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Background Elephant Livelihood Initiative Environment (ELIE) is a registered local non-government organization, or not-for-profit, based in Mondulkiri, Cambodia. ELIE was founded in 2006 and started by providing free veterinarian care and mahout-orientated education to the families and communities that owned captive elephants throughout Mondulkiri province. In 2007, The Elephant Valley Project (EVP) was launched as an elephant sanctuary developed to create a home for injured, old or overworked elephants and is now ELIE's centerpiece for elephant welfare and conservation. This elephant sanctuary has been developed in close partnership with the local indigenous Bunong community of Pu Trom, and sits within their community forest. ELIE is unique in terms of its primary source of funding now comes from income generated by local and international visitors coming to experience the elephants as part of the ecotourism project at the EVP. Since 2006 the organisation has evolved and grown, with the development of EVP as an exciting ecotourism project, providing a sustainable financing mechanism funding all of ELIE's elephant care and welfare, community development and forest protection programs. ELIE's Vision "To improve the captive elephant's health and welfare situation by the development of an elephant sanctuary while providing province-wide veterinary care and associated social support programs for the Bunong people." Goals 1) To improve the health and welfare conditions of the captive elephant population of Mondulkiri 2) To develop a sanctuary for working elephants to rest and retire to in Mondulkiri Province 3) To conserve the wild elephants natural habitat 4) To provide employment and job based training to the Bunong community and mahouts 5) To support the local community to protect their forest and natural resources, the habitat of the elephants. 6) To identify the main pressures on the community and their forest, and provide community support programs to alleviate these pressures.

Founded in 2002, Baan Dek Foundation (BDF) is a registered Thai foundation that aims to improve the fundamental well-being of vulnerable children living in urban slums and construction site camps by supporting their immediate needs, empowering their families and communities through a peer-to-peer approach, and creating sustainable change in the Thai construction sector. BDF is the only organization in Thailand that has partnered with 40+ construction companies, developing a niche expertise on child safeguarding in the sector. Through its longstanding partnerships with construction companies and the public sector (schools, medical centers, and Ministries of Health and Education, the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), etc.), BDF aims to deliver a scalable and sustainable response to improve the well-being of tens of thousands of marginalized children across the nation.

Our mission The mission of the NGO Dynamique Actions pour la Solidarite et le Developpement is to combat poverty and all forms of socio-economic vulnerability through : Protecting the environment and combating global warming, Promoting education for all children, regardless of gender, Relief and food security for all, Promoting grassroots community health initiatives Combating epidemics (HIV/AIDS, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, measles, Ebola), Assisting and empowering women and children in situations of vulnerability and psycho-socio-economic discrimination, Promoting water, hygiene and sanitation for all, The prevention of violence and the promotion of peace and justice to meet local needs with local solutions. The humanitarian aid that DASOD provides to people in need is made possible by financing from its own funds and from various donors. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Zambia has about 1 million orphans, this gives Zambia the highest per capita orphans rate in the world. One in every 4 household is a child headed home. About 65% of Zambians earn less than $1.25 per day. The Other Side Foundation is committed in nurturing at grassroots level, Orphans & Vulnerable children through an integrated Values Based Education (Education in Human Values), Nutrition and Health care. We further empower the widows, grandmothers and single mothers of our students through evening adult education, skills training & microloans/seed funding. The Other Side Foundation promotes gender equality and believes that every child needs to eat at least a meal/day, have access to basic healthcare and education.

Fundacion Via Cocina is a community based project focused on improving the health and economic development of vulnerable women, youth and underprivileged in Medellin Colombia. With a personalized training and mentoring system sharing healthy food recipes, cooking techniques and applied financial planning and entrepreneurial small business fundamentals, we build a program for individuals and families based on their current reality, applying the training to objectives created with them, for them, in their own home. Additionally, we provide classes to individuals and groups who want to learn to cook healthy dishes with local ingredients for their families, transforming them into uncommon flavors that are low in fat, oil, salt and sugar-free. These activities look to decrease frequency and severity of non-communicable diseases in the communities, including obesity, diabetes and cholesterol.

Mission statement: To provide opportunities and promote ethnic cohesion through education. Our Aims: To deliver high quality, accessible educational programmes, both full time and part-time, to young people and children from the tea estates in the hill country of Sri Lanka; To effect social transformation in tea estate communities by highlighting the importance of community service, and instilling it as a core value in the youth through a series of practical programmes that develop their skills to give back to their communities; To improve youth employability and increase employment options outside the tea estates by facilitating the development of high-standard English language skills and professional skills; To facilitate the development of the emotional health of young people, enabling them to strengthen their positive coping strategies in order to with the complex societal issues that exist in their communities.

Our mission is to restore a sense of dignity and pride in young Egyptian women by building their self-confidence and empowering them mentally and physically to develop themselves. Heya Masr targets disadvantaged young girls and boys aged 6-18 to strengthen their character. We do this by providing a safe and nurturing environment for physical activities, nutritional and healthy lifestyle education, character development activities, sexual harassment, and bullying awareness and self-defense strategies. We believe that to make an impact, and we need to educate both young women and men equally. Heya Masr is empowering a young generation of girls and boys now for a better Egypt tomorrow. Heya Masr uniquely targets girls at an early age since we rely on UN studies (1) that indicate that behavioral changes occur at the early stages of development. This approach helps us equip women with mechanisms to rise above the negative impacts of extreme deprivation, abuse, and other adversities in their most formative years of development. We seek a proactive impact on women during adolescence to become stronger, more confident, and independent, thereby positively influencing future generations in Egypt. (1)UN Study: Changing perspectives on early childhood: theory, research, and policy by Martin Woodhead 2006

Misr Elkheir Foundation Biography MISR ELKHEIR FOUNDATION-(MEK) is an Egyptian NGO- Established in 20/5/2007; Registration with Ministry of Social solidarity is: 555/2007.The foundation is a developmental non-governmental organization mainly concerned with Human Development. Our Vision: To become a pioneering sustainable development organization to be heeded internationally. Our Mission: Comprehensive Human Development through the implementation of projects in order to diminish the levels of illness, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and unemployment. The main goal of Misr ElKheir Foundation is human development, and thus seeks to achieve this through the development of six strategic units covering different aspects of Egyptian life. These are Social Solidarity, Life Aspects, Health, Education and Scientific Research; and Integrated Development Sector, which unifies all the efforts of the other sectors to tackle needs of poorest Base of the Pyramid communities. Through these areas, Misr ElKheir Foundation seeks to contribute positively and actively to eliminate unemployment, illiteracy, poverty and disease, and to make Egypt an inclusive society, which can grow and remain sustained on autopilot projects. MEK has an established institutional structure of more than 1000 employees, with the Board of Trustees at the tip of the pyramid, then cascading down to the Executive committee exercising control over the BOT Executive member CEO, who in turn heads all the six sectors plus the execution Unit and the HR and administration unit. The Execution is operational Unit such as containing Finance department, procurement, IT, legal, marketing & PR, fund raising, international cooperation, while HR and administration controls HR responsibilities and internal administrative procedures and services. On the other hand, the Audit, Governance and Business Control Committee controls the BC Unit that separately -away from BOT CEO- presides over Business Continuity, Audit and Quality, M&E and Complaints Functions for transparency and avoidance of conflicts of interests. These functions comply with the International Non-Governmental Organizations. MEK's extensive outreach and network of participatory community-based NGOs through 17 governorates' regional offices and numerous partnerships with local CDAs (Community Development Associations) will ensure an overarching promotional, awareness, and visibility activities. MEK has acquired a solid Technical Niche of Implementation of Developmental Projects and Outreach to all the governorates. MEK's credibility, trust, and huge network of partner NGOs and volunteers will greatly facilitate dissemination, promotion, and awareness. MEK always seeks the best quality and technical expertise, thus out-sources and undergoes feasibility studies, tenders and workshops to achieve the best results. We offer services and assistance through the following Strategic Sectors: Education: Establishment of Standard & Community Schools, Training Centers, and Higher Education Entities, provision of scholarships, Employment Services. Social Solidarity: Giving direct support to the underprivileged, including: bread winners, debtors and wayfarers, in addition to executing untraditional individualistic or collective Income-generation projects that would generate a regular sufficient income for poor families in Upper Egypt and the border areas, so that we can change their status from sufficient to efficient. Health: Developing the health care system in Egypt by providing services of high quality, related to the prevention and the treatment of the most dangerous diseases in Egypt, in addition to direct aid Life Aspects: Developing the citizens' sense of values and culture, through capacity building and enhancing self-confidence, in order to reach our ultimate goal, which is developing their quality of life, Social Inclusion for People with Disabilities, Spreading and conservation of Arts and Culture, Character Building. Scientific Research and Innovation: Employing and promoting for the concept of scientific research and innovation, in order to develop products and services that help empower the needful villages in Egypt. This is done to provide the basic services in the sectors of: health, education, water, food, and energy. In addition, it creates a generation aware of the importance of scientific research and innovation; and also empower entrepreneurships and incubate new ideas and prototypes through turning scientific research into an economical and a social value, complementing the foundation's vision, which revolves around human and social development; improving the quality of life. Integrated Development: This sector integrates the previous six strategic units and gears all efforts collectively into one location such as the 1000 poorest villages in Upper Egypt. CSR funds and donations collaborate efforts to assist development in designated areas of need targeting development of Educational facilities, Health & Medical convoys for screening, developing quality of life for citizens through inducing awareness about social issues, developing their economic standards through small businesses to suit the context whether agricultural, handicrafts, or vocational, and introducing innovative solutions to the needful villages.

OBAT Helpers works for the welfare, support, and rehabilitation of displaced and stateless people by providing programs to alleviate the daily suffering and burdens of thousands of Urdu speaking people (known as "Biharis") who are stranded in makeshift camps in Bangladesh. OBAT Helpers implements projects in education and vocational training, self- empowerment through micro-financing, health care with clinics, drinking water, proper sewerage, and emergency relief projects. The Biharis have been stranded in Bangladesh since it achieved independence from Pakistan in 1971. Referred to as, astranded Pakistanis,a this community was supposed to be repatriated to Pakistan after the two countries separated but most of them could not due to political complications. They are presently citizens of nowhere, unclaimed by either country and marked by the UNHCR as refugees, yet deprived of the rights of refugees. They still live in the camps/slums that were supposed to serve as their temporary shelter forty years ago. This population is scattered across sixty-six camps which house around 300,000 people. Anyone visiting these camps would see a family of 7-10 people sharing a living space of 8x10 ft.; open sewers and overflowing drains; a single toilet or two for one hundred or so people; innocent six or seven year olds who should be in schools, working for a living; high-infant mortality rates due to absence of medical facilities; lack of clean drinking water; terrible or no sanitation facilities and nothing but abject poverty. OBAT Helpers is the only organization in North America which is committed to helping the Biharis to become self-reliant and empowered through proper education, health care and micro financing projects. OBAT started with providing help to one camp in 2004, and now, it is improving the lives of people in more than 30 out of the total 66 camps, after just six years. This is almost half of the total number of camps in Bangladesh.

Alzheimer Bulgaria is an association of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, as well as their families, caregivers, and professionals. It was registered in December 2003 and since January 2004 has been registered with the Ministry of Justice. We are members of Alzheimer Europe, Eurocarers, the Global Dementia Friends Campaign. We have officially registered 2 branches of the organization in Bulgaria - Gotse Delchev and Pleven and there are volunteers who share their personal experiences in the towns of Varna, Lovech, Plovdiv, Lukovit, Topolovgrad. Our mission is to help dementia patients and their families with all legal means, including the protection of their human rights. Our main goals are: improving the quality of life of patients with dementia and their families; changing the public perception of dementia patients; disseminating information and raising awareness among families and authorities; advocacy for social and health policies specifically targeting dementia patients and their families.

HRHF is an arm of Hope Rising Homes, Corporation (HRHC). Our mission is to give orphans, vulnerable and at-risk children a better life, by providing hope for a brighter future and a vision of life beyond their present vulnerable situations. HRHC strives to provide food, housing, education, and health care services; as well as rehabilitation, and clinical and faith-based counseling services to these needy children. HRHC aims to provide opportunities for the children to pursue either educational and/or job training, and other skill enhancements needed to become productive citizens. Additionally, by offering positive role models to guide and mentor these children, HRHC believes the children will overcome their negative pasts, and move on to bright and prosperous futures. We strongly believe that with the proper intervention, these children will thrive, develop to their full potential, and positively influence and contribute to their immediate communities and to the society at large.

The French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children is striving to realize a vital and ambitious vision: to be a leading institute of excellence and innovation in healthcare, research and education, providing exemplary, safe, comprehensive, accessible and sustainable services to Afghanistan and surrounding regions, while positively impacting the lives of patients and all others whom it serves. During this journey, the hospital is committed to: To provide exemplary quality and safe care to the patients To ensure accessibility of services, both physical and financial, such that needy patients are cared for with respect and dignity To develop new services in response to public needs and expectations as resources permit on an economically viable and sustainable basis To develop the institution into an academic centre that develops local and regional health human resources as leaders and leads to human resource sustainability To carry out programmes and assigned missions in a manner that would enhance the ability of the institute to move towards sustainability