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To promote the dignity and respect of women and girls, protecting them and their children from the social and personal repercussions of irresponsible parenthood and the degrading influences of slum life. Years of work in the lower-income areas of Venezuela prompted us, 35 years ago, to create 'Alive to the World', an original values-based curriculum, specially prepared by a team of international experts, designed for classroom use. Alive to the World uses positive psychology for each and every developmental stage of growth from preschool to adulthood, educating in understanding the importance of values and integrity, appealing to the emotions and demonstrating their use in everyday life ("Educating Head, Heart and Hand", T. Lickona). Our program, Alive to the World, in fully aligned with UNESCO's Goals for the XXI Century: Knowledge, Motivation and Skills. Seeing the effectivity of the story-telling technique, the anthropologically structured scaffolding and the non-judgemental approach to strengthening the person, family and community in all regions, our goal and mission is to implement our program in all deprived schools in Venezuela. To be active and outspoken in bringing public awareness to the dangers of a growing cohort of young males, with no formation in values, joining gangs, and the corresponding teenage mothers, in the vicious cycle of abandoned street children. To work to end the epidemic vicious cycle of poverty resulting from single, unprepared mothers and fatherless children in Venezuela with a coherent, structured and easily applicable educational program. To lead our team of experts in creating, updating, testing and improving educational curricula for the promotion of the universal values of integrity and responsibility in the modern world, constantly adapting to present challenges. To lead a concerted and special effort to teach the logic of the universally recognized values, and the logic of the Golden Rule. We are aware this need exists as not only the streets become dangerous but schools become ever more chaotic. The objective is to help children to grow in an understanding of the need to consider others, in every way, as they would like to be considered. This is the Golden Rule. To be happy and useful, they must learn to respect others, as they want to be respected and to treat others, as they would like to be treated. To educate young mothers in their children's growing experience focused on their future needs to live with human dignity. To design, coordinate and implement local programs in politically, socially and economically stricken Venezuela to help the pregnant mother, as well as their future children, healthy or challenged. To connect families with challenged babies with international experts in pursuit of their true potential, facilitating trained personnel to instruct and implement techniques and methods of achieving tailored programs of human potential at home. This program is called 'Proyecto Leopoldo'. Finally, our mission is to rebuild Venezuela teaching integrity to children and adolescents through this proven method.

Inspiring Girls International is a global campaign dedicated to raising the aspirations of young girls by connecting them with inspiring female role models.

Taghyeer Organization/ We Love Reading Program is an innovative model that provides a practical, cost efficient, sustainable, grassroots approach empowering communities from low and mid income communities around the world to create changemakers through reading. WLR supports the activism of local volunteers to increase reading levels among children 2-10 by focusing on the readaloud experience to instill the love of reading for pleasure among children to become lifelong learners. We aim to create system change. We create changemakers by recruiting and training adults and youth from local communities to provide read-aloud sessions for local children in safe, public spaces. Each year, WLR volunteers read to tens of thousands of children in public parks, community centers, mosques and other faith-based settings, nurseries, refugee camps, and other locales. We serve diverse populations and communities irrespective of gender, religion, social status, disability, literacy level, educational experience, etc. The training is either implemented in face-to-face settings or via our online platform to allow reaching wider audience of people wanting to volunteer and become reading ambassadors.

Educateurs sans Frontieres (EsF), a division of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), is a network of Montessori practitioners, working with communities, governments and other partners to advance human development from the prenatal stage to early childhood care and education, continuing through to elementary, adolescence, adulthood and the elderly.

Passerelles numeriques (PN) provides vocational training in the digital sector to underprivileged youths by leveraging their potential and willpower. We endeavour to truly develop their employability, allowing them and their families to escape poverty in a sustainable way and to contribute to the social and economic development of their communities and countries. PN's objective is that at least 90% of graduates escape poverty and become professionally successful relative to the national average. To reduce gender inequality we select as many girls as boys to our programs. PN runs three programs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (PNC), in Da Nang, Vietnam (PNV) and in Cebu City in the Philippines (PNP). Over 2100 students have graduated from all centres so far and over 10 000 people have been globally supported. Over 90% of our graduates find employment within two months of graduation and 89% of them worked in ICT in 2018.

At Donate4Refugees our vision is for every displaced person in Europe to be welcomed with humanity and respect in Europe and given the helping hand they need to find safety, peace and happiness in their new forever home. We work collaboratively to help ensure every displaced man, women and child asking for Europe's help gets the support they need to start their new life with dignity. That is, to have a place to live, enough food to eat, clothes to wear, warmth, lighting and hygiene. Along with access to essential information and education. We primarily do this by raising money that helps fund inspiring humanitarian projects delivered on-the-ground by our grassroots volunteer partners. We work together keeping people and hope alive. "Whoever you think are the most disadvantaged people in society, refugees are below that." - Trish Clowes, Donate4Refugees' Ambassador Right now, as you and I adapt to life amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic, Europe's humanity to refugees has scarcely been worse. Did you know that at the UK border in northern France there's no shelter and little food or water for refugees? That rising hostility is played out through police brutality and cruel policy? Meanwhile, on the Greek mainland, evictions are making hundreds of families street homeless, living in poverty. Whilst the Greek arrival islands buckle under severe over-crowding, lack of basic hygiene and appalling food within camps sending tensions inside the camps, and right wing violence outside of them, soaring. Life for refugees in Europe's hot spots in 2020 is utterly miserable. The hope in people's eyes is disappearing, the smiles are fading... Now that you know, will you help? Within this devastating environment our volunteers are too often providing the only lifeline to refugees. Donate4Refugees uniquely brings together donations from individuals, businesses and trusts to give grants and emergency funding to our trusted grassroots partners on-the-ground. Those volunteers supporting refugee communities on Europe's front-lines. Together we're filling shamefully big gaps in aid and humanity and, without the tireless dedication of our volunteers, refugee men, women and children would be struggling to even survive. We're acting now providing very real help, human-to-human, to many of the world's most vulnerable people. We only wish we didn't have to.

Our mission is to transform agriculture to secure a sustainable future for food, nature and rural communities through a global network.

ADEPAPE 69 is a non-profit French association dedicated to people who have experienced placement during their Childhood (ADEPAPE's are also quoted in the official French Family & Social Action code, and officially play a role in social inclusion). These people may be adults who were recognized as "ward of the state", but also people who have migrated and have subsequently been admitted to child protection. ADEPAPE 69 plays a deep role in the areas of insertion, integration and social support. Young and older adults can be guided especially during this critical period when foster children attain the age of majority. The strong bond between individuals, social advisers and members of the volunteer team assists them in finding their way and achieving their life projects.

The Ben Raemers Foundation aims to end the stigma and burden that so often clouds issues of mental health by bringing awareness of these issues and suicide to the forefront within the wider skateboarding community. The Ben Raemers Foundation aims to relieve the needs of people with mental health issues or those at risk of mental health issues, in particular but not exclusively those within the skateboarding community, in the UK by: (i) Providing educational resources to inform people about mental health issues (ii) Providing training schemes for volunteers, and the general public and service providing organisations, to raise awareness and increase the ability to assist those in need. (iii) Raising public awareness of mental health issues.

Sport dans la Ville is the leading professional integration organization through sports in France. The aim of the Sport dans la Ville program is to provide a springboard for Young people by offering support, education, guidance and help to enter the world of work. The aim of all the programs created by Sport dans la Ville in its 40 sports centers is to promote the social and professional integration of 6,500 kids living in priority neighborhoods. Through its initiatives, Sport dans la Ville aims to ensure equal opportunities in neighborhoods, and encourage the personal development of each young person by sharing key life values: fulfillment, work, commitment, respect, excelling oneself, entrepreneurial spirit, confidence, open-mindedness. From the age of six, Sport dans la Ville offers sports and discovery programs that, over time, address the individual behavior of each and every young person enrolled in the program. The importance of being diligent (punctuality and regular attendance) and good behavior (courtesy, personal commitment, respect for others, rules and commitments) on the sports ground and on residential vacations are key to developing an entrepreneurial spirit, and the process of social and professional integration that the Sport dans la Ville initiative wishes to offer each and every young person. Based on work in the field, Sport dans la Ville created four programs to better support each young person in terms of integration and securing employment: Apprenti'Bus - Reading and writing workshops L dans la Ville - Support for young women Job dans la Ville - Careers guidance and Professional integration for kids aged 14 and over Entrepreneurs dans la Ville - Business creation support

The mission and purpose of the "Societe de Saint Vincent-de-Paul - Conseil de Paris" (Society of Saint Vincent-de-Paul - Paris Council), hereafter SSVP-Paris, which brings together the network of "Conferences of Saint Vincent-de-Paul" (CSVP) and Specialized Associations (AS) in Paris, is to: 1) Carry out or support, by any means at its disposal, all initiatives in favor of social aid and action, fraternity, goodwill, foresight, health protection, , material, moral and spiritual assistance, and all charitable works ; promote any action in the fields of food aid, clothing or hygiene and health, fraternal welcome, integration, accommodation, housing or improvement of housing for disadvantaged people and possibly rent or acquire real estate for this purpose ; manage resources from collections, donations and bequests, both real and personal, and ensure that they are spent efficiently and prudently in the service of the poor. 2) Where necessary, coordinate the activities of CSVPs and their works established or to be established in Paris, support their development and encourage the creation of new CSVPs or ASs ; encourage cooperation between the CSVPs in Paris, particularly on financial matters, especially when the addresses of people accompanied in need change, or when solidarity actions are called for at Paris, national or international level; ensure that the various CSVP and AS know each other and meet; ensure the democratic life of the CSVPs by monitoring their development and, if necessary, proposing to the CNF that they be mothballed, regrouped or spun off ; encourage the twinning of CSVPs in Paris with CSVPs in other departments and other countries, particularly those in the developing world, and provide them with material and moral support ; share SSVP-Paris actions with the national SSVP network by various means, including the use of digital tools for internal exchange, resources and sharing set up by the French national council of the Society of Saint Vincent-de Paul, hereafter SSVP-CNF; 3) Raise awareness of the SSVP's activities using the documents, media and tools (logo and graphic charter) adopted by the SSVP-CNF ; to make known and to make live in the CSVP the Rule of the SSVP which puts the service of the dignity of the brother, often called "diaconia", at the heart of their life; ensure that new volunteers are welcomed and integrated into the activities of the CSVPs and that Vincentians in the various CSVPs form a genuine fraternal community ; offer Vincentians, Presidents and other people in charge of CSVPs, training courses, including those set up by the SSVP-CNF ; to promote the thought and memory of Frederic Ozanam by all means, in particular by distributing his writings.

promote the emergence of scientific, technological and economic solutions for sustainable growth compatible with planetary limits