Organizations in Paraguay:
SightLife
SightLife transforms lives by unlocking life’s possiblities for corneal blind individuals around the globe.
Working with surgeons in over 30 countries, SightLife and our partner eye banks restore sight to more than 30 men, women, and children each day. This is accomplished through eye banking, which is the recovery and placement of eye tissue used in cornea transplants.
Christian Veterinary Mission
Christian Veterinary Mission seeks to help veterinary professionals live out their Christian faith through their profession by serving others worldwide. In many developing nations, people struggle to survive because they don’t have the right knowledge, skills and resources to care for their animals upon whom their livlihood depends. CVM veterinarians live and work alongside nationals to encourage them and provide them with not only much needed veterinary expertise, but also the hope that is only found in Christ. As friends and encouragers, CVM veterinarians build lasting relationships with individuals and communities, helping them be transformed through Christ’s love. Christian veterinarians also serve through the profession here at home, demonstrating Christ’s love in word and deed.
World Forum Foundation
The mission of the World Forum Foundation is to promote an on-going global exchange of ideas on the delivery of quality services for young children in diverse settings.
The mission of the World Forum Foundation is accomplished through two types of gatherings of early childhood professionals…
World Forum on Early Care and Education: Every two years 600 – 800 early childhood professionals from more than 80 countries gather to share ideas on a wide range of issues impacting the delivery of quality services for children and families.
Working Forums: In the alternate years, Working Forums—regional meetings of early childhood professionals focusing on specific issues—take place.
Both types of gatherings serve as “meeting places” where all those interested in promoting the well-being of young children and families can share ideas, strategies, and perspectives.
World Forum Projects: At World Forum gatherings people often come together to launch global projects on specific issues and topics.
Current projects include:
Men in Early Childhood Education
HIV/AIDS and Young Children
Nature Education
Peace Building with Young Children
Teacher Education
Immigration and Young Children
Promoting Indigenous Cultures in Early Childhood Settings
Rights of Children in Children’s Homes
SeaChar.Org
SeaChar.Org is working to research, educate and promote the use of biochar and clean biochar production. Biochar has great potential to favorably impact climate change, soil productivity, food security and the production of carbon negative sustainable biomass energy. Our technology development is producing clean burning fuel efficient alternatives to open fire burning of wood or charcoal for cooking and commercial scale charcoal production. We prioritize crop and forestry waste products as new energy input sources. As such our work and the resource we represent supports all of the following areas :
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
• creation of new entrepreneurial fuel cycles
• decreased cost of cooking and heating inputs
• decreased cost of agricultural inputs
• creation of in country manufacturing
• potential carbon credit (offset and sequestration) funding
• increased agricultural productivity
• creation of clean energy and value added products sector, from green waste
GLOBAL HEALTH:
• improved indoor air quality
• improved food security
• improved water quality
• improved green and animal waste handling
CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE:
• improved soil tilth, water handling, nutrient cycling and productivity
• reduced fertilizer leaching
• reduced methane and NO2 emissions from ag. activities
• biochar is a long lasting carbon sink for carbon taken from the CO2 cycle, thus it is a major “wedge” strategy for the reduction of atmoshperic CO2 levels
• reduced deforestation, due to redirected and/or more efficient fuel cycles
• reduced desertification, through (anthropogenic) soil building
• brown field soil remediation
EDUCATION:
• biochar/stove program development support
• biochar plot testing
• training trainers on the use and potential of gassification
technology (stoves to village energy production)
With the support of the Global Washington community, we will work to make SeaChar.Org a resource for experienced partners seeking to build positive, sustainable infrastructure world wide. SeaChar is currently working with Agros International to evaluate the requirements for a successful biochar development project in rural Central America.
Microsoft
As an industry leader and the world’s largest software company, Microsoft has a responsibility to act as a good corporate citizen all around the world. Whether it is complying with local laws and regulations, demonstrating ethical business standards, mitigating risks to the environment, or protecting human rights, Microsoft is committed to being a global leader in corporate social responsibility. Corporate citizenship is also core to the Microsoft business strategy and the way that we interact with customers, partners, governments, and employees. It is a way of doing business that recognizes the effect that Microsoft has on society and the effect that society has on our business. The Microsoft corporate citizenship mission is simple: to serve the public good through innovative technologies and partnerships and to deliver on our business responsibilities of growth and value to our customers, shareholders, and employees. This mission not only guides our work as a corporate citizen, but also provides a framework through which our business addresses new markets, technologies, and business models.
Global Law Advocates
Promoting and helping design and strengthen pro bono legal programs worldwide to assure access to justice for the poor and disadvantaged and the organizations that serve them. Helping lawyers meet their social responsibilities to assure equal access to justice.
EarthCorps
EarthCorps offers a 6-month service learning program in Seattle, Washington, USA that brings together emerging environmental leaders from around the world to learn the fundamentals of: Environmental Service, Community Building, Leadership.
Cuentas de Esperanza (Beads of Hope)
Our mission is to collect beads and give them to organizations to teach people to make jewelry. We have started a school in Cuba, and donate beads to Cuba, Africa and the U.S.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program
Recognizing the different ways to health, the mission of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program is to serve as a bridge between communities and healthcare institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
Aglow Relief
The purpose of Aglow Relief is to support the international ministries of compassion and empowerment conducted by Aglow International through voluntary aid operations, including but not limited to food aid, disaster relief, infrastructure construction, technical skill-building and small enterprise development, for the benefit of disadvantaged women, families, and communities ourside of the United States. Aglow International is a transdenomination organization of Christian women, founded in Seattle WA in 1967 and incorporated in 1972 as a religious non-profit (501(c)(3)). Aglow is established in 166 nations on 6 continents, all of which have indigenous women overseeing the work in their nations. It is one of the largest international women’s organizations, with over 1,250 community, neighborhood, and workplace goups in the U.S. alone, as well as 3,101 groups internationally. An estimated 2 million women meet together each month through local Aglow groups. More than 21,000 leaders worldwide minister in their communities. An estimated 17 million people each year are ministered to through Aglow groups. Aglow groups in many nations conducts ministries of compassion and empowerment, raising the economic and social status of women, addressing health needs, and providing assistance to disadvantaged women, children and families in their communities. Aglow Relief is Aglow International’s humanitarian subsidiary.
