Directory of International NGOs (DINGO)


China Development Brief's database of over 200 International NGOs operating in China.
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Development Organisation of Rural Sichuan

Mission: "To facilitate the development of local communities in poor regions of Sichuan in an integrated manner that targets those most in need for long term sustainable development."

ActionAid

Mission: "To work with poor and marginalised people to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause it"

Adventist Development and Relief Agency China

Mission: "To reflect God’s character of love through human development activities that help to eradicate poverty."

American Red Cross

Mission:“The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.”

Appropriate Technology Asia (ATA)

Mission: "...to find marginal and threatened populations in environmentally challenging situations in Asia and help them meet their basic needs for housing, household energy, safe water, food and good health. Seeking out the poorest and using participatory practice, we apply technology and knowledge that is appropriate and environment sustainable embedding skills in the communities with which we work."

Associazone Per La Solidarieta Internazionale In Asia (A.S.I.A)

Mission: "[To] promote a sustainable economical and social development of ethnic minorities in Asia"

Canadian Co-operative Association

Mission: "To promote the growth and development of the co-operative sector for the economic and social betterment of communities and people in Canada and internationally . . . Through the provision of three core services: co-operative development, government affairs and public policy, and providing a common table for members to come together around issues unique to them."

Caritas Hong Kong

Mission: "Caritas is essentially a movement of understanding and concern, of caring and service, of human development and solidarity. Its special attention is directed to the needs and aspirations of the underprivileged and the needy within the community. Our services are made available to all in need, irrespective of race, gender, religious affiliation or philosophy of life. People are viewed not as dependents but as brothers and sisters who need an opportunity to fully be themselves."

Children In Crisis

Mission: "To improve the lives of children around the world affected by conflict, deprivation, poverty, or other hidden crises, by working with local communities to provide education, healthcare and protection."

Christian Action

Mission: "To serve the needs and promote the welfare of the poor and disadvantaged with particular emphasis upon displaced persons through education, vocational training, health, social services and recreation"

Christian Education, Development and Relief (CEDAR) Fund

Mission: "To relieve poverty and suffering and to promote measures of health among the most needy peoples, to reach sustainable development."

Comunidad Humana

Mission: "Integrating poor and marginalised children into society, and providing them with care and family support."

Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst Church Development Service (EED)

Mission: "Our mission is grounded in the faith that testifies to the world as God's creation; in a hope that acts in the certainty of the coming of His kingdom; and in a love that meets the Lord particularly in those who are poor and without rights"

Future Generations

Mission: "teaches and enables a process for equitable community change that integrates environmental conservation with development. As an international school for communities, we provide training and higher education through on-site and distance learning. We support field-based research, promote successes that provide for rapid expansion, and build partnerships with an evolving network of communities that are working together to improve their lives and the lives of generations yet to come."

Habitat for Humanity International

Mission: "Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God’s love and can live and grow into all that God intends."

Initiative Developpement

Mission: "To act with and for the poorest . . . To act for human progress and global development . . . To work through [local] partners"

International Development Enterprises

Mission: "To alleviate rural poverty in the world's least developed countries; to enable smallholders to increase production, generate income and improve their quality of life; to develop market environments that serve the interests of the rural poor; to equip local private enterprises to meet the needs of the rural poor."

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction

Mission: "[To] work with the poor and their communities as a partner enabling them to improve their lives an achieve their full potential; [to] learn and document practical and innovative solutions to the challenges facing the poor; [to] share our learning and experience through education, training and communication; [to] join with partners to achieve equity, peace and justice for all."

Islamic Relief

Mission: "Alleviating the poverty and suffering of the world’s poorest people."

Kham Aid Foundation

Mission: "Kham Aid Foundation assists the people of the Tibetan region of Kham to improve their quality of life through education, medical assistance, and community development."


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