AIDS Concern China Expand view 17B, Block F 3 Lok Man Road Chai Wan, Hong Kong AIDS Concern aim to strengthen community responses to AIDS through targeted outreach prevention for vulnerable groups and support services for people with HIV/AIDS
Buklod Center Inc Philippines Expand view 23 Rodriguez Street St Mabayuan Olangapo City Buklod's work with the women in prostitution is based on the recognition that prostitution is one form of violence against women and is a violation of women's human rights. Bukold seeks to raise the conciousness of, and promote solidarity among, bar women and urban poor women in Olongapo City. It also seeks to promote the welfare of children, particularly Amerasians. Buklod works to build and empower this community of women and children. Buklod's resource centre is open to the public
Cambodian Disabled Peoples' Organization (CDPO) Cambodia Expand view 2008 Phnom Penh CC Box 216 CDPO's programme of activities cover three main areas, advocacy and representation for disabled people; organisational capacity building; and grassroots work with the disabled
Fiji Council of Social Services (FCOSS) Fiji Expand view P O Box 13476 Suva FCOSS provides support and training, and channels funding to small NGOs working in family welfare.
Red Ribbon Centre (RRC)|UNAIDS Collaborating Centre for Technical Support Hong Kong Expand view 2/F Wnag Tai Hom Jockey Club Clinic 200 Junction Road East Hong Kong Its mission is to facilitate and enhance the community's response to HIV/AIDS. It aims to do this by promoting community participation in AIDS education and research; enhancing the development of quality AIDS education programmes; facilitating the development of social, behavioural and epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong and the region; and providing an avenue for local and international collaboration in the fight against HIV/AIDS http://www.info.gov.hk/aids
Women's Action for Change (WAC) Fiji Expand view PO Box 12398 Suva Aims to empower women, in particular less privileged women through direct action research and advocacy, enabling them to develop thir full potential to control and direct their lives. Promote shared family responsibility in order to advance the status of the woman. They do this through community theatre group, child care for governement workers' children
National Women's Welfare Centre|Ariyancode Ottas Ekharamangalam India Expand view PO box 695125 Vanithabhavan Kerala Aims to work for peace and disarmament; poverty and illiteracy eradicaiton; community and rural development; learning, health and hygiene. Resource centre is open to the public
IMPACT UK Expand view 151 Western Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3LH Impact's aim is that no-one should become disabled through disease, lack of knowledge or shortage of medical services. With effective delivery of today's know-how, it believes that, given the will and resources, it should be possible to reduce by one third the incidence of avoidable disability in developing countries, while at the same time helping to break the link between ageing and disability in industrialised countries like their own http://www.impact.org
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
Centre for Total Development India Expand view Vill-Jigra PO-Bahirkhanda Hooghly District West Bengal Aims to improve the physical, mental, social and spiritual weel-being of persons living below the poverty line within West Bengal. The resource centre is open tot he public
Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) Palestine Expand view PO Box 51483 Jerusalem A grassroots community-based Palestinian health organisation. It seeks to supplement the decayed and inadequate health infrastructure caused by years of Israeli military occupation. Its mission is to improve the overall physical, mental and social well-being of Palestinians regardless of racial, political, social, economic, or religious status. Its national health programs emphasise prevention, education, community participation and the improvement of the individual. Its resource centre is open to the public http://www.upmrc.org
Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Egypt Expand view 4 Ahmad Pasha St (City Bank Bldg) 4th Floor, Garden City Cairo Mission: to support individualised organisations realise their full potential and foster self-determined, self-sustaining change. This mission is premised on our behalf that participation is imperative to learning and change. CDS operate based on a need response mode, with a wide array of stake holders, International society, government and private sector organisations. Our approach relies on bringing stakeholsers to realise and appreciate their interdependence and work together to bring about meaningful change. The CDS resource centre is open to the public http://www.neareast.org
The Humsafar Trust India Expand view PO Box 6913 Santacruz(W) Mumbai 400 054 The Humsafar Trust rates itself as India's premier NGO working in the Men who have Sex with Men sector. It has successfully managed sites in Mumbai metro and finished the baseline study of MSM risk behaviours. It is now implementing the targetted intervention in the MSM sector and giving care and health services through its STI clinic in the Humsafar Centre http://www.humsafar.org
Remedios AIDS Foundation Inc (RAF) Philippines Expand view PO Box EA-84 1066 Remedios Street Malete 1004, Manila RAF's vision is of a society where all people, regardless of gender age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or economic status have access to quality sexual and reproductive health care and are able to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Their mission is to provide quality sexual and reproductive health information and direct services to people with a focus on vulnerable individuals and communties affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. RAF aim to empower individuals and communities to practice healthy lifestyles and behaviours through the provision of quality sexual and reproductive health information, education and communication (IEC) programs and also to work towards sustained, functional, efficient organisational mechanisms that would respond to the needs of RAF. The RAF resource centre is open to the public http://www.remedios.com.ph
Cordaid Netherlands Expand view PO Box 16440 2500BK The Haag Cordaid is one of the biggest international development organisations. Together with more than a thousand local organisations, Cordaid fights poverty and injustice in over forty countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe and the Netherlands. Cordaid works to create a permanent healthy, liveable environment and sufficient income for poor and vulnerable groups in cities in developing countries. Particular attention is paid to women, young people, the elderly and refugees. Cordaid is working in the themes of health and care, peace and conflict, access to markets, quality of urban life, the rights and care of marginalised groups, and HIV/AIDS http://www.cordaid.nl