Shelter, housing, land management and construction
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNHCR is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in...
Green Cross Austria-Romania
Founded in 1990, Green Cross is an Austrian-Romanian non-profit humanitarian organisation aimed at assisting people, communities and institutions for the defence of human rights, protection of the environment, community development and preservation of local traditional values. The Green Cross has...
German Development Service (Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst) (DED)
The German Development Service (DED) is one of the leading European development services for personnel cooperation. It was founded in 1963: since then more than 13 000 development workers have committed themselves to improving the living conditions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America....
SafeHouse of Jacksonville
A charitable organisation that helps in community development, health, food and nutrition provision, rehabilitation and housing services, volunteer and health services, such as educating and training people so that they can support themselves, helping in feeding and clothing people who are in need...
Austrian Help Program (AHP)
The Austrian Help Program (AHP) is a Austrian NGO active in central Africa. Working where assistance is most necessary (such as areas beset by military conflict), organisational activities include the building of houses, schools and wells, nutritional programmes and agricultural service provision.
Dortmunden Helfen Kurden
Dortmunden Helfen Kurden (People of Dortmund help the Kurds) is a citizens' action group. Following the destruction of hundreds of Kurdish villages it aims to rebuild and teach the fundamentals of sustainable village life through agriculture, animal farming and construction.
Opportunities for the Majority: Bank initiative that promotes and finances private sector business models
The Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) Initiative promotes and finances market-based, sustainable business models that engage private sector companies, local governments and communities in the development and delivery of quality products and services for the majority of the population of Latin...
Integrated Developmental Education Activate Society [IDEAS]
Integrated Developmental Education Activate Society (IDEAS) is a non-governmental organisation based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. IDEAS provides emergency relief projects and rehabilitation to tsunami-hit women through income generation activity like fish pickle making programmes.
Murera AIDS Prevention and Support Group
Murera AIDS Prevention and Support Group focuses mostly on education, prevention and the support of those affected/infected by the disease, creating a sound and pro-active atmosphere which aims at helping the community in understanding those people who have been infected by HIV/aids. At the same...
ChildLine Cameroon
ChildLine Cameroon operates a children’s network to facilitate support to abused children; facilitates children's access to social services; partners with locally-based telecommunication companies to ensure children’s access to the telephone infrastructures; manages a national database for...
Action Center for Working Youth of Almaty
The centre works in the sphere of housing reform, focusing specifically on youth. It provides legal consultations for low-income young people and helps them to buy or sell apartments. The group is working to establish an information network on housing for youth in Almaty.
Architecture for Humanity
Architecture for Humanity is an American NGO that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need. Through design build programmes, partnerships with community development groups, workshops, educational forums, and other activities,...
International Accelerated Missions (IAM)
International Accelerated Missions (IAM) trains nationals in several countries for humanitarian work and other projects. IAM programs include discipleship training schools, long and short term volunteer opportunities, medical missions, international teen ministry, and orphan care.
Association Emmaüs
Association Emmaüs provides for the social integration and housing of certain categories of people in difficulty, such as AIDs sufferers, young people, and squatters. To help finance the programme, clients participate in a project centred on the collecting, sorting, repairing, and selling of second...
COVER (Corps of Volunteers Effecting Repair)
COVER Home Repair works together with homeowners and volunteers to provide urgently needed home repair that keeps the inhabitants warm safe and dry. COVER offers a weatherization program empowering homeowners and volunteers with knowledge and supplies to button up homes and reduce fuel/energy...
Habitat for Humanity - South Africa (HFHSA)
Habitat for Humanity South Africa (HFHSA) works in partnership with communities to help address their housing needs. HFHSA considers such factors as the level of need for housing in the community, support of local leadership and community stability. HFHSA currently works in three regions across...
P.S.S.Educational Development Society
The P.S.S. Educational Development Society is an NGO in Andhra Pradesh, India that supports women, children, and elderly people in rural areas. Programmes and projects include the provision of education in government schools for needy pupils, non-formal education for child labourers, skills...
Washingtonville Housing Alliance (WHA)
Washingtonville Housing Alliance (WHA) constructs new housing and improves existing housing for low and moderate income residents and undertakes other supportive activities designed to sustain communities that are culturally diverse, multi-generational, and of mixed income.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an endowed charity that funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme. It seeks to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice.
Clothes Line Incorporated
Clothes Line Incorporated is a fully endorsed Sydney based, not-for profit organisation, which provides good quality clothing and other essential items, free of charge, to the homeless and disadvantaged. Clothesline does not receive any government funding and all our staff are volunteers. The...