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We build families for children in need. We help them shape their own futures. We share in the development of their communities. SOS Children's Villages is an international non-governmental social development organisation that has been active in the field of children's rights and committed to children's needs and concerns since 1949. In 132 countries and territories our activities focus on children without parental care and children of families in difficult circumstances.

We are a South African registered charity dedicated to encouraging disadvantaged individuals and communities to develop to their full potential in sport, education and health. We are committed to using sport as a tool to develop the disadvantaged and vulnerable youth. We do this by; 1. Using direct sports coaching - for its health benefits, improved emotional well being and increased life skills (teamwork, leadership, decision making, communication). 2. Using sport to discuss critical issues - by delivering curriculums on topics such as HIV / AIDS awareness in a fun and interactive manner on the sports field. 3. Using sport for improved education - by providing pathways to success for talented and dedicated individuals through scholarships to top local schools and tertiary education.

Earth Trust works to give tools to tribals and villagers to farm their land in a sustainable way, to develop responsibility for Primary Health solutions with traditional answers and to give rural children inspiration, skills & passion for revitalising their communities & land. Email: earthtrust@gmail.com

Seva Mandir's mission is to make real the idea of society consisting of free and equal citizens who are able to come together and solve the problems that affect them in their particular contexts. The commitment is to work for a paradigm of development and governance that is democratic and polyarchic. Seva Mandir seeks to institutionalise the idea that development and governance is not only to be left to the State and its formal bodies like the legislature and the bureaucracy, but that citizens and their associations should engage separately and jointly with the State. The mission briefly, is to construct the conditions in which citizens of plural backgrounds and perspectives can come together and deliberate on how they can work to benefit and empower the least advantaged in society.

Fundacion Leer promotes reading and literacy among children in Argentina, creating lasting and positive effects in their personal development and helping them enter the social fabric. Since reading skills benefit educational processes, we intervene early so as to close the achievement gap between at-risk communities and their affluent peers. We offer globally proven reading programs to urban/rural schools, libraries, hospitals, and community centers, meeting vulnerable children's literacy needs.

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.

To achieve medical and scientific advances in pediatric cancer care, with an emphasis in multidisciplinary research aimed at improving and implementing diagnostic, prognostic and treatment alternatives for pediatric cancer patients, while teaching and training other health care workers in these alternatives.

CHW SUPPORTS CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN LESS DEVELOPED PARTS OF THE WORLD, THROUGH GIVING GRANTS TO LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, WHICH WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE EVERYDAY. GRANTS ARE GIVEN TO PROJECTS WHICH RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION, RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH AND OFFER RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THE CHILDREN'S AND TEENAGERS' SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES.

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)