African POWER
CanadaResearch/Dev
African Post-War Education & Reconstruction (African POWER) is a Canadian charitable organization. We help communities in developing countries to maintain good health and social wellbeing by protecting the natural environment from which they derive their livelihood, tradition and culture and to help them use these resources sustainably. We are sensitive to the important role tradition and culture plays in the lives of rural communities in developing countries. We borrow heavily from these traditions and cultures as we design educational programs in basic and environmental health, community wellbeing and education.
African Revival
United KingdomResearch/Dev
Our vision is of an Africa where all people are empowered with the skills and resources they need to lift themselves out of poverty. African Revival is a UK based charity founded in 2005 by a successful businessman Tony Allen who was deeply moved by the grinding poverty that he witnessed in sub-Saharan Africa and wanted to take direct and immediate action to help address it. Over the past four years the organisation has supported a series of successful development projects within seven countries, and now continues in its mission to provide assistance to poor communities in East & Southern Africa through appropriate, effective and sustainable education and income generating projects.
African Roots Foundation
TanzaniaResearch/Dev
The African Roots Foundation, better known under it’s acronym ARF, is a not-for-profit organisation based in Arusha, North-Tanzania. It was founded in 2007 on initiative of Bush2Beach Safaris to create a platform for inter-cultural experiences through which Western and African cultures combine their strengths to increase the self support opportunities of local rural communities through the initiation of integrated, community based development projects that are actively and physically supported by eco-tourism. African Roots Foundation’s aim is to improve the standard of living of small rural communities whilst protecting the natural environment through the creation of small scale, sustainable projects with the members of these communities, assisted by eco-volunteers and eco-tourism to the mutual benefit of both the communities involved as well as their visitors, delivering an active and sustainable contribution throughout Tanzania.
African Soul, American Heart
United StatesChildren/Education
In December 2011, Deb Dawson returns to Duk Payuel, Jonglei State, Republic of South Sudan to oversee the final construction of the water and electrical work for toilets, showers, sinks, and lights. The 11 girls who started in our after-school program last July are anxious to move into the ASAH Home and School for Girls in January when construction is complete. Our goal is to nurture, feed, clothe, and educate these girls through secondary school, protecting them from forced marriages at puberty, giving them an opportunity to contribute to their communities through meaningful work, and allowing them to delay marriage and childbearing until a time of their choice. In South Sudan, a baby girl born today is more likely to die in childbirth than to graduate from primary school. ASAH provides 100% of the support for nine Sudanese orphans from Kakuma refugee camp (originally from Jonglei State, Southern Sudan) in Kenyan boarding schools.
African Spirit
CanadaResearch/Dev
African Spirit is a nonprofit charitable organization contributing to make the world a better place. Our organization works to help improve the lives of those in need regardless of belief, gender or ethnicity. The charity's general purpose is to help relieve poverty and suffering in developing nations, but has specifically begun its projects in Masasi, a small district capital in southern Tanzania. At African Spirit, we believe that by making modest improvements to education, health care, business opportunities, access to credit and agricultural knowledge, we can greatly improve the lives of thousands of deserving people.
African Stages Association
CanadaArts/Culture
African Stages Association was established in June 1997. At that point and now, there is no other African theatre or performing Arts Company in all of British Columbia. This theatre group was created to fill that void by staging theatrical shows for sharing African cultural heritage. The group works on an Ad Hoc basis using resources generated by volunteers in the Community. Up till date we have had many staged performances of Izabobo, The Dance of The Leopard, The Lioness Can Also Roar, The Surrogate Mother and several African Storytelling Festivals. We also offer mentoring to dancers and dance companies who want some help getting started or want to increase the level of their current activities.
African Support and Assistance Project
United KingdomResearch/Dev
ASAP stands for African Support & Assistance Project, it is a UK charity, based at Mid-Cheshire College, dedicated to the support of education and communities in Africa. The charity was born from the desire of a group of college staff to do something that would benefit a school or community in Africa - the only continent in the world where living standards have fallen in the last two decades and the daily human misery has increased. In the initial meetings of the ASAP group we decided to offer assistance to Befole Primary School in Lesotho. This was one of a number of schools who we considered (taking advice from the Charity for African Education who are involved in that region). All are desperately in need of help (Befole lost its building in a hurricane) but we could have chosen any one of many others – we do hope to spread our efforts eventually.
African Wildlife Foundation
United StatesAnimals/Wildlife
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is the leading international conservation organization focused solely on Africa. We believe that protecting Africa's wildlife and wild landscapes is the key to the future prosperity of Africa and its people - and for over forty-five years we have made it our work to help ensure that Africa's wild resources endure. At AWF we approach all of our work at the "landscape level" - that is to say, we look at large landscapes (we have identified eight of these areas to date). Within these landscapes, we implement a variety of efforts that conserve land, protect species and empower people.
Africare
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Africare helps Africa. A leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa, Africare is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the field — and Africa is Africare's specialty. Africare now reaches families and communities in some 25 countries in every major region of Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal to South Africa and from Chad to Mozambique. Since its founding in 1970, Africare has delivered more than $800 million in assistance — over 2,500 projects — to 36 countries Africa-wide.
Africycle
CanadaResearch/Dev
The concept for Africycle was realized after recognizing the need for a quality bicycle in Malawi. After traveling to Malawi and experiencing first-hand how bikes were used, Africycle embarked on a pilot project that delivered 180 bikes to beneficiaries in Malawi. After delivering these bikes, a follow-up on this project saw the positive impact that Africycle's bikes had on those who received them, and the high demand for such bicycles - specifically in communities in and around Zomba. By 2009, over 2000 bicycles have been shipped to Malawi, where they continue to be reclaimed as tools for change; helping to create economic and social opportunities for people in Malawi!
AfriKids
United KingdomChildren/Education
AfriKids is a Child Rights Organisation, which works alongside indigenous communities in Ghana to improve the quality of life for rejected and vulnerable children. AfriKids specifically targets the root causes of the children's problems, by improving community support services and by providing access to basic education and primary health care.
AfriMAP
South AfricaHuman Rights
AfriMAP, the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, is an initiative of the Soros Foundation Network's four African foundations, and works with national civil society organizations to conduct systematic audits of government performance in three areas: the justice sector and the rule of law; political participation and democracy; and effective delivery of public services. AfriMAP works with African civil society organizations and the Open Society Institute's African foundations to research and publish reports on themes related to governance in individual African countries.
Afrioceans Conservation
South AfricaEnvironment
AfriOceans Conservation Alliance is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa. AOCA seeks to align and partner with organisations, scientists and environmentalists that subscribe to policies that promote sustainable marine conservation and development. AOCA develops and promotes training, education, awareness and science initiatives; it encourage government and corporate policies and practices that provide meaningful marine conservation, and calls upon all people, particularly the young, to aspire to the long-term conservation of the oceans off the African continent.
AFRO-ASIA EDUCARE Foundation
DenmarkChildren/Education
"AFRO-ASIA EDUCARE" is an NGO. It is a Danish association and is strictly non-profit and non-political, and acting within the settings of a non-national, non-profit based goal. The association acts within the settings of Danida and MS Danish Association for International Co-operation. At the time of the foundation of the association (2007), we support school projects in Tanzania, Zanzibar, Philippines (later on also Cebu) and a local public hospital in Puerto Galera.
AFS
United KingdomResearch/Dev
AFS is an international, voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organization that AFS enables people to act as responsible global citizens working for peace and understanding in a diverse world. It acknowledges that peace is a dynamic concept threatened by injustice, inequity and intolerance. AFS seeks to affirm faith in the dignity and worth of every human being and of all nations and cultures. It encourages respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, sex, language, religion or social status. AFS activities are based on our core values of dignity, respect for differences, harmony, sensitivity and tolerance. While helping others, AFS volunteers also experience the value of intercultural communication, develop and practice language, leadership and professional skills and participate actively in community activities. AFS provides life-long development and training opportunities for volunteers.
Afs Intercultura
ItalyChildren/Education
Intercultura is a non-governmental organisation, recognised by the Italian government, operated by over 3,000 volunteers in 130 chapters all over Italy, and belonging to the international networks of AFS Intercultural Programs and of EFIL, the European Federation for Intercultural Learning. As an AFS partner, Intercultura promotes and offers a lifelong intercultural learning experience, sending every year about 1.500 Italian high school pupils to live and study abroad, and welcomes in Italy young students from all over the world, hosting them in Italy in our families and our schools.
Afs Intercultural New Zealand
New ZealandChildren/Education
The unique foundations of AFS lie in the American Field Service, a volunteer ambulance corps formed in World War I and active through World War II. It was the ambulance drivers’ belief that personal interaction and friendships between people built international peace and understanding. This formed the basis for commencing AFS student exchange programmes in 1947. Aotearoa New Zealand was one of 11 partner countries and today there are 52 partner countries within the AFS network and over 350,000 students have been hosted throughout the world.
AFS-USA
United StatesChildren/Education
AFS (formerly the American Field Service) is a leader in intercultural learning and offers international exchange programs in more than 40 countries around the world through independent, nonprofit AFS Organizations, each with a network of volunteers, a professionally staffed office, and headed up by a volunteer board. We’ve been exchanging students throughout the world for 60 years. That’s six decades of history and experience in international education with an exemplary record of safety, security, and service to students, parents, and educators.
AFTAID
United KingdomCommunity/Family
AFTAID is a relatively small charitable organisation which is near unique in offering direct financial assistance in the form of grants, often in emergency situations and covering a wide range of 'quality of life' issues which are not being addressed elsewhere. AFTAID concentrates its efforts and resources directly to elderly people in the UK who, because of ineligibility or, who are only receiving partial funding through statutory or voluntary services, fall through the 'safety net'. When their need is genuine we try to never let them down. We make emergency grants for bedding, clothing, cookers, some essential repairs, alarm connections and other essential items that may make an elderly persons life more comfortable and enable them to remain in the home they have created during their lifetime.
After Adoption
United KingdomChildren/Education
We place children, who are currently in the care system, in stable families and we work with adopted children and adults, adoptive families and birth relatives. Through our adoption agency, 'Families that Last' we help to place children who have found it hard to find a home. We work with those children that are the most difficult to place, aiming to provide a caring and supportive family life for those children who may otherwise live out their lives in the care system. We also provide individual, group and family work for people affected by adoption; those needing support building new families; those looking to rebuild past relationships by searching for relatives and those who have lost relatives to adoption. We work with adopted people to help them find their identity and trace their past.