Girls in the Game has been providing direct service programming for 16 years, with a multitude of programs to keep girls involved year-round and from childhood through their teen years. By exposing girls to a varied mix of health, fitness and leadership opportunities, Girls in the Game aims to not only provide physical activity and [...]
Read more...The Polaris Project’s mission is to combat human trafficking and modern-day slavery and to strengthen the anti-trafficking movement through a comprehensive approach. We gave them funding of £5,000 through our Americas Zone Programme towards the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Programme. What they have achieved with this money is nothing short of remarkable. Please click [...]
Read more...Animals Lebanon works to protect animals through education, legislation and direct action. Animals Lebanon believes that we can make a better place for humans and animals. They believe in focusing on preventing problems before they start through wide scale TNR, which stands for ‘Trap, Neuter, Return’. Our funding of £4,785 through the Europe, Middle East [...]
Read more...AWECA Foundation, Incorporated (AFI) is a non-government organization serving as a catalyst to promote an ecologically balanced environment. They provide resources and basic services to needy children, youth, women and indigenous peoples from marginalized areas in the Philippines. AWECA Foundation have been awarded £5,065 through the Asia Pacific Zone Funding Panel for The School Caravan: [...]
Read more...As Douglas Adams so charmingly put it “Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much…the wheel, New York, wars and so on..while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that [...]
Read more...he Gorilla Organization’s mission is to protect the world’s few remaining gorillas in the wild through a groundbreaking programme of conservation, socio-economic development and environmental education. With fewer than 790 mountain gorillas and 3,000 eastern lowland gorillas left, these magnificent apes are facing extinction through habitat loss, poaching, war and disease. Although the Gorilla Organization initially concentrated on traditional conservation methods, such as law enforcement, in the [...]
Read more...The International Tree Foundation plants, protects and promotes awareness with local communities to conserve trees, associated biodiversity and indigenous forestry. They also work to alleviate poverty through sustainable use of forests and forest products. The projects they primarily support involve planting trees that provide food and income for local people; in many cases, this also [...]
Read more...Street Child Africa (SCA) is a charity that has proven itself small enough to be flexible, but big enough to make a difference. In the last 13 years, it has raised over £6 million for projects serving street children and other ‘at risk’ youth. Its mission is to champion the rights of African street children [...]
Read more...LASI (Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects) is a teaching and research facility within the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, with an operational apiary. The original first year funding made in December 2009 was towards the project research to ‘Help the Honey Bee in Urban Areas’ which aims to help the [...]
Read more...RDA is a national charity with over 500 member groups. These groups provide riding and/or carriage driving to adults and young people with a wide range of disabilities in order to benefit their general health and well being. Chichester is one such group and they offer local disabled adults and children the opportunity not only [...]
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