A Glimmer of Hope works throughout Ethiopia on sustainable projects developed by and for the people. It takes a similar approach with projects for young people in London, UK and Austin, Texas. The foundation's original endowment covers all administration costs - guaranteeing that 100% of donations go to projects.

Task Brasil aims to improve the lives of street children and teenagers who live and work on the streets of Brazil by motivating them towards education, professional training, music, arts and sports, encouraging social skills and emotional bonds by teaching ethical, moral and civic ideals.

AbleChildAfrica exists to improve the lives of the estimated 50m children and young people who are living with disability in Africa. We do this by supporting partner organisations to carry out life changing work with them. We think disabled children and disabled young people should be allowed to decide what changes they would like to see, so we make sure that the organisations which we work with actively involve disabled children and young people in their decision making. We have been working in East Africa for the past twenty years and during that time have affected the lives of over 250,000 disabled children and young people. We are currently working in Uganda and Kenya and hope to expand our work to other African countries in the future. The programmes we run include rehabilitative healthcare, inclusive education, parents support groups, children's after school clubs and campaigning work which seeks the full inclusion of disabled children and disabled young people in policy and practice everywhere we work.

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 Village India has long-term relationships with six Gandhian organisations all working for non-violent change in rural India. For almost 20 years, it has supported programmes which enable disadvantaged communities to help themselves. Current programmes include women's employment (Tamil Nadu), organic farming (Kerala), girls' education (Jharkhand) and land rights (Orissa).

Afghanaid has worked with Afghan communities since 1983 to address the issues of poverty. Through 300 local staff it works in agriculture, animal health, micro-finance, income generation, basic health education and women's resource centres.

Africa Foundation works with local organisations (NGO's) in Africa to ensure that children have access to their basic necessities. We achieve this through sustainable development projects. It works with locally established homes and schools, for street and orphaned children of Uganda, on sustainable development projects that fit well in their community. These projects fund the provision of food, water and health care for the children. They also provide vocational training skills in farming and crafts and empower the staff and children with a feeling of independence.

Akamba Aid works among poor rural communities in N.E. Kenya, relieving poverty by supporting primary and secondary education and affordable health care. It encourages self-help among local families, providing access to safe water and training seminars for the subsistence farmers, and assisting in construction of community buildings.

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.

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.

The Atiamah Charitable Trust aims to provide relief to HIV/AIDS sufferers and their families in Ghana. The first priority for adults and children is to help them survive by providing care, basic drugs, dressings and nutrition. Education and counselling are also essential to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Trust currently supports the work of a Home Based Care project in Bolgatanga so that they can increase the number of trained workers, supply more drugs and nutrition and provide transport to enable more people to receive home based care.

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

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.

The Trust works with the people of South Africa to redress the many inequalities and injustices that remain as a result of apartheid. It supports community-based initiatives focusing on education, training and welfare in places of great disadvantage.

Brooke relieves the suffering of hundreds of thousands of horses, donkeys and mules working tirelessly for the world's poorest communities. Its dedicated local vets and support teams provide free veterinary care, education and training to the heart of communities in parts of the Middle East, Africa, South America and Asia. .

The Cambodia Trust works with disadvantaged disabled people to enable them to participate as equals in education, employment and community life. The Trust aims to reduce poverty and increase self-sufficiency, through rehabilitation, community work, training and advocacy.

CAMDA provides grass-roots aid to poorer nomadic herding communities that lost millions of herd animals to wintry extremes. It also targets three essential resources: hay-making, reliable wells, healthy horses. Its aid helps prevent families on the verge of poverty giving up herding for the almost certain poverty of alien city life.

A Christian organisation providing practical and spiritual support to the poor and needy community of Dorohio, in Northeast Romania, providing three course meals, food bags, and other forms of assistance and counselling. It also has a playground and play area and a children’s club. All to show God’s Love In Action.

Chennai Challenge helps disadvantaged communities in Chennai, South India. This includes work in community centres, schools and orphanages

Children of the Andes is a UK charity dedicated to supporting Colombia's most disadvantaged children by working with local NGOs. With project partners it aims to provide relief from the effects of violence and poverty and promote longer-term development through a range of education, health, social care and conflict resolution initiatives.

Christian Outreach Ministry and Education (COME UK) is a small registered charity working with its own NGO in Gulu, Northern Uganda. Our work focuses on the Youth and Children of the area whose childhoods have been disrupted by the war with the LRA. We provide sports and youth activities, improving their morale and self esteem, developing leadership skills whilst learning about HIV/Aids awareness.

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.

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

Compassion Africa is a family run charity, supporting orphaned children in Sierra Leone, West Africa, developing the Compassion Africa Children’s Village. At Compassion Africa, we want to give children a life of love and hope. Our Children’s Village will put orphaned children back into a family environment.

Concordis International is a British peace-building charity, currently working primarily on Sudan, both nationally and for the Darfur and Eastern regions. It works alongside those affected by armed conflict in the world, building consensus on the issues that divide and enabling them to create lasting peace and hope for their shared future

Crossflow works with partners in Nepal and India to provide health and education to vulnerable communities and the excluded.

Every penny of every pound donated to DAFA is put where it is needed with those who help administer the charity or are involved in facilitating any of its projects doing so entirely at their own expense. DAFA works predominantly in Zambia through a range of projects focusing on health care, education and self-help.

The Dalitso Trust works in partnership with villages in Malawi to develop the community. Focus is on SUSTAINABILITY, teaching Malawians to teach others in better farming methods, HIV/AIDS awareness, and developing skills for a more healthy life.

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.

Our mission is to provide Tanzanian communities with vocational education for needy children, access to clean water and other actions based on an intimate and thorough understanding of its social and cultural needs.

The Donald Woods Foundation aims to fight poverty in underdeveloped parts of South Africa, primarily through education, health and community-building programmes. Key partners in current programmes are: South Nottingham College's "Balls to Poverty" programme, Claygate Cricket Club's Feb 2008 Tour of the Eastern Cape and several government departments in Bisho, including the Depts of Education, Health, Social Development and Sport.

Encourages and supports a wide spectrum of development projects in the kingdom of Lesotho

Edo State Women's Association is a registered charity organisation based in the UK and Nigeria. Through partnership and networking with other charitable groups develops services and projects to support motherhood and encourage families to work toward better life.

EDSA supports Saturday Schools and other educational initiatives which give disadvantaged young people living in the poverty-stricken townships and informal settlements around Cape Town the chance to fulfil their potential. EDSA believes that education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty and crime, the abiding legacy of apartheid.

Enable Ethiopia helps rural villagers in Ethiopia by providing funding for projects such as water points and healthcare. It is run by volunteers to maximise all contributions to the region. It works with the local people who select the projects and provide the labour, and we raise the funds and pay for materials and technical assistance...simple, but effective.

Founded in 1997, Estrela furthers intercultural understanding between Brazil and Britain, focusing benefit on disadvantaged youth and communities. Funds raised support Estrela’s work alongside local partners in NE Brazil, being: • Creative & Global Education • Capacity-building • School & Group Links • Ethical Skill-share • Community-based Tourism

FOAG is an independent charity directly supporting small scale agricultural, health and educational projects in Uganda. It was started by a group of Worcestershire farmers in 1981 and now assists 11 projects which are all visited and monitored at least once a year. It is supported by 700 Associate Members,

Feedback helps the poor in Madagascar to improve their livelihoods and their environment, sustainably and on their terms. It operates community development programmes focussing on health, education and natural resource management (especially in the areas of farming and forest conservation).

FQMS works to advance medical education throughout Palestine and the medical school at Al Quds University, Jerusalem, supporting visiting lecturers, examiners, teaching materials, student and faculty participation in conferences, clinical supervision, specialist training, the development of e-learning & video conferencing, shelter for students on clinical rotation under curfew.

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.

Friends of The Citizens Foundation (FTCF) builds and runs schools in rural part of Pakistan.

Future Hope gives underprivileged children in Calcutta the support and opportunities needed to help get themselves off the streets.

The charity helps to reduce extreme poverty in the rural areas by increasing the productivity of working horses and donkeys through welfare and management training. It provides basic veterinary assistance, teaches in schools and to farmers groups, and provides scholarships for paravets at college level.

Gecko Sri Lanka is a student-run charity, set up in response to the December 2004 tsunami. They fund sustainable community-based projects in Sri Lanka including building homes for families displaced by the tsunami, constructing water tanks for villages without clean water & equipping schools with basic education supplies.

The charity aims to provide sources of water to underpriveliged children and adults in remote villages in Ghana through the construction of water boreholes and water tanks. By doing so it is hoped that villagers' health, education and lifestyles will be greatly improved and water bourne disease eradicated.

GIVE is a professionally governed and managed Indian nonprofit organisation dedicated to promote "giving". We help "good" NGOs raise funds and promote greater transparency & accountability in the voluntary sector. Our mission: To promote efficient and effective giving that provides greater opportunities to the poor in India. Our vision: A strong "giving" culture where Indians donate 2% of their income every year to give the poor a chance. A vibrant "philanthropy marketplace" to ensure that the most efficient and effective nonprofits get access to the most resources.

Global Action Nepal's chief focus is on educational and social improvement throughout Nepal. Its major project areas include teacher training, supporting the education of disadvantaged children, building adequate sanitation and water facilities and developing the skills of Nepalese youth.

GLO works in partnership with local organisations in Central Africa (notably Burundi), to help the people who help the people, providing financial, logistical and advisory assistance. Main focus is evangelism and discipleship through churches and schools, printing and teaching materials, fighting AIDS, street children and orphans, and encouraging an informed dialogue between different ethnic and religious groups (Muslims and Christians).

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 for All was initially developed by the doctors, staff and patients at the Bridge and Littlebourne Health Centres, Canterbury. Aiming to "preserve health and relieve sickness and suffering in the less developed countries of the world" it supports partnership projects in India and Africa.