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Our mission is to promote sustainable village development in partnership with Cambodian people by helping to provide clean water, sanitation, educational opportunities, health care from birth onwards, improved nutrition, and economic empowerment. We work to increase awareness of environmental and social responsibility within families and communities by helping provide the necessary tools for villagers to improve their quality of life; feel pride and reach their highest potential. It is the fervent hope of the Cambodian Community Dream Organization to provide the following C - Commitment to access free quality education for all children C - Community involvement and honesty in all that we do D - Development of culture and living environment O - Opportunity to live a better life, breaking free of the poverty cycle

CPAR was founded in 1984 by Canadian physician Mark Doidge, in response to the extreme famine and poor health conditions faced by Ethiopian refugees in Sudan. CPAR's work started out as emergency relief in the form of food aid and medical intervention, but it has since evolved into an international development organization, committed to building healthy communities in Africa. With the idea of a healthy planet in mind, the majority of CPAR's work is focused on integrated health and sustainable development programs in the south-east region of Africa. CPAR's projects are located in Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi and Tanzania. We develop primary health care, water and sanitation, income generation, peace building, emergency assistance, natural resource management and food security programs to help support vulnerable communities in Africa.

Since 1993, ACCES has been working with Kenyan partners to provide educational opportunities in the Kakamega Region of Western Province. We have provided post-secondary scholarships for over 1,300 Kenyans to study in Kenyan universities and colleges. We operate 8 primary schools serving over 1,300 pupils. We also support an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign that has reached more than 20,000 people, small business training and loans, organic agricultural training, adult education, community health services, water wells, and secondary school education. ACCES guarantees that 100% of donations dedicated to programs will be used on those programs - our modest administration costs are covered through special board initiatives.

Evidence Action scales proven, rigorously evaluated development solutions to benefit millions of people around the world. We fill the gap between knowing “what works” and having impact at massive scale. We work according to the following principles: · Only scale interventions whose efficacy is backed by substantial rigorous evidence; · Target cost-effective interventions that can improve the lives of millions; · Identify innovative, appropriate financing mechanisms; · Build best practice operational models; · Voraciously self-evaluate, learn and improve our models for scaling. Evidence Action's two flagship programs are Deworm the World Initiative and Dispensers for Safe Water, serving a combined 40 million people in Southeast Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa.

Harvest Children’s Home (HCH) is a real home for 50-70 orphaned children. They sing, play, dream and hope, but 1 thing they don’t have to wonder about any more is: “where do I belong?” Before HCH these children were destitute, lacking the most basic necessities of life. Now they have nutritious meals, clean water, spiritual care, a good education and plenty of love! Their hope is restored!At HCH, we provide orphans with a new family – a multitude of “brothers” and “sisters,” and a caring staff to see that they’re loved and well supervised; a new hope – security, stability and a Christian faith they can build their lives on; and a new future – far different than before - receiving education, skills training and all that they need to succeed.

OBAT Helpers works for the welfare, support, and rehabilitation of displaced and stateless people by providing programs to alleviate the daily suffering and burdens of thousands of Urdu speaking people (known as "Biharis") who are stranded in makeshift camps in Bangladesh. OBAT Helpers implements projects in education and vocational training, self- empowerment through micro-financing, health care with clinics, drinking water, proper sewerage, and emergency relief projects. The Biharis have been stranded in Bangladesh since it achieved independence from Pakistan in 1971. Referred to as, astranded Pakistanis,a this community was supposed to be repatriated to Pakistan after the two countries separated but most of them could not due to political complications. They are presently citizens of nowhere, unclaimed by either country and marked by the UNHCR as refugees, yet deprived of the rights of refugees. They still live in the camps/slums that were supposed to serve as their temporary shelter forty years ago. This population is scattered across sixty-six camps which house around 300,000 people. Anyone visiting these camps would see a family of 7-10 people sharing a living space of 8x10 ft.; open sewers and overflowing drains; a single toilet or two for one hundred or so people; innocent six or seven year olds who should be in schools, working for a living; high-infant mortality rates due to absence of medical facilities; lack of clean drinking water; terrible or no sanitation facilities and nothing but abject poverty. OBAT Helpers is the only organization in North America which is committed to helping the Biharis to become self-reliant and empowered through proper education, health care and micro financing projects. OBAT started with providing help to one camp in 2004, and now, it is improving the lives of people in more than 30 out of the total 66 camps, after just six years. This is almost half of the total number of camps in Bangladesh.

Helping Hearts Helping Hands is a family based non-profit organization, founded in 2007. Changing the world, one child, one family, one face, one place...at a time! Helping Hearts Helping Hands does mission work, spreading the word of God, in Honduras. The purpose of our mission work is to change the lives of poverty stricken children and families. We provide immediate assistance by delivering food, fresh water, clothing, shoes, vitamins and other needed items to different villages in Honduras. We deliver personal care items and provide instruction on self-care, dental care, health, and nutrition. We are helping families to establish businesses that will provide a source of income and help them to be self-sufficient. We are currently raising two beautiful girls at our foster care home in Honduras.

Lifeline Malawi established its first medical outreach in the lakeshore community of Ngodzi, where there were no medical facilities, clean water or even sufficient food. Ngodzi is a rural community of 40,000 people approx. 100km southeast of the capital city of Lilongwe. Although there were other established mission groups in the area, health conditions and medical needs of the local Yao tribes people were desperate, as there are were no trained medical personnel and there no access to medicines. Dr. Brooks initially (1998) worked with a small staff to provide a part-time medical presence in the community. In September 2001, he opened a new eight room medical clinic on land donated by the community. Since then, the Ngodzi property has been developed, through donations raised in Canada, the United States, France and the U.K, into a medical complex offering full-time medical and health-related services.

Community Education Services (CES) Canada is a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to providing access to education for orphans and other AIDS-affected children in Kenya. Project PREPARE provides access to secondary school aged Kenyan youth who have been orphaned or adversely affected by the HIV/Aids pandemic. The project seeks to build capacity and strengthen public secondary schools within the Lurambi Constituency in the Kakamega Central District of Western Province. This will be achieved through the development and availability of cross curricular teaching strategies in the area of HIV/Aids Awareness and Healthy Living. The project intends to strengthen infrastructure of schools to improve the quality of education and standards of teaching. Foundations: Project PREPARE is based on four key foundation points: EDUCATION, WATER, HEALTHCARE and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. CES Canada is involved in 30 secondary schools impacting on 8,000 students.

CBSDC is a charitable organization whose prime focus is the development, expansion, and maintenance of a series of walking and hiking trails. The network originally paralleled the Corner Brook Stream, and has since expanded to interconnect key areas of the city providing a green transportation alternative. This river system flows through the city providing industrial and potable water, while also giving walkers a respite from city life within its natural corridor. The stream is also home to successful reintroduction of a sustaining run of Atlantic salmon. The trail system has been instrumental in influencing healthy lifestyle choices; providing recreational opportunities such as birdwatching, snowshoeing, skiing, jogging, geocaching, orienteering, swimming, etc. CBSDC has also partnered with local schools and educational facilities to assist in programming and use of the trails as a venue for a variety of academic pursuits. Please visit our website for more information.

Overseas Volunteer for a Better India (OVBI) launched in May 2013, is driven by a group of inspired NRIS ready to support initiatives in India and tackle issues the Indian community faces in the U.S. Our movement’s roots are grounded in the Volunteer for a Better India (VBI) movement. On February 3rd, 2013 more than 100,000 concerned citizens united at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi in response to rampant corruption, violence towards women, suicides and water shortages. On that day, in unison the group pledged to give 1 hour a day for the nation and to inspire millions of others to do so. And volunteer for a better India was born. OVBI is the overseas arm of Volunteer for Better India. We believe that every individual can make a meaningful impact and play a role in the betterment of the global Indian community. Together we can transform the world in a way that would make great leaders like Mahatma Ghandhi proud. We invite you to get involved.

Organics 4 Orphans wants to see orphans communities move from food scarcity into surplus, by helping farmers learn organic agricultural basics. Through Ecology Action, a organization working in over 140 countries, we've learned how small scale farmers can farm more effectively, sustainably, even in challenging agricultural conditions. Ecology Action has developed a proven approach – the GROW BIOINTENSIVE METHOD - to yield multiple, high-quality harvests each year without conventional agricultural chemicals. Significantly, small, bio-intensive plots, once established require comparatively less labour to maintain than traditional gardens, which is ideal for the elderly, young and sick members of the community. Ecology Action has demonstrated how, by using the bio-intensive method, small scale-farmers can see: • a 200 - 400% increase in caloric production • a 67 - 88% reduction in water used in farming • a 100% increase in soil fertility • a 99% reduction in the amount of energy used