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Volunteer Canada
With the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, Volunteer Canada is able to provide an online resource for volunteer opportunities or for finding volunteers. In its capacity, Volunteer Canada aims to encourage Canadians to volunteer, improve the...
Swedish Cooperative Centre
The Swedish Cooperative Centre is a development organisation founded by the Swedish Cooperative movement in 1958. Through long-term development work and “help to self-help” the organisation equips poor people with the tools needed to fight poverty themselves. Through advocacy work the Centre...
EHC LifeBuilders
EHC LifeBuilders is an American NGO that provides shelter, housing opportunities, and supportive services to people in crisis and those experiencing homelessness in Silicon Valley. EHC LifeBuilders runs a range of programmes for homeless men, women, and children and those at-risk of...
Task Brasil Trust
Task Brasil Trust is a UK non-profit organisation providing homes, care, access to education and vocational training, and physical and psychological healthcare to children and pregnant girls living on the street in Brazil.
Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC)
Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) works to ensure a better future for children in Kurdistan through improving their family, economic, social, psychological, health, education, and housing conditions. KSC has registered the Kurdistan Children’s Fund (KCF) in the United Kingdom as an international...
Christian Concern for the Homeless Association
Christian Concern for the Homeless Association responds to the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of the homeless in Hong Kong through social services. It is also a member of Community Chest, a network of social welfare agencies in Hong Kong. The website contains a list of items wanted...
SOS Children's Villages - India
SOS Children's Villages of India is a welfare organisation and a part of the worldwide SOS Children's Village movement. SOS mainly creates and operates Children's Villages, which provide for children in need, housing with a 'mother' figure and other children to grow up with. The organisation...
East West Foundation Of India (TEWFI)
The East West Foundation of India is a charitable and educational foundation committed towards easing the suffering of the poor and disadvantaged in the state of Tamilnadu in India. In pursuit of this broad aim, it has focused its attention on health care, child welfare and education and both...
Krishna Veni Mahila Mandali
Krishna Veni Mahila Mandali is a non-profit women's welfare association helping with the developments in rural and urban slums where poverty is a major problem. It provides education and training, health care, food, spiritual, moral and physical support to the Indian communities.
New Humanity
New Humanity is an NGO founded in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). New Humanity helps the poor, the sick, and those suffering because of war. New Humanity aims to renew society by holding seminars, congresses and concrete projects at local,...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Brazil
UNDP is one of United Nation organisations that has targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness,...
Deep Griha Society
Working for the betterment of the people who live in the slums in Pune, India, the society was founded by like minded friends in 1975. It is an independent charitable organisation that has various programmes from medical to educational services, from child care to women development to rural...
Delhi House (Sewa Ashram)
Delhi House was the name of a house for the homeless founded in 1997; relocation in the year 2000 saw the adoption of a new name - Sewa Ashram. Housing up to 120 individuals (and some families), Delhi House is a community-based rehabilitation centre and clinic for the destitute, with a goal to...
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID is an independent agency that supports long-term economic and social development through policy dialogue, conflict prevention, technology transfer in sectors such as health, agriculture, education and housing, and promotion of trade and investment. U.S. assistance is channelled through...
Boston Building Resources
The Reuse Center at Boston Building Resources is a nonprofit organisation. It accepts donations of good-quality used and surplus building materials and sells them at low prices, with extra discounts for low- and moderate-income customers and nonprofit organisations to help repair and care for...
Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society
The Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society provides emergency medical services to citizens and residents in the Kingdom in normal circumstances and following disasters. It also participates in raising the level of health awareness and contributes in relief work in the Kingdom and abroad.
St. James' Settlement
St. James’ Settlement (SJS) is a Hong Kong based charity that assists disabled, elderly and young persons through care services, rehabilitation services, community development projects and professional counseling. SJS offers goods and services to the poor through a number of charity projects, which...
Terrebonne Readiness Assistance Coalition (TRAC)
Terrebonne Readiness Assistance Coalition (TRAC) is a faith-based, community run non-profit corporation which has been serving Louisiana parishes since 1992. Focusing on client advocacy, disaster recovery, and preparedness education, TRAC assists individuals, families and communities to rebuild...
Bulgarian Child
Bulgarian Child offers humanitarian aid, vocational and academic education, and hospice care to orphans in Bulgaria.
South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS)
South Indian Federation of Fishermen (SIFFS) works for the protection of the interests of fishermen in India. SIFFS works to improve the control over income, by avoiding intermediaries and middlemen and also works toward the diversification of the economic activities of fishers' villages, by...