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Rebuilding our communities helping companies set priorities to aid long-term recovery
A community’s recovery from a disaster is a complex and long-term process that involves a range of activities and many participants. Recovery involves shortterm restoration of essential community services as well as long-term rebuilding and, ideally, mitigation against future crises.
Hong Kong Bank Foundation supports dyslexic students
The Hongkong Bank Foundation supports the renovation of a learning and development centre for dyslexic students with a sizeable donation of HK$3.7 million, providing Hong Kong with the first one-stop service meeting the needs of some 1,000 dyslexic students and their parents in the community...
The Veolia Foundation helps German NGO to change a holiday centre into a place for people with disabilities
The Veolia Foundation has made a grant to the German NGO, Kindererholungszentrum (Children’s Convalescent Center), to adapt former East German children’s holiday centre near the Polish border for the use of people with disabilities.
Veolia Foundation assists Moroccan children with disabilities to attend school with their peers
The Veolia Foundation, a French environmental organization, has provided financial assistance to Pinocchio, a Moroccan NGO, to assist the integration of children with physical and other disabilities into mainstream education.
The Veolia Foundation assists day care centres for children with cerebral palsy
The Association Pour L’éducation Thérapeutique Et La Réadaptation Des Enfant Infirmes Moteurs Cérébraux (APETREIMC), a French NGO, provides group accommodation for young children suffering from cerebral palsy in order give them a good start in life.
University of Texas Map Library - Serbia and Montenegro
A large database of maps from around the world, with many links to maps on other sites. Has a huge collection of maps of political and relief maps of Serbia and Montenegro, city maps of Belgrade, links to maps of other Eastern European countries. Other relevant maps include political and transport...
Kawempe Youth Centre
Kawempe Youth Centre (KYC) is part of Uganda Community Libraries Association (UgCLA). The Centre runs programmes aimed at building literate communities. These programmes provide access to resources where there is no other meaningful access and thereby supports the information needs of...
Associação Livro Aberto
Associação Livro Aberto serves to nurture the development of children’s literacy skills by coaching adults to provide access to quality literacy models, materials, and learning experiences that motivate children to learn to read and write, ultimately fostering a culture of reading for pleasure in...
Bring Me A Book® Foundation
The Bring Me A Book® Foundation (BMAB), an award winning literacy nonprofit, was founded to serve children who do not have access to quality books and who are not read aloud to on a regular basis. BMAB provide libraries of quality, hardback children’s books and read aloud training to over 181,000...
Foundation Center
Established in 1956, the Foundation Center is one of the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Through data, analysis, and training, it connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to succeed. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on...
Fever Relief Fund
The Fever Relief Fund (FRF) is an NGO based in the USA that works for disadvantaged young people and single parent families in the USA and in Ghana. The Fund runs a number of projects, for example, after school soccer programmes, mentoring and training in social skills. The Fund also works with...
Books Through Bars
Based in Philadelphia, Books Through Bars works to empower prisoners through the provision of reading materials to support their self-education. Each month, many packages are sent directly to prisoners, while boxes of books are also provided to prison libraries. The organisation's other activities...
Bookfriends International
Bookfriends International, NFP is an American NGO that seeks to provide educational resources to secondary school age children in Africa by providing them with text books, library books and reference materials that are in short supply in their local villages. The organisation collects used books...
FLY Nepal- Travel and Volunteer
Flynepal Volunteering Organization (FVO) is an officially registered non profit and non governmental local volunteer organization which specializes in providing cheap and affordable volunteer programs in Nepal for the benefit of several disadvantaged communities. Recruiting volunteers from abroad,...
Educational Model Organization (EMORG)
EMORG (Educational Model Organisation)is a community-based NGO providing educational resources to the residents of the Kisongo Village area in Arusha, Tanzania. The main aim of the organisation is to provide the community with free library services, pre-primary, primary, and later in service...
World Vision
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. We serve...
Carlson College
Carlson College (CC) is a private, non-profit institution that works for the improvement of young people under the government's cooperation and provides a good learning environment for students. It is a college under the Institute of Further and Continuing Education (IFCE), founded to meet the...
Education Aid
Education Aid takes donations of surplus books from publishers, book sellers, schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, businesses, and individuals. The books are then given free to educational institutions in poor countries.
Borderline Books
Borderline Books collects unwanted books from publishers, libraries and individuals and redistributes them free of charge to refugees, former prisoners, victims of domestic violence, homeless people and others who have little or no access to books. Many books come direct from publishers -...
Room to Read
Room to Read partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. They seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education is a lifelong gift that empowers people to improve socioeconomic...