GlobalGiving Projects - Just added

Sponsor individual AIDS orphans' Education

Lew Fulton — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:31:40 GMT

$25 — will pay for a month for tuition at a boarding school
$75 — Will pay for a term of secondary school (three month term)
$100 — Will start a student into secondary school., buying his start up admission requirements like texts, uniforms, bedding and basic hygiene and self care needs.

Summary
Mercy Children's Centre's school in the Kawangware slum of Nairobi Kenya, has 12 orphans who have finished 8th grade with us. Now this eager learners need to continue their education into secondary school so we are looking for sponsorship for them to go to boarding schools around Kenya.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
MCC Kawangware provides schooling and a safe haven for 200 orphans in a Nairobi slum. This year our funding has been sufficient to cover teachers' salaries, rent obligations, dormitory provisions for some students and a daily meal for most students. A global giving drive in August, 2011 supplied new desks and uniforms as well as text books, and a gas cooker for the school. But we have graduates who need to continue their education into secondary school and we can't manage to teach them ourselves

Activities
If we can find sponsors for individual students we can ensure a good quality secondary education for MCC's 8th grade leavers through 2012. These older children would go to boarding school, as is the tradition in Kenya and be integrated with non-orphans, they would be cared for and educated for a few more precious years. Some of our target scholars need homes to go to during their month long midterm breaks but the Mercy Centre should be able to provide that, to those with no other options.

Potential Long Term Impact
Each year of continuing education gives these teenagers a greater chance of success in their adult life as they learn more life and economic skills. Staying in school is also a significant way to let the kids grow up more slowly as they postpone their own parenthood and added responsibility. As one of MCC's founding members said 'we are teaching these children to grow up and be good loving, responsible adults'. We have 13 graduates and other AIDS orphans who Mercy Centre still supervises.

Project Message
We love our graduates and it breaks our hearts to set them loose into the slums of Nairobi with so few resources available to them. They are clearly suffering without any further education.
- John Wafula, Head Teacher, Mercy Children's Centre Kawangware

Project Sponsor: Mercy Children's Centre
Theme: Education | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$1,500
Project #9155 on GlobalGiving.org

Help restore 500 waste pickers' burnt down homes

Linus Kendall — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:29:35 GMT

$10 — will rebuild one waste picker's home
$100 — will protect 10 families from the winter cold in delhi
$1000 — will help a third of the slum to rebuild their lives

Summary
Early in the morning about a week ago a fire broke out in the waste picker slum called Ghazipur Dairy. Here hundreds of families live in plastic and bamboo shacks, meaning that the fire spread quickly. In only a couple of hours more than 350 families had lost their homes and all their belongings. This, during the coldest season of the year. Please help us support these families to rebuild their homes and protect them against the cold.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In the slums of Delhi, houses are built with plastic tarp and bamboo coverings. Cooking is done through simple wood fire stoves, and electricity, water and other services are provided through informal networks. Fires are therefore a common occurrence. Over 75 000 waste picker families live in this way in the Delhi area alone. In Ghazipur Dairy, where over 500 families reside, there was a large fire last week which destroyed over 350 homes. We appeal to your help to rebuild their homes.

Activities
Through the funds raised within this project we will rebuild the homes of the affected families, giving them shelter from the cold and reducing the risk - especially for the children - of illness or death.

Potential Long Term Impact
We will provide 350 families with the necessary materials and support to rebuild their homes and move forward with their livelihoods. Without this support there will most certainly be families who cannot manage to get through the winter cold.

Project Message
We appeal to you to kindly help our members in the Ghazipur Dairy slum. Due to the season there is an acute need for tarpaulin sheet, blankets, daris and winter clothing.
- Shashi Bhushan Pandit, Founder, All India Kabadi Mazdoor Mahasangh

Project Sponsor: Waste Ventures
Theme: Disaster Recovery | Location: India
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$3,000
Project #9834 on GlobalGiving.org

Using soccer to help vulnerable children in Africa

Mark Slessenger — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:35:14 GMT

$20 — Life Skills and Soccer Training Pack (teaching strong moral values and lessons such as teamwork, peer pressure, leadership, discipline, commitment, etc.)
$30 — Weekly food for our feeding scheme in the Academy. (Each child is fed at the Academy).
$35 — Football boots for one child in the Academy

Summary
Hope Academy invests heavily into the lives of 36 children in Soweto township, South Africa through intensive intervention over a number of years. The project believes in long term support and development of children who come from broken homes and live in a poverty stricken part of South Africa. We solve the problems many of these children face through our holistic program which mentors each young child, visits their homes, monitors their education and develops their football talent.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Hope Academy is designed as an elite holistic soccer program for poor and marginalized children in Soweto helping them develop in their football, faith and future (education). Many young children in Soweto grow up in poverty, with poor education and have negative role models. Hope Academy implements high investment in each child placed in the Academy, the Academy also impacts the whole community through sports programs and training, bringing transformation and hope to many.

Activities
Each child is placed in a development plan (DP) that oversees their progress in the Academy. Each coach invests time in the child, visits his family and monitors their progress at school. Local leaders are also trained to help in the community.

Potential Long Term Impact
We believe in investing quality time and resources into the lives of our young children. This long term investment will bring long term transformational results in the future as our children will become leaders and role models in their families and surrounding communities. Hope Academy also develops the surrounding community through running soccer clinics, tournaments, training and education. One example - we have trained over 250 coaches in soccer coaching, HIV/AIDS and life-skills education.

Project Message
Hope Academy teaches me many things such as honesty, respect and discipline. The coaches love me and show their care for all of us, they visit our homes and work hard for us.
- Thokozane Banda, 10yr old Soweto girl in the Academy.

Project Sponsor: Ambassadors In Sport
Theme: Sport | Location: South Africa
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$25,000
Project #9822 on GlobalGiving.org

Environmental Education for over 300 Children

Michele Merrifield — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:57:41 GMT

$10 — feeds 2 underprivileged children for 1 day at Daktari
$25 — covers the education, accommodation & food of 1 underprivileged child for 1 day at Daktari
$50 — pays for 8 underprivileged children to visit Makalali Game Reserve to learn about job opportunities and the wildlife which surround them

Summary
Our mission is to inspire and educate underprivileged children to care for their environment, through the medium of a wildlife orphanage, while increasing their environmental job opportunities.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Limpopo province has a very high unemployment rate, and also a very big problem with poaching. The schools are badly equipped and over crowded which leads to poor education. Poor education leads to unemployment and poaching. It is a vicious circle that can only be stopped by educating the younger generation and helping them to make South Africa a better place.

Activities
We give underprivileged children the chance to experience their local environment. We inspire these children to protect their environment and introduce them to ecotourism jobs. We supplement the local school curriculum with one on one lessons and develop the children's self-confidence while diminishing the stigma of apartheid through working with international volunteers. We care for orphaned and injured wildlife while using them to teach the children responsibility and respect for animals.

Potential Long Term Impact
Today's local underprivileged children will be able to secure good employment in nature reserves. The children, future custodians of nature, will be inspired to protect wildlife and their fragile environment.

Project Message
I believe the future of our environment lies in the education of our children. If people care about nature, they will look after it.
- - Ian Merrifield, ex game ranger, Director of Daktari Bush School

Project Sponsor: DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
Theme: Education | Location: South Africa
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$40,000
Project #9825 on GlobalGiving.org

Solar energy for Madina Community Health Post

Paul Munro — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:49:35 GMT

$10 — Buys one long life LED light bulb
$50 — Pays for training documentation for the site
$300 — Makes a significant contribution to the solar electricity equipment

Summary
The Madina clinic serves an estimated catchment population of 5,714 people and provides primary health care for 13 villages. Without any form of energy, it is limited in the quality and variety of services it can offer the community members who rely on the facility for their medical needs. Solar power can provide the ideal solution, providing cost effective, low maintenance energy for lighting, equipment and other critical needs.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Sierra Leone suffers from some of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world, with the limited access to health care being one of the major contributing factors. A lack of energy for basic diagnostic equipment and medical storage are also issues. Rural communities such as those served by the Madina clinic are especially vulnerable, as they are often unable to quickly access the larger urban centres and rely on first line treatment.

Activities
Residents of rural Sierra Leone will receive dramatically increased access to health care through the provision of solar energy. Vaccines will now be effectively stored, lighting will enable access to health facilities at night and energy will power basic equipment such as microscopes, contributing to the improved quality and access of care these communities receive. The clinic serves an estimated catchment population of 5,714 people and provides primary health care for 13 villages.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will have dramatic impacts in both the short and long term. Improved health care services are a vital part of the development process and improving the health of the residents is a critical first step in enabling other activities to occur.

Project Message
Solar power will improve services to the communities by providing night light for deliveries and blood work. It will also help us keep good staff in rural areas by providing power for staff quarters.
- Brimah Samura, Director of Health Care Ministries

Project Sponsor: Energy For Opportunity
Theme: Health | Location: Sierra Leone
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #9799 on GlobalGiving.org

Poverty relief & welfare in South-East Asia.

Tom Rosen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:22:21 GMT

$10 — Buys one first aid kit or a hygiene pack
$15 — Buys someone in need a set of clothes
$20 — Is enough for a handful of chicks for a families income generation

Summary
You, as a donor, can really make a difference to local communities basic needs and rights! Sometimes everyone needs a helping hand and the communities we work with in South-East Asia are no different, many of whom are lacking in even the most basic of necessities. We work with communities that get little support from main funding organisations, and it is up to us to collectively make sure these needs are met and empower local communities so that they are on the path to self reliance.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Many people struggle for the bare necessities and often are faced with emergency food and health situations. This project aims to help cover urgent costs for the communities we work with in South-East Asia, thus giving them a much needed helping hand. We take a lot of things for granted yet there are still many people who work hard for basic survival. With you, we want to make sure that we work towards poverty elevation for ethnic minority, migrant, refugee and otherwise marginalised peoples.

Activities
The Branch Foundation plans to have a funding pool from which we can respond quickly to emergency poverty/welfare needs. There are thousands of people on the Thai-Burma border, in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos in desperate need, and we want to be able to support them to a more dignified, empowered and brighter future. By providing them with a reliable source of food, hygiene products and education materials, we hope that people can be assured that their families can survive unexpected situations.

Potential Long Term Impact
The Branch Foundation will provide basic needs to at least 1000 people, enabling them to no longer struggle on a day to day basis. By covering these needs, we believe it is the first step to a long term solution in breaking the poverty cycle. Ensuring that people have healthier and more stable lives gives them the opportunity to concentrate on education and community development which can then be passed down from generation to generation. We want YOU to join us in making this a reality!

Project Message
Being a project based organization, we often lack the capacity to quickly respond to emergency relief/crisis situations. We hope to remedy this and provide quick assistance when needed.
- Tom Rosen, Project Manager

Project Sponsor: The Branch Foundation
Theme: Children | Location: Thailand
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$3,000
Project #9815 on GlobalGiving.org

Teach Kenyan Women to Make Feminine Hygiene

Celeste Mergens — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:49:58 GMT

$10 — Will provide fabric for two kits
$15 — Will transport a Kenyan woman to training
$20 — Buys quality scissors for 5 women trainers and reading glasses

Summary
Many girls in Kenya go without safe feminine hygiene, leaving them using unhealthy methods. Lack of supplies raises school dropout rates, increases infection and can lead to exploitation. This project trains Kenyan women from diverse rural provinces to be leaders and teachers of community trainers throughout their nation to make quality washable feminine hygiene supplies, while also providing girls with hygiene, safety and health training.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Impoverished Kenyan girls and women face days with no access to safe feminine hygiene solutions. According to the Kenyan Ministry of Education, this directly effects dropout rates for girls once they reach menstruation. This lack is not limited to young girls. Women of all ages are forced to use unsanitary methods of feminine hygiene including leaves, bark, newspapers, rocks and corncobs. This often leads to infection, isolation and increased poverty by limiting education and employment.

Activities
Days for Girls International and Days for Girls Kenya provides training and supplies, as well as sanitation, safety and women's reproductive health education for Kenyan women. The women are also taught to multiply the results by training others to teach about feminine hygiene, including how to sew their own supplies.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project will educate 50 Kenyan women leaders to train entire communities to provide feminine hygiene, health and sanitation for themselves, impacting thousands who can then educate others and keep girls healthy and in school. According to a feature in Sept. 2011 National Geographic, "The poverty cycle can be broken when girls stay in school."

Project Message
I experienced the shame of going to school without sanitary supplies. When I used newspaper and my uniform became spoiled, I didn't want to return. Through this project, thousands can stay in school.
- Linda Guzha, Days for Girls Zimbabwe Director

Project Sponsor: Days for Girls International
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #9827 on GlobalGiving.org

Treat 60,000 children in rural Zimbabwe

Lisa Bevilacqua — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:47:15 GMT

$10 — buys enough medicine for 40 children
$25 — will provide a meal to 100 children so they don't take medication on an empty stomach
$100 — buys medication to treat side effects for 1 clinic

Summary
Upenyu intends to treat 5,000 school-children in rural Zimbabwe for parasitic worm diseases, such as schistosomiasis. These diseases cause severe morbidity in children, including bleeding, stunted growth, impaired cognitive development, and poor school performance. It is our hope that, by providing treatment, children become happy and productive members of society.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Parasitic diseases are endemic in much of Zimbabwe. Recent studies conducted by the Zimbabwean Ministry of Health indicate that prevalence of these diseases is 38% (and even higher in some communities) in the area where Upenyu works. We work to treat theses diseases among school-aged children, who are most severely affected. These diseases cause severe morbidity and symptoms range from internal bleeding to cognitive impairment. Studies have shown that school performance is also lower.

Activities
We provide treatment for children afflicted with parasitic diseases. This not only improves their health, but also helps them perform better in school. We test the children every six months to make sure they aren't reinfected. To measure our progress, we assess the height and weight of the children.

Potential Long Term Impact
In the long term, Upenyu seeks to improve access to medical treatment for parasitic diseases. This will help children become productive members of society, thereby breaking the cycle of poverty. We also aim to increase the scope of our program to reach a wider group of people. Our hope is that the success of our program will spur the Zimbabwe government to establish national treatment guidelines and provide access to treatment for all Zimbabweans.

Project Message
Teachers have so far acknowledged noticing some signs of improved participation in class and class attendance by the majority of pupils who took part as subjects in your studies...
- Booker Mutara, Acting School Headmaster where treatment was given

Project Sponsor: Upenyu Health
Theme: Children | Location: Zimbabwe
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$50,000
Project #9824 on GlobalGiving.org

ORBIS to Ensure Ethiopians Can Access Clean Water

Diane Weatherup — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:43:45 GMT

$10 — will contribute towards the cost of raw materials
$20 — will contribute towards the cost of labour for the project
$579 — will build one water pump serving 100 households

Summary
ORBIS plans to eliminate trachoma in remote regions of Ethiopia in the hope to cure thousands of people suffering from the painful, blinding and life destroying eye disease - trachoma. It will do this by ensuring communities have regular access to clean water and sanitation. ORBIS has started building and repairing the water pumps in the project areas.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Trachoma is an infectious eye disease and across the developing world it continues to bring pain, blindness and poverty to millions. Trachoma could be easily prevented by improving the surrounding environment. At present, community members have to travel long distances to fetch water and almost 60% of the water-pumps were non-functional. The water collected in such way is very precious and will be used for vital household functions, and face and hand washing is not a priority.

Activities
ORBIS and WaterAid have agreed to continue working together on rehabilitation of non functional water schemes for the surrounding area. Rehabilitation of the non functional water schemes is found to be a cost effective approach that would significantly increase access to water. This will encourage face and hand washing which in turn reduces trachoma incidence. The project also involves training community members on how to perform minor repairs on these pumps to ensure they are in working order.

Potential Long Term Impact
In 2007, ORBIS adopted the World Health Organisation's SAFE strategy, to reverse the effects of trachoma; distributing antibiotics to treat the initial blinding infection; raising awareness of facial cleanliness to prevent the bacteria which causes infection; and improving the surrounding environment through improving access to clean water and sanitation.These measures combined, will contribute towards the eradication of trachoma in some of the poorest regions of Ethiopia.

Project Message
The impact of working in water development is beyond trachoma control and is directly related to the quality of life of the community.
- Dr Alemayehu Sisay, Project Manager

Project Sponsor: ORBIS Ireland
Theme: Health | Location: Ethiopia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,790
Project #8454 on GlobalGiving.org

Educate Girls and Boys in Rural Afghanistan

Ginna Brelsford — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:54:19 GMT

$10 — pays a week's travel expenses for out-of-town teachers
$25 — buys a chair for a teacher
$60 — buys a desk and chair for a teacher

Summary
Help other private donors add four classrooms, a library and furnishings to this rural grade school outside of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, and pay to transport teachers to the school. Ayni founder Julie Bolz led the initial building of this school in 2003. The community embraced the school, Ayni funded 2 more rooms in 2010, 2011 enrollment grew to 1,440 school students attending in two daily shifts--and still more space is needed. Others have pledged $62,000 to support the $69,345 expansion.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Afghanistan ranks last in the world according to the UN Human Poverty Index in quality of life, based on high infant mortality, short life expectancy, and low literacy rates. Lack of opportunity for quality, secular education (especially for girls) undermines Afghanistan's ability to lift itself out of extreme poverty and thwarts efforts to eliminate extremism and achieve gender equality. This community has demonstrated a strong desire to educate its children, but needs help.

Activities
General Petraeus and many others have often said that the military is not, and cannot be, the answer to the war on extremism. We must address the lack of hope and opportunity that encourages people to join groups like the Taliban. As NATO forces withdraw, communities that embrace and can sustain their schools will be critical to the country's stability and continued development. Ayni seeks to help this community reach the point where it can sustain own school, and all children attend.

Potential Long Term Impact
Education is a long-term means to alleviate poverty in developing countries. Quality education provides tangible skills that translate directly to meeting development goals. In addition, education can increase stability and promote peace-building in conflict zones. Ayni promotes unity among students, parents, teachers, and community leaders when it invests in a community. Such unity leads a community to invest in education and, in a broader sense, peace.

Project Message
"When our teacher came to the village and she started to teach, I realized I could continue my life and my son would have a better future. So I am thankful that you helped me to improve my life."
- Anonymous, Afghan widow and mother in rural village

Project Sponsor: Ayni Education International
Theme: Education | Location: Afghanistan
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$7,345
Project #9698 on GlobalGiving.org

Plant a Tree to look a smile in next Generations

Wise men Civic Welfare Association — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

$10 — Donate to buy a plant
$25 — Donate to buy 3 plants
$50 — Donate to maintain a school garden

Summary
Because of increasing temperatures global warming is also increasing. Through this project we plant a high oxygen generated trees like money-plants by every student in schools & colleges

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Now a days with the increase in population forests and trees are destroyed to provide shelter for increasing population. Same time increasing traffic of vehicles high emission of gases causing environment in stability. All these issues delivering some unusual effects on next generations. This causes diseased physical & mentally handicapped generations. Finally in future the chances of healthy generations are invisible.

Activities
This project starts from grass route levels i.e. from schools, colleges and encourage the every student to plant a tree at least. We maintain school gardens. We help the industries to plant high oxygen generated plants in surroundings.

Potential Long Term Impact
If every child plant a tree in his school before his/her leaving time of the school an unimagineable change comes in surrounding areas. If it continues every where in next 10 years we can fully control global warming.

Project Message
I plant a tree in my childhood time in my school through the advise of a teacher. Now i came to same school as a teacher.I found a big garden in my school. My successors do same like me.Unforgettable
- Prabhakar, Teacher

Project Sponsor: Wise Men Civic Welfare Association
Theme: Climate Change | Location: India
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$45,000
Project #5801 on GlobalGiving.org

Keep 250 Orphans in School, Uganda

Barbarah Ndagire — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

$10 — Will buy 12 books for an orphan
$15 — Can provide a nutritious meal to 15 children and help them pay more attention in class
$25 — buys 2 piglets to start a pig farming business and empower a household for life

Summary
In response to an estimated 1 million orphans in Uganda, we are working to empower and improve the welfare of vulnerable children in Uganda through education, capacity building, and advocacy. Although the government of Uganda instituted free Universal Primary Education, a lot of orphans are dropping out of school because they lack scholastic materials or lunch food. This project seeks to provide books/pens and lunch meals to help keep 250 orphans in school for the rest of this year

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
HIV/AIDS orphans in Uganda are dropping out of school even when Primary School Education is free. This is so because many of them come from Child Headed Households where they are the bread winners. The lucky ones come from households headed by great grand parents or guardians too overwhelmed by the number of children they are helping. Many of them can barely afford their meals let alone scholastic materials. With no money to buy books or pay the lunch fee many orphans stop attending school.

Activities
This project will provide scholastic materials; books, pens, pencils, rubbers and colors to 250 HIV/AIDS orphans to motivate them to stay in school. We will also provide the lunch fee directly to the schools where these orphans attend. The charge usually ranges from $20 to $30 dollars per school term. The project is also promoting small agro-businesses in the orphans' households to ensure sustainability and to empower them to take care of their own needs.

Potential Long Term Impact
The longer we keep a child in school the better their education attainment and also the better they will appreciate the advantages of a formal education and want to stay in it all the way to college. The girl orphans who drop out of school risk being married off by their surviving relatives and boys risk becoming reckless. Education not only empowers these orphans but will also inspire a lot of other vulnerable children and strengthen their communities socially and economically.

Project Message
I love going to school; I want to be a doctor when I grow up. The challenge is my grandmother can't afford to buy books for me, some days I skip school so I can raise money selling fish in the market.
- Diana Nakabazzi, Beneficiary to the project

Project Sponsor: Support to Children, Inc.
Theme: Children | Location: Uganda
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$10,000
Project #9811 on GlobalGiving.org

Empower 200 Women to Become Entrepreneurs In India

Sanju Kumar — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

$25 — Will provide training for 20 women to become entrepreneurs
$50 — Will act as guarantee fund for a loan to a woman by a mainstream bank.
$100 — Will provide one loan to a women entrepreneur including business development, training and support.

Summary
SAMRUDHI provides a livelihood based financial services to 200 women to take up income generating activities enabling them to become economically self-reliant.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The World Bank estimates that over 400 million people in India survive on less than $2/day, the yardstick commonly used to demarcate the poverty line. Sixty percent of the population lives in poverty and they suffer from high rates of hunger and malnutrition. These poor take small credit during crisis periods from moneylenders who charge exploitative rates of interest-often as high as 72%-350% per year. This puts the poor in a debt trap, and often results in their falling into bonded labor.

Activities
By accessing low cost and livelihood based credit from SAMRUDHI, the poor take up income generating activities, earn income, mitigates risk, plan for the future, makes choices, increase food consumption, and invests in their children's education, health and access to clean water & sanitation.

Potential Long Term Impact
By participating in SAMRUDHI's credit program, women learn new skills creating economic development and sustainability, a network of support, and financial independence for the first time in their lives.

Project Message
"Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little"
- Adam Smith, Philosopher

Project Sponsor: SAMRUDHI Micro Fin Society
Theme: Microfinance | Location: India
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$20,000
Project #9814 on GlobalGiving.org

Help 300 Poor / disabled old people in Bihar,India

RAVINDRA NARAYAN SHAHI — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

$10 — Doctors fee for health checkup for 1 poor old people
$15 — ADD Administrative expense for transport cost for volunteers to meet and select beneficiaries.
$30 — Medical health checkup with medicine support for 1 poor old people

Summary
ADD has always been thinking of doing something for the poor helpless old people whom nobody is there to take care of and ADD implemented it by providing food stuffs, clothing and medical care with medicine to such poor old people in Bihar, India.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project addresses three most common problems of the aged in rural areas - poverty, isolation and neglect by family.They are looked upon as non-contributing members of the family as a whole and are thus forced to live on the mercy of others. Many are forced to beg for a living. Lack of proper food, clothes, health checkup , and neglect from family causes them to suffer physical as well mental trauma. This project will benefit 300 such poor old people in Patna and Nawadah district.

Activities
Provide fooding material for 2 months, clothing, medicine with medicine and nutritional support also & them with income generating activities for financial strength Counsel and empower them to stand against ill-treatment by family and society. Advocate and create mass awareness through media and government programs.

Potential Long Term Impact
Our sincere effort had given a new zeal to the poor old people to enjoy life and not to think themselves a burden on family and society and remaining in depression.

Project Message
"I have been left off by my son and his wife. I beg for a living and sleep on the roadside with no proper Ration, Clothes and medical checkup for protection our life. I wish I had died before growing
- Dhankuwar Devi,, Beneficiary

Project Sponsor: ACTION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOS (ADD)
Theme: Hunger | Location: India
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$93,000
Project #9816 on GlobalGiving.org

The Condom is not only a birth control

Ofra Balaban - Kasztelanski — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

$50 — will train a class of 35 youth to avoid STD's
$100 — will train 2 classes, 70 youth to avoid STD's
$150 — will train 3 classes, 100 youth to voicd STD's

Summary
1 in 6 couples suffers infertility. 30% of it is mechanical infertility (a block of tubes in women and sperm pipe in men) caused by untreated STD's. Condoms are not only a birth control method - they also help prevent HIV-AIDS. In many cases youth are not aware of the HIV-AIDS problem and other STD's that might spread if a condom is not used. This project's main goal is to increase awareness of HIV-AIDS prevention by lecturing in every class in Israel for 16 year-old.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The challenge is to reduce pupils suffering from HIV-AIDS or other STD's that leads to mechanical infertility (tubes in women or sperm pipe in men that are blocked). The sub goal is to reduce the number of infertile couples in Israel The lectures make the pupils understand the importance of the use of a condom and hopefully will change their attitude. There are more than 150,000 couples in Israel suffered infertility and 1,000,000 effected as worried families.

Activities
Lecturing to youth on how to use a condom is most important, since it's brings them to think about STD's including HIV-AIDS and learn how to prevent it. This is a practical lecture. We wish to reduce 1,000,000 worried families of infertile couples by third.

Potential Long Term Impact
Education is a slow process. Lectures to youth are investments for the future in order to have less HIV and other STD's patients on one hand and less infertile couples on the other. We need to change behavior today in order to see results in the future. A 1,000,000 will be affected by the prject.

Project Message
Children told me as the lecture ended that the lecture improved their knowledge, made them change their attitude and made them understand the long term and short term impacts.
- Ofra Balaban, Chair, Ofra Balaban, Chair Person, Lecturer

Project Sponsor: CHEN - Patient Fertility Association
Theme: Education | Location: Israel
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$4,000
Project #9818 on GlobalGiving.org

Day Support Center For Adults With Disabilities

Donna Goldbranson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

$10 — hosts our club members' website
$20 — purchases art and music therapy supplies
$30 — replenishes consumable supplies in the clubhouse

Summary
We believe that every person has a right to fully participate in their community.

SPARC provides free day support for adults with disabilities in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Twenty-four adults now have free ongoing education and recreation support three days a week, but thousands remain under-served by government and other agencies. This project will fund a third facility that supports ten more individuals.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
We want every individual to live a life where they can fully engage with the community. Adults in Virginia who have disabilities often don't have that option.

There are 140,000 people with developmental disabilities in Virginia. More than half of these people have intellectual disabilities. 5,311 of them are on a "intellectual disabilities waiting list". They don't receive resources from the state and half meet Virginia's "urgent need" criteria.

Activities
Each SPARC facility is in a public space and provides day support services for at least 10 individuals. We provide programs that help these individuals interact in the community, learn new skills and achieve personal goals.

The impact reaches beyond the adults we serve and impacts their families, friends and the community at large. Each local community with a SPARC club rallies around the organization, proving that community services can allow all people to engage in their communities.

Potential Long Term Impact
More than 17,000 people with disabilities live at home with parents age 60 and over. As these parents "age in place", their adult children often have nowhere to turn when their parents can no longer care for them and before they are eligible for senior citizen programs.

A younger group--children--represents an even larger group. 1 in 91 children in Virginia is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. When they leave high school, most will not receive state assistance.

Project Message
"I didn't use to really do anything. Life was kind of boring. I didn't really have anything to do. Then when I started coming to SPARC, I really liked it and had a lot of things to do."
- Rachael Stern, SPARC participant

Project Sponsor: Specially Adapted Resource Clubs (SPARC)
Theme: Human Rights | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$50,000
Project #9823 on GlobalGiving.org

Provide Skills for Indonesian Unemployed Youth

Aris Miarti — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:29:40 GMT

$10 — Covers the cost of a tutor for 1 session
$25 — Provides internet connection for a month for 300 students!
$50 — Provides handouts for 135 students for 6 months for the Computer Skills Short Course

Summary
A World Bank study found that close to 60 percent of Indonesian youth are unemployed; this is the case in Yayasan Usaha Mulia's project area of Cipanas, West Java. That is why a Vocational Training Center (VTC) was established in order for youths to learn skills that would increase their chances of gaining employment. So far, 75 percent of our alumni have found jobs. Help us keep the VTC going and help more than 300 disadvantaged youths per year find employment.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The unemployment rate in Cipanas for youths aged 16 to 24 is over 60%. The greatest challenges to gaining employment in this area are a lack of skills and a lack of access to employment opportunities. The Vocational Training Center was designed in order to enable more than 300 youths per year to learn valuable skills that will increase their chances of gaining employment in a highly competitive job market.

Activities
The VTC offers 5 courses including English Courses, Job Seeking Skills, Sewing Classes, Computer Skills Short Course and a Course in Hospitality. These trainings have obtained governmental recognition in 2011. So, students graduating from the VTC will obtain a nationally recognized certificate, assuring them to stand out in the labor market thanks to their new skills.

Potential Long Term Impact
During the past two years a total of 600 students have completed courses at the VTC. 330 of those students graduated at the same time from high school and the VTC. Out of the 330 students who graduated from the VTC, 250 have successfully found jobs. This is a 75% successful job placement! Our hope is that by continuing to offer skills training, more and more disadvantaged youths will find employment and break the cycle of poverty.

Project Message
"I am proud and grateful to have the opportunity to study at the VTC. The classes & material given are extremely useful and have made me feel confident to go out & compete in the working world later."
- Luthfia-student at Technical High School, Beneficiary of the VTC English classes

Project Sponsor: Yayasan Usaha Mulia / Foundation for Noble Work
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Indonesia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$19,167
Project #9812 on GlobalGiving.org

Provide affordable water to villagers in Kerala

Sylas VP — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:57:00 GMT

$10 — pay for 1 construction worker daily wage
$25 — provide right to construct harvesting system on a plot of land
$50 — buy 25 cubic feet of sand to construct a system

Summary
By building cost effective rainwater harvesting structures, developed in partnership with InnoCentive, and training women to be the entrepreneurs, Rainwater for Humanity provide water to improve community health, increase financial savings and empower women in the Kuttanad region of Kerala, India.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Most of 700,000 Kuttanad residents have no access to clean water. Waste, pesticides, and sewage have contaminated canal and groundwater. If villagers have access to a public tap, water flows from it only a few times a week. This scarcity results in hours of physical labor spent in collecting water and millions of rupees in purchasing water from vendors. Women in the poorest neighborhoods suffer the most, and waste valuable time that could be spent on income generation or childcare.

Activities
We build rainwater harvesting structures to provide clean water, reduce unnecessary physical labor from collecting water and medical costs from water-related diseases. Each harvesting system will capture rainwater for ~20 years, empowering women financially and safeguarding the community health. In addition, we are piloting cost effective construction techniques including the use of construction material made out of vegetable fibers for a more affordable harvesting structure design.

Potential Long Term Impact
Fully implementing the rainwater harvesting systems will save women's valuable time and effort from collecting water to more productive activities. A clean source of water also safeguard the community from water related diseases. Additionally, training groups of local women by imparting business skills ensure local ownership and lasting results.

Project Message
"Now that we know the water causes illnesses, we want clean water. What is the next step and what will you do?"
- Suma Jimmol, Ms. Suma lives in Achinakom Village in Kuttanad

Project Sponsor: Brown University, EWB Rainwater for Humanity
Theme: Environment | Location: India
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$8,500
Project #9791 on GlobalGiving.org

Educate hearing-impaired children in Timbuktu

Barry Hoffner — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:59:30 GMT

$15 — will provide school supplies for a student for an entire semester
$30 — will provide the school caretaker's salary for one month
$40 — will allow one student to attend school for a whole year

Summary
"Ecole des deficients auditifs" is an initiation of the association of parents of deaf children in Timbuktu. It was established in 2007 with support from the Norwegian Stromme Foundation and the French Embassy in Mali, allowing us to hire two trained teachers and management, and construct three classrooms and latrines. Today, there are 30 children enrolled at the school and three teachers. This school is the first of its kind in the region and is greatly welcomed by the Ministry of Education.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Due to the lack of special schools in Timbuktu, deaf children in the region have historically been excluded from receiving education. This school is the first of its kind in the Timbuktu region provides these children with an equal opportunity for education. However, the school receives no financial support from the government and faces a challenge in meeting costs of teachers' salaries, school supplies and fuel for school bus transportation.

Activities
Lack of funding has led to teacher resignations and decreased student enrollment. Continued funding of this project will ensure sustainability of this school and long-term socio-economic reintegration of children with hearing loss.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project provides not only basic education for hearing impaired children, but also vocational training for at least 50% of children in special schools. It provides socio-economic reintegration and professional opportunities for hearing-impaired students in the region, giving them an equal opportunity for success.

Project Message
Better to walk without knowing where than to sit doing nothing.
- Proverb, Tuareg

Project Sponsor: Caravan to Class
Theme: Education | Location: Mali
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,700
Project #9810 on GlobalGiving.org

Protect The Protectors

Leena Fernandez — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:56:54 GMT

$10 — will provide accident insurance and medical benefits to 3 forest guards for one year.
$20 — will insure 6 guards against death and disability and provide medical benefits for one year.
$1000 — will provide ex gratia relief to one forest guard and his family in special circumstances.

Summary
Braving harsh field conditions every day, India's forest guards often risk their lives facing well-armed wildlife criminals to safeguard the country's natural heritage. Wildlife Trust of India's Guardians of the Wild project currently insures 18000 forest guards and envisions providing cover to more front line forest staff. This project provides these unsung heroes with an insurance cover of up to $2000, ensuring them and their families of some financial relief in case of injury or death on duty

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Almost on a daily basis, India's forest guards face harsh realities while safeguarding the country's wildlife. In addition to adverse field conditions and chance encounters with animals, they also often find themselves in combat situations with much better-armed criminals. Frequently the sole breadwinners in their families, their difficulties aggravate in case of permanent injuries or even death during these encounters, affecting their morale while carrying out their duties.

Activities
This project protects the protectors by insuring forest guards under a non-bureaucratic unique NGO-run Group Accident Insurance Scheme. It ensures quick relief to them and their family members in case of any accidents on duty. A small token of appreciation for their sacrifice, the insurance scheme will give them with a sense of security and motivation to provide better protection to wildlife in the country.

Potential Long Term Impact
In the long run, this project will create a highly-motivated and proactive frontline force to safeguard India's natural heritage against wildlife criminals.

Project Message
The project has provided quick relief to families of 70 guards till date. This gesture cannot equal their sacrifice, but is important nevertheless to show that we care and are together in this battle.
- Ashok Kumar, Vice-Chairman, Wildlife Trust of India

Project Sponsor: Wildlife Trust of India
Theme: Animals | Location: India
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$60,000
Project #9807 on GlobalGiving.org

Empower over 100 Malian children through education

Barry Hoffner — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:16:41 GMT

$10 — will provide meals for 1 student for 1 semester
$15 — will allow 1 student to attend school for 1 month
$55 — will pay for a chalkboard for a classroom

Summary
In early 2011, Caravan to Class built a school in Tedeini, Mali to give children in the village the opportunity to receive an education. In the first year, school enrollment in Tedeini increased by 500 percent. Caravan to Class has hired certified teachers from Timbuktu to provide the best quality education. We also provide two free meals daily as well as school uniforms and other school supplies. This school currently impacts over 100 children and has a steadily increasing enrollment rate.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Before Caravan to Class built our first school in the Tedeini, the children of the village had no access to formal education. There was a lack of government investment in education in this village. Caravan to Class has brought education and hope to this community. To ensure sustainability of the school, we need to fund its day-to-day operation by providing certified teachers, daily meals and school supplies. Our mission is to continue to provide quality education to this young generation of Mali

Activities
While the literacy rate in Mali is extremely low, at a mere 26%, the literacy rate in the villages around Timbuktu is even lower, at less than 10%. Having already given these deserving children an opportunity to attend school, Caravan to Class will ensure that the schools remain sustainable and continue to provide quality education to the children of Mali, allowing them to break the long cycle of illiteracy, and preparing them for active, informed citizenship and hope for future well-being.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project strives to uplift children in one of the poorest villages in Mali by continuing to provide them with an education and the opportunity to become global citizens striving for an educated, equitable and tolerant nation. This project also strives to save children's lives by educating young girls. Studies have also shown that educating girls has a direct effect on child mortality rates, estimating that millions of children under 5 have been saved by keeping girls in school.

Project Message
"It is amazing how the new school has brought hope to the entire village of Tedeini."
- Papa Cisse, Aid worker for AfricaCare

Project Sponsor: Caravan to Class
Theme: Education | Location: Mali
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$9,268
Project #9808 on GlobalGiving.org

Special Initiative for Girls No Abuse for Life

Nick Hansen — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:18:16 GMT

$10 — will provide a weeks supply of craft materials for one girl
$25 — will provide one new set of clothes for one girl
$50 — will provide support and help in the community for one girl for one month

Summary
Another NGO working in Patna, the Bihar State Capital here in India reported that 90% of female street children disappeared from the local streets after 13 years of age. Our Staff have 15 minutes from a missing or lost girl arriving at the station to find them before someone else does. This totally new initiative aims to give female street children support and a skill they can use to earn a living by providing high quality craft training and special support to female street children.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Street Children especially girls are exceptionally vulnerable.Clearly these girls need to learn a skill to enable them to survive without falling prey to pimps and being used for prostitution. Staff at our Centre already works with the police raiding local brothels and making sure that no children under 18 years of age are being exploited but it is not enough. We need to offer a skill where these girls can earn a decent living and we need to support them during and after the programme.

Activities
This will be a "proper course" meaning it will be six months in length using highly qualified instructors and the girls will have a government approved training certificate. The toys and gift items they will able to make will provide an important independent income. . There will be a follow up support. The SIGNAL programme aims to change lives and we will help with marketing and basic education.

Potential Long Term Impact
Every step taken to protect children helps foster an environment of more awareness of the plight of street children especially girls. working with the community is important and may encourage other right minded employers or educational institutions to offer training. This has the potential to reach out to hundreds of girls..

Project Message
We have rescued many girls from attempted rape and abuse and found them safe places after offering support and counseling. These girls need a friend but they need training to offer them a new life.
- Sunita Kumari, Project Director

Project Sponsor: People First Educational Charitable Trust
Theme: Children | Location: India
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$7,700
Project #9798 on GlobalGiving.org

Help Children with Cancer Access Treatment!

Vlad Litvinov — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:06:14 GMT

$10 — will pay for a blood test
$25 — will pay for biochemistry panel
$50 — will pay for blood administration set

Summary
Former Soviet Union countries, including those in Central Asia, often lack adequate facilities, medications, and trained oncologists to serve children with cancer. As a result, families have to travel abroad to nearby countries, such as Israel or Germany, to bring their children for treatment. As non-residents, they pay full costs of treatment, which is lengthy and very expensive. Our project will issue grants of up to $1000 to children with cancer from the former Soviet Union.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Following the Soviet Union breakup, the former Soviet countries faced abrupt reduction in health care services, shortages of medical expertise and aging equipment. Central Asian countries were hit particularly hard. Unable to find treatment at home, families with sick children have to travel abroad. As non-residents, they pay full costs of cancer treatment, which often are enormous. Our project will issue grants of up to $1000 to children with cancer from the former Soviet Union.

Activities
Grants will be transferred to the hospitals or the families to cover medical expenses billed to the patients. This will allow families to partially offset high costs of treatment.

Potential Long Term Impact
Children with cancer will have better chances of receiving uninterrupted treatment. We hope that continuous and successful care will allow children to reintegrate into their communities sooner.

Project Message
As someone who was born in Kyrgyzstan, seeing children from Central Asia as one of the most disadvantaged group of patients is a hurting experience. I believe we can help alleviate their situation.
- Vlad Litvinov, Project Leader

Project Sponsor: Advita Fund USA
Theme: Health | Location: Russia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$25,000
Project #9795 on GlobalGiving.org

Support to Women and Children in Sierra Leone

James Paul — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:07:30 GMT

$10 — will train a new mother on the importance of breastfeeding
$25 — will train three mothers on cultivation of nutritious crops
$70 — will pay the monthly salary of a carer at the Day Care Centre

Summary
This important project aims to protect and empower over 1,000 disadvantaged and war affected children, youth and women in the eastern region of Sierra Leone, through provision of vital services, knowledge, and skills, including training in crop production and nutrition for mothers, vocational training for youths, and day care services for young children.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
11 years of civil war in Sierra Leone has left it one of the poorest countries in the world. Children and youth have been worse affected. Over 10,000 children have been separated from their families and many have been orphaned or affected by disability and malnourishment as a result of war and chronic poverty. With a large number of children forcibly conscripted and the sexual abuse of young women and girls, many have been deprived of an education, childhood and normal psychosocial development.

Activities
The project will (1) provide training in crop production, nutrition, and breastfeeding to mothers of malnourished children; (2) provide vocational training and support for establishing businesses to disadvantaged youths; (3) provide pre-primary school children with day care to enable young mothers to find employment; (4) sensitize disadvantaged children (both in and out of school), local leaders and law enforcement officers on child rights; and (5) increase awareness about disability.

Potential Long Term Impact
The health and nutrition of 600 malnourished children will be improved; 150 disadvantaged youths will be able to find employment leading to self-sufficiency; 90 children of young mothers and disabled parents will have access to pre-primary education, enabling the mothers to find employment; and there will be increased awareness and acceptance of child rights and inclusion of disabled children throughout the community.

Project Message
"I am now a productive woman after training at MUWODA and proud to say that my physical condition has changed. My dignity as a woman is fully restored."
- Cyrilyn, Beneficiary

Project Sponsor: International Childcare Trust
Theme: Children | Location: Sierra Leone
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$25,500
Project #9783 on GlobalGiving.org

Rescue Prime Australian Rainforest from Developers

Paul Medici — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:46:02 GMT

$10 — will plant 1 tree and maintain it for 2 years
$15 — will buy back and protect 3m2 of Daintree Lowlands Rainforest
$40 — will feed a trained conservation volunteer team of 6-10 people for one night

Summary
To purchase and protect vulnerable areas of tropical rainforest from development forever. The Daintree Rainforest in Tropical North Queensland is one of the oldest rainforests in the world (over 135 million years old) and is home to 12 of the world's 19 primitive plant families, the highest concentration on earth. Over 180 properties remain unprotected and scattered about in private hands. Rainforest Rescue is buying up lot after lot and placing them under Nature Refuge Status.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
These unprotected areas of mega bio-diverse rainforest border National Park and other Rainforest Rescue Reserves and any development would cause major damage, much of it irreplaceable, to extremely rare, threatened and endangered flora and fauna. Ancient wildlife too such as the endangered Southern Cassowary, Bennett Tree Kangaroo, plus a host of other exotic species would see their habitats destroyed, fragmented and changed forever. Human settlement brings dire consequences.

Activities
Rainforest Rescue is actively purchasing and protecting this ancient natural treasure, effectively taking properties out of the hands of developers. We are in the midst of buying our 16th property in the Daintree Rainforest. With 180 properties still holding development rights, ecological studies must commence to determine which areas receive priority. Keeping as much pristine rainforest as possible intact while also revegetating degraded areas is paramount to the Daintree's overall survival.

Potential Long Term Impact
These rainforests are home to 135 million years of natural and evolutionary history. Man's development acts like a stake in the heart. Supporting this project will save rainforest forever by allowing Rainforest Rescue to continue purchasing and protecting this precious natural resource. The long-term impact is a healthier planet, medicinal benefits and preservation of ancient flora & fauna and wildlife for future generations.

Project Message
One of our greatest responsibilities as a society is to help ensure a better tomorrow for our children and the future generations. Protecting rainforests is the gift that keeps on giving.
- Paul Medici, Project Development, US & UK

Project Sponsor: Rainforest Rescue
Theme: Environment | Location: Australia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$100,000
Project #9790 on GlobalGiving.org