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The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is the charity that saves lives on South African waters. Established in 1967, the NSRI is a registered non-profit organisation that is committed to drowning prevention and focusses on saving lives, changing lives, and creating futures for those threatened by immersion or submersion in water in South Africa. Our Rescue Services are run by nearly 1500 highly skilled, unpaid volunteers who are on call 24/7 at 47 rescue bases along the coast of South Africa and at inland dams and waterways. Our Drowning Prevention initiatives include preventative measures such as Pink Rescue Buoys for emergency flotation, emergency signage, rescue swimmers, lifeguards, active patrols during peak seasons, and drowning prevention training such as Water Safety Education and Survival Swimming lessons in under-resourced communities throughout South Africa. The NSRI is entirely funded through donations and sponsorships.

CPAR Uganda Ltd's mission, through training and mentoring, is to ensure that households in rural Uganda ably meet the basic needs of their members through enhanced livelihoods; access to health care, clean water, sufficient and nutritious food.

We are working for a day when Kentuckians and all people enjoy a better quality of life. When the lives of people and communities matter before profits. When our communities have good jobs that support our families without doing damage to the water, air and land. When companies and the wealthy pay their share of taxes and can't buy elections. When all people have health care, shelter, food, education, clean water and other basic needs. When children are listened to and valued. When discrimination is wiped out of our laws, habits and hearts. And when the voices of ordinary people are heard and respected in our democracy.

We are a team of passionate people working to connect our community to our environment, so that both thrive. WAI Wanaka's kaupapa* is to empower communities to take action to achieve measurable, enduring benefits by better understanding their water, their environment and their impacts. With almost every catchment in Aotearoa New Zealand at risk from human activity in one way or another, we believe that it will take all of us, working together, to safeguard and sustain Te Taiao**. *Kaupapa is the māori word for purpose. **Te Taiao is the natural world that contains and surrounds us - land, water, climate and living beings. Te Taiao also refers to the interconnection of people and nature, an eternal relationship of respect, reciprocity and interdependence.

HUMANITY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION is a non-governmental, non-profit organization advocating for humanity and community development by initiating ideas, programs and projects that aimed at providing solutions to the critical areas of sustainable development that include access to clean water, good health, quality education, peace and ensuring accountability and social justice.

Little Dresses for Africa is a non-profit 501c3, Christian organization, which provides relief to the children of Africa. Simple dresses are made out of pillow cases, and distributed through the orphanages, churches and schools in Africa to plant in the hearts of little girls that they are worthy! Our projects are focused through clean water, education and community.

Our mission is to work in collaboration with relevant public/private partners, to build the capacities of vulnerable communities to maintain healthy biodiversity, mitigate climate change and its associated crisis,while promoting ecosystems essentials such as water, food, sanitation, health and other relevant social infrastructure that promotes the well- being of the poor and marginalized communities; as a buffer to vulnerability to climate change.

The Savory Institute's mission is to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world's grasslands through Holistic Management. The organization's educational consulting activities are turning deserts into thriving grasslands, restoring biodiversity, bringing streams, rivers and water sources back to life, combating poverty and hunger, and increasing sustainable food production, all while putting an end to global climate change.

The BARKA Foundation's mission is to serve as a catalyst for achieving the SDGs in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Our methodology is community-led, grassroots and combines indigenous and modern technologies to develop a set of best practices in areas of clean water accessibility, sanitation, irrigation, sustainable agriculture, women's empowerment, education, healthcare, and renewable energy. BARKA's work is ultimately about co-creating a culture of peace.

The Trust Deed of 1975 says "The objects of the Trust shall be to relieve poverty and sickness among the people of Tanzania by means of the development of education, health and other social services, the improvement of water supplies and other communal facilities and the promotion of self- help activities." Interpreting the Trust Deed for the needs of the 21st Century we add: "In making grants, the Trust tries to promote equal opportunities and projects which improve the environment".

To transform and heal the lives of people through education, health, clean water, empowerment, religious, disability, refugee's relief, children and food security and disaster relief. Thereby continue having a healthier society free of illiteracy, Inhuman rights, drugs, poverty, hunger and HIV and AIDS by providing free, relevant, inclusive education and empowerment to a girl child, orphans, streetkids, women, disabled and other needful services to inopportune people.

Globally, NRC works to protect the rights of displaced people during crisis. We specialise in six areas: food security, education, shelter, legal assistance, protection from violence, and water, sanitation and hygiene. NRC Poland's objectives are to provide emergency assistance to displaced populations as well as support them in medium-term needs through accessing basic needs, shelter and housing, information, counselling and legal assistance, protection and education services.