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Collects surplus medical supplies such as bio-medical equipment, surgical instruments, hospital furnishings and surgical sutures from American hospitals and then ships them directly to healthcare facilities in 40 developing countries.
Helping Hands Medical Missions (HHMM)
Helping Hands Medical Missions is always in need of physicians, nurses, and volunteers. HELPING HANDS Medical Missions (HHMM) was formally established in 1996 after 3 years of developing a program for a Catholic medical mission. The idea originated in Dallas in 1991 when a Catholic priest...
Unread Mothers Panama
Unread Mothers Panama works to bring basic education to the poorest mothers and their children. The organisation attracts and places foreign volunteers in programmes and projects working with street children, rural and shantytown schools, and orphanages.
Hogar Virgen de los Dolores
Hogar Virgen de los Dolores is a Christian NGO established in Venezuela in 1945 to care for and educate poor children from difficult economic and family backgrounds. The children are grouped according to age in a number of homes in Caracas, and the organisation also runs a recreational facility in...
NomadHope
NomadHope, a programme and website of Sahara Solutions Foundation, Inc., is a non profit organisation empowering nomadic women, children and families in remote area of Africe. NomadHope focuses upon action-oriented, community sustained, cultural sensitive and technology driven projects.
Aldeas Infantiles SOS - Venezuela
Aldeas Infantiles SOS – Venezuela, as part of SOS Children's Villages International, builds families for children in need, support them to form their own future and participate in the development of their communities. Aldeas Infantiles SOS – Venezuela works with families at risk in areas of...
Partners in Development Foundation
Partners in Development Foundation (PID Foundation) has been dedicated to drawing upon the ancient Hawaiian cultural traditions to meet the current challenges facing today’s Hawaiian population. The organisation creates and implements programs to address the needs of at-risk groups within the...
Resolve
Resolve is a NGO whose objective is peace by taking the comprehensive knowledge base that had been developed, since its beginning as Uganda Conflict Action Network, and arm it with targeted nationwide awareness and advocacy campaigns. Resolve works with activists, policy experts, and civil society...
Canadian Co-operative Association
Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) is a not-for-profit group of co-operatives and credit unions of Canada. Members of CCA come from various sectors, including finance, insurance, agri-food and supply, wholesale and retail housing, health, and the service sector. CCA provides services in three...
Center on International Cooperation (CIC)
The NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) works to enhance multilateral responses to global problems, including: conflict, humanitarian crises, and recovery; international security challenges, including weapons proliferation and the changing balance of power; and resource scarcity and...
Global Samaritan Resources
Global Samaritan Resources (GSR) is a humanitarian aid organization, which has been established to collect and distribute medicine, medical equipment and supplies, food, agricultural supplies and equipment, and educational materials to poor, neglected and disaster-stricken people around the world....
Community Promotion Development Liberation (Coprodeli)
Coprodeli is a Christian-based foundation whose mission is to contribute to the development of urban fringe areas and eliminate poverty and social exclusion in Peru. The organization currently serves more than 50,000 people living within 30 neighborhoods, where between 80-90% of the population have...
WiserEarth
WiserEarth aims to serve the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps out and connects the hundreds of thousands of organisations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment....
Global Distribution of Poverty
The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live. Additionally, the project aims to assist policy makers and development agencies in designing interventions to reduce...
Junior Achievement (JA) de Panamá
Junior Achievement de Panamá seeks to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives through professional volunteers.
International Finance Corporation
The International Finance Corporation promotes private sector development through its investment, technical assistance and advisory work. They provide support for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises through a central SME Department.
Mercy Corps International - Kyrgyzstan
Mercy Corps is a not-for-profit international humanitarian agency, involved in emergency relief, sustainable community development and civil society initiatives. Its goal in Kyrgyzstan is to transfer knowledge and expertise, through development and financial services programs, to its clients and...
Hunger Plus, Inc
Hunger Plus, Inc. seeks to reduce suffering from hunger whether the cause is disaster, conflict or natural, through the provision of food and related supplies (e.g. dehydrated goods). With an organisational goal to reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger (between 1990 and...
SunStove
SunStove, a non-profit group, produces energy efficient stoves, gravity water pumps and other low-cost water solutions appropriate for use by humanitarian agencies.Manufactured in South Africa, SunStove solar cookers are safe, healthy, user-friendly, eco-friendly, durable, stackable and portable....
Nuestra Casa Corporation
Nuestra Casa Corporation is a shelter for the homeless, supporting and encouraging their clients on their way back into society. The organization provides affordable food and shelter for the homeless in Santiago and organizes activities to reintegrate them. These persons generate 51% of the home's...