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The Institute of Cultural Affairs International (ICA International) is a global, non-governmental organisation with member offices in thirty countries. Officially founded in 1977, following early pioneering work through the 1960s, the ICA creates and implements community development and training programs, and engages in policy research and development. Included in ICA activities are sustainable development projects, education programs and educational research, youth and women’s programs, health initiatives, group facilitation courses, leadership training, and international policy formation dialogues and conferences.

The mission of the Fund is to carry out charitable activities in the interests of society, namely the provision of material assistance in accordance with current legislation of Ukraine to improve the lives of the population, develop quality of medical and educational services at all levels, implementation of charitable programs in accordance with the Fund's activities.

CRIBS International is an experienced, longstanding and reputable NGO working in Athens, Greece. We focus on provision of the following: Refugee women and infant's housing project, Casework, psychologist, legal, medical and employment support, Community development work and a Free Shop for women and children ensuring distribution with dignity. At CRIBS International, our mission is to house and support refugee women who are in their final trimester of pregnancy or who have a new-born baby and have arrived in Greece, having fled conflict and exploitation. We provide this emergency support for the first 12 months of a baby's life to allow them to be born into a nurturing environment. CRIBS offers a lifeline to the women we support, many of whom are travelling alone and some being survivors of rape and sexual exploitation. When they reach Athens, despite being pregnant, the women receive no support from the authorities and are left to manage in any way they can as the state does not deem them vulnerable. Many become street homeless and prey to further abuse, or are forced into unsafe, closed camps with inadequate food, where violence is endemic and where health care facilities are almost non-existent. In the words of one of the women we support, 'When you arrive in Greece, it's difficult to restart your life with nothing'. By providing shelter, safety and support, we prevent homelessness and protect lives. More than this, we also work to empower women to begin to recover from trauma, to get back on their feet and to rebuild their life. Our goal is to provide the support needed to enable them to integrate into society, live independently and become part of the community to which circumstances have brought them.

HELP builds on the inherent strengths of prairie and agrarian culture to create leaders in the helping sciences - both at home and internationally. We carry out research, upscale models and full scale implimentations in forestry, waste recycling, and several applications of phytoremediation. One months per year dedicated to live-in ecology camps for schools. Some of HELP's achievements include: •2,400,000 trees planted since year 2000 •1st woodlots for Community Wide Effluent Irrigation in SK and BC •1st Living Landfill Caps in Canada •1st Projects Proving Capacity of Select Trees to Reverse Severe Soil Salinity •World's 1st Floating Tree Nurseries •1st Grain Bag Recycling Program in Saskatchewan •1st Styrofoam Recycling Program in Weyburn •45 Ongoing Ecological Research Projects •19th Year of International Internships •19th Year of Live-In Ecology Camps for Schools •Successful Slum Conversion and Agro-forestry programming in Kenya and Sudan

EMPOWER INTERNATIONAL TRUST (EIT) is a New Zealand registered charity. We are also a charitable entity within Australia. We have been operating since 1990. We care for about 300 teenagers who receive 24/7 care while residing in one of our 19 safe-houses. They receive nutritious meals and support physically, emotionally, spiritually and also in terms of education. The work is all carried out in a loving family environment. EIT's basic modus operandi has always been to: Possess a default thinking that wherever possible we empower local indigenous community leaders to have as much responsibility to take on as much of the work as possible instead of using western personnel. This has meant that all of our 19 safe houses (located in Honduras, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Kolkata (India), Nepal and Bhutan) are run by indigenous house parents who are chosen by established local indigenous boards, As a western organisation, we see our mission as working to encourage indigenous folk to have the freedom to make as many decisions as possible on their own. We monitor the work, we give specialised training, lead in fund raising and we encourage them to think in terms of expansion and not simply "maintaining", We work with young people from a broad range of religious and cultural backgrounds. Many of our children come from difficult and somewhat dysfunctional family backgrounds. A number have been neglected, orphaned or even abandoned. Over our countries of operation, we can clearly see that girls are seriously at-risk (through no fault of their own) of entering the sex industry, slave labour or other forms of exploitation and unsafe employment, We are happy to go to difficult places and work amongst people from difficult backgrounds, Because of our operation style, we can be both very flexible and of course we have been able to work amongst secluded tribes/ethnic groups that western organisations would never be able to reach into, It may be that a child lives within one of our project homes for a period of several years, so we can quietly and calmly take our time to develop them by showing love and simple encouragement and assisting them to make positive life decisions, We have no desire to separate the children from their own village homes and actively encourage guardians' participation. During school holidays the children return to their families, Though we may be a faith-based not for profit, we have no interest in criticising the religions or belief system of others. We have seen a very good level of positive development amongst our young people. Some have risen to become medical doctors, professional engineers, accountants, one is an assistant university professor and another a school principal while others are human rights lawyers, community workers and still others are working in NGO organisations. Also, many have become schoolteachers. One of our young men was recently selected to study to become a surgeon at India's top ranked medical college. The young people living in the homes are normally aged between 13 - 20 years. We remain in close contact with many of our graduates who now no longer live in our homes and who instead are either attending university or polytechnic. Other graduates have now completed their tertiary studies. Now our boards in Thailand, Cambodia and Nepal are comprised of a number of our graduates in fact two of the boards are chaired by our graduates.

For every young person to have equal rights to play, education and unbiased opportunity to reach their full potential - To Dream in Colour