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WereldOuders focuses on the empowerment and personal development of vulnerable children and families in Latin America and the Caribbean. With us, they receive attention and the support that suits them. WereldOuders has a unique approach, based on four pillars: a safe home, health, education and independence. By providing a social safety net while building the children's self-confidence, they regain a future perspective, an opportunity to realize their dreams. WereldOuders has projects in nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. These are Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. A home is the most important safe base for a child. When a home situation is scarred by poverty, addiction, violence or the death of one of the parents, the secure base falls away. WereldOuders and partner organization NPH are committed to creating or restoring a safe home base for children and youth in Latin America. Our vision of "a safe home" has changed significantly over the past years. NPH was founded in Mexico in 1954 with the opening of a children's home for children who had nowhere else to go. The organization continued to expand to include children's homes in the other eight countries. More than 19,000 children found shelter in an NPH home. These homes were called "family homes" by the organization. NPH placed great importance on creating a warm, loving family atmosphere in the homes. No matter how well this worked out, a family home can never replace a real family. With today's knowledge, arising from empirical evidence and in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we recognize the unintended harmful effect that institutionalization has on children and youth. Children and youth become alienated from their families and communities of origin. Stigmas attached to growing up in a children's home lead to (young) adults struggling to find their place in society. Having no family to fall back on makes it difficult to hold your own in society as an "uprooted" adult. 'Our' children can always come to NPH even later in life, but that is an exception in the world of children's homes. Uprootedness in general is a major problem: this group has difficulty raising their own children and keeping them from ending up in crime or on the streets. International child welfare organizations are therefore increasingly focusing on de-institutionalization. NPH, too, is going through this transition. We can and want to do more to really change the situation of families and children. We have to change course. We have therefore started to focus more and more on supporting vulnerable families and communities to prevent families from falling apart. This is not entirely new: since its founding, NPH has supported more than 80,000 children who did not live in an NPH family home.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. We lead international action to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people.

Glasswing's work is rooted in community engagement. Our holistic, cross-sector approach forges partnerships with international and local governments, corporations, non-profits, foundations, and civil society - leveraging their resources and capabilities - to strengthen existing education and health systems, and deliver innovative, high-impact, and sustainable solutions.

Contribute to the sustainable improvement of human settlements through the management, promotion and execution of development initiatives.

Vision: In America Solidaria, we envision a continent where all children and adolescents have what they need to grow, learn, and fulfill their potential. We see it as our shared responsibility as citizens of this region to make this vision a reality by mobilizing a network of highly skilled fellows. Mission: Mission America Solidaria promotes regional development throughout the Americas, strengthening local initiatives through year-long service projects in nonprofit organizations working to alleviate youth poverty through a focus on education, health, and/or economic empowerment. Our projects create lasting change by influencing public opinion and policy and helping shape future professionals, increasing the standard of living and supporting growth in the region.

MAKAIA is a non-profit organization strengthens capacities for social development through technology, innovation and international cooperation. Our vision is that every person and organization has knowledge and information to increase opportunities to transform themselves and their communities. MAKAIA means "to build" or "make" in Miskito (Indigenous Language from Honduras). The name represents MAKAIAs objective of building alliances and relationships oriented to the social and economic development.

AIPC Pandora is a non-profit organization that works to generate the knowledge and the capacity of action needed at the international level for the construction of a more just and peaceful world. For this, we develop Global Learning Experiences for educational, intercultural, solidarity or professional insertion in one of the 57 countries in which we are present. We work both in Outbound / Outbound and Inbound / Host projects in Spain, offering transformative experiences based on the "Learning-Service" methodology that form global citizens in how to intervene in the great challenges of the world today.

Fundacion Corazonistas is the tool of the Institute of Brothers of the Sacred Heart in the Province of Spain for the promotion and participation of lay Corazonistas through social commitment. In 2021, Fundacion Corazonistas is the reference space for lay Corazonistas in educational works in Spain to get socially involved in building a more just world. Thus, it contributes to the development of committed personal and community vocations in Spain and to the development of projects of heart solidarity with impoverished people and peoples throughout the world.

To improve living conditions and contribute to the sustainable development of vulnerable communities in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean, facilitating access to basic health services, energy, and drinking water through alternative sources that protect the environment.

Our mission is to provide service to others (locally, nationally, internationally), promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through our fellowship of professional, business and community leaders.

The primary mission (as it currently exists) of Abba's House Children's Center, a non-profit center, Cien Fuegos, Dominican Republic is to provide medical, nutritional, educational, social, emotional, psychological, and Christ-Centered spiritual care for orphaned, abandoned, or otherwise needy children living in extreme poverty in Cien Fuegos, Dominican Republic. We are committed to providing a safe environment to enhance each child's wellbeing. Prior to the opening of this Center, these children would: Scavenge for items in the city dump that they might be able to sell to help their families or for food that is consumable; Wander the streets with no shoes and sometimes with no clothing; Become victims of sexual or work exploitation; Suffer early pregnancies; Suffer from malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies and diseases; Have no access to vaccinations and even the most basic health care; Drink unclean, water; Join gangs for familial connections and then engage in criminal activity. Our further hopes are to (1) provide free healthcare for Cien Fuegos residents who currently have no access to medical services (2) provide jobs to area residents in our educational, medical, and vocational sub-centers (3) empower underserved and vulnerable individuals via jobs and training via economic viability and self-sufficiency (4) improve the quality of life of children and adult residents while fostering a sense of responsibility for the local community ***NOTE: The primary purpose of this GlobalGiving Initiative is to create a FREE medical clinic for the citizens of Cien Fuegos and to provide a Vocational Education Program at the Center where the older children can learn trades. Neither of these initiatives will be associated with religious training or indoctrination of any kind. These services will be objective, non-religious services.

We are an NGO that promotes and protects the rights of vulnerable and marginalised through community empowerment, action oriented research, policy dialogue, and legal aid in Uganda.