Organisational Members
We welcome all organisations to be part of the Science For Humanity community.
If you would like to join us please complete our
membership form here.
BoP ASIA
www.ibop-asia.net
iBoP Asia is the popular name of the Science and Technology Innovations for the Base of the Pyramid in Southeast Asia Project. Roughly four billion, a majority of the world’s population, subsists at the base of the pyramid (BoP). The base of the pyramid is the socio-economic designation of the vast majority of the world’s population who live on less than $4 (U.S. Dollars) a day.
Asia, despite spectacular improvements in social and economic indicators over the last few decades, remains home to 2/3 of the world's poor. Clearly, the BoP represents both a huge development challenge and an opportunity for collaboration. Maximizing the application of science and technology (S&T) and innovation is a key plank in meeting the goal of improving the lives of those at the BoP.
Build Africa
www.build-africa.org.uk
Build Africa is a dynamic charity working exclusively in rural areas of Uganda and Kenya to help young people escape poverty through education and business enterprise.
Our vision is for every young person in Africa to fulfill their potential and to make a difference.
Engineers Without Borders UK
www.ewb-uk.org
Engineers Without Borders UK is an international development organisation that removes barriers to development through engineering. Our programmes provide opportunities for young people in the UK to learn about engineering’s role in poverty reduction. We support partner organisations by providing young engineers to help them with their projects.
We have a vital network of branches at universities across the UK, where volunteers run events and activities for their members and communities. Professional engineers get involved to lend their expertise to our work. By taking part in our activities, our members are making a difference to people's lives around the world
Freeplay Foundation
www.freeplayfoundation.org
The Freeplay Foundation is an internationally acclaimed humanitarian organisation. We transform lives through environmentally friendly technologies. Our most important objective is to provide the poorest of the poor with sustainable access to education, information and energy.
Our mission is to improve the quality of lives by distributing portable solar and wind-up powered Lifeline radios and Lifelights. Working mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, we focus on orphans and other vulnerable children, rural women, refugees and people who are ill. Since 2003, we have distributed over 200,000 Lifeline radios, which has helped more than 8 million poor and vulnerable people improve the quality of their daily lives.
Humanitarian Futures Programme
www.humanitarianfutures.org
Organisations with humanitarian roles and responsibilities have to be better able to anticipate, adapt and respond to future humanitarian threats than they do today. And they can. That is the message and the goal of the Humanitarian Futures Programme [HFP].
The HFP is designed to help organisations with humanitarian responsibilities to prepare for future humanitarian threats. These threats will be more complex and unpredictable than those of today, and their impacts of an exponentially different order. HFP at the same time also focuses upon a growing number of solutions to help such organisations strengthen their prevention, preparedness and response capacities. These potential solutions come from a wide range of sources – including the natural and social sciences, the corporate sector and the military.
nfpSynergy
www.nfpsynergy.net
nfpSynergy is the leading research consultancy for the not-for-profit sector. We use research to help our clients gain new insights an solve
problems. Our clients include over 80 of the UK's biggest charities, public sector bodies, housing associations and trade associations.
People and planet
http://peopleandplanet.org/
People & Planet is the UK's leading organisation campaigning with students on world poverty, human rights and the environment. We have 40 years' experience of empowering young people to make a difference in the world; inspiring generation after generation of activists.
We work with students in schools, colleges and universities. We provide skills training, events, education activities, encouragement and
communications to over 25,000 people.
Our vibrant grassroots network of student groups covers 70 universities, and 70 schools and colleges across the UK with over 1,500 active members People & Planet is distinctive for putting youth leadership at its heart. We are accountable to a Management Committee, the majority of whom are peer-elected students.
RedR
www.redr.org.uk
Each year millions of people around the world feel the affects of natural disaster and conflict. RedR seeks to improve the effectiveness of disaster relief, to help save and rebuild the lives of people affected by disaster. We do this through delivering essential training and support to relief organisations and their staff, and by supplying skilled professionals to humanitarian programmes worldwide.
Our work helps to ensure that the right people with the right skills are responding to global emergencies, and enables both local and international relief workers to react to the needs of those affected by disaster, efficiently and safely.
Science Oxford
www.scienceoxford.com
Over the last 20 years Science Oxford has developed a range of innovative projects, a number of which are now delivered by others. It played a pioneering role in the development of both innovation centres for the incubation of high-tech companies and in the creation of venture angel networks such as the Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network. Oxford Innovation, our own spin-out company, is widely recognised as a leading provider of services to the knowledge-based economy.
Science Oxford has also played a major role in the field of education and public engagement. In the early 1990’s Science Oxford created Oxfordshire Science Festival which is going from strength to strength and instigated innovative science programmes for schools. In 2005, Science Oxford opened Oxford’s first cultural centre for science and enterprise in St Clements.
Send A Cow
www.sendacow.org.uk
Send a Cow runs sustainable agricultural programmes in seven countries in Africa to help small-scale farmers overcome poverty and malnutrition. We were founded in 1988 by a group of UK farmers who sent cows to families in post-conflict Uganda.
Send a Cow is a Christian charity, which treats all people equally regardless of race, gender or creed. All those we work with undertake to pass on the benefits they gain, such as livestock and skills, to another family, so our work goes on multiplying throughout communities.
Send a Cow has offices in four African countries, as well as a head office and a network of volunteers in the UK. We have a wide range of partners, particularly the non-governmental organisation Heifer International. We always work with community groups, which are selected by our African staff on the basis of need.
Thai Children's Trust
www.thaichildrenstrust.org.uk
The Thai Children's Trust is now the largest UK charity focusing on Thailand, supporting projects in Pattaya, Rayong, Nong Khai, the south and the west of Thailand. Our mission is to support the most needy children in Thailand: orphans, children with HIV and AIDS, street kids, refugee children and children with disabilities. We provide a home, education and future for over 1500 children, and reach out to thousands more through health and nutrition projects.
WAND
www.wandphils.org
The Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development Foundation or WAND Foundation provide social development initiatives with emphasis on the improvement of the environment and agricultural, rural entrepreneurship, ecological sanitation and peace-building.
The WAND Foundation has grown out of a pool of community development workers in Northern Mindanao truly concerned about the direct link between severe poverty, poor health and sanitation, local resource mismanagement and the absence of lasting peace. The vision of the WAND is “empowering local communities so that they are able to contribute fully to the life of the community and live dignified lives.”
