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Our mission is to protect endangered turtles through supporting turtle nesting beaches, cleaning up plastic waste, reducing the tortoiseshell trade, promoting equity in the sea turtle community, and educational programs.

We are a global champion for the human rights of women and girls. We use our powerful networks to find, fund, and amplify the courageous work of women who are building social movements and challenging the status quo. By shining a spotlight on critical issues, we rally communities of advocates who take action and invest money to empower women.

The mission of The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) is to alleviate world hunger.  We do this by collaborating to develop food banks in communities where they are needed around the world and by supporting food banks where they already exist.

Our mission is to provide the necessary resources so that all children born with malformation Cleft Lip/Palate (all over the country) can recover in a complete and thorough manner. Although we are an independent association, we work together with the National Children's Hospital of Costa Rica (which is where they perform surgical treatment) in order to have a multidisciplinary equipment, needed for a proper rehabilitation. In Costa Rica, each year, we received an approximately of 85-90 babies with the Cleft Lip/Palate, so our effort is reflected in the smile of all recovered children, but our mission continues standing with each new baby born that presents the malformation.

Adopciones chinita was born with the goal of rescuing abandoned dogs and cats in the area of San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica from danger, mistreatment and health issues before they are adopted by permanent families. This includes transportation, neutering, taking care of ill animals, veterinary and medical care, nurturing, etc. -- (Google Translate): Objectives of the Foundation: - Work for the treatment and ownership of the animals, so much domestic as of production or work by part of the society for with they. - Propitiate laws of agreement to our Ordering Legal what come to give more guarantee to the animals in general. - Attend cases of abuse animal or abandonment, through rescues, through of Attention veterinary and care temporary previous to its adoption definitive - Capture money through request of donations for attend our objectives respect to the wellness animal. - Investigate irregularities respect to cases of abuse animal or cruelty , by a inadequate holding , or all right by violence to animals outsiders. - Act in set with the authorities governmental pertinent through the interposition of complaints in cases where there is obvious abuse animal or abandonment. - Defend of accordance with the framework regulatory valid, the protection and defending in what concerns the animals. - Perform campaigns of education to the population on the due tenure of animals , as well as campaigns of castration Y activities several for collection of money for the Attention of rescues. - Support and help whole popular initiative or legislative whose object be the to get better the quality of lifetime of the animals through projects of law in defending full of its welfare . - Spread the idea protectionist in the society, of such way what get involved to the communities in the due watch out of the animals as in the complaint of cases of abandonment , abuse or cruelty. - Propitiate and encourage a support for suitable by part of the governments local through the investment of money for strengthening of the activities own of the wellness animal.

Asociacion Aldeas Infantiles SOS Costa Rica is a non-profit organization of private character and social development, founded in 1949 in Imst, Austria. Our country is a declared state since 2013 and declared of public utility. We are a present in 134 countries where we serve more than 400 000 children and their families. We are also members of UNESCO and advised by the ONU Economic and Social Council. Our reason for being. There are a number of social, economic, cultural, political and external factors in Latin America and the Caribbean that, at times associated with unfavorable socio-economic situations, may put children at risk of losing care for their families or significant adults. The complex interaction between these factors, such as natural disasters, armed conflict, interfamily and gender violence, problematic drug use, commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, migration, among others; Expose children and their families to a situation of greater vulnerability, requiring responses to guarantee the exercise of their rights. In this sense, in the Asociacion Aldeas Infantiles SOS Costa Rica we work for the children right of family living. We develop actions to prevent the loss of family care, provide care alternatives for children who were separated from their families and develop advocacy actions, seeking to create the necessary conditions for children to fully exercise their rights. ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE 2 What do we do? We work for the children right of family living. The organization's efforts are aimed at preventing the loss of children's family care, and when it is lost, we provide them with alternatives of care, always working to bring the children back to their families and communities whenever possible or other possibilities of family living. How do we do it? 1. To prevent the loss of family care we carry out support actions for family and community strengthening through: Pedagogical proposals of daily care for children Capacity building of children and their families Coordination of local networks work. 2. For those children who lost family care we provide care alternatives based on family environments, seeking their integral development and considering their particular situation and the needs of each locality. Family life care: usually under the SOS family model, in the village houses, where we promote that children have a stable affective referent for as long as it require, promoting if possible the reinstatement to their family of origin. 3. We carry out awareness actions in order to ensure quality standards in the care of all children. We advocate the states to strengthen and improve social protection systems, carrying out campaigns and programs, to ensure that all children, adolescents and young people have a full exercise of their rights, especially a family living.

Make the adolescent and young adult population with cancer visible in Costa Rica and provide them with tools that allow them to face their illness in the best way, through accompaniment, education, recreation and the creation of infrastructures appropriate to their age.

TECHO (teh-choh) is a youth-led non-profit organization that works in informal settlements to create a just society without poverty. Today over 200 million people live in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. No proper home, no potable water, sewage, or electricity access. Our mission is to change that reality, working to create system-changing solutions to end poverty and shape a future we all want to live in. From Europe, we mobilise young European volunteers and raise funds to support our local projects in Latin America and the Caribbean through monthly contributions, responses to calls for projects, fundraising events and partnerships with companies.

The mission of Ayúdame3D is to create and provide 3D-printed prosthetic devices to people with limb differences, regardless of their socioeconomic status. The organization aims to promote a culture of inclusion, empowerment, and innovation, by leveraging technology, education, and community engagement. Ayúdame3D envisions a world where every person with a disability has access to affordable and functional assistive devices that enable them to live with dignity, independence, and full participation in society.

SOWING HOPE -WE FULFILL DREAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER. Our main objective is to fulfill the dream of every child with cancer or in the terminal stage. Achieving public awareness about the importance of helping families with cancer in Costa Rica. mission 1-Achieving the dream of diagnosed children: with cancer, waiting for a transplant, or with a terminal illness. 3.- Provide financial support to families who have a child diagnosed with cancer; attended and treated in any hospital in the country. 3.-Improve the quality of life of child cancer survivors with significant side effects. 4-Provide support, psychological and spiritual to the families that go through this process. We want to raise awareness about the current situation of families undergoing treatment to fight childhood cancer.

I Wish is a volunteer led global initiative to inspire young females (aged 14-17) to explore a career in STEM. I Wish has evolved since its inception in 2015 from being a once a year Showcase to an all year-round showcase of opportunities in STEM. I Wish is now multi-faceted. It comprises of Showcase Events both in person and streamed virtually in addition to providing a STEM information resource for students and teachers campus weeks with 5 Higher Education Institutes, an alumni circle building stem bridges from primary to secondary and on to Higher Education and through our Survey a policy driver for government and stakeholders in STEM. The Showcase Events comprise: 1. a Conference Zone where the students hear from women and men forging careers in STEM, from groundbreaking researchers to entrepreneurs, data scientists and engineers; and 2. an interactive Exhibition Zone where the students can engage with STEM industries and higher education from leaders in their field like Dell, Trinity, ARUP, Aer Lingus, DIT to entrepreneurs and creatives working in STEM; 3. a Teach IT Zone designed as a resource for teachers; 4. a Create IT Zone demonstrating the creative side of STEM; 5. a Build IT Zone promoting female entrepreneurs in STEM. Since 2015 the I Wish Showcase Events have turned the heads of over 50,000 girls towards STEM and empowered them to become the next generation of thought leaders, innovators and game changers in our ever changing world.

Support for young people diagnosed with cancer and their families