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Gantsi Craft
Gantsi Craft is committed to improving the lives of SAN-communities by promoting and marketing craft for the benefit of rural producers. Gantsi Craft currently serves 15 remote settlements within the Ghanzi and Kalahari Regions by buying craft directly from the producers. Craft is fairly traded...
A Self-help Assistance Program - Africa (ASAP Africa)
A Self-Help Assistance Program – Africa (ASAP Africa) is an international NGO based in the US. The organisation aims to cultivate self-reliance in Southern Africa by empowering disadvantaged rural communities to effect fundamental and sustainable improvements in their own lives. In partnership...
Nelson Enterprise Loan Trust (NELT)
The Nelson Enterprise Loan Trust (NELT) is a New-Zealand based Trust that assists with the development of the Nelson City area by providing loan capital to enterprises and organisations in Nelson City or Tasman District. The main objectives of NELT are to: * Assist new and emerging...
Village Enterprise Fund (VEF)
Village Enterprise Fund (VEF) combines business training, seed capital grants, and ongoing mentoring to qualified rural entrepreneurs in East Africa to create sustainable income-generating businesses. Village Enterprise plays a unique role in the poverty reduction and microenterprise development...
African Relief and Welfare Agency Australia (ARWA Australia)
African Relief & Welfare Agency Australia (ARWA Australia) is an NGO operating from Australia specifically to Africa to contribute to poverty alleviation and assist African communities in need to gain hope and self-sufficiency. ARWA integrates development with aid relief, to relieve...
United Nations (UN)
Founded in 1945, the UN is a humanitarian agency dedicated to maintaining peace and security in the world, solving global problems, and protecting human rights. The UN funds projects that seek to reduce poverty and to make the world a better place for all people.
Reservoirs of Compassion (RECO)
Reservoirs of Compassion (RECO) is a Christian non-governmental organisation based in Kampala, Uganda. Organisational activities are broad in focus, and include community development (such as through micro-enterprise initiatives), assisting HIV/AIDS victims, running adult literacy programmes,...
Caritas Internationalis - Cote-d'Ivoire
Caritas Côte d’Ivoire works through its diocesan and local organizations and with help from national and international non-governmental organizations to support the poor and needy, to contribute to development programs, to advocate for disadvantaged groups and to work for peace and reconciliation. ...
Poverty Relief Aid
Poverty Relief Aid is a registered national, non-governmental, non-profit making, relief and development organisation committed to assist families and communities in Kenya, to alleviate poverty and human suffering by responding to relief and development needs of disadvantaged people.
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of American States (OAS) brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen cooperation on democratic values. The OAS is the region’s principal multilateral forum for strengthening democracy, promoting human rights, and confronting shared problems. It includes...
Microfinance Gateway
The Microfinance Gateway is a comprehensive source of information for and about the micro-finance industry. It includes research and publications, discussion groups, specialised resource centers, organisation and consultant profiles, as well as the latest news, events, and job opportunities in...
Opportunities Industrialization Centres - Niger
Opportunities Industrialization Centres (OIC) is an international organisation working to fight poverty in rural populations through increased agricultural production and micro-finance support programs. In Niger, OIC works with grass roots organisations providing support to women's groups. OIC also...
Credito con Educacion Rural (CRECER)
Credito con Educacion Rural (CRECER)is an independent Bolivian NGO established with initial assistance from Freedom from Hunger. CRECER provides micro-finance and business training to poor women throughout Bolivia. CRECER also practices community banking in rural areas. In addition, CRECER is also...
Funding the Poor Cooperative (FPC)
Funding the Poor Cooperative (FPC), one of the largest micro-finance organisations in China, makes micro-credit available to the poor, especially women, in the rural areas of Hebei, Henan and Sichuan Provinces. FPC also experiments with adapting various micro-finance models, provides valuable...
Opportunity International (OI)
Opportunity International (OI) is an international non-profit organisation, using micro-enterprise development and providing small business loans. Opportunity is committed to solving the root cause of poverty instead of merely treating its symptoms; through providing micro-credit and basic training...
Kiva
Kiva connects donors to individual entrepreneurs or groups in the developing world, through the provision of micro-loans. Micro-credit empowers clients to lift themselves out of poverty through developing responsible business patterns and training. Kiva partners with existing micro-finance...
World Bank - Sierra Leone
The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...
Youth Social Service Organisation
This is an India based NGO conducting activities in rain water harvesting, training and community development. There are mainly two programs, the tribal development program and the watershed program. The tribal development program is involved in community development support, women development and...
Heifer Project International (Thailand)
The first activity of Heifer Project International (Thailand) started in 1974, focused on marginalized ethnic minorities living in the mountainous regions of northern Thailand. The first project, providing cattle to families in 21 villages, was conducted with one of these groups. Later fish ponds...
Global Voices Online
Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Global Voices seeks to aggregate and amplify the global conversation online - highlighting...