• habitat protection (in particular tropical rainforest),
• wildlife conservation (in particular Orangutan, Rhino, Bear and Gibbon), and
• sustainable development for local communities.

• Home, hospital and prison visitation; 
• Practical and material assistance;
• Soup vans; 
• Mental health support; 
• Homeless services; 
• Tutoring programs; 
• Youth services; 
• Kids camps for disadvantaged children;
• Migrant and refugee support;
• Overseas Aid; 
• Social advocacy and lobbying. 

We instantly respond to earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane, cyclone, tsunami or conflict by delivering boxes of aid.

Each box supplies an extended family with a tent and lifesaving equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless. The contents are tailored depending on the nature and location of the disaster, with great care taken sourcing every item to ensure it is robust enough to be of lasting value.

The cost of a box is $1,000, including delivery direct to those who need it. Each box bears its own unique number so as a donor you can track your box all the way to its recipient country via the website.

Highly trained ShelterBox Response Teams distribute boxes on the ground, working closely with local organisations, international aid agencies and Rotary clubs worldwide.

Since its inception in 2000, ShelterBox has firmly established itself at the forefront of international disaster relief, providing emergency shelter for the people who need it most on every continent.

CKS is impacting the war traumatised children and youth of Kitgum Uganda through daily activities on several project sites under supervision of our on-site Director, Irene Gleeson;

Today, in 2012...
10,000 children are given FULL DAY CARE / SCHOOLING / MEDICINE & FEEDING in 5 CKS schools:

• Childcare Primary School
• Amida Camp Primary School
• Padibe Camp Primary School
• Orom Camp Primary School (under construction)
• Vocational Training Centre
• Childcare Technical Institute (Advanced Craft Certificate)

CKS is proud to be a partner of Global Development Group (ABN 57 102 400 993), an Australian Non Government Organisation [NGO] carrying out humanitarian projects with approved partners and providing aid to relieve poverty and provide long term solutions through the provision of quality aid and development projects. For more information about Global Development Group, visit www.globaldevelopment.org.au

General Western Health Information

Western Health was formed in July 2000 (from a much larger combined health service covering North, West and parts of Central Metropolitan Melbourne) and is the major public provider of acute health services throughout Western Metropolitan Melbourne.

Western Health comes under the portfolio of responsiblities for the Minister for Health.

We provide a range of health services including emergency, elective, medical, surgical, obstetrics, paediatrics, community-based rehabilitation, acute geriatric medicine and subacute sesrvices from three acute hospital campuses - Western Hospital, Sunshine Hospital and The Williamstown Hospital. In addition, Western Health delivers residential aged care services from Reg Geary House and Hazeldean Nursing Home; and drug and alcohol services from the DASWest facility.

We are a large organisation of approximately 5000 staff.

Western Health's catchment extends from Footscray and out to the growth corridors of Caroline Springs and Melton, up to Sunbury and down to Werribee. It numbers approximately 690,000 people and is growing at 4% per annum.

Western Health has a Fundraising Department whose mission is to raise funds to buy much needed medical equipment to service our patients.

By supporting your local hospital, you will be supporting the improvement of your community's health and provide for a positive and lasting impact on many people.

The Fundraising Department manages a series of community, corporate and staff fundraising events throughout the year. See our events calendar for more details.

Western Health has recently established a Fundraising and Marketing Committee, made up of individuals from the West and representatives from major business in the West. It provides direction, assistance and support to Western Health staff in fundraising and marketing activities.

Please contact our Fundraising Department on 8345 7380

Breakthrough Houses aims to reset the path by providing families at risk with guidance, support, education and real assistance ... and our number one priority is on keeping the family unit together.

According to a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, homeless families looking for accommodation are being turned away from shelters because of a shortage of beds. The report found that up to 80% of new applications for temporary housing by couples who have children are unable to be met on a daily basis. According to the 2006 Census, 12,133 children under 12 were homeless on census night.

Breakthrough House is a caring, supervised and safe home for families at risk to live in whilst undergoing rehabilitation and learning vital life skills. Parents and children can remain together so that they can learn to live peacefully, as a family.

Woodbury was formed with the goal of setting up the first wholly ABA school in Australia for children with autism and related disorders.

This vision was embraced by a group of dedicated parents who themselves had tutored their children with autism in home based ABA therapy programs.

In January 2006, Woodbury opened its doors for the first time! This was the culmination of many years of hard work and we are thrilled that the school is now operating very successfully.

Our school is located at Balcombe Heights Estate, in Baulkham Hills, Sydney. Situated on the site of a former Masonic school for orphaned children, the school is in a very peaceful and attractive setting. In an area of community buildings and open space, the school buildings are separate from any other facility, providing an ideal setting in which to deliver our curriculum.

Woodbury is an independent school for children with autism. This is the first school of its kind in Australia, based on the principles and techniques of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). There are currently 78 other such schools worldwide. Our educational approach involves offering ABA programs to each child, as well as complying with all Board of Studies requirements.

Woodbury Autism Education and Research is a company limited by guarantee and is a registered charity. Donations to Woodbury of $2.00 or more are tax deductible.

When your name is Guide Dogs, everyone naturally assumes that you train Guide Dogs for people who are blind or vision impaired. Which, of course, we do. But it's not all that we do. We train people who are vision impaired to use canes, canines and electronic aids to improve their mobility and thus independence and quality of life.

We train companion dogs for children and adults who are disabled or disadvantaged owing to age, isolation or ill health.

We advocate on behalf of the people we assist to make the community an easier place in which to live and work.

We do not charge for our services. We do not receive government funding. Everything we achieve is made possible by the generosity of our donors, bequestors and volunteers.

In New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, there are around 100,000 people with a vision impairment severe enough to cause problems with daily living. Our services are there for all of them.

Last year alone, our instructors travelled over three quarter of a million kilometres to make sure that, wherever possible, mobility skills are taught in the environment in which they will be used.

We also work with local government, architects, transport authorities and businesses on ways to improve facilities for people living with blindness or impaired vision.

We believe all people have the right of respect for their human dignity. 

We believe people who have impaired vision have equal rights to other people. Guide Dogs NSW/ ACT exists to enhance the quality of life of people who are blind or vision impaired, by assisting in their achievement of independence through access and mobility.

The School of St. Jude is a sponsorship-supported English Medium School in Tanzania that primarily serves orphaned and vulnerable children from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds.

The school blends the best of Western and Tanzanian instructional methods to instill critical thinking and high moral Christian values in students who will later become the leaders and builders of Tanzania The School of St Jude aims be an exemplary, modern and self-sustainable institution that effects a paradigm shift on the educational system in Tanzania by enabling Tanzanians to run successful and moral schools, thereby alleviating poverty and breaking the cycle of dependency on external aid.

The Australian Council of Christians and Jews was inaugurated in December 1991.

Australia has a Jewish community of about 100,000, with a high proportion of Jewish students attending Jewish day schools, and proportionally the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors in the world. Post war immigration of Jews led to the burgeoning of synagogues and the revitalisation of the Australian Jewish community. Jews are prominent in the arts, legal and medical professions. There are about forty synagogues in Sydney and Melbourne respectively, Jews in Melbourne numbering slightly more than those in Sydney.

Besides many Orthodox Jewish congregations, there is a strong Progressive movement, however, with all this vitality, there is within the Jewish religious leadership a deep concern regarding the lack of Jewish commitment on the part of the young, and concern about assimilation. The same concern exists of course within Christian communities.

Catholics and then Anglicans are the largest religious groups represented in the recent 1996 census. Much work needs to be done in changing attitudes and strengthening religious values, though some progress in changing negative attitudes towards Jews is being made. The slow gradual work of Jewish Christian relations, the teaching of biblical studies in the theological colleges, the support of some individual Christian leaders committed to dialogue, as well as some rabbinic input in courses at theological Colleges have all helped to bring about a minor shift in Christian attitudes.

There needs to be the heightening of awareness among Christians of their Jewish roots and a greater sensitising to prejudice, racism and antisemitism, in this age of increasing materialistic pragmatism where the “bottom line” is “the almighty dollar.”

These groups include Councils of Christians and Jews in Victoria, New South Wales, Canberra, Perth, and South Australia, and the Australian Council of Christians and Jews. Others are the New South Wales Catholic Ecumenical Affairs Commission, the Victorian Council of Churches’ Commission on Interfaith and Community Relations, and the Uniting Church of Australia Working Group on Jewish-Christian Relations.

The Victorian Branch of the CCJ was founded in Melbourne in 1985 and in Sydney in 1988. In Melbourne there is a strong ecumenical movement amongst the churches, whereas in Sydney a strong evangelical strain within some sectors of the Christian churches makes ecumenical and interfaith dialogue more difficult. Canberra has an interfaith dialogue group and a youth group, and Adelaide and Perth have Councils. The Australian Council of Christians and Jews was inaugurated in December 1991.

See also Guidelines for Catholic-Jewish Relations
by the Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations
of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

Since the beginning, IWDA’s heartland has been our work in partnership with local organisations. This approach is fundamental to making positive and sustainable change.

The organisations we partner with have grown within the communities in which they work. We collaborate with our partners to respond to issues they identify as important and that matter to the communities in which they belong.We see our role as a responsive and supportive collaborator that is committed to ‘walking with’ our partners. By bringing together, knowledge, experience and resources, we address shared priorities.

We are not ‘doing the work’ of development on the ground. Instead we are committed to enabling our partners to undertake their work more effectively and sustainably. We recognise that the interests of women and men are best served when local communities mobilise local community capacity.

Our population of older people is on the rise, and we are living longer than ever before.  Our health and wellbeing is the key to ageing well and keeping us active within our communities.  We might have friends, relatives or be caring for people who are starting to feel the effects of mature age.  Chronic pain, dementia, stroke, falls and mental health can have a major impact on quality of life.

Who we are

The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) is the national body for prostate cancer in Australia. The PCFA plays a vital role in the fight against prostate cancer and devotes all of it resources towards reducing the impact of prostate cancer on the community.

Our goals

• reduce the impact of prostate cancer on Australian men, their partners, their families and the communit
• fund research into the causes, detection, diagnosis and improved treatment of prostate cancer
• provide information, support and counselling to those affected by prostate cancer
• raise community awareness of the incidence of prostate cancer, thereby encouraging earlier detection and more effective treatment of the disease.
• represent the interests of all Australian men diagnosed with prostate cancer. 

We work to raise awareness and attract widespread financial support for the work of the Foundation to:

OUR SERVICES, OUR VISION AND OUR MISSION

We are Victoria’s peak body providing support and education to people living with dementia, their carers, family, friends, and the community.

The Vision of Alzheimer's Australia Vic is a society committed to the prevention of dementia while valuing and supporting people living with dementia.

The Mission of Alzheimer's Australia Vic is to provide leadership in dementia policy, risk reduction and services.

WHAT WE DO

Our role includes policy and advocacy, community education and facilitating dementia research. Our services include: information provision, library, website and publications, educational courses and workshops; and support - advice, guidance and counselling programs.

If you, or a family member, have concerns about changes to memory or behaviour, or have dementia, we are here to help. You do not have to face this alone.

With years of experience behind us, our qualified staff will listen to you, understand your concerns and offer support to assist you.

We are here for people affected by all forms of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body disease, Frontal Temporal Dementia, and mild cognitive impairment. No matter what your age.

We are a member of and work closely with our national body Alzheimer's Australia.

L’il Aussie Prems Foundation Inc. (LAPF) is Australia’s largest online support community and forum for families of prematurely born children and sick newborns. We are a voluntary not-for-profit organisation set up to provide online support, raise awareness, bring parents together who have travelled a similar path whilst encouraging families to share their personal and unique journey through our website. No matter where families are located geographically, our website and support services are assessable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The website was initially established in 2007 and is a growing source of inspiration and hope to families daily, enourages families to share photos and messages from their journey whilst continuously offering a lifeline to vulnerable families after the premature birth of a child.

L’il Aussie Prems Foundation is a member group of the National Premmie Foundation and continues to work in collaboration with other premmie support groups in Australia.

Our forum consists of over 28,000 topics discussed and 350,000 forum posts. We encourage families to join our safe and secure forum to chat with parents who have travelled a similar path.

Join our upcoming 'Wear Green for Premmies' event on Wednesday 3rd April 2013.

Donations over $2 are tax deductible.

Thank you for supporting our organisation.

Mallee Family Care provides services and information for the communities along the Murray River from Swan Hill to Mildura and South Western New South Wales

Deinstitutionalisation was also to take place in relation to care of children with disabilities and those with mental illness and the work of Mallee Family Care was to grow and extend to embrace these services.With these developments were just the tip of the iceberg with the result that Mallee Family Care now operates in excess of twenty different services in the communities in which it was established.

Being unable to breathe is a terrifying, debilitating experience.
                                                                       
Over 400 Australians still die from asthma each year, and our youngest and oldest are most susceptible. Asthma affects 1 in 10 Australian adults and 1 in 9 children; asthma’s prevalence in Australia is among the highest in the world.

Your donation provides life-saving training for workers in childcare, schools, aged care and throughout the community. Donations directly fund groundbreaking research programs at Queensland universities – and an asthma PhD scholarship to boost the careers of leading young researchers.

The Asthma Foundation of Queensland has been helping people fight asthma for over 40 years.  We aim to alleviate the hardship, suffering and death caused by asthma.

Partners like you make this work possible.

Our history

• The link between babies' sleeping position and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
• Platelets found in the blood kill the malaria parasite during the early stages of a malarial infection
• Seven genetic markers linked to men's risk of developing prostate cancer
• Higher vitamin D levels are associated with a lower relapse risk in multiple sclerosis
• Nerve cells in undamaged parts of the brain can remodel themselves in response to acquired brain injury.

SIDS and Kids is one of Australia's best known and most trusted not-for-profit organisations.  It is an international leader in promoting infant health.  SIDS and Kids deliver on their vision of saving babies lives through world class education, research, and evidence based intervention and advocacy.

The SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping program has been instrumental in reducing the SIDS infant mortality rate by 85% effectively saving the lives of  an estimated 5,000 babies to date since 1991.

SIDS and Kids also provide bereavement support to Australian families who have suffered from the sudden or unexpected death of a baby or young child, from conception to 12 years of age regardless of the cause.This bereavement counselling is offered free-of-charge 24 hours a day to all Australian families.Approximately 7 children under the age of 6 years die everyday in Australia!  And approximately 60 people are directly affected by the death of a child.

The future objective of SIDS and Kids include further research into still birth and sudden infant death including perinatal death.

SIDS and Kids receive very little Government funding so rely heavily on community support to reach their income objectives.  SIDS ands Kids greatly values the generous support from the Australian public.

Visit us at http://www.sidsandkids.org/wa/