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Ashinaga is a Japanese foundation headquartered in Tokyo. We provide financial support and emotional care to young people around the world who have lost either one or both parents. With a history of more than 55 years, our support has enabled more than 110,000 orphaned students to gain access to higher education. From 2001, we expanded our activities internationally, with our first office abroad in Uganda. Since then, we have established new offices in Senegal, the US, Brazil, the UK, and France to support the Ashinaga Africa Initiative. The Ashinaga movement began after President and Founder, Yoshiomi Tamai's mother was hit by a car in 1963, putting her in a coma, and she passed away soon after. Tamai and a group of likeminded individuals went on to found the Association for Traffic Accident Orphans in 1967. Through public advocacy, regular media coverage and the development of a street fundraising system, the association was able to set in motion significant improvements in national traffic regulations, as well as support for students bereaved by car accidents across Japan. Over time, the Ashinaga movement extended its financial and emotional support to students who had lost their parents by other causes, including illness, natural disaster, and suicide. The Ashinaga-san system, which involved anonymous donations began in 1979. This was inspired by the Japanese translation of the 1912 Jean Webster novel Daddy-Long-Legs. In 1993, Ashinaga was expanded to include offering residential facilities to enable financially disadvantaged students to attend universities in the more expensive metropolitan areas. Around this time Ashinaga also expanded its summer programs, or tsudoi, at which Ashinaga students could share their experiences amongst peers who had also lost parents. The 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck the Kobe area with a magnitude of 6.9, taking the lives of over 6,400 people and leaving approximately 650 children without parents. Aided by financial support from both Japan and abroad, Ashinaga established its first ever Rainbow House, a care facility for children to alleviate the resultant trauma. March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan, causing a major tsunami, vast damage to the Tohoku region, and nearly 16,000 deaths. Thousands of children lost their parents as a result. Ashinaga responded immediately, establishing a regional office to aid those students who had lost parents in the catastrophe. With the assistance of donors from across the world, Ashinaga provided emergency grants of over $25,000 each to over 2,000 orphaned students, giving them immediate financial stability in the wake of their loss. Ashinaga also built Rainbow Houses in the hard-hit communities of Sendai City, Rikuzentakata, and Ishinomaki, providing ongoing support to heal the trauma inflicted by the disaster. Over the past 55 years Ashinaga has raised over $1 billion (USD) to enable about 110,000 orphaned students to access higher education in Japan.

PaCT exists to support and transform the lives of vulnerable Ugandans, to attain a stable, healthy and recognizable life in the society. PaCT is a Ugandan National registered non-for-profit making organization affiliated to The Mityana Charity a registered Charity in the United Kingdom to coordinate resources and support for PaCT development projects in Uganda. We currently operate in six districts in Uganda that include Mityana, Mubende, Kiboga, Gomba, Kyankwanzi and Kassanda. Our community-based programs strive at improving the well-being of all families we serve, partnering with them for a self-sustainable society. We are a non-denominational and political organization respecting all religions and cultures in communities where we work. PaCT attributes it's growing success for over two decades now on direct community engagements with the local communities and leadership combined with a committed and professional team of staff working happily to create lasting smiles for the people we serve. To achieve long-term community based sustainable development, there is need for integration of key services such as education, health care, human rights and Economic empowerment for a stable society.

To improve on people's health, promote road safety and reduce environmental pollution associated with burning fossil fuels in automobiles and industrial equipment; through creation of awareness, sensitisation and capacity building.

'U Nine Change' is as international NGO(NPO) to active medical and education projects mainly and to give the right to happiness for all children, preferentially disadvantaged children, of the world by changing and improving their lives through treatment and support for those in the blind spots around the world since 2014 in South Korea. We have 9 participation projects. these are medical sponsorship, free clinic support, burn therapy and prevention program, international medical volunteer dispatch, education support fund, educational facility support, playground installation, regional development and emergency relief business. Our motto is "If you need someone, we will be by your side."

We work towards building one world in harmony and we do it by connecting, inspiring and empowering a new generation of sustainability leaders across the world.

To develop rural Community capacity to access better social services like health care services, Provision of water, food security, Education, human rights, Entrepreneurial skills and financial discipline to the rural communities of Uganda.

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to mobilise its members to reintroduce sustainable Sport for All and physical activity practices into everyday lives, using the Designed to Move physical activity platform.

We are an indigenous non-profit organisation and non-governmental organization that nurtures leaders committed to advancing equitable access to quality education for children in low-income communities within a two-year teaching as leadership fellowship

Provide appropriate opportunities to enable people - especially young women, people with disabilities and children - to take control of their bodies and lives, have their rights respected and improve their quality of life so they can live to their fullest potential.

Laureus' purpose is to change the world through the power of sport. Our vision is to use this power to end violence, discrimination and disadvantage against young people and children.

To uplift and transform lives through innovative programs and initiatives that promote education, well-being, and community development.