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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.
We are a charitable organisation that has been set up specifically to support projects designed to help alliviate poverty in Africa.
The Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) is a UK based charity that supports organisations working in countries where there is a problem of acid violence. ASTI is committed to providing free long term treatment and rehabilitation care for survivors of acid attacks. ASTI recruits teams of volunteers who can offer medical, surgical, and other forms of professional assistance where it is needed. ASTI is the only organisation dedicated to addressing this grave abuse of human rights in an international context, encouraging and coordinating the interchange of experience and ideas of how to combat this seemingly global crime against humanity.
Adventure Ashram is to set up a medical, educational and social care outreach programme in the Palani Hills villages of south India. These remote hill villages have limited access to such care due to the difficult terrain and distances involved in reaching hospitals in the region.
It works to improve the lives and healthcare provision for the people of Likoma Island, Malawi. It contributes to the running costs of St Peter's hospital to ensure its survival.It has undertaken major building projects at the hospital, including the building and equiping of the xray and ultrasound department.
Agapao International works with communities to develop skills through leadership and training. Health care and educational needs are addressed through sustainable projects which are managed by the community - learn a skill, use a skill, share a skill. Volunteers can share their skills on an 'Impact Holiday' in developing countries.
Aid To Georgia was established to fundraise for two specific projects in Rustavi (Georgia), these being the Disabled Day Centre and Hospital No 2. We are staffed by volunteers in the UK and Georgia, enabling us to ensure that all donations only reach the people who need them most.
Aids Ark saves lives by funding the treatment and care of named individuals living with HIV/AIDS - see www.aidsark.org
Al Hasan Foundation: providing sight-saving treatment to disadvantaged women, children and the elderly in southern Iraq, as well as training for local surgeons, opthalmic health research and the establishment of a community eye clinic in Najaf.
The Alliance for Rabies Control's mission is to prevent human rabies deaths and to alleviate the burden of rabies in animal species. It promotes awareness of rabies, health education, preventative vaccination of animals and people, and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Its vision is a world where all countries have eliminated rabies.
AMREF, the African Medical and Research Foundation, is African's health development organisation. Headquartered in Nairobi, AMREF runs innovative health programmes across sub-Saharan Africa, fighting disease, training health workers, and strengthening health systems.
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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.
In developing countries there is a lack of trained workers and equipment for raising awareness of deafness or preventing it. There is little help available to detect deafness and fit hearing aids. AUD-M-ED is a UK based Charity seeking to help deaf people in developing countries.
BAPS Charities works with the vision that every individual deserves the right to a peaceful, dignified and healthy way of life. And by improving the quality of life of the individual, we are bettering families, communities, our world and our future
Bees Abroad aims to relieve poverty in any part of the developing world , in particular through the advancement of the craft of beekeeping.
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.
BirthLink supports maternal and neonatal healthcare in disadvantaged countries, where maternal and newborn care is severely compromised by lack of education and basic resources. Through workshops, seminars and 'hands-on' skills training, based on low-tech care, our aim is to improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
The main areas of focus are: programme implementation among diaspora communities in the UK, advocacy for southern led international development and fund raising for BRAC programmes in Africa and Asia.
Breast Health International's mission is to give all people affected by breast cancer the tools necessary to have the best quality of life, regardless of background or financial circumstances. Our aim is to reduce the suffering caused by breast cancer worldwide and ensure that no one touched by breast cancer walks alone.
Bridge2Aid provide dental care, education and training programmes in North West Tanzania, and run a community development programme for the poor and disabled living on the streets of Mwanza.
The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies. We enable vulnerable people in the UK and abroad to prepare for and withstand emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help them to recover and move on with their lives.The British Red Cross Society, incorporated by Royal Charter 1908, is a charity registered in England and Wales (220949) and Scotland (SC037738).
The owner of this page is raising money in trust on behalf of the British Red Cross, it is the page owners responsibility to ensure that the British Red Cross is able to channel any money raised for a specific appeal or stated purpose, prior to any fundraising taking place.
In the unlikely event that this dialogue has not taken place, then the British Red Cross will allocate the funds where ever the need is greatest, in furtherance of it's charitable objectives.
Cairdeas aims to improve the availability and quality of palliative care services in the developing world. It does this through consultancy, education, training and mentoring; and is currently working with partners in India, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi.
Calcutta Rescue is a registered non-governmental organisation working to serve the most socially and economically disadvantaged people in Kolkata and rural West Bengal - regardless of gender, age, caste or religion.
Our wide range of projects include :
? four Urban Clinics offering primary healthcare as well as specialist medical programmes
? Rural Clinics
? an active Outreach Programme (Mobile Clinics, Street Medicine, Health Education)
? two Schools educating over 500 children
? a Clean and Safe Drinking Water Programme
? a Vocational Training Programme creating sustainable employment
? a Fair Trade certified Handicrafts Workshop
We provide no cost holistic care and work opportunities to over 100,000 people a year.
Chain of Hope provides children suffering from life-threatening heart diseases with treatment to which they do not have access and we aim to develop paediatric cardiac facilities in developing countries. Chain of Hope provides cardiac care in two ways: · By sending out medical teams to treat children in-country and by setting up training programmes for local surgeons and medical staff in-situ. · By bringing children to the UK for open and closed heart operations as an interim measure.
The aim of charity: water is to create greater awareness of the global water crisis and raise money to fund efficient and effective water and sanitation projects. The goal of charity: water is to give everyone on the planet access to clean and safe water.
Chauncy Maples is the oldest ship in Africa. Built in 1898 in Glasgow she was carried in pieces to Lake Malawi in Central Africa. The Government of Malawi is renovating her back into a hospital ship to provide free health services to 2 million people living around the lake. They will match every pound donated.
The Butterfly Home (in Changsha, Hunan) is the first Chinakidz Children's Hospice and the first hospice and community palliative care service specifically for children in China .
It is part of an initiative in partnership with the local government - Civil Affairs, to prevent abandonment of babies in China. Alan & Lyn Gould have been working in China for over 14 years, this new work will be both challenging and groundbreaking and we cannot do it without your help. Thank you for supporting this work, to learn more see us at www.chinakidz.org.
CA offers evangelism training and discipleship for Christian students aged 16 - 25. They are encouraged to emulate the works of Christ in bringing relief and change to those who are disadvantaged or suffering around them.
The charity is volunteer run and does excellent work providing clean water, food, agricultural development, basic education and basic healthcare in many of the less developed parts of the world.
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
The Community of the Resurrection is a religious community based in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. Our members live a corporate life within the Anglican monastic tradition, the heart of which is worship.
Many people from near and far come in a constant stream to Mirfield for spiritual refreshment, experience of monastic life and worship and for Christian education and formation. Sometimes we can hardly cope with the numbers. We find ourselves offering space and resources for women and men who seek encouragement, stillness and space to pray in the midst of stressful lives. At the heart of it all, our church is our place of worship and home for many other events. It is now in need of major refurbishment: structural repairs, a new heating system, rewiring, new lighting and sound systems, a new floor, redecoration and much-needed disabled access. If all our activities here are to flourish, we need a church able to meet the needs of today. We need your help to safeguard what makes this place special and to create a church that can serve and sustain its many users for another century.
The patrons of the Centenary Church Appeal are the Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
We also undertake charitable work at home and abroad especially in Zimbabwe and South Africa. In Zimbabwe we support a number of projects including an orphanage where it is aiming to provide a borehole.
The Cred Foundation partners with people in pursuing 'Justice for the Poor'. It partners with 4 groundbreaking international projects: 2 in Ethiopia, 1 in India, and 1 in Colombia. They're all run by local people; since Cred has direct relationships with them, your money goes directly where it's needed.
The Crookstone Adventure Trust is a charitable organisation set up to provide accommodation as a base for outward-bound activities in the Peak District to be used by young people, under the age of 25, from all over the UK and internationally to develop their physical and mental capacities.
Crossflow works with partners in Nepal and India to provide health and education to vulnerable communities and the excluded.
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.
Deaf Child Worldwide is the only UK based development organisation dedicated to ending poverty and isolation amongst deaf children worldwide by supporting the creation of local, national and global family-led movements to campaign for positive change for deaf children and young people.
Dentaid is one of the leading oral health charities in the world, having supported almost 200 oral health programmes in over 50 countries. In recent years, the charity has expanded its work from supplying refurbished dental surgeries for charitable projects, to playing vital roles in oral health promotion such as establishing innovative school prevention programmes, and initiating various training schemes encompassing disciplines from equipping rural health workers to carry out basic dental care in remote communities to teaching governments on fluoride advocacy and writing national oral health strategies. Dentaid is also working hard to lobby governments, companies and health organisations to adopt more oral health friendly policies and practices.
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.
The Didier Drogba Foundation provides financial and material support in both health and education to people in Africa.
Dignity is a visionary Christian organisation seeking to promote change in the lives of many communities across the world. Dignity is about breaking down walls between those who are less fortunate than ourselves and the actual help that they require, whether that be spiritual, emotional or physical help. We work in any country in the world where there is a need to reach people and communities who are disconnected from God, practical resources or community. Everyone Needs Dignity.
Doctors for Nepal provides full scholarships to underprivileged Nepalese students who pledge to work in rural Nepal for an agreed period of time once qualified as doctors.
Doctors of the World is an international humanitarian aid organisation which provides medical care to vulnerable populations who are in crisis situations or who are excluded from healthcare. This is thanks to medical and non-medical volunteers who give their time and expertise to help to make health a human right.
We aim to provide comprehensive medical care to some of the worlds most vunerable and poor, to work on long term projects, we are not in it to make a name, to do something quick and easy, its all about developing a sustainable project, something that will have benefit for generations.
EMI UK is a charitable Christian development organisation. Its volunteers ? mainly architects and engineers - design facilities such as orphanages in developing countries to help the poor and show the love of Jesus Christ. EMI worldwide started in the USA in 1981.
Equilibrium aims to become the foremost international partnership organisation working to advance the understanding, treatment and deal with the stigma and prejudice around bipolar disorder.
Facing the World is a children's charity which has been set up by the some of UK's leading cranio-facial surgeons. It helps children with severe facial disfigurements in desperate need, living without hope in some of the world's poorest countries, receive the miracle of a new face and a life free from the stigma of disfigurement.
Families Relief is an international humanitarian aid and development organisation based in London, UK. Established in 1994, they work directly in communities helping families and orphans become self-sustainable and lift themselves out of poverty and destitution throughout the world.
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.
This fund has been set up in dedication of the late Dr Fiona Dolan, formerly specialist registrar in Ophthalmology, Glasgow. It channels donations into a cause close to Fionas heart - funding Ophthalmology colleagues to travel to developing countries to complete cataract or trachoma camps.
The Footsteps for Africa is a UK based non-profit organisation that strives to enable children in Kenya to reach their potential as individuals and in the community by helping them to become healthy, educated, self-sustaining and contributing members of their communities
The Foreign Aid Service responds to international emergency situations, and helps desperately poor people with healthcare and income-generation activities. It operates in the framework of the Order of Malta, which provides international, co-ordinated response to suffering in the world through its 46 national associations and Aid Agency, Malteser International.
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.
Foundation Human Nature is a non-political, non-religious organisation, working with some of the world's poorest communities to raise living standards through sustainable development, by encompassing health, education, gender, renewable energy and micro-economic programmes, in response to local needs. They currently run health and community centres in Ghana and Ecuador, enabling communities to create their own futures. For further information, please go to www.f-h-n.org
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
The Freedom From Fistula Foundation helps women in Africa who are suffering from obstetric fistula caused by obstructed childbirth by providing free surgeries and access to healthcare during pregnancy and childbirth. The charity helps thousands of women every year and with your help it can do more.
Friends of Asha (GB) raises money and awareness for the work of Asha Community Health & Development Society. Asha works in 46 slum colonies in Delhi, India. It improves health and provides support and education for over 300,000 slum dwellers, enabling them to make positive changes to their lives.
Supports the work of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre "KCMC" (College and Hospital) in Moshi, Tanzania by raising funds and providing resources. Support has included providing sponsorship for students who cannot afford their tuition fees and by paying the freight costs of donated equipment.
It helps support the Kiwoko Hospital in Uganda
Supporting the Rainbow Old People's Home in Narasaraopet, South India
We conduct Eye Camps to provide free eye care and surgery to the poor in Rajasthan/India. In 2006-7 the Tarabai Desai Eye Hospital carried out over 2000 eye operations through their Eye Camps. The Friends have achieved to fund the building of a new wing to the hospital in Jodhpur and we are now in great need to fit out the new wing with equipment.
The Funzi and Bodo Trust (FAB) exist to try and change things for the better. Working with local people we are creating the conditions for a better environment where people can reach their true potential and where at least the basics of life are available affording a decent quality of life for all.
GAFSIP facilitates the shipping of redundant fire & rescue vehicles, ambulances, health and educational equipment. Sustainable training is also facilitated. 10 new fire stations have been built and 700 jobs created . All donated items are at the end of their life in the UK. It is working towards sustainable self sufficiency
A group of 13 from Gerrard Street are heading out to Uganda this August to visit Mhoira Leng, one of our missionaries. She serves as Medical Director for Cairdeas International Palliative Care.
ICEHA is an international not-for-profit organisation and Registered Charity that engages healthcare professionals to rapidly transfer their expertise on HIV care and infectious diseases to colleagues in developing countries, using an innovative method of clinical mentoring.
THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE RELIEF OF THE SICK IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT PARTICULARLY THE RELIEF OF THE SICK AND BLIND OF PAKISTAN THROUGH THE 14 FREE EYE HOSPITALS SITUATED IN ALL PROVINCES OF THE COUNTRY AND OWNED AND RUN BY OUR SISTER CHARITY, LRBT.
Gwalior Childrens' Hospital Charity is working to help and provide for poor, needy, destitute, disabled and underprivileged esp. children, women and old, the most vulnerable of Gwalior and Chambal region through Gwalior Hospital for Children and Women, Ophthalmic Centre, General Hospital, Rural health centres and Gwalior mobile hospital to provide a wide range of specialised medical care and health educational services in Gwalior and Chambal region, its slums, rural and remote areas. In addition GCHC supports children in existing schools and Orphanages as well runs a School for special needs and is building an Orphanage- Snehalaya to accommodate 200 of disabled and destitute children, details on http://www.helpchildrenofindia.org.uk
HAMLIN FISTULA UK supports the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - a hospital caring for women with horrendous injuries sustained in childbirth.
Health Poverty Action works with the world's poorest communities - those missing out on mainstream aid. We help mothers give birth safely and their children thrive, prevent the spread of diseases like HIV and malaria and challenge the injustices of poverty and poor health.
It is said that prevention is better than cure. That's why we believe in the power of education to stop health problems happening. Examples include our award-winning radio soaps educating people on issues such as HIV (one of which has become the most popular radio show in East Africa).
Poverty and poor health are inseparable. Our comprehensive approach strengthens health services and addresses underlying causes of poor health such as water, sanitation and nutrition. At the same time we campaign to change the systems that perpetuate poverty. We want to 'cure' the lack of healthcare - not just stick a plaster over the problem.
HealthProm's goal is to improve health and social care for the most vulnerable people in the former Soviet Union, working in partnership with local agencies.
HOPE 4 the World is a new and exciting charity which was started in June 2007. We have been training & equipping "medics" on the Thai/Burma border for the last 6 years to deliver medical, dental, paediatric and midwifery skills to the internally displaced Karen & Shan people. In the last 2 years we have built 4 schools and are involved in training teachers and supporting the education of the children of the ethnic minorities of Burma who are being abused by the Military Junta.
Hope for Konya is workig in partnership with a community self-help group in Konya, a region in West Kenya. The charity is supporting any attempt to become self-sufficient focusing on education, water supply, generation of income and health
The Human Futures flagship program, the Global Consortium for Immunotherapy, in collaboration with the Human Biology Research Center at Hadassah University Hospital, seeks to assist in the development of an innovative, immunotherapeutic approach in the treatment of HIV infected individuals.
Human Relief Foundation (HRF) is a UK-based registered charity (no. 1043676 & SC038671). HRF provides emergency relief, aid and assistance.
HRF has been implementing aid projects across the world since 1991 by supporting programmes of emergency relief to the most vulnerable including poor men, women, children, the disabled, and refugees in third-world countries"
The charity provides vitally needed medical care at its new medical centre in a remote disadvantaged village in Bihar, India. An experienced UK team of doctors help provide child and maternity services, treatment of TB, malaria, blindness and tropical disease where no other medical facilities exist.
The Charity IDEALS (International Disaster and Emergency Aid with Long Term Support) is dedicated to providing relief to victims of man made and natural catastrophes wherever it can throughout the world. It usually provides medical aid but humanitarian support has also been given following major disasters.
Improves medical education around the world by improving teaching infrastrucure or directly supporting medical students in key areas
Interburns aims to reduce the global burden of burn related deaths and diabilities by disseminating knowledge through training, education and research and by stimulating prevention in the field of burn care. Interburns combines the educational and research strengths of technologically advanced countries with the rich clinical experience of developing countries in the field of burn care.
Interface Uganda aims to provide essential reconstructive surgery and equip and train local specialists. The work is presently confined to Uganda. Volunteer teams visit 2 or 3 times a year. The project supports the training of Uganda medical and nursing personnel.
InterHealth provides holistic healthcare to people committed to making the world a better, fairer and healthier place. Their medical, psychological health, occupational health and travel health services support people in the UK and internationally. InterHealth supports missionaries, relief and development workers, volunteers, UK charity workers and those in Christian Ministry
The vision of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance is a world in which people do not die of AIDS. The Alliance supports community based organisations to respond effectively to prevent the spread of HIV and enable fair access to treatment for those who desperately need it.
International Medical Corps UK responds rapidly to emergency situations providing health care and relief at times of crisis. We remain engaged with communities for the long-term providing training to health workers and rehabilitating devastated infrastructure to bring health systems back to a point of self reliance
INF is a Christian mission serving Nepali people through health and development work. Established in 1952, INF is Nepal's longest-serving international non-government organisation. INF helps people affected by TB, leprosy, disability, HIV / AIDS and drug abuse, facilitates development among poor communities, runs medical camps and provides medical training.
For those of us lucky enough to have known him, John-Henry was a pretty remarkable chap with an enviable zest for life and a truly contented approach to everything he did. The fund was set up by his family and close friends to ensure that these qualities would continue to be celebrated and be a legacy to him.
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.
Long term support and Expert Advice for self-sustainable projects in Educational, Medical, and Humanitarian fields; £180,000 invested to date for Drinking water, Scholarships to poor children regardless of race or religion, Emergency Ambulance in India; Lymphoma Cancer research in Britain.
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.
Katharine Dormandy Trust For Haemophilia And Allied Disorders
KCA is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. KCA makes it possible for children and their families to obtain lifesaving AIDS drugs and support for survival where without it they would die. Alicia Keys is the co-founder of KCA and works relentlessly to support KCA.
In modern life, people are increasingly short of energy, with ever more stress and longer working hours. Ki Treatment directly combats stress, allowing people to build healthier lives. We believe that a healthy mind and body leads to a healthy society. Ki Centres provide Ki Treatments and energy classes for the general public and act as a base for our community projects. We work in close partnership with organisations to support the health and well being of the elderly, war veterans, young people, the homeless and those with mental difficulties and chronic illness, reaching out to diverse cultures throughout London and nationwide.
A group of adults from King Alfred's - teachers, support staff, parents and friends. The team travel to some of the poorest areas of the world to support health and education based projects. All money donated is spent directly on the people who need it most and none is spent on administration.
Laniado Hospital, Natanya Israel is a humanitarian aid centre of life in the Middle East, founded on the principle that people from every faith and every race deserve to be treated in a dignified manner with the highest regard for humanity. Laniado is committed to a politics-free atmosphere and pursues a model of peaceful initiatives through healthcare.
It provides grants for medical and educational purposes with an emphasis on Africa
LEPRA's aim is to improve the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of people living with devastating disease and illness such as leprosy, HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB around the world.
Show your support and keep up-to-date with LEPRA?s work by joining our facebook group.
Its helps the poor in the third world countries in the field of health and education. It believes in initiating self sustaining projects
Our charity aims to improve healthcare in the southern region of Zanzibar by renovating a delapidated small hospital and managing it using a sustainable financial model. When completed this will make a huge difference to the lives of around 80,000 local residents.
Malaria Consortium is the world's leading charity dedicated to the control of malaria and other communicable diseases. We are an international non-profit organisation with the aim of improving disease control at global, regional and local levels.
Our work improves not only the health of the individual, but also the functioning of national health systems which directly results in poverty relief and an improvement in economic prosperity. We apply our unparalleled depth of technical expertise and practical experience to develop smarter solutions that improve and save lives, providing comprehensive programmes (diagnosis, treatment, prevention) for malaria control.
We have an uncompromising determination to innovate and increase the impact of malaria programmes so that they benefit communities even in the most challenging environments including South Sudan, Northern Uganda and Nigeria. We have pioneered best practices and approaches, setting the standards that others now follow.
Malaria Consortium's head office is in London, UK. We have over 250 staff worldwide and over 90% of our staff work in malaria endemic countries including Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Southern Sudan, Zambia, Ghana, Thailand and Cambodia.
Maruva Trust is a UK registered charity. Its primary aim is to improve the lives of HIV positive children through the development of appropriate care and support services.
Maternity Worldwide is working to reduce mortality associated with childbirth in developing countries. This is through deployment of medical and midwifery staff, subsidy of patient care for those most in need and advocacy within the developed world.
Medair brings life-saving relief and rehabilitation in disasters, conflict areas, and other crises by working alongside the most vulnerable. Its internationally recruited staff are motivated by their Christian faith to care for people in need, providing practical and compassionate support, regardless of race, religion, or politics. Founded in 1989, Medair has an unwavering commitment to bring hope to the world?s most vulnerable.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is the leading non-governmental organisation for emergency medical aid. It is dedicated to providing expert medical relief to victims of war, disasters and epidemics in 80 countries around the world, giving help to those who need it most, regardless of ethnic origin, religion or political affiliation.
It has built and runs a Hospital, a dental unit, an Orphanage, an Under-5 Nutrition programme in Mtunthama, Malawi. It also supports primary and secondary schools and a kindergarden. It operates mobile clinics in the bush, health education programmes and HIV/AIDS testing and counselling services.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees.
Medical Aid for Poland Fund (MAPF) is a London-based Charity (est. 1981) which raises funds to aid the sick, elderly and disabled in Poland.
Medical Aid to Sri Lanka was set up 11 years ago with an aim to improve medical facilities in Sri Lanka. It has a small membership and a number of officers who work purely on voluntary basis. Its annual turnover is about £10,000 and it has worked in all areas in Sri Lanka where direct access to recipients is available. Its main work involves donating equipment to government run hospitals that cannot get such equipment through the normal channels.
Merlin is the only UK specialist charity which responds worldwide with vital health care and medical relief for vulnerable people caught up in natural disasters, conflict, disease, and health system collapse. Each year, Merlin helps more than 15 million people in up to 20 countries.
Working with partners locally, the charity is committed to significantly reducing avoidable blindness across West Africa, by developing a unique and sustainable eye centre which is dedicated to the provision of surgical skills training, continuing medical education and treatment of all eye disease.
It raises awareness and financial support for sufferers of a disease called Podoconiosis. This is caused by absorption of silicate particles through the foot skin that leads to scarring of the lymph vessels and massive swelling of the legs. About 1 million people are affected in the Ethiopian highlands.
The charity helps mothers to survive childbirth through educating healthcare workers in the poorest countries in Africa. It is based in the Department of Anaesthetics at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
Motivation works in partnership with a range of organisations to implement projects that enhance the lives of people with mobility disabilities in developing countries. By ensuring that disabled people have the skills to run the programmes that are of benefit to them, the mobility products and services it develops are always tailored to the needs of each community.
MSIF seeks to work in worldwide partnership with its 41 member societies and the international scientific community to eliminate multiple sclerosis and its consequences, and to speak out globally on behalf of those affected by multiple sclerosis. Our vision is a world without MS.
EMMS Nazareth works in Nazareth, providing primary health care, education, social enterprise and Christian works. It seeks to address the challenges of the region through integration, cooperation and delivery of key services with the love and compassion taught by Jesus. Its statement of faith declares: “As followers of Jesus of Nazareth, we will”
Our mission is to help the mountain people of Nepal with primary health care, education and the provision of basic utilities in order that they lead better, healthier and more enriched lives. We have no religious or political affiliation.
NLT is a Christian organization that provides medical and rehabilitation services to people affected by leprosy in Nepal. NLT also works with poor rural communities in development and poverty alleviation. Lalgadh Hospital (GoogleEarth 26d59m27sN, 85d55mE) is a project of NLT and has treated over 20,000 cases of leprosy to date.
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.
The Noor Foundation UK is a UK registered charity that has been establishing free kidney dialysis centres and giving free kidney dialysis treatment to poor and needy sufferers since 1998, the first focus being in Pakistan.
Works to fund unique roundabout water pumps and assist with community health projects in Africa
OneSight is dedicated to improve vision for the hundreds of million adults and children in need who can not afford basic eye care. Volunteers travel to developing countries around the world to hand-deliver free eye care and recycled eyewear through organized optical clinics. Since 1988, OneSight has provided free vision care and eyewear to more than 6 million people around the world.
Open Arms is caring for orphaned children in Africa and India. It also works with families and communities ravaged by poverty, disease and injustice to bring hope for a brighter future, in part through building orphans' homes, and also running community feeding programmes and medical clinics.
Operation Hernia is an independent not-for-profit organization that provides professional and educational opportunities to surgeons and surgical trainees in the repair of long-standing groin hernias at rural hospitals in West Africa. Thousands of hernia sufferers have received life-saving surgery.
The main aim of Opt In is to promote global healthcare and to try and break the vicious cycle of poverty and poor health. Opt in links with hospitals in developing countries, develops partnerships and enhances healthcare provision through training and education for the local population by sharing the skills and knowledge of NHS staff.
Optometry Giving Sight is a global fundraising campaign, which aims to eliminate a leading cause of avoidable blindness, uncorrected refractive error (simply the need for an eye examination and a pair of glasses) through sustainable programs. You can help give sight and hope to those in desperate need.
There are 45 million blind people in the world. 80% of these cases are avoidable and 90% live in developing countries. A cure is often simple and inexpensive, but in the world?s poorest countries even basic medical help is frequently out of reach. ORBIS is a global charity, dedicated to preserving and restoring the sight of the poorest people in the poorest communities across the world. Through innovative programmes and partnerships, ORBIS creates long-term, lasting solutions to prevent and cure blindness worldwide. We provide the tools, training and technology for local doctors and health care professionals to develop solutions to tackle avoidable blindness in their own countries. By building long-term capabilities in eye care institutions, ORBIS supports its partners in providing quality eye care services that are affordable, accessible and ultimately sustainable
The Order of St John is a major international charity, accredited to the United Nations, which provides first aid, health care and support services in 42 countries around the world. The Order's charitable activities are delivered through its two Foundations: the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem and St John Ambulance worldwide – with volunteers and staff numbering 250,000.
Orphaids helps orphans of AIDS victims in Ecuador, Colombia and Malawi. It also support HIV patients in the community and educates young people about safe sexual health and practices.
The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals (ORH) Charitable Funds is the umbrella charity for over 700 funds supporting projects across the ORH NHS Trust that enhance services and facilities for patients and staff. These range from support for particular wards, at the John Radcliffe, Churchill and Horton Hospitals, to larger fundraising campaigns to support major developments such as the new Oxford Cancer Centre, the Oxford Children's Hospital, the Geratology Appeal and the Oxford Heart Centre expansion. As one of the foremost teaching trusts in the UK, the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals enjoy a national and international reputation in fields such as cancer and cranio-facial surgery. Please give generously - your support enables us to provide the best possible healthcare in the best possible setting, to a standard far higher than the NHS alone would be able to afford.
Please note: If you wish to donate to a specific area within ORH Charitable Funds you will be able to specify this at the end of the donation process. Thank you.
Phi promotes the health of people in developing countries by supporting library to library partnerships that aim to increase the flow of timely, reliable and appropriate health information. Through building links between people and places these partnerships support the exchange of experiences, expertise and resources that can make a real difference in improving health.
The UK's largest student organisation campaigning for international development, human rights and the environment. We have thousands of supporters based in universities and sixth form institutions all over the country campaigning for Trade Justice, access to HIV/AIDS medicines and to stop climate change. Who says young people today are apathetic?
We provide Information, Advice and Support for sufferers of Pernicious Anaemia and B12 Deficiency and their families and friends.
It is a partnership between Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Wau teaching hospital in Southern Sudan. It aims to address the needs of the hospital which is dire straits and recovering from the very long civil war in Sudan, by assisting with teaching and training for doctors and nurses. Teams from Poole visit Wau twice a year and have already started to improve the health care of these needy people. Your help is needed to support this vital work.
RCPSG promotes best levels of health and high standards of healthcare for people by offering continuing professional development to our Fellows, Members and other healthcare professionals. By helping individuals develop at every stage in their career, the College ensures patients receive the best possible care available in the UK and across the World.
The aim of our charity is to undertake ventures where tangible benefits are experienced by entire communities. We endeavour to provide communities with the resources and abilities to improve and sustain their own well being and standards of living via our assistance. Our ethos is to direct our energies into projects aimed at health improvement, education and poverty reduction.
Refuge Nepal helps disadvantaged women and children in Nepal, raising money to provide housing, education and medical aid.
Restore undertakes pioneering research into the treatment of burns and wounds. We take the problem to the research laboratory and return the solution to the patient. Our small group have achieved groundbreaking results which will potentially benefit millions of scar and burn sufferers worldwide.
Training African health workers to ride/drive and maintain motorcycle and four wheel vehicles, Riders also provides technical support and cost-per-kilometre calculations that keep vehicles running efficiently and cost-effectively. The result - 10.8 million people in isolated rural communities accessing vital health care, often for the first time ever.
The relief and cure of defects and diseases affecting the eyes and vision of people in India and Bangladesh
Part of Rotary International supporting local, national and international organisations and causes, developing peace, understanding and fellowship through the ideal of service above self.
Rotary - The global network of Community Volunteers - suporting charitable causes and those in need within the UK and worldwide.
The mission of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow is to promote best levels of health and high standards of healthcare for people throughout the world.
RSTMH promotes and advances the study, control and prevention of disease in humans and other animals in the tropics and plays a leading roll in increasing awareness throughout the world of tropical medicine and international health issues.
The Russian Revival Fund aims to train Russian psychotherapists to understand and treat the mental illness and family stress that have become so widespread since the collapse of the former Soviet Union.
SafePoint Trust is a charity set up to inform people in the developing world about the healthcare risks associated with receiving an unsafe injection from a re-used syringe. SafePoint Trust's goal is to save lives by raising awareness about safe injection practise.
Saltpetertrust is a Christian charity working with needy communities in urban and rural Uganda to alleviate extreme poverty. We work in partnership with local communities, through community leaders because we believe local knowledge is paramount in finding solutions to problems local people face.
SMMHEP aims to provide sustainable support for psychiatric teaching for health care professionals in Malawi. The project has enjoyed close links within Malawi since 2006 and became a registered Scottish Charity in 2008. Currently the principal activites are delivery of undergraduate medical student teaching, and ECT equipment and training.
Selfless is an independent international development organisation, initiated and led entirely by young people, that works through volunteers to fight poverty and disease in developing countries. Our vision is to empower communities countries by sharing skills, knowledge and by providing healthcare where needed. Our only commitment is to try and make a difference.
Our ultimate vision is for Selfless to harness the enthusiasm of young people, from a variety of backgrounds and professions, and channel it towards worthwhile projects, bringing benefit to those communities in need, worldwide.
There is an old adage which goes, ?give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime?. This closely reflects the ethos of Selfless; our aim, rather than giving financial assistance, is to equip people and communities with the skills they need to improve their lives and eventually, their nation.
The organisation raises money for the support of health projects in evolving countries and educational projects are also undertaken. The organisation has an holistic approach and endeavours to raise the capacity of the recipients.
Sickle Cell & Young Stroke Survivors (SCYSS) supports and encourages children, young people and their families affected by Sickle cell disease and Stroke. It provides Saturday/Youth club for children, workshops and counselling. In Africa, we provide information, advice, medicines and awareness to cut down sickle cell births and deaths.
Sightsavers is an international charity that works with partners to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people in the developing world.
Founded in 1950, the charity works with a range of local partners, in 34 developing countries. They provide specialist treatment and eye care and support blind people by providing education, counseling and training.
75% of blindness around the world could be easily avoided. 90% of children who are blind don?t go to school. Sightsavers is working through local organisations to change this.
Siloam uses education, medical assistance, social and other relief as a vehicle for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. OUR COMMISSION: is to do the kind of Christian work outlined in Mathew 9:35-38.
The Smile Train, the world?s largest cleft charity, is dedicated to helping the millions of children in the world who suffer from cleft lip and palate through free surgery for children, free training for doctors and research to find a cure. The free surgery and related treatment that The Smile Train sponsors are performed by local medical teams in local hospitals in developing countries. This "teach a man to fish" strategy builds in-country capacity while helping very poor but very proud communities become self-sufficient one smile at a time. Please be assured that any transaction fee will be paid for through our start-up grant from our founding supporters, which pays for all administration costs and overheads. Charity Registration No 1114748
The Social Entrepreneurs Trust supports international development by channeling money to social entrepreneurs in the developing world (a) to provide awards to these individuals to help them turn their ideas for social and community change into successful projects and (b) to support innovative projects that are being run by inspiring individuals.
As one of the UK?s biggest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives. It has a unique history of dedicated people doing extraordinary things to rise to the challenge and make the world of difference to poor and vulnerable people.
And, following in their footsteps, hundreds of thousands of people, right across the UK, have a great time when they complete brilliant challenges of their own.
The Sport Relief Weekend is taking place from Friday 19th March to Sunday 21st March 2010 and it?ll be three whole days of energy, entertainment and events for everyone to enjoy.
From the Friday of fundraising fun, right through to the Sainsbury?s Sport Relief Mile on Sunday, it promises to be a brilliant weekend. And, the best bit is, all the cash raised will help to transform the lives of those in desperate need across the UK and the world?s poorest countries. So be a part of it? Rise to your challenge!
Sport Relief is an initiative of Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England/Wales); SC039730 (Scotland).
RAG stands for ?Raise and Give? and that?s exactly what we do. Every February St George?s goes into fundraising mode and we hold tonnes of events to raise money for a huge number of charities.
The Parish Church of St. Oswald?s in South London, is constantly looking for ways to make the role of the Church more effective and relevant in its pastoral, social and ecumenical mission. The ability to respond and to fulfill this role depends very much on your generosity, so please continue to help us in supporting the many projects of the Church in making a difference to those who need it most.
SOPB is a small family run charity which incurs no administrative or travel costs. All money donated reaches Burmese people inside Burma, along its borders, or where Burmese refugees are resettled. It helps pay for health, shelter, food and education.
The Swinfen Charitable Trust was started 1998, with the aim of assisting poor, sick and disabled people in the developing world. The Trust's policy is to do this by establishing telemedicine links, using high quality digital cameras and email, between hospitals in the developing world and medical specialists worldwide, who generously give their advice on diagnosis and recommend treatment free of charge.
TackleAfrica capitalises on the popularity of football in Africa to raise awareness and understanding of HIV and AIDS among young people across the continent. It works with local partners and uses football matches to provide HIV education and resources, encourage behaviour change, challenge stigma and promote aceptance.
Helping less fortunate people in Eastern Europe to be able to help themselves attain a better future!
Temple Garden Foundation works in partnership with local communities in rural Cambodia to promote sustainable development for those living in poverty. The Foundation selects projects where livelihoods can be improved significantly through simple community initiatives. Programmes include water and sanitation, basic road/bridge infrastructure, healthcare and child and adult education.
The Themba Trust UK supports the work of the Themba HIV&AIDS Organisation in South Africa which gives interactive theatre performances and training in schools, community-based organisations and prisons for HIV prevention. Over 70 000 people have benefited so far.
Tibet Relief Fund was set up to respond to the needs of Tibetan refugees, following the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. Today, we provide vital support to Tibetans in exile and inside Tibet, including emergency aid to newly-arrived refugees and education, healthcare and income-generating projects for the long-term. Tibet Relief Fund also runs a sponsorship programme to support children, university students, elderly people, monks and nuns. Please visit our website for more information: www.tibetrelieffund.co.uk, call 020 7272 1414 or email [email protected].
It helps displaced communities in the Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, achieve a secure and sustainable future by addressing the root causes of their poverty and ill-health through a range of education and health-based projects.
Transplant Links (TLC) links volunteer medical teams in the UK with hospitals in developing countries, to help them acquire the skills to run living kidney transplant programmes within families - allowing one member of a family to give their kidney and save the life of their relative, often a child.
UAY helps children disadvantaged by the devastating consequences of HIV/AIDS by paying for their school fees. It pays the school fees until the students have finished their high school education. Last year, we had our first student to complete her 'A' Levels after being in the program for 4 years!!
Serving the communities of Upholland, Skelmersdale, Rainford, and close surrounding areas. Contributing to charities, and providing help & support to those people less fortunate than ourselves.
The Vine Trust is an international interdenominational charity with a vision to see communities transformed. We work to bring opportunity, health and hope to disadvantaged communities and marginalised people, with a particular concern for vulnerable children. We share God's love in practical ways to make a better life a reality for all, regardless of race, creed, gender, colour or orientation.
Water For Africa is a charity committed to the provision of water, sanitation and healthcare facilities to communities in Africa suffering from endemic poverty. All of our projects providing, water and preventative healthcare, have been focussed on giving individuals and communities the power to take ownership and change their own lives.
The aim of Water for Kids is to preserve and protect the good health of people in the developing world by assisting in the provision of safe drinking water, good sanitation and other public health matters. Water for kids is currently involved in projects in Zambia, Uganda, Kenya and India.
WaterAid is an international charity. Our mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world?s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. For a gift of just £15 WaterAid can provide one person in Africa or Asia with a lasting supply of safe, clean water, sanitation and hygiene education.
It provides help and support to those individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Thank you for visiting our JustGiving site. Our mission is to tackle child mortality in Sierra Leone, where one in five children dies before their fifth birthday, often from the most basic and treatable of conditions. We are working with the government?s only paediatric referral hospital, the Ola During Children?s Hospital in Freetown, and aim to transform it into a centre of excellence and training for paediatric care which can serve as a template for quality care provision, and a training resource for doctors and nurses in Sierra Leone who currently have no opportunity to specialise in paediatrics. Your donation will fund improvements to facilities and the organisation of care, salary supplements for medical staff so that they can afford to work at the hospital without relying on other income streams to support themselves, and training programs for the next generation of paediatric specialists who will be qualified to train future cadres of medical students from all over Sierra Leone at the ODCH.
For children of developing nations requiring specialist surgery.
Wish For Rwanda's mission is to raise funds to deliver projects in Rwanda that will promote health, education and reconciliation following the horrific genocide that raged for 100 days across this beautiful country, when as many as one million people were brutally murdered.
Currently operating in Nagpur, Central India, WIN aims to benefit women worldwide, who are socially and economically disadvantaged. Leah and Usha help women suffering from the physical and social scars of Leprosy, as well as treating other problems such as HIV/AIDS, mental illness and the effects of rape and abuse.
World Child Cancer helps children with cancer in developing countries providing medical expertise and funding. Childhood cancer is highly curable yet 4 of 5 children with cancer in developing countries die from cancer. Many cancers are simple and inexpensive to treat and this is our starting point.
World Emergency Relief (WER) is an international development charity which works to address the needs of poor and disadvantaged children all over the world. As well as providing vital relief supplies in times of emergency, WER works in close partnership with local people in 50 projects across 20 countries.
WERF is a global charity fostering research into endometriosis to improve knowledge and treatments. WERF carries out well powered, international multi-centre trials, and support specific research projects investigating disease mechanisms. The vision is a day when no woman is crippled by endometriosis nor prevented by the disease from having children.
Our focus is on Africa's orphans and most vulnerable children. Every day we save young lives and ease suffering by making medical care available for the first time to village children; our practical and cost-effective programme is treating over 30,000 every year. We are also successfully treating children suffering from AIDS, reducing the incidence of mother to child transmission of the HIV virus and ensuring that history does not repeat itself by giving HIV/AIDS education.
World Medicine is a charitable organisation which provides complementary and alternative healthcare to people around the world suffering the effects of trauma, disaster and poverty. Since its inception in 2005, it has run projects in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Palestine, as well as running an ongoing sustainable project in an orphanage in India.
World Without TB aims to achieve a reduction in tuberculosis treatment duration through clinical trials of currently used drugs thus improving compliance from both patients and treatment services. Tuberculosis is a communicable disease that kills two million people each year. The commonest cause of death in HIV infected persons is tuberculosis.
An international catholic misionary order with members from 20 nationaliites based in some of the world's most deprived countries in Asia, Africa and South America and working to promote faith developemnt, education, health, social justice and all aspects of integral human development.
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