Tearfund UK Expand view 100 Church Road Teddington Middlesex TW11 8QE Tearfund is a Christian relief and development agency working to see millions of people released from material and spiritual poverty through a network of local churches. Over the last 40 years, we have been gathering knowledge and sharing it with those who want to see poverty reduced and justice restored across the world. Tearfund resources are available to download free of charge including training materials, case studies, international magazine Footsteps and more. The Learning Zone Provides resources, case studies and advice for grassroots church and development workers and development professionals, and in-depth analysis for policymakers. http://tilz.tearfund.org
Ahfad Centre for Reproductive Health, Family Planning and Eradication of Harmful Traditional Practices Sudan Expand view PO Box 167 Ahfad University for Women Omdurman The health centre provides health care services for a large section in the community. The main aim is working in reproductive health issues, raising awareness to the community and working under a well established university, such as Ahfad University for women, aiming to attain the highest possible standards in health services, obtaining user satisfaction at an affordable cost http://www.ahfad.org
Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA) Sudan Expand view PO Box 3372 Khartoum Aims to initiate and open communications among all mankind regardless of religious culture, language, race or colour; put into place the principles of charity and providing basic services to the vulnerable and needy; promote and protect human rights; and promote and support water and sanitation programmes
Practical Action [formerly Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG)] UK Expand view The Schumacher Centre for Technology & Development Bourton Hall, Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Rugby Warwickshire CV23 9QZ ITDG specialises in helping people to use technology for practical answers to poverty. With ITDG, poor women and men can develop technology which puts people first. The resource centre is open to the public http://www.itdgpublishing.org.ukhttp://www.practicalaction.org
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad (OCAA) Australia Expand view 156 George Street Fitzroy Victoria 3065 OCAA aims to work in a professional, flexible, responsive, strategic and innovative manner with vulnerable communities so that these communitites can participate in, and take control over their own development. They can do this by working collaboratively with us, the Oxfam International community, and with Oxfam Community Aid Abroad's partners in the field who in turn participate with these vulnerable communitites in their development. Oxfam Community Aids Abroad will achieve for the poor and marginalised, a fairer world in which more of them exercise their basic rights, control their own lives and the environment in which the depend is better sustained. The resource centre is open to the public http://www.caa.org.au
Y Care International (YMCA) UK Expand view 3-9 Southampton Row London WC1B 5HY The international development agency of the YMCA movement. Focuses on the needs and contributions of young people in the developing world, who face the severest of economic and social conditions. They aim to provide financial support for projects that aim to promote self-sufficiency. Funds are chanelled through local YMCAs, which develop projects with their local communities. They aim to broaden the opportunities available to marginalised young people and enable them to escape the poverty trap. They also aim to raise the awareness of development issues in the UK http://www.ycare.org.uk
Tearfund UK Expand view 100 Church Road Teddington Middlesex TW11 8QE Tearfund is a Christian international relief and development agency with more than 40 years' experience. We work with partners and the local church across the world to tackle the complex challenges of poverty. Tearfund is recognised as a leader in its work, integrating community development, disaster response and recovery, disaster risk reduction and advocacy. Tearfund works in more than 50 countries worldwide, in partnership with communities, churches and local organisations to overcome poverty and injustice. http://www.tearfund.org
Dark & Light Blind Care Netherlands Expand view Vendelier 13 Veenendaal The Netherlands 3905PB http://www.darkandlight.eu
Terre Des Hommes Switzerland Switzerland Expand view Terre des hommes Avenue de Montchoisi 15 CH-1006 Lausanne Postfach 4018 Basel Created in 1960's, the mission of Terre de hommes has been to come to the aid of children in need. The mission aims to defend the rights of children, in times of war and natural disasters or distress. Terre de hommes has developed in two core areas: healthcare and child protection. http://www.tdh.ch/
Christoffel Blindenmission (CBM) East Africa Regional Office Kenya Expand view CBM East Africa Regional Office / CBM Kenya Ring Road Parklands P O Box 58004 00200 City Square Nairobi Kenya CBM is an international Christian development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world. Based on its Christian values and over 100 years of professional expertise, CBM addresses poverty as a cause, and a consequence, of disability, and works in partnership to create a society for all.CBM's East Africa Regional Office oversees seven countries in the key mandated areas of eye care (including low vision), comprehensive orthopaedics and education of the visually impaired, deaf and deafblind http://www.cbm.org/East-Africa-252934.php
OVCI Italy Expand view OVCI la Nostra Famiglia Via Don Luigi Monza 1 22037 Ponte Lambro (CO) A NGO, recognized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that carries out projects of development cooperation for the benefit of people, mainly in children, in situations of social and disability through interventions:RehabilitationFormationSocial workBasic medicineDevelopment EducationThe NGO works abroad in South Sudan, Sudan, Brazil, Ecuador, China and Morocco. It is active in Italy with the "entertainment groups" present in 6 regions http://www.ovci.org
ADD International UK Expand view The Old Church School Butts Hill Frome BA11 1HR ADD's aim is to support the development of a representative and effective disability movement made up of self help organisations of disabled people, actively promoting the rights of all disabled adults and children for full inclusion in society. It also aims to influence development practices and policy makers to include the rights and needs of disabled people in their work Previously ADD (Action on Disability and Development) http://www.add.org.uk
