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Academia FC Mexico's mission is to offer high-quality school education to socially disadvantaged adolescents while being part of an amateur and / or professional football team, developing their unique personalities and helping them become value-based societal role models.

At Nuup, we believe that agriculture can be a force for positive change. That's why we devise, incubate, and accompany agriculture and trade projects and initiatives that reimagine and transform the agri-food system. In Mexico, 17 million people live in poverty in rural areas, and most depend on small-scale agriculture for their food and income. To address this challenge, we focus on developing and scaling solutions for small-scale agriculture. By working with large companies, support organizations, investors, and cooperatives of small-scale producers throughout the country and in different value chains, we aim to change the relationships between producers, buyers, and other parties, establishing new information flows, tools, and incentives for the transition to new models of production and trade. Our approach is based on four systemic intervention strategies: 1. Agronomic and regenerative solutions: We believe that it is possible for producers to generate greater prosperity while driving agroecosystem regeneration. To achieve this, we identify knowledge, experiences, and technology that are appropriate and appropriable for producers, and that in turn are scalable and useful for other key actors. We conduct pilots to evaluate innovative and disruptive practices and technologies with more sustainable production systems, and we scale up the adoption of validated practices and production systems through their dissemination, the implementation of incentives, and partnerships. Some of the innovative methodologies we incorporate include regenerative livestock farming, agroforestry systems, organic production techniques, and innovative technologies for monitoring and optimizing resources. 2. Fairer, more transparent, and direct value chains: We believe in fair trade based on dialogue, transparency, and respect. We promote trade models that generate opportunity and development for producers, new competitive supply channels for companies, and the opportunity to consume healthy and accessible products. To achieve this, we research and develop a deep understanding of the functioning and dynamics of agricultural value chains, design new linkage models and short value chains that generate value for all, advise both companies and producer organizations in the diagnosis, incubation, and scaling up of innovative supply or marketing schemes, and accompany new alliances between buyers, producer organizations, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, and even consumers. 3. Digital and data tools: At Nuup, we are convinced that technology can change the rules of the game by bringing information closer to producers to strengthen their productive practices, facilitate decision-making, and better link with the value chain. To achieve this, we develop technology based on the needs of farmers and their organizations, using research, prototyping, and co-design methodologies that put the user's point of view at the center. We provide a range of mobile tools for producers to meet the needs of different types of production, such as strawberry, vegetables, or dairy farming. We also offer digital systems to strengthen, make more efficient, and competitive 4. We facilitate access to financing: To achieve the transformation we seek in small-scale agriculture, producers and their organizations need affordable financing adapted to their needs throughout their growth. Therefore, through partnerships with foundations, financial institutions, investors and other actors in the sector, we are working to develop a diversified offer of financial products that generate impact. These include non-refundable financial support (such as for bioeconomy projects) and loans, among others.

Women Win's vision is that of a world in which every adolescent girl and young woman fully exercises her rights. Our mission is to advance the playing field that empowers girls through sport and play. Women Win is the global leader in girls and women's empowerment through sport. We leverage the power of play to help adolescent girls and young women build leadership skills and become better equipped to exercise their rights. Since 2007, we have impacted the lives of 2,822,400 adolescent girls and young women directly and indirectly in over 100 countries. This is possible thanks to collaborations with a wide variety of grassroots women's organisations, companies, development organisations, sports bodies and government agencies. Women Win currently supports initiatives in Asia, Africa, Middle East, North and South America. Our work is focused on empowering girls and young women through sport, emphasising the prevention of gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and economic empowerment. In practice this involves developing high quality specialised tools and curricula; delivering training and capacity building workshops; monitoring and evaluation tools and systems development; and providing strategic and programmatic support. Women Win invests in and manages a diverse portfolio of global partners with approximately 1.5 million euros of direct funding granted annually.

Create the conditions to help strengthen the urban and rural communities to help them manage their socio-environmental heritage in a sustainable and inclusive oriented manner.

To promote the well-being and human dignity of children born with clubfoot in Mexico through disseminating related information, supporting treatment with the Ponseti method, and accompanying patients and their families during the treatment.

Founded in 1999 by environmental attorney and activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and several veteran Waterkeepers, Waterkeeper Alliance is a global movement of on-the-water advocates who patrol and protect over 100,000 miles of rivers, streams and coastlines in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa. Waterkeepers defend their communities against anyone who threatens their right to clean water - from law-breaking polluters to unresponsive government agencies. Made up of nearly 200 local Waterkeeper organizations, Waterkeeper Alliance keeps Waterkeepers connected, provides them with legal, scientific and communications support, and unites their voices as they take on major global water issues together.

Planet Water Foundation is a US based, non-profit organization committed to bringing clean water to the world's most disadvantaged communities through the installation of community-based water filtration systems and the deployment of hygiene education programs. Our projects are focused on children, schools, and rural and peri-urban communities across the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America.

Working with local grassroots charities and NGOs in 13 countries across the globe, the Global Vision International (GVI) Charitable Trust manages and raises funds for numerous long-term programs. These funds are used to support our local partners with the aims of alleviating poverty, illiteracy, environmental degradation and climate change. We do this through education, nutrition, conservation and capacity building. Our work focuses upon 3 key objectives: awareness, impact and empowerment. The aim is to create awareness of global issues, have a direct impact on those issues locally and empower our alumni, be they volunteers, donors, staff or community members, to continue impacting local issues on a global level.

Melel Xojobal is a children's rights organization based in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Our mission is to promote and defend the rights of indigenous children and young people through participatory educational programs that improve their quality of life. At Melel Xojobal we work in a participatory manner to promote the strengthening of indigenous cultural identity, to defend human rights, to strengthen personal and cultural dignity, to ensure that justice and liberty are respected, and that the participation of all is ensured regardless of race, gender, creed, religious affiliation or ideology. We believe that education is a fundamental means by which people exercise self-determination and become the authors of their own history. Melel Xojobal's specific objectives are: 1. To implement participatory educational programmes with indigenous girls, boys, and young people to promote and defend their rights to health, education, protection from mistreatment, to regulated conditions of work, association and expression. 2. To generate through ongoing research a better understanding of child welfare, human rights and education in an urban context. 3. To inform and educate the Mexican public about the human rights of indigenous girls, boys, and young people of Chiapas. 4. To exchange and share ideas and experiences from a human rights perspective which relate to indigenous infant, childhood, and adolescent education among organizations on a national and international level. All of our work is guided by the aim of protecting and promoting five human rights established by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Rights to health, to education, to protection against all forms of mistreatment, to work, and to freedom of expression and association). Our work responds to the situation of indigenous peoples in Mexico, who account for around 10% of the population, and continue to live in conditions that marginalise them socially, economically and politically and which push them to the edge of society. To provide an indication of the need for our work: according to government statistices, in the city we work in, in 2010 61% of the population had no formal right to medical services; 24% of the population aged 3-18 did not attend school. In 2010 we formally counted 2,481 child workers in the city. In 2005 in Chiapas as a whole, 71% of the population under 14 lived in municipalities classified as being at high or extreme risk of malnutrition; in some municipalities infant mortality rates 75 in a 1000, on a par with several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Centro Infantil de los Angeles provides free, quality daycare and preschool education to children with the greatest need in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Our mission is to ensure that all San Miguel de Allende children who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired become literate, independent, and productive citizens who set and achieve life goals.

Our purpose is to reduce poverty, bring hope and solidarity to poor communities or individuals in France and worldwide. We bring assistance to families, children and young people but also to the most vulnerable (homelesses, migrants, prisoners etc.). We fight against isolation, help them to find employement and we ensure their social reintegration. We provide emergency responses but also long term support, development aid and we work on the causes of poverty. The action of Secours Catholique finds all its meaning in a global vision of poverty which aims at restoring the human person's dignity and is part and parcel of sustainable development. To do so, six key principles guide this action, both in France and abroad: Promoting the place and words of people living in situations of poverty Making each person a main player of their own development Joining forces with people living in situations of poverty Acting for the development of the human person in all its aspects Acting on the causes of poverty and exclusion Arousing solidarity The actions of Secours Catholique are implemented by a network of local teams of volunteers integrated into the diocesan delegations and supported by the volunteers and employees of the national headquarters. On an international level, Secours Catholique acts in cooperation with its partners of the Caritas Internationalis network. Key figures of Secours Catholique: 100 diocesan or departmental delegations 4,000 local teams 65,000 volunteers 974 employees 2,174 reception centres 3 centres : Cite Saint-Pierre in Lourdes, Maison d'Abraham in Jerusalem, Cedre in Paris 18 housing centres managed by the Association des Cites of Secours Catholique 162 Caritas Internationalis partners 600,000 donors Every year Secours Catholique encounters almost 700,000 situations of poverty and receives 1.6 million people (860,000 adults and 740,000 children). This daily mission led in the field by the local teams and delegations, with the support of national headquarters, pursues three major objectives which aim at exceeding the distribution action and limited aid: Receiving to reply to the primary needs (supplying food and/or health care aid, proposing accommodation, establishing an exchange and a fraternal dialogue, etc) Supporting to restore social ties (bringing together people in difficulty with an aim to reinsertion, encouraging personal initiatives and collective projects, establishing a mutual support helper-receiver of help relationship, etc) Developing to strengthen solidarity (proposing long lasting solutions, establishing a follow-up over the long term, encouraging collective actions carried out by people in difficulty etc.)