More and more families cannot afford purchasing of expensive medical devices. The sad reality that start out at one once after hospitalization, when the families of the sick member have to purchase expensive medical equipments, devices and accessories to provide the necessary to take care to the sick member in his own home. In many cases, the patient needs the assistance of more than one medical device. Their suffer could be alleviated with medical equipment, but many can't afford it. Light to the World solves their problem by loaning medical equipment for free upon request. The range of existing medical equipment in our branches serves a various population: Men, women, senior citizens, youngsters and babies. Thousands of people are helped by our medical equipment, every year, by a simple registration process only.

LightForce International believes that ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference in the lives of those in need. It was our belief in 1979 when LightForce was birthed and it is still our belief today. As a Christian organisation we are committed to “Taking good news to the poor and practical help to people in need.” In recent years LightForce International has successfully completed projects with World Food Programme, Unicef and Memisa Belgium with funding from the Belgian Government. Projects have been completed on time and within budget. Projects have ranged from emergency aid/feeding/shelter to development of education/health infrastructure/provision of resources and capacity building. We have ongoing projects with Memisa Belgium in Uganda.

LightHawk is a volunteer-based environmental aviation organization that provides donated flights to conservation groups. Founded in 1979, LightHawk provides flight as a tool to accelerate conservation efforts and help our partners make headway in their work. Our partners find that their work is made more effective by flight, and in many cases, they are able to gain information and images that would have been otherwise impossible. LightHawk donates missions across the United States, Mexico, Central America and parts of Canada through skilled volunteer pilots who share the aerial perspective with about 250 conservation partners each year.

Founded in New York City in 1905, Lighthouse International is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to preserving vision and to providing critically needed vision and rehabilitation services to help people of all ages overcome the challenges of vision loss. Through clinical services, education, research, and advocacy, the Lighthouse enables people with low vision and blindness to enjoy safe, independent and productive lives.

On 14 March 1918, Justin Godart, then Secretary of State for health in the military, founded the Franco-Anglo-American Anti-Cancer League, which would later become the National Anti-Cancer League. It was officially declared on 6 April 1918, authorised as a charity on 21 June of the same year and recognised as a public welfare organisation in 1920. Today, as the top funding association for cancer research in France, the League also assists patients and their loved ones, actively supports healthcare personnel, and proactively fights cancer by promoting screening, particularly among populations not in direct contact with public health messages. It strives to offer better prevention through health information and education and other hands-on actions.

The objective of the Liliane Foundation is to give access to medical and social rehabilitation to children and youngsters with disabilities in developing countries. Characteristic of this assistance is that it is implemented in cooperation with local contact persons, through direct, small-scale and tailor-made assistance that supports the personal growth of the child and its integration in society. The assistance concerns (para) medical treatment, surgery, appliances, (special) education, vocational training and the process of gaining independence. The Liliane Foundation advocates inclusive policies. This means that the interests of disabled people are a natural and essential point of attention in every phase of policy concerning any area. It also means that people with a disability or their representatives should be included in the process.

The Trust opened its first holiday cottage for the disabled, Berwick Cottage, in East Harling, Norfolk in 1997. It has been a resounding success, receiving the highest accolades for disabled holiday accommodation of this type from Tourism for All (formerly Holiday Care) and VisitBritain, which has given it the award of Access exceptional under the new National Accessible Standards Scheme and a 4-star rating under the National Quality Assessment Scheme. The Trust's second holiday cottage for the disabled, Denis Duncan House, in Dirleton, East Lothian, opened its doors to holidaymakers on 8 April 2006.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presenter of superb artistic programming, international leader in arts and education, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. As an international leader in arts and education, LCPA takes a wide range of activities beyond its halls through its educational cornerstone, Lincoln Center Institute, as well as offering arts-related symposia; family programming; accessibility; and other community initiatives.

Today, under the leadership of Chairman John B. Beinecke, Artistic Director Andre Bishop and Executive Producer Bernard Gersten, Lincoln Center Theater has been named "the pre-eminent theater in the country" (New York Times). Indeed, through tours, telecasts, films, publications, recordings and this website, the organization reaches audiences across the nation and around the world.

Lincoln Park Zoo is a world of wildlife in the shadow of skyscrapers. Located within a verdant park just minutes north of downtown Chicago, the zoo has been a natural, free oasis for generations of animal lovers, who come to hear a lion's roar echo off nearby apartment buildings, see gorillas climb trees as the Sears Tower looms in the distance, or forget where they are as they immerse themselves in tropical rainforests, dry-thorn forests or spacious savannas.

Linda Open Community School is one of two schools in a compound (slum) about 30km from Lusaka, its home to approx 10,000 people who live is shanty town type conditions. Like the rest of Zambia, the people are poor, under nourished, uneducated, with a large amount suffering from Malaria and the HIV/AID’s pandemic. We provide quality, basic education for every child in the school and develop life skills for the young adults.

We set up, support and help manage links between U.K. schools and schools in Northern Ethiopia, in both the primary and secondary sectors. The core value of our system of links is one of equal partnership and shared learning. By encouraging young people to communicate and work together, we aim to create a real awareness not only of the diversity that exists between them but also of their shared aims and ambitions in a global community. We fully support schools in every aspect of the link, encouraging them to engage in a range of joint learning activities, with the aim of building a successful, productive, long-term partnership. We also offer three-month Gap Ethiopia teaching placements to pre-university students. Many of the schools we work with in Ethiopia are severely under-resourced. We therefore aim to assist schools in identifying, implementing and managing projects to improve the quality of the schooling they offer. This may involve basic necessities such as clean running water, adequate classrooms, the training of teachers in computer skills, or the management of libraries in larger schools.

Established in 1985 as a missions network and a registered charity, Links International partners with churches, organisations and communities in 64 nations. Links International 'links' with partners in the west and in developing countries to inspire, empower, train and resource individuals and communities to break free from poverty and disease. This is achieved through micro-enterprise, community healthcare, income-generating projects, resources, training and strategic partnerships. The result is holistic and sustainable!

Lions probably speak more directly to people than any other wild species. Through art, through literature, through symbolism and heraldry, through representations on flags and national emblems, lions have a universality that appeals regardless of culture, race, and national origin. Lions represent such a strong image to the world that words cannot but fail to express the true level of their iconic impact.Lions represent hope and future, courage and strength, royalty and power. But they are also so very fragile and needing of our protection. We have all failed in the past to protect lions and to do what we innovatively could have years ago. Lions are now an endangered species, and we have watched the decline from the sidelines for far too long.It is now up to us to have the courage, fortitude, and strength to protect and conserve a species globally representative of the freedom and importance of wild animals. It can be done, but not without your dedicated support of LionAid, a charity dedicated to lions and new visions for their conservation in the future.

Whenever a Lions club gets together, problems get smaller. And communities get better. That's because we help where help is needed – in our own communities and around the world – with unmatched integrity and energy. Our 45,000 clubs and more than 1.3 million members make us the world's largest service club organization. We're also one of the most effective. We get the job done. Everywhere we work, we make friends. With children who need schoolbooks, with seniors who need transportation and with people we may never meet. We're led by talented, dedicated volunteer leaders from around the world. And, we're supported by the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF), which helps to fund Lions humanitarian projects.

For more than 30 years, Lions Gate Hospital has been a vital part of our community. Since 2001, the Foundation, through the support of its donors, has invested more than $50 million in new medical equipment, facility improvements, staff education and research. We raise funds responsibly and respectfully for the enrichment of health care on the North Shore, and maintaining open, honest and personal communication with our donors and volunteers.

Literacy India was set up in 1996 as a non-profit organization, with the objective of empowering underprivileged children and women by making them self-sufficient. Literacy India has clearly set the three E’s as its goal on a process of achieving in next decade i.e., Education, Empowerment and Employment. We endeavor to meet this objective through imparting basic education and through exposing our students to a variety of vocational skills in performing arts, computer animation, etc. Literacy India has created an environment where the children are encouraged to develop their own personality.

Little Angels, based in the Western Cape province of South Africa, is involved with various activities, all aimed at making a difference to as many lives as possible in needy communities. We have a number of projects which include day care centres, soup kitchens, feeding schemes and a home for the aged and physically challenged. We help the babies, regardless of their background, religious or cultural persuasions, to pass through quickly, so that they may be placed in their own "forever family" as soon as possible.