GlobalGiving Projects - Just added

Myanmar Cyclone Relief in Irrawaddy Delta

Zenia Tata — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:58:28 GMT

$18 — 1 plastic and bamboo emergency shelter
$25 — 1 water basket system (provides clean water for 250 people)
$50 — 2 water basket systems (provides clean water for 500 people)

Summary
IDE is distributing water storage and treatment, shelter materials, and cash support for food to cyclone victims. Half the funds will be for immediate relief, and half will be reserved for rebuilding.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
IDE Myanmar has operations in practically all of the cyclone-affected areas in the Irrawaddy Delta, and is hence positioned well to provide aid where most needed. IDE has targeted 20 township areas containing an estimated 8,000 -9,000 villages. About 125 staff have been mobilized to work in these areas - approximately six per township. The initial focus will be on providing immediate relief but rebuilding the agricultural and food security systems will receive equal priority and attention.

Activities
Distributing clean water supplies to large groups of homeless survivors; training local groups to set these up themselves; Distributing materials for temporary shelters; providing food and basic necessities to temporary encampments.

Potential Long Term Impact

Project Message
The magnitude of the crisis here is almost unimaginable. Almost two weeks after the cyclone, hundreds and hundreds of devastated but accessible villages are still without food or shelter.
- Jim Taylor, Director of IDE in Myanmar

Project Sponsor: IDE (International Development Enterprises)
Theme: Health | Location: Myanmar
Funding to Date: $85,261 | Need:$100,000
Project #2081 on GlobalGiving.com

Transform the lives of children through soccer!

Alejandra Molina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:56:24 GMT

$10 — will help two vulnerable children have a new uniform to play soccer
$15 — will cover the program's costs to benefit one child
$50 — will contribute to the recovery of spaces where children spend their free time

Summary
"Soccer for Peace" is a community generating experience that is using soccer's pedagogical capacities to provide new life opportunities for disadvantaged children living in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
La Paz is considered to be one of the most unsafe and violent neighborhoods in Colombia. Children have excessive free time and lack appropriate spaces and activities to use it wisely. As a result of being brought-up in these harsh living conditions children end up roaming the streets and joining gangs. FCC is transforming the lives of 300 youth by providing them with an innovative soccer program to build conflict resolution skills and develop social capital in the community.

Activities
Children meet twice a week to play using the “Soccer for Peace” methodology which promotes and teaches social values such as: tolerance, respect, solidarity and honesty centered around gender inclusion for girls.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will initially improve the living conditions of 300 children who attend workshops on life building skills, receive a nutritious meal and learn peace coexisting values while playing soccer using the Soccer for Peace Methodology.

Project Message
"Too much leisure time and domestic violence place these children at risk. Through this effort which uses soccer as a development tool we are creating a social transformation in Barranquilla".
- Samuel Azout, Futbol con Corazon Founder

Project Sponsor: Give to Colombia
Theme: Education | Location: Colombia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$15,000
Project #2130 on GlobalGiving.com

Creating Opportunity for Darfur Women

Jennifer Marcy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:46:23 GMT

$25 — Buys one Basket of Darfur produced by IDP women
$50 — Provides training for one young woman to learn to weave
$100 — Buys the raw materials for 25 handwoven baskets

Summary
The Baskets of Darfur project aims to support the livelihoods and dignity of Sudanese women who are living in Internally Displaced Persons camps in Darfur, Sudan.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Baskets of Darfur project provides talented female artisans with sustainable income and access to markets. The project will address the needs of unemployed women living in camps by developing a stronger system of training and market support for women.

“Creating baskets gives us a chance to be with other women and talk about our problems. We can laugh and forget the hardships we have suffered.”
Zeinab, Kalma Camp

Activities
Designed through a collaboration with the internationally renowned Crafts Center and in partnership with our ongoing effort in Darfur this project will provide training, materials and means to create an economic engine for social change.

Potential Long Term Impact
Roughly 50,000 beautifully woven handicrafts have been made and sold in local markets, CHF gift shops in Nyala and Khartoum, and abroad. Through this program, over 500 women living in IDP camps in Darfur have increased their incomes by 30%.

Project Message
By making handmade baskets an economically sustainable art form, our project is helping to keep this tradition alive during a time of insecurity.
- Jennifer Marcy, Manager, The Crafts Center at CHF International

Project Sponsor: CHF International
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Sudan
Funding to Date: $200 | Need:$25,000
Project #2129 on GlobalGiving.com

Providing Volunteer Opportunities in Japan

D. Steven Lin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:55:06 GMT

$100 — Will provide one week of food box delivery to ten hungry families and opportunity for 4 volunteers
$1000 — Helps comfort and support 20 senior citizens for one month and opportunity for 16 volunteers
$5500 — Two months of special sports skill instruction by 24 volunteers for 50 mentally challenged children

Summary
We make it easy for both foreigners and Japanese to volunteer to help the Tokyo community, no matter what language they speak. We have pretested projects and put the societal needs in context for all.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Even with the growing societal concerns in Japan, structured volunteerism is very new to Japanese society. In addition, the nonprofit sector is very underdeveloped. There are no tax laws to encourage charitable giving, and not much encouragement is given to individuals who wish to volunteer. With all of these factors, there are true impediments to volunteering in Japan for both Japanese and foreign nationals. We aim to address these concerns by providing bilingual volunteer opportunities.

Activities
We are doing our part to grow the "3rd" sector in Tokyo. While helping friends or family is a cultural norm here, assisting those you don't know is a more recent development. We're helping foreigners & Japanese serve the community better together.

Potential Long Term Impact
Hands On Tokyo(HOT) serves as a bilingual volunteer organization connecting 200 volunteers to worthy projects within the Tokyo community. HOT will assist approximately 500 seniors, children and adults in participating more fully in society.

Project Message
HOT is not only able to connect volunteers with NPOs, but also to provide traditionally understaffed NPOs with additional resources to plan and implement volunteer programs.
- Dawson (Steven) Lin, President and CEO Asia, CAPMARK

Project Sponsor: Hands on Tokyo
Theme: Democracy and Governance | Location: Japan
Funding to Date: $67,356 | Need:$330,000
Project #1728 on GlobalGiving.com

The Organic Classroom Program in South Africa

Leigh Brown — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:39:14 GMT

$22 — One multi-purpose tree planted for global cooling
$64 — One herb garden for health and HIV/AIDS support
$85 — One chicken tractor for on-site manure production

Summary
SEEDs Organic Classroom Program partners w/ under-resourced schools for three years. The exit strategy ensures a sustainable Permaculture system for food security and a living laboratory for teaching.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
25% of learners come to school too hungry to learn. Township schools resemble deserts. Learners are affected by the pressures of unemployment (drug abuse, gangs). There is little inspiring input around them. There is the need to create a healthy learning environment, to supplement diets with nutritious food and to educate and provide food security skills. There is a need for social gardening, where learners gain esteem and hope through the metaphor of transformation in gardening.

Activities
SEED transforms learning through Permaculture. Teachers are supported to link all on-ground work to teaching practice. SEED builds outdoor classrooms and relevant productiver Permaculture systems as delivery of Outcomes Based Education.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project has the potential to change whole communities as it works with clusters of schools and thus the effects are multiplied. This project gets communities working positively together to provide for their needs (food, community, education).

Project Message
“I now understand what we need to do we should not grow food gardens around schools, but build schools in food gardens.”
- Kevin Pretorious, SEED Principal, Rocklands Primary

Project Sponsor: SEED
Theme: Education | Location: South Africa
Funding to Date: $10 | Need:$49,227
Project #1983 on GlobalGiving.com

Life-Saving Food Assistance to Haiti in Crisis

Meredith Slater — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:14:20 GMT

$25 — Provides one meal a day to a schoolchild for half a year through WFP's school meals program.
$50 — Provide one meal a day to schoolchild for a full year through WFP's school meals program.
$92 — Provide nutrition for a pregnant or breastfeeding mother

Summary
The World Food Program expanded food assistance, particularly to pregnant women and children, to assist the people of Haiti, who have been particularly susceptible to the skyrocketing price of food.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
As food prices rise, many of us can give up desserts or meat once or twice a week to save money. For people making less than $1 a day, the choice is much harder. The poorest country in the Western hemisphere, Haiti has been particularly vulnerable to rising food costs. The World Food Program is doing all it can to help the people of Haiti by organizing voucher-based food distribution to the neediest families, expanding programs for pregnant women and continuing school meals into summer vacation.

Activities
WFP distributes food in Haiti’s poorest areas, especially to the most vulnerable groups such as breastfeeding mothers, young children, and approximately 290,000 school children.

Potential Long Term Impact
WFP is working to feed the most vulnerable populations during this crisis, and to mobilize world attention and support to stave off future disasters. WFP also supports local purchase to help farmers support their own communities.

Project Message
“What we see in Haiti is what we’re seeing in operations around the worldA new face of hunger is emerging: even where food is available there are now more and more people who simply cannot afford it.
- Josette Sheeran, WFP Executive Director

Project Sponsor: Friends of the World Food Program
Theme: Health | Location: Haiti
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$50,000
Project #2111 on GlobalGiving.com

A Tree for Peace: why protect Chocó's Biodiversity

Clara Hidron — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:52:28 GMT

$15 — 5 small trees as souvenir from the 'Tree for Peace' day
$85 — 15 children attend the 'Tree for Peace' event
$155 — 1 workshop for 15 children

Summary
Through participatory workshops in schools we educate children in Medellín about sustainable use of biodiversity in Chocó. We close this campaign on the one-day international event "A Tree for Peace".

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Through a series of workshops and a one day event (A Tree for Peace), the project educates children in Medellin about the importance of protecting Chocó's biodiversity. In the past, a great part of the irresponsible exploitation of this region's natural resources has been carried our by people from the mayor cities in the interior of country (like Medellín). Sensitizing children in Medellín will help create the necessary awareness to protect this vulnerable biodiversity hot-spot.

Activities
Workshops to sensitize 9-11 year-old children in 14 schools of Medellín and the celebration of the international annual “Tree for Peace” day in which children will share their thoughts, learned lessons and plans to help protect this rich ecosystem.

Potential Long Term Impact
By sensitizing 210 children in Medellín about the importance of the Biographic Chocó, this project will gain advocates for the conservation of this strategic ecoregion.

Project Message
"Poetry brings my heart closer to the environment because I'm able to express everything I feel about trees and the whole ecosystem that surrounds us"
- Andrés Felipe Vanegas, Student at Centro Educativo Paraísos del Color

Project Sponsor: Fundación Amigos del Chocó - Amichocó
Theme: Environment | Location: Colombia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$18,660
Project #2120 on GlobalGiving.com

Help Cambodian college students learn English

Lisa Hicks — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:52:11 GMT

$56 — Funds daily English classes for one student for one month
$168 — Funds daily English classes for one student for 3 months
$336 — Funds daily English classes for one student for 6 months

Summary
This project provides 24 very disadvantaged, first-generation, sponsored college students with ongoing supplementary English language instruction, critical to obtaining good jobs.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Sharing Foundation sponsors 28 students from the rural Cambodian countryside for university study in Phnom Penh. These students come from subsistence farming families; their parents and siblings are mostly illiterate with only a primary-school education. Earning a college degree is an enormous accomplishment. Communicating well in English will give them a huge advantage in a very competitive job market. The cost of supplementary English classes is not included in their sponsorships.

Activities
In addition to a full college course load, taught in Khmer, these students take English classes, taught by native speakers, five days/week for two hours/day at the Australia Center for Education (ACE) in Phnom Penh.

Potential Long Term Impact
With solid English language skills in addition to a college education, these students will be able to access jobs that will help them lift their families out of poverty, create better lives for themselves, and become leaders in their communities.

Project Message
"I'm most proud of the fact that three years ago, 10 village students sponsored by TSF through high school were [the first from their village to be] accepted by handpicked universities in Phnom Penh."
- Nancy W. Hendrie, M.D., Founder and President of The Sharing Foundation

Project Sponsor: The Sharing Foundation
Theme: Education | Location: Cambodia
Funding to Date: $10 | Need:$16,128
Project #2109 on GlobalGiving.com

Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims, 2008-9

Dr. Yehuda Stolov — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:50:21 GMT

$50 — Will provide invitations for 1 encounter of 100 people.
$150 — Will transport the Muslim group to the Jewish school (or vice-versa) for 1 encounter of 100 people.
$500 — Will cover facilitation and evaluation for 2 encounters of 100 people each.

Summary
Bringing together neighboring school communities of Jews & Muslims, first time in their lives, for on-going deep and positive interaction. Citizens are empowered to actively shape their society.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
This project addresses the Jewish-Muslim coexistence challenge in the Galilee. The existing ignorance of 'the other', enabling prejudices and fears, makes conflicts possible.
Participants from neighboring communities, engaged in on-going deep and positive interaction self-educate to replace negative attitudes by mutul understanding, respect and trust. The group develops into a "mini-community" modeling the desired inter-communal relations, growing gradually to include the larger communities.

Activities
We bring together educators, students and parents, from Jewish and Muslim schools, for exchange around issues of their religious traditions. This ensures safe, deep and positive interaction, creating strong bonds between Jewish and Muslim communities

Potential Long Term Impact
The project creates an ongoing joint community of 1,000 Jews and Muslims. Thanks to working through schools they include people from all parts of society. This group works to generate the transformation of 70,000 people of their larger communities.

Project Message
Coming back to my family sharing my new connection, I found myself talking emotionallywe managed to educate our children and ourselveswe succeed more and more to bring hearts together.
- Ms. Najeeba Sirhan, Muslim Schoolmaster, Project's co-initiator with Ms. Osnat Aram

Project Sponsor: Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA)
Theme: Education | Location: Israel
Funding to Date: $4,800 | Need:$9,600
Project #1521 on GlobalGiving.com

Empowering Girls in Kibera

Emily Reynolds Pierce — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:48:16 GMT

$50 — Trains 10 girls in financial literacy
$50 — Buys 20 rolls of film for lessons using photography
$75 — Buys uniforms for an all-girls soccer tournament team

Summary
This project provides a safe space and advocacy platform for adolescent girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya to fight gender-based violence and discrimination.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Only 1% of girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya have access to an all-girl, development program. Young women in the slum aged 15-24 are contracting HIV at a rate 5 times that of their male counterparts. The Binti Pamoja Center creates a safe space for adolescent girls to discuss reproductive health issues and to fight gender-based violence and discrimination. The Center also offers educational scholarships for secondary school, financial literacy training, and peer education training.

Activities
If we provide scholarships, financial literacy, HIV/AIDS training, leadership skills, as well as a physical, safe space for girls and young women in the Kibera slum, we can help these women lead healthy lives and become agents of social change.

Potential Long Term Impact
The Binti Pamoja Center will provide 100 adolescent girls and young women with a safe space to discuss and tackle gender-based violence and discrimination, supporting them to make educated choices, lead healthy lives, and become community leaders.

Project Message
You start seeing projects like CFK expand, and over time you see more pathways out of Kibera. More people are able to grow businesses. More young people are able to take advantage of education.
- Barack Obama, US Senator & Democratic Presidential Candidate

Project Sponsor: Carolina for Kibera, Inc.
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: $6,063 | Need:$25,000
Project #1771 on GlobalGiving.com

Access to Education for AIDS Orphans in Kenya

Jim Stephenson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:06:47 GMT

$50 — Buys a Bee Hive which can be used to train 75 students per year
$125 — Buys 250 Avocado Seedlings, enough to stock an Avocado Orchard that will pay the fees for 5 orphans
$500 — Buys a water tank used to store water during the wet season to irrigate crops during the dry season

Summary
Provide 70 HIV/AIDS orphans in Kenya access to education by supporting student run income generating projects that pay their school fees and teach ‘Rural Entrepreneurship’.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Accessing education for HIV/AIDS orphans in Kenya is very difficult when there are school fees to pay and siblings to support. However without access to education these orphans have little chance of raising their families out of poverty. Practical and educational income generating projects provide a way for orphans to both pay their fees and learn the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed to support their families.

Activities
By expanding and establishing new rural enterprises at Ototo Secondary Schools, 70 orphans will gain access to a secondary education and hands on training in entrepreneurship & sustainable agriculture.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project is financially self-sufficient, which means that it will continue to provide access to education for HIV/AIDS students year after year after year. For example within 25 years, betweem 2,500 and 3,000 students will have benefited.

Project Message
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb, Unknown, not applicable

Project Sponsor: Teach A Man To Fish
Theme: Education | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$12,450
Project #2117 on GlobalGiving.com

Educate 9000 Children through Sport in Africa

Judy McPherson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:41:46 GMT

$70 — Fund one child year round weekly participation, including healthy snack at each session
$3000 — Training workshop to certify 75 volunteer as instructors
$10000 — Funds to new country program for one year for at least 100 children

Summary
Six national country programs in Africa educate 9000 disadvantaged children, particularly girls, in health, social and soccer skills through fun recreational community based activities.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
PLAY SOCCER: Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia engages young children, particularly girls, ages 5-14 to maximize early childhood learning and life time benefits, trains local youth as volunteer instructors, reaches large population segments weekly, year round, and provides a grassroot catalyst for broad long term sustainable socio-economic development.

Activities
Weekly sessions integrate health, social and soccer activities into a holistic curriculum.
Local youth train as instructors to develop knowledge, leadership and competency-- international cultural exchange through country program networks.

Potential Long Term Impact
Will serve 25,000 children year round by 2010, educating children and youth in life skills and soccer, encouraging mass participation in sport, building community development up from micro grassroots level with local resources and social enterprise

Project Message
It is fun and it makes a difference in my life
- 10 year old girl in Zambia, Participant in Program

Project Sponsor: PLAY SOCCER , a nonprofit corporation
Theme: Health | Location: Cameroon
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$50,000
Project #2116 on GlobalGiving.com

Housing & Healthcare for Rwandan College Students

Michael Brotchner — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:06:11 GMT

$25 — Fund one student living in a group house for a month
$100 — Fund one students healthcare for one year
$200 — Fund an entire group house (8 students) for one month

Summary
Support housing and healthcare costs of 120 students currently in our program and 60 students that will join our program this summer. These holistic services enable students to succeed academically.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Many of our students grew up in orphanages where the provision of healthcare was sporadic at best. Students cannot perform academically while struggling with health issues. This project will ensure that students have all of their health care needs met, including specialized care and regular check-ups. Group houses and subsidized housing for all 180 students will give them a chance to live and learn together in a healthy and supportive student community.

Activities
Fund continuing housing and healthcare costs for 180 university students in Rwanda. Most students live in group houses and all receive comprehensive health care that includes specialized care, insurance, health education, and emergency care.

Potential Long Term Impact
Our socially vulnerable students have overcome tremendous obstacles on their road to university education. By providing them with proper health care and housing, you will help them pursue their ambitions, both academically and professionally.

Project Message
"I know the ORI team well and we have built a collaboration based on the shared belief that high-quality education and health care can help Rwanda transform its future."
- Dr. Paul Farmer, Founder of Partners In Health

Project Sponsor: Orphans of Rwanda
Theme: Health | Location: Rwanda
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$60,000
Project #2106 on GlobalGiving.com

Life Skills for Women affected by Java Earthquake

Andi Asriadi Rauf — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:34:11 GMT

$100 — 5 volunteers will get the new work of this project
$250 — 100 mothers and children will get medical check-ups and additional nutrition
$500 — 50 mothers will gain skills

Summary
This project will empower 50 mothers and 50 children of earthquake victims in Bantul Yogyakarta by giving them life skills and capital assistance.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The requirements for this project include sewing machines, English language teachers, lesson books, medicine and medical check-ups, and additional nutrition. The program will be implemented over the course of 6 months and will benefit 100 mothers and children.

Activities
1) Medical check-ups for mothers and children 2) giving additional nutrition 3) learning to sew 4) training to bake cakes 5) training for bookkeepers and marketing products for mothers, 6) free English language course.

Potential Long Term Impact
More than 100 mothers and children will partake in an educational skills program so that the participants can make or develop their efforts for a livelihood.

Project Message
With your help will mean so much for our life continuance
- Mrs. Sri Kurniaty, Local people

Project Sponsor: Centre for Community Development Studies (PUSPEM)
Theme: Education | Location: Indonesia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #2113 on GlobalGiving.com

Tree Cultivation to lessen impact Global Warming

Andi Asriadi Rauf — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:34:08 GMT

$250 — 50 participants will gain knowledge about the impacts of global warming
$250 — 50 volunteers will get new jobs to take care of forest
$500 — 1500 trees will be planted

Summary
This project will cultivate a forest of 1500 trees that has been destroyed in Bogor, province West Java to lessen the impact generated by global warming.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project will require mango tree seeds, nephelium tree (lychee) seeds, teak tree seeds, maintenance costs, and manure. Whereas society is the ultimate beneficiary, both for those in the city and the countryside, the project will also aim to save the earth from erosion and excessive sun damage.

Activities
Participatory planning, publishing, funding received, implementation (tree cultivation), maintenance and monitoring, and evaluation.

Potential Long Term Impact
About 1500 trees will be planted and 50 volunteers will get new jobs to care for the forest.

Project Message
If executed, this program will be very useful for all society either they stay in city or in countryside, to lessen impact that generated by global warming.
- Nusran, local staff forestry department

Project Sponsor: Centre for Community Development Studies (PUSPEM)
Theme: Environment | Location: Indonesia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,306
Project #2112 on GlobalGiving.com

Myanmar: Stop Second Wave of Deaths by Hunger

Meredith Slater — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:40:34 GMT

$15 — Provides a month's supply of food to one person in need.
$21 — Provides a week's supply of food for a family of six.
$55 — Purchases 100 packages of High Energy Biscuits for hungry children.

Summary
The World Food Program (WFP) is delivering 8,500 tons of food to victims of the devastating cyclone. Help WFP to feed 750,000 people still in need of immediate food assistance in the next 6 months.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
A devastating tropical cyclone struck Myanmar on the 2nd and 3rd May causing huge destruction and tremendous loss of life: 134,000 dead or missing. The World Food Program has distributed 8,500 tons of food to support 2.4 million people who remain homeless and hungry. However, more than 1.1 million people still don’t have adequate food, water or shelter. Help prevent a second wave of deaths from malnutrition and disease. WFP aims to feed 750,000 people in great need over the next six months.

Activities
WFP continues to distribute rice and beans, and high-energy biscuits for children. WFP is seeking to provide a full basket of rice, beans, cooking oil and salt to assist people in immediate need.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will feed 750,000 people in Myanmar still in need of immediate food assistance in the next 6 months, and save the victims from the danger of deaths from malnutrition and disease.

Project Message
Time is of the essence and we are already reaching storm victims with food. We are mobilizing all possible resources to save lives given the massive disruption in food, water, and shelter.
- Josette Sheeran, WFP Executive Director

Project Sponsor: Friends of the World Food Program
Theme: Health | Location: Myanmar
Funding to Date: $55 | Need:$35,000
Project #2110 on GlobalGiving.com

Help 160 people with Multiple Sclerosis

Lic. Débora Fleschler — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:29:25 GMT

$40 — People with MS can receive one session group
$80 — People with MS can be assisted for a month in a support group
$250 — People with MS can be assisted for 3 months in a support group

Summary
160 people with Multiple Sclerosis will attend support groups in which they will be able to share their experiences with people in a similar situation and reduce their level of anguish.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries: 160 people with Multiple Sclerosis.
They are coordinated by professionals, and have an intermediate operation between the self-help groups and the therapeutic ones creating a climate of affection and acceptance.

Activities
-Organization of the groups: days, schedules, number of people, type of group.
-Admission and inscription of the members.
-Coordination of the groups.
-Purchase of food and drinks.
-Monitoring and evaluation of the project.

Potential Long Term Impact
Given any chronic pathology, it is an incomparable resource since it accelerates and it attenuates the duel processes, it reduces the level of initial anguish, it teaches through other people's experiences and it develops the capacity to help others.

Project Message
In these 10 years many important things have occurred, more important that the MS, we have crossed many obstacles and fears. We grew and evolved, restarting time and time again, going ahead.
- Gaby Laufer, Support group member.

Project Sponsor: Asociación Conciencia
Theme: Health | Location: Argentina
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$11,520
Project #2098 on GlobalGiving.com

STAR Radio Blazes Trail on Sustainability

Sharon Bylenga — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:45:39 GMT

$25 — buys office supplies for STAR Radio's new marketing and sales unit.
$50 — buys an edition of STAR radio's very popular evening debate program
$60 — supports a journalist intern at STAR for one day.

Summary
STAR Radio won the 2007 BEST RADIO STATION award in Liberia! It won for the quality of its live news broadcasts, the professionalism of its journalists, and its independent features programming.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
STAR Radio is rapidly expanding its offering of innovative income-generating services. STAR is now a regional journalist training center and is growing its advertising base. Self-generated income now covers an increasing portion of STAR’s budgget. STAR broadcasts daily live news & information nation-wide in 14 languages, and offers debate programs featuring expert as well as ordinary voices. STAR needs donations to support the development of its groundbreaking sustainability activities.

Activities
70 individuals from Sierra Leone are spending two weeks in Monrovia as part of a new journalist internship program, earning income for STAR and enhancing regional news coverage. Senior STAR journalists also train throughout the sub-region.

Potential Long Term Impact
STAR Radio offers Liberia the means to practice democracy. STAR provides news to poor and marginalised people and quality content that reflects different voices and perspectives. It supports the ability of Liberia to hold all powerholders to account.

Project Message
STAR Radio is a truly independent broadcaster which often acts as a lever for policy change. It raises awkward questions and champions the views of poor people. STAR is essential for democracy.
- Jean-Marie Etter, President, Fondation Hirondelle_Media for Peace&Human Dignity

Project Sponsor: Fondation Hirondelle
Theme: Democracy and Governance | Location: Liberia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$250,000
Project #2104 on GlobalGiving.com

Donate to the Human Capabilities Fund

Tom Bird — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:45:05 GMT

$100 — Donate to the Human Capabilities Fund
$1000 — Donate to the Human Capabilities Fund
$10000 — Donate to the Human Capabilities Fund

Summary
A place where one donation attempts to help with many interrelated problems. Poverty, disease, war, the environment

Plus you can learn some things about these problems and how they are related.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Shockingly, half of the human race lives on $2 a day or less. Most of these people are women, and most have health concerns. All have a variety of interconnected needs.

Activities
A mix of extraordinary leaders with promising ideas are selected and supported. They take different angles of approach to combinations of problems. We believe that focusing on these strong leaders is a useful way for us to think about donations.

Potential Long Term Impact
With appropriate support, these outstanding leaders and their organizations can help their clients more, and help more clients. Both quality and quantity. The goal is to help unlock more human capability.

Project Message
As part of our own philanthropy, the fund managers are willing to share the investment of time and energy, no charge. We hope the fund will help you think about your involvement in these big issues.
- Tom Bird, Chairman, GlobalGiving Foundation

Project Sponsor: GlobalGiving
Theme: Economic Development | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $1,001,028 | Need:$2,000,000
Project #1611 on GlobalGiving.com

Art Action for Peace: Support Young Iraqi Artists

Vivian Stromberg — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:24:56 GMT

$30 — ensures safe transportation to monthly event for one performer.
$70 — prints one month's worth of event fliers for youth outreach.
$115 — enables one young person to participate in a training seminar.

Summary
Help unite Iraqi youth through a series of public events and workshops featuring poetry, theater, dancing, and music within a framework of peace and human rights.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Iraqis today face a triple threat of foreign occupation, sectarian violence, and heavy militia recruiting. The resulting political climate is stifling and divisive to young artists and activists, who lack a public forum for censorship-free expression. This project is filling that gap, as Sunni and Shia youth flock to events, defying the logic of civil war and coming together in a shared vision of a peaceful Iraq. Participation has boomed from a few dozen to over 700 audience members.

Activities
Artist, poets, musicians, actors, and students hold monthly public performances in and around Baghdad. Open human rights trainings and capacity-building seminars are also held biweekly to build youth leaders’ organizing, writing and computer skills.

Potential Long Term Impact
Dialoging and networking with supposed adversaries will serve participants for years to come, as the lasting effects of sectarian violence are felt. Through trainings, participants develop skills to initiate change and build alternatives to war.

Project Message
The ability to hold vibrant festivals in the current oppressive and military times is an important successit raises the voices of liberated people in the midst of religious hegemony and militarism.
- Yanar Mohammed, Director & Founder, OWFI

Project Sponsor: MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org.
Theme: Human Rights | Location: Iraq
Funding to Date: $100 | Need:$41,500
Project #2077 on GlobalGiving.com

Kenya Youth Sports4Peace & Reconciliation Project

Auma Obama — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:58:11 GMT

$30 — Will print & buy 6 Sport4Peace promotion T-Shirts to be distibuted to youth participating
$35 — Will provide 3 nutritious meals and accommodation for event duration for a participant of Sport4Peace.
$40 — Will cover transport for out-of-town children participating.

Summary
The project will give approx. 60 Kenyan youth, displaced through ethnic violence, an opportunity to engage with each other in intercultural dialogue & reconciliation through Sport activity & wkshops.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In a 5 day series of sports events and skills and Counseling workshops at an Internally Displaced People's camp in Eldoret, Kenya, the project aims to empower youths with the capacity to embrace peaceful conflict resolution through sports and to equip them with skills in using popular sports and Educational Development Theatre as animation tools for Peace building, participation and cross-cultural understanding.

Activities
Friendly soccer, netball, volleyball, handball matches. A special road race through post-election violence affected areas in Eldoret. A workshop to train youth group leaders on the use of sports and other creative resolution strategies.

Potential Long Term Impact
Long term the project will directly serve 60 young people & their communities by success addressing ethnic violence issues & bridging the gulf betw the ethnicities to create opportunitie for youth to relate positively to improve their circumstances.

Project Message
The role of sport in promoting social integration, in particular of young people, is widely recognised. Sport [] a [] social phenomenon offers a common language and a platform for social democracy.
- Inter-agency TaskForce on Sport4Developm, United Nations

Project Sponsor: CARE
Theme: Human Rights | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: $50 | Need:$38,540
Project #2108 on GlobalGiving.com

Sudanese Women Farmers Unite

Vivian Stromberg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:46:12 GMT

$30 — Covers all expenses for 1 woman to attend two days of training; she will share her knowledge with others when she returns home to her village.
$125 — Buys 50 lbs. of seeds, enough for 10 women to farm sorghum, sesame, and millet for one season.
$500 — Provides cleared land that's ready to sow to the women of 1 village.

Summary
Help MADRE and sister organization Zenab improve economic sustainability in Sudan by giving women farmers access to seeds, land, and tools, and helping form the first Sudanese Women Farmers' Union.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Women in Sudan are hit hardest by conflict and climate change, and by the drought and poverty that follows. They must generate income, prepare food, collect water and firewood, and care for 6-7 children on average; yet they are prohibited from unionizing to increase their earning power. By sharing resources with these women, who represent 20 villages and include refugees from Darfur, we can help them generate income to support their families and alleviate hunger one village at a time.

Activities
(1) Providing training in business, agriculture and human rights to ensure crop productivity and project success; (2) preparation of the land, including land and tractor rentals, and collection of seeds; and (3) harvesting.

Potential Long Term Impact
While the initial harvest will include 200 women total from 20 villages, project participants are expected to increase to 500 by next year. This project will significantly increase the quality and quantity of food production in Al Qadarif and beyond.

Project Message
Before, the women had no hope, no access. Now they have a big hope. But this project goes so far beyond them. 75% of Sudan's sorghum comes from this region. We are farming for everyone.
- Fatima Ahmed, Director & Founder, Zenab for Women in Development

Project Sponsor: MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org.
Theme: Environment | Location: Sudan
Funding to Date: $1,066 | Need:$41,500
Project #1901 on GlobalGiving.com

Help Colombian Families Displaced by War

Jacqueline Zenone — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:46:07 GMT

$30 — Provides one family with emergency assistance for one month
$50 — Provides three families with training on preparing low-cost, nutritious meals
$100 — Provides daily school lunches for two children for one year

Summary
MADRE is working with our Colombian partner LIMPAL to meet the needs of women and children displaced by war, who lack access to food, clean water, land, and education and who live on less than $1/day.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Most displaced women and their families in Colombia have fled violence in their communities, and often find themselves alone, in cities far from their homes, cut off from their support systems, without jobs or access to basic necessities.

MADRE and LIMPAL have designed multifaceted programs that meet the needs of displaced women and children, providing access to food, education, water, and housing. These programs serve approximately 30 families every day.

Activities
Services include:
1. Provide meals through a community food bank;
2. Promote school attendance for 50 children by buying books and uniforms; and
3. Improve housing and provide clean drinking water in neighborhoods where displaced families live.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project enables displaced women and children to feed themselves, access clean water, and attend school, in order to help them establish themselves in new surroundings, and develop new support networks and, ultimately, self-sufficiency.

Project Message
Before I found out about MADRE & LIMPAL, my children and I were alone & hungry. Now, while I look for work , I know we can get food from their food bank and they will help my children attend school.
- Leticia, Colombian mother displaced by war

Project Sponsor: MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org.
Theme: Human Rights | Location: Colombia
Funding to Date: $570 | Need:$15,000
Project #1863 on GlobalGiving.com

Help Victims of Myanmar Cyclone

Heidi Saravia — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:29:44 GMT

$10 — Help cyclone Nargis victims
$25 — Can provide care for 25 children to protect them from malaria
$75 — Can treat 75 people with minor illnesses and injuries

Summary
International Medical Corps is securing emergency supplies, including medicines, blankets, water purification tablets, and hygiene kits and has identified local partners for distribution.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Victims of the cyclone have been without food, water, shelter and other basics needs. International Medical Corps is working to address these needs and prevent the spread of waterborne and diarrheal diseases and infections that can result from exposure.

Activities
IMC will help address urgent health needs as well as distribute medical supplies, water purification tablets, sanitation items and hygiene kits in order to reduce the spread of disease.

Potential Long Term Impact
Help provide urgent heath needs and relief to the victims. IMC is also exploring potential local partnerships to maximize relief efforts.

Project Message
The magnitude of this disaster demands immediate and massive humanitarian assistance for the people of Myanmar. Each hour that passes can literally mean the difference between life and death.
- Nancy Aossey, President & CEO

Project Sponsor: International Medical Corps (IMC)
Theme: Health | Location: Myanmar
Funding to Date: $10,231 | Need:$250,000
Project #2080 on GlobalGiving.com

Improving Health Outcomes in Young Cancer Patients

Ellen LaPointe — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:20:29 GMT

$20 — Provides 1 Re-Mission game to young people living with cancer
$100 — Provides 5 Re-Mission games to young people living with cancer
$1000 — Provides 50 Re-Mission games to young people living with cancer

Summary
Young cancer patients who play HopeLab's Re-Mission video game take their meds more regularly and feel more control over their illness. This project supports free distribution of Re-Mission to them.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Adolescents and young adults with cancer have the poorest health outcomes and lowest survival rates of any age group. Reduced adherence to prescribed cancer treatment regimens is believed to be a contributing factor to these poor outcomes. HopeLab's Re-Mission video game helps these young people with cancer maintain better treatment adherence and improve their sense of control over their disease. We are seeking to expand our global distribution of free copies to young cancer patients.

Activities
HopeLab provides Re-Mission to young cancer patients attending special cancer camps, and to providers and family who care for them when they are in treatment. Our website, www.re-mission.net, supports game ordering and social networking.

Potential Long Term Impact
Each year in the U.S. alone, 25,000 young people receive a cancer diagnosis and begin the fight of their lives. This project supports free distribution of Re-Mission to these kids at a time when they need it most.

Project Message
I came into the hospital with a big shopping bag full of games. I gave them to all of the nurses and they were gone within the week because every kid wanted one. Thank you!
- Joshua Shiffman, M.D., Pediatric Oncologist, Stanford Childrens Hospital

Project Sponsor: HopeLab
Theme: Health | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $120 | Need:$50,000
Project #2100 on GlobalGiving.com