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Blind Foundation for India
The Blind Foundation for India is an American NGO established to help in preventing blindness in India. The Foundation focuses on education, rehabilitation and prevention wherever possible. Doctors involved in the Foundation have restored sight to 75,000 people through the removal of cataracts and...
Globus Relief
Globus Relief is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its mission is to gather, process, and distribute medical and other humanitarian supplies to charitable organisations serving the needy locally and internationally.
Feeding Children Better
Feeding Children Better, a programme of the ConAgra Foods Foundation, supports 150 after-school programs that serve free, hot, nutritious meals to children, operates a charitable food distribution system that recaptures food that would be lost or discarded and helps supply the nation’s food banks,...
Medical Care Development International
MCD International is a division of Medical Care Development (MCD), Inc., a health planning, management research and training organisation based in Augusta, Maine. Originally, MCD provided health services to underserved rural communities in the United States. An international division was...
Funproni
Funproni (Foundation for the Protection of the Orphan Child) is a non-profit organisation that provides homes for orphaned, abandoned, or abused chilren in Guatemala. Funproni organises foster homes and adoptive families for the children, and cares for abandoned children in its orphanage, Casa...
Casa Corazon De La Misericordia
Casa Corazon De La Misericordia is an orphanage in Honduras for children with AIDS. Established by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy, the orphanage provides shelter, food, clothing, medical care and education for 45 children who have been orphaned or abandoned.
Casa de Oracion para las Naciones
Casa de Oracion para las Naciones is a Christian evangelising organisation dedicated to spreading the gospel in South America.
Save Darfur Coalition
The Save Darfur Coalition is an advocacy group calling for international intervention in the Darfur genocide in the Eastern African state of Sudan. Based in the United States, it is a coalition of more than 180 religious, political, and human rights organizations designed to campaign for a response...
UNICEF Venezuela
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. In support of Venezuela’s System of Protection of Children and Adolescents, UNICEF cooperates in the coordination, promotion of the political agenda for children,...
Caritas Internationalis - Costa Rica
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organizations with the vision of building a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed. Caritas Costa Rica campaigns in support of human rights and the construction of fair and...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Colombia
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has for mission long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. Building on the educational and sanitary skills of the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF Colombia defines and validates quality...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Bolivia
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has for mission long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. UNICEF is in Bolivia in order to ensure compliance with the rights of children and adolescents, promoting their development, ensuring...
Save the Children (SCF) - Colombia
Save the Children (SCF) is an international voluntary agency working for the rights of children worldwide. SCF Colombia focuses its efforts on defending the rights of children more vulnerable and on improving access of children to quality education. The organization has developed strategies for...
Red Cross Venezuela (Cruz Roja Venezolana)
Red Cross Venezuela (Cruz Roja Venezolana) is a member society of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Its objectives are to: provide humanitarian and medical assistance in times of armed conflict or internal violence; promote training of the civilian population...
Red Cross - Chile (Cruz Roja Chilena)
Red Cross - Chile (Cruz Roja Chilena), a member society of the International Federation of the Red Cross, was founded in 1903. Today it has 166 branches across the country. The organisation currently operates in four areas: Health, Youth, Social Welfare and Risk Management.
Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG)
Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) is an NGO which helps individuals and communities get affordable and environmentally sound access to electricity, sanitation and clean water. Through a combination of business incubation, education, and outreach, the organisation helps people get...
Red Cross - Peru (Cruz Roja Peru)
Red Cross - Peru (Cruz Roja Peru) promotes and encourages national approach to disaster risk management in the early stages of reduction, response and recovery. Humanitarian action in Peru also includes actions to promote development with a focus on multiculturalism, gender, and respect for the...
Red Cross - Paraguay (Cruz Roja Paraguaya)
Red Cross - Paraguay (Cruz Roja Paraguaya), a member society of the International Federation of the Red Cross, was established in 1919. The organisation provides medical and humanitarian assistance during disasters. It also offers education for emergency situations.
Caritas Paraguay
Caritas Paraguay is involved in humanitarian and development work, and has a special focus on advocating for social change at the grassroots and national levels. The organisation helps to strengthen civil society and advocates to call on the country’s leaders to address these problems and tackle...
World Food Program - Colombia
WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to: meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the right place. In...