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Zartonk-89 strives to support community development, help single parent, parentless and needy children, teenagers and youth to solve their educational, social, health, juridical problems, provide them with mental, physical development and life improvement.

ChildAid transforms the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged babies, children and young people in Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. In conjunction with local partners we provide direct services to those who are abandoned, abused, disabled, neglected or from the poorest of families. We provide free rehabilitative treatment, social and educational inclusion programmes, life and vocational skills training, foster parenting promotion & support network plus practical assistance.

DTC's mission is to protect the rights of at-risk children and families, and provide them with access to quality social, psychological and medical services. DTC's goals include: (1) Forming policies and public opinion around the issues of at-risk children and families, (2) Decreasing the number of neglected and abandoned children and at-risk children and families through prevention and multidisciplinary interventions, and (3) Providing access to high-quality medical, social and psychological care to at-risk children and families. To achieve these goals, DTC employs the following strategies: (1) Advocating for the rights of at-risk children and families; (2) Providing direct comprehensive assistance or access to care for street children, children in institutions, and at-risk families; (3) Preventing institutionalization and deinstitutionalizing children and adolescents through alternative forms of child placement, such as Russian foster families or transitional housing, and (4) Preventing child abandonment through comprehensive support to at-risk families.

To help each child to find adopting family

Our purpose is to reduce poverty, bring hope and solidarity to poor communities or individuals in France and worldwide. We bring assistance to families, children and young people but also to the most vulnerable (homelesses, migrants, prisoners etc.). We fight against isolation, help them to find employement and we ensure their social reintegration. We provide emergency responses but also long term support, development aid and we work on the causes of poverty. The action of Secours Catholique finds all its meaning in a global vision of poverty which aims at restoring the human person's dignity and is part and parcel of sustainable development. To do so, six key principles guide this action, both in France and abroad: Promoting the place and words of people living in situations of poverty Making each person a main player of their own development Joining forces with people living in situations of poverty Acting for the development of the human person in all its aspects Acting on the causes of poverty and exclusion Arousing solidarity The actions of Secours Catholique are implemented by a network of local teams of volunteers integrated into the diocesan delegations and supported by the volunteers and employees of the national headquarters. On an international level, Secours Catholique acts in cooperation with its partners of the Caritas Internationalis network. Key figures of Secours Catholique: 100 diocesan or departmental delegations 4,000 local teams 65,000 volunteers 974 employees 2,174 reception centres 3 centres : Cite Saint-Pierre in Lourdes, Maison d'Abraham in Jerusalem, Cedre in Paris 18 housing centres managed by the Association des Cites of Secours Catholique 162 Caritas Internationalis partners 600,000 donors Every year Secours Catholique encounters almost 700,000 situations of poverty and receives 1.6 million people (860,000 adults and 740,000 children). This daily mission led in the field by the local teams and delegations, with the support of national headquarters, pursues three major objectives which aim at exceeding the distribution action and limited aid: Receiving to reply to the primary needs (supplying food and/or health care aid, proposing accommodation, establishing an exchange and a fraternal dialogue, etc) Supporting to restore social ties (bringing together people in difficulty with an aim to reinsertion, encouraging personal initiatives and collective projects, establishing a mutual support helper-receiver of help relationship, etc) Developing to strengthen solidarity (proposing long lasting solutions, establishing a follow-up over the long term, encouraging collective actions carried out by people in difficulty etc.)

To see HOPE restored in individuals and communities, as we together overcome the challenges of HIV and AIDS.

PLAY International is a charity founded in 1999 on a conviction: sport is a source of solutions to our societal challenges. Its mission is to cocreate and implement education and inclusion projects for children and youth in vulnerable situations, using sport and sport games as educational tools. The NGO works in particular on issues such as access to and retention in school, gender equalitý, community reconciliation, health prevention, environmental education, living together, changing the way we look at disability... Since its creation, it has implemented educational and humanitarian projects, in France and internationally in 20 countries, for the benefit of nearly one million children.

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

We work with children and young adults from Moscow orphanages. Our mission is to help every child to learn and develop as a person, overcoming the negatives of an institutionalized past. Step Up is the first organization in Russia which, since 1999, has worked to provide orphans with a quality education, to motivate them to learn. We help graduates of orphanages to complete school, find jobs, pass college/university entrance exams. We provide specific help necessary to overcome the psychological complexes that plague orphans. We enable institutionalized orphans and orphanage graduates to make wise, mature and healthy decisions for their own live. We also work surmount and eventually change the prejudice against orphans that is so prevalent in Russian society. In Step Up we have a unique community of students, teachers, and volunteers built on healthy relationships, trust and respect - features that orphans often lack in the institutions. Our academic approach is specially designed to "de-victimize" our students. It combats hopelessness and powerlessness and fosters self-confidence. In 1999-2009 Post-Orphanage Education Center existed as a project within ROOF (Russian Orphan Opportunity Fund). Since September 2010 it is an independent organization "Step Up".

The mission of organization is to improve the quality of life and integration in society of children and youth with disabilities by their integrated rehabilitation. . Goals: Creation of necessary conditions for rehabilitation of youth and children; Stakeholders and social institutes (academic, specialized general secondary and higher educational establishments, charitable foundations and community organizations) Involvement in disabled youth problem solving; Promotion of necessary informational, methodological and academic materials; overcoming negative disabled people stereotypes in society; promoting disabled youth employment and supporting them socially during employment process; training of graduates and students with disabilities for future careers and independent living (self-service in everyday life, environment orientation, communication basics, human rights acknowledgement, introduction to computer technologies), building skills for social relations, social environment adaptation; Psychological assistance for individuals with psychophysical disabilities and members of their families, assistance in case of force majeure situations; Optimal conditions creation for communication, work with creative youth, cooperation with the state youth services; Cooperation with domestic and international organizations that address the complex problems of disabled people rehabilitation.

There's no such thing as somebody else's child; we are responsible for all children. They need care and warmth. And those who don't have parents need our help. Russia has some of the highest numbers of abandoned children in the world. We cannot stand by and watch this happen any longer. We will do everything in our power to ensure that as many children as possible are given the opportunity to live in loving homes, receive a quality education, develop as well-rounded individuals and participate fully in society. We want to bring people together and give everyone the chance to make a difference in the lives of orphaned children. We want to put an end to such tragic stories. We want to transform the lives of orphaned children, helping and supporting them in every way possible.

That Athletes With An Intellectual Impairment Across The World Have The Opportunity To Achieve Excellence In Sport And High-Level Competition