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The Firesticks Alliance is an Indigenous not for profit organisation that provides leadership, advocacy and action to protect, conserve and enhance cultural and natural values of people and Country through cultural fire and land management practices. Firesticks values and respects country, local knowledge, protocols of Elders and ancestors and are committed to providing a supportive Indigenous led network that fosters a community of practice to maintain and share Cultural fire knowledge and practice on Country. The Firesticks Alliance partners with diverse communities, landholders, agencies and institutions across the continent. Together Firesticks is identifying pathways to apply cultural fire to landscape, to help heal and care for Country and empowering communities through mentorship and shared understandings that are improving fire management in Australia. At Firesticks, our purpose is to empower the community in supporting the recognition and revitalisation of Cultural fire through the sharing of knowledge and practice across Australia. Firesticks empowers Indigenous leadership, advocacy and action to protect, conserve and enhance cultural fire and land management practices. We apply our methodology showing our connection to Culture, Community and Country

Many people living in remote regions of Nepal do not have access to primary healthcare, medical treatment or rehabilitation services. Medical care is not free in Nepal and poverty is widespread. Our mission is to support and work with our project partner organisation (Nepal Healthcare Equipment Development Foundation (NHEDF), an organisation that was set up after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, to improve health outcomes and provide opportunities for people who experience life changing injuries or illness but cannot access medical and rehabilitation services due to poverty. Together we help rebuild physical and emotional health, self-reliance, dignity and confidence and change the lives of people who have no one else to turn to and nowhere else to go. We provide funding that pays the wages of three nurses and a physiotherapist, and also funds medical and surgical intervention, pharmaceutical products and medical supplies to patients at NHEDF's Shelter as funds allow. The amount of support we can give is directly related to the number of donations we receive. We also work with our clinical staff to provide ongoing professional development and educational opportunities as appropriate. We are an Australian not-for-profit organisation registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) which gives us accountability and transparency with our Government, our donors and the general public. We were established at the end of 2016. We have two projects under the umbrella of our organisation and our NHEDF Shelter project is the main part of our work. We also accept referrals for women with obstetric fistula and are working with NHEDF to introduce an initiative called Circles of Hope which will provide opportunities for skills training and possible temporary employment for NHEDF patients manufacturing washable reusable sanitary products and incontinence pads specifically made for women with fistula. NHEDF used to be a not-for-profit organisation that repaired and recycled medical technology but after the April 2015 earthquake that devastated the lives of many in Nepal, this all changed. The Director, a wonderful man called Samrat Basnet, removed all the medical technology from the premises and took in patients when they were discharged from hospital way too early to make room for more. Samrat also engaged volunteer doctors, nurses and a volunteer physiotherapist and NHEDF became a medical Shelter, housing people instead of biomedical equipment and providing free medical and nursing care and rehabilitation services to people whose lives were changed by injury as a result of the earthquake. NHEDF had tremendous support both from the local community within Nepal and internationally. Samrat never dreamed that the project would be permanent - he thought he would 'shut up shop' a few months after the quake, and he could go back to being a biomedical engineer again, but patients kept coming. To this day hospitals, community organisations, other not-for-profit organisations in Nepal and individuals, especially nursing and medical staff continue to refer more patients to NHEDF than they can accept. Today, NHEDF's patients may not have earthquake related injuries (though we still have one patient who was injured in the 2015 quake) but they all have experienced trauma, illness and injury requiring rehabilitation and cannot access medical care due to poverty. NHEDF has a Shelter - a rented house - which is located in Kathmandu and this 14 - 20 bed facility provides free accommodation, food, medical intervention, physiotherapy, rehabilitation services and around-the-clock nursing care to as many patients as it can fund in a family centred environment. Everything at the Shelter is completely free thanks to the generosity of ours and NHEDF's donors. Life in Nepal is tough and life for someone with a disability in Nepal is even tougher as people with a disability are generally not treated kindly or compassionately in Nepal. Usually patients are referred to NHEDF following a lengthy expensive hospital stay, however sometimes patients come prior to embarking on this journey of navigating the complexities of medical care in Nepal. Either way, NHEDF finds the most suitable hospital in Kathmandu for investigations, specialist appointments and further surgery as required. Should surgery be required, they are transferred back to NHEDF as soon as they are well enough. Some patients stay only a couple of weeks; others' months, and the occasional patient 1 - 3 years as individual roads to rehabilitation are often long. Our NHEDF Shelter patients have all sorts of diagnoses resulting from trauma/injury/illness. Diagnoses range from fractures, soft tissue injury, amputations, wounds, burns, burns contractures, head injuries, neurological conditions and obstetric fistula. Some of our patients may have bone cancer requiring an amputation, extensive rehabilitation and the fitting of unusual prostheses. Occasionally Samrat accepts a patient who is terminally ill who is simply kicked out of hospital because they cannot pay any more and would otherwise be simply left to die. Patients are either referred or simply picked up from hospital foyers where they are found begging for money to pay for their medical care or that of a loved one. Almost all of NHEDF's patients come from remote regions which are severely lacking in funding, health and medical care. Most larger villages have a clinic staffed by a Health Assistant who has done two years of training and can dispense 35 different medications and do basic wound care and vaccinations, but their medical knowledge is poor. There are often no hospitals for anywhere up to a 2 - 3 day walk, or over the years, dirt roads have paved the way for lengthy rough journeys on a local bus. These hospitals may only have rudimentary services - they often do not have operating theatres, anaesthetists, surgeons or anaesthetic machines, or staff who can use them. Investigative technology and ancillary services like pathology are often basic or non-existent. Many people travel to major cities like Kathmandu to access medical care, and for many varied and complex reasons (including corruption) end up paying a fortune for their medical care. Many of our patients come to NHEDF after a lengthy history with the Nepalese medical system, and some of our patients have spent as much as US$20,000 - $22,500 on medical bills. We have not made a mistake with this figure and put too many zeros in - this figure is correct despite Nepal being coming between 27th and 30th poorest countries in the world and having up to 25% of its population living below the poverty line. Some of our patients are injured working overseas usually in Malaysia or the Gulf and are sent back to Nepal after initial treatment with no compensation. Also, there is no such thing as workers compensation in Nepal. All their savings from working overseas end up going on medical bills. The Government may provide a disability allowance if certain criteria are met, but this is approximately the equivalent of US $44 a month and many hurdles are put in the way which makes it difficult to even apply. As most of our patients come from rural and remote regions they have often sold all or most of their land which has been in their family for generations in order to pay their medical bills. Other patients keep a small parcel and home is a shack or a tent. Many women with fistula live in desperate poverty having been abandoned by their families. They cannot seek medical attention because they are poor; because knowledge of fistula in Nepal is poor; their injury is often not recognised; they are marginalised, socially isolated, often living in stables or caves having been abandoned by their family and ostracised by their community. Many of our patients are in debt to family, money lenders and/or their local community and some of our patients are suicidal when they come to NHEDF. All are in desperate circumstances. Many are unable to return to their pre-injury employment because of their disability, hence the Circles of Hope initiative which will support NHEDF's efforts to help patients help themselves once their rehabilitation is complete. This pilot program will eventually provide skills training and employment opportunities for both NHEDF and fistula patients and help them help themselves. NHEDF will establish a small workshop at the Shelter, manufacturing washable, reusuable, incontinence products which will be donated to NHEDF patients and women with fistula, and also sold in medical supply shops and other outlets initially in Kathmandu and then further afield. Women with fistula, some of NHEDF's patients and many other people in Nepal need incontinence products and none are available other than expensive disposable ones which are only sold in major towns and cities and cost $0.80 - $1 per pad. Our project addresses many articles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and we are non-discriminatory; support children, women and men of all ages, castes, religions and ethnic groups; help alleviate poverty; improve health; support people with disabilities; improve access of people with a disability to earn an income; promote dignity, independence, self-respect and advance personal, social and economic well-being.

As a global foundation, BBS promotes and facilitates excellence in giving and mentoring. We match corporations and individuals, their funds and/or skills, with purposeful, sustainable and high impact non-profit initiatives. Through our work we create responsible partnerships and support a culture of accountability, innovation and greater effectiveness in the non-profit sector. We have no religious or political affiliations.

To facilitate improved awareness, vaccination, testing, and life-saving treatment and care services for hepatitis B aimed at those most in need. To work together and towards a world free of hepatitis B

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.

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The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) is a national charity dedicated to raising language, literacy and numeracy standards in Australia. ALNF develops, implement and sustain a number of innovative literacy programs with tangible results, working across the nation. ALNF's programs address a wide range of learning needs, with a particular focus on Indigenous, refugee and marginalised communities. ALNF's programs are targeted, specialised and community driven. They give parents, educators and community members the tools they need to break the cycle of trans-generational illiteracy. Most importantly, they are proven, with 92% of participating students improving their phonemic awareness, meaning that they can start school ready to read, write and continue their educational journey. ALNF believes that literacy is freedom - literacy allows individuals to access education, participate meaningfully in our society and to have a voice. It is a basic human right.

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

That Athletes With An Intellectual Impairment Across The World Have The Opportunity To Achieve Excellence In Sport And High-Level Competition

Gawad Kalinga Building communities to end poverty. OUR VISION. Gawad Kalinga is building a nation empowered by people with faith and patriotism; a nation made up of caring and sharing communities, dedicated to eradicate poverty and restore human dignity. OUR MISSION. Ending poverty for 5 million poor families by 2024: Land for the Landless. Homes for the Homeless. Food for the Hungry. OUR ROADMAP to 2024: The road to a First World Philippines by 2024 is guided by a development roadmap composed of three stages: Social Justice: 2003 to 2010 We begin to challenge and inspire everyone to go beyond charity and become their brother's keeper in order to heal the wounds of injustice in our country. This has opened the door to major streams of generosity through donations of land and resources to build homes for the homeless, a dream realized through the heroic response of volunteers from all sectors of society. Social Artistry: 2011 to 2017 We move forward to the designer phase we call "Social Artistry" where we invite greater expertise, science and technology to grow our holistic model for development. Through stronger collaboration with credible and distinguished institutions and individuals and by engaging them to use our GK communities as convergence points and social laboratories, we hope to pursue major innovations that will concretely and permanently improve the quality of life for the poorest of the poor, allowing them to attain their fullest potentials. Social Progress: 2018 to 2024 We envision a new standard of living to take a permanent foothold in the life of a nation. This will only be achieved by working on scale and sustainability of what have been established earlier - the spirit, the science and the structure. By this time, a new generation of empowered, productive citizens would have emerged, who lived through an exciting time of change -- moving from poverty to prosperity, from shame to honor, from third-world to first-world and from second-class to first-class citizen of the world. 7 Point Vision Each GK village aspires to become a model community that is: A Faith Community where residents are free to practice their religious belief in an atmosphere of mutual respect and reverence. A Peace Zone where neighbors live in harmony with each other and where conflicts are justly settled based on the higher principles of neighborly love and the common good. A Tourist Spot where the sense of beauty and order is regarded as an indispensable part of dignified human dwelling. A Productivity Center where the potential of human and natural resources are utilized to sustain the growth and development of the community. An Environmentally Healthy Community where residents practice the principles of proper utilization and preservation of the environment. An Empowered Community where individuals participate actively part in governing the daily life and activities of their village. A Secured Community where residents are prepared to respond accordingly in the event of a natural or man-made calamity in order to preserve lives and property. Culture of Caring and Sharing "Poverty is not a lack of resources, but a lack of caring and sharing." Poverty happens when people forget to care for their fellowmen. It is a consequence of our collective failure to be our brother and sister's keeper. Content with our own lives and our circle of family and friends, we overlook the needs of our neighbor, failing to recognize that we are part of one big family. To love ourselves is to also care for other people's needs, to be afforded the same opportunities that have been given us. The GK solution to end poverty is deeply anchored on the values of caring and sharing. Love must overflow from our homes into the world. As a concrete expression of faith in action, founded on love for God and neighbor, GK seeks to restore the dignity of the poor through a culture of caring and generosity. GK believes that by being a hero to others in need, we can bring our countries out of poverty. Seeking to give care to communities in need, GK adheres to the Filipino saying: "Walang Iwanan" or no one should be left behind. As our brother's keeper, we will help one another by giving the Best for the Least, in a spirit of service and friendship. With a lifestyle of heroism founded on caring and sharing, GK inspires and engages its workers, partners and volunteers to give the best of themselves in talents, skills, time and resources to help the poor reach their fullest potentials. At the end of the day, GK is all about caring for the world's marginalized and restoring their human dignity by providing them with a beautiful, healthy, green and productive GK communities.

To deliver the most food to the most Australians in need in the most efficient and effective way

Doing rescue of wombats when hit by cars or shot and left to die by farmers. Implementing large scale treatment programs to eradicate sarcoptic mange in wombats Create awareness and provide training/presentations to educate the public and politicians in the plight of wombats