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Preserve the primary forest and restaure the previously devastated areas in the most endangered areas of the Amazon, together with the traditional communities.

The Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization is an international non-profit conservation organization that seeks to reverse the decline of the plant and animal kingdoms and our environment through education and action. We are committed to the creative and responsible rehabilitation of Planet Earth and bring new solutions to this field. For example, we created a term for the basic principle underlying everything we do: Cooperative Ecology (CoEco). Through the application of this principle to each of the projects we take on, we are seeking to instill in people a sense and understanding that all life is interdependent, and that the decisions we all make affect the natural world, and then, in turn, circle back to affect the health and quality of life of each one of us. Basically, CoEco demonstrates that all life does best when it works together with other life towards mutual survival. When this concept is implemented, it better connects everyone to nature, and is a way of getting people to better co-operate with each other and the natural world around them. Our purpose in working to infuse the concept of CoEco into society is to bring about a New Age of constructive decision making.

The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is the global network for rights related to habitat. Through solidarity, networking and support for social movements and organizations, HIC struggles for social justice, gender equality, and environmental sustainability, and works in the defense, promotion and realization of human rights related to housing and land in both rural and urban areas.

The mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

The association develops and implements a methodology and a well-adapted support to enable people suffering from Alzheimer's disease or related conditions , from mild to moderate stages, to access cultural visits as well as workshops and artistic events. The structure trains and support museums educators from National Museums to lead the proposed activities. The association has created and implemented an innovative volunteer program to provide respite time for family caregivers through the mobilization of volunteers.

We are a South African registered charity dedicated to encouraging disadvantaged individuals and communities to develop to their full potential in sport, education and health. We are committed to using sport as a tool to develop the disadvantaged and vulnerable youth. We do this by; 1. Using direct sports coaching - for its health benefits, improved emotional well being and increased life skills (teamwork, leadership, decision making, communication). 2. Using sport to discuss critical issues - by delivering curriculums on topics such as HIV / AIDS awareness in a fun and interactive manner on the sports field. 3. Using sport for improved education - by providing pathways to success for talented and dedicated individuals through scholarships to top local schools and tertiary education.

The mission of FEBA consists in contributing to the reduction of hunger and malnutrition in Europe, through the fight against food waste and the call for solidarity, by supporting and developing Food Banks in coutries where they are most needed. FEBA bases its activity on these values: giving, sharing, European solidarity and fighting food waste.

Board of European Students of Technology is a non-profit and non-political organisation that since 1989 strives to improve communication, cooperation and exchange opportunities for European students. The mission of BEST is to help students achieve an international mindset, reach a better understanding of cultures and societies and develop the capacity to work in culturally diverse environments. To achieve this mission BEST offers high quality services to technology students all over Europe. These services include a European engineering competition, academic courses, career events and events on educational involvement. BEST offers these events in 96 European Universities, spread among 34 countries, reaching over one million students, with the help of 3300 members. It is BEST's mission to provide complementary, non-formal education in every event that it organises. This to make sure that the students that are reached grow to their full potential before they enter the job market. It is essential for BEST to show students the value of complementary education, not only to widen their perspective on the technology topics covered in their studies, but also to teach them the needed soft skills. To begin, these soft skills are covered in BEST's events by bringing students together with its two other stakeholders, universities and companies, and letting them dialog. Secondly, BEST provides specific training sessions to teach students how to acquire these skills in a safe and stimulating environment among peers. Lastly, this is done not only towards outside students, but also towards BEST's own members. By letting them organise events after they had a thorough knowledge transfer and did some in-depth training sessions, they acquire a lot of hands-on experience that makes them valued assets on the job market. In all this soft skill acquirement, there is one thing that makes BEST special: everything happens in a culturally diverse environment. BEST's volunteers really learn how to cooperate with project members from all over Europe and also the outside students are introduced to a specific mindset that BEST likes to call 'the BEST spirit'. This means that everyone works together, respecting each other's backgrounds, to achieve a common goal: empower students and give them a voice in today's society. For this donation campaign BEST would focus on the educational involvement that it stimulates among European students. It is namely very unique that an organisation run by students offers their peers a voice by collecting data in surveys and events and presenting that data to the relevant authorities. BEST, therefore, attends a lot of conferences about education to be able to share our outcomes to the fullest. We hope to raise some donations in this campaign to be able to carry out next year's planning around the theme of Digital Literacy. This theme focuses on how prepared students and universities are for the upcoming digitisation wave. It raises the question of how we will learn and teach digital skills and how industry 4.0 will make its way into our education. For this program BEST invests in conducting surveys, doing symposia on education and writing scientific papers with the purpose of disseminating the outcomes. It is not the first time that BEST is going to conduct such an Educational Involvement Programme. Last year, for example, the theme was 'Diversity in STEM education' and the years before we covered topics such as pedagogical skills, new teaching methods, relation between university and industry, etc. So what were the steps BEST undertook to create all the materials around last year's topic? First, a team was created to do research on existing literature about 'Diversity in (STEM) education'. Based on that research a survey was created in which 4 diversity types were tackled: cultural diversity, ethnic diversity, gender diversity and students with disabilities. Then, after the answers of the survey were gathered and analysed, the subtopics for the BEST Symposia on Education were identified: in this case, each symposium had a different diversity type. The same team that worked on the content creation of the symposia also prepared and delivered the sessions of those symposia. After the events, the input of all the participating students is gathered in a scientific report, which is then either published in conferences, or disseminated through social media and newsletters. The approach used last year proved to be a successful one and will be repeated in this year's Educational Involvement Programme. If we manage to get more funds via Global Giving, this will mean that we can elaborate this process and spend more resources on content creation, promotion of the surveys and dissemination of our results. In short: we will be able to make a lot more noise in the educational world.

Sport dans la Ville is France's leading non-profit serving disadvantaged kids through sports and job-readiness training. Founded in 1998, we today operate in 36 urban neighborhoods. Through sports activities (street soccer, basketball, hip hop, rugby and tennis), we impact the values of self-confidence, teamwork, dedication, leadership and hard work leading young people on the path towards a brighter future. Around 6,000 young people aged from 6 to 25 are currently involved in our programs, including 2,000 children aged from 6 to 12.

Esperance Banlieues' primary purpose is to fight against school failure in underprivileged neighborhoods in France.

KHRN works with its activist networks of human rights defenders in Iran’s Kurdish region to monitor and document human rights violations and promote the protection of human rights. It also works with its network to strengthen their capacity to track and document human rights violations.

Historique : 1973 : A Gennevilliers, des femmes de la ville, infirmières, assistante sociale travaillant au centre médico-social, mères au foyer, directrice de crèche, conseillère d’orientation, se réunissent avec quelques médecins et créent une association pour la liberté de l’avortement et de la contraception : le MLAC.\n1981 : Des femmes du MLAC ouvrent une Maison des Femmes et fondent l’association non mixte : « Elles ouvrent la porte » qui s’adresse aux femmes du quartier dont certaines sont immigrées. La halte-garderie « Plein Grés » se crée en parallèle.\n1992 : « Elles ouvrent la porte » et « Plein Grés »se trouvant confrontées au manque de formation des femmes fondent l’association « Halte et Elles », centre de formation destiné aux femmes. Confrontées également au problème des violences faites aux femmes, « Elles ouvrent la porte » avec le soutien de « Plein Grés » crée l’association L'Escale. Une convention avec la DDASS est signée permettant l’ouverture de permanences d’accueil. \n\nAssociation créée en 1992, L’Escale a pour mission d’accompagner les femmes (accueil et hébergement) vers la sortie des violences conjugales et de promouvoir la culture de l’égalité entre femmes et hommes par l’interpellation des institutions et la sensibilisation citoyenne à la cause. Elle étend son action sur le territoire départemental Nord des Hauts-de-Seine. \nForte d’une démarche engagée et d’une expertise terrain reconnue, l'Escale est un maillon central et proactif d’une transition vers une société égalitaire entre femmes et hommes.\nL’Escale-Solidarité Femmes accompagne et héberge des femmes victimes de toutes formes de violences principalement de la boucle Nord des Hauts de Seine mais aussi de toute la France si la femme est en danger dans son département. Elle bénéficie du réseau FNSF pour éloigner des femmes sur toute la France. Les femmes sont majoritairement victimes de violences conjugales et issues des quartiers défavorisés ou bénéficiant des dispositifs « politique de la ville ».\nLes actions de l’association s’adressent aussi aux partenaires (police, justice, associations, personnel de santé, travailleurs sociaux, etc.), susceptibles d’être en contact avec les familles concernées mais aussi à travers des actions de formation et de sensibilisation.\n\nLa sensibilisation des partenaires à tous les échelons du département, reste indispensable pour une meilleure compréhension, une meilleure prise en compte du phénomène et pour permettre aux femmes victimes de violences d’être accompagnées dans les meilleures conditions tout au long de leur parcours vers l’autonomie. L’Escale-Solidarité Femmes transmet son expérience et ses connaissances spécialisées et agit pour renforcer les actions partenariales dans le département et la région Ile de France.\nL’Escale-Solidarité Femmes analyse les violences faites aux femmes dans un contexte d’inégalités et de discriminations à l’égard des femmes. Elle considère qu’il s’agit d’un grave phénomène sociétal. Ainsi la violence conjugale ne relève pas de « relations passionnelles » entre un homme et une femme, ni d’une question individuelle liée à la psychologie “masculine” et “féminine”.\nSe positionner aux côtés des femmes, ce n’est pas être partisan, c’est lutter contre les inégalités dans les pratiques quotidiennes. Ceci implique une « non-neutralité » et exige de différencier la notion de « conflit de couple » de celle de « violence conjugale ». Les violences conjugales sont un délit qui exclut toute réponse impliquant une co-responsabilité de l’auteur et de la victime. A proscrire donc la médiation pénale, la médiation familiale ou les approches systémiques utilisées en psychiatrie.\nL’Escale-Solidarité Femmes considère qu’elle doit prendre en charge les enfants qui sont des victimes des violences conjugales. Qu’ils soient victimes de maltraitance directe, qu’ils vivent dans un contexte, ou comme témoins des violences, ils présentent les mêmes traumatismes que leur mère et pourront présenter plus tard des signes de souffrance psychique. L’exercice de l’autorité parentale des auteurs de violences devrait être limité au moins durant une période, dans l’intérêt des enfants et pour garantir leur protection et celle de leurs mères.\nDu fait des violences subies, les femmes expriment très souvent le souhait de ne pas être mélangées à d’autres publics, au moins le temps de la mise en sécurité et de la reconstruction, d’où l’importance de structures d’accueil et d’hébergement dédiées et sécurisées. Anonymat et confidentialité sont donc nécessaires dans les situations de violences en particulier lors de l’hébergement.\n\nL’Escale-Solidarité Femmes s’intéresse aussi bien entendu à la question des auteurs de violences depuis 1990, en lien avec les différents partenaires en charge de leur suivi socio-judiciaire. La priorité doit rester la sanction pénale, encore difficile à obtenir.