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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.

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.

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.

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.

Support for young people diagnosed with cancer and their families

3. The objects for which the Company is established are: 3.1 To advance the education of the public by all charitable means; 3.2 To promote sustainable development for the benefit of the public by: 3.2.1 The preservation, conservation and protection of the environment and the prudent use of natural resources; 3.2.2 The relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities; and 3.2.3 The promotion of sustainable means for achieving economic growth and regeneration. In this context 'sustainable development' means development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Women Win's vision is that of a world in which every adolescent girl and young woman fully exercises her rights. Our mission is to advance the playing field that empowers girls through sport and play. Women Win is the global leader in girls and women's empowerment through sport. We leverage the power of play to help adolescent girls and young women build leadership skills and become better equipped to exercise their rights. Since 2007, we have impacted the lives of 2,822,400 adolescent girls and young women directly and indirectly in over 100 countries. This is possible thanks to collaborations with a wide variety of grassroots women's organisations, companies, development organisations, sports bodies and government agencies. Women Win currently supports initiatives in Asia, Africa, Middle East, North and South America. Our work is focused on empowering girls and young women through sport, emphasising the prevention of gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and economic empowerment. In practice this involves developing high quality specialised tools and curricula; delivering training and capacity building workshops; monitoring and evaluation tools and systems development; and providing strategic and programmatic support. Women Win invests in and manages a diverse portfolio of global partners with approximately 1.5 million euros of direct funding granted annually.

The purposes for which it is formed are to support charitable, educational, cultural, environmental, civic and cultural activities and projects of benefit to the residents of San Ramon, Alajuela, Costa Rica.

femLENS' mission is to visually educate and make technologically aware the most vulnerable and resourceless women of our society through documentary photography made accessible by mobile phone cameras and cheaper point and shoot cameras.

Contribute to the improvement of the quality and equity of learning opportunities of the population to enhance their human development, through innovative educational proposals and models focused on people and the use of digital technologies.