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Can remote villages have the same opportunities as urban centres? Can rural residents have access to careers, clean water, healthcare, education, productive agriculture and communication-without leaving their villages? Smart Villages believes that people in remote villages deserve the same opportunities as everyone else. Remote villages are often "off the grid" and do not have a reliable supply of energy for lighting homes, cooking, charging mobile phones, or powering businesses. The energy sources they do have, such as kerosene lamps, are often harmful to their health. The national grid may never reach many of these remote villages, but other solutions exist. We believe that energy access in off-grid communities is one of the services that can change lives-but only if it is implemented for the long-term and includes community involvement and training. And for development to happen sustainably, energy and other technologies must be harnessed for productive use, and for the innovative provision of community-level services (for example health and education), so that community residents are able to access all the basic services they need, despite their physical remoteness. Every village can be a "smart village." Smart Villages has provided policy makers, donors and development agencies concerned with rural energy access with new insights on the real barriers to energy access and innovation-driven rural development in villages in developing countries - technological, financial and political - and how they can be overcome. We are focusing more on remote off-grid villages, where local solutions (home- or institution-based systems, and mini-grids) are both more realistic and cheaper than national grid extension. But our approach is equally valid in other situations. Our concern is to ensure that energy access goes hand in hand with smarter, more integrated thinking about rural communities, and results in development and the creation of 'smart villages' in which many of the benefits of life in modern societies are available. In our ongoing work, we aim to demonstrate how Smart Villages and integrated rural development initiatives can be created in a sustainable and community-driven manner, and to evidence how this new holistic rural development paradigm can yield superior, lasting development impacts. We are also committed to investigating innovative technologies that can help deliver some of these integrated development objectives - for example innovative agricultural technology, cold storage, ICT access, remote education and telemedicine. We aim to win grant funding, and raise charitable funding, to implement projects to help catalyse sustainable community-led and focussed rural development worldwide, but particularly in Africa, where we already have a number of active projects.

To promote and implement a social development programme for the Anglican Church in Southern Africa for the improvement of the Spiritual, Physical and Emotional Well Being of the Poor and Oppressed People of Africa on a non-denominational basis. Our Vision is to empower communities through an integral Mission including Health, Opportunity, Partnership, and Employment. Our Strategic Objectives are to: -- Understand the needs of the communities -- Develop capacity of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa to respond to the needs -- Create a support mechanism for life-long community development. Our Programmatic Focus going forward include: -- Community Sustainability: Creating a sustainable agenda for the communities we work with. -- Food Security: Ensuring equitable production distribution and sharing or resources for community sustenance. -- Public Policy: Building societies where individuals live and interact with their environment and one another by fulfilling their responsibilities as active citizens. -- Socio-Economic Justice: Mutual respect of Human dignity, rights, and taking responsibility towards a creation of a holistic, comprehensive response that aims to repair, restore and balance the relationship between human being and the environment.

Our goals: Focus on child rights by mitigating violations through legal means, both locally and internationally. Ensure the right to human dignity for refugees and arbitrarily detained individuals in multiple countries, addressing refugee problems based on the principle of personal security in safe and adequate housing. Monitor and document violations involving children and women, mobilize national and international public opinion, and bring these violations to international human rights bodies through legal means. Implement awareness-raising courses and programs on human rights issues. Propose projects for the development of training programs. Propose laws compliant with international human rights conventions. Collaborate with scientific and intellectual institutions, as well as enhance coordination and networking with other centers and civil society organizations. Our policies: are based on humanitarian principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. These values govern our international organization's work when providing assistance to those in need during armed conflicts, natural disasters, and other emergencies We adhere to the journalistic code of honor Strategic vision: A free and dignified world based on tolerance, respect, and social justice Mission: Saving lives and protecting people in humanitarian crises and natural disasters We advocate for effective humanitarian action based on principles within international law and norms, by everyone and for everyone License number W372019653 and serial number 923749527 issued by the French Republic.

World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.

Zahana in Madagascar is dedicated to participatory rural development, education, revitalization of traditional Malagasy medicine, reforestation, and sustainable agriculture. It is Zahana's philosophy that participatory development must be based on local needs and solutions proposed by local people. It means asking communities what they need and working with them collaboratively so they can achieve their goals. Each community's own needs are unique and require a tailor -made response

Laureus' purpose is to change the world through the power of sport. Our vision is to use this power to end violence, discrimination and disadvantage against young people and children.

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to mobilise its members to reintroduce sustainable Sport for All and physical activity practices into everyday lives, using the Designed to Move physical activity platform.