Al-Mizan Charitable Trust is a UK funder that supports disadvantaged individuals and families living in poverty through small grants and interest-free loans of up to £500.Recently we funded 24 year old Layla, who is a refugee from war-torn Congo, where she was raped by a militia group at the age of 15 years. She fled her home country, with her grandmother, after her family were killed. Settled in the UK, she married a few years ago, but her husbance was violent towards her. After becoming pregnant, she fled her husband’s home, afraid that her husband’s regular beatings would harm her unborn child. She now lives in a hostel, sharing a room with a crack addict. Layla works 25 hours a week on minimum wage as a cleaner, earning just £152 per week (gross), struggling to meet her basic living costs. She is also paying back the loan for her grandmother’s funeral costs, who passed away last year. She wants to go to college, to improve her English, but government subsidies for ESOL classes have now been cut. She applied to the Trust for £200.Although the UK benefits from a welfare system, the sheer reality is that many fall through the gaps, or simply do not have enough to survive. We need your help to give needy individuals and families, the chance to break the vicious cycle of poverty.
The Belair Public School P&C supports the school and raises funds to improve all aspects of school life.
We are Foster Care Alumni of America, 20 million strong. We envision all people in and from foster care connected, empowered and flourishing. As an alumni-led organization, we promote personal and professional growth for our pee
About Our vision is of an open and just society free from discrimination, where all people can meet their needs and realise their potential. Our mission is to create opportunities for people in southern Africa to develop their full potential through education and the assertion of human rights. Alumni Since 1981 we have awarded over 3000 postgraduate scholarships to southern African scientists, human rights lawyers, civil servants, educationalists, doctors and other professionals. Our regional network of 3000 alumni is sustained by our conferences, retreats and alumni associations. Many of our scholars have gone on to become leaders in government, the private sector and civil society. They include Peter Katjavivi (1985), who set up Namibia's first university, later becoming the Namibian Ambassador to the EU; Zubeda Dangor (1996), Executive Director of the NISAA Institute for Women's Development, a South African women's and children's rights NGO; and Grace Chipalo-Mutati (2005), Consultant Orpthalmologist and Head of the Eye Unit at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Projects We also support community-based projects in southern Africa to increase access to education. Our project partners share our commitment to education as a tool of empowerment. They include the Adolescent Girls' Literacy Project in Malawi, which reintegrates young school dropouts into the secondary school system; the Small Project Foundation, which trains community health workers in the Eastern Cape; and the Giyani Science and Careers Centre, which strengthens science and IT education for thousands of rural South African students. For more information please visit: www.canoncollins.org.uk
We are a small rural school with 42 enrolments from Prep to Grade 6. Our students participate in many extra curricula activities which promote fun and fitness, such as Walk to School Day, Ride to School Day and the Adidas Fun Run.
We bring stability & joy to young & old in BS3 in South Bristol. We give children the best start in life, give older people care in their later years. We offer our whole community a space to develop, celebrate & learn & support them to improve their lives, health & well-being & the place they live.
Young Women’s Trust believes that a society which respects and listens to young women is a better society for all of us. We work with young women to address the poverty, inequality and discrimination that many of them face. Because what happens to them now impacts on their lives forever.
HACT believes that the provision of housing must be about more than just bricks and mortar. We are a national charity that works with the housing sector, government, civil society and communities to develop and share innovative approaches to meeting changing housing need. www.hact.org.uk
The Foster Care Association of Victoria’s mission is to strengthen foster care in Victoria by enhancing carers’ ability to improve the lives of the young people in their care. As the peak body, we are an independent and confidential resource for foster carers, and represent their voice through our work with government, agencies and the media. By donating or fundraising for the Foster Care Association, you are enabling it to strengthen over 1,800 foster families across Victoria. Our work directly impacts the care provided to the thousands of Victorian children and young people in foster care, enabling carers to better provide a positive and healing environment and to help the children in their care to flourish.
APF: enabling effective ministry in Africa.