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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...
Food Bank of the Rockies
Food Bank of the Rockies (FBR) is a member of America's Second Harvest, the largest US-based food bank network. FBR distributes more than 22 million pounds of food and other necessities annually to more than 900 organisations in North Colorado and Wyoming to provide meals for children, seniors and...
Mercy International
Mercy International is a Christian NGO headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The organisation supports a team in Thailand working with orphaned, needy or destitute children and babies born with HIV. Mercy provides a range of support and social services for the children including food, clothing,...
Save The Children - Turkey
Save the Children is one of the world's leading independent organization for children. Their vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Their mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve...
Save the Children (SCF) - Bolivia
Save the Children (SCF) is an international voluntary agency working for the rights of children worldwide. In Bolivia, SCF aims to achieve lasting benefits for children within the communities in which they live by influencing policy and practice based on its experience and study in different parts...
Darfur Wall
The Darfur Wall is a non-profit web site that raises awareness of the Darfur conflict and supports Darfur-relief organizations. It is a display of 400,000 dark numbers spread over 40 pages. Each number represents one of the 400,000 people who have been killed in the Darfur genocide. Each visitor...
The Sower House
The House of the Sower is an initiative of Youth With A Mission (YWAM), an international interdenominational Christian organisation, operating in more than 900 locations in over 140 countries, with a staff of over 11,000. The House of the Sower provides training in sign language for 12 deaf...
Concern Worldwide US
Concern Worldwide US, Inc. is an affiliate of Concern Worldwide and supports the Concern network by recruiting staff, supporting program development, creating public awareness of humanitarian issues and financially supporting programs. Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international,...
Child Fund International
Child Fund International focuses its programs to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children living in poverty have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities. The organization also promotes societies whose individuals...
International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP)
ILEAP’s launch was motivated by the realisation that developing countries needed to be able to better influence the terms on which they were engaging and integrating with the global economy. This view was quickly augmented with the further understanding that by better reflecting their interests in...
Laboratorio Pyam S.A.
Laboratorio Pyam S.A. works on the development, production, fractionation and packing of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. The company has been present with its products in various social and sanitary emergencies caused by epidemics, natural disasters or other catastrophes in different parts of...
IADDIC Shelters, LLC
IADDIC Shelters is an American company that provides temporary housing for disaster areas and for urban renewal. The company claims that its instant shelter units are better than mere temporary housing and are, in fact, semi-permanent despite being extremely easy and quick to erect.
Casa de la Mujer de la Unión
Casa de la Mujer de la Unión promotes and carries out activities and programmes to motivate young and adult women, contribute to the development of all their potentialities, and to attain gender equality of opportunities in all facets of society.
Medical Teams International
Medical Teams International is a Christian aid organization aiming to serve the people stricken by disaster, conflict and poverty all over the world with the most effective programs possible. The organization deploys volunteer disaster response teams to meet emergency medical and other relief...
Wheels for the World
Wheels for the World is an outreach programme of Joni and Friends, a faith-based US organisation, dedicated to assisting people with disabilities. Wheels for the World collects and refurbishes wheelchairs in the US, and distributes them with bibles to recipients in developing countries. Wherever...
Trenton Materials Exchange
Trenton Materials Exchange is an NGO that helps to preserve the environment by keeping office furniture, durable medical equipment, building supplies and electronics out of the waste stream and in re-use. The organisation supplies usable donated goods to NGOs, small businesses and individuals and...
Maria Ayuda
Founded in 1983, Maria Ayda shelters and educates vulnerable children and their families. They have developed eight social programmes, including a number of residences for children, and an educational centre. They can benefit from the help of volunteers, and they also run a programme for sponsoring...