Charities
- Hannah Couch
- Jan 16, 2018
- 2 min read
Centrepoint is a charity in the United Kingdom which provides accommodation and support to homeless people aged 16–25. Its accommodation includes emergency nightshelters, short and long stay hostels, specialist projects for care leavers, ex-offenders, young single parents, foyers and supported flats and floating support services. Additional support services include a Skills and Employability Team and a mental health team. Specialists within the Skills and Employability Team help support young people back into education, training or employment, and the teaching of life skills. Centrepoint also runs volunteering schemes, such as mentoring, which pairs a person with a young person for 12 months. [1]
Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable organisations focused on the alleviation of global poverty. Though Oxfam's initial concern was the provision of food to relieve famine, over the years the organisation has developed strategies to combat the causes of famine. In addition to food and medicine, Oxfam also provides tools to enable people to become self-supporting and opens markets of international trade where crafts and produce from poorer regions of the world can be sold at a fair price to benefit the producer. [2]
The United Nations Children's Fund is a United Nations (UN) program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund was created to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. They distribute essential items as vaccines, antiretroviral medicines for children and mothers with HIV, nutritional supplements, emergency shelters, family reunification, and educational supplies. [3]
WaterAid works in partnership with local organisations in 37 countries in Africa, Asia, Central America and the Pacific region to help poor communities establish sustainable water supplies and toilets, close to home, and to promote safe hygiene practices. It also works to influence government water and sanitation policies to serve the interests of vulnerable people and to ensure water and sanitation are prioritised in poverty reduction plans. [4]
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