Action Against Hunger is an international humanitarian organisation, working in 43 of the world’s poorest countries. Its vocation is to save lives, especially those of malnourished children and to work with vulnerable populations to preserve and restore their livelihoods with dignity.

Advantage Africa supports inspirational people in Africa to overcome poverty and disadvantage. Working in close partnership with determined individuals and community groups, Advantage Africa helps create new opportunities for people affected by injustice, poverty, disability and HIV/AIDS to improve their lives.

Africa Link seeks to do two things To raise awareness of the issues facing those people in Africa who have to deal with extreme poverty on a daily basis. 2. To provide resources to those people to enable them to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty.

African Prisons Project (APP) is a young charity founded to improve the welfare, health and education of detainees in Africa. They aim to restore the dignity of prisoners by providing humane conditions and improving welfare, access to medical facilities and the opportunity to learn. Their principal projects are the creation or refurbishment of prison clinics and libraries.

Akamba Aid works among poor rural communities in N.E. Kenya, relieving poverty by supporting primary and secondary education and affordable health care. It encourages self-help among local families, providing access to safe water and training seminars for the subsistence farmers, and assisting in construction of community buildings.

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.

The Association of Argentine Professionals in the United Kingdom is a registered charity whose main objective is to relieve people who are in need, advance education and preserve and protect the good health of people living in Argentina.

BHS are helping to raise funds for Anandpur Eye Hospital in India. This hospital provides FREE Eyecare/Surgery, General medical care, Gynaecological care, Education, Employment, Food/Clothes distribution to the poor. They run rural development programmes in attempt to reduce poverty and restore health. We need funds to support their worthy activities!

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.

BLA aims to break the cycle of poverty in Southern Africa through supporting a range of projects focusing on varying needs including health,education and skills development.All projects funded by BLA are carefully monitored to ensure accountability,efficiency and effectiveness.

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.

We want young people in rural Africa to have access to good education and earn a decent wage. We make this happen by building schools (walls, roofs, windows, chalk, footballs, training, toilets and even first aid kits), building businesses (helping to get young people set up with a winning business idea) and building farms. Every day we see that young people can do amazing things. Help more young people to be amazing. Visit www.build-africa.org. Build Africa was formerly known as International Care & Relief (ICR)

Striving towards and actively assisting in the financial stability, educational fulfillment, physical well-being and cultural enrichment of the rural communities in Haryana.

CAMEO-Aid delivers medical and educational aid to the poor in the third world. It promotes better health through the development of clean water and improved sanitation

Educating girls and women is widely recognised as the single most powerful weapon in the fight against poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Since 1993, the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) has been supporting girls through school in some of the poorest rural areas of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania. In 2005, more than 246,000 children benefited from CAMFED's programme of educational support, helping them to leave behind a life of poverty.

Charlotte Wilson was killed in Burundi in December 2000. She had been working as a school teacher in neighbouring Rwanda. The Charlotte Wilson Memorial Fund was established by Charlotte’s family and friends and supports projects in Rwanda and Burundi, focussing on three key areas: Education, Health and Peace building.

The children of Swaziland is a UK registered charity whose aims are to provide support to the women and children in Swaziland who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

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

The Emergency and Reconstruction Fund has been established to help projects in countries where the environmental and public health infrastructure has broken down (or barely exists) due to natural disaster or political upheaval.

Crossflow works with partners in Nepal and India to provide health and education to vulnerable communities and the excluded.

Cure International transforms the lives of disabled, disfigured and injured children in the developing world through surgery and healing, providing a network of specialty childrens hospitals in countries with the most need.

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.

Our first project aims to provide a sustainable water source for a community of 5000 in Kenya. The community is facing severe water shortages and rely on dirty water in the rainy season and have to walk 20 km a day to collect water.

The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) is a UK registered, international non-profit organisation that exists to empower people infected, affected and at risk of HIV/AIDS. To alleviate their physical, emotional and financial hardship, enabling them to improve their quality of life, live with dignity and exercise self-determination. The charity was established in 1993 by Sir Elton John. The Elton John AIDS Foundation (UK) is the largest independent funder of HIV/AIDS projects within the United Kingdom. During 2005, we awarded grants totalling over £1 million to support 39 UK projects. The Foundation is currently supporting 128 projects in 17 countries.

Enable Ethiopia helps rural villagers in Ethiopia by providing funding for projects such as water points and healthcare. It is run by volunteers to maximise all contributions to the region. It works with the local people who select the projects and provide the labour, and we raise the funds and pay for materials and technical assistance...simple, but effective.

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.

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.

FRANK Water Projects funds sustainable projects that provide safe, clean drinking water by installing ultra violet and reverse osmosis water filtering technology which is built into a community owned and run facility. FRANK has funded the installation of over 10 projects in Andhra Pradesh, India benefiting over 100,000 people. Many more projects are currently under development, please visit our website www.frankwaterprojects.org for more information. Charity Registration No 1121273

Friends In Action Northern Ireland are currently drilling water wells for remote people groups in Burkina Faso, West Africa. We work with other charities and missions to provide much needed clean fresh potable water supplies in remote village level environments.

The GEN Initiative is a newly registered non-political UK-based charitable organisation. We work with Indian-based voluntary organisations to contribute to the elimination of poverty in rural India. Together we enable some of India's most disadvantaged villagers - those that live on less than £0.50p per day - to help themselves improve the quality of their lives.

The charity aims to provide sources of water to underpriveliged children and adults in remote villages in Ghana through the construction of water boreholes and water tanks. By doing so it is hoped that villagers' health, education and lifestyles will be greatly improved and water bourne disease eradicated.

Gorta’s mission is to work for a world free from the injustices of chronic hunger, poverty and disease, having special regard for the plight of children and the empowerment of women. Gorta establishes partnerships with local communities to ensure that their needs are met in a holistic and sustainable way.

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.

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.

Since 1991 Hospice Care Kenya has helped hospices in Kenya by supporting their provision of palliative care to patients dying from terminal illnesses, including HIV/AIDS. Qualified doctors and other health professionals bring care and comfort to those who would otherwise suffer. HCK's priorities are staff training, provision of drugs, and vehicles for medical staff to make home visits to patients.

HoverAid hovercraft reach remote rural communities in the developing world, enabling aid, development, relief, and church organisations to reach people who are otherwise completely inaccessible. It's a vital link, bringing hope to communities along shallow rivers, through swamps, and during floods; transporting doctors, enabling education programmes, and supporting local initiatives.

The Initiative Foundation supports individuals and communities in the developing world to realize their potential through education, healthcare and small business training programmes. In particular we are active in Cambodia, Russia and sub-Saharan Africa.

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

It helps provide poverty relief, education, medical help in Uganda and evangelism in UK

Karuna supports educational, health and cultural projects in India that are helping thousands of so-called ‘ex-untouchables’ to develop the self-confidence to take control of their lives.

Working in Ndhiwa (Western Kenya) it helps children and the sick including those affected by HIV / Aids. It has built schools, provided access to clean water and sanitation, provided services at the Acorn Community Hospital. Through an educational school exchange programme has facilitated the provision of a resource centre. It has built a nursery.

Kenyan Orphan project is an organisation to help the people of western Kenya in the fight against poverty and disease. It coordinates student volunteer groups to help the vulnerable and weak and organises free medical camps to assist the sick.

KIDS FOR KIDS helps deprived children in Sudan, working to provide long term, self-sustainable projects in remote North Darfur. Goats are lent to provide essential food and produce kids; hand-pumps are installed; donkeys are lent to carry water; we train paravets and midwives; irrigation and tree planting schemes are planned.

The Kilimatinde Trust assists the poorest region (Singida) in Tanzania in education, health and development. Thier current projects include water treatment and water pumps, building a hospital infusion unit, building an equiping a school computer room and supporting HIV/AIDS orphans. In the last 10 they have buiilt a dam and a number of school and hospital buildings and facilitate visits.

LA VIDA - Vital Investment for Development Aid in Latin America has been established to raise money for specific health and education projects throughout Latin America. The charity aims to preserve and protect health, relieve sickness and poverty, and advance education.