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Mission: We are a charitable organisation working to kickstart the lives of vulnerable children in Kenya through locally-led sustainable development. Key Principles: Kickstart Kids International is an entirely volunteer run, not for profit, non-government development organisation. In everything that we do, our primary goal is empowerment - to provide support to local communities that will help them to help themselves. We achieve this in three ways: Best practice quality of care for orphaned and disadvantaged children - partnering with globally recognised leaders who share our passion for providing children with the best possible Kickstart in life. Financial sustainability - utilising a profit for purpose model, we provide local communities with income streams to fund the operations of social projects. Environmental sustainability - accessing technologies and approaches that ensure sustainable consumption of food, energy and water.

To promote, support and maintain educational opportunities and initiatives for children and adults that do not have access to such opportunities and initiatives - predominantly in (but not limited to) Nepal, Indonesia, Africa and Australia To create sponsor partnerships to underwrite individual educational expenses. To support low income schools in developing countries and/or disadvantaged community in order to enhance the educational opportunities that the school can provide and maintain. To provide and/or support the social welfare of families in order to facilitate educational opportunities for family groups. To promote the association's initiative as based on the concept: It is in Giving that We Receive

Friends of Humanity SA is a Geneva-based non-profit organization supporting initiatives and projects in five essential areas: - Human rights and dignity - Education and training - Healthcare and medicine (including alternative medicine) - Environmental protection and conservation - Microfinance

Breaking the Poverty Cycle Through Education

JAAGO Foundation aims for the betterment of the nation through catering the educational needs of children from socially and economically disadvantaged background and empowering the youth along with inspiring volunteerism in Bangladesh. JAAGO focuses on creating an equitable world for everyone regardless of gender, class, ethnicity, location, religious and sexual orientation by empowering the most marginalized.

Working with local grassroots charities and NGOs in 13 countries across the globe, the Global Vision International (GVI) Charitable Trust manages and raises funds for numerous long-term programs. These funds are used to support our local partners with the aims of alleviating poverty, illiteracy, environmental degradation and climate change. We do this through education, nutrition, conservation and capacity building. Our work focuses upon 3 key objectives: awareness, impact and empowerment. The aim is to create awareness of global issues, have a direct impact on those issues locally and empower our alumni, be they volunteers, donors, staff or community members, to continue impacting local issues on a global level.

Seva Mandir's mission is to make real the idea of society consisting of free and equal citizens who are able to come together and solve the problems that affect them in their particular contexts. The commitment is to work for a paradigm of development and governance that is democratic and polyarchic. Seva Mandir seeks to institutionalise the idea that development and governance is not only to be left to the State and its formal bodies like the legislature and the bureaucracy, but that citizens and their associations should engage separately and jointly with the State. The mission briefly, is to construct the conditions in which citizens of plural backgrounds and perspectives can come together and deliberate on how they can work to benefit and empower the least advantaged in society.

Earth Trust works to give tools to tribals and villagers to farm their land in a sustainable way, to develop responsibility for Primary Health solutions with traditional answers and to give rural children inspiration, skills & passion for revitalising their communities & land. Email: earthtrust@gmail.com

The BKFA works with organisations and communities to provide a clean birthing environment for women in developing countries in order to reduce the incidence of infant and maternal mortality. We respect peoples' dignity and values and work according to principles of basic human rights. We raise awareness, provide support and resources and act as a catalyst for the creation of birth attendant training programmes and community development projects.

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.

Corals for Conservation (C4C) addresses poverty-driven coral reef decline by developing sustainable, community-appropriate enterprises designed to shift the burden away from over-used and depleted fisheries resources. C4C promotes "coral gardeners" as new profession for resorts, providing employment and added value to the industry while contributing to coral reef conservation and restoration. We recognize that if people and industry are major parts of the problem then they are also major parts of the solution.

1. To establish a set of activities for the ongoing support of community projects targeted to the poor and disadvantaged of all castes and creeds in the Bodhgaya region of Bihar, India. 2. These projects should include: (a) Supporting the education of children in need (b) Establishment of educational institutions for children in need (c) Establishment of vocational learning centres (d) Establishment of self help groups for individuals to develop their own businesses, with particular focus on women (e) To encourage seminars for women's development and self empowerment (f) To raise the self-esteem and self-reliance of the communities involved.