Charities - overseas aid and development

ActionAid is one of the UK’s largest overseas development charities, helping to improve the quality of life for some of the world’s poorest children, their families and communities. We are a secular, non-political organisation working with poor and marginalised people to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequality that cause it. We work in over 40 countries, throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

At Book Aid International, we believe that books change lives. We are dedicated to increasing access to books to support literacy, education and development across sub-Saharan Africa, in some of the poorest countries of the world.

CAFOD believes that every man, woman and child matters. Since 1962, we have worked alongside people in the developing world to combat global poverty and injustice and bring about lasting change.

ABOUT OUR WORK:

Leaving a legacy or bequest to The Donkey Sanctuary can help reach thousands of working donkeys overseas, an enormous task requiring considerable funding.

The charity relies entirely on donations to support major programmes in five core countries, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Mexico, and many other countries through a small grants programme.

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).

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.

Established as a charitable trust in 1919 under the motto ‘Better Seeds: Better Crops’, NIAB recognised the importance of seed quality and improved varieties in safeguarding food supplies following food shortages during the First World War.

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.

SOS Children is a global charity dedicated to giving a loving home to every child. Established in 1949, we now care for orphaned and abandoned children in 124 countries. Every child should belong to a family and grow up with the love, respect and security they need.

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

Make a promise to the Worlds Children

Leave a gift in your Will to UNICEF and help us build a world fit for children.

Wherever and whenever there is war, famine, an outbreak of disease or a natural disaster, it leaves a terrible legacy for children.

Legacy gifts help us respond rapidly for children caught in an emergency and then to build back better afterwards. A gift in your Will enables us to ensure that children survive and thrive. So that every child can look forward to a better life with enough food and water, decent shelter and a good education.

Vision Aid Overseas aims to transform access to quality eye care in developing countries. 670 million people -10% of the world’s population - are unnecessarily visually impaired because they do not have spectacles.
This is due to the significant lack of eye care services available in low and middle income countries.
For people affected, the consequences can be disadvantage and disability. Parents are unable to work and provide for their families, children are unable to go to school and grandparents miss out on seeing their grandchildren grow up.

WaterAid is an international charity that enables some of the world’s poorest people gain access to safe water, sanitation and improved hygiene. These basic services are essential to life; without them vulnerable communities are trapped in the stranglehold of disease and poverty.

At Workaid, we believe in fighting poverty by helping people to help themselves.

Working through partner organisations in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia, we supply refurbished tools and equipment to vocational training projects – giving disadvantaged people the chance to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to earn a living and support themselves.