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Medicins sans frontieres is an international humanitarian aid organisation. We offer medical assistance to population in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflicts, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion or political affiliation.
We work with our members to ensure reliable provision of life-saving cells while promoting patient and donor care and safety
CARITAS AUSTRIA is an internationally operating non-profit organisation (donations are tax-deductible Reg. Nr. SO1126; equivalent 501(c)(3) US organization) under the mission of the Austrian Catholic church and pursues solely and directly charitable and benevolent objectives. CARITAS AUSTRIA relief work addresses the needy in their entirety, taking also into consideration their physical, psychological and spiritual-religious backgrounds. CARITAS AUSTRIA commits itself to providing assistance to people in need which is done without regard to creed, ethnicity or ideology of those seeking help. In its operations CARITAS AUSTRIA is guided by respect for the dignity and self-determination of the people it serves. There are more than 1,000 places throughout Austria where CARITAS AUSTRIA helps people in need. In the areas of caregiving, supporting people with disabilities, hospices, in the social counseling centers, on assignment for families in need or for older people who cannot afford heating. CARITAS AUSTRIA - this comprises its fulltime staff, but above all, also the roughly 50.000 volunteers and each and every one of you who supports our work. CARITAS AUSTRIA's main activities are aiming at social support and advocacy for those in need. These activities are taking place in Austria and abroad, whereas the main focus is lying on national work in Austria. Inside and outside of Austria, CARITAS AUSTRIA always aims at addressing the basic needs of the vulnerable taking also into consideration their social and cultural background.
KITO ONLUS is a nonprofit organization with exclusively purposed of social solidarity, most in the field of education and primary school in developing countries or emergency. KITO ONLUS considers school as the best tool to get children back to ordinary life and help them overcome traumas a conflict or natural disaster might provoke in each of them. Therefore, it recognizes the importance of the right to education, especially in emergency contexts. The organization is aimed to pursue the following goals: Financing, development and building of basic structures in developing countries or in countries affected by famines, natural disasters and armed conflicts; Assistance to people victims of wars, famines, natural disasters, violence and violation of human rights; Designing of basic structures for scholastic employment; Relization of expandable, aggregatable and transportable schoolhouses (or health centers); Developing of participatory processes with the beneficiaries in the structures installation; Increasing wealth of students, teachers and scholastic staff, through policies aimed to improve their living conditions, namely health, nutrition, social services and security of children.
The Ben Raemers Foundation aims to end the stigma and burden that so often clouds issues of mental health by bringing awareness of these issues and suicide to the forefront within the wider skateboarding community. The Ben Raemers Foundation aims to relieve the needs of people with mental health issues or those at risk of mental health issues, in particular but not exclusively those within the skateboarding community, in the UK by: (i) Providing educational resources to inform people about mental health issues (ii) Providing training schemes for volunteers, and the general public and service providing organisations, to raise awareness and increase the ability to assist those in need. (iii) Raising public awareness of mental health issues.
We aim at inspiring young people and prepare them to evolve in a global and evolving economy. We aim at having a positive impact on the lives of more students - guided by our core values. We believe in the boundless potential of young people and we are committed to values of passion, honesty and integrity. We have the deepest respect for talents, perspective and background of individuals and we do believe in the power of collaboration. We have conviction in conviction in the educational and motivational impact of relevant, hands-on learning. Currently, we areItaly's largest provider of education programmes for entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy, reaching the highest number of students in Italy being approximately 60,000 every year. Founded in 2002, JA Italy is now deeply involved the education and business communities as well as with the public administration with the strong commitment to provide young people from primary school to university with experiences that build the skills and competences they will need to succeed in a global economy. JA Italy is part of the European network JA Europe which is the European Regional Operating Centre forJA Worldwide. During all these years we had the opportunity to understand the peculiarities of the Italian educational system and the needs of Italian pupils, also by mean of our global monitoring of different educational systems around the globe. Since the beginning, we focus our activities to strengthen the entrepreneurial culture for Italian kids and therefore the committee did suggest to launch an innovative program about entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity called "Impresa in azione" based on the student mini-enterprise tool (Company program). This program was very well accepted also by the public administration and therefore entered the schools with a MoU signed by the Ministry of Education and it is, since 2015, an official programme under the "school-work exchange" plan of the Ministry. In 2019/20 over 10,000 secondary school students (15/19 years old) followed this program. Today, JA Italia's nationwide programmes offer school students the possibility to live a real business experience. The programmes focus on: career guidance, improving the competences teenagers will need in vocational training, enhancing their employment prospects, teaching them business knowledge and instilling key skills. Students learn together, trying out the basic principles of entrepreneurship and acquiring the business acumen and core social skills which they will need in their future careers.
The Casa Albergo, once a boarding school for orphans, offers hospitality to single people, of Italian citizenship, over the age of 66, self-sufficient with an income that does not guarantee a complete situation of well-being. Becoming elderly means being subject to significant changes and finding oneself having to put one's sense of identity into play again: the Casa Albergo aims to improve the quality of life of its guests by offering, in addition to room and board, all the other ancillary services that they allow you to lead an autonomous life within a community environment to ward off loneliness and slow down the person's decline.
he World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) is an international non-governmental organisation representing and promoting approximately 70 million deaf people's human rights worldwide. The WFD is a federation of deaf organisations from 134 nations; its mission is to promote the human rights of deaf people and full, quality and equal access to all spheres of life, including self-determination, sign language, education, employment and community life. WFD has a consultative status in the United Nations and is a founding member of International Disability Alliance (IDA). At its recent World Congress in Jeju, South Korea, WFD members (136) approved the WFD strategic direction 2023-2030 and Action Plan 2023-2027. Important themes are covered in these 2 documents which strive to ensure that we create access for all deaf people to all ways of life in "a world where deaf people everywhere can sign anywhere" (vision). Furthermore, our mission is to work towards the full realisation of linguistic rights and human rights in all areas of life, with full recognition and implementation of these rights across local, national and international levels. To realise our mission and vision, the following are part of our Action Plan 2023-2027: Building Capacity across the Globe: ensuring increased participation of women, youth and underrepresented communities; provide effective capacity building projects to countries who are not yet members to assist them with creating their own national deaf associations so that they can represent themselves in their countries; Putting Deaf people on the Agenda: the WFD will continue to strive to put deaf human rights at the forefront of all representation internationally, including at the UN; we will effectively promote International Week of Deaf people and be ready to response to deaf people's needs in times of crises, disasters and war. Realising nothing about us without us: the WFD continues to be the leading authority for deaf people and sign languages and has committed to developing resources to assist deaf people raise awareness in their countries. Achieving Sign Language Rights for all: National sign languages are fundamental to achieving deaf people's human rights. We will aim to assist our member states in promoting the legal recognition of signed language in the country and advocate for early childhood language acquisition and inclusive multilingual education policies. Investing in a strong and sustainable organisation: to carry out our mission and vision we need greater investment in our secretariat and regional secretariat, expand our donor base, increase visibility and fundraising activities so that our organisation can carry on its important global work.
The Association is established for the non-profit pursuit, of civic, solidarity and social utility purposes, aimed at meeting the most pressing social challenges operating in favor of underprivileged subjects, with special attention paid to minors suffering from psychological, social, economic, physical and family disorders, through the use of sports, recreational physical activity as a means of integration, inclusion, psycho-physical wellbeing, growth and affirmation of human rights, as well as prevention of social deviance phenomena, by promoting sport projects linked to social development, cooperation and peace.
Our vision: Our vision is a world where animals live free of suffering. With your help we can move the world for animals. We're World Animal Protection. We're on a mission to end animal cruelty and suffering. Forever. Evidence shows that animals are sentient, individual beings who feel pain, fear, and joy. Yet, every day, billions of them experience unbearable cruelty. Putting animals first isn't just better for them, it's vital for us and for our shared planet. Find out what we can do, with your support, to end the cruelty and exploitation of farmed and wild animals. Together, we can transform the lives of animals across the world.
By teaching, creating, performing and programming circus arts, the Palestinian Circus School strengthens the creative, social and physical potential of Palestinians, seeking to engage and empower them to become constructive actors in society and raises local and international awareness about the positive Palestinian potential and its different challenges.
Associazione Etica Antispecista and Rifugio Jill Phipps is a vegan anti-speciesist non-profit organization and refuge dedicated to the rescue of animals in need victim of abuse and safeguard of a wildlife, natural area. Our organization is active since 2016, Currently about 200 animals lives here.