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Faith Home Honduras
The Faith Home Honduras is a home for Honduran children who have been rescued from a life of neglect, abuse or abandonment. Established by Baptist missionaries from the US, the Home provides a safe and healthy environment in which to care for and educate the children. A clinic catering for their...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Costa Rica
FAO was founded in 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. Today, FAO is one of the largest specialised agencies in the United Nations system and the lead agency for...
Christ for the City - Costa Rica
Christ for the City (CFCI) aims to meet the physical and spiritual needs of communities, placing existing resources in reach of those who need them. It places bases within areas of greatest need within cities, working with local ministries, businesses, and government officials to deal with locally...
Aldeas Infantiles SOS - Costa Rica
Aldeas Infantiles is a member of SOS Kinderdorf International, and works in accordance with its statutes and principles for education and child care. Aldeas Infantiles has been working in Costa Rica since 1975. Currently there are two SOS Children's Villages, one SOS Youth Facility, one SOS...
Food for the Hungry International (FHI) Costa Rica
Food for the Hungry (FHI) is an international organisation committed to development and emergency assistance, and support to stop poverty and hunger worldwide. Through assistance and training it develops facilities that promote self-sustainability of recipients. Work in Costa Rica started in 2002...
LifeStraw
Recognising the importance of safe water supplies as a basic human right, LifeStraw is a portable water purification tool that cleanses surface water making it safe for human consumption. LifeStraw is a preventative tool against the transmission of waterborne diseases such as typhoid, cholera,...
DIRE Corp
DIRE Corp is an American company that provides high quality disaster relief products that can be deployed under any circumstance or terrain. Products include decontamination shelters, decontamination sprays, portable lighting systems, paramedic and trauma cases, oxygen concentrators and water...
Child Foundation
The Child Foundation provides basic living essentials such as food, shelter, clothing and medical needs so that young boys and girls can continue their education, rather than being forced to engage in demeaning jobs or early marriages.
Carnegie Moscow Center
Carnegie Moscow Center is a US-based, private, non-profit organisation that accommodates foreign and Russian researchers collaborating with Washington staff on a variety of topical areas and policy-relevant projects. The Center has relationships with Russian specialists and scholars, educational...
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
The American Near East Refugee Aid, ANERA, is an American NGO. Initially ANERA sought to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians by providing emergency relief. ANERA now also addresses the long-term economic and social needs of Palestinians, Lebanese and Jordanians through its...
Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) – Chad/Cameroon
Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) is the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, providing energy that helps underpin growing economies and improve living standards around the world. ExxonMobil’s Chad/Cameroon Development Project financed partly by the World Bank is...
Progressive Initiative for Cameroon (PICAM)
Progressive Initiative for Cameroon (PICAM) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to improving and transforming the Cameroonian society through innovative research and practical activities.
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an organisation that contributes to the emancipation of working people. WFTU is against all forms of exploitation, and champions the rights of workers. These rights include the right to organise, the right to work, to paid holidays and adequate pay, the...
Caribbean Medical Transport (CMT)
Caribbean Medical Transport is a not-profit, non-political organisation that sends medical goods and equipment to Cuba by way of container transport. Activites are largely centred on the city of Santiago de Cuba, with supplies delivered directly to hospital administrators (so the organisation can...
World Blind Union (WBU)
World Blind Union (WBU) takes actions against the high prevalence of poverty among people who are blind or partially sighted and provides an international forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience in the field of blindness.
Food for the Poor
Many countries across Latin America and the Caribbean struggle greatly with poverty, hunger and a host of accompanying problems. Food For The Poor hears their desperate cries — and takes swift action.
Refugees International
Refugees International develops policy and advocacy positions based on local knowledge of key humanitarian emergencies. Their advocates spend weeks in the field to reach populations that are most in need and determine immediate, practical ways to address the humanitarian emergencies they face. By...
Mallory Alexander International Logistics
Alexander International provides transport and warehousing service worldwide. It has information regarding alternatives for transporting your goods, the transit times, the cost and the advantages of each mode of transportation.
Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)
Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), an international fund company, aims to encourage entrepreneurs in emerging markets and help sustain the new economy. SEAF invests in small and medium size businesses that are unable to obtain long-term equity due to their size or location and provide...
Global Involvement Through Education (Global I.E.)
Global Involvement Through Education (Global I.E.) is a non-profit organisation, operated by volunteers, actively involved in educational projects in many regions of the world. Throughout Central Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula, Global I.E. is working to link educators...