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Animals Asia Foundation (www.animalsasia.org)
"Animals Asia Foundation 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 2012 the Hong Kong based founder of Animals Asia, Jill Robinson, plans to tour Australia and the ACME Foundation is privileged to be a sponsor of that tour.
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Assistance Dogs Australia (www.assistancedogs.org.au)
"Assistance Dogs Australia 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)
"Our vision is to help the people of the Himalaya achieve their goals. Our aim is to achieve this through improvements in three important areas: education, health and medical services and environment and conservation. Our aim is to ensure, where possible, the long term viability of schools to provide health, education and medical services and support environmental projects througout the Himalaya."
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Blue Dragon Children's Foundation (www.streetkidsinvietnam.com)
"Blue Dragon reaches out to kids in crisis throughout Vietnam. Our residential facilities, centres and programs give children and youth a new chance in life, the chance to have a home, a good education and happy, stable living conditions. We aim to break the poverty cycle by offering education, training and job opportunities to those who need them the most: street kids, child victims of trafficking and the rural poor."
In 2011 we were fortunate to visit Blue Dragon in Hanoi and met founder Michael Brosowski and his team.
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Care (www.careaustralia.org.au)
"Care 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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Guide Dogs NSW/ACT (www.guidedogs.com.au)
"Guide Dogs NSW/ACT exists to enhance the quality of life of people who are blind or have impaired vision, by assisting in their achievement of independence through access and mobility. We believe they have equal rights to other people, and respect their right for human dignity."
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Guide Dogs Queensland (www.guidedogsqld.com.au)
"Guide Dogs Queensland 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."
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Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia (www.msf.org.au)
"MSF Australia 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)
"Plan International Australia 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)
"Fred Hollows Foundation 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."
In 2011 we were privileged to visit the Tilganga Institute of Opthamology in Kathmandu and met Dr Ruit and visited the intraocular lens manufacturing facility. Also in 2011 we supported Aboriginal health through the AMSANT leadership programme.
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The Hunger Project Australia (www.thp.org.au)
"The Hunger Project Australia 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)
"The John Fawcett Foundation 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)
"Well Wishers 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 430 wells which forever change the lives of over 190,000 people."
Each year since 2009 the ACME Foundation has sponsored the construction of two wells through Well Wishers.
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