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Dec 2024 | Website
Creative Growth, based in Oakland, California, is a pioneering non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities into the contemporary art world. It provides a supportive studio environment and gallery representation, enabling over 140 artists to develop their artistic talents across various media. Through public exhibitions and participation in art fairs, Creative Growth facilitates exposure for these artists, securing placements in major collections worldwide. Proceeds from artwork sales directly benefit the artists and sustain the organization's programs, fostering a vibrant community where creativity and inclusivity thrive.
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Nov 2024 | Website
Bede House is a London charity based in Southwark, dedicated to addressing the community's changing needs through various support programs, including initiatives for individuals with learning disabilities and those affected by domestic abuse. With a focus on alleviating poverty, improving education and employment opportunities, and reducing isolation, Bede House empowers local residents by fostering connection and engagement through volunteering and community activities.
Oct 2024 | Website
Providing a loving environment where homeless and underprivileged children of Nepal receive education, healthcare, and the support they need to thrive. With a focus on each child's unique needs, the foundation works alongside local staff to ensure holistic care while preserving cultural traditions and promoting sustainability. Many alumni return to Ama Ghar to celebrate holidays and remain connected to the community, fostering a lifelong sense of family and belonging.
Oct 2024 | Wikipedia
Tenchen Choeling Nunnery in the Paro Valley of Bhutan is a sanctuary for over 40 nuns, ranging from girls as young as 11 to women in their 20s, offering vital shelter, food, education, and a supportive community to those from impoverished backgrounds. Through this initiative, the nunnery provides classes in English and basic computer skills, empowering the nuns with enhanced educational opportunities and valuable tools for their future.
Opening Your Heart to Bhutan is committed to helping every child, regardless of disability, reach their fullest potential. Providing vital resources such as safe medical care, disability aids, and educational facilities in the remote regions of East Bhutan. The charity transforms lives through practical acts of compassion and ongoing projects that include safe school paths, music training for the blind, and nutritional support for students with special needs.
Jul 2024 | Website
Providing a free mobile laundry service for people experiencing homelessness in Australia. Helping people across the country, particularly those living in remote communities where access to laundry services can be limited and cost-prohibitive. Creating a safe, positive, and supportive environment for people who feel disconnected from the community by offering clean laundry, warm showers, and heartfelt conversations.
Offering free veterinary care, treatment, and support to pets of individuals experiencing housing vulnerability in Los Angeles and San Diego. Walking in areas of high homelessness to help and assist these companions who provide socialisation, protection, and love. Aiding in various ways, from basic exams to critical surgeries, including complimentary pet clinics and financial support.
Jun 2024 | Website
Operating 3 Community Health and Education and Childbirth Centers in Indonesia. Providing a comprehensive range of allopathic and holistic medicine alongside pre and post-natal care, breastfeeding support, and family health services. Offering nutritional education, prenatal yoga and gentle, loving natural birth services while prioritising the well-being of both mothers and babies.
Collaborating with healthcare and welfare organisations to offer people access to free clothing and footwear in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Receiving customers who are in dire straits financially, socially or emotionally and giving them the opportunity to positively express their identity through clothing. Fostering sustainability and reducing waste, by reusing and designing clothing from remnants, contributing to a more sustainable clothing industry and combating environmental degradation.
Working for the fundamental rights and societal equality of women in Hungary, paying special attention to gender-based oppression and violence against women during the childbearing and childrearing period. Running the first community doula service in the country, helping mothers who want to give birth with an attendant but have no-one to accompany them or cannot afford it. Offering a toll-free anonymous information and emotional support helpline.
May 2024 | Website
Empowering Women in Ghana in their craft of making Shea butter by creating conditions for self sufficiency, whilst upholding traditions for community and culture. Using sales revenues to improve production, reduce production waste and implement organic community farming. Connecting the community with direct consumers and protecting farmers from unfair global traders. Fighting challenges such as low payments, chemical pollution, lack of access to international markets and greenwashing.
Apr 2024 | Website
Seeking to provide opportunties to their community members through the support and education of children, adolescents and adults in Arequipa, Peru. Helping the young ones overcome academic difficulties and motivating the adults who haven’t concluded their education to do so. Offering free services in their new community center, including English classes, coding and kneading.
Mar 2024 | Website
Preserving nature and creating a playground and hub of activity near Ubud, Bali where forests are fast being turned into construction sites. Using structures resourced from nature and recycled materials to create a space where the community can play and interact with elements such as soil, sand, wood, and water. Inviting members to volunteer alongside a local team to take care of the forest, contour the permaculture gardens, assemble the maze, tie the sky-ropes, and build the treehouses.
Providing a permanent and loving home for rescued animals while championing the cause of animal welfare in Ontario, Canada. Becoming advocates, giving life back to the voiceless and providing a haven for the endangered, overlooked and forgotten animals. Working tirelessly on behalf of all the animals and birds who have found a life-long refuge at the sanctuary.
Jan 2024 | Website
Rescuing farmed animals who are excluded from the protections of animal welfare legislation in Australia. Finding permanent homes and promoting adoption through education and example. Promoting responsible and humane treatment towards animals in the community through the provision of advice, education and information.
Providing a safe haven for hundreds of homeless, starving and abused dogs in Greece. Operating solely with donations and volunteers to provide love, care, food and veterinary treatments, as well as facilitating adoptions for as many dogs as possible. Delivering educational programmes in the local community to help prevent dog cruelty and overpopulation.
Working with isolated farming communities to build lasting prosperity in Nepal. Supporting complementary health, education, and livelihood programs that unlock local opportunities. Building bridges and trails, constructing drinking water systems to unify communities and creating lasting solutions to complex local challenges.
Ending bear bile farming and improving the welfare of animals across Asia. Educating communities and promoting alternatives to animal products for use in traditional medicine. Campaigning to end abusive animal practices in zoos and safari parks and improving the way captive animals are cared for in public facilities.
Building low-cost, high-efficiency homes to support those in need on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Using an innovative design and cellular concrete, a substance which is simultaneously insulating and structurally sound, housing is made available to many people who would otherwise be facing homelessness. Providing stability, skills, and opportunity to marginalised communities while aiming to make a significant positive environmental impact.
Oct 2023 | Website
Creating paths out of poverty for vulnerable children and at-risk youth in Nepal. Offering a nurturing family environment where students can thrive and realise their skills, talents and dreams. Providing leading-edge education, comprehensive leadership training and life-skills training. Teaching practical, day-to-day skills children would generally learn from their parents or families.
Rescuing dogs and farm animals in Nepal. Working to help and free wild animals kept in captivity under subpar conditions. Creating a refuge where they can live freely. Providing temporary shelter and medical attention to displaced animals during natural disasters, with the ultimate goal of reuniting them with their families. Collaborating with government bodies to create animal welfare standards for the livestock industry.
Working in rural villages across Nepal to create hubs, including schools, farmers' markets, healthcare and resource centres. Supporting projects that educate youth or women and teach them the necessary life skills to become self-sufficient. Providing full scholarships for students in dire need in the first year while supporting the education centre and / or parents of students to start a sustainability project in order to gain financial stability and become a financially independent community.
Aiming to prevent the worst forms of abuse, discrimination and the trafficking of girls by providing tools and access to education in Nepal. Focusing on assisting families that are headed by single mothers or grandmothers with daughters. Conducting awareness programs in schools and communities advocating women's health and providing sanitary pads.
Empowering families and communities impacted by the loss of Himalayan high-altitude workers. Providing cost-of-living / business grants and vocational training, helping families create sustainable businesses and replace the lost income of their loved ones so that they continue to serve as essential members of their community.
Helping orphaned or abandoned children whose families cannot care for them by providing a loving home environment for the rest of their lives. Establishing facilities and programmes that aim to strengthen families and prevent the abandonment of children. Joining hands with community members to provide education and health care, and respond to emergencies.
Tracking down and rescuing children who are forced into hard labour and reuniting them with their families when possible. Providing a safe home with caretakers when it is unsafe for them to return home and continuing to look after them until they become adults. Preventing trafficking of children by raising awareness, running education programmes and supporting schools to make them safer environments. Offering a Youth Transition Programme for rescued children when they have finished their schooling.
Sep 2023 | Website
Rescuing, rehabilitating and finding new homes for abandoned or injured animals in Bali. Providing life-saving tips and recommendations on how to rescue and care for pets. Sharing rescue stories to inspire and show the resilience of these animals.
Aug 2023 | Website
Giving people seeking asylum in Bristol, UK a warm welcome. Offering access to living essentials via a free shop where refugees can help themselves to any items they choose. Providing shelter, recreation, legal advice, health care and emotional, community and employment support.
Building bonds between traumatised horses who have been given a new home and people who wish to care for and ride them. Practising natural horsemanship, through body language, energy and intention. Creating special friendships with horses while learning to work with them in a language they understand.
July 2023 | Website
Offering free after-school and summer programs to boys living in challenging circumstances in the Dominican Republic. Building self-confidence, mutual respect and teamwork. Providing them with the tools and practical skills to pursue a rewarding professional life.
June 2023 | Website
Providing a safe place for animals in a sustainable ecosanctuary in Tenerife. Promoting the care and protection of all horses and animals. Educating and collaborating with like minded associations to change the future of animal welfare.
Apr 2023 | Website
Developing safe and inclusive skateparks and public spaces for the youth of Jordan, with a special focus on displaced communities and families from Jordan's lower socioeconomic classes. Running free-of-charge skateboarding sessions, informal education, and arts programs.
A group of parents with the long term goal of establishing a nursing home for young people with multiple disabilities in the Hungarian countryside. Sharing the powerful effect of seeing so many dear friends together, feeling the love and joy of being together, while supporting likeminded families and women.
Mar 2023 | Website
Collecting and sharing the experiences of refugees and allies to encourage understanding and empathy, advance public policy supporting refugees, and help individuals and communities welcome people forcibly displaced from their homes due to violence, persecution and other events outside their control.
Using heat and water to relieve pain and to make (the last part of) life a little more pleasant for children who have a serious physical disability or a serious illness. Developing a wellness centre with a heated floating pool and a sensory / massage room. Aiming to relieve pain through therapies.
Helping to create trauma-informed prisons and communities. Breaking the cycle by educating about childhood trauma and teach ways to heal from it; for those who are incarcerated, their communities and their future generations.
Providing shelter, food, and medical supplies to those in need in Turkey in the wake of the recent earthquake. Upholding the conviction that: the right to live is the provision of the minimum conditions necessary for a living being to continue life, such as breathing, food, and water; the right to life is access to social, cultural and economically modern facilities; and every individual must benefit equally from the social, cultural and vital needs that are paid for by society. Mobilising social dynamics and solidarity values for people in need of urgent access to these needs.
Feb 2023 | Website
Sustaining the W&J peoples' connection to their land and water by maintaining a permanent presence and the ongoing cultural custodianship of especially the sacred Doongmabulla Springs of Central Western Queensland. Protecting their history and totem which is the bee (Kub-bah in their traditional language). Living and perpetuating their indigeneous laws and customs including specific relationships to the Ancestor Dreaming. Monitoring damage and destruction; holding those who do harm to them to account; and exposing and prosecuting environmental and cultural heritage breaches under State and Commonwealth laws. Resisting the exploitation of resources and the impairment of their unique identity as a First Nation.
Sep 2022 | Website
Creating awareness and support for Native environmental issues and developing needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Developing these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard. Analysing what is needed to forge change in Indian country, based in Native communities, their histories, and long-term struggles to protect the Earth.
Jun 2022 | Website
Turning rain into safe drinking water for schools in need around the world. Focusing on a low-technology approach to safe drinking water access through combining rainwater harvesting, elevated storage, and gravity-fed filtration. Embodying the belief that safe drinking water is a human right.
Setting up non-formal classrooms in refugee camps in Greece to teach English, maths and art to vulnerable refugee children with little or no access to education since 2017. Offering a safe space to educate, inspire and empower children fleeing war and crisis. Providing structure in a state of uncertainty and encouraging positive behaviour through leading by positive example.
May 2022 | Website
Ending the harm done through gender-based violence. Working to prevent violence and abuse as well as providing services to meet the individual needs of survivors particularly women and children. Working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.
Bringing the powerful transformative energy of gentleness, connection and touch back to society through hand massages and deep listening. Alleviating loneliness, isolation and suffering due to the pandemic by offering gentle touch, a listening ear, and a safe and healing space, from one human being to another. Supporting people in the local community, care homes, hospices, organisations, the homeless and at events.
Apr 2022 | Website
Providing support for children with disabilities from low income families suffering from often acute physical and / or psychological disabilities in the area of Puerto Vallarta and Banderas Bay, Mexico. Offering a wide range of services, completely free of charge, including physical therapy, psychological care, nutrition and wellness, and education programmes while providing safe daycare so parents can still go out to work and support the family.
Improving women’s lives in Mexico. Facilitating all women, indigenous, mestiza, black, young, migrant, heterosexual, lesbian, mothers, trans and intersex persons alike, to make their own decisions and have access to education, health services, a decent job, justice, and happiness.
Alexandra Wylie Tower Foundation | Autism Forward | Autism Together | Baby Check Bath | Beyond Recovery | Bristol Women's Aid | Casa Hogar Nueva Vida | CrowdJustice | Phakama Community Health | The Ark Centre | The Way of the Warriors
Feb 2022 | Website
Deep connection with cow friends in Odenwald, Germany leading to a purely plant-based lifestyle and refuge for pigs, chickens, ponies, rabbits, dogs and deer. Showing people what wonderful creatures farm animals are - individuals with distinct personalities, emotions and feelings.
Theoklitos Proestakis rescuing sick and abandoned stray dogs from landfill in Crete. Providing the security of loving homes where they can rebuild their lives and find happiness. The dogs (and cats) run free and play together safe and looked after in this unique sanctuary.
Highlighting the value of trust for animals, particularly horses, and people. Recognising the importance of the animal-human relationship in both personal and sociological change. A method of mindfulness between animals and people, that connects and heals both.
Jan 2022 | Website
Advocating for indigenous peoples' rights and supporting indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience. Envisioning a future that respects and honors indigenous peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.
Dec 2021 | Website
Contemporary rites of passage for young men. Creating communities to support young men in their transition from childhood to adulthood. Primarily focusing on the creation of healthy relationships between men and boys.
Nov 2021 | Website
Taking dogs off the streets of Santiago, Chile and providing food, shelter and the veterinary care that they desperately need. Once they are healthy and ready to be adopted, travelling with them to Vancouver, Canada to unite them with their forever homes.
Mar 2021 | Website
Weekly Skywalks bringing strong and trusting relationships in the homeless community. Strengthening the power of compassionate connection via providing nourishment for the soul, food and warm clothes on London streets.
Nov 2020 | Website
Changing the face of men's health. Funding groundbreaking projects all over the world, engaging men where they are to face life with a prostate or testicular cancer diagnosis.
Making life better with bees. Promoting sustainable beekeeping to combat poverty, build resilient livelihoods and benefit biodiversity. shares beekeeping skills with people in the poorest communities of the world, giving a reliable, sustainable income for life.
Assisting and empowering victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. Providing immediate assistance, emergency shelter, basic survival needs, legal counsel, therapy, medical aid, education and job training.
Sep 2020 | Website
Getting the homeless off the streets into safe, stable and comfortable accommodation. Building temporary accommodation to access the help needed to secure a permanent home. Providing security and dignity to empower them to take an active role in improving their situation.
Transforming lives and changing attitudes to help to create a society that works for autistic people. Providing indepth guidance and advice on the challenges they and their families face. Making sure national policy and legislation reflect the needs of those diagnosed with autism.