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Our Mission: Kupenda (“love” in Kiswahili) for the Children transforms harmful beliefs surrounding disability to those that improve children’s lives.Our Vision: A fully integrated society where people of all abilities have access to health, education, and a loving community.

Bridging the Gap-Oregon is currently building a mobile app for law enforcement and victim advocates to use while on duty through a mass centralized communication system—connecting victim needs to community partners who can help. Our plan is to create a mobile app for every region that has a multidisciplinary human trafficking task force collaborative model. By sharing this powerful tool, we hope to help bridge the gaps in systems and create successful outcomes for victims.

They support the surviving families of fallen police officers across the United States. They send (covering all travel expenses) members of the NYPD, in dress uniform, to every confrontational line-of-duty police funeral in the United States. Their members' presence lends emotional support to the surviving family and the fellow officers of the fallen officer. Their members form bonds with the family and their fellow officers, offering them support however they may need it. Additionally, they provide the family with a check to assist with their immediate financial needs (often before any government benefits they may be entitled to have kicked in).

Raise the consciousness of the world community about the challenges of the Congo and provide support to Congolese institutions in bringing about peaceful and lasting change. Friends of the Congo envisions a peaceful and prosperous Congo wherein Congolese are able to fulfill their enormous human and natural potential.

The organization empowers people who survived unsuccessful (stopped, failed, or reversed) abortions and supports their families by providing peer support, healing resources, education, research, and public advocacy to raise awareness and improve care for survivors.

The International Legal Foundation assists countries emerging from conflict or transition to establish public defender systems that provide effective, quality criminal defense services to the poor. In 2003, the ILF opened Afghanistan's first independent public defender office in Kabul, and has since established public defender offices in Nepal and the West Bank. The ILF's mission is to assist post-conflict and transitional countries to establish public defender systems that provide quality and effective criminal defense services to the poor. In carrying out its mission, the ILF is driven by the belief that defense lawyers - as guardians of due process - are indispensible to any fair system of justice, and every person accused of a crime should have access to one. We work solely in countries emerging from conflict where governments have recognized the right to counsel and are committed to building a strong and fair system of justice, and aim to ensure that laws that guarantee the right to counsel are meaningfully implemented in ways that respect the historical, practical and cultural context of each country. The lack of qualified lawyers available to provide criminal defense representation to the poor is a serious problem in post-conflict and transitional countries. Many of these countries guarantee the right to counsel to persons accused of crimes in their constitutions and other domestic laws. Moreover, many have ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which requires them to ensure the right to counsel. Yet in practice, there are few defense lawyers for the poor in many developing countries. Those that do practice are often grossly unqualified. Without access to counsel there can be no rule of law and accused persons remain vulnerable to arbitrary detention, coerced and tortured confessions, wrongful convictions and other abuses. The ILF fulfills an essential role in post-conflict reconstruction. Although there is a growing focus on rule of law in post-conflict countries, rule of law projects have placed a heavy emphasis on rebuilding courts and law enforcement institutions and give little attention to the critical role of defense, particularly criminal defense services for the poor. The ILF addresses this need by providing indigent accused persons with access to competent, well-trained defense lawyers. This helps to ensure that laws and constitutional provisions protecting the rights of the accused are implemented and that all citizens have equal access to justice.

We fight to conserve wildlife, habitats, and ecosystems, by ensuring that international and national legal frameworks and policies are robust, well-implemented, and enforced.

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