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Animals Asia Foundation (www.animalsasia.org) aims to improve the lives of all animals in Asia, end cruelty and restore respect for animals Asia-wide. Their most challenging, and remarkably successful, project to date has been the rescue of Asiatic “Moon” bears from bile farms in China and Vietnam.
In 2010 the Hong Kong based founder of Animals Asia, Jill Robinson, toured Australia and the ACME Foundation was privileged to be a sponsor of that tour.
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Assistance Dogs Australia (www.assistancedogs.org.au) trains Labradors and Golden Retrievers to help people with physican disabilities. These dogs undertake everyday tasks such as opening doors, pressing the button to cross the road, picking up dropped items but, most of all, they offer a form of confidence and independence to someone in the community.
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The Australian Himalayan Foundation (www.australianhimalayanfoundation.org.au)
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Blue Dragon Children's Foundation (www.streetkidsinvietnam.com)
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Care (www.careaustralia.org.au) is an international humanitarian aid organisation fighting global poverty, with a special focus on working with women and girls to bring about lasting change in their communities. We are non-religious and non-political Australian charity, working together with communities to provide emergency relief and address the underlying causes of poverty. We believe supporting women and girls is one of the most effective ways to create sustainable outcomes in poor communities
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Common Ground Queensland is a recently established organisation following the model established by Common Ground New York, an international leader in the development of solutions to homelessness. Common Ground is a pioneer in the development of supportive housing and other research-based practices that end homelessness. Common Ground’s well designed, affordable apartments are linked to the services that people need to maintain their housing, restore their health, and regain their economic independence.
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Guide Dogs NSW/ACT (www.guidedogs.com.au)
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Guide Dogs Queensland (www.guidedogsqld.com.au) aims to serve the blind and vision impaired community in that state. Its focus is to empower blind and vision impaired Queenslanders of all ages towards independence, to remain mobile in their communities, in a safe and dignified manner for as long as possible.
In 2009 the ACME Foundation sponsored a guide dog pup "Harry" and in late 2010 he is undergoing training at the Queensland Guide Dog centre.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia (www.msf.org.au) is the Australian office for the world's leading independent organisation for medical humanitarian aid. Medecins Sans Frontieres field staff includes doctors, nurses, administrators, epidemiologists, laboratory technicians, mental health professionals, logistics and water and sanitation experts. The majority of our team are national field staff from the countries where the crises are occurring with ten percent made up of international field staff. Every year round 100 Australian and New Zealanders are sent to, and supported in, the field by Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia.
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Plan International Australia (www.plan.org.au) assists Plan’s work in 49 countries to overcome poverty so that children have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Plan’s work cuts across all aspects of community lives with a focus on empowering them to be become self sustainable with a particular focus on children. |
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The Fred Hollows Foundation (www.hollows.org.au) is an international development organisation, focusing on blindness prevention and Australian Indigenous health. We are independent, non-profit, politically unaligned and secular. We carry on the work of the late Professor Fred Hollows (1929-1993). Fred was an eye doctor, a skilled surgeon of international renown, a champion of the right of all people to good health and a strong advocate for social justice.
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The Hunger Project Australia (www.thp.org.au) works to achieve a sustainable end to chronic hunger. In Australia its role is to raise awareness of the issue of chronic, persistent hunger, and its solution, and to raise funds in support of The Hunger Project Global’s programmes in developing countries. |
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The John Fawcett Foundation (www.balieye.org) aims to relieve sickness, suffering and distress in families of the lower socio-economic group occasioned through blindness, eye disease, cleft lip and palate, and serious crippling and debilitating diseases, particularly in children, through the provision of medical equipment, medical care, medical advice, welfare and support services. |
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Well Wishers (www.wellwishersethiopia.com) provides Hand-Dug Water Wells in northern Ethiopia. This programme was begun by Community Aid Abroad in 1986 and continued by Oxfam Australia until their work in the Horn of Africa was discontinued in 2005. A few individual supporters have continued the programme and since 2002 have raised funds to build about 140 wells which forever change the lives of over 80,000 people.
In each of 2009 and 2010 the ACME Foundation sponsored the construction of two wells through Well Wishers.
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