Charities - overseas aid and development

Action Against Hunger is one of the few international charities solely devoted to the fight against hunger and the treatment and care of malnutrition. For the last 26 years we have responded to the major crises threatening the lives of people around the world such as Ethiopia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sudan and Iran.

African Children’s Educational Trust (A-CET) is changing lives and giving hope through educational support to needy young Africans. We are run by dedicated, experienced professional volunteers in UK. Our aim is to alleviate the poverty of vulnerable African children, generally orphans and/or disabled - through long-term self sustaining educational initiatives. Those we help would probably be otherwise denied access to full-time education. Africans see education as their way forward and are totally motivated to learn. All our students are locally selected and dedicated, intelligent and hard working.

Africa’s health in Africa’s hands

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 help vulnerable people in the UK and abroad prepare for, withstand and recover from emergencies in their own communities.

CARE is one of the largest global development agencies. We fight poverty and injustice in over 80 countries around the world. Our mission is to create lasting change in the poorest communities, helping millions of people each year to find routes out of poverty.

Your legacy can build disabled children’s futures

The prospects for disabled people - and disabled children in particular – living in poor countries such as Mozambique, Ethiopia, Burundi and Nepal, are even worse than for other people living in poverty.

We believe everyone should have access to HIV information, testing and treatment, so they can protect themselves and those around them. We support programmes that provide these services worldwide.

Emunah cares for thousands of disadvantaged children and young adults in Israel on a daily basis through its extensive network of residential homes, high schools, day care centres and therapy and counseling services. There are 226 projects in total of which 36 currently receive funding from our supporters in the UK.

Transforming slums. Creating homes.

One billion people, a sixth of the world’s total population, live in slums. This figure will increase to 1.4 billion by 2020 if urgent action is not taken to address urban poverty.

At Homeless International we believe that building a home is the most powerful step that a family can take. A proper home provides families with security and a better future for their children. We are dedicated to helping slum dwellers to transform slums and create homes in some of the world’s poorest urban communities.

Saving lives. Building futures.

Nearly every minute of every day, a woman dies in pregnancy or child birth. The majority of these deaths are preventable and IPPF has been bringing hope and medical care to millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women since 1952.

The Law Society Charity supports initiatives that promote awareness of the law, legal rights and responsibilities. It provides assistance to projects that involve the development of law and the general promotion of legal education, such as information for young people on civic rights and responsibilities, and through encouraging citizenship education.

LEPRA Health in Action works to ensure a world where the poorest and most marginalised people have equitable access to health and improved quality of life. By including us in your Will you will help to fight diseases of poverty, by ensuring that access to life saving health and rehabilitative care is available long-term, to those who need it most.

In war or disaster, the skilled medical expertise of surgeons, doctors, nurses and anaesthetists literally makes the difference between life and death. Every year British and Irish medical and logistics specialists volunteer their time and expertise to work with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

Across the globe; racism, increased political instability and violence threaten the lives and the rights of entire ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities like the Christians in Iraq, the Dalits in India, the Endorois in Kenya, or the Afro-descendants in Latin America. In recent years, led by our worldwide network of partners directly representing the communities in need, Minority Rights Group International has redoubled its efforts to strengthen the voices of these communities and campaign for the respect of their rights.

For more than 90 years, the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) has played a key role in supporting the development of improved crop varieties and transferring advances in plant science into practical agriculture.

Making a difference – Technology Challenging Poverty

Practical Action makes a real difference. From helping people to access food, clean water, sanitation, housing, and energy to improving livelihoods, helping them to adapt to climate change and prepare for natural disasters.

Energy – a basic requirement for economic, health and social development
More than 1.3 billion people worldwide cannot access electricity. Indoor air pollution from fuel used for lighting and heating (paraffin, wood, grass, animal dung or charcoal) is a major cause of respiratory disease and kills nearly 2 million people every year – mainly women and children. Lack of access to energy hinders economic activity, and affects all aspects of development – it is a significant barrier to good education, better health and finding a way out of poverty for the world’s poorest people.

No mother.
No father.
No home.
But she does have someone she can rely on.

About VEGFAM
Vegfam “Feeds The Hungry Without Exploiting Animals” by funding sustainable, self-supporting projects: seeds and tools for vegetable growing, fruit/nut tree planting, irrigation and water wells. Also emergency relief in times of crisis and disaster. Vegfam helps people to help themselves.

Make a promise to help fight global poverty and oppression
War on Want is committed to building a world free from poverty and oppression, based on social justice, equality and human rights for all.
We work directly with local communities and organisations overseas to empower people to take positive action, improve their lives and fight for their rights.  Our partners work in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East; in urban and rural communities, in factories and sweatshops, in conflict zones and on the margins of society.

Throughout the world, millions of women and girls experience violence and discrimination as part of their daily lives. For over two decades Womankind Worldwide has been helping courageous individuals escape violence and transform their lives. We help women come together to claim their rights and effect change in their communities.