Help create a world where every person has the opportunity to live free from poverty and to shape their own future – this is Our Mission.

Our Approach:
While undertaking major development projects, we also champion smaller initiatives that are often overlooked but have the power to create lasting change.

With over 23 years of experience, our proven partnership model brings together the unique strengths of each partner to drive effective and transparent collaboration. Our grassroots approach develops projects hand-in-hand with local communities to address the needs they identify as most urgent. By building on local knowledge, skills, and resources, we empower individuals and communities to take ownership of their development, creating sustainable, long-term impact.

Ongoing support, targeted training, and regular evaluations help maximise the success and longevity of every initiative, offering donors sensible and responsible giving opportunities.

We have over 350 active projects in over 50 countries providing donors variety, choice, and the ability to give to your passion.

Today’s Opportunity to contribute to:
Even the most promising projects can face unforeseen challenges creating the need for short term additional support, otherwise they risk closing before reaching their potential. That’s why we’re launching “Greatest Need Fund” to assist at these crucial times, bridging the gap and sustaining vital work, allowing GDG to stand with our valued partners at those moments, and beyond with ongoing support that we are positioned to give.

It’s a simple strategy, but one with maximum impact.

Partners in Aid is an Australian volunteer-run NGO supporting community-led development initiatives in India, Sri Lanka, Fiji, and the Philippines. Founded in 1962, we work alongside trusted local partners to improve lives through sustainable agriculture, education, public health, and livelihoods.

Our development philosophy centres on long-term partnerships and local leadership. In India, we collaborate with SEDS to promote sustainable farming in Andhra Pradesh and run a child education sponsorship program that has supported over 700 students to date. In Sri Lanka, we partner with Y Gro to deliver a dairy development initiative that empowers women farmers and increases rural household incomes. In the Philippines, the Sinangpad Healthy Village Project improves community sanitation and health outcomes while fostering social cohesion and gender equality. Our newest project in Fiji, launched in partnership with FRIEND Fiji, focuses on backyard gardening and healthy cooking to combat malnutrition and strengthen food security in rural communities.

Partners in Aid operates without paid staff in Australia, ensuring that the vast majority of funds directly support our partner organisations. Our board and project coordinators contribute diverse professional skills, including public health, development, finance, and governance, and maintain close engagement with each project through regular communication and monitoring.

We are a signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct and are currently pursuing accreditation with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), reflecting our commitment to transparency, accountability, and effective development practice.

We support change through partnership—not charity—building locally driven solutions with lasting impact.

ActionAid Australia is a global women’s rights organisation working in over 70 countries to advance gender equality and global justice. At the heart of ActionAid’s strategy, Women’s Leadership for Climate Justice, is a dual approach to change.

We support women on the frontlines of climate injustice to lead transformative solutions to the challenges they face. In Australia, we campaign to advance climate justice for women – amplifying Pacific women’s demands and targeting the unjust systems that are fueling the climate crisis and gender inequality. Our campaigns focus on stopping Australia’s continued financing of fossil fuels and increasing Australia’s funding for locally-led climate solutions in the Pacific.

More than 70,000 Australians support ActionAid’s work in Australia and over one million people have taken action as part of our global climate justice campaigns. ActionAid Australia has a proven track record in blocking public financing of fossil fuel projects and achieving increases in Australia’s funding for climate finance and loss and damage to support communities to adapt and respond to climate change.  We’ve also shifted Australian corporate policies in support of women’s rights, including in their global supply chains.

Since 2012, HEAPS (Australia) has matured into a reliable Charity working in remote Papua New Guinea; the Charity has gained public trust through acting justly, transparently and responsively. All allocated funds are sent directly to the PNG Not-for-Profit Organisation, which is based in Wewak township, East Sepik Province. The NGO collaborates closely with its local partners to implement projects, working with the beneficiaries.

The Australian Charity has a wide array of experienced professional volunteers who provide advice and assistance to the people of Papua New Guinea wherever needed. The Board consists of representatives from both countries, who are appointed to fulfil the overarching purpose of the Charity and to promote its success.

The Charity’s objectives are to reduce poverty and involve the needy in decision making to improve their lives and to enjoy their rights, in which all human beings are valued and treated equally, and in doing so, to:
– raise funds to enable positive changes to the lives of people living in poverty and/or difficulty in PNG;
– work directly to alleviate poverty, sickness, and suffering among disadvantaged groups, providing services directly to those in need of relief.

Destiny Rescue is an international not-for-profit organisation dedicated to rescuing children from sexual exploitation and equipping them to stay free.

For over 24 years, we’ve worked relentlessly toward our vision: a world where no child is exploited.

Operating across three continents—Africa, Asia, and Latin America—we deploy trained agents who collaborate with local authorities to identify and rescue children trapped in sexual exploitation.

In Australia, we also work to combat exploitation through strategic partnerships, advocacy/ awareness campaigns, and safety education, helping to reduce demand and protect vulnerable children before harm occurs.

But rescue is just the beginning. True freedom requires long-term restoration and empowerment. Depending on each survivor’s needs, this may include trauma recovery, attending school, learning a trade, and gaining the tools to thrive. Our trauma-informed Freedom Plans provide wraparound support—safe accommodation, education, vocational training, and family reintegration.

Right now, more than a million children are estimated to be trapped in sex trafficking—driven by poverty, conflict, and systemic vulnerability. That’s why Destiny Rescue acts with urgency.

With over 21,000 lives rescued (including 12,000+ children), and robust data systems tracking long-term progress, our impact is tangible. Each number represents a child who now has hope.

Download our 2024 Impact Report at www.destinyrescue.org.au to read more.

Our current funding priorities include expanding frontline operations, strengthening aftercare programs, and scaling rescue efforts in high-risk areas.

You can help rewrite a child’s story. Partner with us to bring freedom.

BETTER is an innovative leader of charitable education within East Timor. Our Founder, Ornella Byak, has been working on education in East Timor since her first visit in 2013 at the tender age of 14 years old. That day Ornella made a promise to the Timorese community: to do everything she could to create the same education opportunities she had growing up in Australia. She never forgot that promise…​

Prior to starting BETTER, she redeveloped a rural senior school that ranked fourth in the country and has provided over 650 students an education. However, that wasn’t enough.​

BETTER was then founded with a big dream to set a new national education standard in East Timor. In 2023, BETTER opened the Bakhita School of Excellence in the rural community of Same (Sah-May). BETTER’s progressively built school and custom curriculum has the backing of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and the President of East Timor, Josè Ramos-Horta.​

BETTER’s Bakhita School of Excellence is the first school outside of Timor’s capital, Dili, to teach English from the Foundation year – providing an international standard of education to rural children.​

With 70% of grade 1 students in Timor failing to meet basic learning outcomes, this isn’t just another school project… it’s the start of an education evolution for the people of Timor-Leste.

GNAU’s ‘Good Start Project’ is designed to equip youth from disadvantaged backgrounds with the skills and knowledge necessary to secure sustainable employment. By offering specialised training in hairdressing, cooking, bartending, customer service, call centre operations, and marketing, the project provides a pathway for youth to gain financial independence and build sustainable careers.

Over the past three years, through the ‘Good Barber Project’ (formerly the Good Barber Project), which was the pilot project of Vocational Training programs in Vietnam, GNAU has had the opportunity to support youth living in remote areas—where professional skill development except for the traditional industries like agriculture is nearly inaccessible—by providing hairdressing vocational training. Witnessing how this initiative has transformed their lives has been truly remarkable. It has not only significantly improved their quality of life but has also given them hope for the future. All of the trainees have successfully secured paid internships or jobs, and many aspire to open their own shops in their communities in the future. Many of our participants have expressed gratitude for the opportunity to learn soft skills, such as communication skills and leadership, during the training.

The ‘Good Start Project’ comprises three key elements: Coursework, Mentorship, and Paid Internships, Apprenticeships, or Formal Employment.

By addressing critical skill gaps and empowering youth with hands-on skills, this project plays a crucial role in fostering social and economic inclusion. This initiative is not just about training—it is about transforming lives and creating long-term opportunities for youth.

Good Neighbours Australia (GNAU) is part of the global Good Neighbours partnership (GN) which reaches around 7 million people each year in 51 countries, backed by 34 years of international community development experience.

GNAU was founded in Australia in 2018 as an Australian entity that initiates and innovates its own programs according to strategic priorities, primarily in neighbouring South and South-East Asia. It has established programs with affiliated GN global partners in Vietnam, the Philippines and Bangladesh as it continues to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities in the region.

GNAU is committed to raising up and empowering youth, particularly girls and young women. Its programs primarily focus on supporting young girls as they transition through secondary school into vocational training, employment and income generation opportunities, as well as higher education, depending on their aptitude. Various adaptations of the projects are designed according to the needs of particular countries and amongst communities in which they are developed.

GNAU’s primary programs seek to address: Vocational training and income generation opportunities; Career creation through tertiary education; Keeping girls at secondary school, for as long as possible. GNAU’s programs seek to reduce school dropout rates, address the barriers for out-of-school youth to gain further skills, provide education opportunities to those in remote areas who lack access to skill development, and set them on a pathway to support themselves so they can contribute to their families and communities long-term.

SolarBuddy is an Australian-founded international non-profit organisation dedicated to ending extreme energy poverty through innovative solar solutions and global education. Guided by the belief that access to energy is a basic human right, SolarBuddy provides solar lights to children and communities living in energy poverty, empowering them to study, work, and live safely after dark.

Since its inception in 2016, SolarBuddy has illuminated the lives of over 1.7 million people across 28 countries, including remote First Nations communities in Australia, the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The organisation also delivers award-winning STEM education and corporate engagement programs that inspire global citizenship and drive social impact.

Operating as a proud participant of the UN Global Compact and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SolarBuddy is committed to creating a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all.