Organisations

Comic Relief

UK

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5th Floor
89 Albert Embankment
London SE1 7TP
UK

Comic Relief exists to tackle poverty and promote social justice by helping disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa to realise their aspirations and potential. They do this by raising funds and awareness, and allocating funds donated by the public to charitable projects across the UK and Africa

Motivation

UK

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Brockley Academy, Brockley Lane
Backwell
Bristol BS48 4AQ

Motivation aim to establish self sustaining wheelchair prduction and distribution services, mainly in developing countries, with the associated training in education and healthcare needed for wheelcharir users to live full and independent lives

World Health Organization (WHO)

Switzerland

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Avenue Appia 20
CH-1211 Geneva 27

Charged to act as the world's directing and coordinating authority on suggestions of human health, WHO has developed a host of networks and mechanisms for generating data, applying facts to problems and recommending solutions that will lead to sustained improvements in health. The WHO resource centre is open to the public

Education for Development

UK

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Building 33, University of Reading
London Road
Reading RG1 5AQ

At the request of partner organisations, Education for Development has worked in Africa, Asia and Europe. It offers training, research and consultancy in education and training for adults in literacy, agriculture, multimedia, organisations and small business development. Its core areas of work are within 'non-formal education and training. Providing flexible and context-sensitive services at the request of partner organisations, firmly rooted in commuity partnerships and ownership'. Central to its work is the disssemination and sharing of good practice from its experience as a northern NGO

Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)

Guatemala

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Apartado Postal 1188
Guatemala City

INCAP is a Central American institution of technical cooperation, with leadership and scientific-technical excellence, that promotes, facilitates and supports actions that will enable its Member Countries to reach food and nutrition security. In order to promote the Initiative of Food and Nutrition Security, the institutional fields of action are related to the transfer of technology and technical assistance, operational research, training of personnel and strengthening of institutional capacity, mobilisation of resources and development of collaborative works. Also establishing strategic alliances with Central Americsan institutions as well as those outside the region. The INCAP resource centre is open to the public

Accion Internacional para la Salud Bolivia (AIS Bolivia)|Health Action International Bolivia (HAI Bolivia)

Bolivia

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Avda Abel Iturralde 1178
Miraflores, PO Box 568
La Paz

Aims to assist in improving living conditions and the health situation of the Bolivian population through civil society participation, promoting human rights, consumer rights, citizenship, patient's rights, health care access, and primary health care, through promotion, prevention, community education, information and communication activities. The resource centre is open to the public

World Neighbors Inc

USA

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4127 NW 122
Oklahoma City
OK 73120

World Neighbors is a grassroots development organisation working in partnership with the rural poor in hundreds of villages throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. WN brings people together to solve their problems and meet theur basic needs. By supporting community self-reliance, leadership and organisation, WN helps people address the root cause of hunger, poverty and disease. Programme priorities are food production, community-based health, family planning, water and sanitation, environmental conservation, and small business

Enterpriseworks Worldwide

USA

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1828 L Street NW
Suite 1000
Washington DC 20036

Enterprise Works Worldwide generates economic growth and fights poverty in Afirca, Asia and Latin America through market-based development programmes that promote profitablity, environmentally sustainable microenterprises. By systematically improving production, processing and marketing, EnterpriseWorks helps small-scale farmers and manufacturers increase productivity, expand operations, form new regional and international business links, and ultimately capture more of the value of their products EnterpriseWorks focuses on five progrsmme areas: Coffee and tree crops, Energy, Farming & Food Processing, Livestock, and Natural Products

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