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Action Against Hunger
At Action Against Hunger we are committed to saving the lives of malnourished children whilst providing communities with access to safe water and adequate food. We run life-saving programmes in over 40 countries, benefitting 6.4 million people a year. We have the technical expertise but we need your help to reach more children and families. Take Action Against Hunger today – because together we can end child hunger.
Action against Hunger UK is part of the Action Against Hunger International Network.
Registered Charity No. 1047501




ActionAid
ActionAid works with millions of poor people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to overcome poverty and exercise their right to a life of dignity. Our long term work is aimed at helping not just the present generation gain access to education, healthcare, food and clean water, but also their children and grandchildren.
Registered Charity No. 27264198




BBC Media Action
People need information to help them make decisions and to know their rights. But many people in the developing world lack access to useful, timely and reliable information.
BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity. It uses the power of media and communication to help reduce poverty and support people in understanding their rights.
For over a decade it has been working to help transform lives in some of the poorest, hardest-to-reach parts of the world. Its projects reach more than 200 million people in 24 countries where media can be used to inform, connect and empower.
The global reach and reputation of the BBC strengthen its work, but it is not funded by the licence fee. As a registered charity, grants and donations make the work possible.
Registered Charity No. 1076235




British Red Cross
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 personal emergencies both overseas and here in the UK.
A rapid response to crisis really depends on the support of our donors, so regular gifts are essential to the British Red Cross and the people who rely on our help. By donating to us via Payroll Giving, you can help to save lives when disaster strikes.
Thank you for your support.
Registered Charity No. England and Wales (220949) Scotland (SC037738) and Isle of Man (0752)




CAFOD
Poverty is not part of God’s plan. We believe that a better world is possible.
As the official overseas aid agency for the Catholic Church in England and Wales, we work in more than 40 countries seeking local solutions to end poverty and injustice. We provide people with the skills and opportunities to live with dignity, support their families and flourish. Because we are part of the local Church, we can reach people and places that others can’t.
With the Catholic community we put our faith into action to help our sisters and brothers living in poverty to reach their full potential, regardless of religion, race or culture.
None of our work is possible without you, so join us today and put your faith into action.
Registered Charity No. 1160384




Children in Crossfire
Children in Crossfire is an International charity based in Northern Ireland. Through our work in Tanzania & Ethiopia, we support projects focusing on nutrition, stimulation, health care and protection which will improve the lives of the most vulnerable children giving them the chance of a better future. With the support of local people here in Northern Ireland we are able to;
- Fund feeding programmes so that children are properly nourished to enable their bodies and brains to develop normally.
- Provide wells for clean water which transforms the lives of an entire village.
- Train teachers and provide learning kits for children. Children who attend pre-school have a much higher chance of doing well in later life.
Registered Charity No. XR85661




Christian Aid
Christian Aid is a Christian organisation that insists the world can and must be swiftly changed to one where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty.
We work globally for profound change that eradicates the causes of poverty, striving to achieve equality, dignity and freedom for all, regardless of faith or nationality. We are part of a wider movement for social justice.
We provide urgent, practical and effective assistance where need is great, tackling the effects of poverty as well as its root causes.
Registered Charity No. 1105851




Christian Aid Ireland
We are a partnership of people, churches and local organisations committed to ending poverty, inequality and injustice worldwide. We work for and with people of all faiths and none to fight injustice and pursue our vision of a world without poverty. We are an international aid and development agency. We have programmes in over 37 countries to support poor and marginalised people lift themselves out of poverty. We bring about sustainable change, through our development and education programmes. We work with more than 800 overseas partners, local organisations, who are best placed to understand the causes of poverty in differing communities and how to fight them. We speak out against global poverty, inequality and injustice.
Registered Charity No. NIC101631




Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organisation. For over 40 years, we have been pioneering ways of tackling hunger with the most vulnerable people in the world’s poorest places.
Hunger is more than just an empty bowl – it wastes lives and limits people’s potential. It has profound psychological, physical, social and economic implications. We believe no one should have to live with
hunger and the damage it does. We work for a world where lives are not limited by lack of access to enough nutritious food.
At Concern, we’ve been fighting hunger on the ground, bit by bit, community by community, with practical, intelligent solutions that save lives and change their course for the better. We work in partnership with communities , combining our expertise with their local
knowledge to tackle hunger in the long term.
Regular support from payroll giving donations help us to plan this work more effectively. Thank you.
Registered Charity No. 1092236




Crystal Clear Klin Water Foundation
Crystal Clear-Klinwata Foundation a UK-based Charity organization working in partnership with donors and local communities to challenge the traditional approach to assisting underprivileged communities in Sierra Leone to develop accessible, sustainable, community-level water supplies and sanitation facilities.
Registered Charity No. 1124299




Hope and Homes for Children
It is estimated that 8 million children worldwide are growing up in orphanages. Orphanages are abusive, neglectful and treat children as mere numbers. Studies of young adults who grew up in orphanages have shown that up to 1 in 3 will end up homeless and 1 in 10 will commit suicide. These are the lucky ones, some institutions have mortality rates of 80%.
Our vision is a world in which children no longer suffer institutional care. We work in over 24 countries, providing on-the-ground expertise (setting up fostering, adoption, family support and other systems); technical support to other charities and authorities (training and advice); and advocacy (influencing and lobbying governments and international organisations) to ensure the needs of each individual child are at the heart of child protection.
When we started our work in Romania in 1999 there were 100,000 children in orphanages, now there are less than 10,000. We have commitment from six governments in the countries we work, to close all their orphanages. We believe we can end the injustice of the institutionalisation of children.
Registered Charity No. 1089490




International Rescue Committee UK
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. For over 80 years, we have offered life-saving care and life-changing help to refugees forced to flee from conflict or natural disaster.
Today the International Rescue Committee helps people forced to flee their homes in over 40 countries.
Registered Charity No. 1065972




Little Faces Schools Kenya
Little Faces Schools, Kenya is a project started by Sally Harrison after a holiday in Mombasa.
Charitable objects:
To advance the education of the pupils at little faces schools in kenya by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities for education at the schools.
Registered Charity No. 1161130




MAG (Mines Advisory Group)
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation, co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
We work in conflict affected countries to tackle the destructive legacy of violence and conflict; to release land for food production; to increase safe access to vital resources like water, education and health services; and to build a better future for women, men and children alike.
Registered Charity No. 1083008




Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders
Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is the world's leading emergency medical humanitarian aid organisation. We help people affected by armed conflict, epidemics and natural or man-made disasters, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation. We work in 70 countries and go to places where others cannot or choose not to go. We can do this because we are independently funded, with 90 per cent of our funding coming from individual or private donors, like you.
By becoming part of the MSF movement you will help us deliver medical care where the need is greatest, anywhere in the world. Our donors are a vital part of the movement - your generosity and support helps fund everything we do and allows us to stay independent, neutral and impartial - and to access those in greatest need quickly
Registered Charity No. 1026588




Mission Aviation Fellowship UK
In today's 'connected world' never have so many people been so isolated.
Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) uses light aircraft to bring humanitarian aid to people in remote locations around the world. We are a Christian charity that enables medical teams, disaster response, vaccines, and education equipment to reach those living in isolation in the developing world.
Flying over mountains, jungles and swamps, MAF aircraft bring practical help, physical healing, and spiritual hope to those who are outside of government provision – people for whom flying is not a luxury, but a lifeline.
By donating to MAF you are supporting the 1,500 partner organisations we fly, enabling aid to reach people in some of the most remote and inaccessible communities on the planet.
For over 70 years, MAF has been flying for life.
Registered Charity No. UK 1064598 Scotland SC039107




Opportunity International
Opportunity International provides microfinance - small loans, savings, insurance and training - to the world's poorest people who want to work their own way out of poverty.
A micro loan to a poor entrepreneur is used to start or expand a business, providing an income, dignity of work and hope for the future.
This finance is not a 'hand-out', but a 'hand up'. 98% of loans are paid back and lent out again, so a donation to Opportunity is a gift that keeps on giving!
Registered Charity No. 1107713




ORBIS
ORBIS is a non-profit organisation dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness in developing countries.
Since 1982, we’ve been to over 90 countries, trained 385,000 health care professionals and provided eye care to more than 15 million people. But there are still 39 million blind people in the world – and 80% don’t need to be. That is why, with the help of over 500 medical volunteers and our unique Flying Eye Hospital, we train eye care specialists in developing countries to prevent and treat avoidable blindness, allowing people to work, children to go to school and potentially break free from the cycle of poverty.
Registered Charity No. 1061352




Oxfam GB
Oxfam is a global movement of people who won’t live with the injustice of poverty.
Together we save and rebuild lives in disasters. We help people build better lives for themselves. We speak out on the big issues that keep people poor, like inequality, discrimination against women and climate change.
And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can live without poverty.
Registered Charity No. England and Wales (no 202918) and Scotland (SC039042).




Oxfam Ireland
Oxfam Ireland works with people to overcome poverty and injustice worldwide.
Oxfam Ireland currently focuses its long-term development work in East, Central and Southern Africa. Our development programme aims to support the poorest communities in Africa in a way that avoids dependency.
We help people to help themselves, accessing their basic rights to a secure livelihood, shelter, clean water, education and healthcare. We work with local partner organizations and campaign on behalf of the worlds poor. We have a particular focus on supporting women in all our programmes.
Oxfam Ireland responds to humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters around the world – wherever they happen. In the last 10 years, Oxfam Ireland has helped to rebuild lives in over 30 emergencies around the world. Oxfam is internationally renowned as a provider of clean, life-saving water and sanitation facilities in emergency situations.
Registered Charity No. 33800




Peace Direct
Peace Direct works to stop conflict and save lives. Every week 1,000 people will die in wars and up to 15,000 more will die from related causes like malnutrition. This has to stop.
We support local people to find their own solutions to conflict. In the world’s most fragile countries, we seek out dynamic local people who are making a real difference, building peace in the heart of their own communities. They are disarming rebels, resettling refugees, protecting the vulnerable, uniting communities and restarting economies. They work at great personal risk to prevent, resolve and heal conflicts, and break the cycles of violence.
Local people understand the causes of conflict and what needs to be done to stop it. And they refuse to give up on peace, because it’s where they live and raise their families.
Your gift will support them as they stop violence and save lives.
Registered Charity No. 1123241




Plan
We work with some of the world's poorest children, in countries where one out of five die before the age of five, and those who survive often go hungry and have no chance of learning to read or write. We sit down with these children, their parents and the community to plan practical ways to provide all the things we take for granted, so that together we build schools, drill wells, train health workers and help families support themselves.
We seek to ensure that children are actively involved in the decision-making process, working with adults who have learnt to value their contribution. This work is possible because a million people across the world sponsor a child with Plan and in doing so benefit many other children and entire communities. The aim is that when we leave 10-15 years later the children have a better start in life, know their rights and have the confidence to claim them for the next generation. Their energy can provide the impetus to change their world.
Registered Charity No. 276035




Practical Action
Our strength is our approach: we find out what people are doing and help them to do it better.
Through technology we enable poor communities to build on their skills and knowledge to produce sustainable and practical solutions - transforming their lives forever and protecting the world around them.
By doing this each year we help over a million people break out of the cycle of poverty ... for good.
Registered Charity No. 247257




Prisoners Abroad
Every year thousands of British people are detained in over 100 countries – often in horrific conditions which can cause severe physical and mental suffering. We assist British citizens during their incarceration and when they return to the UK, and we also support their family and friends throughout the trauma.
Prisoners Abroad is the only UK charity caring for British citizens in this way. Our services provide a lifeline to 1,700 prisoners a year, many of whom face extreme isolation and malnutrition. We support over 1,500 family members in the UK, helping them to better cope with the ordeal of having a loved one in prison overseas. We also provide a crisis service for over 150 ex-prisoners each year, who arrive in the UK with nothing and nowhere to go, to ensure they have a place to live and help to get back on their feet.
We are non-judgmental and provide assistance regardless of the stage of the legal process or the verdict, because we believe that people in prison should retain their human rights and dignity – wherever they are in the world, whatever their sentence.
Registered Charity No. 1093710




Safe Child Thailand
Safe Child Thailand supports children in Thailand who face the biggest risk and threat to their wellbeing. We support children who are orphaned; abandoned; living with disabilities; HIV+; victims of trafficking and exploitation; refugees; and migrant children from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.
With your help, we provide a home, education and future to over 4,000 children, and reach out to thousands more through health and nutrition projects.
We receive no statutory funding and, therefore, depend on regular donor support.
Registered Charity No. 1085407




Sense International
Sense International is a leading global charity supporting people with deafblindness in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Nepal, Peru, Romania, Tanzania and Uganda. Children with deafblindness in these countries desperately need to receive education and healthcare. Without this, many will lead short, lonely lives.
For over 20 years we have been working in partnership with local organisations to provide expert support and services to people with deafblindness. We demonstrate to governments that people with deafblindness are worth investing in. And we put support in place so that we can walk away and leave solid expertise behind.
With this support, children with deafblindness can learn to communicate, to develop self-care skills, receive an education and perhaps find a job. Rather than being excluded they can thrive and live as valued human beings.
Registered Charity No. 1076497




Sightsavers
Registered Charity No. 207544 and SC038110




Village Aid Africa
Village Aid is an international development charity that has been working successfully with rural organisations in West Africa since 1989. Working with 8 partner organisations in five West African countries we have a unique approach to development and believe that:
- African people are best able to deal with their own problems
- African communities should set the agenda for their own development
- Small scale is often the right scale
- People in the UK care about ending poverty in Africa and can show their commitment to this by supporting Village Aid
We invest in people – Africans who work towards a better future for their communities.
By making a monthly donation from your salary you can ensure that we can continue to support our partners – you'll make more of a difference than you can imagine.
Registered Charity No. 1067322



WaterAid
WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities. We work with partners and influence decision-makers to maximise our impact.
An international non-governmental organisation focused exclusively on improving poor people’s access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in the developing countries. WaterAid believes access to essential are vital for health, education and livelihoods, and form the first steps in overcoming poverty.
Registered Charity No. 288701 and SCO39479




Worldwide People for People
People for People is a group of 4 charities who work together to improve the lives of communities in the developing world.
Registered Charity No. 297118


