Refugees and internally displaced persons
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LUSH lends its support to National Refugee Week 2009
Shoppers at cosmetics store LUSH have passed on their messages of support onto people seeking asylum and refugees as the high street chain marked national Refugee Week 2009. LUSH, which teamed up with Refugee Action for the second time to mark the annual celebrations, donated bars of LUSH soap. The...
Edison International contributes to Asian Tsunami disaster relief
It is not often that the world’s collective sense of solidarity and compassion is captured by a single event. The earthquake-spawned tsunami that ravaged so many countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa in December 2004 was one such event. Proving once again how committed they are to making a...
Microsoft and Nethope partner to provide humanitarian disaster relief
Since 2005, Microsoft has partnered closely with NetHope to explore how IT can more effectively foster collaboration, drive innovation, and transform technology use in development and humanitarian relief efforts around the world.
Second Chance Employment Services (SCES)
Founded in September 2001 by Dr. Ludy Green, Second Chance Employment Services (SCES) is the only employment agency in the world providing placement services for victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, thereby leading these women to true economic and physical freedom. Second Chance...
Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth (MISSSEY)
MISSSEY is a community-based organization in Alameda County, CA, founded in 2007 to respond to the heartbreaking epidemic of sexual exploitation. It provides comprehensive services in a safe environment to support and serve sexually exploited youth. It also works to provide information to the...
RESPECT International
RESPECT International is a Canadian NGO headquartered in Winnipeg. The organisation has three main goals: to raise awareness of refugee issues among young people around the world, to build bridges between non-refugee students and refugee students through pen-pal letter exchange, and to encourage...
Entrust Foundation
The Entrust Foundation is an Australian NGO that identifies and manages projects to help the poorest of the poor in the forgotten corners of the world. The Foundation specialises in collaborative partnerships with donors and manages the projects at no cost to the project or donor, paying for all...
Delta Partners and Ericsson support mobile application that reconnects refugees with loved ones
In support of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled from conflict and disaster areas, Refugees United with Ericsson and Refugees United, in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and mobile operator MTN in Uganda, have launched the first project to...
KPMG, partnering with the Refugee Council, helps refugees through its mentoring programme
Since 2005, KPMG has partnered with the Refugee Council UK to help refugees with experience working in the finance industry in their countries of origin overcome barriers to employment in the UK. It does this through a mentorship program which partners KPMG volunteers with refugees to guide them...
Air Miles and Etihad Airways raises 11.4 million air miles for Medecins Sans Frontieres
Air Miles, the Middle East's leading multi-participant loyalty programme, has partnered with its UAE cardholders to raise a whopping 11.4 million Air Miles for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an international medical and humanitarian aid organisation.
CHF International and Caterpillar are Finalists for BCLC’s Partnership Award
Since the earthquake of January 12, 2010, CHF International has been working hard, partnering with Haitian communities to help them recover from the devastating effects of the disaster and the challenges they have faced since then.
Chance in Life International
Chance in Life International is an NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya. The organisation provides emergency relief aid including education, medical facilities, and agricultural training to people in the the refugee camps in northern Kenya, South Sudan and Somalia.
ManpowerGroup South Africa Creates Opportunities for Refugees
Manpower South Africa is playing an innovative role in finding labour market solutions for refugees and has placed a total of 10 refugees in 2010 despite South African labour laws that privilege native South Africans. The company has acquired a reputation as the agency to go to for refugees looking...
ManpowerGroup Marks World Refugee Day on 60th Anniversary of UNHCR Refugee Convention
ManpowerGroup is observing World Refugee Day, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the UN refugee convention, to help unleash the human potential of people forced to flee their homes due to persecution, conflict or economic hardship.
Eurolab and Ericsson help install communications in Congo
Two Ericsson employees were sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo on behalf of Ericsson Response. In collaboration with several humanitarian organizations, they established radio communication within the Kalabo region in order to support a UN coordinated de-mining mission.
Action pour les Droits Humains et l'Amitié (ADHA)
Action pour les Droits Humains et l'Amitié (ADHA) is a Senegalese NGO that works for asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons, promoting their rights and also those of all young people in Africa. ADHA provides legal advice on matters relating to matters relating to asylum...
Micro-credit project for Darfur refugees
The Pilot Light Foundation, an organisation that creates and supports small projects in Africa that have the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for impoverished Africans in non urban areas, and the Sudan Self Help Foundation, an NGO that supports projects aimed at promoting...
Air Terminal Gifts and Catholic Community Services provide donations and employment opportunities for refugees
Catholic Community Services (CCS) has, for decades, helped hundreds of refugees start new lives in Utah. Air Terminal Gifts has donated $12,000 to the CCS refugee resettlement program.
Microsoft partners with aid agencies to provide essential technology
In 1999, Microsoft employees from the European offices responded to the Kosovo crisis by creating The Refugee Field Kit - a computer-based method of providing displaced people (most of whom had been stripped of identity papers when fleeing Kosovo) with new official identity cards and an easier...
Caucasus Foundation
The Caucasus Foundation is a non-profit non-governmental organization, carrying out various activities for preserving and fostering socio-cultural relations of the Caucasians living at diasporas or in the Caucasus. Its main goal is to be a resource centre for information, documentation and...