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Founded in 1899, NABU (The Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union) is the oldest and largest environment association in Germany. It encompasses more than 960,000 members and supporters, who commit themselves to the conservation of threatened habitats, flora, and fauna, to climate protection and energy policy. Together with its partners, NABU also looks back on over 30 years of successful international conservation work.

NABU's main objectives are the preservation of habitats and biodiversity, the promotion of sustainability in agriculture, forest management, and water supply and distribution, as well as to enhance the significance of nature conservation in our society.

About 70,000 volunteers play an active role in practical nature conservation work, with great success: This is something that is special to NABU. These active NABU members look after more than 110,000 hectares of valuable protected reserves in Germany. NABU also has volunteer groups working on an international level to conserve nature, protect species and support livelihoods in Africa, Eurasia and the Caucasus. This work is backed by professionals at our regional offices and at our national headquarters in Berlin, who take care of public relations, project development and management, and political lobbying.

NAJU, NABU’s own youth organisation, has more than 85,000 young members. It is the biggest environment organisation for young people in Germany. It offers a framework for children and young adults aged 6 to 27 to protect nature and the environment.

Service Along the Nile International (SN), formerly the Swiss Evangelical Nile Mission (SENM), brings over four decades of dedicated service to marginalized groups. Established in 1900 in Aswan, Egypt, the mission expanded its work across several Nile Basin countries, including Ethiopia.

SN began its operations in Ethiopia in 1962 in Adequala—now part of Eritrea—providing orphanage services, medical care, and rural development support. In 1982, SN established the Misrach Handicraft Training and Rehabilitation Center in Addis Ababa, offering vocational training, rehabilitation, and livelihood opportunities to thousands of persons with disabilities. In 1986, the Walga Health Center was established, providing essential health services that continue to this day.

In 2024, SN officially became a nationally registered NGO in Ethiopia, reinforcing its long-term commitment to inclusive development.

Founded in 1945 after World War II, the United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization with 193 Member States aimed at maintaining international peace, security, and human rights. Guided by its Charter, the UN fosters cooperation on sustainable development, climate action, and humanitarian aid, providing a central forum for global diplomacy.

frican Female Voices is a registered NPO in South Africa ( 323-906 NPO ) dedicated to sharing the stories, viewpoints, and work of women across Africa. Our mission is to build a lively platform where African women can talk about their experiences, challenge stereotypes, and inspire change. We focus on raising the voices of women from marginalized communities. We promote gender equality and drive social change through storytelling, advocacy campaigns, and community engagement. At African Female Voices, we believe every woman's voice matters and can help shape a better future.

Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization (MCMDO) is an Ethiopian indigenous, non-governmental, nonprofit humanitarian and development organization established in 1997 by a group of dedicated individuals from diverse backgrounds.

For more than 27 years, MCMDO has been working with vulnerable communities facing extreme poverty and crises—saving lives, restoring dignity, and building resilience.

Over the last three decades, Light for the World has contributed to improving eye health systems and amplifying the voices of people with disabilities. Our organisation and policies protect our life-changing work.

The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is a global humanitarian and advocacy organisation that finds, removes and destroys landmines, cluster munitions and unexploded bombs from places affected by conflict.

MAG also provides education programmes, particularly for children, so people can live, work and play as safely as a possible until they clear the land.

And we work in communities to reduce the risk of armed violence through weapons and ammunition management programmes which keep guns and munitions safe and secure.

Since 1989, MAG has helped over 20 million people in 70 countries rebuild their lives and livelihoods after war.

We believe it is unacceptable that millions of people are trapped in danger and poverty for years after wars end.

We aim to help communities get on with their lives, and get back their futures.

WEEMA International began in 2011 as “Mudula Water,” with the goal of bringing clean water to 10,000 people living in Mudula, a rural town in southwestern Ethiopia. The results were this project were quite profound- hundreds of girls no longer had to spend countless hours every day collecting water many kilometers away and could focus on their schooling, women had more time working on their farms and caring for their families, and fewer people were getting sick from diarrheal disease.

After this initial water project, Dr. Elizabeth McGovern, WEEMA’s founder, was inspired by meetings with individuals from Mudula who identified other related community needs. Community leaders identified that, in addition to needing access to clean water, there were huge gaps in terms of access to quality education, healthcare, and economic opportunities.

In 2013, we officially changed our name from Mudula Water to WEEMA International to reflect our expanded, more holistic community-led approach. We call ourselves WEEMA because the word in a local language means wholeness and fulfillment – core values we uphold and strive for in our work and impact. WEEMA is also an acronym representing the core areas of our work: Water, Education, Empowerment, Medical Care, and Agriculture.

CHADET is a charitable organisation registered in Ethiopia (Reg. no. 0234) that works for the protection and welfare of children found under difficult circumstances. The establishment of CHADET coincided with the period when the HIV/AIDS pandemic was on its highest peak in Ethiopia. Hence, most of the projects launched by the organization during that time focused on educating the community about protection and mitigating the impact of AIDS on children and families infected and affected by the epidemic. In this regard, CHADET was able to train and deploy peer educators who were conveying educational messages for children and young persons and home care providers who were supporting individuals and families on voluntary basis. CHADET launched its first project in one of the most congested parts of the city of Addis Ababa where there are large numbers of street connected and working children, migrants and children exposed to physical and sexual exploitation. The area, which is also known as ‘Merkato’, is the largest commercial centre of the city. Expanding its operations in the country, CHADET currently implements different projects in thirteen Woredas/districts of South Wollo and South Gondar Administrative Zones in Amhara Regional State as well as in Arsi and South West Shoa Zones in Oromiya Regional State. It also implements different projects in Addis Ababa. CHADET has shown remarkable progress in terms of enhancing its capacity and addressing more and more marginalized children in different parts of the country since the time it has began operation. It has currently five field offices and three service delivery centers in the regional states and in Addis Ababa.

Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, we have expanded in size to reach more than 200 million people in more than 100 countries on five continents.

For over 80 years, our mission has been to assist impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas, working in the spirit of Catholic social teaching to promote the sacredness of human life and the dignity of the human person. Although our mission is rooted in the Catholic faith, our operations serve people based solely on need, regardless of their race, religion or ethnicity. Within the United States, CRS engages Catholics to live their faith in solidarity with the poor and suffering people of the world.