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Good News Proclamation Services

Good News Proclamation Services (GNPS) is a non-profitable Christian organization established in 2004 and registered with the Government of U.P. under the Act of 1860 and also registered with the Home Ministry, Government of India FCRA. It is also registered under the Commissioner of Income Tax,...

Real Aid

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

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...

Respond to Ecuador earthquake

Ecuador is urgently in need of help as it reconstructs following the disaster it met, mid-April.

Aid and International Development Forum

The Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) is the world leading forum specialising in disaster relief, resilience, mobile for development, food security and water security. We unite all stakeholders from government, UN agencies, intergovernmental agencies, NGOs and the private sector by...

Global Humanitarian Outreach Limited

Global Humanitarian Outreach (GHO)is an Tanzanian NGO dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through social, economic and humanitarian initiatives.

Glasgow the Caring City

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...

Christian Missions Charitable Trust (CMCT)

Christian Missions Charitable Trust (CMCT) provides various social, educational, and vocational programmes for the poor to empower them to be financially stable, independent and living in dignity.

Global Hand Principles

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...

Aquafilta Limited

Aquafilta Limited is a UK company that has designed and developed a new water filter that can be used in emergency and disaster situations. The company is working with a leading UK filtration company to manufacture the units.

Standards

Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.

Helping Children

Helping Chldren is a Sri Lankan NGO that focuses on children and young people. The organisation is involved in a range of programmes including early childhood development, protection of children's rights, protection of the environment, entrepreneurial development, education and training, health...

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...

Foundation for Health and Social Economic Development Africa

The Foundation for Health and Social Economic Development (HESED) Africa is a Kenyan NGO that addresses problems facing children, women and youth in the context of health and social economic empowerment while integrating cross cutting issues such as HIV/AIDS, human rights, peace building and...

Shanti Volunteer Association (SVA)

The Shanti Volunteer Association is a Japanese NGO that was established to support Cambodian refugees in Thailand. SVA currently implements educational assistant projects including school construction, capacity building for teachers/ librarians and publishing picture books in refugee camps in a...

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...