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Centro Cultural e de Assistencia Social Ilso Jose Webber

Promover o desenvolvimento economico, social e humano dos cidadaos de Coxilha levando informacao, conhecimento, acesso a alfabetizacao e tecnologias em informatica. Despertando tambem a consciencia para a preservacao do meio ambiente, atraves do cuidado com o lixo domestico.

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Education
Associacao Joao de Deus

Contribute to peace in the Alagados favela, accelerating growth projects, led by inhabitants of the neighborhood, associated with a professional team.

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Fundacao Procurador Pedro Jorge de Melo e Silva

Act primarily in two areas: training and social responsibility. It aims to promote rights and sustainable development. With attention to minorities groups, FPJ develops social projects based on the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals established by the UN.

Society
Safernet Brasil

SaferNet is unique. It's the first-ever NGO in Brazil to established a multistakeholder approach to protect Human Rights in the digital environment. We created and coordinate since 2005 The National Cybertipline, the National Helpline and the Brazilian Online Safety Education and Awareness Hub. We have more than 15 years of experience in delivering innovative and award-winning programs with huge social impact, including capacity building projects with educators, policy makers, law enforcement officials, teenagers and young people in Brazil. SaferNet Brazil has no political, religious, union or ideological ties, and has proven experience and a long standing positive engagement with the leading ICT companies with operations in Brazil. At the institutional level SaferNet has formal signed agreements with the Ministry of Human Rights, Ministry of Education, UNICEF Brazil, General Attorney Office, several State Prosecutor's Offices, Universities and with many companies in the private sector. Since 2009 we coordinate the Safer Internet Day in Brazil, and our work has been awarded with the National Human Rights Prize, granted by the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil (2013). Collaboration is the key principle guiding our work. We driven our decisions based on evidence-based research and data science, and share our knowledge and expertise to qualify the public debate and contribute to a better informed policy-making process in Brazil. Our core activities planned for the years ahead are designed to fulfill five pillars: DETECT online risks and trends that could affect users safety and wellbeing and timely respond with the appropriate actions to reduce harm and maximize opportunities, especially for children; RECOVER those affected and provide counselling to maintain resilience, improve self-care and restore victims dignity; EMPOWER youths, educators, social workers and vulnerably communities to understand those issues and training the trainers; PROMOTE diversity and empathy to counter youth radicalization and make the Internet a better place for all. SHARE the knowledge and expertise to qualify the public debate and contribute to a better informed policy-making process in Brazil. Some of our projects and programs running nowadays: 1) Cidadao Digital Phase II: a mixture of capacity building and creative labs that aims to inspire, empower and support the protagonism of young people, by train the trainer model, to foster online safety, well-being and media/digital literacy activities for 50k students (13-17 years old) and 8k educators from public schools during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. More info: www.cidadaodigital.org.br 2) National Cyber TipLine: web-based hotline and a platform providing a database and technical infrastructure to support Brazilian authorities to fight online human rights related offenses, such as child sexual abuse material online, hate speech and human trafficking. More info: http://indicadores.safernet.org.br 3) National Helpline: realtime chat-based and email counseling service to advice children, teenagers, young people and their parents and educators on how to stay safe online and deal with issues involving privacy, data protection, cyberbullying, sextorsion, suicide, grooming, harassment and others serious online incidents that could affect the health and well-being. The service is operated in a daily bases by specialized psychologists accredited and officially recognized by the Federal Council of Psychology. More info: http://helpline.org.br/indicadores/ 4) MOOC on Online Safety for Educators: an e-learning platform, developed in partnership with Google and the Education Secretariats, has enrolled more than 70k educators from 14 Brazilian States. More info: http://ead.safernet.org.br 5) National Campaigns develop with industry partners to rising awareness on privacy, security, harmful content and digital skills.

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Education
Entwicklungshilfeklub

The association's sole and immediate purpose is to provide development aid and to help combat poverty and need in developing countries. The affected people should be given a dignified life and a sustainable improvement in their living conditions should be achieved. The activities of the association expressly exclude making a profit.

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Centro de Acolhida e Cultura Casa 1

To be a welcoming space for the LGBTQIAP+ population, always taking into account intersectionalities, such as issues of gender expressions and identity, sexual affective orientation, race and class. To act in the promotion of human dignity and social well-being of all people in a broad and free way, working to guarantee the effective access of this population to social and economic rights, in order to contribute to the structural transformation of society.

Society
Disaster Relief
Global Foodbanking Network

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.

Society
Waterkeeper Alliance

Founded in 1999 by environmental attorney and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and several veteran Waterkeepers, Waterkeeper Alliance is a global movement of on-the-water advocates who patrol and protect over 100,000 miles of rivers, streams and coastlines in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa. Waterkeepers defend their communities against anyone who threatens their right to clean water - from law-breaking polluters to unresponsive government agencies. Made up of nearly 200 local Waterkeeper organizations, Waterkeeper Alliance keeps Waterkeepers connected, provides them with legal, scientific and communications support, and unites their voices as they take on major global water issues together.

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Animals
Frankfurt Zoological Society U.S.

FZS-US protects wildlife and ecosystems focusing on protected areas and outstanding wild places in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

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Justice Rights
Landesa

Landesa champions and works to secure land rights for millions of the world’s poorest, mostly rural women and men to provide opportunity and promote social justice. We envision a world free of poverty. We are committed to a future in which all women and men who depend on land for their livelihoods have secure, legal land rights – one of the most powerful tools for lifting oneself, one’s family and one’s community out of poverty.

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Health
Environment
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Disaster Relief
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry

To harness the multiple benefits trees provide for agriculture, livelihoods, resilience and the future of our planet, from farmers' fields through to continental scales.

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Education
Animals
Wild Welfare

Our mission is to unite the world's leading zoos and animal welfare organisations to improve the welfare of captive wild animals around the world. Zoos and aquariums can play an integral role in all our lives with the power to shape the way we feel and care for animals, while influencing change in attitudes and action towards the protection of our global fauna and flora. Unfortunately, not all zoos are equal and as a result of poor care, real animal suffering is prevalent around the world. It is likely only a small percentage of the estimated more than 10,000 zoos and aquariums that exist globally fall under country-wide animal welfare legislation and/or guiding principles from a zoo association. A much more significant number fall outside any such protection, so despite significant advances in animal welfare science, poor animal welfare is still widely observed in many zoos around the world. Every year Wild Welfare's projects support welfare improvements for thousands of wild animals living in captivity in zoos and aquariums around the world. Our work is helping a whole range of species from large mammals including carnivores, primates and monkeys to reptiles and exotic birds by encouraging improvements in animal care practices to bringing in new facility, regional and national welfare policies and regulations. Through support, training and positive partnerships, we help improve animal welfare where it is needed the most. Our aim is to achieve what we all want to see: a world where every zoo and aquarium promotes the highest standards of animal care and welfare. From rehoming bears in Japan to training veterinarians in Indonesia, our work is varied and vast but we have one focus: improving care and welfare for wild animals living in captivity around the world. Our History Wild Welfare was established in 2012 and has rapidly established itself as an internationally recognised hub of expertise in zoo animal welfare reform, forming effective collaborative relationships with a number of zoos, regional zoo associations, animal welfare NGOs, reputable universities and professional bodies. It is the first project-led captive wild animal welfare initiative that is solely focused on improving welfare standards by uniting zoos and animal welfare NGOs around the world. We play a pivotal role in the on-going improvement of animal welfare in zoos as well as providing critical support to other institutions that want to end unacceptable wild animal welfare practices. We help facilitate positive dialogue between zoo professionals, zoo associations and global animal welfare NGOs, creating a positive international captive animal welfare movement through an informed expert approach and the establishment of strong partnerships between key stakeholders. We strongly believe in a creative and compassionate approach to captive wild animal welfare, and our up to date, scientific-led materials and resources encompass the ethics, ethology, and husbandry pertaining to captive wild animals. The issue of poor wild animal welfare and abuse cannot be resolved single-handedly. However, together we can make a real effort to improve the welfare for many wild animals around the world, and collectively help change minds, attitudes and practices. The Global Challenge The exact number of zoos and zoological type exhibits and collections around the world is actually unknown. It is however believed that only a small percentage of these fall within some form of organised ethical and welfare framework. Sadly, poor captive animal welfare is often widely prevalent within the institutions that fall outside of recognised welfare standards, resulting in the suffering of thousands of animals. As more developing countries try and attain animals and collections that western society has previously dictated, our efforts to ensure animal welfare concepts and high standards of care are provided, is needed even more now than ever. From a conservation perspective, globally, zoos significantly contribute to a diverse conservation effort, uniting to address the decline of a vast number of species and habitats. However, under-developed zoos, often found in countries struggling to manage regional declines in biodiversity, have limited expertise and resources to contribute to these programmes, limiting the value of the global effort. Captive wild animal collections around the world with poor standards of animal welfare can also be participants and recipients in the burgeoning, illicit wildlife trade. The Welfare Problem In this modern media world, now more than ever, zoos are under the spotlight when it comes to their animal care. Societal and zoo community interest in the welfare of animals in zoos is at an all-time high and rightly or wrongly, accessible information means that zoos are more easily criticised on their animal care, education and conservation conduct. Some very poor zoos where extreme welfare concerns exist are increasingly being highlighted within the national media and targeted by international and a growing national animal welfare community. And the welfare problem is real and vast. A lack of coherent and relevant institutional and national regulations can result in poorly managed facilities, exacerbated by poor basic care and a lack of visitor respect or awareness. Keepers within many zoos have basic or no animal management backgrounds, and veterinary expertise and care is extremely limited for the specialist care sometimes required within an exotic captive collection. The result is the continued suffering of animals, frustration and limited training for zoo staff and inadequate protection legislation, monitoring and evaluation of animal welfare management. To address these issues Wild Welfare has identified and developed the following aims and objectives to deliver on our mission and vision to improve the welfare of wild animals living in captivity around the world. Our Aims and Objectives 1). To support a wide and diverse range of zoos and aquariums around the world to improve their animal welfare through on-going training and capacity development. We develop skills in animal husbandry and assessment teaching and sharing knowledge and information of all aspects of captive management while building relationships which can lead to further academic, government and research collaboration. 2). To encourage a global reduction in poor welfare practices and improvements in animal welfare understanding in all the facilities we work directly and indirectly with, and a reduction in acute, detrimental welfare practices such as circuses, and animal abuse. 3). To develop Animal Welfare competency programmes within countries where they currently don't exist, based on international standards that can be used to evaluate, monitor and ensure compliance to high standards of animal care 4). To develop and disperse novel and accessible educational tools and smart software technology that encourages participation in engaging learning programmes on animal care. 5). To develop technical and legislative zoo welfare standards adopted where there currently are none by national legislators and implemented in a nationwide programme. 6). To empower professional and public communities and support globally accredited welfare initiatives that provide long-term solutions, not just quick fixes.