Archive for October, 2009
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The Russ Foundation
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
The Russ Foundation is a charity located in Tamil Nadu, in the South of India. It is a very small organisation that works with both rural and urban communities to combat AIDS. They both aim to help sufferers of AIDS, as well as preventing the spread of the illness. They are also committed to helping [...]
Unatsi Foundation
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
The Unatsi Foundation’s mission is to provide a shelter and safe haven to orphans and protect them from the hunger, poverty, danger, and neglect to which orphans are exposed. They are working tirelessly to progress plans to build a safe and secure home for the neediest orphans that adopts best practices to advance the rights [...]
Water Aid
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
WaterAid currently works in 17 countries worldwide, establishing sustainable water supplies and latrines close to homes. It also lobbies governments to improve water and sanitation policies to help ensure their priority in poverty reduction plans. Their current intention is to halve the number of people without access to safe water and sanitation by 2015, and [...]
Wings of Hope
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.thewingsofhope.org The Wings of Hope Children’s Charity provides free education to underprivileged children in developing countries (India and Malawi), and works with UK students from all backgrounds to ripen key transferable skills, essential to life. They have only been established since 2003, but since then The Wings of Hope have made huge impacts overseas and [...]
Asthma UK
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.asthma.org.uk Asthma UK aim to provide children and adults with asthma with life-saving information. 5.4 million people in the UK are affected by asthma, with one person dying every seven hours from asthma. The charity works with people with asthma, health professionals and researchers to develop and share expertise to help people increase their understanding [...]
Caudwell Children
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.caudwellchildren.com Caudwell Children transforms the lives of sick and disabled children aged 0-18, catering for over 160 different medical conditions. They provide equipment, treatment and therapies, as well as organising an annual Destination Dreams Programme which takes children fighting with life-threatening illnesses and their families to Disneyland Florida.
Everyman
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.everyman-campaign.org Everyman exists to break the taboos surrounding prostate and testicular cancer and to raise awareness of the conditions amongst men and women. They believe men are too unaware about the incidence of prostate and testicular cancers, and aim to change this. The organisation carries out fund-raising initiatives to ensure their scientists can carry out [...]
Happy Days Childrens Charity
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.happydayscharity.org Happy Days help and educate young people through their leisure time and holiday activities, so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities. They provide holidays and day trips for children with special needs. Many of these children suffer from terminal conditions, and the work of Happy Days help to make their remaining [...]
KIDS
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.kids.org.uk KIDS works with disabled children, young people and their families. They are unique, working with children and young people aged 0-25 irrespective of their impairment or condition. They provide an extensive range of services for disabled young people. KIDS uses play, leisure, education, family support, information, advice and training to empower disabled youngsters to [...]
Marie Curie Cancer Care
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.mariecurie.org.uk Marie Curie Nursing Service provides hands on nursing care free of charge to parents with life limiting illnesses in their own home at the end of their lives to allow them to remain at home where they would choose to be. Marie Curie’s Palliative Care Research and Development Unit investigates issues surrounding quality of [...]
Meningitis Research Foundation
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.meningitis.org Meningitis Research Foundation is an organisation that fights death and disability from meningitis and septicaemia. They fund research into and raise awareness of these diseases to improve survival rates and outcomes. We promote education and awareness and give support to people affected. Meningitis and septicaemia can strike anyone at any age and can kill [...]
National Society for the Provention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.nspcc.org.uk The NSPCC is the UK’s most well recognised children’s charity. Its aims are simple: to bring an end to child abuse across the UK. The NSPCC operate the Childline service and their current campaigns involve the FULL STOP campaign which has been in the public eye throughout the national media.
Sport 4 Life
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.sport4life.org.uk Sport 4 Life is a registered charity that uses activities an sport to reach out to deprived UK communities in an attempt to bring them together. Sport 4 Life aims to change lives through the power of sport in four ways: Sport 4 Poverty: To tackle inequalities through sport projects delivering inclusion, opportunity and [...]
YouthNet
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.youthnet.org YouthNet is the UK’s first online charity, with a mission to engage, inform and inspire 16-24 year olds at key moments in their lives. They are aided in making informed decisions through www.TheSite.org and helped to find volunteering opportunities through www.do-it.org.uk
Applefields School
By Nouse — October 15, 2009
www.applefields.york.sch.uk Applefields School makes provision for children aged 11-19 with moderate, severe and profound learning difficulties. It is the only secondary school in York that provides for secondary school students with these additional needs. The school is undertaking several projects to enhance sensory stimulation, including a project to create a sensory garden in conjunction with [...]
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