Community Action
HACCP International operates a community scheme to assist those whose lives are not as easy as they are for most.
This scheme is funded by donations from both the company and HACCP International staff and is operated by a committee of staff members who determine policy, mission and beneficiaries.
We are pleased to say that every single HACCP International staff member has committed to donate a prescribed amount to this year’s scheme.
2022 – 2023
This year, the committee, after seeking suggestions and receiving requests, and in line with its mission and strategy, made donations to the following carefully selected, organisations:
771 million people worldwide live without clean water close to home. Diarrhoea caused by dirty water, poor toilets and insufficient hygiene kills almost 800 children a day. A lack of clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene keeps kids out of school, adults out of work and traps people in poverty.
Together we can unlock people’s potential with clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. Without all three, people can’t live dignified, healthy lives. With all three, they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty, and change their lives for good.
We know that cancer research brilliance goes further, faster, when it’s backed by technology.
So we ask highly-esteemed cancer researchers to select the cancer research they believe in, and we supercharge it with technology. It works!
Australian Cancer Research Foundation’s approach has already saved the lives of Australians who would otherwise die from their cancer or pay an unacceptable price for more time. 2 in 5 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85. The remaining 3 will be closely affected by a diagnosis.
Support ACRF, as people you love need Australia’s best cancer research.
ILF’s three programs, Book Supply, Book Buzz and Community Publishing, focus on ensuring access to quality resources, including books in First Languages, publishing Community stories and supporting Communities and families to lead the entire process to ensure leadership, ownership, and authenticity is held with Community Elders and residents.
Inhabiting about 100 small islands in the south Pacific, Fijians live with the constant risks of extreme weather and climate change impacting their homes and livelihoods.
CARE began its charity work in Fiji through local partner organisation, Live & Learn, in 2016, after Cyclone Winston, the strongest storm ever recorded in the southern hemisphere, devastated the Pacific nation. More than 540,000 people were affected with 44 killed and 131 injured.
CARE Australia and local partner Live & Learn responded immediately, providing lifesaving aid to tens of thousands of those affected, thanks to the generous donations from our supporters.
The partnership between CARE and Live & Learn is a great example of the importance of working with local partners, you can read more about this localised approach here.
Instilling generosity in our children
Founded in 2012, Kids Giving Back is a not-for-profit organisation that provides volunteering opportunities for children, teens and families across NSW.
Today, we’re a flourishing organisation – with more than 50 charity partners and a wide range of volunteering opportunities on offer. We have enabled more than 46,000 kids and their families to make a difference.
And we’re only just getting started.
Since 2004, The Dish have been feeding the vulnerable of Hornsby with a hot meal together with friendship and compassion.
St John’s Uniting Church Wahroonga started The Dish as a soup van out of a desire to offer food and conversation with homeless people in the local area. Originally food was served from the van in Hornsby Park two nights a week.
As Christians we love others as a reflection of Jesus’s great love for us. In addition to food, we provide an accepting and inclusive community, helping each person know they are valued.
Through Australia’s ups and downs over the years, The Dish team have been consistent in our service.
We’ve seen and adapted to a lot of change and are continuing to remain agile to meet the challenges that aid organisations like ours are facing.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is a global non-profit helping animals and people thrive together. We are experts and everyday people, working across seas, oceans, and in more than 40 countries around the world. We rescue, rehabilitate, and release animals, and we restore and protect their natural habitats. The problems we’re up against are urgent and complicated. To solve them, we match fresh thinking with bold action. We partner with local communities, governments, non-governmental organisations, and businesses. Together, we pioneer new and innovative ways to help all species flourish.
2021 – 2022
This year, the committee, after seeking suggestions and receiving requests, and in line with its mission and strategy, made donations to the following carefully selected, organisations:
Donating to the Barbara May Foundation will allow us to support volunteer doctors and nurses, improve maternal health facilities and provide vital medical supplies. Your donation will provide poor women, and those from remote areas, with quality maternal healthcare decreasing the number of women and babies dying during labour, or suffering injuries like obstetric fistula, during labour and birth.
The Hunger Project delivers Vision, Commitment, Action workshops that empower our village partners to transform from waiting for hand-outs to confident, productive people who have created their own opportunities to feed and care for their families. This holistic strategy builds a path to sustainable self-reliance through four phases over about eight years.
Partnered with Rotary Australia, the Ukraine Crisis Appeal help provides emergency relief and humanitarian aid to those affected by the war.
At Barnardos, we hope to end child abuse and neglect by supporting families to keep children and young people safe at home. We help children and young people who have experienced trauma, to recover and thrive and where there is a risk of abuse we find safe homes for them through foster care and open adoption.
Women’s Community Shelters works with communities to establish new shelters, which provide short term emergency accommodation and support in a safe environment that enables homeless women to rebuild self-esteem and achieve control and fulfilment of their lives.
2019 – 2020
The committee, after seeking suggestions and receiving requests made donations to the following carefully selected, organisations:
Committed to bringing fresh water to struggling African communities
This charity donates musical instruments to disadvantaged schools in rural regions.
The mission of Endometriosis Australia is to increase recognition of endometriosis, provide endometriosis education programs, and help fund endometriosis research.
Cana primary purpose is to provide relief from poverty, suffering, destitution and helplessness for people struggling with mental illness, addiction, homelessness, loneliness and other factors that alienate them from society. Central to the life of the Community are those who are most in need and who, through being rejected, powerless or violent, have the least options.
A local refuge, and support for women escaping domestic violence
Good Return was established as the Australian branch of World Education by humanitarian Guy Winship in 2003, with the mission of improving the lives of those living in poverty in the Asia Pacific region. Through livelihood development programs and improving access to financial services, Good Return works to improve the living standards of those living in the lowest poverty brackets, by giving them access to the tools they need to work their way into opportunity.
Mercy Ships uses hospital ships to deliver free, world-class health care services, capacity building and sustainable development aid to those without access in the developing world. Founded in 1978, Mercy Ships has worked in more than 70 countries providing services valued at more than $1.53 billion, with more than 2.71 million direct beneficiaries.
2018 – 2019
The committee, after seeking suggestions and receiving requests made donations to the following carefully selected, organisations:
We are an international development organisation working towards eliminating avoidable blindness and improving Indigenous Australian health.
Bringing emergency medical aid to stricken communities
A local refuge, and support for women escaping domestic violence
Helping with backpack accommodation for the homeless