Childreach Nepal uses sports as a tool for development and aims to provide not just technical skills, but support the holistic development of children through sports activities. The programme aims to reduce dropout rates in the schools, to prevent children from trafficking, indulging in unsafe migration, and any other form of child abuse children may face once they drop out of school. It also focuses on bringing equality among the community, regardless of gender, race and economic background. However, this is just one of the projects they are delivering, from Early Childhood Development to menstruation education, each project is geared towards engaging children in school and tackling the leading causes of children to leave school.

With 56,000 burns cases a year and only two hospital wards dedicated, this is a powerful project that goes right to the heart of Nepali culture. The charity not only helps to tackle the care but also the prevention - a huge challenge when rates of domestic abuse and the use of acid in such attacks is so high. Since starting the Nepal Impact Marathon we have funded over 80 life-saving surgeries for burns victims, and with your support we can really ramp that up this year.

Five Talents UK provides savings schemes, small loans, and business training for those in need in rural East Africa. We make use of a modern, hybrid form of savings-based microfinance that relies on local partners, enterprising clients, and an innovative use of technology. The simplicity extends to the business ideas themselves, it can be as simple as a lady selling potatoes who uses the loan to accelerate her income by purchasing more stock at lower prices due to the new economies of scale. This, in turn, enables her to pay for her children to attend school - and so the cycle of development continues. The loans are financed and regulated by the communities themselves.