Frank Water Charity www.frankwater.com
What sort of people do they help?
From 2005, this charity provides the access to safe drinking water for more than 200,000 people across 128 communities worldwide. They work with the poorest and most vulnerable communities in India.
How do they help the people?
They implement water supply systems, conduct research with their partners to understand what Indian communities need help with clean drinking water. In addition, they advocate for the change based on their research.
Their work consists of these 3 steps:
- Projects. They work with local NGO partners in both rural and urban settings to implement lasting solutions to water and sanitation issues while also providing education in good hygiene practices.
- They advocate for change to the Indian government so millions of the citizens across the country can have access to clean drinking water while being educated about the importance of good hygiene.
- Research and Development. They conduct intensive research and develop their effective projects as more sustainable as they go.
How can you support them?
You can support them by visiting this page http://www.frankwater.com/fundraise/.
The Busoga Trust www.busogatrust.co.uk
What sort of people do they help?
This charity provides sustainable access to safe water in the communities in rural Uganda. This African country has a dry climate and the majority of water resources lack sanitation. More than 80% of Uganda citizens live in rural areas where safe water coverage is much lower.
How do they help the people?
This charity organisation begins with the source water installation. Their primary goal is to find such places for the water source where people will not come into contact with bacteria. As the previous charity, they work with these 3 elements:
- They work under construction of a safe water source. This can be done in different ways so we will not be talking much about this.
- The climate of the country is dry and it means that there are many different bacteria. Each community must be careful with that by avoiding open defecation.
- Since not everyone in Uganda has access to clean water, such simple steps as hand washing can help to ensure that the safe water is collected.
How can you support them?
There are 3 different ways to support them. You may send a text WASH15 £5 to 70070, click donate button on their site directly http://www.busogatrust.co.uk/donate/ or use a contact form for postal and transfer donations.
They offer also:
- Individual fundraising
- Company giving
- Group fundraising
- Lifestyle giving
Water For Kids waterforkids.org.uk
What sort of people do they help?
It is a small charity that provides access to safe water for communities in Uganda and Zambia. Also, you may find their projects in Kenya, Tanzania, Peru, The Gambia, India, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. The charity was founded in 1996 to help children in poor African countries access clean drinking water.
How do they help the people?
“Water for Kids aims for a holistic approach to the prevention of waterborne disease and, in terms of its ethos.” Their main goal is to involve local communities from the beginning and then, they help them with the installation of water source. They help with local labour and materials.
Their mission is to protect the children’s health by providing access to safe drinking water, good sanitation and other public health related measures.
How can you support them?
You can make a donation using this form http://waterforkids.org.uk/pages/donation.htm. Also the charity has 8 corporate members who regularly make large sum donations.
Water For Africa www.waterforafrica.org.uk
What sort of people do they help?
Water For Africa is another UK based charity that helps poor African communities with safe and clean drinking water. This nonprofit organization offers:
- Direct visit of their projects for the donors
- Frugal budgeting to prove that all donations were spent directly on African communities
The charity itself has only 6 people in the team.
How do they help the people?
The mission of the Water For Africa charity is providing African communities with safe water, good sanitation and health provision. Roughly, 40-60% of African water sources are failing from year to year. Their model helps local organizations with sources of water development and further installation. Then, this source would be upgraded for future generations. Such water installation can be sustained.
You may read full plan here: http://www.waterforafrica.org.uk/how-our-projects-work
How can you support them?
You can support Water For Africa charity from this page. They offer the following:
- How to donate
- Fundraising ideas
- Fundraise for us
- Fundraiser downloads
- How to become Corporate supporters
Care International www.careinternational.org.uk
What sort of people do they help?
The charity works in many areas and one of them is “Water and Sanitation”. Care International works not only with poor countries. In the section “Where we work” you may see more developed countries like Croatia, Romania or Brazil. But the main area of their work is Africa.
Except “water and sanitation” they offer the following:
- Disaster relief
- Working with business
- Governance
- War, conflict and peacebuilding
- Hunger and poverty
- Microfinance
- Climate change
- Shelter
- Education
- Medicine and health
- HIV and AIDS
How do they help the people?
Care International organisation works to improve water supply, sanitation and hygiene in communities with a lack of access to safe water. They provide “people with water purification kits capable of making even the dirtiest water safe to drink. We also installed temporary water tanks distributing 10,000 litres of water which were regularly refilled.”
Their main mission in this field is long term support because it helps to improve the sanitation and hygiene not only for the current communities, but for future generations, too. This charity also works with farmers to help them with irrigation systems for farms and water conservation projects.
How can you support them?
Everything you need about supporting this charity can be found here: http://www.careinternational.org.uk/how-you-can-help. They offer the following to their supporters:
- Donate
- Charity challenges
- org
- H&M Conscious Foundation
- #WithSyria
- Change how you live
- Your own fundraising event
- Trusts and foundations
OXFAM www.oxfam.org.uk
What sort of people do they help?
The charity works with different water difficulties worldwide: from the Haiti earthquake to the Pakistan floods. Their main mission is to find the most effective and efficient way to provide safe water to the communities. They work with local people considering their local needs and best possible practices for each situation.
Mostly OXFAM works with women and children because they are the most vulnerable category of the population.
How do they help the people?
In each situation their mission is to provide a safe water access – “setting up delivery systems that pipe or truck water in from the nearest water source for distribution via water tanks, pipes and tapstands.” Except water sources development advises that they also provide health and hygiene advice to ensure that clean water sources will be working as long as possible.
OXFAM works only with local communities to provide long-term solutions that can reduce levels of poverty and disease. According to the statistics, a lot of African children do not attend a school regularly because they do not have the access to safe water.
How can you support them?
You can support the OXFAM charity from this page: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate.
Water Aid www.wateraid.org
What sort of people do they help?
Water Aid charity operates in 26 countries according to their site where they help in providing access to safe water. One in ten of the world’s population can’t get clean water so they have no choice and get it from wherever they can. This nonprofit organisation works with worldwide local communities to help them with clean drinking water. In the countries where they work, poor communities cannot access safe water locally because of bad infrastructure or management service.
How do they help the people?
By working with poor local communities, Water Aid charity is investing in their successful future. From 2009 to 2015, they helped 25 million people to have access to safe water. In the near future, this amount can increase to 100 million people.
Their main goals are:
- To promote and secure poor people’s rights and access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation.
- To support governments and service providers in developing their capacity to deliver safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation.
- To advocate for the essential role of safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in human development.
- To further develop as an effective global organization recognised as a leader in our field and for living our values.
How can you support them?
Everything you need about the supporting of Water Aid can be found at this page. Here you can find what events and campaigns they run; job vacancies and volunteering, fundraising, how to become corporate partnership etc.
Just a Drop www.justadrop.org
What sort of people do they help?
This charity helps the people with a lack of access to save water. It is working with local communities worldwide. You may find their projects in Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Mongolia, Libya, Egypt, Poland, Denmark, Afghanistan etc. So we can say that Just a Drop works not only with the poorest communities, but also in some well established Europe countries.
How do they help the people?
“We recognise that local ownership is vital to the sustainability of our projects and our volunteer field operatives work directly with local partners and communities to achieve this.” Each product installation and development must work for future populations. That is why they also provide some advice about hygienic and sanitation.
How can you support them?
If you would like to donate for Just a Drop, you may do it from this page. For premium sponsors, they have a special page that you may find here.
Muslim Aid www.muslimaid.org
What sort of people do they help?
Muslim Aid nonprofit organisation builds a well for poor communities that don’t have access to safe drinking water. They’re currently working in 70 countries. The Water Sanitation programmeis one of the most important in their water sector. You may find their most successful projects in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Gaza, and Indonesia.
How do they help the people?
Their volunteers identify a potential lack of water supply in the region that was affected and construct a special well source that can provide clean drinking water to the local communities. Most of the people they helped previously were using river water for hand washing, cooking and bathing. But in such regions as Gaza; it is very dangerous.
Another part of their job is to provide residents with clean water that can deliver it to the most needed communities.
How can you support them?
Everything you need to know about how to support them can be found here.
- Jobs
- Events calendar
- Volunteers
- Fundraising
- Speakers
Village Water www.villagewater.org
What sort of people do they help?
Village Water charity works in two African countries: Mozambique and Zambia. The name of the charity says that it is working with poor village populations from 2003 [the year when it was founded] and has supported more than 650 villages and 169,500 people in those countries.
In Zambia and Mozambique 2/3 people lack safe water to drink.
How do they help the people?
The charity works with Village Water Zambia [independent non-government organisation]. Six members of the team lead the community training sessions. By sessions, Imean hygiene and sanitation lessons that will help to improve their lives.
After that, each community can build “a latrine with a hand washing point, a bath shelter and other structures to improve their own hygiene and the general cleanliness of the village”.
How can you support them?
If you want to donate to Village Water charity, then should visit this page. Remember that only £25 can change someone’s life.
Mission Direct www.missiondirect.org
What sort of people do they help?
This UK charity works for African communities and along with water projects, they also offer others such as school, family etc. Their main mission is to connect volunteers and poor local people to help them improve their lives, gain access to drinking water and motivate them.
Their goals are:
- To improve lives for thousands of people who live in material and spiritual poverty
- Offer life challenge and change to the volunteers who make this happen
How do they help the people?
Mission Direct goes deeper in the local communities and focuses on their problems. Usually, such problems related to lack of safe water, hygiene, sanitation, etc. Their volunteer teams work in developing countries and encourage them to build local projects that will have a positive impact on their lives. Mostly, people who join this charity spend their holidays as volunteers.
Volunteers raise as much money as possible and then go directly to the community they are supporting to be sure that money goes in the right direction. Some volunteers raise a little; others raise thousands of pounds. But they all work for the same mission.
How can you support them?
They currently work in the following countries:
- Brazil
- Cambodia
- China
- Dominican Republic
- India
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Moldova
- Sierra Leone
- Uganda – Kumi
- Uganda – Rukungiri
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
If you want to see what opportunities they offer in each of the countries above – go to this page.
Human Appeal humanappeal.org.uk
What sort of people do they help?
Now they conduct fundraisers for these 4 water projects:
- Hand pump
- Deep water Well
- Deep area Well
- Gaza wash project
The charity works in 25 countries across 3 continents: Africa, Asia and Europe [UK and Macedonia].
How do they help the people?
Professionalism and transparency:We follow transparent, best practice procedures and systems in all what we do.
Trust and integrity:
We assure our donors that their donations are delivered as promised.
Empowerment:
We treat beneficiaries with dignity and empower them to develop their capabilities to follow independent positive life styles.
Equality in aid distribution:
We distribute aid to all needy people and destinations regardless of race, colour, religion, sex or political affiliation.
How can you support them
Everyone who wants to help then can find all required information here. You may be useful as:
- Volunteer at events
- Organize your own fundraising campaign
- Work in your school or university
- Promote Human Appeal on social networking communities
Marine Conservation Society www.mcsuk.org
What sort of people do they help?
The Marine Conservation Society is not actually helping people. This charity works with the UK seas, shores and wildlife. This nonprofit ogranisation was created especially for those who love seas. They work with local communities to protect and secure a future for living seas.
Almost nowhere in the UK seas is safe from harm, and their volunteers work on establishing vital marine environments where wildlife can recover and flourish.
How do they help?
They have 3 main missions and each of the missions has 5 projects:
| Protecting wildlife | Fishing for our future | Clean seas and beaches |
| Marine protected areas | Fish Online – Sustainable fish advice | Beachwatch – beach cleaning |
| Conservation in action | Fisheries | Good Beach Guide |
| Reports and downloads | Aquaculture | Pollution and litter problems |
| Report wildlife sightings | Supermarket survey | Campaigns and policy |
| Seasearch for divers | Reports and downloads | Reports and downloads |
How can you support them?
What you can do is: fundraise, join, donate, adopt and get involved.
Child Hope www.childhope.org.uk
What sort of people do they help?
In poor communities of Africa, many children die because they do not have access to clean drinking water. This charity works not only with the water, but all over the world where children need help. They have projects in:
- Bangladesh
- Ethiopia
- Sierra Leone
- Uganda
- Kenya
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
The main fields of Child Hope charity is help that children live on the street to get the education and healthcare they need to try to return them to their families.
How do they help the people?
The main areas are quality education and protection from violence. One of the most difficult steps is to enroll children in school. But for the long-term, it is important to create an environment where they can stay in school and receive good education. Their projects prepare African children to re-enter the school system.
Another important field is protection from violence. According to the statistics, the violence does not happen on the streets. It happens in families and schools – places where children should expect to be safe. That is why many African children escape their homes. They are just running from violence.
How can you support them?
If you want to be involved and help Child Hope charity – go to this page. You may join an event, become community fundraiser, become their supporter, leave your gift, or work with the trust and foundation.