Translating information about the World Connectory Project

世界Connectory 项目是非商业, 非广告和非筹款的爱好。这不是登记的慈善。它打算使可利用在在哪里精确地在世界国际慈善, 非赢利在哪里他们计划运作在不远的将来的网, 通过全世界Connectory, 细节, 非政府并且基于社区的组织当前运作或。它特别, 但不完全将集中, 于以下区域: 贫穷、社区发展(特别是保护脆弱), 教育和职业训练、野生生物和对microfinance 的环境、干净的水、健康和卫生, 它通入和适当的技术的发展, 更宽的通入和社会企业家的角色。世界Connectory

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The World Connectory Project is a non-commercial, non-advertising and non-fundraising labour of love. It is not a registered charity.

It aims to make available on the web, through a Worldwide Connectory, details of where precisely in the world international charities, non-profits, non-governmental and community-based organisations are currently working or where they plan to work in the near future.

It will focus particularly, but not exclusively, on the following areas: poverty, community development (especially to protect the vulnerable), education and vocational training, wildlife and the environment, clean water, health and sanitation , IT access and the development of appropriate technologies, wider access to microfinance and the role of the social entrepreneur.

The World Connectory Project is in the process of dividing all the world’s wealthiest and most impoverished countries into geographical units of equal population size. Every five years, these units will be put into pairs by a random allocation process. The paired communities will be invited to take an interest in each other and voluntarily to share resources to further their mutual self-development.

For this reason, we are asking the organisations mentioned above to share with us locational details of the communities that will benefit from their projects. By this means, we can provide a resource list to people everywhere of worthwhile initiatives already taking place in the precise area of the world with which they and their neighbours are to be randomly paired for the period 2009-2014.

Participation in the project is of course entirely voluntary and people will be asked not to change in any way their support of any charitable organisations to which they are now donating. The World Connectory Project is seeking an overall increase in the levels of community investment and of charitable donations worldwide by providing an additional focus on the needs of the world’s developing countries. It will be left to individual community pairings to decide how they may encourage new and existing projects within their own localities, but we hope the Worldwide Connectory will serve as a manual to promote as a priority the projects that are listed within it, since these will already be operational or in an advance state of planning.

The project was first discussed and developed in the Omidyar.net community and since September 2007, information about the project can be found at http://www.ned.com/group/wwc/ws/ index/.

I would be happy to answer any further questions you may have. If there is information about your organisation’s work that you would prefer us not to publicise for any reason, we would hope to cooperate fully with your wishes.

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