3rd World Hope concentrates on relief of poverty to disadvantaged communities around the world. This involves supplying sustainable resources such as a clean, safe water supply, land for growing food, shelter, educational material, clothes, mosquito nets, blankets and other life saving equipment.

Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency is an extremely rare disease. So far, only 50 children worldwide have been identified with the disease. It has proved fatal for at least 3 of them. The AADC Research Trust is a children's charity dedicated to funding research, supporting affected families and promoting worldwide disease awareness.

ACE is a small charity based in Newmill, Cornwall, UK. It believes that education is the key to conservation and poverty eradication. It is committed to supporting rural primary education in developing countries and it is currently assisting nine primary schools in rural Uganda.

A-CET is a small dynamic UK charity supporting vulnerable African orphans and disabled children through educational scholarships and targeted community led school projects. Overseas it works through local charities run by its ex-students. A-CET has minimal overheads and is run by dedicated experienced professional volunteers.

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 for Children in Conflict (AfCiC) works to transform the lives of children affected by extreme poverty, hunger, illness, persecution, abuse, & neglect. Our projects focus on helping some of the most vulnerable children & young people in Thika District, Kenya. The children & families we work with come from backgrounds of abject poverty, family breakdown, abandonment, & abuse. They are often forced to live on the streets, working & begging, in conflict with local residents & the police. Many resort to substance abuse as a means of escaping cold & hunger. We believe that these children have the capacity & desire to transform their lives, & AfCiC operates several programmes designed to help them do so:

Outreach Programmes for Vulnerable Children prevent children from ever going to the street & rehabilitate those who are already there. Some projects include school drop out prevention, child sponsorship, microfinance & business assistance, outreach clinics for street children, & after school children?s clubs.

A residential Interim Care Centre for street children, carrying out non-formal education, rehabilitation, counselling & family reintegration work.

Kenyan Children?s Legal Aid Work provides free legal advice to children & their guardians.

School Feeding programmes feed 1000 vulnerable children daily.

Holiday clubs Keep 400 vulnerable children away from abuse/exploitation on the streets by providing food & activities during school holidays

Action for Street Kids is a small UK-based charity which works with local partner organisations in the UK and across the developing world to assist street children, homeless young people, and children affected by chronic poverty and violent conflict.

Acts of Hope is a children's charity now in its 9th year. It funds and manages a primary school for more than 300 children in Kasavanahalli on the outskirts of Bangalore. The school is for underprivileged children who would not otherwise receive any education.

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.

The Africa Childrens Development Trust is a small charity based on the Isle of Wight dedicated to supporting vulnerable children in Uganda through a number of projects that encompass health, agriculture & education, in particular mosquito net distributions.

Africa Link seeks to do two things To raise awareness of the issues facing those people in Africa who have to deal with extreme poverty on a daily basis. 2. To provide resources to those people to enable them to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty.

The organisations aim is to enable every African Child to receive primary education. The single greatest deterent is hunger and family poverty, our first campaign to combat this is 'the Porridge Club' where we offer a free breakfast of porridge at school before the school day commences.

Africa's Future is a UK organisation set up to fund sustainable development projects in Africa, and in particular projects that seek to provide education for impoverished children. Currently it supports the continuing development and day-to-day running of the Lady Heike Nursery Akatektya, near Cape Coast in Ghana. As the team are all volunteers, the charity has very low running costs which means that all donations go directly to the project in Ghana.

AFRINSPIRE supports indigenous African initiatives in community development and poverty reduction. Engaging in children?s education, women's literacy, transferring technology, and income generation, AFRINSPIRE supports local community development initiatives at their own pace. People and projects are supported in Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Sudan.

It provides financial and material support to orphans in Likoni Aids Orphanage in the Likoni slums near Mombasa. The charity also supports Bongwe Primary school in Ukunda and Timbwani Baptist Primary School as well as families living in extreme poverty in the Likoni slum area.

AKIN was established 5 years ago to help children in poor countries by providing food, clothing, shelter, health care and education. It currently has 5 projects: in India, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Sierra Leone.

Amantani UK was set up to protect the rights and interests of some of South America?s most vulnerable children. Using education, we aim to help indigenous children negotiate with modern Peru?s westernized system.

Rather than spreading our work across a continent or even a country, Amantani UK invests resources and time into making fundamental change in one district; Ccorca, which is situated 13 miles from Cusco, Peru.

Since May 2008, Amantani UK have run two boarding schools in the district?s capital. Our two projects help over 40 girls who previously had to walk up to 6 hours to get to and from school each day. In the morning, the girls attend the district?s state-provided school. In the afternoon, instead of walking home, they come to our nearby boarding schools for extra tuition in skills suited to their situation. For more information, please visit www.amantani.org.uk.

ARCH was set up in memory of Alastair Ramsay to further his passion for international development and child wellbeing.

ARCH's first project was Recontar, an organization set up in South Brazil by Alastair´s widow to improve children´s health by addressing the root causes of illness: family poverty and dire living conditions. Recontar employs a best-practice methodology of helping severely disadvantaged families with sick children to improve their living conditions and give their children a better chance at health.

ARCH is now expanding to other projects, including providing bereavement support to children who have lost a parent in Ireland and a project to professionalize a NGO which houses destitute children with severe disabilities in Mauritius.

ARCH is a purely voluntary organization and all funds go directly to projects. Each project is overseen by a member of the ARCH Board, who is either a family member or close friend of Alastair Ramsay.

The Ardingly College Gambia project raises money to help fund school development projects in The Gambia. All money raised by Ardingly students goes towards projects designed in collaboration with the staff and Headteachers to ensure that they are appropriate to the needs of the school and the local community. This year we hope to fund new windows in clasroom blocks in Kartong School and to sponsor a teacher from Old Jeshwang School through their training. Thank you so much for your help.

620 million children do not have decent or safe housing to live in. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the only article referring to the built environment. It says that adequate housing and shelter are a fundamental human right. Article 25 works to build better wherever there is disaster, poverty or need.

African Support & Assistance Project is a charity, based at Mid-Cheshire College, dedicated to the support of education and communities in Africa. Our initial project is to provide a building for Befole Primary School in Lesotho (Southern Africa) to replace the one destroyed by a hurricane. It has 255 pupils aged from 6 to 17 years sharing dilapidated buildings and very limited resources.

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.

Asra Hawariat School Fund wirks for the relief of poverty and the advancement of education in Ethiopia through the work of the Asra Hawariat School. In addition to education and training, the charity has 350+ orphans with local foster families, and also run a mother-and-child health clinic.

Aviation Without Borders provide humanitarian services of an aviation nature to the disadvantaged of the world, irrespective of politics, religion, race or nationality. Please see website for details.

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.

Be More is a UK charity that supports grass root development and HIV/AIDS relief organizations in Africa by providing funding and volunteers. These organizations include orphanages, medical clinics, hospices and child rescue centres. You can volunteer at one of our partner organizations in South Africa or make a donation to support their work.

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

A childrens' home in Tanzania, East Africa - caring for orphaned , abandoned or abused children who have no one else to care for them. To provide them with loving care, education and moral values which will equip and enable them to make a positive improvement and have a lasting impact on the fabric of Tanzanian society and culture when they leave.

BWA-UK supports grass roots projects and sustainable growth in Africa: One project farm grows and sells food for an orphanage, and educates farmers on feeding their whole family with one "model acre". Also including a school, this has become a resource hub for a povery stricken area in Kenya.

Breakfast Club Tanzania is an NGO based in the Mtwara region of Southern Tanzania. It is committed to combating hunger amongst schoolchildren by developing sustainable school meal programmes. Breakfast Club Tanzania currently works in partnership with two rural schools, helping to provide daily porridge and fruit to hundreds of pupils.

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."

It is primarily involved in building a school in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, West Africa. However from time to time it helps with other projects where there is great need.

c4c means citizens4change and is a charity that assists children and young people living in Kisumu, Kenya. It currenlty provides shelter, food and training for those who were living on the street. It has over 124 children in its care and is looking to build a new school and rehabilitation centre.

Calcutta Hope is a charity that works for homeless street children. Calcutta Hope runs a home for children and is appealing to supporters to assist with its running cost and sponsorship of the 50 homeless children who live there. Please find out more: www.calcuttahope.org Thanks!

It has worked in Cambodia since 1990 with poor and disadvantaged people through projects in education, literacy, food security and income generation. It operates along with four other international NGOs through International Cooperation Cambodia (ICC). It also works to support and encourage the Cambodian Christian church.

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.

The Cambodian Futures Foundation (CFF) helps disadvantaged children and orphans in Cambodia by providing financial aid towards everyday expenses such as food, clothing, education and rent.

Educating girls and women is widely recognised as the single most powerful weapon in the fight against poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Since 1993, the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed) has been supporting girls through school in some of the poorest rural areas of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Malawi. More than 645,400 children have benefitted from Camfed's programme of educational support, helping them to leave behind a life of poverty. Find out more about Camfed's work at www.camfed.org.

Capital for Good exists to get money to the best causes as quickly and efficiently as possible through trusted partners around the world. CFG is a new concept in terms of managing charity money professionally, ensuring maximum 'bang for the buck'

Casa Reom Trust is a UK based charity co-ordinating fundraising to build a new centre and school for street children near Beira, the second largest city in Mozambique, Africa. Dormitories, classrooms, sanitary blocks, kitchen and communal meeting area are all planned for construction which commenced in 2005.

Transparent giving for deprived children. Direct. Secular. Zero admin costs. Supporting tsunami orphans and dalits in India. Extending to Kenya one day.

Chariots for Children aims to be, as far as possible, at the forefront in service provision, delivering education, relief from poverty and sickness to children, globally. Providing ethical services that collect and distribute funds and in kind donations in an effective, efficient and transparently accountable manner.

Charlotte Wilson was killed in Burundi in December 2000. She had been working as a school teacher in neighbouring Rwanda. The Charlotte Wilson Memorial Fund was established by Charlotte?s family and friends and supports projects in Rwanda and Burundi, focussing on three key areas: Education, Health and Peace building.

It aims to provide relief from povety and hardship among children living on the streets of Tanzania by the provision of shelter, food, health and education.

CINI helps mothers and children in India break free from the cycle of poverty. It works at the grassroots with local community groups and government bodies to bring about sustainable improvements in nutrition, health, education and protection.

Since 1989 ChildHope UK has worked with girls and boys who are vulnerable to violence and injustice. These children are typically living on, or at risk of coming to the streets, abused or exploited, forced into hazardous work, orphaned, or lacking access to education and medical care. Today, ChildHope works in partnership with civil society organisations in Africa, Asia and South America, tackling the causes and consequences of violence against boys and girls. Together, we are working to: " Reduce child abuse and exploitation " Improve child justice and participation " Promote the rights of children affected by HIV and AIDS

Children in Crisis exists to improve the lives of children around the world affected by conflict, deprivation, poverty or other hidden crises, by working in partnership with local communities to provide education, health and protection.

Children in Crossfire exists to make a significant and lasting contribution towards the eradication of poverty. We do this not alone, but by working in a vibrant web of collaborating agencies, each of us contributing something valuable and unique towards our shared vision for a better world.

The Children of China Foundation provides help to orphanages in China to improve the physical and emotional care and welfare of China's abandoned children.

Children of Fire sources medical treatment and provides education, care, and support for child burn survivors like these from South Africa and beyond.

The children of Swaziland is a UK registered charity whose aims are to provide support to the women and children in Swaziland who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Children's Medical Care Malawi aims to improve healthcare for children throughout Malawi. It works in partnership with Malawian healthcare providers to support healthcare worker training and improve local facilities, providing key skill and equipment needed to save the lives of sick children.

Children?s Relief Bethlehem is financing and managing the Caritas Baby Hospital in Palestine to ensure basic medical care for over 30,000 children each year. It is committed to improve access to medical assistance and supplies, and to fight poverty and disease through prevention and education.

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 Christina Noble Children's Foundation is dedicated to serving children in need of emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, educational opportunities, job placement and protecting those at risk of economic and sexual exploitation. The Foundation seeks to maximise the potential of each child.

CID Ghana is a Volunteer and Development NGO based and working in Northern Ghana, West Africa. It is supported by volunteer groups based in Uk&Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands and France. Currently we are rainging £50,000 to build a Primary School for 200 kids in rural Ghana, near the town of Tamale. Volunteers can work in a variety of

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.

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.

It's aim is to support the Health and Education of Children in both the UK and abroad.

Compassion UK is an evangelical Christian child development ministry dedicated to addressing the needs of children living in poverty around the world. Compassion's sponsorship programmes are Christ centred, child focused and church based.

COCO is a children's charity that is trying to make a BIG difference to the lives of children affected by poverty, war, famine and disease. COCO wants to give them a positive and happier future

The Consortium for Street Children (CSC) is the leading international member-based network dedicated to advocating, promoting and campaigning for the rights of street-involved children. We are committed to creating a better and sustainable future for some of the most disadvantaged and stigmatised children by working together to inform and inspire research and action that influences policy and best practice worldwide.

The Consortium for Street Children (CSC) is the leading international member-based network dedicated to advocating, promoting and campaigning for the rights of street-involved children. We are committed to creating a better and sustainable future for some of the most disadvantaged and stigmatised children by working together to inform and inspire research and action that influences policy and best practice worldwide.

The Constant Gardener Trust, set up to support the communities in Kenya where the majority of the feature film, The Constant Gardener, was filmed, aims to improve the living conditions, educational prospects and health awareness of these communities by enabling both individuals and the communities to become self sufficient and independent through carefully researched, sustainable projects.

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.

DCWC Nepal is a North west based charity set up to help the poor of Nepal. The charity specialise in the building of health and educational facilities in rural Nepal with an emphasis on the development of children and women.

Derek Prince (1915 - 2003) was one of the founders of the Charismatic movement and an internationally recognised Bible teacher. His preaching and teaching ministry touched millions of lives and continues to be a source of inspiration and insight to many Christians today.

During his lifetime Derek Prince poured himself out to reach the unreached and teach the untaught. Today his teaching is available in 100 languages to Christians in the UK, the Middle East, China, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere.

Through the generous support of many individuals and churches Derek Prince Ministries (DPM) continues to resource church leaders and congregations in different parts of the world.

The DPM UK office was founded in 1986. Since then, it has served thousands of believers and church leaders in the UK and worldwide. To find our more visit our website: www.dpmuk.org

Devon Development Education aims to raise awareness of global issues with schools and the community in this country. In Uganda, DDE works with schools to train children in sustainable agriculture and to improve school buildings. DDE has 3 projects to which you can donate funds. These are: The New Build Uganda, Food For Thought School Linking Programme and The Global Centre. To find out more about these projects and to donate specifically to one of them, please go to the following link www.globalcentredevon.org.uk/justgiving

Dig Deep works to provide sustainable solutions to problems faced by communities in Kenya.

We work alongside the community, the local government and other charities.

We are focused on renewable energy projects to provide water, cooking gas and electricity.

We believe that by tackling problems such as water, cooking fuel and electricity we are able to provide direct and indirect benefits to the whole community and the surrounding environment.

Our objectives are

- To promote sustainable development for the benefit of the public by the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in disadvantaged communities through supporting or generating projects, based on self-reliance in East Africa.

-To benefit the public of urban or rural communities in areas of social and economic deprivation (in particular East Africa) by the maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities with a concentration on clean water supplies or by other exclusively charitable means as the trustees shall from time to time determine.

Our projects are delivered by pairs of volunteer project managers (university students or graduates) who conduct their own research into the projects we match them to, raise money towards the projects and then travel to Kenya to manage their project. They play a pivotal role in contacting and connecting with communities and contractors and ensuring community responsibility and contribution.

Helps to alleviate poverty in Africa. Building orphanages for the fatherless and motherless children. supporting the poorest of the poor financially. we give grants and interest free soft loans to Widows, single mothers and the poor families in need

Provide educational support, Special training seminars and workshops aimed at providing deaf people with social skills to build their self confidence, engage in team work and experience a sense of belonging in their communities

Dr Graham?s Homes of Kalimpong, India, provides care and education for destitute mixed race children, mainly from Kolkata. Orphans and children from deprived backgrounds are brought together in the family environment of the Homes with the aim of enabling them to provide a more secure future.

To learn more go to www.drgrahamshomes.co.uk

East African Playgrounds takes out small teams of volunteers to Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, building playgrounds for schools, orphanages and other charities.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute? Proverbs 31:8

The Edith's Home Project works with total HIV/AIDS orphans in the community of Ngora, a small town in the Teso region of Uganda.

Because of very limited resources, these children are put to the "bottom of the pile" in an already strained family situation. Edith's Home provide sponsorship of school fees and vocational training for orphans and support them psychologically and spiritually. More recently we have set up micro enterprise initiatives to help sustain the project: food storage, farming, business loan schemes and office services. The project began in 2004 and at present supports over 100 orphans within their extended family context.

Our Mission - To advance and enhance the education of children in developing countries through support and provision of school materials, books, equipment and college sponsorship.

Education West Africa is a charity devoted to making a difference in children's lives" We want to give pupils a better start in life through improving their education opportunities.

The Edward Starr Charitable Trust exists to improve the lives of children in the UK and around the world by providing project based funding. The Trust aim to support initiatives that give benefit to children through education, healthcare, development or simply fun.

The Egmont Trust works to improve the lives of children affected by HIV&AIDS and poverty in Africa. To date it has supported projects with over 50 partner organisations in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania.

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.

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.

The Esther Benjamins Trust is a children's charity working mainly in Nepal. It aims to give a childhood back to some of the world's most marginalised and forgotten children, including innocent children who once lived in prisons, street children, deaf and disabled children and children who have been trafficked into India and sold into bonded labour as circus performers.

EveryChild is an international development charity that works with the most vulnerable and marginalised children in many of the world's poorest countries to enable them to grow up free from disease, poverty and exploitation as valued individuals within strong communities.

Established in 2002 Faith & Football is a Christian Charity that seeks to serve the young people and families of our inner cities and to partner with projects overseas that work within poverty stricken areas. We use football as a means of building relationships within local communities to impart life skills and provide the benefits of much needed role models for young people.

families for Children, Zambia work with communities in Zambia, to protect, care for and educate vulnerable children who are affected by HIV/AIDS. Most of the children are orphans and live in abject poverty. They and their families are offered help with food and other basic necessities and supported through school, towards independence.

Feed The Children focuses on the needs of impoverished children and their families across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, South America and elsewhere. There are two main aims; to provide emergency aid in the event of disasters, and to support long-term projects that build for sustainable community growth.

Feet First was founded in 2003 by Blackpool Victoria Hospital Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Steve Mannion. It's aims are to treat clubfoot in the developing world. It currently focuses its resources on two countries Malawi in Central Africa, and Laos in South East Asia. Please see the website for more information!

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.

Foosteps is a Christian Charity which focuses on caring for children in need, supporting education and training and fighting poverty and disability. It works with trusted partners in Kenya to provide the Tumaini orphanage, Sunshine home for street boys, wheelchairs, technical skills training, school fees and feeding programmes.

Created in 1996, For A Child's Smile aims to rescue, care for and educate the poorest of Cambodia's children, especially the ones who are forced to scavenge through Phnom Penh's rubbish dumps to survive. FCS focuses on these children's healthcare and social well being and also looks to provide them with an education and vocational training so that they are able to secure a brighter future.

Forever Angels Baby Home provides interim care for abandoned, orphaned and HIV positive children who have no one else to care for them. The Home provides up to 50 children with a loving, stimulating environment caring for their mental, physical, social, emotional and health needs until a more permanent family can be found for them.

FRRME works for peace in Iraq by bringing together senior religious clerics across sectarian and ethnic divides, exhorting them to use their considerable influence to persuade people to desist from violence. It also funds humanitarian relief through St George?s church and medical clinic in Baghdad.

The Female Prisoners Welfare Project (FPWP) / Hibiscus provides support for females of all ethnic origins and nationalities within the UK criminal justice system. The charity provides a practical, impartial and supportive service to women who have often suffered stigma, discrimination and abuse.

4000 children still die every DAY because of waterborne disease. FRANK is part of the solution. FRANK Water Projects is a small charity that funds sustainable, safe, clean drinking water projects by installing village filtration facilities. These plants use up to 6 filters including ultra violet and reverse osmosis technology which remove viruses, bacteria and chemicals from the drinking water. Projects are funded by FRANK but community owned and run. Since 2005 FRANK has funded the installation of over 30 projects in Andhra Pradesh, India benefiting over 210,000 people. Many more projects are currently under development, please visit our website www.frankwater.com for more information. FRANK you for supporting us. Charity Registration No 1121273

Friend of EduSport works with a local NGO in Zambia with an aim to provide opportunities for young people to develop through sport and education to reach their potential. To ensure Zambia's youth can contribute to their own and their communities development. Our guiding principles are Educate.Empower.Inspire. We support community groups, schools and provide school/college scholarships.

Friends of Alalay (Santa Cruz) rescues children from the streets of Santa Cruz, Bolivia and offers them a loving environment living together in family cabins. The children are educated, loved and encouraged in their future working lives. Please support Friends of Alalay (Santa Cruz) - a charity that finds, feeds, houses, educates and loves street kids in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Every penny collected goes directly to help the kids - there are no admin costs. www.alalay.co.uk

Amani Children's Home takes care of orphans and street-children at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. It rescues children from malnutrition, homelessness, and abuse. Amani supports over 140 children and is committed to providing a safe place for children to grow in mind, body and spirit. See www.amanikids.org.

IT HELPS STREET CHILDREN IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN BY PROVIDING EDUCATION VOCATIONAL SKILLS AND GENERAL SUPPORT

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.

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

The Friends of the Children of Southern Africa helps AIDS orphans in South Africa to find safe and loving foster homes, get back into schooling, receive anti-retroviral treatment, claim government benefits, and learn skills to get work and/or start their own small businesses. Over 3000 orphans are looked after like this, and the numbers are rising all the time.

We continue to lead marriage Week UK and in other European nations. The project was featured in over 100 regional newspapers and several national newspapers and magazines. This year, for the first time the charity worked inside several local prisons accessing some of the most disadvantaged in society.

The GEN Initiative is a newly registered non-political UK-based charitable organisation. We work with Indian-based voluntary organisations to contribute to the elimination of poverty in rural India. Together we enable some of India's most disadvantaged villagers - those that live on less than 0.50p per day - to help themselves improve the quality of their lives.

Global Aid Trust (GAT) is determined to help save and improve the lives of millions of people in the poorest countries around the world. Global Aid is tackling the root causes of poverty and focusing providing quality education.

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.

God's Golden Acre UK provides orphaned African children with food, medicine and a sound education in community cluster foster homes. All over the valleys young children are caring for their dying AIDS-infected parents and siblings. By rehousing them at God's Golden Acre they are allowed to develop their natural talents.

Hand in Hand is a Christian development agency responding to the needs and problems caused by poverty & injustice throughout the world, particularly where it affects children. Through local Christian partnerships, Hand in Hand gives poor and marginalized people opportunities to make their own choices.

Hands Across the Water is raising money to build a permanent orphanage for 30 young children in Thailand who were orphaned as a result of the Boxing Day Tsunami. They currently live in makeshift structures in the Takua Pa area. Money raised will build the orphanage, furnish it and provide further care.

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.

HAPsI aims to fund projects in south India which exist primarily to care for destitute children. It supports a children's home which feeds, clothes and guarantees good education to about 40 children, mainly orphans and some disabled. There is the intention that HAPsI will also support self sustaining development projects among very poor rural communities in the same area.

A charity who's objective is to help relieve poverty in Africa through distribution of clothing and educational materials.The charity is unique in that it's volunteers not only collect donated items, they also travel to Africa and personally distribute them directly to the people who need them most.

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.

Help2read is a child literacy charity based in Capetown, that recruits, trains and supports literate adults who volunteer to help primary school children who struggle to read English. To date, help2read volunteers have changed the lives of over 4000 children, forever.

Hi-Cap works at the sharp end regularly to make sure that needs are met. They visit Nepal at least once a year and visit every family that support has been arranged for and those that they have listed that are in need. It works towards people’s real needs and makes common sense decisions with the help of their trustees to ensure Practical Action.

Hope and Homes for Children?s mission is to give hope to the poorest children in the world ? those who are orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable ? by enabling them to grow up within the love of a family and the security of a home, so they can fulfil their potential. In Central and Eastern Europe, we close orphanages and move children into family-based care whilst developing the services needed to help prevent child abandonment. In Africa, we provide a vital lifeline for families at risk of breakdown due to the pressures of poverty, disease or conflict. We believe that, above all else, every child should live within a loving family environment.

Hope for a Child relies on people to sponsor workers through their 'Sponsor a Worker' scheme. These people work in the areas of Income, Well-being, Health or Nutrition. Working with children, their families & communities, they help whole areas rise from poverty through effective Income schemes. The effect of this is to support children & families devastated by HIV/Aids in Africa.

Hope for Children is a low cost no frills charity that was founded in 1994 to assist children who suffer through being orphaned, poor or exploited in the UK and developing countries. Last year 100% of public donations went to beneficiaries

Working mainly in Sub Sahara Africa and Romania our goal is to rescue orphans and welcome them into one of our family homes. There they are loved nurtured and provided with all the need to reach their full potential, as our motto says 'today's orphans, tomorrow's leaders'.

The Hope Foundation for Street Children is the UK registered branch of the established charity The Hope Foundation (Ireland). Hope's mission is to provide sustainable development for severely underprivileged and vulnerable children, many of whom live on the streets or in one of the thousands of slums in Calcutta, India.

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.

HopeAsia's Primary focus is to support an orphanage in rural Cambodia. They have raised funds to build accomodation and teaching buildings as well as providing food, day to day expenses and emergency health care and treatment They currently care for approximately 50 youngsters.

House of Hope Nepal supports an orphanage on the outskirts of Kathmandu, ensuring the children are cared for and educated in a family environment. House of Hope encourages community and educational links in the local area and with students from the UK.

Human Appeal International provides relief to victims of natural disasters, wars and social hardship. It improves the quality of life of underprivileged communities through our projects that aim to provide education, health and social development. It looks after the wellbeing of orphans.

IcFEM is changing the lives of rural people in Western Kenya. There's evangelism; education; health; relief & welfare; agriculture; small enterprise; and other work. Over 15,000 IcFEM volunteers work in their own locality. Over 90 children are sponsored in education.

It works with local partners in Ecuador, India, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa and Sri Lanka, focusing on the needs of children who are vulnerable and at risk through poverty, helping them to build their self-esteem, gain access to education, and develop the skills needed to break out of poverty.

The INCTR Challlenge Fund helps provide treatment for, and relieve the suffering of, cancer patients in Developing countries. It makes a priority of helping children and women with cancer in low resourced countries; raising funds for chemotherapy drugs and for training doctors and nurses in palliative care and effective pain relief.

International Childcare Trust works in the UK and in developing countries, in direct partnership with local groups, to implement innovative and cost-effective development and relief initiatives for the poorest members of the community.

International Refugee Trust, founded in 1989, funds small projects for refugees and internally displaced people in Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea, Jordan, Thailand and DR Congo. We provide medical care, homes, food, education and training, helping women and children in particular.

We are an international development charity working in Latin America, West Africa and the Middle East. Dedicated to combating poverty and oppression, we have a special focus on human rights. Our mission is to support the most vulnerable communities so that they are able to guide or change their lives for the better. We work by sending skilled professionals to share their skills and expertise during long-term volunteer placements. Whilst we work with the most disadvantaged groups, we know from experience that disabled people, children, and women are most in need of support and solidarity.

International Teams reaches the most vulnerable people around the world with love and compassion, uplifting and empowering those people to live to their potential and to find and develop a relationship with God. In 200 locations there are 1200 mission workers are seeing communities transformed, one person at a time.

A non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the lives of thousands of orphans in Iraq regardless of thier ethnic, religious or political affliation. Urgent funds are needed for food, medicine, shelter and schooling projects. Just £4/month pays for an orphan's food, clothing and schooling.

IREF(UK) is the UK branch of the India Rural Evangelical Fellowship, an indigenous Indian mission working in the state of Andhra Pradesh. We are sending a team of around ten medical personnel to care for the 2000 children in the orphanage. We leave in January 2008.

A Christian charity working with street children and orphans in East Africa, providing homes, rehabilitation, street outreach, training and work programmes

Islamic Help is an international charity, dedicated to helping those suffering from natural disaster and hardship around the world. Islamic Help encourages you to contribute towards this vital cause and help in *Reaching People In Need*

The John John Trust was set up in 2004 in memory of John McGladrigan, its aims being to fulfil John's promises of supporting education in Kaleo (a village in the Upper West Region of Ghana)

JAM (Joint Aid Management) is a Christian non-profit non-government humanitarian relief organisation, actively assisting African countries to develop.JAM focus on: Nutritional feeding-Assistance to orphans and vulnerable children-Provision of water sanitation-Skill development and community training-Agricultural development. JAM's mission is to "Help Africa Help Itself"

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.

There are 1,000 disadvantaged children at the Sakhisizwe School in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Some have HIV/AIDS. Some are orphans. All are unimaginably poor. Judy's Children raises funds to help feed and educate these children. Donate and you can help transform their lives.

The Juniper Trust began by supporting small sustainable projects in Nepal, helping mainly children and schools with Education and Health. Since those early days it has evolved, supporting similar projects across the globe, in countries such as Peru, Ecuador, India, Tibet, Kenya and many more.

Ka Tutandike Trust UK was set up in 2006 to support projects in Uganda around early childhood development, children's literacy and disability. Our sister office, Ka Tutandike (Uganda) which is based in Kampala is responsible for identifying, managing and developing programmes that will give children the best start in life, and which contribute to the inclusion of disabled people in society.

The mission of the Kathmandu Kids Club is: "Through The ISIS Foundation (UK), to link hands with and provide help and support for Himalayan children who are in serious need." Members of its Club make a direct and positive contribution to ease the plight of children in a country ravaged by poverty and war. You are making good its motto, which is: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

Working in Ndhiwa (Western Kenya) it helps children and the sick including those affected by HIV / Aids. It has built schools, provided access to clean water and sanitation, provided services at the Acorn Community Hospital. Through an educational school exchange programme has facilitated the provision of a resource centre. It has built a nursery.

Kenyan Orphan project is an organisation to help the people of western Kenya in the fight against poverty and disease. It coordinates student volunteer groups to help the vulnerable and weak and organises free medical camps to assist the sick.

Kenyawi Kids supports self-sustainability in orphan care in Kenya & Malawi. It provides funding for projects such as buying farm land to set up farms & community education. Agricultural education & financial stability offered to an orphanage with a working farm is invaluable- food can be grown with the excess sold to pay day-to-day costs such as school fees.

Khalsa Aid (KA) is primarily a international humanitarian relief agency, based on the teachings of the Sikh Gurus who preached well being of all humanity. Since the launch of KA in 1999 we have provided aid in many different disasters.Most recently Khalsa Aid has launched projects in Punjab.

It's a home for orphaned and abandoned children of all ages, located in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania.

Kids Action helps the suffering child in Africa. It is particularly focused on helping children and families missed out by the big charities. In Malawi it works with hospitals to prevent and treat malnutrition in orphans and street kids. In Sierra Leone it runs a children's home for orphans and street kids.

Kids Alive rescues children who are orphaned, abandoned and at risk. We restore their dignity and give them hope for the future. We work in seventeen countries world wide, creating safe family-style homes and schools where abandoned and neglected children can thrive in an atmosphere of acceptance and love.

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.

To support people in need in Zambia and Central Africa to allow them to improve their economic outcome and become self sufficient sustainable communities.

KIN (Kibera in Need) works to alleviate poverty in the Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya, where 700,000 people endure inadequate shelter and poor sanitation. KIN directly supports orphaned and vulnerable children and AIDS victims. KIN also provides assistance to small businesses, thereby generating employment and self sufficiency for Kibera residents.

KISS works in Uganda to support vulnerable children, their families and their communities. It does this by providing funding for education; medical treatment; families that care for orphaned children or are in difficult circumstances; support for young mothers and social outreach projects.

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.

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.

The Freeplay Foundation is unlike any other non-profit humanitarian organisation in the world. Its mission is to enable access to information and education to the most vulnerable populations through appropriate and sustainable technologies particularly self-powered radios. The Freeplay Foundation is committed to promoting the importance of radio as a vital communication medium in the developing world and believes that, like education, access to information is a fundamental human right.

Lively Minds is working to improve the lives of children and youth in Ghana and Ugana by setting up community-run play centres, promoting good hygiene practices and supporting and empowering their caregivers and educators.

Help relieve poverty and sickness in children, worldwide.

Love Russia helps over three thousand orphans and underprivileged children in Orphanages, Rescue Shelters and hospitals in Russia. It rescues and provides food, clothing, shelter and education from birth to 18 years. The Genesis Project is a scheme to help orphanage leavers gain further education qualifications, giving them hope for their future.

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.

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.

Simple acts of kindness: we help local people throughout the world , people who take care of children at risk because of war, famine, violence or disease.

The Mango Tree helps over 10,000 orphans in Tanzania and Kenya who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS. We provide health and welfare support through over 180 local unpaid volunteers and 6 nurses, and the education and vocational training the orphans need to build sustainable, independent futures for them. We have no overheads in the UK.

The Maya Childcare Trust works to improve the lives of children living in poverty in Guatemala. Nearly half of Guatemalan children under five suffer chronic malnutrition. The Trust funds a childcare centre which provides good nutrition, a safe and caring atmosphere and a stimulating educational environment.

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.

Mercy Rescue Trust runs a baby rescue centre in Kitale, Kenya. Babies who would otherwise be left to die are rescued, nursed back to health, and re-homed with local families. The centre is staffed by Kenyan nationals, maintaining the local culture and providing local employment.

Mercyline Africa Trust appeals for funds for running projects that help improve livelihood within African communities both abroad and within Africa. The major target areas are in Health, Education, and economic empowerment. The current projects are building a primary care Hospital and a secondary school in a remote village in Mukongoro, Eastern Uganda

The purpose of the charity is to advance education, improve healthcare and relieve poverty in Malawi with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on children and young adults. The aim in year one is build a school which will be used to teach 1500 children, 503 of whom are orphans.

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.

Muslim Aid is an international relief and development agency that works to alleviate suffering among the world's poorest and most needy communities, regardless of race, religion, gender, nationality or political opinion. Set up in 1985, Muslim Aid currently supports projects in more than 50 countries around the world.

Mysmallhelp aims to relieve poverty amongst children starting in Nepal. Mysmallhelp provides education to orphaned children, poor children and ex street children that otherwise would not be able to go to school. It works directly with schools and a team of volunteers in Nepal. Your small help can make a big difference to a childs life.

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.

Nansato Nursery Trust has built and operates 4 nursery schools in southern Malawi. It provides care, education and food for 300 needy pre school children every year. The pupils play games, sing, dance, listen to stories, eat porridge, learn and laugh lots. It employs 10 Malawian staff.

The Neil Desai Foundation was set up to support causes dear to Neil Desai who sadly passed away aged 22. The Charity aims to promote education and sports amongst the young, help the poor and needy in developing countries and invest in the prevention of cardiac fatalities in the young.