We are a charitable organisation that has been set up specifically to support projects designed to help alliviate poverty in Africa.
Aids Ark raises funds for the sole purpose of purchasing Anti Retroviral Drugs (ARV's) for named individuals with HIV/AIDS who are demonstrably unable to self fund or access these drugs from any other source.
Al Hasan Foundation: providing sight-saving treatment to disadvantaged women, children and the elderly in southern Iraq, as well as training for local surgeons, opthalmic health research and the establishment of a community eye clinic in Najaf.
AMREF, the African Medical and Research Foundation, is the largest African health development organisation. With pioneering health programmes across sub-Saharan Africa and based in Nairobi, Kenya, AMREF consists of a staff of more than 600, of whom 97% are African.
This is an international membership organisation that supports rural women and their families through education, training and community development programmes. It gives women a voice at International level through its links with United Nations agencies. It has administrative offices in London and organises a conference every 3rd year.
The Appeal funds a humanitarian clinic in Bhopal, India, set up to help victims of the terrible Bhopal chemical Gas Disaster. This is the only clinic providing survivors with free medicines and treatments. It also helps a second generation of children affected by birth defects and the contaminated water supplies.
BirthLink supports maternal and neonatal healthcare in disadvantaged countries, where maternal and newborn care is severely compromised by lack of education and basic resources. Through workshops, seminars and 'hands-on' skills training, based on low-tech care, our aim is to improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
The main areas of focus are: programme implementation among diaspora communities in the UK, advocacy for southern led international development and fund raising for BRAC programmes in Africa and Asia.
Breast Health International's mission is to give all people affected by breast cancer the tools necessary to have the best quality of life, regardless of background or financial circumstances. Our aim is to reduce the suffering caused by breast cancer worldwide and ensure that no one touched by breast cancer walks alone.
Bridge2Aid provide dental care, education and training programmes in North West Tanzania, and run a community development programme for the poor and disabled living on the streets of Mwanza.
The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies. We enable vulnerable people in the UK and abroad to prepare for and withstand emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help them to recover and move on with their lives.
Cairdeas aims to improve the availability and quality of palliative care services in the developing world. It does this through consultancy, education, training and mentoring; and is currently working with partners in India, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi.
The CHCT is a small but highly focused medical charity providing grass-roots aid to stricken communities overlooked by the mainstream international organisations.
Chain of Hope provides children suffering from life-threatening heart diseases with treatment to which they do not have access and we aim to develop paediatric cardiac facilities in developing countries. Chain of Hope provides cardiac care in two ways: · By sending out medical teams to treat children in-country and by setting up training programmes for local surgeons and medical staff in-situ. · By bringing children to the UK for open and closed heart operations as an interim measure.
The aim of charity: water is to create greater awareness of the global water crisis and raise money to fund efficient and effective water and sanitation projects. The goal of charity: water is to give everyone on the planet access to clean and safe water.
The charity is volunteer run and does excellent work providing clean water, food, agricultural development, basic education and basic healthcare in many of the less developed parts of the world.
The Christian Medical Fellowship was founded in 1949 as a fellowship for Christian doctors and medical students. We have over 4,500 members in all branches of medicine, and over 1,000 student members. Our four aims are: • Discipleship • Evangelism • Mission • Proclamation
Clinic Africa builds and funds clinics in rural and slum communities to: 1) Provide access to low cost healthcare for people without medical facilities; 2) Create a rewarding career for doctors and nurses, as an alternative to emigration; 3) Build sustainable clinics that can support doctors' and nurses' extended families
CODRA is a small Tanzanian based charity that operates in the north west of the country and delivers community based projects focusing on: Water & Sanitation; Education; Health & HIV/AIDS prevention, care and counselling; Reforestation; Orphaned and Vulnerable Children; Sports & Culture; Credit Schemes; Democracy & Good Governance
The Community of the Resurrection is a religious community whose members follow a daily routine of prayer and worship. It undertakes charitable work at home and abroad especially in Zimbabwe and South Africa. In Zimbabwe it supports a number of projects including an orphanage where it is aiming to provide a borehole.
The Cred Foundation partners with people in pursuing 'Justice for the Poor'. It partners with 4 groundbreaking international projects: 2 in Ethiopia, 1 in India, and 1 in Colombia. They're all run by local people; since Cred has direct relationships with them, your money goes directly where it's needed.
Crossflow works with partners in Nepal and India to provide health and education to vulnerable communities and the excluded.
Dentaid is one of the leading oral health charities in the world, having supported almost 200 oral health programmes in over 50 countries. In recent years, the charity has expanded its work from supplying refurbished dental surgeries for charitable projects, to playing vital roles in oral health promotion such as establishing innovative school prevention programmes, and initiating various training schemes encompassing disciplines from equipping rural health workers to carry out basic dental care in remote communities to teaching governments on fluoride advocacy and writing national oral health strategies. Dentaid is also working hard to lobby governments, companies and health organisations to adopt more oral health friendly policies and practices.
Dental Project Peru seeks to provide emergency dental care and education to the most impoverished and rural areas of Peru. We travel to the most remote communities at high altitudes of over 4,000m where there is often no electricity or water. Once there, we treat children and adults, extracting and restoring teeth thus relieving pain that they have often lived with for years.
Dignity is a visionary Christian organisation seeking to promote change in the lives of many communities across the world. Dignity is about breaking down walls between those who are less fortunate than ourselves and the actual help that they require, whether that be spiritual, emotional or physical help. We work in any country in the world where there is a need to reach people and communities who are disconnected from God, practical resources or community. Everyone Needs Dignity.
In 1996, the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) was set up by aid agencies to promote learning and best practice within the emergency nutrition and food security sector. Our publication, Field Exchange, is distributed to over 100 countries worldwide. The ENN also cordinates an international interagency collaboration to protect and support infants and young child feeding in emergencies.
Equilibrium aims to become the foremost international partnership organisation working to advance the understanding, treatment and deal with the stigma and prejudice around bipolar disorder.
Facing the World is a children's charity which has been set up by the some of UK's leading cranio-facial surgeons. It helps children with severe facial disfigurements in desperate need, living without hope in some of the world's poorest countries, receive the miracle of a new face and a life free from the stigma of disfigurement.
Families Relief is an international humanitarian aid and development organisation based in London, UK. Established in 1994, they work directly in communities helping families and orphans become self-sustainable and lift themselves out of poverty and destitution throughout the world.
This fund has been set up in dedication of the late Dr Fiona Dolan, formerly specialist registrar in Ophthalmology, Glasgow. It channels donations into a cause close to Fionas heart - funding Ophthalmology colleagues to travel to developing countries to complete cataract or trachoma camps.
The Foreign Aid Service responds to international emergency situations, and helps desperately poor people with healthcare and income-generation activities. It operates in the framework of the Order of Malta, which provides international, co-ordinated response to suffering in the world through its 46 national associations and Aid Agency, Malteser International.
Foundation Human Nature is a non-political, non-religious organisation, working with some of the world's poorest communities to raise living standards through sustainable development, by encompassing health, education, gender, renewable energy and micro-economic programmes, in response to local needs. They currently run health and community centres in Ghana and Ecuador, enabling communities to create their own futures.
FRANK Water Projects funds sustainable projects that provide safe drinking water by installing a 5 stage, UV water filtering process built into a community owned and run facility.FRANK has funded the installation of 4 projects in Andhra Pradesh, India benefiting 48000 people. 4 more projects are currently under development.
Friends of Asha (GB) raises money and awareness for the work of Asha Community Health & Development Society. Asha works in 46 slum colonies in Delhi, India. It improves health and provides support and education for over 300,000 slum dwellers, enabling them to make positive changes to their lives.
We conduct Eye Camps to provide free eye care and surgery to the poor in Rajasthan/India. In 2006-7 the Tarabai Desai Eye Hospital carried out over 2000 eye operations through their Eye Camps. The Friends have achieved to fund the building of a new wing to the hospital in Jodhpur and we are now in great need to fit out the new wing with equipment.
GAFSIP facilitates the shipping of redundant fire & rescue vehicles, ambulances, health and educational equipment. Sustainable training is also facilitated. 10 new fire stations have been built and 700 jobs created . All donated items are at the end of their life in the UK. It is working towards sustainable self sufficiency
THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE RELIEF OF THE SICK IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT PARTICULARLY THE RELIEF OF THE SICK AND BLIND OF PAKISTAN THROUGH THE 14 FREE EYE HOSPITALS SITUATED IN ALL PROVINCES OF THE COUNTRY AND OWNED AND RUN BY OUR SISTER CHARITY, LRBT.
Supports school, medical and wildlife projects around the world with donations of equipment
Gwalior Childrens' Hospital Charity is working to help and provide for poor, needy, destitute, disabled and underprivileged esp. children, women and old, the most vulnerable of Gwalior and Chambal region through Gwalior Hospital for Children and Women, Ophthalmic Centre, General Hospital, Rural health centres and Gwalior mobile hospital to provide a wide range of specialised medical care and health educational services in Gwalior and Chambal region, its slums, rural and remote areas. In addition GCHC supports children in existing schools and Orphanages as well runs a School for special needs and is building an Orphanage- Snehalaya to accommodate 200 of disabled and destitute children, details on http://www.helpchildrenofindia.org.uk
HAMLIN FISTULA UK supports the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - a hospital caring for women with horrendous injuries sustained in childbirth.
Health The Gambia is a UK based charity committed to supporting and improving healthcare in The Gambia, West Africa on a sustainable, long-term basis. It supports the vital work of the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul through the provision of medical and management expertise, medical equipment, staff training and essential supplies.
Health Unlimited helps communities living in the remote, inaccessible areas of countries affected by war or political instability. It provides health education through radio soap operas, community theatre and training to promote safe motherhood and help prevent life-threatening diseases such as Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS. It helps reduce maternal and child mortality through a range of health care projects focusing on nutrition, immunisation, safer birthing techniques, fully equipped health centres, clean drinking water and sanitation.
HealthProm's goal is to improve health and social care for the most vulnerable people in the former Soviet Union, working in partnership with local agencies.
Hindu Society Reading are helping to raise funds to set up and run an eye camp in Rajasthan India in October 2008.
It helps in the relief of poverty, sickness and distress amongst those who may be in need, by supporting organisations which serve the needs of these persons and improve their conditions. Organisations helped: Great Ormond Street Children Hospital, and recently Aids/Bowel Cancer Research, St Marks Hospital, where we donated £100,000.
Interface Uganda aims to provide essential reconstructive surgery and equip and train local specialists. The work is presently confined to Uganda. Volunteer teams visit 2 or 3 times a year. The project supports the training of Uganda medical and nursing personnel.
ICEHA is an international not-for-profit organisation and Registered Charity that engages healthcare professionals to rapidly transfer their expertise on HIV care and infectious diseases to colleagues in developing countries, using an innovative method of clinical mentoring.
IDCS is the only UK based development organisation dedicated to ending poverty and isolation amongst deaf children worldwide by supporting the creation of local, national and global family-led movements to campaign for positive change for deaf children and young people.
International Medical Corps UK responds rapidly to emergency situations providing health care and relief at times of crisis. We remain engaged with communities for the long-term providing training to health workers and rehabilitating devastated infrastructure to bring health systems back to a point of self reliance