From Sore to Soar
Global Humanitarian
Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines
Advocacy & Resources
Able Charities
Website: https://ablecharities.org
Description: To improve the quality of life for people living in villages in general, with a specific focus on assisting orphans, widows and their children, by offering medical services, education, and vocational activities in an environment that is affordable, congenial and rural based.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
Website: https://adra.org
Description: A global humanitarian organization that delivers relief and development through health, education, livelihood, and emergency response to individuals in more than 107 countries. Go Green initiative the last week in April
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Website: https://www.aap.org
Description: Child and adolescent healthy mental development, immigrant child health, health care access and coverage, gun violence prevention, tobacco & E-cigarettes, vaccines, child nutrition, climate change, clean air & environmental justice, juvenile justice
American Red Cross
Website: www.redcross.org
Description: Bring help and hope to families affected by disaster, learn disaster preparedness strategies and ways to stay safe.
CARE International
Website: https://www.care.org
Description: Fighting global poverty, inequality, to achieve social justice by reaching impoverished communities, providing economic opportunities, emergency relief, and influencing policy change, addressing discrimination, helping women
The Carter Center
Website: https://www.cartercenter.org
Description: Envisions a world where people are free to enjoy all their human rights to reach their full potential and live in dignity. Strives to advance the rights of protected groups, apply comprehensive human rights framework through programming in the US, promote climate and environmental justice, expertise on human rights issues.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Website: https://www.crs.org
Description: Works with organizations to help the poor and vulnerable people overcome emergencies, earn living through agriculure and access affordable healthcare
Children’s Hunger Fund
Website: https://childrenshungerfund.org
Description: Delivers food and hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.
Convoy of Hope
Website: https://convoyofhope.org
Description: Faith based organization to feed the world through children’s feeding initiatives, community outreach and disaster responses, partnering with churches, businesses, civic organization and government agencies
Direct Relief
Website: https://www.directrelief.org
Description: Partners with local health providers, healthcare companies, and business leaders to provide medical assistance for people struggling with poverty and disaster
Dreams for Every Child
Website: http://dreamsforeverychild.org
Description: Addresses children's state of mind between (6-16) years in Uganda by providing better shelter, meals & food, health and education.
Doctors without Borders
Description: Impartial medical humanitarian assistance to people affected by conflict, disease outbreak, natural and human-made disasters and exclusion from healthcare in more than 70 countries
Hands in Service, Inc.
Website: https://www.hisinc.org
Description: Fosters alliances among charitable organizations for the purpose of centralizing supplies, talent, and resources for disadvantaged communities and to form short-term mission teams focused on evangelism, construction, medical aid and education
Hand (Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations)
Website: https://www.hand-global.com
Description: Providing disaster and response relief, education, health, and entrepreneur in Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Philippines, & Nepal
Heart to Heart International
Website: https://www.hearttoheart.org
Description: Promotes health, wellness, sustainability in more than 60 countries
Himalayan Cataract Project
Website: https://cureblindness.org
Description: To restore sight and hope for patients who might never have been reached due to unnecessary blindness, almost half are due to cataract – which can be surgically treated.
In touch Mission International
Website: https://intouchmission.org
Description: Serves and empowers godly national believers around the world (India, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Sudan, Zambia, US, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Pakistan) to reach communities for Christ
Life Water
Website: https://lifewater.org
Description: Access to safe water, and improved sanitation and hygiene, one village at a time.
KIDS without Borders
Website: http://www.kidswithnoborders.org
Description: All kids, one world, inspiring youth through service worldwide. Programs include hand me up, teach me to fish, humanitours, japan relief, miracle baby, power of one and helmet for kids
Kissidugu Foundation
Website: https://kissidugu.org
Kissidugu Foundation creates sustainable and equitable opportunities for individuals and communities, through civic dialogue, education, cultural preservation and the perpetuation of Guinean music and dance.
Kiva
Website: www.kiva.org
Description: An international non-profit, providing crowdfunding loans with the possibility of repayment
Lutheran World Relief (Baltimore, MD):
Website: https://lwr.org
Description: Working with Lutherans and partners around the world to end poverty, injustice and human suffering.
Metro World
Website: https://www.metroworldchild.org
Description: Faith-based humanitarian organization serving New York children and various urban centers and rural communities around the world, plan a mission trip.org
Muslim Aid
Website: https://www.mausa.org/
Description: Helping people who are victims of natural disasters or conflict and those that are suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, deprivation or lack of skills and economic opportunities
P.E.A.C.E inc.
Website: http://www.peace-inc.net
Description: Sending goodwill to the children of the world.
Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation
SAHF Website: https://www.sahf.org
Description: all citizens of El Salvador can meet their basic human needs.
Operation Compassion
Website: https://www.operationcompassion.org
Description: Providing essential good and community assistance for those affected by crisis, both internationally, and here at home.
Rahma Worldwide
Website: https://rahmaww.org
Description: Assists refugees by restarting the lives of many people who lost their livelihood, functioning in many economically and politically unstable countries like Yemen, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, and so on.
Rice Foundation
Website: https://www.ricefoundation.us
Description: health care and community development, ministries, Education, Leadership Training, Medical and Dental, Relief, clean water, food for the poor to the poorest in Central America, Honduras,
Save the Children
Website: https://www.savethechildren.org
Description: An expert organization on helping children grow up healthy, educated and safe
UNICEF
Website:
Description: A humanitarian organization working to keep children healthy, responding to violence against children and adolescents, defend rights in all contexts.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Website: www.usaid.gov
Description: USAID transforms families, communities and countries by providing aid and response to help countries become self-reliant
United Nations Foundation
Website: https://unfoundation.org
Description: Tackles humanity’s greatest challenges to mobilize ideas, people and resources for diverse and durable sustainable development goals
WaterAid
Website: https://www.wateraid.org/
Description: Distributing safe and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene produces projects to those in need
Water For People
Website: https://www.waterforpeople.org
Description: Addressing the global water crisis in Latin America, Asia and Africa
Water.org
Website: https://water.org/
Description: Non-profit global organization bringing water and sanitation to the world
We Bloom
Website: https://www.webloom.org
Description: Empowering healthy communities adapting to the changing needs that emerge in Vietnam and Indiana.
World Central Kitchen
Website: https://wck.org
Description: providing fresh meals in response to Humanitarian, climate and community crises
World Connect
Website: https://www.worldconnect-us.org
Description: Invests in the Global South to drive self-sustaining development in communities RELATED TO health, education, economic opportunity, and the environment, impacting women and girls, BUILDING social capital, growing local leaders, and sustainably shifting power.
Description: tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
To add:
Centro de Intergración Libre y Solidario de Argentina (CILSA)
Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT)
Fundación Solidaridad
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)
Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación “Dra. Adriana Rebaza Flores”
International Medical Corps
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
International Society of Wheelchair Professionals (ISWP)
Jhpiego
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute
Laerdal Global Health
Lions Clubs International Foundation: SightFirst
MedGlobal
Mercy Corps
Motivation Australia
Motivation Charitable Trust (U.K.)
Motivation Romania Foundation
One Acre Fund
Orbis International
Rahma Relief Foundation
Real Medicine Foundation (RMF)
Right To Play
Rotary International
ShelterBox USA
Sirindhorn National Medical Rehabilitation Centre (SNMRC)
Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC)
Survive & Thrive Global Development Alliance
Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)
UCP Wheels for Humanity Indonesia (UCPRUK)
UNICEF USA
Website: https://www.unicef.org
Description: Working with government agencies and partners to respond to violence against children and adolescents, defend rights in all contexts.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations Foundation (Measles and Rubella Initiative)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
World Food Program (WFP)
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