The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is Africa’s leading health development organisation. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, AMREF runs innovative health programmes in eastern and southern Africa covering HIV/Aids, TB, malaria and water and sanitation. With nearly 50 years of experience of community-based health care and 600 employees, 97% of whom are African, AMREF always ensures that projects respond closely to people’s needs on the ground. It also trains health professionals from all over the continent at its International Training Centre in Nairobi.
ActionAid is one of the UK’s largest development agencies, working in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, working in partnership with over nine million of the world’s poorest people.
Includes policy documents and information; organization incorporates the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and Africa Policy Information Center (APIC).
Over the course of its 32 years, Africare has become a leader among private, charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa. It is the oldest and largest African-American organization in the field.
The British Red Cross is a leading member of the largest humanitarian network in the world – the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. They respond to disasters and conflicts around the world, and help their fellow Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to strengthen their capacity to deal with emergencies and day-to-day aid activities in their own countries. For those separated by war or disaster, the Red Cross puts people back in touch and reunite families.
CAFOD is the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. It is the official overseas development and relief agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. CAFOD has been fighting poverty in developing countries since 1962. CAFOD believes that all human beings have a right to dignity and respect, and that the world's resources are a gift to be shared equally by all men and women, whatever their race, nationality or religion.
CARE International is one of the world's largest private international humanitarian organisations.
Challenge Africa A new no-profit organisation, set up by four University of Birmingham graduates. It works with small communities in Kenya, empowering those without a voice and ensuring sustainable projects.
In 1945, the British and Irish churches created Christian Aid to put faith into action amid the ruins of a horrific war. Sixty years on, we work with church partners, the ecumenical family and sister agencies as well as with alliances of other faiths and secular groups which share our passionate determination to end poverty. From working with dedicated local partner organisations and listening to the voices of poor people, we have firsthand knowledge of the causes and impact of poverty. Our role is to help poor and marginalised people to secure the power to claim these rights for themselves.
Concern works with poor people to empower them to become the central actors in the development of their communities. By working in partnership with local groups, Concern involves poor people in the decisions which affect their future and enables their voice to be heard in national and international policy arenas.
Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is an umbrella organisation which launches and co-ordinates the UK’s National Appeal in response to major disasters overseas.
Develop Africa, Inc A non-governmental organisation founded with the aim of facilitating meaningful and sustainable development in Africa.
ECHO
The European Union as a whole (ie, the 15 Member States and the Commission) is one of the world's main humanitarian aid donors; the Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) is the service of the European Commission responsible for this activity.
EuronAid is a specialised and operational Network of European NGOs active in food aid and food security. It is a professional service provider dealing with the consolidation of NGO Programmes as well as being an interface between NGOs and the EC.
Excellent Development helps communities in Africa to sustainably transform their local environments, enabling farmers to improve water supplies, food production, health and incomes. We support community self-help groups to build small-scale sand dams and plant trees to create an oasis in semi-arid areas of Africa.
FARM-Africa works with poor African farmers, helping them to produce more food for their families. Their focus is to ensure future generations don't have to depend on handouts of aid.
GOAL works towards ensuring that the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental needs and rights of life, ie. food, water, shelter, medical attention and primary education. It is non-denominational, non-governmental and non-political.
This is a scheme designed to alleviate rural poverty in Africa and is wholly sustainable. A Worldwide Community to donate bee hives in the fight against rural poverty in Africa and to increase consumption of African bee honey to benefit health.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) web site
The International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), is a global network of human rights, humanitarian, and development NGOs, which focuses its information exchange and advocacy efforts primarily on humanitarian affairs and refugee issues.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) was founded in 1967 with a mandate for improving food production in the humid tropics and to develop sustainable production systems.
Imaging Famine is a research project that details how famine has been represented in the media, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Its aim is provoke a debate about the political effect of such photographs on our understanding of the majority world.
InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian NGOs. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, we work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.
The International Save the Children Alliance is the world’s largest independent movement for children. Within the Alliance there are 29 national Save the Children offices and programme work is carried out in more than 120 countries.
The Joliba Trust supports self-help development work with farming and nomadic communities in one of the poorest regions of Mali. Its particular focus is on projects to help women and on environmental work for long term food security.
Justice Africa was founded in 1999 and builds upon a well-established track record of achievement by its directors and associates. Working with a network of organisations based in different countries in Africa JA has initiated and supported civil society activities for human rights, democracy and peace in Africa. It has built a civil society partnership with the African Union (AU) and its emerging institutions.
Malaria Consortium The Malaria Consortium is an organisation dedicated to improving delivery of prevention and treatment to combat malaria and other communicable deseases in Africa and Asia. Their website is rich in information and links.
Mask Mobile Art School in Kenya (MASK). aims at advancing art education amongst the children of Kenya, and also at showing another, hopeful and enriching side to Africa, demonstrating a cultural and artistic need and talent that emphasises our common humanity in a different and positive way.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries.
Merlin is the only specialist UK charity which responds worldwide with vital health care and medical relief for vulnerable people caught up in natural disasters, conflict, disease and health system collapse. Each year Merlin helps more than 15 million people in up to 20 countries.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)-Online.
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
Plan is an independent organisation dedicated to working with and for children. It works together with children and their families within communities in 45 countries, to break down the barriers to the achievement of their basic rights, identifying problems and designing long-term solutions.
In 1989 the group of consultants that grew to become Riders for Health began work on developing systems for maintaining motorcycles and fourwheeled vehicles in rural Africa – however tough the conditions. These systems have improved the delivery of health all over the continent. ‘NEVER HAVE I SEEN A NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION MAKE SUCH AN IMPACT WITH SO LITTLE MONEY. ’ - Laury Minard, Forbes Global
SOS Children is the world's largest "orphan and abandoned children" charity.
SDN is a London-based organisation working to empower those worst affected by the activities of extractive industries in Nigeria and to help them to get a better deal.
SMCF aims to promote the welfare of children in disadvantaged urban Ethiopian communities through supporting community-led projects and by raising awareness in the UK. We also work in partnership with other organisations to achieve our aim.
Works with local partners - often churches and Christian agencies - in more than 70 countries, including many in Africa. Encourages community action to improve health care, education, sanitation and food security; provides emergency aid (including in Darfur); and offers loans, training and advice to poor people buying land or starting businesses. Campaigns on debt, trade justice, aid and climate change.
Thatu is a UK Registered Charity supporting self-help and home-grown food-related projects in poorly resourced communities in South Africa. It was set up in the UK in 2004 by a network of people inspired by the initiatives of many communities committed to developing a better future for themselves in their new South Africa.
Transaid's Mission is to tackle poverty through practical transport and logistics solutions. Its two main strands of work to tackle poverty are; Firstly, every individual has the right to access basic services such as health, education, clean water, and food. Secondly,for poverty to be reduced and eliminated, the local economy must be able to develop and grow. For this to happen there must be a transport and logistics sector capable of supporting commercial activity and value added process.
The Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) provides training for frontline health workers in the poorest settings, and develops the institutional capacity of local health institutions. This is achieved through focusing on the goals of our overseas partners and offering specialist support and training from UK-based health professionals. Established in 1988, THET has developed long-term partnerships in eight African countries and with over sixteen UK hospitals and NHS Trusts.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) fights child poverty accross the developing world
Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies (VOICE) is a network of NGOs throughout Europe that are active in the field of humanitarian aid, including emergency aid, rehabilitation, disaster preparedness and conflict prevention.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger.
War Child is a network of independent organisations working across the world to help children affected by war.
World Vision International is a Christian relief and development organisation working for the well being of all people, especially children. Through emergency relief, education, health care, economic development and promotion of justice, World Vision helps communities help themselves.
Youth Alive Youth Alive works in Ghana to alleviate the plight of vulnerable and street children in the country.
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