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Aid agencies, charities and NGOs

Find out more about the global dimension of education and discover even more online resources with our pick of relevant Internet sites. Use the links to the left of this page to find the sites most useful to you. If you have a suggestion for a new link, please email us.

• Action Aid - works towards the vision of a world without poverty, in which every person can exercise their right to a life of dignity.

• Adopt-a-Minefield UK - promotes awareness and mine clearance.

• Amnesty International - promotes human rights worldwide.

• Anti-Slavery International - works for the elimination of all forms of slavery.

• Book Aid - Book Aid International works with partner organisations in the South to improve access to books and information for the most disadvantaged. Includes resources for schools.

• British Red Cross Society - voluntary provider of emergency help to people in most need across the world.

• CAFOD – Catholic Fund for Overseas Development - overseas development and relief agency, fighting poverty in developing countries.

• CEWC Cymru - works with young people to promote understanding of the contemporary world; provides support for local, national and Global Citizenship education in Wales.

• Christian Aid - aid agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland, works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion. Includes resources for teachers, youth leaders and children.

• Comic Relief - offers free curriculum resources to support teaching on the issues behind Red Nose Day.

• Commission for Racial Equality - a non-governmental body tackling racial discrimination.

• Commonwealth Institute - aims to expand young people's cultural horizons.

• Fairtrade Foundation - works to guarantee a better deal for small producers worldwide.

• Find Your Feet - overseas development charity working in six developing countries: India, Malawi, Zambia, Swaziland, Lesotho, and South Africa.

• Free Tibet Campaign - campaigns on human rights in Tibet.

• Friends of the Earth - a network of environmental pressure groups.

• Global Campaign for Education - promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people.

• Greenpeace - undertakes environmental lobbying, research and direct action.

• Human Rights Education Associates - international non-government organisation that supports human rights learning.

• International Youth Foundation - works to improve the prospects of young people where they live, work and play.

• Islamic Aid – Islamic Aid seeks to make immediate and lasting improvements to the lives of people affected by poverty, war and disaster.

• Islamic Relief - a UK based aid agency that seeks to alleviate the poverty and suffering of the world’s poorest people.

• JCORE – Jewish Council for Racial Equality - JCORE works to promote awareness and active involvement in the Jewish community to combat racism and build a just, harmonious multi-cultural society.

• Minority Rights Group International - an international non-governmental organisation working to secure rights for minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide..

• Muslim Aid - Muslim Aid is an international relief and development agency working to alleviate the suffering among the world’s poorest and most needy communities regardless of race, gender, nationality or political opinion.

• National Deaf Children’s Society - for families, parents and carers; helps to maximise the skills and development of deaf children and young people.

• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) - focuses on child protection.

• One World Week - raises awareness of, and takes action on, global issues.

• People and Planet - UK campaigning organisation, including trade and climate themes, for sixth forms and university students.

• Permaculture Association of Britain - provides training, networking and research on permaculture.

• Refugee Council - helps and supports refugees and asylum seekers in Britain.

• Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) - provides information and support for anyone with serious sight problems.

• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) - focuses on welfare issues affecting animals in the UK and worldwide.

• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) - provides a range of primary and secondary resources.

• Rugmark UK - works to eradicate illegal child labour in the South Asian carpet industry.

• Save the Children - fights for children’s rights worldwide.

• SCOPE - focuses its work on people with cerebral palsy; works to achieve equality and civil rights for disabled people.

• Sight Savers International - works to restore sight to people in the world's poorest countries.

• Survival International - supports tribal peoples.

• The Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education (SAPERE) - educational charity to promote philosophical enquiry.

• Tourism Concern - raises awareness and concern for the impact of tourism on communities and the environment.

• UNICEF’s Voices of Youth - international (and multilingual) discussion groups on rights and youth issues, quizzes and teachers' discussions.

• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - regionally-based education officers run free CPD sessions on integrating the Convention of the Rights of the Child into the Citizenship curriculum.

• War on Want - campaigns against the causes of poverty and helps the dispossessed to fight back.

• Waste Watch - works to restore sight to people in the world's poorest countries.

• Wateraid - provides safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people.

• World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) - campaigns for the protection of endangered spaces and species.

• Worldaware - includes curriculum guidance, an online catalogue, projects and details of the resource
  centre for London schools and colleges.

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