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The ICPCN promotes palliative care for children globally through advocacy, education, research, networking and communication
Pilares is an NGO that works alongside the families that live in precarious settlements in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina) to promote their integral development through 5 pillars: education, health, work, housing and legal aid. We seek a society without barriers that provides opportunities for the full development of its people.
To serve, dignify, and advocate for the most disadvantaged by improving their quality of life, relieving their suffering, and providing the resources to ease situations of poverty, pain and other difficult circumstances.
Graduate Women International (GWI), founded in 1919 as the International Federation of University (IFUW), is a worldwide, non-governmental organisation of women graduates. GWI advocates for women's rights, equality and empowerment through access to quality secondary and tertiary education and training up to the highest levels. GWI's mission is to: Promote lifelong education for women and girls; Promote international cooperation, friendship, peace and respect for human rights for all, irrespective of their age, race, nationality, religion, political opinion, gender and sexual orientation or other status; Advocate for the advancement of the status of women and girls; and Encourage and enable women and girls to apply their knowledge and skills in leadership and decision-making in all forms of public and private life.
Mission A non-profit organization envisioned to give a hand to hundreds of needy children and to extend the other to everyone who desires to help. Objective to include children in an annual health care control plan, provide educational and preventive health care programs, promote better habits within the community & general school support. (hygiene education and supplies, food, school supplies, clothes, etc.) Geographic Impact We help underprivileged children in remote zones of Argentina. The children we work with live in villages where resources are limited and access to basic human needs such as drinkable water, electricity and medical care are not guaranteed. They walk barefoot 5 to 8 km to school and consider themselves lucky if they get one meal a day. Since 2005, he have reached out more than 10000 at-risk children and their communities We provided food and critical medical and dental attention and taught fundamental health care throughout 15 provinces of Argentina (a total of approximately 100 communities (They are primarily native Argentinian communities with different cultures and native languages, e.g. QOM/Tobas, Wichis, Coyas, Guaranies)
The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is the global network for rights related to habitat. Through solidarity, networking and support for social movements and organizations, HIC struggles for social justice, gender equality, and environmental sustainability, and works in the defense, promotion and realization of human rights related to housing and land in both rural and urban areas.
To help homeless people to leave that situation thanks to a decent job.
Promote the comprehensive professional development of young adults from socially and economically vulnerable neighborhoods in the Buenos Aires and La Pampa provinces by providing them with higher education opportunities.
The main objective of the ASOCIACIÓN MENSAJEROS DE LA PAZ is the care, attention, support, rehabilitation, treatment for human and social promotion of the most disadvantaged and needy groups in Spain and in several countries all over the world in order to promote their full integration: minors, young people living under social risk conditions, abused women, physical and psychical handicapped people, drug addicts, and old people who live alone, in abandon or poverty conditions.
DAC's Mission is to: protect children that have been abused and abandoned by their family; provide quality education to the needy, and take care of poor elderly women. Our Foundation has built and supports: Hogar San Jose: 35 girls between 4 and 17 live permanently at the home. They have been taken away from their families by a judge because they were victims of sexual abuse, abandonment of violence. We are their "Home away from home". A team of 20 care takers, 2 psychologists , 1 social worker, and 1 teacher assists them every day. More than 30 volunteers help them in their daily choresand with their school work and transportation. We all aim to help them recover their self esteem Hogar Santa Ana: 51 elderly ladies, mostly without family, live in our home. They each have a private bedroom, there is one bathroom every 4 bedrooms, and we provide them with breakfast, lunch and dinner. They only pay a symbolic amount. They can get involved in any of the workshops that take place at the home, such as choir, history, literature etc. Our Schools: We have 6 schools with more that 2400 pupils that can have access to bilingual quality education, with extended care so that the parents can drop them off prior to going to work and pick them up when they finish. We feed them, and educate them, completing the official curricula as well as 2nd language (english), sports, computer science. Two of the schools have an integration program and 20 % of their students are special needs students.
The mission of Mujeres 2000 is to promote social and economic development in vulnerable neighborhoods through strategies that encourage equal opportunities and permit people to be protagonists in their own growth.
Work together with grassroots social institutions to improve the quality of life of vulnerable communities. We seek to strengthen schools, social centers, clubs and soup kitchens, through programs focused on education and child health, and empowering women