We are a charitable organisation that has been set up specifically to support projects designed to help alliviate poverty in Africa.

Abigail Ministries provides hope and comfort to destitute families in Kenya by sponsoring children's education, teenage apprenticeships and college courses. It has also set up micro-businesses and workshops for group work for women. Abigail Ministries renovates homes to make them weatherproof and provides basic needs including beds, blankets, cooking facilities, lamps and food. See www.abigailministries.org.

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.

Action in Africa funds education, health and development (both agricultural and industrial) projects changing the lives of the people of Nyaishozi, in North West Tanzania. Nyaishozi is area of extreme poverty with little economic activity, where families struggle to produce enough food for their own survival., Action in Africa funds education, health and development (both agricultural and industrial) projects changing the lives of the people of Nyaishozi, in North West Tanzania. Nyaishozi is area of extreme poverty with little economic activity, where families struggle to produce enough food for their own survival.

Disabled people in Africa and Asia are amongst the very poorest of the poor. ADD helps them to take control of their own lives by providing training and funds for their self-help groups. ADD supports them as they campaign for basic human rights and rightful inclusion in society.

We’re ActionAid. We’re people who are dedicated to ending the extreme poverty that kills 28 children every minute of every day. We’re a charity and much more. We’re a partnership between people in poor countries and people in rich countries – all working together to end poverty for good. ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK's largest development agencies, we work in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over 19 million of the world's poorest people.

Advocates for International Development ("A4ID") draws together the skills and expertise of the legal profession to combat poverty and inequality of opportunity worldwide. A4ID works to build the capacity and resources of developing countries/development NGOs, promoting awareness of social, economic and legal issues that affect development and stifle opportunity.

Africa needs to create 8 million new jobs every year. Most of these jobs will come from Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). AFFORD has developed innovative and effective ways of harnessing the resources of the African diaspora to create and maintain jobs in Africa.

Africa Foundation works with local organisations (NGO's) in Africa to ensure that children have access to their basic necessities. We achieve this through sustainable development projects. It works with locally established homes and schools, for street and orphaned children of Uganda, on sustainable development projects that fit well in their community. These projects fund the provision of food, water and health care for the children. They also provide vocational training skills in farming and crafts and empower the staff and children with a feeling of independence.

Africa Now supports enterprising solutions to poverty in Africa, making markets work for poor people. It supports farmers and small businesses that produce marketable products, and ensures they benefit from trade by promoting ethical trade policies between retailers in rich countries and poor producers in Africa.

African Revival is a charity providing support through sustainable development projects in rural districts of Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi & Zambia. It works where there is extreme poverty and where it can make a real difference. As the UK administration costs are sponsored, all donations go directly to Africa.

AFRINSPIRE supports indigenous African initiatives in community development and poverty reduction. Engaging in children’s education, women's literacy, transferring technology, and income generation, AFRINSPIRE supports local community development initiatives at their own pace. People and projects are supported in Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Sudan.

The Aga Khan Foundation (United Kingdom) is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. The Foundation supports social and economic development projects designed to benefit disadvantaged communities in South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East irrespective of their race, religion, political affiliation or gender.

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.

Amos is an international human rights organisation that works with local partners. These inspirational partner projects are: creating a future for street children in South Africa, working toward peace and reconciliation in Palestine and Israel, promoting human rights for Dalits in India and establishing education programmes in Nicaragua.

The Ampleforth Abbey Trust was formed to further the Roman Catholic religion. It undertakes as many activities as possible involving community and pastoral work particularly for the less advantaged, specifically in this case through FACE-FAW, (Friendship and Aid to Central and Eastern Europe-Friendship and Aid for the World).

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.

AMURT is an international relief and development organisation. AMURT is significant for being one of the few global NGOs originating from the developing world. It has grassroots relief teams and development projects in over 30 countries. AMURT's greatest strength is its wealth of human resource, consisting of experienced, life-long volunteers and local community members.

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the only article referring to the built environment. It provides that shelter and adequate housing are a human right. article[25] works to build better wherever there is disaster, poverty or need.

AACO, working in Ghana since 1989 and established as a charity in May 1999, exists to raise funds and apply them for the benefit of the people of Ashanti Akim, for the relief of poverty, sickness and distress, the preservation of public health and the advancement of education.

Ashanti's mission is to relieve poverty and promote health and development in and around the village of Gyetiase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Our work is sustainable with villagers being consulted and taking part in projects. Every penny we raise funds our programmes. All UK staff are volunteers.

Basic Needs is an organisation concerned with the extreme levels of poverty being suffered in third world countries. Our main objectives are to provide basic food rations and permanent clean water through the construction of wells. We also provide support to local schools and to handicapped children. We give aid to needy people so please try and help us to help them.

Blythswood Care combines the Christian message with practical help for those in need at home and abroad. Whether through filled shoeboxes at Christmas time, relief and development aid or social projects for young and old, we bring hope to thousands in Europe, Africa and Asia. In 2007 we delivered aid valued at £4.5 m to 13 countries and also distributed over 140,000 shoeboxes in Eastern Europe and India. www.blythswood.org.

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.

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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.

CARE International is a global humanitarian organisation working with over 45 million disadvantaged people in 70 of the world's poorest countries. Whether supporting primary health care, promoting sustainable agriculture or developing savings and loan schemes, its programmes promote positive and lasting change and reduce long-term dependency. CARE also provides emergency food and shelter to survivors of natural disasters, wars and conflicts.

It promotes new ideas in voluntary action, focussing on user involvement, social entrepreneurship and young people changing the world.

Challenge Africa is helping people to help themselves, currently working with rural Kenyans to rewrite the future for their children. Our sustainable projects include orphan care, HIV/AIDS prevention and food and clean water provision, training and education. ‘Challenge Yourself’ our volunteer programme enables everyone to make a positive difference.

The Challenge Bolivia 2009 team aim to raise in excess of £10000 for the provision of basic amenities for hundreds of children in one of Bolivia's most isolated areas. OUR CHALLENGE is to climb 5 peaks, with a combined total height of over 30,000m in just 5 days... the equivalent of three Everests in less than a week.

It raises funds in the UK to establish small sustainable businesses in many parts of the developing world to enable individuals and families to break free from desperate poverty.

Children in Crossfire exists to make a significant and lasting contribution towards the eradication of poverty. We do this not alone, but by working in a vibrant web of collaborating agencies, each of us contributing something valuable and unique towards our shared vision for a better world.

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.

Christian Aid works with the world’s poorest people, whatever their race or faith, in nearly 50 countries overseas. We tackle the causes and consequences of poverty and injustice. Inspired by our values of hope, justice, courage and honesty, we are committed to seeing a just world - now. Not just in the future. We believe in life before death.

CMS is an evangelistic mission community working to see a world transformed by the love of Jesus.

The CIFA Trust is a small but highly effective UK charity supporting the work of CIFA Kenya and CIFA Ethiopia to facilitate the promotion of healthy, peaceful, enlightened and self reliant communities. All donations received are sent overseas.

The COINS Foundation funds projects offering relief to vulnerable and disadvantaged people. We make grants to organisations that can demonstrate the investment tangibly improves the lives of many, in a sustainable way. In particular, projects focusing on construction, education and technically innovative projects for learning and enablement.

Community Projects Africa provides support to impoverished people living in east and south Africa. Projects include: provision of safe water supplies, education about Aids/HIV, assistance for families affected by Aids/HIV, schooling, vocational training, and community projects. CPA works with the elders and community councils to ensure that all projects are approved by the local people.

Supporting children & families in the streets, shanties & mountains of South America, CDUK works with community groups requiring external support & funding for initiatives enabling independent living. Projects are researched by UK Trustees & funding is delivered directly. CDUK encourage environmentally aware fundraising in the UK and project management abroad.

Computer Aid International refurbishes donated computers in the UK and sends them to where they are most needed for use by schools and non-profit organisations in developing countries. It works in partnership with local people to ensure that all of its computers are used effectively by communities in need.

Concern Universal works with local partner organisations to support practical actions that help some of the world's poorest communities to create a better future for themselves and their children. The organisation believes passionately that each person has the right to what they need to live a life of dignity.

Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering, and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries. Concern engages in long term development work, responds to emergency situations, and undertakes development education and advocacy on those aspects of world poverty which require national or international action. Concern is currently working in 30 of the poorest countries in the world.

Concern Worldwide is an international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering, and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in 30 of the world's poorest countries. Concern engages in long term development work, responds to emergency situations and undertakes development education and advocacy.

Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering, and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries. Concern Worldwide engages in long term development work, responds to emergency situations, and undertakes development education and advocacy.

Concordis International is a British peace-building charity, currently working primarily on Sudan, both nationally and for the Darfur and Eastern regions. It works alongside those affected by armed conflict in the world, building consensus on the issues that divide and enabling them to create lasting peace and hope for their shared future

CORD assists people to rebuild the lives of individuals and communities that have been displaced by conflict.

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.

Cycle to Cannes raises funds for a number of core charities: The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, The Sarah Matheson Trust, Article 25, The Tom ap Rhys Pryce Memorial Trust and Land Aid. Since 2006, Cycle to Cannes has given over 500,000 to good causes.

Every penny of every pound donated to DAFA is put where it is needed with those who help administer the charity or are involved in facilitating any of its projects doing so entirely at their own expense. DAFA works predominantly in Zambia through a range of projects focusing on health care, education and self-help.

Helping Rwanda The Trust works in a remote part of Rwanda to provide clean water, education, and family planning. The Trust is able to respond to local needs as Deri Rundle is on site for 3 months of the year. All the running costs are met by the Trust so that all the funds raised go straight to Rwanda.