Youth for Christ KwaZulu Natal is a mission and development agency committed to serving and addressing the needs of children and youth in KwaZulu Natal. Some of these current needs are: homelessness, dysfunctional families, poverty, HIV and AIDS, gender inequality and life-skills. A key aspect of YFC/KZN has been to live, serve and preach Christ to youth in a way that is real, accessible and relevant.

All Our Children ry is a child welfare organization founded in Helsinki in the spring of 1988. The organization acts on a humanitarian basis, accepting different social, political and religious views and operates in the spirit of the UN Declaration and Convention on Rights of the Child. The organization All Our Children plays a contributing role in the creating of a diverse and tolerant society, where every child is guaranteed favourable living conditions irrespective of the colour of skin, language, relgion, culture or origin.

YMCA Victoria is a not-for-profit community organisation which builds strong people, families and communities. We do this through programs and initiatives designed to provide health, fitness and personal development opportunities to all sections of the community. We deliver programs and services to 300,000 people a week at 149 locations every day in settings including camps, student accommodation, recreation and sporting facilities, schools and kindergartens. Our work builds connections between people, encourages social inclusion, and promotes individual empowerment by improving people's holistic health and wellbeing.

Yme is a Norwegian humanitarian organization which specializes in working with water, sanitation and vocational education. Yme uses water projects to promote change in local societies and believes that access to clean water and proper sanitary conditions is critical in order for people to contribute in changing their own conditions. Yme was founded on the belief that passionate specialists and volunteers can lighten the burden of the world's poor through sensible and responsible management of knowledge and technology.

Young Concert Artists Trust was set up in 1984 to identify, nurture and promote outstanding young classical soloists and chamber ensembles at the outset of their professional careers. The original model was based on the Young Concert Artists organisation in New York. As a classical musicians agency YCAT liaises with event promoters in the UK and abroad providing performance opportunities and engagements for its artists. As classical event promoters the Young Concert Artists Trust presents concerts to showcase its artists, including concerts in London as part of the YCAT Wigmore Lunchtime Series, Southbank Purcell Room Presentation Concerts and performances in Manchester at the Bridgewater Hall. In addition to its services to young musicians at the beginning of their professional careers, YCAT has, since 1994, in a unique arrangement with the BBC, been advising the five finalists of the BBC Young Musician Competition. Several of these musicians have gone on to audition to become YCAT artists.When selected, the artist will receive a full artist management service from YCAT for a minimum of three years, after which it is hoped that the artist can then move on to commercial international representation.

With more than 40 years' experience, Young Enterprise is the UK's leading business and enterprise education charity. With more than 40 years' experience, Young Enterprise is the UK's leading business and enterprise education charity. It offers a range of programmes, based on the principle of Learning by Doing, which brings volunteers from business into the classroom to work with teachers and students. Some of our programmes enable students to work together to run their own real company. Others use games, hands on activities and role play to develop skills and capabilities for business and enterprise.

Young in Prison offers incarcerated children in developing countries a new chance. These children live under terrible circumstances. After release, they often end up in the same life without perspective as before. Reintegration projects focusing on creativity and sports provide the children with self confidence and a new perspective. Simultaneously we work on sustainable mentality and policy changes, both in the direct environment of the youth and on a political level. This integral approach pays heed to this often forgotten group of children.

Since 1941, Young Life has been making a difference in the lives of teenagers around the world. Our staff and leaders are trained in time-tested methods of relating with teens and equipped by a world-class organization. Young Life is in more than 50 countries, offering hope with spiritual values to nearly a million teenagers each year. Young Life is for every teenager – regardless of ability, race, religious tradition or culture. Young Life starts with concerned adults who spend time building bridges of authentic friendship with teens – where they are, as they are. Because their leaders believe in them unconditionally, teenagers begin to see that their lives have great worth, meaning and purpose. Young Life offers teens adventure, hospitality and unconditional friendship.

Young Life is a group of Christian adults from a broad diversity of church traditions, committed to the purpose of communicating to young people, in simple and understandable terms, who Jesus Christ is and his relevance to their lives. Our focus is on the disinterested and unchurched young people of our community. Young Life seeks to carry out its purpose through the building of personal relationships between Christ-centred adults and young people. As we enter the world of youth we share our lives and common experiences, and Jesus becomes real to them.

Young Life is about caring adults reaching out and investing their lives by building friendships with teenagers. Young Life leaders are committed to friendships with kids - no strings attached. Leaders spend time with kids playing road hockey, going to the mall, watching a basketball game, heading to the ski hill - leaders go to where the kids are and enter their world. We are all about communicating God's love to kids in terms they can understand. We welcome all teenagers; both junior and senior high, regardless of race or religious beliefs. Young Life values and respects all young people, and strives to make them all feel welcomed and accepted.

YSC offers resources, connections and outreach so women feel supported, empowered and hopeful. YSC grew out of the experiences of three young women facing many of the same challenges. Our founders, all diagnosed with breast cancer before age 35, saw the need for better information, support and research for young women facing this disease. YSC helps young women stand strong against the many unique challenges our population faces.

Youth Action for Peace is an international peace movement which aims for societies of peace, justice, and self determination. Since 1923 Youth Action for Peace has been committed to promote peace and dialogue in local communities through the active participation of young people. Youth Action for Peace has 17 member organisations and numerous partner organisations. Our programs raise awareness about the impacts and actions against discrimination, social exclusion, injustice, and violent conflicts. The active participation of young people from all around the world in local community projects and international training courses together with the support from the local communities enable us to transform society towards social inclusion, justice, and peace.

Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) is an international organization that seeks to bridge the digital canyon among disadvantaged communities in developing countries, starting with the continent of Africa. The vision of Youth for Technology Foundation is to foster wealth creation, reduce unemployment and create self-sustaining communities by providing marginalized people in rural communities with the technology tools, training and resources to enable them to realize their greatest potential. Technology - even in small amounts- is helping developing nations and communities overcome tradition to take leaps forward. YTF recognizes that access to information holds the key to the empowerment of marginalized people, particularly youth and women. YTF programs focus on assisting the poor, disadvantaged and marginalized communities so that they can better participate in the digital economy. Primary beneficiaries are young people, ages 8 to 25 years, who will gain the knowledge necessary to be advocates of these issues. Secondary beneficiaries are the rural dwellers who do not have the adequate access to information and as a result become undereducated and isolated from the global economy.

Youth For Tomorrow is committed to providing a safe, healthy, and compassionate environment for at-risk youth who have been abandoned, abused, or otherwise alienated from family and community. Twenty-five years ago, we had a vision for a residential campus to help the at-risk adolescents of the Greater Washington area. The need was great then. It has only grown. That vision became Youth For Tomorrow. Now, some 900 children later, we remain aggressively focused on the original goal to help at risk adolescents become responsible members of society. Each boy or girl that we help begins an echo of positive results reverberates throughout their communities and ours.

Youth Off The Streets is a community organisation working for young people who are chronically homeless, drug dependent and recovering from abuse. We support these young people as they work to turn their lives around and overcome immense personal traumas such as neglect and physical, psychological and emotional abuse. We provide crisis care for young people still living on the streets with our food van, youth refuge and outreach programs. We also operate an innovative drug and alcohol program specifically designed for young people. Our accredited independent high schools in Surry Hills, the Southern Highlands and Merrylands, provide flexible educational opportunities and support for young people living on the streets or who are unable to attend mainstream high schools. Many of these young people go on to successfully achieve their School Certificate and, in increasing numbers, their Higher School Certificate.

We provide actionable intelligence on child and youth issues plus opportunities to discuss and debate key issues through Forums, seminars and conferences. The London-based Youth Research Forum is a consortium of leading players in the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK concerned about issues affecting youth. It was founded in response to a need recognized in the private and public sectors for relevant and up-to-date research and informed debate on key issues facing young people today. The YRF will also enable its Members to become substantially better informed about today’s young people and to develop evidence-led initiatives and interventions.

YuvaLok is a not for profit NGO, "Investing in Lives" of underprivileged street and slum children, rescued child labourers, girl child and disadvantaged women since 1993 in the city of Bangalore, India. YuvaLok provides education both formal and informal, vocational training, nutrition, healthcare and is involved in community development. Over the last 15 years we have been able to invest in the lives of more than 3000 children and women to improve thier quality of life in a holistic way regardless of caste or religion giving them dignity and hope.

For over 100 years, YW has played a vital role in our community, continuously adapting to meet women’s most critical needs. YW is dedicated to addressing the most critical needs for women in Dallas County, offering programs in the areas of financial literacy, pregnancy and parenting education, and women’s health services. YW’s goal is to educate and guide women toward becoming self-sufficient and to advocate for sound public policy that supports these efforts.

The core philosophy of the YWCA is the relationship between Mind, Body and Spirit, in that women must nurture and enhance these to achieve a life balance. The YWCA Lethbridge and District is a member of YWCA Canada, and thus a member of the World YWCA. Whether you are a teenager, young woman, mother, professional, senior, or a combination of any of these, the YWCA has a program.

The YWCA is the oldest and largest multicultural women's organization in the world. Throughout our history, the YWCA has been in the forefront of most major movements in the United States as a pioneer in race relations, labor union representation, and the empowerment of women. Across the globe, we have more than 25 million members in 106 countries, including 2.6 million members and participants in 300 local associations in the United States. More important than the numbers, is our mission to eliminate racism and empower women. We provide safe places for women and girls, build strong women leaders, and advocate for women's rights and civil rights in Congress. Women come to us in times of crisis, as survivors of rape or domestic violence. They come for job training and career counseling. They come for childcare. They come for health and fitness. They come for a variety of reasons. But they come. And they leave with a renewed spirit, new skills, and stronger lives.