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Healthy ecosystems underpin everything that humanity needs, but 75% of our Earth is degraded. Climate Disruption, the biodiversity crisis, desertification, flooding, loss of livelihoods, poverty and hunger are directly linked to collapsing ecosystems. Humanity is degrading and depleting its most important resource: functioning natural systems. The need for addressing these crises and for a change to a resilient, regenerative and sustainable co-existence with our natural world is understood. Yet, worldwide, people feel powerless to turn the tide. In response, we are catalyzing a global movement to restore and rehabilitate our degraded ecosystems and change the way we live with nature through introducing regenerative productive systems. Ecosystem Restoration Camps ("ERC") is a global, inclusive, bottom-up movement. We catalyse action towards restoring and rehabilitating natural systems to maintain the web of life. We do this by facilitating the emergence of Camps around the world. Camps are living labs where local communities, lay people, experts and scientists come together to restore and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems. Camps empower local communities to restore their environments and livelihoods by providing them with the tools, skills, and knowledge to bring back abundance and increase their resilience. OUR VISION: We envision a fully-functional, peaceful, abundant, biologically diverse Earth brought about through cooperative efforts for the ecological restoration of degraded lands. OUR MISSION: To work together to restore ecological functionality, to build Research, Training and Innovation Centers for Ecological Restoration, to engage people in inquiry into ecological restoration, and train people in how to restore degraded lands in perpetuity. OBJECTIVES - To train people in techniques for restoring land and provide practical opportunities for people to practice new approaches to landscape restoration. - To build research, training and innovation centers to engage people in ecosystem restoration. - To manage a flow of volunteers of all ages to restore agricultural and natural ecosystems. - To increase the organic matter, carbon content and water retention capacity of the soil to stimulate large scale carbon sequestration. - To improve the livelihoods of farmers, landowners and local communities around the camps. OUR VALUES Restoring Earth positively impacts both livelihoods and communities. To ensure that our contribution to humanity is ethically sound, we have embraced a set of core values that guide the work of the Foundation: - We believe that all beings are equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights; - We recognise that without thriving ecosystems we are nothing and feel a profound obligation to preserve and restore degraded land where it may be found; - We are not self-seeking but rather committed to working together towards a collective outcome that is bigger than any individual, that benefits us all, and that benefits future generations; - We voluntarily, joyfully and with peaceful intent wish to restore basic ecological function so that all people and other living things can live together in harmony; - We willingly share our knowledge, our time, our expertise and our labour, making it as accessible as possible, knowing that we are doing the right thing; - We treat one another with respect and as equals in our shared endeavour, no matter how much or how little each of us may be able to give; - We believe in collaboration, and therefore work with organisations, experts, and local communities in partnership; - We work as a bottom-up movement, each Camp is an independent entity designed and organised according to its own local context, ensuring that the benefits are really felt by the local population; - We communicate openly and honestly celebrating our diversity, and embracing our differences without allowing these to impede progress towards our shared goal; - We act with open minds and hearts, prepared to learn new skills and methods for land restoration from those with knowledge and expertise in this area; - We strive to communicate the essence of our work to others such that together we can build a movement that restores resilient abundance to land and ecosystems that we have degraded. ERC Foundation works with an executive Board of Directors, a volunteer and financially responsible Supervisory Board and a strategic Advisory Council made by the world's leading experts in agroforestry, permaculture, regenerative farming, and ecosystem restoration. ERC is a supporting partner to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Our mission is to improve the quality of education that children recieve in public elementary schools in Mexico through the integral development of the school community.

Move Forward is a dance, basketball, rap program to uplift traumatized children. Our coaches work in refugee camps, shelters and slums. We believe movement and music are effective ways for coping with trauma.

To strengthen Mexico's community foundations.

EDUCIAC promueve y defiende el reconocimiento colectivo de las personas como sujetas de derecho a través de procesos participativos y de incidencia política que dignifiquen la vida, para la transformación social. EDUCIAC promotes and defends the collective recognition of people as subjects of rights through participatory processes and political advocacy that dignify life, for social transformation.

Futebol da forca [football gives strength] is an independent international foundation, educational platform and community for purpose-driven football coaches. The organisation was founded in Mozambique in 2012 to work within football to empower girls with agency to make informed decisions and live a life they value. Futebol da forca engages, trains and supports voluntary football coaches to empower girls within football, while changing attitudes and norms that today prevent girls from reaching their full potential, in order for girls to thrive far outside the football field.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. We lead international action to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people.

We work with our members to ensure reliable provision of life-saving cells while promoting patient and donor care and safety

How many beneficiaries have you reached in each of your services/programs? How do they reach their ideal population? MExoxo started in 2013 in Mexico with 2 women, expanded in the USA and Latin America supporting 1000 women and scaled up to 11 countries impacting 5345 women, as of today. Our mission is to empower, educate and connect literate and competent women (who have limited access to education or opportunities) via interactive and personalized methodology, aligned with the SDGs and focused on sustainability, social innovation, entrepreneurship, and STEM education. We offer our support through 3 main pillars: Empowerment that is performed by life-coaches and psychologists; Education on business and financial literacy that is offered by business mentors; Connectivity which happens via MExoxo's global network that offers women additional specialized education on their field of expertise to implement their projects through direct or indirect seed funding opportunities. The organization has educated 5345 women, of 14-55 yrs old, in 11 countries who have received $1M in value for their projects in actual money or growth opportunities. It should be underlined that MExoxo has recorded an indirect impact of 21,380 women as for every woman the organization empowers she supports 4 more within her family or community. Finally an important statistic is that 60% of our women participated have created or grow their own projects.

Proactively promote and strengthen a social environment that respects human rights, where diversity is recognized as a value, with emphasis on the development of vulnerable groups such as young people, people with HIV, men who have sex with other men, the LGBT community, community of people deprived of their liberty, through the promotion of sports, positive models of coexistence and collaboration with indigenous government institutions and key actors of civil society. Our vision is a leader in the social response to community problems, reinforcing the visibility of diversity in Mexico, and being a benchmark for the development of linkage strategies with local, national and international initiatives in the promotion and defense of human rights and elimination of all types of discrimination, through the positioning of visibility strategies for problems related to vulnerable groups, specifically diversity, and the creation of synergies between the key actors that involve the communities as part of the solution to their needs.

make an ecosystem so that children and young people have a comprehensive education on science, innovation and entrepreneurship

asistir la transicion de infantes y adolescentes, brindandoles a elles y a su familia el justo acompanamiento que necesitan en esta etapa tan importante, asi como una serie de herramientas en el campo juridico, educativo, de salud y social. De esta manera buscamos lograr el respeto a sus derechos humanos y contribuir a que tengan un desarrollo pleno y armonioso.