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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.

Transform the future of Venezuelan children and youth at risk, nurturing and educating them as integral, ethical and thoughtful leaders so that they are the ones who transform their community and their own family.

We believe that each one deserves to be happy and that is why every day we stand beside children, adolescents, young people and the elderly so that they are protagonists of the transformation of life and society. Our mission is to provide shelter for children, adolescents, young people and the elderly, which aims to enable a safer, happier future with more opportunities

Contribute to peace in the Alagados favela, accelerating growth projects, led by inhabitants of the neighborhood, associated with a professional team.

Instituto da Crianca is a SOCIAL MANAGER to promote human development. The organization works as a way to bring together people and companies that are able and willing to contribute, but don't know how to make this investment reach those who really need it. With 28 years of history, the Instituto connects and articulates these two groups, advising companies, and directing financial, human, material, and technical knowledge resources.

UmRio works to end intergenerational poverty in Morro do Castro, and support other vulnerable communities around the world do the same UmRio is an evidence-based development programme that supports children and youth at every stage of their learning, from the cradle to graduation. Through a 5-pillar development model centred around rugby, education, job-readiness, healthcare and social support, UmRio provides children, young people and their families with the conditions they need to take charge of their futures, rather than have them defined by the circumstance they were born into.

To promote and articulate defensive actions of rights, prevention and orientation, service delivery and family support - aimed to improve quality life of people with intellectual and multiple disabilities - and the construction of a fair and solidary society.

I - Enable the integral promotion of the human person, promoting education and cultural development through action and socio-community education, in activities inherent to the interest of agriculture, especially regarding the sustainable development and social elevation of the family farmer from the spiritual-ethical-ecological, intellectual, technical, health and economic point of view; II - Encourage, through education, entrepreneurial attitudes of rural youth, their families and communities, contributing to the access to the generation of work and income, as well as providing continuous formation processes of Alternation Educators / Monitors of Agricultural and Family Schools and several publics, with a view to contributing to mobilization of popular empowerment and emancipation in the complex sociocultural reality of the Brazilian countryside; III - Ensure that the formation and animation activities of the EFAs are articulated and integrated with the promotion and sustainable development projects in which they are inserted; IV - To promote, as its predominant activity, a contextualized and differentiated education, serving as a maintaining institution to regulate, manage, raise funds, represent and manage the operation of the Santa Cruz do Sul Family Farm School - EFASC, which may offer teaching courses High School and Vocational High School, as well as initial and continuing education, complementary and technical specializations of Rural Professional Learning, following the principles of the CEFFAs Network - Family Centers for Alternating Training in Brazil, with universality of service, scholarships and benefits related to school transportation, uniforms, teaching materials, housing and food; V - Providing, conducting, executing and encouraging initial and ongoing processes of training for Alternating Educators / Family School Teachers and EFA association members; VI - Promote a quality education, contextualized, differentiated and focused on the rural environment, in accordance with the foundations and principles of the CEFFAs Network, with a Pedagogy of Alternation methodology and appropriate to the Law of Guidelines and bases of National Education (LDB No. 9,394) / 1996) and the National Plan of Current Education (PNE), as well as Decree No. 7352, of November 4, 2010 and other normative instruments of field education and relevant legislation; VII - Recognize the knowledge of family farmers and the community, recognize their role as alternative educator, seek and promote the construction of theoretical / practical knowledge from the local reality of youth and the harmful and sustainable development in activities related to agriculture, currently the education and training of young people, families and the community; VIII - Encourage, carry out and promote the organization and mobilization of farmers and the youth of Family Farming in order to gain their rights and access to public policies; IX - Promote moral and ethical values, valuing the spirit of solidarity, respecting the environment, promoting gender equity and analysis, ethnicity and patterns of group types, valuing cultural diversity and any nature; X - Develop the attendance and evaluation of the beneficiaries of the Organic Law of Social Assistance - LAAS, their defense and guarantee of their rights. Promote social assistance - serving all stakeholders, including: children, adolescents, young people, adults, men, women, the elderly, people with disabilities and all minorities in society; XI - Educational institution service to create, integrate, regulate, accredit, administer, covenant, fundraise, use, organize, maintain and use education resources at any level, including higher education - both undergraduate and postgraduate - University graduate. It may be offered or in partnership or cooperation with other universities;

Associacao Prato Cheio is a non-governmental organization certified as an OSCIP entity (Civil Society Organization for Public Interest). Founded in 2001 by a group of graduate students who identified a great volume of food that was being wasted at the Mercado Municipal in Sao Paulo and led them to collect and distribute what was wasted to charities. The mission of Prato Cheio is to promote access to adequate food for people at social risk and vulnerability, by fighting food waste and enhancing nutrition education, contributing to environmental development. Prato Cheios action is based on the Colheita Urbana Program, a concept developed by Food Chain, which is a North American and Canadian network of NGOs. It's based on collecting fresh food in a safe manner and further transferring them. Aligned with the Millennium Development Goals, Prato Cheios projects contribute to: -Hunger combat; -Nutritional value added to meals; -Reduction of food waste; -Reduction of organic residues inappropriately disposed; - Development of partnerships for a sustainable socio-environment. The main Projects of Associacao Prato Cheio are the Solidary Route Project and the Nurturing with Health Project. The Solidary Route Project promotes access to adequate food for people in vulnerability and social risk situation through food wastage reduction and nutritional education. The Solidary Route Project is based on the safe collection of food that would be wasted and its subsequent transfer to the institutions and their beneficiaries in social vulnerability situation. Sustainable solution to responsibly dispose foods that lost commercial value but which retains their nutritional properties preserved, and industrialized that are close to expiration. It has no cost to the donor and also offers savings in disposal of waste, reduction of waste of natural resources and promotes the quality of food to needy people. The Nurturing with Health Project promotes cooking workshops for cooking professionals of the institutions that are beneficiaries from Solidary Route Project and the general public. The workshops are free for charge and are held in the Faculty of Public Health - USP. With 3 actions the project Nurturing with Health promotes nutritional education about: -Whole Utilization of Food (utilization of non-conventional parts of the food (seeds, stems, leaves, bark); -Reduction of Food Waste; -Health and Safety in the Kitchen. In 2020 more than 415 tons of food were collected and distributed to 52 institutions. This food donation provides the complementation of meals for almost 17,000 people every day. Since the beginning of its foundation, 20 years ago, Prato Cheio has collected and distributed more than 3,300 tons of food. In 2019 Associacao Prato Cheio offered 12 workshops for 272 cooking professionals, which are responsible for preparing the food for these vulnerable beneficiaries. And 22 courses and workshops were offered to more than 800 people in schools and companies. With the pandemic, Prato Cheio started to offer online courses and workshops for the cooking professionals.

To ensure the effectiveness of rights for the population of the 16 favelas of Mare.

Futebol da forca [football gives strength] is an independent international foundation, educational platform and community for purpose-driven football coaches. The organisation was founded in Mozambique in 2012 to work within football to empower girls with agency to make informed decisions and live a life they value. Futebol da forca engages, trains and supports voluntary football coaches to empower girls within football, while changing attitudes and norms that today prevent girls from reaching their full potential, in order for girls to thrive far outside the football field.

The Instituto Federal Goiano (IF Goiano) seeks to promote quality professional education, aiming at the integral formation of the citizen for the development of society.