NalandaWay Foundation

NalandaWay Foundation is a non-profit from India that provides free arts programmes to children to bridge social divides, while giving children from disadvantaged homes a means to express themselves. It is an alumni of Singapore International Foundation’s annual Arts for Good Fellowship, which seeks to use arts and culture to create positive social change.

Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital

Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital not only wants to eradicate curable blindness in Bihar, India by 2020; it's fighting for gender equality too. Through its programme called Football to Eyeball, it reaches out to rural girls through football, eventually enrolling them into a formal optometry course. Graduates then work in the eye hospital, serving some 250 new patients daily.

HelpUsGreen

HelpUsGreen (now known as Phool) is a social enterprise that collects about eight tonnes of waste flowers from temples daily, to recycle them into eco-friendly products - which are handcrafted by women from Dalit and other marginalised communities, providing them with fresh livelihoods. It plans to employ 3,700 women by 2020 and recycle 50 tonnes of flowers daily.

Global Village for Hope

Global Village for Hope is a Singapore-registered charity dedicated to providing education support to children in Myanmar, with the help of local partners. Since 2014, it has supported more than 200 children in 17 foster homes on the outskirts of Yangon and in Chin State.

Tahanan Sta Luisa

Tahanan Sta Luisa in Manila, Philippines, has been helping street children since 1999, through an intervention centre that provides shelter, counselling and basic education. Working with local authorities and other social services agencies, it has supported 560 girls to date.

Willing Hearts Orphanage

Based in Bulacan, Philippines, Willing Hearts Orphanage currently houses over 30 children, while paying for disadvantaged children to attend school. It works with local authorities such that children are referred to them for care and support.