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The Natural Justice
Natural Justice is a South African organization newly established to assist local communities with issues that affect them and their environment. Taking their name from the legal philosophy that anyone affected by a decision should be a part of that process.  

The charity is run by lawyers Harry and Kabir. They are currently working with the San ethnic group who live across Angola, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa to assist them to understand international and domestic policies relating to their environment and traditional knowledge.  In doing so, they are given the ability to have their voices heard and to determine their own future. Pictured are Andre who works for The Natural Justice, and of the African sky. www.naturaljustice.org.za

 

 

The Butterfly Tree
The Butterfly Tree was founded by Jane Kaye-Bailey after a business incentive trip in March 2006 to Zambia. While staying at the luxurious Royal Livingstone Hotel on the edge of the Zambezi River overlooking the Victoria Falls, Jane visited the Mukuni Village. Upon learning the plight of 450 children orphaned through HIV/AIDS, Jane decide to set up the UK charity The Butterfly Tree and Non-Government Organisation in Zambia. At the World Travel Market held in London in November 2007, Jane Kaye-Bailey was invited as a guest speaker to talk on ‘Luxury Travel with a Conscience’ using her own example of how luxury travel does not have to be hedonistic, and how becoming a ‘philanthropic traveller’ is a far more rewarding experience that just visiting an exotic resort.
www.thebutterflytree.org.uk

Defra: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Its' mission is to enable everyone to live within our environmental means by tackling climate change internationally and through domestic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. www.defra.gov.uk

 

The Eden Project
Eden is an educational charity. The Humid Tropics Biome is the biggest greenhouse in the world and is high enough to hold the Tower of London or eleven double-decker buses piled on top of one another. The hold great concerts here too. www.edenproject.com

 

Ethical Cocoa Farming
There are 2 million cocoa farms in West Africa, which supply 70% of the world’s cocoa. They have a number of programmes in place to improve working conditions and raise standards of employment practices and to ensure sustainable development of this agricultural sector. www.cocoafarming.co.uk/

Encompass: The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust
It promotes understanding and tolerance among young people of different backgrounds, faiths and cultures by means of challenging adventure programs. The charity is set up in memory of Daniel Braden, a 2002 Bali bombing victim. www.encompasstrust.org

 

Fair Trade
Fair Trade recognised the important role that consumers could play to improve the situation for producers. By buying direct from farmers at better prices, helping to strengthen their organisations and marketing their produce directly through their own one world shops and catalogues. Supported by your local supermarkets. www.fairtrade.org.uk

Food and Agricultural Organisation of The United Nations
FAO leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO launches World Food Day every 16 October. www.fao.org

 

The Green Man Festival
The 21st century "Glasto" sans horror toilets with imaginative catering and finer attendees. It has been nominated in two categories in this year's UK Festival Awards, Best Grass Roots Festival and Best Small Festival. Classic acts such as Rufus Wainright and Robert Plant. Based in Wales. www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk

 

Slow Food
"We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat Fast Foods." 80,000 members worldwide can't be wrong. A Sojournpussy's favourite. www.slowfood.com

 

The Smile Train
How about putting a real smile on someone's face for a change? The Smile Train is focused on solving a single problem: cleft lip and palate, which are a major problem in developing countries where millions of children who are suffering and cannot eat or speak properly. www.smiletrain.org

 

Sustrans: Sustainable Transport Charity
Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity. Its vision is a world in which people can choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. They do really cool cycling events. www.sustrans.org.uk

 

UNICEF: United Nation’s Children’s Fund
Unicef's aim is for every child to have equal health, education, equality and protection for an advance humanity. We were all children once and possibly will or already have several ourselves. www.unicef.org

 

Water Aid
Is he future war going to be about water instead of oil. WaterAid is an international charity to overcome poverty by enabling the world’s poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. www.wateraid.org/uk

 

World Press Photo
A brave and successful effort to encourage high professional standards in photojournalism and to promote a free and unrestricted exchange of information. Based in Amsterdam with touring exhibitions all over the world. It contains photo gallery with life changing images. www.worldpressphoto.org