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Real Aid
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Real Aid is an international independent organisation which is constituted as a charity. It has an established network with headquarters near Beverley, East Yorkshire. Real Aid sends aid on a regular basis to various projects in Africa and Eastern Europe. Real Aid does not rely on outside funding...
Quaker United Nations Office
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QUNO staff work with people in the UN, multilateral organisations, government delegations, and non-governmental organisations, to achieve changes in international standards and practice. Quakers are known for speaking out against injustice and war - issues that are incompatible with our vision of a...
Barbour and the Barbour Foundation
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Barbour began, a British family-owned business, in 1894 in the Market Place in South Shields. Today the 5th generation family owned business remains in the read, with Barbour's headquarters located in Simonside, South Shields. Barbour makes high quality clothing and accessories designed for country...
Glasgow the Caring City
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Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow the Caring City (GCC) works in many countries across the globe. In Glasgow the charity runs a cafe for children with special needs, and provides for the care and welfare of asylum seekers daily. GCC has a fleet of vans and a warehouse where aid is collected and...
Global Hand Principles
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Global Hand, and its parent NGO, Crossroads Foundation, aims to ensure that aid given is good aid. You can find a range of standards, specific to sectors of the disaster and development spectrum, in our Standards, Guidelines and Toolkits section. A high level summary of Global Hand's standards...
Mizhipa Housing Cooperative Society
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Mizipha Housing Cooperative Society is a Zambian NGO that seeks to improve housing and shelter through cooperative working, and to promote productive employment and the inclusion of poor women, young people, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups in the development process....
Standards
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Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
SOS Children’s Villages International, Gulf Area Office
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SOS Children’s Villages is an international, non-governmental social development organisation that provides care, education and health services to children who have lost or who are at risk of losing parental care. SOS Children's Villages also takes action to improve policies and practices that...
HELP for Peace
HELP for Peace is an NGO in the Philippines that cares for people affected in complex health emergencies and disasters. The organisaion also works on community health development. Its flagship programme is the Barefoot Doctors programme (villagers empowered to care and heal in their own...
Syrian refugee crisis – January 2014
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More than 2 million Syrians have fled the nation's brutal conflict to neighbouring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, with more streaming across borders daily. The crisis is so immediate that the UN has mounted its biggest ever campaign to give assistance to the hundreds of thousands...
Society for Participatory Integrated Development
The Society for Participatory Integrated Development is an Indian NGO that works on issues related to health, education and other basic needs such as water and sanitation. Current projects include a gender resource centre, an open shelter for...
Tanganyika Youth Economy Group Coordinating Council
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The Tanganyika Youth Economy Group Coordinating Council is a Tanzanian NGO that works for disadvantaged young people and children. Projects include vocational training workshops in tailoring for girls, palm oil extraction, processing and storage training for young farmers and soap making for the...
Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc.
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Millennium Promise is the leading international non-profit organization redefining the approach to ending extreme poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals in rural Africa, moving communities from hunger to self-sufficiency by 2015. We oversee the Millennium Villages Project, which...
Union Rescue Mission (URM)
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Union Rescue Mission (URM) is a non-profit, interdenominational Christian organisation dedicated to serving the poor and homeless. URM operates several gift-in-kind projects such as the Toystore, which provides toys for low-income and homeless families. URM also receives car donations and donations...
Bright Hope International
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Bright Hope International seeks to serve the world's absolute poor with the goal of breaking the cycle of poverty. Services provided by Bright Hope International include job creation, family support, economic development and emergency relief.
Mercy Corps
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Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit organisation international humanitarian agency, involved in emergency relief, sustainable community development and civil society initiatives. Mercy Corps accepts in-kind donations that meet the needs of their field programmes, such as building materials and...
Caritas Internationalis - Peru
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Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. In Peru, Caritas provides emergency relief to victims of natural disasters,...
Caritas Internationalis - El Salvador
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Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. In El Salvador, Caritas provides emergency relief and rehabilitation to...
Caritas Internationalis - Ecuador
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Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief and development organisations. Caritas Ecuador works to support the poor and needy through its diocesan and parish organisations. It provides emergency and social or humanitarian assistance where needed, but it focuses particularly...