Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust
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Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust

Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust is a Zambian NGO, established in 1998, to teach the community around South Luangwa National Park, Zambia, the importance of wildlife and provide the knowledge to conserve it. Its mission: Chipembele delivers its innovative conservation education programme to children in schools through conservation clubs and to community members through conservation-themed lessons,…

The Blue House
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The Blue House

The Blue House Project is a non-profit organization founded to support disadvantaged families living in tents in the desert of Pushkar (Rajasthan – India). Through Education, Employment and Primary Life Needs we help these families to escape the intergenerational cycle of poverty. Its mission : the organization sends children belonging to lower castes to the…

World Geospatial Industry Council
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World Geospatial Industry Council

The World Geospatial Industry Council, WGIC, is collaborative platform to advance the role of the geospatial industry and strengthen its contribution to the world economy and society by understanding and mitigating Climate Change. Its mission: Co-creating Geospatial Economy in a Digital World The World Geospatial Industry Council is a global not-for-profit trade association of commercial…

International Social Service (ISS)
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International Social Service (ISS)

The International Social Service (ISS) assists children and families confronted with complex social problems as a result of migration. Its mission: Unite families across borders. The International Social Service (ISS) is an international NGO founded in 1924; today a network of national entities and a General Secretariat that assist children and families confronted with complex…

FXBIS: fighting poverty in India
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FXBIS: fighting poverty in India

FXB India Suraksha (FXBIS) is an Indian non-governmental, non-profit organization providing development assistance to marginalized children, women, and communities in rural and urban India. Since inception, the organization has had a special focus for children, especially those from marginalized communities and the HIV/AIDS infected or affected children. Its mission: Provide people living in extreme poverty…

Lake Aid
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Lake Aid

Lake Aid is a French nonprofit organization which provides fun activities and essential supplies for children of asylum seeking and homeless families in the Annecy region. Its mission: advocate a welcoming and caring local community, through building relationships with families in need. Lake Aid started in 2015 as a Facebook group. Its aim was to…

Bridges 2030
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Bridges 2030

Bridges 2030 is an NGO with the goal of connecting local communities with funding opportunities, technology, and the training necessary to build capacity and achieve lasting change regarding forcibly displaced communities. Its mission: Cultivate compassion. The organization catalyzes and educates the social impact community to support scalable and replicable projects across the globe. It supports…

Tibetan Children’s Village: A Home for Orphans and Refugees
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Tibetan Children’s Village: A Home for Orphans and Refugees

ConnectAID founder, Gaelle Mogli, was invited to visit the Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV) and interviewed its coordinator in Dharamshala, India. The TCV is a nonprofit organization that provides education and care for Tibetan children who are orphans, refugees, or otherwise in need. The organization was founded in 1960 by the Dalai Lama and has since…

Billion strong
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Billion strong

Billion Strong is an identity and empowerment organization designed to bring the billions of voices of persons with disabilities together. It is a  US based global identity nonprofit organization meant to unite, elevate and empower the global community of people with disabilities to develop a positive disability identity so that we can come together and…

Social Services for Children with Disabilities – Cambodia
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Social Services for Children with Disabilities – Cambodia

International Social Service (ISS) aims to prevent children with disabilities from being unnecessarily placed in orphanages around the world, including in Cambodia, and they achieve this through a project that supports families and front-line social workers. The Challenges Cambodia has a high rate of poverty, which is a significant factor that drives the abandonment of…