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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.

It is the mission of Holy Cross Education Foundation to provide funding and administrative assistance to schools that strive to provide the highest quality primary education to children in disadvantage areas. We seek to effectively help prepare students for the challenges of life in the 21st century - spiritually, mentally, morally, emotionally and physically by providing a state-of-the-art educational environment.

Hope + Future's mission is to provide health and wellness programs for youth to give them hope in their academic, social, and economic future.

Footsteps 2 Success provides a renewal of the mind, body and spirit, by building confidence, character, life skills, health and wellness.

The mission of The Village Microclinic is to inspire and empower people from peri-urban areas and slums of Burundi to advance their health and wellbeing.

Support Act is a charity, unique in Australia, helping music professionals who are facing hardship due to illness, injury or some other crisis that impacts on their ability work in music (including COVID-19). We have helped in many different ways since we were founded in 1997. We help music professionals of all kinds: artists, crew and music workers. We treat every request for help confidentially and make no judgement about people's circumstances. We provide financial assistance (which we call a grant), advice and practical assistance. We also offer a free, 24/7, confidential counselling service called the Support Act Wellbeing Helpline, as well as developing lifesaving mental health prevention education and training programs which have helped thousands more music workers to deal with the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mustard Seed Communities (MSC) is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to caring for the most vulnerable populations in society. Founded in 1978, MSC provides care to children and adults with physical and mental disabilities, children affected by HIV/AIDS, teenage mothers, impoverished families, and marginalized communities throughout Jamaica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and Zimbabwe.

Our mission is to transform the lives of underserved youth through academic enrichment, health and wellness, social responsibility and leadership through squash.

Millwood Impact addresses unmet essential needs for the health and well-being of kids and families in the Millwood & West Valley Community.

The Keep A Breast Foundation™ is a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower young people around the world with breast health education and support.

Our mission is to empower the disadvantaged youth of South Africa to enable them to reach their potential. To do this we provide education, life skills training and opportunities for an active lifestyle. We also focus on identifying talented athletes from disadvantaged backgrounds and providing opportunities for them to be mentored to develop the physical and mental skills needed to pursue a career in athletics.

Promoting education, prevention and research in cardiovascular health in civil society, as well as promoting and disseminating heart-healthy lifestyle habits in the Spanish population.