African American Self-Help Foundation
Works in the United States and Africa for children, AIDS, immunization, hygiene and water projects and help for single moms.
Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project
Organization in Boulder, Colorado which promotes non-political exchanges of mutual benefit in medicine, education, environment, technology, and culture between the peoples of Boulder, Colorado and Lhasa, Tibet, and surrounding areas.
Earthward, Inc
An international, nonprofit, non-proselytizing, atheist-run charity dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to victims of religiously motivated violence.
IICD Watch
A watchdog site which questions the Institute for International Cooperation and Development, which runs programs for volunteers abroad. It provides a critique of the programs value and suggests alternatives ways to volunteer overseas.
Ta'ayush
An Arab and Jewish political activist group demonstrates on the issue of mass detentions of Palestinians that also engages in humanitarian aid activity.
Women for Women International
Non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to financial, educational, and interpersonal support of women survivors of war, poverty and injustice.
A Call To Serve
Columbia, Missouri campaign to donate iodized salt to Georgia (state of the former Soviet Union). The salt will help combat thyroid related problems such as goiter, mental retardation and weakened immune systems.
Bread and Water for Africa (BWA)
American organization working to support improvements in provision of water, medical care schools, electricity, food. Works in African countries - Kenya, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Ethiopia.
AfriHope International, Inc.
Organization with mission to promote technology, provide medical supplies and equipment to public hospitals in developing African countries.
Association Multidisciplinary Cultural and Humanitarian International (AMCHI)
Association founded with the aim to helping via humanitarian and/or social projects. Site in English, French and Slovene.
Amigos De Las Americas
Organization sending aid, with a medical emphasis, from the United States organization that helps Mexico. Information on the site includes current projects, questions and answers, background information, ways to help, and local chapters.
Green Cross Austria-Romania
International aid organization. Site provides information on current activities and projects, as well as how to help.
Angelhands of Northeast Ohio
Nonprofit organization that does volunteer driven international charitable projects. Works with other agencies, foundations and corporations for the purpose of service to humanitarian endeavors.
Architecture for Humanity
A volunteer organization set up to promote architecture and design to seek solutions to social and humanitarian issues.
BODHI Australia
Organization working on developing sustainable improvements to health, education, the environment, and human rights in developing countries.
The Burma Photo Project
A photography project documenting humanitarian aid projects in Burma. The aim is to provide photography to humanitarian organizations for PR and fundraising, and to raise awareness.
The Carter Center
Organization founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to fight disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression around the world.
CECI Asia
Canadian humanitarian and relief agency operating in Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia and India.
International Service Agencies
Mission is to help people who suffer from hunger, poverty and disease or from the ravages of war, oppression and natural disasters.
COPE International-USA
Organization working in various ways. Initiatives include health rehabilitation in underserved areas of the Middle East and North Africa, building small dams in Yemen and working for orphanages in Yemen. It also operates in the area of emergency preparedness in the United States.
Creating Hope International
Organization working to help education, health, social, economic levels especially for women and children.
The Danang/Quang Nam Fund
Organization that provides aid to the poorest of the poor in Danang City and Quang Nam Province in central Vietnam.
Voluntary Action for India
Italian association that works to improve conditions of life in rural areas in West Bengal (India).
In Common
Campaign with focus on the elimination of poverty. Coordinated by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation.
Enersol Associates, Inc.
A private organization using clean solar energy to improve people's lives in rural Latin America. The programs include using solar energy to power pumps to make clean water available and using solar energy to power school computers in unelectrified rural communities.
Equilibres et Populations
Organization advocating a more efficient use of international aid to developing countries. Site in French and English.
Aid Without Borders (AWB)
Israeli voluntary humanitarian organization. Offers humanitarian aid throughout the world to inhabitants of regions in distress - to victims of natural disasters as well as victims of violent conflict. Provides assistance to all individuals in need regardless of background.
Fonden
Danish Tvind-related organization supporting research for humanitarian purposes including environmental preservation. Includes background information on the organization and its projects.
Friendship Bridge
Organization which provides small loans to poor Mayan women of Guatemala and Vietnam.
Greater Cleveland-Volgograd Oblast Alliance
A U.S. non-profit organization organized to facilitate humanitarian assistance to non-governmental organizations and citizens living in the Volgograd Region of Russia.
Global Assistance
Provides humanitarian relief throughout the world. Our primary effort is to assist our global community in addressing the need for medical supplies and other humanitarian aid in the neediest areas.
Global Dialogues
Organisation promoting education and communication about AIDS. Offices in Burkina Faso, England and USA. Site is in English, Portugese and French.
Global Hope Network
A compassionate humanitarian organization based in Orlando, Florida.
Healing Hands for Haiti
Organization dedicated to helping the handicapped in Haiti through direct medical care, training of care providers in Haiti.
Heart to Heart International
Heart to Heart International is a relief and development organization that specializes in volunteer action and worldwide humanitarian assistance to alleviate human suffering.
Heifer International
A non-profit organization whose goal is to help end world hunger and poverty through self-reliance and sustainability.
HOPE e.V.
A German humanitarian development organization which has child-focused development programs in Asia and Africa. Has programs to help rural communities, women, children and child health care. that aims to promote the relief of poverty in developing countries through self reliant activities among the rural people, especially women and children.
Humana People to People
Humanitarian organization that has projects worldwide. Has projects related to - education, children, refugees, environment, HIV/AIDS, used clothes collection, and others. Related to the Danish Tvind organization.
ICCO (Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation)
ICCO finances activities which stimulate and enable people to organise dignified housing and living conditions. Includes news, projects, partners, alliances and instruments.
International Humanitarian Assistance (IHA)
A voluntary based independent humanitarian assistance organization with major focus on health, education, huma rights, and the environment. Information includes the organization's history, mission, activity, future plans, defined structure. The organization has its headquarter in Tirana, the capital of Albania.
Institute for International Cooperation and Development
Organization for volunteer opportunities in working hands-on in Africa, Latin America, Central America, South America, and India. Has sustainable development and education programmes.
Maharashtra Foundation
Nonprofit organization coordinating and sending donations to charitable institutions in India. Also, active in the U.S. providing food for the homeless.
InterAction
A coalition of more than 150 humanitarian organizations providing disaster relief, refugee assistance and sustainable development programs worldwide. Links to most member groups are provided.
Padre Luis Jayme International Outreach
Provides material goods such as blankets, bulk food, medical supplies, clothing and toys to missions, orphanages and other Mexican and international assistance groups working directly with the poor. The program is part of Father Joe's Villages, an organization dedicated to changing the lives of people in need.
LifeNets
An international relief organization, includes updates on aiding child radiation victims following the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
Life for Relief and Development
Dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the world regardless of race, color, or cultural background. Offers humanitarian, health, educational, social, and economic services to victims of natural disasters, wars, and hunger.
Light Up The World
Trains and equips social and non-government organizations to install low cost, low energy WLED (white light emitting diodes) lighting in areas that traditionally use kerosene lamps.
Operation Mercy
An organization committed to caring for needy peoples in North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Mercy Corps
Focuses on disaster response, sustainable economic development, health services, and emergency and natural disaster relief.
Meta Australia
A charity set up to help disadvantaged people in developing countries. Meta's first project is to assist children with disabilities in Sri Lanka. They are also currently helping to raise funds for a disaster relief fund to help recovery from the tragedy caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Microloan Foundation
This registered charity lends small sums of money - typically less than £100 - to enable some of the poorest people in developing countries to build a better life for themselves.
Mir Pace International
Provides disaster relief and on-going development activities to restore the self-sufficiency and livelihoods.
Net Aid
Online network of global humanitarian organizations, programs and resources for helping women and children in need, hunger relief, world illiteracy, and AIDS assistance.
Naz Foundation International
Charity working in England, America, India and Bangladesh, providing education, counselling, support services. News, information, projects, historical articles about gay life in India and Bangladesh, consultancy, contact details. (Requires Flash).
The ONE Campaign
An effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. List of member organizations, articles on their issues, ways to help, and success stories.
oneMen
Charity which provides information about and raises funds for "pioneers" who work against the odds and are beacons in apparently hopeless situations. Includes descriptions of the work of these pioneers.
Operation USA
Assists developing communities here and abroad in addressing problems relating to natural and man-made disasters and chronic poverty through the creation of sustainable health, nutrition and disaster response programs. Provides essential materials, training, advocacy and financial support for such programs.
Pathways To Hope
Has four main areas for projects. Assists victims of trauma caused by war, helps the poor in third world countries, handicapped people, and involving prisoners in training dogs to assist disabled people.
The Anglo Lanka Foundation
Charitable, non-profit organisation based in the UK collecting and shipping educational, medical and reconstruction aid to Sri Lanka.
Project Brotherhood Society
A charitable organization based in Canada that sends teens to Mexico to aid those in need. Other projects include international disaster relief and helping the needy in Canada.
Rainbow Children's Fund
Nonprofit organization dedicated to providing long-term solutions for the needy, homeless, orphaned and destitute children and women of the world with love and compassion.
Reach Out International Guatemala
Organization working in indigenous communities of Guatemala. Has had projects to develop health care, a bakery, a power generator, and a tree nursery a food store cooperative.
Riders for Health
Charity raising money for motorcycle transportation for health workers in Africa.
San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance
An organization that provides relief and rehabilitation services for children and communities affected by poverty, conflict and disaster.
Skillshare International
Works for sustainable development in Africa and Asia by sharing skills.
Take to the Hills
Organization that collects and distributes warm clothes, school supplies and basic medical supplies to the Sierra Madre mountains of Northern Mexico.
The Future Group
A charitable organization in Calgary, Canada. This organization works on the frontlines of the world's most challenging issues. It has carried out work to help victims of child sex slavery in Cambodia.
Tomorrows Hope
Charitable organization dealing with HIV/AIDS, mental health, drug abuse, youth development, food bank and international development in Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Tvind Alert
Page critical of Tvind and related humanitarian organizations and companies.
Inter-community Development Involvement (ICODEI), Kenya
Organization working on HIV/AIDS education in Kenya, building libraries and pre-schools, encouraging micro-enterprise for women and providing health care for the people of Western Kenya.
We Share Foundation
A foundation that supports Quota International Inc. for humanitarian, educational, and research support worldwide.
World Neighbors
A grassroots development organization working with hundreds of rural communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Helps people find practical solutions to the problems they face in meeting their own basic needs.
World Care
Independent non-profit organization that is dedicated to raise consciousness in education, health, environmental and community service arenas both locally and internationally.
World Hope International - Canada
A Canadian charity. The website has details of projects.
Worldhope International
Faith based relief and development organization alleviating suffering and injustice through education, enterprise and community health.
The Sudan Project
Project to raise money through selling a benefit CD. The proceeds will be used to provide relief to Sudanese refugees who have suffered religious and ethnic persecution.
Zhuravlick, Inc.
The main goal of this organization is to help orphan children and people in need in Eastern European countries and Republics of the former USSR who were in need of competent medical service and proper nutrition during decades of Communist Administration regime.
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