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Syrian refugee crisis – January 2014

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...

Gaplink International

Gaplink International is an NGO in Kenya. The organization exists to provide relief to needy people around the country, focusing on health and sanitation, disaster and humanitarian aid, human rights and advocacy, public policy, research and sustainable development. Examples of such projects include...

Creative Development Organization

The Creative Development Organization (CDO) is a Pakistani NGO in the Khyber PakhtunKhwa. CDO works on issues related to governance, education, health and disasters, providing technical support in mobilization, disaster management, reporting, data collection and information management. In...

Christian Peace Foundation (CPF)

The Christian Peace Foundation (CPF) is an NGO in Pakistan. CPF works with grassroots communities and with people who believe in human liberation. The organisation aims to raise awareness about education, poverty, health and ignorance among the poorest and most marginalized communities. and to...

Creative Hands

Creative Hands ia a Nepalese charity that builds and operates schools, aims to improve family health and welfare, protects street children’s rights, and provides assistance to disabled people who cannot work. The organisation provides food, clothing, fresh water, health care, and educational...

ChildsLife International

ChildsLife International works globally to provide care for children in need through four core programs: HIV/AIDS, education, food and nutrition, and infrastructure. ChildsLife works with local partners, local staff and local ideas, and is closely involved in the communities that it serve.

Mary's Meals

Mary’s Meals, a programme of the Scottish International Relief, is an international movement to establish daily school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The organisation not only addresses the immediate needs of a hungry children by...

Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd

Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd (RAWCS) is the Australian arm of Rotary International that assists Rotary Clubs with the development and management of international community service projects. Whether it's projects to help rebuild in the aftermath of disaster, programs to bring...

Mission Without Borders Australia

Mission Without Borders Australia is an international faith-based organisation, founded in 1960, dedicated to serving the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those suffering the effects of poverty or persecution. Mission Without Borders recognises the dignity of the individual and strives to...

Union Rescue Mission (URM)

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

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.

YWAM Mercy Ministries International

YWAM-Mercy is operational in more than 100 countries as it seeks to impact more than 100 million living in absolute poverty in the next 20 years. From agricultural assistance to health care to micro enterprise development, YWAM-Mercy seeks to meet the felt needs of individuals and communities,...

Mercy Corps

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...

World Harvest

World Harvest is an international relief and development humanitarian organisation that was founded in 1989. World Harvest works with poor people in transforming their lives mainly through health care, food security, micro enterprise, education and awareness process. Initiated in Indonesia, World...

Operation Blessing International

Operation Blessing International (OBI) provides short-term relief and development assistance to economically disadvantaged people and disaster victims across the world. In the United States, Operation Blessing International focuses on providing food, clothing and other material assistance to...

Feed The Children

Feed The Children is a GIK focussed, non-profit Christian charitable organisation providing physical, spiritual, educational, vocational/technical, psychological, economic and medical assistance and other necessary aid to children, families, and persons in need in the United States and...

Kritika Alloys Private Limited

Kritika Alloys Private Limited is an Indian company that manufacturers core relief items including first aid kits , kitchen sets as per UNHCR specifications.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Nicaragua

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged. CRS has been working in Nicaragua for more than 40 years, and currently runs programmes in agriculture, health, microfinance, civil society and human rights....

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Colombia

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged. CRS has worked in Colombia since 1954. The current CRS programme aims to address the injustices occuring as a result of the illegal drug trade and more than 30 years...

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Vietnam

Catholic Relief Services - Vietnam supports projects initiated by local partners in the areas of education, including special programmes for disabled children, agriculture/rural enterprise development, microfinance, and emergency mitigation and relief.