Task Brasil aims to improve the lives of street children and teenagers who live and work on the streets of Brazil by motivating them towards education, professional training, music, arts and sports, encouraging social skills and emotional bonds by teaching ethical, moral and civic ideals.

AbleChildAfrica exists to improve the lives of the estimated 50m children and young people who are living with disability in Africa. We do this by supporting partner organisations to carry out life changing work with them. We think disabled children and disabled young people should be allowed to decide what changes they would like to see, so we make sure that the organisations which we work with actively involve disabled children and young people in their decision making. We have been working in East Africa for the past twenty years and during that time have affected the lives of over 250,000 disabled children and young people. We are currently working in Uganda and Kenya and hope to expand our work to other African countries in the future. The programmes we run include rehabilitative healthcare, inclusive education, parents support groups, children's after school clubs and campaigning work which seeks the full inclusion of disabled children and disabled young people in policy and practice everywhere we work.

APT works with churches in Burkina Faso, West Africa, to bring God's blessing to their communities through church planting, education, poverty relief, and community development. APT also partners churches in Burkina Faso with churches around the world.

Accounting for Africa identifies projects in Africa supported annually through The Times Leadership Challenge (www.challengeafrica.co.uk). Projects range from teaching in communities, to supporting small businesses and building schools. All are designed to help African people help themselves. 100% of all donations are spent on the ground in Africa. The charity deducts no administration costs.

ABC Trust is a fundraising organisation that supports community projects for street children in some of Brazil's poorest areas. Its aim is to provide the children with the means to make their own future better by offering them a broader horizon and teaching them new skills.

Action Village India has long-term relationships with six Gandhian organisations all working for non-violent change in rural India. For 20 years, it has supported programmes which enable disadvantaged communities to help themselves including; women's empowerment and employment (Tamil Nadu), organic farming (Kerala), girls' education (Jharkhand) and fishing communities' rights (Orissa).

Advance Aid is a new charitable initiative that will enable emergency supplies for Africa to be made in Africa and stored in strategic locations - in advance of any emergency. This time-saving new model for disaster relief will save thousands of lives when disaster strikes. It will also stimulate a healthy culture of trade, not just aid, on the continent of Africa.

The Afghan Training Foundation was formed in 2005. Working in Afghanistan and the UK, its main focus is on education, training and development.

Its wholly owned trading company, Afghan Action, is a social enterprise with a carpet factory and training school in Kabul, where young people learn how to weave carpets, read and write and receive a hot meal and basic health care.

In the UK, the Afghan Training Foundation works with Afghan groups in London to address issues of poverty, health, training and employment. In East Yorkshire, an awareness raising programme with local schools started in September 2009 and there are also two exchange programmes between British schools (in Hammersmith and Harpenden) and schools in Kabul and Mazar e Sharif.

The Afghan Training Foundation is also working on IT development in Afghan schools, partnering with Tribune Business Systems, a British company based in London, andNeda Holding, Afghanistan?s largest internet provider.

The Afghan Appeal Fund (AAF) - a charity run by families of British soldiers - aims to raise awareness of the plight of the people of Afghanistan, particularly the children, and raise money to help them. We are currently building three schools in different provinces of Afghanistan. By supporting these "hearts and minds" projects, we hope to help provide a better future, not just for Afghan children, but a safer world for all our children.

Afghan Mother & Child Rescue is a small hands-on charity which concentrates on building specialised mother and child health clinics in Afghanistan. The clinics provide a safe, clean environment for births and are playing a crucial role in helping to bring down Afghanistan’s extremely high level of maternal and infant mortality.

The Afghan Reading Project (ARP) raises funds for books and educational resources for children and teachers in Afghanistan. With your help, ARP aims to support literacy, a love of reading and education - hope for a better future.

Afghanaid has worked with Afghan communities since 1983 to address the issues of poverty. Through 300 local staff it works in agriculture, animal health, micro-finance, income generation, basic health education and women's resource centres.

Asian Foundation for Philanthropy (AFP) facilitates a broad movement of engagement with development initiatives in India. Through three programmes of international volunteering, development awareness and donor programme it works at the grassroots level to ensure that the poorest people can improve their lives, livelihoods, and have a stronger voice in decisions that affect them.

Akamba Aid works among poor rural communities in N.E. Kenya, relieving poverty by supporting primary and secondary education and affordable health care. It encourages self-help among local families, providing access to safe water and training seminars for the subsistence farmers, and assisting in construction of community buildings.

The Alexander Ewart Fund for Nepal was set up in 2004 in memory of Alex who lost his life in a rafting accident while a volunteer teacher in Nepal. The fund supports development of education in Nepal through providing both buildings and support for students and teachers.

FQMS works to advance medical education throughout Palestine and the medical school at Al Quds University, Jerusalem, supporting visiting lecturers, examiners, teaching materials, student and faculty participation in conferences, clinical supervision, specialist training, the development of e-learning & video conferencing, shelter for students on clinical rotation under curfew.

The Anglo-Thai Foundation supports poor people in Isaan, a deprived region of Northeast Thailand. Education grants from primary school to college level mean families can afford to let their children complete state education. The Foundation also pays hardship and disability grants, and provides schools with clean drinking water systems, etc.

Asha Nepal is a human rights organisation working for women and girls in Nepal. It supports projects to help those from abusive and exploitative situations such as trafficking into the sex industry and domestic labour. Its aim is to empower females through education, training and security, giving them a voice.

This is an international membership organisation that supports rural women and their families through education, training and community development programmes. It gives women a voice at International level through its links with United Nations agencies. It has administrative offices in London and organises a conference every 3rd year.

The Atiamah Charitable Trust aims to provide relief to HIV/AIDS sufferers and their families in Ghana. The first priority for adults and children is to help them survive by providing care, basic drugs, dressings and nutrition. Education and counselling are also essential to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Trust currently supports the work of a Home Based Care project in Bolgatanga so that they can increase the number of trained workers, supply more drugs and nutrition and provide transport to enable more people to receive home based care.

We raise funds for a team in Liberia who carry out awareness programs in health, sexual exploitation and abuse amongst children and young people. They assist the UN in Liberia to carry out these urgentlly needed and indentified programs. They are presently running development courses for 120 youth workers and have plans to extend these outwith Monrovia.

B3P exists to promote the formation of an internationally-recognised trans-national Peace Park straddling the borders of Montenegro, Kosova and Albania. In pursuance of this objective, it runs training courses and English language summer schools and supports local sustainable development.

It runs a nursery school and associated development projects in the poorest region in the Gambia and sponsors children from the village through primary school and beyond.

The BEARR Trust works with partners to support health and social welfare, with a view to strengthening civil society, in Russia and Eurasia.

BEHT helps to educate children from under privileged backgrounds. It has helped to build 2 educational centres in Gujarat, India which are educating about 2000 children. It also helps towards the welfare of the sick and elderly in India and also helps towards any disaster relief operations.

The Appeal funds a humanitarian clinic in Bhopal, India, set up to help victims of the terrible Bhopal chemical Gas Disaster. This is the only clinic providing survivors with free medicines and treatments. It also helps a second generation of children affected by birth defects and the contaminated water supplies.

It runs a local community centre offering services to children, youth, elders and people with disabilities. Internationally, we work in Albania and Morocco and support other projects across the world.

BLA aims to break the cycle of poverty in Southern Africa through supporting a range of projects focusing on varying needs including health,education and skills development.All projects funded by BLA are carefully monitored to ensure accountability,efficiency and effectiveness.

The immediate problem of poverty is addressed by distributing 2500 food baskets every single week to impoverished families all over Israel. Eleven Children's Afternoon Enrichment Centers are also operated, providing schoolchildren with tutoring and needed therapies, in addition to a nourishing lunch, in order to help them break out of "the cycle of poverty."

Brooke relieves the suffering of hundreds of thousands of horses, donkeys and mules working tirelessly for the world's poorest communities. Its dedicated local vets and support teams provide free veterinary care, education and training to the heart of communities in parts of the Middle East, Africa, South America and Asia. .

The Cambodia Trust works with disadvantaged disabled people to enable them to participate as equals in education, employment and community life. The Trust aims to reduce poverty and increase self-sufficiency, through rehabilitation, community work, training and advocacy.

Cambodian Children's Education Foundation is a UK charity set up to support and give backup to FEDA (Friends Economic Development Association) in Cambodia. FEDA is a Cambodian NGO working to empower Cambodian people living in rural areas through education and income generation projects.

CAMDA provides grass-roots aid to poorer nomadic herding communities that lost millions of herd animals to wintry extremes. It also targets three essential resources: hay-making, reliable wells, healthy horses. Its aid helps prevent families on the verge of poverty giving up herding for the almost certain poverty of alien city life.

A Christian organisation providing practical and spiritual support to the poor and needy community of Dorohio, in Northeast Romania, providing three course meals, food bags, and other forms of assistance and counselling. It also has a playground and play area and a children’s club. All to show God’s Love In Action.

Chacolinks supports the indigenous Wichi of northern Argentina in their struggles to protect their forests and to press for their rights to their ancestral lands.

Chennai Challenge helps disadvantaged communities in Chennai, South India. This includes work in community centres, schools and orphanages

Children of the Andes is a UK charity dedicated to supporting Colombia's most disadvantaged children by working with local NGOs. With project partners it aims to provide relief from the effects of violence and poverty and promote longer-term development through a range of education, health, social care and conflict resolution initiatives.

Chinthowa, Malawi,a village of approx. 900 people about 50 miles from Lilongwi. Over the last 7 years we have worked to make it self sustaining, supporting 84 orphans, providing wells, seeds and lifestock. We are in the process of providing a school for primary and adult education.

It supports a primary school and school for the deaf in Kamuli, Uganda; runs community development programmes in Kamuli District and runs volunteer trips to Uganda, including Dental Missions

The charity provides relief to disadvantaged and vulnerable people living in Romania and Moldova by giving families, churches and medical organisations financial gifts, providing humanitarian aid and medical supplies, and setting up projects to provide long term benefits and independence.

The CIFA Trust is a small but highly effective UK charity supporting the work of CIFA Kenya and CIFA Ethiopia to facilitate the promotion of healthy, peaceful, enlightened and self reliant communities. All donations received are sent overseas.

Classrooms in the Clouds is a charity formed in the UK to raise funds and material to assist in the provision of education to the children of Nepal. We have recently completed our first project, the upgrading of Shree Lukla Primary School, and are now aiming to raise £30,000 to rebuild the Shree Bakhapalam Lower Secondary School in the region of Sotang.

Cocoa 's mission is to improve the conditions for babies and children in China's orphanages, by enhancing their quality of care and providing equipment, medicine and trained staff. Cocoa is a non denominational UK registered charity founded in 1995.

CODRA is a small Tanzanian based charity that operates in the north west of the country and delivers community based projects focusing on: Water & Sanitation; Education; Health & HIV/AIDS prevention, care and counselling; Reforestation; Orphaned and Vulnerable Children; Sports & Culture; Credit Schemes; Democracy & Good Governance

Comfort Rwanda works with Rwandan partners to bring hope and help to survivors from the genocide, support the efforts of the poor to develop and encourage and train the churches. It funds a street kids project, income generating projects, practical healing and reconciliation, education and integrated community support.

Crossflow works with partners in Nepal and India to provide health and education to vulnerable communities and the excluded.

Cubafriend was set up in 2008 to help Cubans in the Holguin area of Cuba recover from hurricanes Gustav and Ike. It has since gone on to provide much needed help with resources for schools, housing, healthcare and sports and recreational activities.

The Cusichaca Trust works with poor, isolated farming communities in the Peruvian Andes. The centre-piece of its programmes are projects to restore systems of agricultural terraces and irrigation canals abandoned since the Spanish conquest, increasing the yields of agriculture and with a real impact on the lives of rural families

Every penny of every pound donated to DAFA is put where it is needed with those who help administer the charity or are involved in facilitating any of its projects doing so entirely at their own expense. DAFA works predominantly in Zambia through a range of projects focusing on health care, education and self-help.

The Dalitso Trust has been successfully working in partnership with rural villages in Malawi since 2002. Our focus is on changing lives through development in a sustainable way. We believe change comes through investing ourselves in others, one person at a time. We do this in 3 main ways;

Dalitso Health: working with families to create healthy villages
Dalitso Leaders: mentoring and equipping local leaders
Dalitso Play: pioneering educational play and parenting skills

It supports under-privileged children and young people in Darjeeling. It repairs schools, provides basic equipment and facilities such as toilets, organises child sponsorship, provides books and a travelling librarian to visit schools to encourage children to read, and supports children in two orphanages.

Dental Project Peru seeks to provide emergency dental care and education to the most impoverished and rural areas of Peru. We travel to the most remote communities at high altitudes of over 4,000m where there is often no electricity or water. Once there, we treat children and adults, extracting and restoring teeth thus relieving pain that they have often lived with for years.

Our mission is to provide Tanzanian communities with vocational education for needy children, access to clean water and other actions based on an intimate and thorough understanding of its social and cultural needs.

The Donald Woods Foundation is dedicated to fighting poverty through education, health and community-building programmes in South Africa. Current programmes include screening over 1,000 people a month for HIV, supporting and caring for those who are HIV positive and an orphans and vulnerable children programme. The new 100 schools programme is designed to address any and every aspect of a school's development in deeply impoverished, rural communities, working in partnership with the Dept of Education.

It helps to raise funds to provide wells for fresh water and latrines to improve the health and sanitation for communities in Tanzania

Encourages and supports a wide spectrum of development projects in the kingdom of Lesotho

Provides opportunities in rural Morocco for girls to continue their education beyond primary level. Educate a girl and you educate the next generation www.educationforallmorocco.org

EDSA supports Saturday Schools and other educational initiatives which give disadvantaged young people living in the poverty-stricken townships and informal settlements around Cape Town the chance to fulfil their potential. EDSA believes that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and crime, the abiding legacy of apartheid.

The mission of Elam is to strengthen and expand the Church in the Iran Region. It trains leaders to be effective ministers of the Gospel, equips the Church with New Testaments and other resources, and sends leaders and workers to strengthen existing churches, establish new churches, and provide relief for the poor and persecuted.

It helps villagers in India to make the transition from ''Tribal'' to the 21st Century by helping them to sustain themselves with projects and ,also , make their living environment healthy and safe.

EI works in Developing Countries world-wide through practical, caring action and culturally sensitive mission - to meet the needs of people practically,spiritually and emotionally. They go to some of the most needy areas of the world to serve less fortunate people.

Enable Ethiopia helps rural villagers in Ethiopia by providing funding for projects such as water points and healthcare. It is run by volunteers to maximise all contributions to the region. It works with the local people who select the projects and provide the labour, and we raise the funds and pay for materials and technical assistance...simple, but effective.

ERA-UK,through partner associations based in Eritrea supports small development projects on Health and Education in response to stakeholders' requirements. ERA-UK believes sustainable development to be crucial in building on an ethos of self reliance within Eritrean culture. Currently ERA-UK is supporting children affected by HIV/AIDS and those with Autism in Eritrea.

All money is spent in Malawi. It provides food for 400 to 500 orphans a day at feeding stations. Funds have been provided to build two village clinics and two classrooms at a village school.Other items like mosquito nets water treatment tablets and seed packs have also been provided.F.R.O.M Scotland has no administration costs.

The Farmers Overseas Action Group, FOAG, is an independent charity whose mission is to aid social and economic development in Uganda?s rural communities. FOAG provides support to 12 projects in four key sectors; health, education, economic empowerment and the environment, with the overall goal of alleviating poverty. FOAG concentrates on small scale constructive action for community development through the funding of innovative projects that are often too small for the objectives of larger international charities. FOAG was founded in 1981 by a nucleus of Worcestershire farming families to practically address the needs of Uganda?s agricultural development. The core group has expanded over the years and is now supported by an ever increasing number of Associate Members and organisations. FOAG works in a direct and personal way and ensures that all projects are monitored on a regular basis. (www.foag.co.uk)

Feedback helps the poor in Madagascar to improve their livelihoods and their environment, sustainably and on their terms. It operates community development programmes focussing on health, education and natural resource management (especially in the areas of farming and forest conservation).

It helps the families and child victims of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 in Ukraine. It personally takes out humanitarian aid 3 times a year in its 3 Transit vans. It also helps deprived children in the UK particularly via HMP. and single parent families at Christmas.

we help vunerable children in ethiopia through our sponsership program and building project.

FECIN supports two projects in Tigray Northern Ethiopia, Alshadai Orphanage and Mums for Mums, an AIDS project training street women in useful skills so they can earn a living and feed their families. They also counsel others about AIDS and support HIV/AIDS sufferers in their own homes.

The Friends of Kadzinuni is a UK based charity established in February 2003 supporting Kadzinuni Primary School and its rural community. It aims to advance the education of the young people in the district of Kadzinuni, near Vipingo in Kenya, and to advance the provision of local health care for the people of the district.

"Friends of Meru" is a Perth based Scottish charity that raises funds to promote health, housing and education projects within the Meru region of Kenya. It is a "not for profit" organisation comprised of health, housing and social care professionals.

We work within the UK to raise funds for projects that enable the women and children of East Timor to have a better future.

Friends of The Citizens Foundation (FTCF) is a UK registered charity that raises funds for The Citizens Foundation (TCF); Pakistan's leading non-profit education charity. Since its inception in 1995, TCF has built 600 purpose-built school units nationwide in which it provides formal quality education to 80,000 children regardless of ethnicity, gender, caste or religion. Our 4,150 female teachers ensure 50% of all children enrolled are girls. "The quality of teaching provided, in many cases, equals that of Pakistan's smartest private schools. Yet the children who enrol are from the very poorest and most deprived families." - William Dalrymple, Historian and Author.

Supporting the Rainbow Old People's Home in Narasaraopet, South India

ADEPT is a charity working to protect the unique landscape of the Tarnava Mare area in Transylvania, Romania which is of European importance. It conserves the biodiversity of the grasslands and forests linked to sustainable agriculture and livelihoods, developing high quality local food products, rural tourism and traditional crafts. www.fundatia-adept.org

"Giving the Street Children of Today a Better Tomorrow"

Future Hope was founded in 1988 to help to provide a home, an education, health care and opportunity for street children in Kolkata.

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The charity helps to reduce extreme poverty in the rural areas by increasing the productivity of working horses and donkeys through welfare and management training. It provides basic veterinary assistance, teaches in schools and to farmers groups, and provides scholarships for paravets at college level.

HELP FACILITATE EDUCATION IN GHANA. PROVIDE FUNDING FOR BOREHOLES TO ENABLE VILLAGES TO HAVE CLEAN WATER SUPPLY

Global Action Nepal's chief focus is on educational and social improvement throughout Nepal. Its major project areas include teacher training, supporting the education of disadvantaged children, building adequate sanitation and water facilities and developing the skills of Nepalese youth.

Go Help runs projects all over the world. We use a volunteer base in the UK to minimise costs and local expertise to ensure your donations reach the people who really need the help. We raise money in many ways, our main project being the Charity Rallies website.

We provide support to people living in the district of Musoma in Tanzania. We offer a volunteering opportunity for people to use their skills to make a positive difference, by working with the local people. We also promote Christian faith in action.

GLO works in partnership with local organisations in Central Africa (notably Burundi), to help the people who help the people, providing financial, logistical and advisory assistance. Main focus is evangelism and discipleship through churches and schools, printing and teaching materials, fighting AIDS, street children and orphans, and encouraging an informed dialogue between different ethnic and religious groups (Muslims and Christians).

The HALO Trust is a non-political, non-religious NGO that specialises in the removal of the hazardous debris of war.

HAMLIN FISTULA UK supports the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - a hospital caring for women with horrendous injuries sustained in childbirth.

Hanna's Orphanage is a small charity set up to help the children of Ethiopia by supporting the maintenance and expansion of Hanna Orphans' Home.

Health for All was initially developed by the doctors, staff and patients at the Bridge and Littlebourne Health Centres, Canterbury. Aiming to "preserve health and relieve sickness and suffering in the less developed countries of the world" it supports partnership projects in India and Africa.

HELP supports families of the tsunami which devastated the East Coast of Sri Lanka. It funds two orphanages, after-school classes and scholarships for orphaned children. It also funds micro-finance schemes which support 90 single mothers.

The charity was set up in May 2008 to help restore the lives of those devastated by Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy delta region of Burma. It has helped over 10000 people with food aid, rebuilt many houses, and aided farmers.

Homes in Zimbabwe was established in 2004 to provide funds for the maintenance of Old People's Homes in Zimbabwe. The homes then were in serious need of help on account of the economic decline and high inflation that had completely eroded their financial reserves. Today we have had to divert almost all our resources to supplying food and fuel to safeguard the very lives of the elderly of all races living in residential homes and many still living at home often alone.. The local currency is now worthless removing any buying power from all local pensions, and although food is now available, it is priced in US$'s - a currency out of reach to most pensioners.

Hope in South Africa is helping to alleviate poverty in South Africa. It donates funds raised in the UK to partner organisations in South Africa who run projects aimed at creating employment and easing hardship.

The charity supports orphans and vulnerable children affected by AIDS in the Chilubula region of Northern Zambia. It provides food, clothing, education and sponsorship for the children and young adults as well as providing employment opportunities for the community.

Hue Help is a charity that runs a variety of locally developed program across central Vietnam that are designed to improve the standard of living for the poorest communities in the region, with a particular focus on the health and education of poor children!

IDE-UK strikes at the roots of rural poverty in Africa and Asia using an enterprise-based strategy. It works with poor farmers to establish supply chains for low-cost water technologies that help them to grow high-value crops. IDE-UK then helps them to sell these crops for a good profit.

Izara Khom Loy Trust helps ethnic minorities and stateless people in SE Asia by providing kindergarten education, food and running income producing projects such as producing handicrafts. Currently it is running projects in the mountains between Thailand and Myanmar/Burma.

The Charity is a involved in sending medical aid to countries including Romania, Moldova, Ghana and Afghanistan. We are currently helping to build small cottages for young people leaving our rehab unit in Siret Romania

JDI was started almost 10 years ago. The idea was to create a simple structure that would enable young people to use their centres of influence to learn, understand and then make a difference in other people's lives in South Africa. We wanted to show our friends how easy it was to make a significant impact. The JDI ethos shies away from the idea of making nameless donations to organisations where you can?t see how you money is spent, or from encouraging dependency by giving cash to individuals who are sometimes unable to spend it properly. Instead members are encouraged to ?See. Think. Do?. Here in the UK - JDI London is a group of friends who love South Africa and hate seeing any suffering there. We commit a small piece of our lives (e.g. time/ skills/ money/ contacts) to worthwhile and effective projects in SA with which we have close ties. Two of the projects we support are Children of the Dawn and Mthimkhulu Centre. Children of the Dawn empowers and strengthens existing community initiatives which focus on caring for HIV/AIDS orphans in rural South Africa. Based on a sponsorship programme, Children of the Dawn's goal is to give back a future to these affected children. Mthimhkulu is a day care centre for disabled children in Soweto run by Sam and Leah Kunene. It's an oasis of desperately needed care and development in an area where many disabled children are neglected due to stigmas, lack of understanding or resources.

Jeevika Trust is a registered charity that aims to tackle the roots of Indian poverty by revitalising rural communities. It works with people on the margins of rural society, low-caste and tribal people, especially disadvantaged women, to help them build and sustain their individual, family and community livelihoods.

Jesuit Refugee Service UK accompanies, serves and advocates on behalf of asylum seekers from their first arrival until they are settled satisfactorily. We especially work with detained asylum seekers and destitute asylum seekers. This work then feeds into our campaigning and lobbying activities at a local, national and international level.

JNF is an apolitical organisation benefiting all races and religions in Israel. It raises money for water projects, reservoirs and water conservation and has recently expanded its scope to run diverse projects for underprivileged people such as a hospital, a riding school for the disabled and a youth village.

Joliba Trust supports grassroots development work with farming and cattle-raising communities in some of the poorest areas of Mali. Our particular focus is on projects to help women, and environmental work to sustain rural livelihoods.

Joliba Trust supports grassroots development work with farming and cattle-raising communities in some of the poorest areas of Mali. Our particular focus is on projects to help women, and environmental work to sustain rural livelihoods.

Joliba Trust supports grassroots development work with farming and cattle-raising communities in some of the poorest areas of Mali. Our particular focus is on projects to help women, and environmental work to sustain rural livelihoods.

Working in nineteen rural communities around Blantyre, Joshua Orphan Care Trust (Joshua in Malawi) supports community-driven sustainable development projects to assist HIV/AIDS orphans, vulnerable children, and their families in Malawi. With its close ties to the communities and support from donors, Joshua Orphan Care has constructed 17 feeding centres, a secondary school, 4 classroom blocks, drilled bore holes and sponsors over 120 youngsters in education. Its staff live and work in Malawi and take great pride in working closely with local people and organisations.

Karai Welfare Society (KWS) has been raising money to meet basic needs in northern Sri Lanka since 1990. Its welfare projects so far have included the daily provision of clean drinking water to communities, funding a local ambulance service and post-Tsunami reconstruction. KWS is a registered charity and is not affiliated with any political groups.

The trust supports Karen refugees from Burma who have been forced to take refuge in the border area of Thailand. Most of the assistance is provided through support for the Mae Tao Clinic run by Dr Cynthia Maung.

KSDP provides educational and other practical support to young Karenni refugees living in camps on the Thai/Burma border. Our motto is to 'help the Karenni to help themselves' and we provide education and support facilities to enable them to achieve this objective. Administrative costs are kept to a minimum with virtually 100% of our donations going to the Karenni .

Karuna supports educational, health and cultural projects throughout South Asia that are helping thousands of oppressed women, men and children to develop the skills, dignity and confidence to transform their lives and take their rightful place in society.

The Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre is a project to create a world-class arts centre in Kathmandu. It is a unique opportunity to help contemporary artists in Nepal who, over decades, have become isolated by politics and geography. The charity (reg. no. 1121118) was founded in October 2007 to fund-raise for the project. Please visit www.kathmanduarts.org for further information.

KEP invests in capital equipment within schools within Kenya

The Kenya Trust raises money to improve educational facilities in poorer rural areas where needs are great or in schools for disabled children. Last year the Trust financed the building of two new classrooms at The Salvation Army's school in Kibera, a vast township on the outskirts of Nairobi. Their current project is to build a 7 classroom school, along with an administrative block and toilets, at Irukose in western Kenya, an area with high levels of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty. The Trust is also involved in developing music and provides The Salvation Army with musical Instruments of all kinds and sponsors territorial music schools.

Kids for Kids is the only organisation helping children struggling to survive in remote villages in Darfur, Sudan. We are saving and transforming children's lives through the simple loan of 6 goats and a donkey to each family, installing handpumps and providing clean water, training midwives and first aid workers, teaching farming techniques and providing essentials such as blankets, mosquito nets and solar lanterns. Our tree seedlings are already giving fruit to children and holding back desertification. By teaching villagers to run the projects themselves, everything we do is sustainable. Each donation is a lasting gift of life to a child.

The Kileva Foundation provides support and encouragement to underprivileged Kenyan children and their families. Its two major projects are the building of the Kileva Eastfield School in Mwakoma and the Kileva Medical Dispensary in Kirumbi which are remote villages about 15 km from the town of Voi in Kenya.

The Kilimatinde Trust (est 1997) assists the poorest region (Singida) in Tanzania in education, health and development. Thanks to the generosity of Grundfos a solar pump installation will assist the drought stricken village of Londoni in 2010. In 2009 the Sunderland Royal Hospital donated 140 beds and other generous supporters have enabled the hospital to be solar panelled so half the wards can be lit at night.

The Trusts 2010 priorities are: install a water purification unit, complete the hospital infusion unit, solar panel the remaining wards, support poor patients through a food fund, support HIV/AIDS orphans through a health insurance scheme and renew many outdated pieces of hospital equipment.

Latin American Foundation for the Future* is dedicated to helping young and vulnerable people who have been forgotten and abandoned by family or society, such as street children. LAFF offer grants and assistance to grass-roots projects - working at local level to achieve maximum impact. They only support projects that aim to be self sustaining, with the aim of creating independence from outside help not dependence on it.

LBMT, a Christian charity seeks to support the Anglican church in East Africa especially in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Projects supported include housing pastors, training pastors and leaders, church buildings, evangelism, schools, sponsorship of children's education and building guest houses to help generate income.

The charity buys roundabout wells for communities in Africa. As children play on the roundabout they pump clean water up into a large holding tank. A single well costs just £6,500 to install and can provide up to 2000 people with fresh water.

The Leicester Masaya Link Group (LMLG) co-ordinates the town twinning link between Leicester and the city of Masaya in Nicaragua. It works towards the relief of poverty by supporting partnerships for sustainable development in the Masaya region and helps to raise awareness of global issues through educational projects across all sectors of the community in Leicester and the surrounding area.

LESA UK helps to advance education by providing equipment and facilities to schools. It has provided a photocopier, rolling boards for classroom use & built an incinerator for waste disposal in a school. It also supports hospitals with equipment for delivering better healthcare in Cameroon.

Liberty Foundation exists to provide care, rehabilitation and education to abused, abandoned and disabled children in Belize, Central America. Liberty provides high quality residential care for up to 40 children, runs a community school and operates a local outreach program to provide assistance to vulnerable families with young children.

Link Romania exists to rebuild lives and communities in Eastern Europe. It supports the poorest and most marginalised people through poverty alleviation and humanitarian aid. Particular emphasis is on education, working with the homeless, street children, those living in shanty towns and the disenfranchised.

It helps villagers to survive and break out of the cycle of poverty, deprivation & disease and is saving lives. All live below the international poverty line. Many die as a result of AIDS, TB, Malaria, Cholera and dirty water.

It helps villagers to survive and break out of the cycle of poverty, deprivation & disease and is saving lives. All live below the international poverty line. Many die as a result of AIDS, TB, Malaria, Cholera and dirty water.

MACS supports the church in Malawi by funding various projects such as building or renovating churches, houses and hospital facilities, houses for minsters, teachers and nurses, water projects and other projects in support of these objects.

The Mad Foundation helps people in some of the world's poorest countries to help themselves, by working at a grassroots level to develop much needed sustainable community resources. Their objective is to advance education and alleviate poverty in any part of the world. They have helped build and renovate hundreds of schools, built orphanages, clinics, workshops, water and sanitation systems, helped kids with educational scholarships and helped provide sports and health resources throughout Africa, South America, and South East Asia. Money raised for the Mad Foundation will always be used on appropriate projects with the most immediate need.

MAG (Mines Advisory Group) is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict for the benefit of communities worldwide. MAG is co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for its work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which culminated in the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty - the international agreement that bans antipersonnel landmines, sometimes referred to as the Ottawa Convention. MAG moves into current and former conflict zones to clear the remnants of those conflicts, enabling recovery and assisting the development of affected populations. MAG consults with local communities and works to lessen the threat of death and injury, while releasing reclaimed and safe land and other vital resources back to the local population, helping countries to rebuild and develop their social and economic potential. MAG has worked in around 35 countries since 1989 and currently has operations in Angola, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Lao P.D.R., Lebanon, Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Vietnam.

The Makhad Trust provides a meeting place ("makhad") in nomadic regions where there is a powerful relationship between the environment and the human spirit. Working through community leaders it sets up projects to assist the economic and social wellbeing of a community whilst seeking to protect their environment and culture.

MoF exists to raise money in support of the Home of Hope orphanage in Malawi, which provides, nurture, care and education for more than 600 orphans.

Helps the work and projects of the Anglican Church in Mozambique and Angola

Mat-to-fore exists to reach out to those living in poverty, showing them the love of God in real and practical ways. The needs of children are of special priority. Established in 2006, the charity is currently working in the village of Kotei in the Ashanti region of Ghana.

We work with local people in the Philippines and Myanmar to alleviate poverty and care for abandoned children. We sponsor over 300 kids through school and have facilities for 100 kids in our purpose built home, feeding programs for hundreds of kids living on a rubbish dump. Regular team challenges enable volunteers to take part in our work overseas.

It gives a hand up not a hand out to the community of Mityana, Uganda. Priorities include Fire Safety for children; sustainable development and increasing democracy for the community [particularly women] and building a Community Resource Centre. It works with the community and responds to its needs.

The Aim of the trust is to provide support for the orphans of Bertoua, Cameroon and the surrounding villages by providing; foster care, healthcare and education. To provide education and facilities for the villages to become self sustaining in the support of the orphans.

Save lives in Zimbabwe through leveraging Zimbabwe diaspora skills and resources for home country development.

Msaada supports self-sustainable and humanitarian projects for the benefit of the people of Rwanda.

It works with the National Centre of Arts and Music Schools (CNEArt) in Cuba to send and distribute materials to children and young people for music and performing arts education in Cuba.

Naked Heart builds safe and inspiring play facilities in underprivileged areas of Russian cities. It has built 39 facilities to date in 30 Russian cities since 2006.

Ncuda helps develop capacity and skills in socially and economically disadvantaged communities in Cameroon. It supports institutions of learning, advances education, of people of all ages, supports business development initiatives and funds community development projects to enhance social cohesion, build capacity, skills and confidence to participate more fully in society.

The Nepal Trust is working with Health, Education, Renewable Energy, Heritage Preservation and Eco-Tourism in the far NW of Nepal. Its main objective is to help create community projects that emphasize local participation and responsibility and give hope to the people of this very remote and impoverished area, where every day is a struggle for survival.

We rebuild lives and communities destroyed by war in Rwanda, Uganda and Chad by tackling the long-term psychological and economic consequences that persist after aid agencies leave. We partner with local groups to empower and enskill vulnerable individuals, so they can break the cycle of poverty.

New Futures Nepal gives disadvantaged children and adults in Nepal and India hope for a better future. It works with the children and their carers towards independent adulthood. It provides loving homes; educates children and adults; provides specialist medical care and provides shelter for hundreds of street children in Kathmandu.

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The Niall Mellon Township Trust was started by Niall Mellon in 2002. The aim of the charity is to build quality social housing for impoverished families living in shacks in the townships of South Africa. The charity operates a year round house building programme. Since the charity first started it has built 13,500 homes and that figure continues to grow. To find out more about what we do visit: www.nmtownshiptrust.com

Nicaragua is the 2nd poorest country in Latin America. NSC works for social and economic justice in Nicaragua by supporting organisations there and twin towns here. Another major part of our work is to raise awareness in the UK of issues affecting Nicaragua through study tours etc.

The Trust aims to help some of the poorest and most marginalised people in Malawi by working to improve access to justice, access to healthcare, and access to education. www.nickwebbertrust.org.uk

Nyumba Ya Thanzi - The House of Good Health - is a UK based charitable trust working in Malawi to support locally designed development initiatives. Nyumba works with Malawians who have ideas about how to improve the lives of people in their country but often lack the resources to put their plans into action. They work with people who are passionate, committed and have realistic, workable plans.

It raises awareness of the plight of HIV+ orphans in Nairobi slums and raises funds for specific projects under the Nyumbani umbrella. To date:Equipped 5 slum clinics, £17000 (Lea Toto Project). Built & equipped four houses in Nyumbani Village £28000 (1000 orphans & 250 grandparents).

Oasis serves people and builds inclusive communities. Oasis is doing all it can to confront injustice in practical ways and it has been pioneering life-transforming housing, healthcare, education, computer training and youth work initiatives across the globe for over twenty years.

Off The Street Kids (OTSK) was founded in 2008 to provide much needed support for marginalised children and young people in South Africa. OTSK's first project is a programme for young people leaving residential care (homes for children and young people) in Cape Town.

Often when a young person leaves care they have no choice but to go and live on the streets because they have neither the skills to support themselves nor a home to return to.

Research has shown that, ill equipped to live by legitimate means, too often they end up in prison after falling into a downward spiral of drugs and crime.

Our goal is to help them develop their skills, further their education and provide them with somewhere to live, in order for them to participate in society as independent, mature and responsible adults.

It raises funds to provide for the relief of children in Malawi suffering from hardship and distress. In particular providing funds for the support of the Open Arms Infant Home, Blantyre, a transition Home for orphaned, neglected and terminally ill children, its associated Homes, outreach programmes and new projects.

Orphans of Rwanda, Inc. (ORI) is dedicated to helping orphans and other socially vulnerable young people in Rwanda pursue a university education and ultimately become leaders in driving economic development and social reconciliation. ORI currently supports 120 talented students, many of whom were affected by the 1994 genocide and diseases such as HIV/AIDS.

Oundle Africalink will be building a bridge to improve access to the Clinic that we established for a local community in Pomene, southern Mozambique in 2008. We shall also establish a women's sewing collective and a fishing collective, which will provide the local community with a boat and equipment and will encourage sustainable and environmentally friendly fishing practices. 100% of funds donated will go to the Community Aid Project. Thirty Oundle students will travel to Mozambique to work on the project in July 2010.

Oxfam is a vibrant global movement of dedicated people fighting poverty. From saving lives and developing projects that put poor people in charge of their lives and livelihoods, to campaigning for change that lasts. Oxfam is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 202918) and Scotland (SCO 039042).

Papua Partners is committed to transforming lives in West Papua through tackling the causes and consequences of poverty and social injustice. Papua Partners works with local organisations and churches to empower and improve livelihoods in local communities. We do this through provision of technical support, organisational development and funding of innovative initiatives.

Working in social and economic development in Nicaragua, by applying principles of care and participation in projects and programmes. It's mission is to improve quality of life in areas such as health, education, land rights, social mobilization, holistic growth, infrastructure and renewable energy.

In every conflict there are local people building peace. Peace Direct funds and promotes their work.

PEPAIDS is a UK based charity which provides financial and administrative support to SAPEP, an HIV/AIDS awareness initiative that operates in two rural districts in Southern Zambia. As well as educating and raising awareness, SAPEP equips young people with the life skills they need to overcome cultural pressures and avoid contracting HIV.

A Christian church that reaches out, with practical help for needy communities, to global locations (Africa, Europe, South America as well as the UK). Medical, education, building & financial aid combined with the Christian message of hope & love, fundamental to its beliefs and motivation.

The Trust supports long-term improvement in Vietnam in terms of poverty reduction, healthcare, education, the natural environment, and national infrastructure via small-scale projects not easily addressed by other agencies. Current activities include bursaries for Vietnamese students intending to work in the Trust’s key areas and small projects related to child welfare.

Positive Steps was established in 1989, it is a care and support organisation dealing with vulnerable people In Scotland and internationally. Your donation makes a huge difference and allows it to continue to offer real people real solutions.

The Princess Margarita of Romania Trust (PMRT), an Incorporated British Charity was founded in 1991 with the aims and remit to support the work of the Princess Margarita of Romania Foundation in Romania. The PMRT's main activities are related to fundraising for the Foundation's programmes whose principal beneficiaries are children and the elderly in disadvantaged communities in Romania.

Project Peru runs a children's refuge in the shanty towns near Lima, caring for over 30 children; entirely funded through voluntary effort, Project Peru is a small, lively, totally voluntary UK-based charity offering food, clothes, education, shelter and fun to those in need in a country where nearly half the population exists on less than one dollar a day! see http://www.projectperu.org.uk

Prospect Burma invests in the democratic future of Burma through its young people by funding education for Burmese citizens - many of whom have been forced to flee overseas -through a scholarship programme. Aung San Suu Kyi actively supports Prospect Burma and gives us income from her Nobel Peace Prize money, but every year we have to turn away hundreds of requests from students due to lack of funds. This year we are supporting 160 bright but underprivileged Burmese students who are committed to return to Burma with their unique skills and help to rebuild civil society when democracy is restored.

Puentes' mission is to create and finance projects that contribute to the well-being of children living on the street and in already existing rehabilitation centers in Lima, Peru.

Pump Aid works to combat the global water and sanitation crisis. With the help of our innovative, cost effective and community-centred technology Pump Aid establishes sustainable supplies of clean water and safer sanitation provisions. Our work improves health and supports the local agriculture and economies in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Liberia.

We want all children to have a future - one that is not determined by their poverty. We want the communities in which we work to blossom and flourish and we want to protect the environment for the benefit of future generations.

Rainbow Trust Africa works to improve the lives of people in Southern Zambia. Operating from a 12-acre site in Livingstone the Trust was established in 1996 and provides, amongst other things, education for 500 children, healthcare to five remote locations twice weekly and support for destitute grannies and their orphaned grandchildren.

Re~Cycle collects unwanted bicycles in the UK and ships them in containers of 400+ at a time to partners in Africa. Here they are distributed to people as a low cost and environmentally friendly means of transport, improving access to water, health care, education and employment. Over 29,000 bicycles sent to date.

Please see Re~Cycle's information on doing sponsored rides and raising money, here: http://www.re-cycle.org/How_To/Sponsored_Bike_Ride_Charity

RTU serves the poorest families and communities in a remote area of southern India. Alongside healthcare and community development work, RTU cares for over 1000 children – abandoned or orphaned, often through AIDS. They live with foster mothers in four specially built “Children’s Villages” and are educated and supported to adulthood.

Regenerate works in Kenya and SW London. In London Regenerate aims to mentor, equip and provide positive experiences to enable young people on estates to improve their lives. In Africa it gives young people from London Estates opportunities to help with projects in Kenya, training, educating and employing street children.

The Relief Fund for Romania is a British charity that raises funds for projects in Romania helping a wide range of groups in need including street children, the sick, the elderly and destitute communities. Its work promotes the principles of self help among the most marginalised in the poorest areas of Romania.

Rock Ministries (NI) Trust is a "kitchen charity" based in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. It rescues, houses and educates orphans and under-privileged children and adults in Uganda and Rwanda. Widows, single mothers and poor families are also helped to set up mini-businesses, enabling them to become more self-sufficient.

ROKPA supports projects in the Tibetan areas of China, Nepal, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It is an international charity that helps communities in need, is non-political and run almost entirely by volunteers. Activities focus on providing education, healthcare and preserving the environment.

The Romanian Foyer Trust provides opportunities for 18 to 24 yr olds excluded from mainstream society in North West Romania. It provides accommodation, access to education, training and work and help to develop life skills. Many of the young people who come to us are from the State Children's Homes.

RUSH stands for Reaching the Unreached through Self-Help. It is a Registered Charity set-up to reach the under-privileged and suffering people within the local community of Kakamega, a town in the Western Province of Kenya close to Lake Victoria.

Rwanda Aid operates in the impoverished and isolated region of Cyangugu, southwest Rwanda. The charity seeks to help needy people post-genocide. Rwanda Aid provides education, training, livestock, micro-finance and health care. It builds houses and workshops. It encourages hard work, self-help and a spirit of reconciliation.

rYico is a charity founded in response to the needs of vulnerable young people in Rwanda. rYico has set up Centre Marembo, a training and resource centre that supports the personal development, education and training of young people including those that have been orphaned, neglected or left vulnerable as a result of the 1994 genocide. rYico also aims to increase social and cultural understanding about Rwanda within and between the UK and Rwanda though cultural exchange and education.