rwanda in July 2009 in order to create awareness of the social and political issues that that challenge the Lake Kivu region as well as raise money to help rebuild Maison Immacculee, a small orphanage in the city of Goma, DRC.
LA LUNA REPRESENTS THE MOON AND THE PHASES OF CHANGE WE MUST ENDURE TO UNDERSTAND ONESELF.
AMMA IS THE BEHIND THE SCENES OF LA LUNA PHOTOGRAPHY. SHE IS AN IDEALIST, A RISK TAKER, A BOHEMIAN, A FOLLOWER OF HINDUISM, AND A WOMAN WHO SNAPS TO SUPPORT HER FELLOWS. ONCE A HOMELESS WOMAN HERSELF, SHE DEC...
a collective of photography hobbyists upholding the masses’ appreciation for visual arts, and independent and underground Filipino music.
Expose the human crisis of slums in Sri Lanka by penetrating the mainstream media and the dominant social ideology with counter hegemonic discourses of the oppressed by means of an interventionist mediological approach and promote justice and equity by empowering suppressed communities with knowledg...
LEAP was formed to provoke deep ecological consciousness for a healthier, sustainable Earth through global citizenship and stewardship ... so that healing, self-determination and a re-balancing can emerge from our shared despair, sorrow, hope and action, and generations of the future may be empowere...
LEAP (Land Empowerment Animals and People) is a non-profit charitable organization, facilitating partnerships and exchanges that provoke sustainable ecological co-existence.
Therapy centre for children with autism aged 6 to l6 years. Providing individual programmes which include gross motor, academic, fine motor, play, speech and social skills.
LINC Housing provides housing across California for people underserved by the marketplace
The Literacy 'n' Poverty Project is a startup nonprofit organization that works to alleviate poverty and improve adult education worldwide through advocacy, research and service.
we provide information and placement opportunity in and around the Kampot area,for people wishing to become volunteers.
Little Survivors in an Australian based NGO working for the prevention of child trafficking and exploitation in the Asia Pacific region. It is run voluntarily so that as much funding as posssible goes to where it is needed most - to stop child exploitation.
Innovative Development Leaders - MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) is a group of caring and compassionate business owners and professionals who, over the past 50 years, have invested faith, abilities and resources to help the working poor around the world. We are a group of visionary ...
Founded in 1985, the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture provides care and rehabilitation to survivors of torture and other forms of organised violence.
The key objectives of the MESCOT Initiative was to develop an
alternative path of co-existence with the remaining rainforest resources
and generate a sustainable long-term economic path for income
generation for the indigenous local people of the area.
My Story is a non-profit arts organization that teaches photography to youth in Portland, Oregon. We design projects that engage the imagination and creativity of young people, building confidence in their abilities, and providing opportunities for them to share their stories with the world.
The mission of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is to educate, inspire, and assist individuals and organizations of diverse cultures in conserving wildlife and other natural resources and to protect Earth’s environment in order to achieve a peaceful, equitable and sustainable future.
We are not out to save the world but to tell the stories of those who are. We are a magazine that reports on humanitarian issues.
NGOPost is a web based platform to share/report various stories related to social welfare initiatives across the world. It enables people across the world involved in solving similar problems to interact and learn from each other.
Many people think of homelessness as strictly an urban phenomenon because homeless people are greater in number and are more visible in urban areas, but homelessness is pervasive in rural areas. The number of people who experience rural homelessness is unknown, but the last national count of homeles...
Many people think of homelessness as strictly an urban phenomenon because homeless people are greater in number and are more visible in urban areas, but homelessness is pervasive in rural areas. The number of people who experience rural homelessness is unknown, but the last national count of homeles...
Nukanti Foundation for Children is an independent international non-profit organization, devoted to investing in education, healing and hope for children, particularly in communities devastated by violence, poverty and armed conflict.
Our projects focus on assisting and transforming the lives of...
OrphFund helps vulnerable children and orphans around the world that are alone due to the consequence of poverty, disease, war, natural disasters and injustice.
We believe that ALL children have a right to an education and, most importantly, to a life away from exploitation and poverty.
WHO ...
Partners with GLOW is a non-profit formed in 2008 to connect the activities of an AIDS-orphaned youth group in a remote Zambian village with the world economy via www.glowzambia.org, and to raise awareness about the problems facing Zambia as a direct result of AIDS.
GLOW stands for "Girls Leading...
Peace Villages Foundation works to serve under-served and underprivileged youth, as well as conserve the surrounding natural environment - and to combine the two where possible through educational programs. We are a constantly evolving non-religious, non-governmental organization completely run and ...
PIO serves over 800 children a day through a variety of programs that include, non-formal education and vocational training. Through our programs we provide some of the most vulnerable women and children in Cambodia with hope for the future.
Through education it is our belief that we can improve ...
The Pierre-Paul Christian Initiative (PCI) is a social organization aiming to contribute to develop children and youth socially, culturally and economically. We intervene mostly in churches and christian institutions that regroup more than 80% of whole Haitian population, but we don't neglect the ot...
PinoyMedia Center is a nonprofit, alternative media organization that focuses on people's issues, from the environment to agrarian reform to human rights and imperialism, from the point of view of ordinary people who are affected most by the consequences of these issues. PinoyMedia Center recently t...
Positive Exposure, founded in 1997 by former fashion photographer Rick Guidotti,
is an innovative arts organization working with individuals living with genetic difference. Professional photo shoots celebrating the beauty of difference bring an empowering message to people with genetic conditions...
The Private Institute of Management and Enterpreneurship (PIME, IPGE in French) is a practical university created by Haitian Development Group to provide infomation and training regarding fields liable to help them improve their living. It offers several courses, such as: Management, Marketing, Publ...
Throughout the world dire warnings are being issued about the effects of human activity on the natural environment. Communities on every continent are experiencing the devastation of declining water quality, soil degradation, climate change and biodiversity loss. Project Greenhands (PGH), a grassroo...
Project Hope is a non-profit volunteer organization. We support children denied access to basic services that every child needs in order to develop into healthy and well-balanced individual. We provide educational and recreational activities, medical and humanitarian relief and practical training th...
About Projekt Desap: Surfacing
They were activists, wanting to change society by arousing and organizing amongst the masses. They were ordinary civilians, going about their daily lives. Suddenly, they disappear. Desaparecidos is the Spanish word meaning “the disappeared.” It was coined in Latin A...
We will try to do everything to promote environmental education and increase the level of awareness down from the very beginning of our educational institution.
We are using banners and streamers and t-shirt uniforms to promote the concern. We see it somewhat effective when mass media fails to de...
Rise Organization for Development, aims to play a vital role with civil societies in nation building, development, reconstruction, rehabilitation, capacity building, social awareness and participatory efforts, the vision for RISE organization emerged as a new addition to the civil society and nation...
The mission of School on Wheels is the enhancement of educational opportunities for homeless children from kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Our goal is to shrink the gaps in the education of these children and provide them with the highest education possible. We do this by offering:
One-on-one ...
Our motto is: Sharing resources to defy poverty, hunger and diseases. The aims are to help the communities to help themselves; helping vulnerable children and youth to cope more effectively with life; improve nutrition by promoting more sustainable farming practices; establish income generating skil...
Our motto is: Sharing resources to defy poverty, hunger and diseases. The aims are to help the communities to help themselves; helping vulnerable children and youth to cope more effectively with life; improve nutrition by promoting more sustainable farming practices; establish income generating skil...
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Hope for Orphans. We wish to play a role in providing hope for these children by building a care center for approximately 50 orphans with the most dire needs. This means that we will provide housing, education, nutrition, healthcare, and most of all a Christ-based foundation of faith, hope, and love...
Stella*Finance is a German non-profit organisation of young professionals with various backgrounds which supports carefully selected education projects worldwide. Its aim is to enable basic education of underprivileged children. To that end, Stella*Finance raises money in order to provide financial ...
In the Athi River area of greater Nairobi, Buttercup House, lovingly cares for and educates children who have been removed from untenable conditions in the slums. Here, our caregivers provide children with meals, school clothing and supplies, and a clean home environment.
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to enlist our nation's most promising future leade...
The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice.
The Coalition for Peace of America is a national, community-service, and youth-lead organization that works in American Communities to abbreviate crime, violent, and drug activities.
PEPY is a non-profit organization working to improve educational opportunities in rural Cambodia and offering unique adventures for those looking to give-back while they travel.
When Transient Workers Count Too was established in 2004, we decided to work for the improvement of conditions for both female and male workers. Our forerunner group, The Working Committee 2, stated its goals as follows:
TWC2's aim is to promote respect for domestic workers through education, a...
Trinity Care Foundation is a Not for Profit Organization based in Bangalore, India dedicated to School Health Programs, Facial Deformity Programs and Oral Cancer Programs working with community organizations, educational Institutions and involving Government, Industry and the Medical Profession.
Ukulapha College of Counsellor Training is a non-profit organization that was formed with the objective of facilitating the growth, development and empowerment, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually of South African people. To help people in their community manage emotions, build self-es...
Peace Corps functions in dozens of countries around the world and fulfills many different needs. Volunteers may do anything from teaching English to doing sanitation projects, depending on the needs of the host country and the skills of the volunteer. It is a 27 month commitment wherein the volunt...
UNITY CHARITABLE TRUST is a registered N.G.O. based in Tamilnadu, India. We are running one Nursery and primary school, computer centre and forming poor women's self help groups.
A non-profit organization. Currently we are promoting a child sponsorship program, a very unique of its kind throughout the world. We need support form humanitarian people from all over the world, and thus seeking your help. To get involved pls. send a mail to info@unnayanuddog.org mentioning the li...
Moses Sumba is the headmaster of the North Mathare primary school actually hosting hundreds children in tin corrugated shacks/classrooms with only one 3ft x 3ft toilet. I met Mr Sumba in Mathare (Nairobi) on November 2009, he showed me the new Valley Academy project approved by the Nairobi City Coun...
VEPAC (Vanuatu Education Policy Advocacy Coalition) is a newly-formed coalition, working with the national government, CSOs, NGOs and development agencies in Vanuatu to advocate for policy development and change on Education issues.
VEPAC’s principal objectives are to provide a focal point thr...
Our Mission: To serve the suffering humanity in general and persons with disability in particular.
Our vision: To eliminate blindness and severe visual imparement as an impediment to the fulfillment of life.
It is an organisation run fully on the support and participation of highly motivated vol...
Wasanii Arts was established to promote visual and performing arts but after realizing that there was a desperate need to create a platform on which young people could express themselves, the organization launched into Participatory Community Media and Arts.
Through our various participatory p...
wimbi - the wave, is collecting children's water-photography from all over the planet exhibiting it, worldwide, to identify the problems and conflicts arising from a rapidly growing number of people sharing an ever shrinking reservoir of water.
Touring interactive, multi-media exhibit focusing on the AIDS pandemeic in Africa.
YouthNoise Play City is the ultimate realization of the power of sports to do good. Here in Play City, "be a good sport" takes on a whole new meaning. We believe sports have the potential to energize individuals, revitalize communities and catalyze change. Play City is not about securing titles, cem...
ZIKOMO is a association to support African students their studies in their home countries. At the moment we finance the Social Work studies of two young Zambian men (Anold and Simon) in Lusaka, Zambia.
"Zikomo" means "Thank You" in Nyanja, which is one of the languages in Zambia.
Anold and S...