Development Organisations Society and Culture United Kingdom

UK-based charities and similar working in, or raising funds for development projects in developing countries and organisations raising awareness of development issues.

• The Just Foundation - Charity that raises funds for the less privileged around the world through the sales of personalised Jewellery.
  
• Friends of Fajikunda - Supporting a children's daycare centre in The Gambia. Information about their project, news, and ways to help.
  
• Islamic Aid - Contact details for organisation working to provide emergency aid, food, shelter, water to people affected by poverty, war and disasters.
  
• PLAN International UK - Humanitarian, international development organisation which is devoted to providing assistance to underprivileged children in developing countries by offering a child sponsorship service.
  
• Stand Up For Africa - An independent registered charity creating opportunities for all those who love Africa to help eradicate poverty and suffering across the continent. Information about fundraising efforts, projects supported, news and contact details.
  
• Department for International Development (DFID) - UK Government Department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty.
  
• Christian Aid - Organisation that works in over 60 countries helping people, regardless of religion or race, to improve their own lives and tackle the causes of poverty and injustice.
  
• Find Your Feet - Works in partnership with groups in South Asia and Southern Africa to offer long-term sustainable solutions to poverty.
  
• Muslim Aid - International relief and development organisation, working in partnership with local community-based groups. Includes information on projects, programmes, and their structure.
  
• Fahamu - Supports progressive social change in Africa through information technology. Information on human rights training, services provided to partners in Africa, specialised newsletters and information on training sessions.
  
• Muslim Care - Registered charity promotes education, health and self-sufficiency among needy communities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Information about projects and appeals.
  
• Mary Slessor Foundation - Continuing the work of Mary Slessor in Nigeria. Information about their development projects, and the Scottish charity supporting it.
  
• Mercy Corps UK - Provides humanitarian community support and relief to poor countries in Africa. Works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people within local communities, assistance communities in over 100 nations.
  
• African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) - An organisation in Britain, bringing together Africans from different countries and backgrounds to involve Africans abroad more directly in Africa's development. Information and news about activities, events and membership.
  
• Dentaid - A charitable organisation that provides equipment, training, and oral health services to hospitals, clinics, and dentists in the developing world.
  
• One World Action - Organisation that is working for a world free from poverty and oppression, to promote democracy, women's rights and equality, workers rights, and safeguard the rights of all people.
  
• The Kyesimira Foundation - - provides support, education and humanitarian relief to poor and hard to reach communities in Uganda.
  
• Tsunami 2004 - Non-commercial information portal connecting the agencies involved with the task of helping, supporting and rebuilding Asia. News update, images and how to help.
  
• Hazel's Footprints Trust - Overseas school voluntary work promotion charity with aims, a background, news and links.
  
• Commonwealth Education Fund - Raising funds to maintain education at the top of the agenda of developing countries in the Commonwealth. Information about the organisation and the global education crisis; includes downloadable country strategy papers.
  
• War on Want - Organisation campaigning for a world without poverty. Information about membership, project activities, current campaigns, and news. Includes a brief history.
  
• Thare Machi Starfish Initiative - Charity supporting basic education for women and girls in India and Africa using modern technology. Information about the organisation and its projects.
  
• Methodist Relief and Development Fund - Supports the poorest of the poor with programmes of long-term development, humanitarian aid and development education. Includes news, partner stories, information on projects and appeals.
  
• Probe (Hull) Ltd - A not for profit, community economic development organisation.
  
• Soar Ahead Missions - Provides relief in Africa through children feeding programs, street parties for children, distribution of Clothes and bible distribution in Hotels.
  
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency - Works in partnership with people who work together for the basic human rights of food, shelter and a reasonable quality of life.
  
• AYELU - Fundraising charity for Ethiopia with information about current appeals and missions, UK projects.
  
• Friends Of Take Care Nursery School - Provides support to nursery schools in West Gambia.
  
• Mercy Ships UK - Offers a compassionate response to crisis around the world. Offers programmes to promote health and well-being by serving the urgent surgical needs of the forgotten poor and empowering developing communities.
  
• Nazir Welfare Trust (NWT) - UK-based volunteers working to help the poor and needy in Pakistan.
  
• Afghanaid - An independent charity to provide assistance to Afghans in hardship and distress. Information about its programmes in Afghanistan, and its activities and organisation in UK.
  
• Commonwealth Legal Education Association - A charity which aims to foster high standards of legal education and research in Commonwealth countries by building links and distributing materials. Information on activities, newsletters and a database of materials dealing with human rights.
  
• WaterAid - International NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.
  
• Learning For Life - Works with dedicated partners in Asia to provide education to vulnerable communities - in particular girls. Information on projects supported, events listing, and details of how you can help.
  
• Harvest Help - UK registered charity working at the village level in Malawi and Zambia. Details of activities, current and past projects, news and organisation background.
  
• Kandu Arts - Registered charity 1071275, focusing on sustainable development. Other work is on homelessness and the environment. Information about the organisation including history, affiliations and projects as well as contact information.
  
• Islamic Relief - A UK-registered charity which works internationally in emergency relief, development projects, support for orphans, and Waqf. Includes information about their programs and current appeals.
  
• Medical Aid to Palestinians - Information about the organisation, its activities and programmes delivering basic healthcare to Palestinian refugees.
  
• Ripple Africa - UK based charity supporting education, environmental projects and healthcare in Malawi; information about their programme and volunteer opportunities.
  
• Send a Cow - Provides livestock to poor farmers of East Africa, with training and veterinary support. Information about projects, and on-line donation facility.
  
• World Vision - Christian organisation working in 92 countries helping people in their struggle against poverty, hunger and injustice. Provides aid and emergency aid and has child sponsorship programs.
  
• Shell Foundation - Charity supports efforts worldwide to achieve sustainable development. This website includes the Foundation's main programmes and projects, its focus and rationale and information for applicants.
  
• Village Education Project - A charity improving education in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. Information about projects, and ways to help.
  
• The Mashudu Projects - Aim's to provide help to the poor and needy people of the Vhembe District of the Limpopo Province of South Africa; information about project, volunteer register, newsletter, and photo gallery.
  
• Impact Charities - Trains local teachers in developing countries for sustainable education. Provide training resources, support and supplies to local teachers particularly throughout Africa and India.
  
• ActionAid - Child and community development charity based in the UK to help world's poorest people.
  
• Engineers Without Borders - Facilitate human development in developing countries through Engineering. Offers short and long term education and outreach programs in the UK and in 13 countries worldwide.
  
• For-ethiopia - UK-based charity providing sustainable development projects to people in Ethiopia.
  
• Techknowledgy - Charity dedicated to supplying the Third World with basic computer equipment to aid educational development. FAQs and details of how you can donate either funds or equipment.
  
• Bombolulu School Of Promise - UK based charity providing a school and education to the children living in the slums of Mombasa, Kenya.
  
• Trade Aid - Charity, based in Salisbury, working to create sustainable employment and education in Mikindani, Tanzania. Site contains details of aims, projects and volunteering.
  
• Interpal - Provides support to the poor and needy Palestinian people. Information about their programmes, publications and appeals.
  
• Tearfund - A leading relief and development charity, working in partnership with Christian agencies and churches worldwide to tackle the causes and effects of poverty.
  
• Human Relief Foundation - A Muslim-based international development and relief organisation offer information about their programmes, appeals, and structure. Also includes news and press releases.
  
• Education Action International - Information about its international programme of support in education, and its UK work with refugees. Includes news, events, and membership details.
  
• Farm Africa - Providing practical help to poor rural African farmers and herders, enabling them to produce more food for their families. Information on projects and fundraising.
  
• Plunkett Foundation - A charity which aims to promote self-help in rural communities in the UK and worldwide. A major focus is support for agricultural co-operatives and other forms of farmer-controlled businesses.
  
• Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) - Development and relief organisation that works in many countries to tackle poverty and encourage development. Includes profile, campaigns and resources with news and events.
  
  

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