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The mission of The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) is to alleviate world hunger.  We do this by collaborating to develop food banks in communities where they are needed around the world and by supporting food banks where they already exist.

Samusocial Peru is a non-profit organization created in 2004 to fight against social exclusion by promoting the right to health and a life without violence, providing comprehensive care that goes from emergency to rights restoration through a network job. We propose to build a bridge between the community and public services to reinforce, support, and improve the functioning of the care system, making it more inclusive. We focus our work on medical-psychosocial care, the fight against anemia and violence, and strengthening the soft skills of children, adolescents, and women in vulnerable situations. Action estrategies Going to meet the most vulnerable people who no longer have the strength or the will to go towards common law structures or towards any other association. Placing them out of danger according to the medical psychosocial emergency procedures. Facilitating the referral of these people towards the public services thanks to a network of institutional and private partners. Conducting research and advocacy work directly or indirectly related to the problem of social exclusion. Methodology to reach out to the most excluded Help mobile team: the HMT makes daily rounds to reach out to the population, provide medical-psychosocial care, and refer them to appropriate institutions. In addition, they periodically organize mobile clinics in the community. Day care center: it provides a safe space during the day where women and children who are victims of domestic violence receive personalized accompaniment. Partner support: trengthening of partners' capacities through training and networking through coordination and concertation meetings. Awareness and advocacy: through lectures, workshops or campaigns, the community is made aware of its rights, administrative procedures, and preventive actions are offered. This work is complemented by advocacy, making it possible to alert public authorities and raise public awareness of the problem of exclusion.

To promote inclusion and equality for rural Peruvians through opportunities in education, employment, and fair trade.

Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, inspired by Christian values, nurtures orphaned and vulnerable children in a loving, stable, secure family environment. We keep brothers and sisters together and provide quality education, healthcare, and spiritual formation. We model our values by serving the communities in which we live.

Mission: Co-Create a society free from violence against women. Vision: Women survivors acting as social change-maker. Values: Empathy, Sisterhood, co-creation, love, empowerment and positive testimonies . Ana Bella Foundation's objective is to represent, defend and support women victims and survivors of gender violence and their sons and daughters, to achieve their personal empowerment towards a dignified life in equality.

Futebol da forca [football gives strength] is an independent international foundation, educational platform and community for purpose-driven football coaches. The organisation was founded in Mozambique in 2012 to work within football to empower girls with agency to make informed decisions and live a life they value. Futebol da forca engages, trains and supports voluntary football coaches to empower girls within football, while changing attitudes and norms that today prevent girls from reaching their full potential, in order for girls to thrive far outside the football field.

Transform the lives of prison inmates for their social and labor integration, through the practice of rugby, spirituality and education.

TECHO (teh-choh) is a youth-led non-profit organization that works in informal settlements to create a just society without poverty. Today over 200 million people live in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. No proper home, no potable water, sewage, or electricity access. Our mission is to change that reality, working to create system-changing solutions to end poverty and shape a future we all want to live in. From Europe, we mobilise young European volunteers and raise funds to support our local projects in Latin America and the Caribbean through monthly contributions, responses to calls for projects, fundraising events and partnerships with companies.

We extend the lifespan of used objects, promoting a circular economy through reutilization and providing formal, safe and accessible shopping opportunities for socially and economically vulnerable families. To be a reference of formal, dignified and equitable commerce for vulnerable communities, promoting practices of reutilization in coordination with the families, companies and public institutions for the benefit of our society and environment.

The mission of Ayúdame3D is to create and provide 3D-printed prosthetic devices to people with limb differences, regardless of their socioeconomic status. The organization aims to promote a culture of inclusion, empowerment, and innovation, by leveraging technology, education, and community engagement. Ayúdame3D envisions a world where every person with a disability has access to affordable and functional assistive devices that enable them to live with dignity, independence, and full participation in society.

Mayma is a program in its 17th year of operation, organized by Argentinian NGO Contribuir al Desarrollo Local, in alliance with other partner organizations in Latin America. Mayma's mission is to foster a new regenerative economy, based on collaboration and care of people and planet through the strengthening of social and environmental impact-driven entrepreneurs and businesses. Mayma boosted more than 3,600 triple impact businesses in the past 17 years in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, supported by a network of 400 mentors and using methodologies based on peer learning, mentoring, commercial links, education and access to financing and investment opportunities. As of 2020 Mayma also started working with agriculture and aquaculture farmers, and entrepreneurs from the Green and Blue Economy, helping them to transition to sustainable, clean and regenerative practices.

I Wish is a volunteer led global initiative to inspire young females (aged 14-17) to explore a career in STEM. I Wish has evolved since its inception in 2015 from being a once a year Showcase to an all year-round showcase of opportunities in STEM. I Wish is now multi-faceted. It comprises of Showcase Events both in person and streamed virtually in addition to providing a STEM information resource for students and teachers campus weeks with 5 Higher Education Institutes, an alumni circle building stem bridges from primary to secondary and on to Higher Education and through our Survey a policy driver for government and stakeholders in STEM. The Showcase Events comprise: 1. a Conference Zone where the students hear from women and men forging careers in STEM, from groundbreaking researchers to entrepreneurs, data scientists and engineers; and 2. an interactive Exhibition Zone where the students can engage with STEM industries and higher education from leaders in their field like Dell, Trinity, ARUP, Aer Lingus, DIT to entrepreneurs and creatives working in STEM; 3. a Teach IT Zone designed as a resource for teachers; 4. a Create IT Zone demonstrating the creative side of STEM; 5. a Build IT Zone promoting female entrepreneurs in STEM. Since 2015 the I Wish Showcase Events have turned the heads of over 50,000 girls towards STEM and empowered them to become the next generation of thought leaders, innovators and game changers in our ever changing world.