Tree Aid Competitors

Plant With Purpose, a Christian development organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. For more than 40 years, Plant With Purpose has been a leader in linking international community development and environmental solutions, working with smallholder farmers in strategic areas where environmental degradation and poverty intersect. Plant With Purpose currently works in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Thailand, employing an integrated methodology that combines environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal. Activities include watershed restoration, reforestation, sustainable agriculture training, savings-and-loan groups, local leadership development, and supporting outreach efforts of the local Christian church. Our Vision: to break the vicious cycle of poverty and deforestation by transforming it into a victorious cycle of environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal.

Help Lesotho is an international development organization working in the AIDS-ravaged country of Lesotho in southern Africa. We are empowering a critical mass of children and youth in Lesotho with the knowledge and support needed for them to lead a movement that: - advocates for social justice, particularly the rights of girls and women, in pursuit of gender equity; - promotes the prevention of HIV transmission; and - champions and challenges all involved to make healthy decisions and be socially responsible. Orphaned, vulnerable children and youth need support and guidance to grow up as healthy, productive members of society. AIDS has decimated the working and parental generation, leaving children and youth without role models or positive influencers. Our two community leadership centres and village-based programs reach children and youth—and the grandmothers, teachers, and community members who support them—with education and life skills training based on solid research. Our approach empowers people to: 1. Heal: build resilience to positively move forward in life 2. Learn to think: foster self- management and decision making 3. Have a purpose: become leaders who take action for the benefit of others. In May 2014, Help Lesotho received accreditation through Imagine Canada’s Standards Program. Help Lesotho is proud to be part of the 0.13% of Canadian charities who have achieved this gold standard for operational excellence. In July 2014, Charity Intelligence launched its Canadian charity ratings. Help Lesotho is one of 72 charities awarded 4-star status (the highest level!) based on our financial transparency, accountability to donors and cost-efficiency.

VIDEA is one of Canada's oldest global education centres. We facilitate communication, cooperation and strategic networking among Canadian groups working for global justice, peace and sustainable development, linking local and international issues with community initiatives.