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Mission: To ensure children's rights to Survival, Protection, Development & Participation. Short Term Plan: Provide 'a home away from home' Long Term Plan: Uplift and empower the vulnerable in Sri Lanka to keep their families together. Enhancing the capacity for dialogue, participation, cultural identity, and empowerment. Enhancing capacity in vocational education for entrepreneurship of youth & unemployed and underemployed

World Vision Lanka (WVL) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. The organization serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender and has worked in Sri Lanka since 1977. Currently we serve 34 locations in 15 districts across the country. Our approach is participatory and community driven, empowering communities to take ownership of their development journey. We select the most underdeveloped and poorest regions in the country to establish long-term, sustainable development through Area Development Programmes lasting a maximum of 15 years. The primary goal of our programs is to promote the well-being and empowerment of children, their families and the communities they live in. Our programs focus on Education, Economic Development, Health and Nutrition, Water and Sanitation and Child Protection. Cross-cutting themes include gender equality, environmental sustainability, disability inclusion, resilience and disaster risk reduction and peace building.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. We lead international action to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people.

WE BUILD FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN IN NEED We work for children who are orphaned, abandoned or whose families are unable to care for them. We give these children the opportunity to build lasting relationships within a family. Our family approach in the SOS Children's Village is based on four principles: Each child needs a mother, and grows up most naturally with brothers and sisters, in their own house, within a supportive village environment. WE HELP THEM SHAPE THEIR OWN FUTURES We enable children to live according to their own culture and religion, and to be active members of the community. We help children to recognise and express their individual abilities, interests and talents. We ensure that children receive the education and skills training they need to be successful and contributing members of society. WE SHARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR COMMUNITIES We share in community life and respond to the social development needs of society's most vulnerable children and young people. We establish facilities and programmes that aim to strengthen families and prevent the abandonment of children. We join hands with community members to provide education and health care, and respond to emergencies.

MAITS is an international disability charity whose mission is to improve the lives of some of the world's poorest people with developmental disabilities and the lives of their families, through better access to and quality of health and education services and support. We provide education, training and support for those working with and caring for persons with developmental disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism and global learning disabilities to ensure they are able to achieve their full potential in a way that is sustainable and inclusive. We support people with disabilities in the following ways: The training of healthcare and education professionals, community workers, families and carers- to better understand their conditions and build their skills and knowledge to ensure persons with disabilities have better access to and improved quality of services. The development of training materials and resources on disability- the training materials are tested out and adapted to the local context, and when needed, translated into the local language, to ensure high quality care for those with disabilities. Linking organisations that need training with those who are able to provide it- through our website and through our database of 208 volunteer therapists and educators. In addition to facilitating face-to-face training, MAITS has an ongoing programme of resource development, designing tools that assist in the support and inclusion of individuals with particular needs, whether it be at home, school, in healthcare provisions or elsewhere in the community, in low-resource settings. We have a small team of specialists who create resources and we connect those looking for training with those who can provide it. Our mission is to improve the lives of some of the world's poorest people with developmental disabilities and the lives of their families, through better access to and quality of health and education services and support.

Our objective is to promote the effectiveness and efficiency of the charity sector by maximising donor contributions to eligible charities, through a Donor Advised Fund. By operating with minimal administrative overheads, we can make it easier and more efficient for a broad demographic of donors to give, and worthy organisations to receive donations.

Alliance aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas among philanthropists, social investors and others working for social change worldwide in order to maximize the impact of funding for social development.