Support For Refugees in Turkey

The USA continue to be the receiving country number one when it comes to migrant workers. But whereas high skilled professionals enjoy fully support, migrants in the low skilled labor market risk to be exploited, discriminated and/ or criminalized. "Farmworkers Justice" helps by giving advice in regards to health care and immigrant rights and by improving their living and working conditions in general. You can find more informations and personal stories on their website.

As the war in Syria goes on, the number of civil victims is climbing constantly. The White Helmets - or the Syrian Civil Defence - are a group of volunteers who try to rescue people in danger and offer help where it's needed the most. So far they have saved lifes of more than 2.000 people by getting them out of the risk zones during heavy bomb attacks. But their equipment is reduced to a minimum. You can help them to do even more by asking governments for support. Please find more useful information on their website.

Amnesty International is urgently calling on the Iranian authorities not to execute Reyhaneh Jabbari and to order a retrial in proceedings which comply with fair trial standards, without recourse to the death penalty.

Support the campaign by

Urging them to investigate the allegations that Reyhaneh Jabbari was ill-treated in custody.Reminding them that under Article 6(4) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is state party, “anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence”.Urging them to allow Reyhaneh Jabbari access to a lawyer of her own choosing.

New Dehli is the home of thousands of street and working children. To give them a save place for their earnings, the NGO "butterflies" (based in that city) initiated the first bank where those kids can deposit whatever they earned during the day. But that's not all what makes their project special: the bank is also run by street children themselves who get lessons in accounting and banking on top. By doing so "Butterflies"empowers street and working children to later run their own business.

Other than that "Butterflies" offers different projects in the field of education and capacity building. Many of them have already been replicated around the world.

You can support them by volunteering or by donations.

The Change Agency is an Australia based social organisation which offers professional advocacy training to NGOs worldwide that work in the field of human rights and social and environmental justice.

By sharing their knowledge and giving useful practical advice they help movements to develop and enlarge their social impact. Besides training activists directly, they provide the social community with useful and practical informations on their website.

You can boost their effort by small donations or by sharing their website and tweets.

Autistic people were considered as uncommunicative and mentally retarted for a long time. Current studies show that this peception is absolutely wrong: People with autism show different kind of communicative capabilities. Or as the NGO "Autism speaks" puts it: "Each individual with autism is unique."

For educational advertising "Autism speaks" offers profound informations about the issue and helps people with Autism and their relatives to see Autism as an opportunity rather than a challenge.

Talented young people can be found everywhere but not all of them share the same amount of support and opportunities.

To support kids to find out about their own talents and abilities, the Youth Mentoring Connection brings together teenagers and adults. Those "matches" do not only support each other but also enjoy a whole bunch of empowering and community building activities offered by the Youth Mentoring Connection on a regular basis.

"If no one is writing about the conflict in Syria, does that mean it's not happening?"

Without reporters our horizon and knowlede of the world would not only be extremly narrow, but crimes as exploitations, abuses and other human tragedies would be easy to hide. NGOs like Amnesty International already know that there is nothing more effective than dragging crimes into public. This gives reporters a lot of power and responsibility but also makes them early victims of prosecution and imprisonment.

Reporters without Borders consists of couragous journalists who write about stories which are not supposed to be published and work in regions where the right fo free press might be easily violated by the people in power. To continue their important work they need your support.

Over 3.6 billion jeans are produced each year. To make just one of them 920 gallons of water are needed. Upon that enormous dissipation of water the toxic waste of jeans production is polluting the nearby rivers and therefore the oceans as well.

So it's time to think about an ethical and sustainable way to produce our favorite sort of pants: everyone has one, so everyone should care about it, too!