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We are a non-profit organization that works to transform the lives of people at risk and social vulnerability, through specialized programs that improve their quality of life.

1. To act as a leading organisation and a global voice for the rights of those who face discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and/or sex characteristics (SOGIESC). 2. To work towards achieving equality, freedom and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people through advocacy, collaborative actions, and by educating and informing relevant international and regional institutions as well as governments, media and civil society. 3. To empower our members and other human rights organisations in promoting and protecting human rights, irrespective of people's sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and/or sex characteristics and to facilitate cooperation and solidarity among ILGA regions and members. 4. To promote the diversity and strengths of persons of diverse SOGIESC around the world.

ISPCAN’S MISSION IS TO STRENGTHEN THE WORK OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO: • PREVENT ABUSE, NEGLECT AND OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN • PROMOTE THE WELLBEING OF CHILDREN

Women Deliver is a leading global advocate that champions gender equality and the health and rights of girls and women. Our advocacy drives investment—political and financial— in the lives of girls and women. We harness evidence and unite diverse voices to spark commitment to gender equality. And we get results. Anchored in sexual and reproductive health, we advocate for the rights of girls and women across every aspect of their lives.

The International Youth Foundation® (IYF®) stands by, for, and with young people. Founded in 1990 through a generous grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, IYF is a global nonprofit with programs directly benefiting 7.7 million young people and operations spanning 100 countries so far. Together with local community-based organizations and a network of corporate, foundation, and multilateral partners, we connect young people with opportunities to transform their lives. We believe that educated, employed, engaged young people possess the power to solve the world’s toughest problems, and we focus our youth development efforts on three linked objectives: unlocking agency, driving economic opportunity, and making systems more inclusive. Our vision is to see young people inspired and equipped to realize the future they want. The International Youth Foundation: Transforming Lives, Together.

Created in 2002, Vision du Monde is a French humanitarian organization, belonging to World Vision international partnership, which aims at helping the most vulnerable children. Thanks to its Christian DNA and driven by stewardship and human centred values, our NGO is dedicated to tackle the causes of poverty and injustice. We help the most vulnerable children to experience fullness of life, by growing, learning and achieving their dreams in a caring and secured environment. Vision du Monde works with the world's most vulnerable people in the most remote or unstable areas of the world. It serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Our staff of 25+ deals mainly with global relief, development and advocacy. We pursue this mission through integrated, holistic commitment, working closely with children, families, communities, local authorities. We make sure that each one of them are interviewed and committed from design to fulfilment in our development programmes. Empowered step by step during the ten to fifteen years of a programme, we empower them to set their own goals, settle autonomy and pass on skills and knowledge in a sustainable and community-based outlook. Vision du Monde runs 17 development programmes in 12 countries across 4 continents. It benefits from the 70 years of experience of World Vision, first child sponsorship NGO and first Clean water humanitarian provider in the world, operating in 99 countries with offices in 85 of them. Our mission encompasses, in a global and sustainable development approach, 6 key sectors across clean water, sanitation and hygiene; food security; health; education; child protection and economic development to enable families transform relationships, build resilience and secure source of revenues. World Vision recently launched a new global strategy called Our Promise 2030, contributing to reach Sustainable Development Goals. Focusing energy and resources on increasingly fragile contexts and hard-to-reach areas, the organization strengthens his advocacy against violence, exploitation and human rights violations. Vision du Monde is dedicated more than ever to reach the most vulnerable children in the world, in difficult areas, relying on the expertise and cultural understanding of local teams, 97 % of them originating from the country. Alliances with other NGOs such as Red cross, Cares, Coordination sud or public organization such as EU or World food programme or International Labour Organization, make our action more efficient.

Our mission is to provide the necessary resources so that all children born with malformation Cleft Lip/Palate (all over the country) can recover in a complete and thorough manner. Although we are an independent association, we work together with the National Children's Hospital of Costa Rica (which is where they perform surgical treatment) in order to have a multidisciplinary equipment, needed for a proper rehabilitation. In Costa Rica, each year, we received an approximately of 85-90 babies with the Cleft Lip/Palate, so our effort is reflected in the smile of all recovered children, but our mission continues standing with each new baby born that presents the malformation.

Recognize, build and impact the rights of girls, young women and women towards scenarios of peace, equity and equality with sustainable empowerment through social and productive processes.

Adopciones chinita was born with the goal of rescuing abandoned dogs and cats in the area of San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica from danger, mistreatment and health issues before they are adopted by permanent families. This includes transportation, neutering, taking care of ill animals, veterinary and medical care, nurturing, etc. -- (Google Translate): Objectives of the Foundation: - Work for the treatment and ownership of the animals, so much domestic as of production or work by part of the society for with they. - Propitiate laws of agreement to our Ordering Legal what come to give more guarantee to the animals in general. - Attend cases of abuse animal or abandonment, through rescues, through of Attention veterinary and care temporary previous to its adoption definitive - Capture money through request of donations for attend our objectives respect to the wellness animal. - Investigate irregularities respect to cases of abuse animal or cruelty , by a inadequate holding , or all right by violence to animals outsiders. - Act in set with the authorities governmental pertinent through the interposition of complaints in cases where there is obvious abuse animal or abandonment. - Defend of accordance with the framework regulatory valid, the protection and defending in what concerns the animals. - Perform campaigns of education to the population on the due tenure of animals , as well as campaigns of castration Y activities several for collection of money for the Attention of rescues. - Support and help whole popular initiative or legislative whose object be the to get better the quality of lifetime of the animals through projects of law in defending full of its welfare . - Spread the idea protectionist in the society, of such way what get involved to the communities in the due watch out of the animals as in the complaint of cases of abandonment , abuse or cruelty. - Propitiate and encourage a support for suitable by part of the governments local through the investment of money for strengthening of the activities own of the wellness animal.

Asociacion Aldeas Infantiles SOS Costa Rica is a non-profit organization of private character and social development, founded in 1949 in Imst, Austria. Our country is a declared state since 2013 and declared of public utility. We are a present in 134 countries where we serve more than 400 000 children and their families. We are also members of UNESCO and advised by the ONU Economic and Social Council. Our reason for being. There are a number of social, economic, cultural, political and external factors in Latin America and the Caribbean that, at times associated with unfavorable socio-economic situations, may put children at risk of losing care for their families or significant adults. The complex interaction between these factors, such as natural disasters, armed conflict, interfamily and gender violence, problematic drug use, commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, migration, among others; Expose children and their families to a situation of greater vulnerability, requiring responses to guarantee the exercise of their rights. In this sense, in the Asociacion Aldeas Infantiles SOS Costa Rica we work for the children right of family living. We develop actions to prevent the loss of family care, provide care alternatives for children who were separated from their families and develop advocacy actions, seeking to create the necessary conditions for children to fully exercise their rights. ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE 2 What do we do? We work for the children right of family living. The organization's efforts are aimed at preventing the loss of children's family care, and when it is lost, we provide them with alternatives of care, always working to bring the children back to their families and communities whenever possible or other possibilities of family living. How do we do it? 1. To prevent the loss of family care we carry out support actions for family and community strengthening through: Pedagogical proposals of daily care for children Capacity building of children and their families Coordination of local networks work. 2. For those children who lost family care we provide care alternatives based on family environments, seeking their integral development and considering their particular situation and the needs of each locality. Family life care: usually under the SOS family model, in the village houses, where we promote that children have a stable affective referent for as long as it require, promoting if possible the reinstatement to their family of origin. 3. We carry out awareness actions in order to ensure quality standards in the care of all children. We advocate the states to strengthen and improve social protection systems, carrying out campaigns and programs, to ensure that all children, adolescents and young people have a full exercise of their rights, especially a family living.

Make the adolescent and young adult population with cancer visible in Costa Rica and provide them with tools that allow them to face their illness in the best way, through accompaniment, education, recreation and the creation of infrastructures appropriate to their age.

In the fight to uphold justice through sustainable solutions, we partner with individuals, communities and organizations to tackle root causes of injustice like poverty and exploitation.