Links

Community Welfare Agency (WAC), is a community-based NGO in Dandora, an area of Kenya's capital city, Nairobi. WAC runs a variety of projects including:

• WAC Savers - a credit-union type savings project
• Micro-finance for small businesses in Dandora
• Support for community health workers
• Women's groups
• Dandora Community Chest - a small loan / grant scheme for community projects

IPES - The Permaculture Institute of El Salvador. IPES was founded as an independent organization in 2002 by small farmers concerned to halt the destruction of their environment and way of life. Over the past 6 years, they have built a network of subsistence farmers who work with ecological farming methods. They have a training centre and 4 demonstration permaculture sites, the most important of which is the ecological community La Florida in the La Libertad department. Their aim is to train community leaders within poor rural areas to enable them to tackle the environmental crises that face them. IPES works with a grass roots network of subsistence farmers (Farmer-to-Farmer Network) who are changing their farming practices and adopting ecological methods. For more information, visit www.permacultura.org/elsalvador.html.

North West Global Education Network
The overall aim of this project is to provide teachers in the North West of England with more effective and sustained support for incorporating a global dimension into their teaching, by adopting a more strategic approach to provision of support throughout the region.

Cheshire Development Education Centre
Cheshire DEC promotes an understanding of and respect for the lives and cultures of everyone in order for us all to contribute and actively participate in the development of a fair society, which celebrates diversity and difference and our global interdependency.

Global Link
Global Link is a development education centre based in Lancaster. Their aim is to promote awareness and understanding of global issues, and to empower people to take positive action for justice, development and sustainability.

Cumbria Development Education Centre
Cumbria Development Education Centre is one of 50 UK centres whose concern is global development and environmental issues.

Liverpool World Centre
Liverpool World Centre is one of a network of over 50 development education and world centres across Britain providing support and information and working to encourage a global perspective. They are a non profit making equal opportunitiies organisation with charitable objectives.

Manchester Development Education Project
DEP are an Educational Charity in the North West of England who work with partners across the globe. They provide consultancy, INSETs, advice and resources for schools. They run projects to develop teaching practice, improve teacher training and create new resources for classroom activities.

Partnerships in School Linking
A partnership between Global Link, Cumbria DEC and LGEC linking schools in the North West with schools in the Majority world.

School Linking in Diversity Education
SLIDE is a new project to foster mutual understanding and respect for diversity in Lancashire schools. SLIDE promotes race equality and appreciation of cultural diversity by supporting links between schools in Lancashire. The LEA is working in partnership with LGEC and Global Link to facilitate these school links for at least a year, and to support schools with guidance on best practice on setting up links, challenging stereotypes, and integrating the links into the curriculum.

SAPERE
SAPERE is an educational charity whose members are interested in the role of philosophical enquiry in education both as a model of rigorous thinking and as a celebration of wonder and open-mindedness. They provide information and training on the popular Philosophy for Children methodology.

Global School Partnerships
DFID Global School Partnerships promotes partnerships between schools in the UK and schools in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The programme is a consortium initiative of the British Council, Cambridge Education Foundation, UK One World Linking Association (UKOWLA) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).

Development Education Association
The DEA is a national umbrella body working with over 240 member and partner organisations in the UK and overseas. The Association works closely with development education networks in Scotland - IDEAS, Wales - Cyfanfyd and Northern Ireland - CADA.

Department for International Development
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty. DFID also funds many projects at development education centre.

Global Dimension
Global Dimension is a unique website for teachers. A helpful guide to books, videos, posters and packs which bring a global perspective to teaching. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find resources for all age groups and subject areas.

Make Poverty History
LGEC are members of this coalition of charities aiming to pressurise the G8 summit leaders to bring an end to world poverty.

Oxfam UK Poverty Programme
Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world.

Oxfam UK Education
Oxfam Education. A new website for teachers to find everything they need to take a global approach across the curriculum.

Christian Aid
Christian Aid is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland. We work wherever the need is greatest - irrespective of religion or race.

FunderFinder
FunderFinder develops and distributes software to help individuals and not-for-profit organisations in the UK to identify charitable trusts that might give them money. As well as producing the database that LGEC use to help groups find appropriate funding, they produce two free pieces of software that can be downloaded from their website.

Preston & South Ribble Fairtrade Group
This group aim to increase awareness of Fair Trade and encourage the use of fairly traded products within the Preston and South Ribble area. Fair Trade provides workers with a fair price for their products and decent working conditions. This is one of the most effective ways of fighting poverty in the developing world.