Access to educational facilities is a major burden for the developing world.  Many children in Africa are unable to attend schools for lack of classrooms.  In 2002, a high school student from Harvard, Massachusetts named Kyla McKenna decided she would do something about this situation.  She put her plan into action and Build a School in Africa was born.  The organization’s initial goal was to build a single school.  They have long since surpassed that, building ten schools over the past d...

In 1877, the Reverend Willard Parsons ...

Christine Stevens, known as the Mother of the Animal Protection Movement, founded the Animal Welfare Institute in the year 1951. Its main goal is to alleviate the fear and pain caused by humans to animals. They started their campaign with tending to the needs of those animals used for experimentation. Later on, they expanded their works to include other areas of animal suffering that the foundation can address.

With the help of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation, their legisla...

Cástulo de la Rocha has led AltaMed Health Services Corporation as President and CEO since 1977. The nonprofit organization provides quality health and dental care and a range of other services to a primarily Latino population in underserved areas of Los Angeles and Orange Counties in Southern California. Under Cástulo de la Rocha’s direction, the health care provider has grown from one clinic in East L.A. to 44 clinics and senior care centers, and from three paid employ...

• Health, HIV and AIDS
• Agriculture and Food Security
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
•  Resettlement and
• Women’s Empowerment

They have reached out and helped families in 35 countries with their over 2,500 project...

They started with the mission of granting wishes for kids with life threatening conditions and since its founding in 1997, they have created additional programs to help kids worldwide. Dedicated to pr...

Statistics have shown that a child dies every 21 seconds because of water-related illness. Come to think of it, the world is made up of 70% water and yet the scarcity of clean water is still a problem. About a billion of the world’s population doesn’t have access to clean water and 200 million hours a day are spent by women across the globe to collect potable water.

Water is life and everyone has the right to clean water. This is the advocacy of Water.Org, to make a change and supply...

Fortunately, the likes of EnterpriseWorks/VITA (EWV) have several programs designed to combat poverty in countries like Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana as well as in the Philippines, Guinea and Nepal, among others. The programs are bas...

Their service doesn’t just end in providing education to the underprivileged Iranian children as they also extend their works to helping out the entire family alleviate their hardships. The group mitigates their burdens by paying for their healt...