Nightlight ThailandDESCRIPTION: More people globally are expected to join the middle class over the next two decades. This is good for individual prosperity but it will increase demand for more services, including the sex industry which thrives in many areas of the world, such as Thailand. NightLight Bangkok builds trusting relationships with individuals in the…
Sustainable Communities in New DelhiDESCRIPTION: Lal Kuan, a slum area in New Delhi, India, is an area with high poverty and lack of opportunity. Most children do not go to school, but instead help their parents by working as garbage collectors, carwashers, or helping in shops. Nearby government schools are known for being crowded, with …
Project Destiny KidsDESCRIPTION: Project Destiny Kids (PDK) is a nonprofit organization reaching out the needs of street children in Butuan City in the Philippines. PDK consists of weekly outreaches to street children in the streets and a rehabilitation home called The Shelter. Their desire is to reach out to hurting, neglected, abused, addicted children and…
Reduced Inequality in MumbaiDESCRIPTION: For the poorest girls in Mumbai the inequality gap is staggering, leaving them extremely vulnerable. Female adult literacy rate in India stands at 47%. Many never receive an education and are never able to get employment that provides for their basic survival. Many end up falling prey to traffickers. The social innovators…
Health and Wellbeing in NepalDESCRIPTION: Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Children born into poverty are almost twice as likely to die before the age of five as those from wealthier families. This is why the third Sustainable Development Goal is “Good Health and Wellbeing.” Dinesh…
No Hunger in VietnamDESCRIPTION: The yoke of poverty hinders and robs many around the world of opportunity. The second Sustainable Development Goal is “No Hunger,” because hunger is inexplicably linked with poverty and the lack of health and opportunity. Globally, Asia is the continent with the hungriest people – two thirds of the total population. YWAM…
Food and HungerDESCRIPTION: There is an estimated 800 million people around the world that remain chronically undernourished (Center for Global Development). Although many organizations are fighting the issue of hunger in developing countries, there are many root causes that still need to be addressed such as distribution problems and the cycle of poverty and subsistence…
Domestic ViolenceDESCRIPTION: Nearly 40 percent of all murders of women worldwide are carried out by an intimate partner, according to the World Health Organization. One in three women across the globe has experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of her partner. Women who have been physically or sexually abused by their partners are…
Nehemiah Global Initiative, South KoreaDESCRIPTION: Nehemiah Global Initiative (NGI) is a South Korean non-profit established by missionary Kenneth Bae, to protect vulnerable refugees of various nationalities and ethnicities. NGI’s Seoul headquarters was established on October 2017, and since then it has been ceaselessly working to rescue North Korean defectors and helping them to physically and…
Vanitashray, IndiaDESCRIPTION: Anu grew up in India as an orphan, and early on, she knew she wanted to spend her life helping vulnerable children find hope. Now she runs Vanitashray, a ministry for widows and orphans in Pune, India. They provide practical love and care for single mothers, including feeding programs and day-care centers, as…
