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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.

TO PROVIDE A FREE OR DISCOUNTED SUMMER VACATION CAMP EXPERIENCE TO GIRLS FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES.

The specific purposes of the Corporation are to provide a free youth football skills competition while promoting an active and healthy lifestyle.

They believe in the cause to allow kids access to free play in a community of supportive adults where they may thrive and learn and "be" kids.

The Impossible Dream, a universally accessible catamaran, is dedicated to raising awareness of barrier-free design and improving the quality of life for people with disabilities

TO PROVIDE A HEALTHY PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND MENTAL ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUNG GIRLS AND BOYS TO BUILD THEIR SELF-ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE SO THEY WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICES IN THE FUTURE.

Crush Baseball is a 10U travel baseball team that gives young men the opportunity to play baseball in a highly competitive, but fun environment, where they can continue to develop their baseball and life skills for the future.

Roundup River Ranch enriches the lives of children with serious illnesses and their families by offering free, medically-supported camp programs that provide unforgettable opportunities to discover joy, friendships, and confidence.

The AD99 Solutions Foundation aims to change the trajectory of Pittsburgh's most vulnerable youth by providing the necessary resources needed in a free, safe environment so they may excel athletically, academically, and socially.

The mission of Friends of Tryon Creek, in partnership with Oregon State Parks, is to inspire every community to identify, cultivate or reclaim their relationship with nature in this cherished urban forest. Our vision is an inclusive community connected to this cherished urban forest now and for future generations.

To become a nationally renowned sports rural primary school, in partnership with parents and communities, to enable diverse students to develop into lifelong learners with high expectations in a nurturing, risk-free environment that will enable them to become responsible and contributing citizens in a changing society.

Player2Player’s mission is to coach the youth to become more functional, communicative, and confident through sports. They not only train their coaches in business, but they train them in life to be a good citizen and a good person. They want to pass this training onto the players that they coach in hopes of creating a positive future for generations to come.