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Community Development Through IT Training In Rio

Christine Clauser — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:50:01 GMT

$6 — will help offset the cost of CDI Monitoring and Evaluation Costs
$21 — will cover one half the cost of a scholarship for an intern
$37 — pays one weeks salary for an IT and Civic Engagement Educator

Summary
CEAC@DIGITAL is an internet and graphics service center in Morro dos Macacos, a Rio De Janeiro slum. The center provides job skills and income earning opportunities for residents of all ages.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
CEACA-VILA is a part of the Center for Digital Inclusion, an NGO who promotes social and digital inclusion through IT and civic engagement schools. Expanding the center's infrastructure will allow CEACA-VILA to be self-sustainable and will provide 30 jobs and internships for our graduates. This Rio De Janeiro slum, or favela, harbors 35,000 and is racked by violence and drug trafficking problems. Internet access and IT skills will promote vital social and economic development in the community.

Activities
Our educational programs provide social and IT skills training. At our service center, graduates and students put these skills to use in through jobs/internships; the computer services offered increase the income earning potential of the community.

Potential Long Term Impact
CEAC@DIGITAL’s will have a tremendous impact in digital inclusion and sustainable income for all the educational projects carried by CEACA-VILA in the long-term. It will better meet the increasing demand for services and training and generate jobs

Project Message
CEACA-VILA's education and IT skill building programs are incredibly important and impressive And how wonderful that they aim to be self-sustainable and a long-term community resource!
- Beatriz Pascuas, Director of Partnerships (Accenture Spain)

Project Sponsor: Center for Digital Inclusion
Theme: Education | Location: Brazil
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£27,634
Project #2363 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help Mayan women generate income in Mexico

Jane Coles — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:30:03 GMT

$5 — buys 50 jam jars
$74 — buys an electronic scale
$1865 — pays for the contruction of a bathroom/shower area

Summary
This project works with the Mayan community to help women generate income through producing jams for the tourism industry. Help these women purchase industrial kitchen equipment

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
This project benefits the Chumpon commnity in Zona Maya. Due to the isolation of this jungle community, it is hard for these people to benefit from the prosperous tourism industry in nearby Cancun. The community has been forced to migrate to tourist resorts to look for work, leaving their families and having to live in Cancun. As people leave their villages, traditional customs, skills and ways of life are gradually vanishing.

Activities
Having completed the training, registered the product & brand name, the women are now just waiting for the last of the vital equipment needed to finish the kitchen. This project will raise funds for this equipment.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will help create new opportunities for Maya women, allowing them to benefit from tourism and increase their income so that they can provide for their families

Project Message
"This is a dream come true for these Maya women who have invested nearly three years now into starting up their small jam business."
- Rachel James, Programmes Officer in Mexico

Project Sponsor: The Travel Foundation
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Mexico
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£25,860
Project #2881 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Vehicle to transport underprivileged children

Michele Merrifield — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:24:27 GMT

$6 — goes towards the purchase of a new vehicle
$15 — goes towards the purchase of a new vehicle
$31 — goes towards the purchase of a new vehicle

Summary
Our mission is to inspire and educate underprivileged children to care for their environment. To do this we urgently need a vehicle to safely and legally transport the children.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
We allow underprivileged children to experience their local environment. We inspire these children to protect their environment and inform them about eco tourism job opportunities. We develop the children’s self-confidence while diminishing the stigma of apartheid through working with international volunteers. We give a safe home to orphaned and injured wildlife. We urgently need a vehicle to safely and legally transport the children.

Activities
Weekly 8 kids are collected from their village and taken to the bush school where they stay for 5 days. Rescued animals, bush walks and lessons inspire students to care for their environment. Children are also taught about life skills and careers.

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. Transporting them safely is essential.

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. Transporting the children to and from their village safely is vital
- Ian Merrifield, Director

Project Sponsor: DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
Theme: Children | Location: South Africa
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£20,122
Project #3013 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Rice processing creates jobs for 10 people Nigeria

Bruno Gerstendorfer — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:31:33 GMT

$6 — part payment of the machineries
$12 — part payment of the machineries
$24 — part payment of the machineries

Summary
To create secure jobs in the rural area of
Igbeagu-Izzi the project gives 10 women and men the machineries and training for processing and marketing of parboiled rice for the reduction of migration.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In Igbeagu-Izzi more than 90% of the population live from agriculture. The farmers have generally only small lands (average of 2 hectares) which they are able to cultivate by hand. They face many barries to progress and have few opportunities for income. Specially young people loose often hope for the future and try to migrate. Their concern is how to earn an income which can improve the quality of life. Therefore the Project IZZI has startet programs to create secure jobs.

Activities
1. Cooking of raw rice in big pots. 2. Drying on mats.
3. Milling of the dried rice in the huller. 4. Cleaning of the milled rice in the distoner. 5. Filling the rice in ricebags (10, 20, 50 kg). 6. Marketing.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project makes it possible that 10 people with their extended families escape poverty in a rural area.

Project Message
"The rice mill is very important for Igbeagu-Izzi!"
- Chief John Ndugo, General manager of the Development Project IZZI

Project Sponsor: Entwicklungshilfeverein IZZI
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Nigeria
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£3,989
Project #2996 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Peer HIV Prevention for Sex Workers in Malawi

Patrick Young — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:19:20 GMT

$31 — 1 Facilitation training workshop for 1 sex worker
$46 — 1 Life Skills workshop for 10 sex workers
$105 — 1 Advocacy Performance with audience of 150

Summary
This project provides 120 sex workers in one of the poorest communities in Malawi with the skills to reduce their risk of HIV infection, and the confidence to use them.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Sex workers in Malawi face enormous problems - they are often women with families and no other source of income, and they face abuse from their clients, and neglect from the law. We are working in one of the poorest communities in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, and we offer the participants new skills for enabling them to live more safely, generate income from other sources, and perform their stories to audiences such as the police, by whom they would never normally be heard or respected.

Activities
If we can train and employ core groups of sex workers to work with their younger peers, we can reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection and abuse.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project will empower 120 sex workers to protect themselves, to generate alternative sources of income, and to influence the attitudes and policies, particularly among the police, that can provide them with legal protection.

Project Message
"TfaC brings us support and methods - it is up to us to put them in the context of our lives. I am happy because I know that now I am going to be able to help other people change their lives too"
- Annesi Linje, Peer trainer & ex sex worker

Project Sponsor: Theatre for a Change
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Malawi
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£38,970
Project #3006 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help Saviour and her friends go to school

Steve Heyes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:39:51 GMT

$59 — could pay for a double desk for two students
$2226 — would buy all desks, chairs and furniture
$5177 — would pay for the build of a teacher's house

Summary
Saviour is a 10-year-old orphan from the rural community of Simakakata in Zambia. She walks 14km to and from school every day so she can have a better future. But her school may soon be gone...

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Thanks to the selflessness of Saviour's teachers, most of whom are unpaid, the walk is worth it: education is the only way to break the cycle of poverty in which the 5,000 strong community are trapped. The current school is a borrowed building which is terrible for learning: there's no glass in the windows, the desks are broken & the roof leaks during the 5 month rainy season. There is also no clean water or sanitation. Now they stand to lose even this, as the owners want the building back.

Activities
The school needs a classroom and a teacher's house. The parents already made 60,000 bricks themselves. And they are happy to provide labour for free too. But they can't afford building materials like cement, windows, doors and roofing materials

Potential Long Term Impact
Once Simakakata has a school with teacher's houses the government will start to send trained teachers, guaranteeing the community good quality education on an ongoing basis.

Project Message
“When you have an educated community most things can be done easily for ourselves"
- Richard Sikalunda, Headman, Simakakata

Project Sponsor: LearnAsOne
Theme: Education | Location: Zambia
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£12,947
Project #2992 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Supporting vulnerable young people in Rwanda

Anna Chippendale — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:10:43 GMT

$6 — buys a hot meal for a week for one former street child
$12 — buys a school uniform and books for one former street child attending school
$31 — will help train young people in writing, editing and publishing an educational magazine

Summary
This project provides orphans, vulnerable youth and street children with access to services to meet their basic needs, vocational and income generating skills training, accommodation and schooling.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The direct beneficieries of the project are vulnerable young people in Kigali, Rwanda's capital. 6000 young people live and work on the streets and are at risk of exploitation, suffer from hunger, poverty, have no education and have very few opportunities to improve their situation. Centre Marembo offers these young people to find a way out of poverty through emotional support, education, training, apprenticeships and accommodation.

Activities
If young people can attend the centre they will gain information, training and support enabling them to learn skills and make informed decisions about their lives. Those living at the centre and attending school will gain secondary education.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project currently serves around 100 young people each week and aims to reach many more in Kigali. By providing information and access to training and education, young people - who represent Rwanda's future - will be able to achieve their goals.

Project Message
'CM gives me hope that there can be a better future for young people. We face challenges in our work seeing sick and hungry children. There is so much more to do.'
- Nicolette Nsabimana, Project Coordinator

Project Sponsor: Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation
Theme: Education | Location: Rwanda
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£58,590
Project #2862 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Transform lives through football in Katine, Uganda

Claudia Codsi — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:05:58 GMT

$5 — could buy a new footballkit for a team member
$5 — could feed a child during the football academy
$9 — could pay for one first aid kit for use during matches

Summary
This is a week-long football tournament in rural NE Uganda. 48 teams will compete and 1000s will spectate. A development tool used to heal rifts and spreads health messages in this post-conflict area

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Soroti region of Uganda has been hit by war, cattle raids and insurgency over the past two decades. In 2003 the Lord's Resistance Army invaded Katine, causing many to flee their homes.
The people of Katine now have the worst health and living conditions in rural Uganda, and most people live on less than $1 a day.
As well as uniting communities and spreading vital health messages the tournament will also instil a sense of hope and pride amongst villagers.

Activities
Health messages disseminated throughout the tournament will impact on the health of the community, reducing incidence of preventable diseases such as malaria, diarroea, TB and HIV/ AIDS. Messages will reach young people through sport as a medium.

Potential Long Term Impact
The tournament will revitalise sport across Katine enabling similar competitions in the future. Pitches constructed will provide a lasting legacy for the children of Katine. Sport will reinforce health messages to ensure a healthier future.

Project Message
"Football is the No1 sport right across Africa and is a great hook for attracting young people and getting them involved in social development"
- Federico Addiechi, Head of FIFA's CSR programme

Project Sponsor: AMREF UK (African Medical & Research Foundation)
Theme: Health | Location: Uganda
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£24,162
Project #2993 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Toilet block for 350 Rural Pupils in Kenya

Evans Misati James — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:16:52 GMT

$24 — can provide 3 cement bags enough for building two brick wall courses.
$49 — will buy two standard gauge corrugated iron sheets for part of the latrine roofing
$87 — provides 5 tonnes of sand capable of starting building works.

Summary
The action project will give 175 boys and 175 girls hygienic sanitation; reduce hunger through increased school food production (farm manure) and preserve environment (saving trees through biogas for

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project addresses the multiple problems of inadequate sanitation, disease causing groundwater pollution (by normal latrines), deforestation for cooking purposes and hunger/food insecurity in schools in rural Manga District of Nyanza Province in Kenya.

At the end, the school will have hygienic dry based sanitation facilities; improved food security by improving soil fertility and alternative cooking energy sources (biogas) thus reducing deforestation. “We will kill three birds with one stone

Activities
The dry based sanitation facilities, clean water, food and improved environment will improve performance and reduce absenteeism. Doreen, a class 6 girl says, “With washroom privacy and clean water available, we will be able to concentrate fully”.

Potential Long Term Impact
Over 350 pupils will be able to spend more time in school as: they will eat in school; less time will be spent bringing and collecting water for their daily use and attending hospital due to diarrhea and other water borne diseases.

Project Message
“With food available and not carrying water over long distances, these kids can finally be on an equal footing with others in more endowed districts”.
- Florence Sagini, Class 8 teacher, Bigogo Primary School.

Project Sponsor: Health and Water Foundation (HWF)
Theme: Education | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£19,578
Project #2778 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Provide aid to war affected in Vanni, Sri Lanka

Vijay Indran — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:56:19 GMT

$12 — Dry ration for a family of four for a week
$31 — Immediate medical treatment for minor injuries
$62 — Immediate medial treatment for major injury

Summary
Urgent funding is required to purchase dry rations, medicines and medical equipments. Additional funds will be used to provide temporary accommodation and help relocating the displaced people.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Current priority for SCOT is to help the people affected by the WAR - the Internally Displaced People (IDP’s) in Vanni, Sri Lanka. Estimated to be around 150,000 and the conditions for them have been described as "nothing short of catastrophic" by the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross). Funds will be used to purchase dry rations, medicines and medical equipments and additional funds will be used to provide temporary accommodation and help relocating the displaced people.

Activities
We will purchase dry rations, medicines and medical equipments for the IDP's and additional funds will be used to provide temporary accommodation and help relocating the displaced people.

Potential Long Term Impact
Ongoing support and funding will help remove the displaced people from camps and re-locate them in their homes or prefered local locations. Immediate funds are needed to help provide food and shelter in the intermin.

Project Message
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., US - Freedom Fighter

Project Sponsor: Standing Committee of Tamil Speaking People (SCOT)
Theme: Health | Location: Sri Lanka
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£32,869
Project #2751 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Solar power to help environment & reduce overheads

Michele Merrifield — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:54:41 GMT

$6 — contribute to equipment of solar power for the office
$15 — contribute to the equipment of solar power for the refrigerators
$31 — contribute to the equipment of solar power for the deep freezers

Summary
Daktari is situated in an area with more than 300 days of sunlight per year. We will use solar power to reduce the use of gas and fuel in our centre, which inspires & educates underprivileged children

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
We allow underprivileged children to experience their local environment which is their heritage. We inspire these children to protect their environment and inform them about eco tourism job opportunities. The project is far from supplies. We can only make a trip to town once a week and fresh supplies need to be refrigerated or frozen. Solar energy will be used to power our centre.

Activities
Weekly 8 needy children attend bush school at the wildlife orphanage. Rescued animals, bush walks and lessons inspire students to care for their environment. Children are tutored on school subjects and are also taught about life skills and careers.

Potential Long Term Impact
To run the office, 3 fridges and 3 deep freezers Daktari has to run generators and gas which are colossal expenses affecting our survival. Being equipped with solar power will reduce our cost whilst reducing the pollution using clean energy.

Project Message
As we educate underprivileged children to care for their environment it is essential to use clean energy as model and create awareness about this brilliant source of power while reducing our costs.
- Ian Merrifield, Director

Project Sponsor: DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
Theme: Environment | Location: South Africa
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£17,117
Project #2731 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Healthcare for 1,500 high-risk pregnancies

Susan DixLyons — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:38:10 GMT

$6 — 1,000 donors at this level builds an exam room
$15 — 400 donors at this level builds an exam room
$31 — 200 donors at this level builds an exam room

Summary
This project provides a medical home for 1,500 high-risk pregnant women and 4,000 children annually.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
We seek to bring high-quality healthcare along with nutrition and health education to families in need in the department of Boaco, Nicaragua. Through compassionate clinical care and education we can change the lives of young women, girls and families in this very needy region of the world while providing a model for others seeking progressive approaches to whole health practices.

Activities
We are building an environmentally sustainable health clinic that functions as a center of community while providing clinical care, education and opportunity to women and children in need.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will provide whole health care and education in an environmentally sustainable environment to 1,500 high-risk pregnanct women and 4,000 children annually.

Project Message
"I don’t ever want another mother or child to die because they couldn’t afford good medical care."
- Peter Stanley, Clinica Verde board member and project manager

Project Sponsor: Clinica Verde
Theme: Health | Location: Nicaragua
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,718
Project #2680 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Appeal for Victims of Abruzzo Earthquake

Shayna Bailey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:37:40 GMT

$16 — Provides one table for a local farmer to display produce at the new market
$31 — Provides basic tools at one community garden
$62 — Provides technical support for organizing the market and gardens

Summary
Slow Food has launched an international fundraising effort to assist the victims of the Abruzzo earthquake.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Assist the victims of the Abruzzo earthquake which caused 228 deaths, with at least 1,500 people seriously injured and more than 25,000 homeless.

Activities
The Slow Food network is helping to provide hospitality and basic necessities across the region to those who have been worst hit by the earthquake. An assessment is underway with collaborating organizations to develop longer-term projects.

Potential Long Term Impact
Basic necessities and rebuilding across the region for those who have been worst hit by the fury of the earthquake.

Project Message
"Right now, I believe it is a priority to provide goods and donations to help meet people’s basic needs."
- Raffaele Cavallo, President of Slow Food Abruzzo-Molise

Project Sponsor: Slow Food International/Terra Madre Foundation
Theme: Disaster Recovery | Location: Italy
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£16,969
Project #2695 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

School Library Refurbishment Project

Robert Wilson — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:49:28 GMT

$5 — One book - purchased in Tanzania
$7 — Set of 10 books - shipped from the UK
$10 — Table and Chair set - shipped from the UK

Summary
In August 2009 READ International will refurbish 13 Tanzanian school libraries to support the donation of our textbooks.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
By August 2009 READ International will have delivered over 700,000 textbooks to over 600 Tanzanian secondary schools.

READ International is now embarking on an exciting new project to support the donation of resources. By providing schools with sets of textbooks to use in class, READ has increased the access a student has to knowledge. Our Library Renovation Project aims to create spaces for Tanzanian students which are conducive both for study and leisure.

Activities
The renovation project is a completely student-led initiative. READ volunteers (from UK and Tanzania) take on the responsibility of the whole project from the library design to the organization of student work-teams. They need your financial help!

Potential Long Term Impact
We follow the rule of “quality- first time round” with every library renovation. We establish long term library groups, reading groups, school prefects, etc devoted to sustaining the success and use of the library long after we've gone.

Project Message
This is one of the most effective ways to alleviate poverty in Africa.
- Hon Margaret Sitta MP, Former Tz Minister for Education

Project Sponsor: READ International
Theme: Education | Location: Tanzania
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£18,207
Project #2674 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help Malawi communities get water and sanitation

Marianne Rowley — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:31:36 GMT

$5 — Sanitation for life for 5 people
$17 — Pays for an Elephant toilet that benefits 20 people
$44 — pays for 100 fruit trees

Summary
Improve health for rural communities through water and sanitation provision, food security with nutrition gardens and trees. Pump Aid aims to reach 275 households in Mzimba district, northern Malawi.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Pump Aid works with rural communities in Malawi. Malawi is among the world’s poorest countries ranked in the bottom 10% in the Human Development Index. An ongoing national water point mapping project, indicates that only 57% of the rural population have access to safe water, for sanitation it is as low as 15%. As a result water-related diseases, including cholera and typhoid, are common.

Activities
At Pump Aid we believe that an integrated approach to the provision of water, sanitation and nutrition is vital if health benefits are to be maximised.

Potential Long Term Impact
Clean water - Pumps are built near homesteads, saving people over 5 hours each day collecting water. This allows children, particularly girls to attend school. Access to clean water and sanitation alleviates suffering from water-borne diseases.

Project Message
We now have a clean place to go to the toilet, we are healthy and we no longer have to go in the bush, we have privacy. Thank you.
- Kowama, 63 years old, Malawi, Beneficiary

Project Sponsor: PUMP AID
Theme: Health | Location: Malawi
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£8,751
Project #2641 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Educating 250 deafblind children in India

Naushaba Awan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:17:18 GMT

$14 — Educates a deafblind child for a month
$34 — Provides stimulating educational toys for 20 deafblind children
$101 — Supports the family of a deafblind child for six months

Summary
This project will transform the destinies of 250 deafblind children and their families in Uttar Pradesh and the surrounding area giving them an education and support for the first time.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Deafblind children born in India face unbelievable challenges. They are isolated, ignored and even locked away. This project in east India, one of the poorest areas in India, will build the bridge between these deafblind children and the world, so that they learn to communicate, gain vital life skills, make an economic contribution and flourish like other children. Parents of deafblind children often feel overwhelmed with stress, but this project will also give them confidence and support.

Activities
There are 3 main activities to this project: bringing education to the heart of the community through support for deafblind children in the home; training community workers; becoming a hub for training in deafblindness for east India.

Potential Long Term Impact
The impact of the project is huge. The long-term vision is for the project to become a Centre of Excellence in training, expertise and support for deafblind children and their families, across east India - one of the poorest areas of India.

Project Message
My daughter is so much happier and confident. Last week for the first time she called out to me saying 'Maa' (mother in Hindi). I waited nine years to hear those special words.
- Sahila, Mother of Alisha, a deafblind girl

Project Sponsor: Sense International
Theme: Children | Location: India
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£20,103
Project #2652 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

SOZ: Support for Orphans in Zimbabwe

Val Maasdorp — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:16:12 GMT

$6 — per adult for a guardian group session
$15 — per adult per individual session
$24 — per adult for a 4 session group programme

Summary
Through training, networking, community partnering and direct service Island Hospice Service will provide: Palliative care and support, primarily at home and also in hospital.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Many of the millions of children in Zimbabwe, who have been orphaned as a result of the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS, are sent to live with extended family. These adults who step in as guardians are increasingly overburdened and unable to cope as tradition expects. As a result of this lack of resources, bereaved children are not given the nurturing that they need.

Island Hospice provides education and support to these guardians through home visits and guardian support groups.

Activities
Orphaned children are identified through Island Hospice and their guardians are contacted by hospice social workers. Home visits are made to identify specific needs of the child for whom they are caring, and support groups are run.

Potential Long Term Impact
The goal is to foster a family environment for bereaved children that will optimally support their development.

Project Message
We learned Sibo is not a bad girl, but her way of acting is about her grief. Understanding has helped us act more sympathetic towards her and we were amazed to see her behaviour change quickly.
- Mrs Ruth Mangwezi, Maternal aunt and guardian of Sibusile aged 10

Project Sponsor: Island Hospice and Bereavement Service
Theme: Children | Location: Zimbabwe
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£2,507
Project #2655 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help women in Tanzania set-up small businesses

Rachel Millward — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:13:55 GMT

$44 — A starting loan for a new client
$84 — Cost of office telephone/email connection
$225 — Pay for use of office safe to store loan money

Summary
Five Talents partners with The Mama Bahati Foundation in Iringa, Tanzania. MBF is a microfinance foundation giving small loans and business training to women helping them set-up small enterprises.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project needs £20,000 to fund the operational costs and loan capital of the foundation for 2009. The direct beneficiaries are women in the town of Iringa and the indirect beneficiaries are their families and the people who they employ.

Activities
1) Loan capital; MBF makes loans to 710 women in Iringa and an average client loan is $69 and
2) Operational costs such as; monthly staff salaries $2027, 6 mos office rent $366, transport in field $293 and telephone/email $136.

Potential Long Term Impact
The 5 year capital growth plan for MBF shows that by end of Y4, MBF will be sustainable. Average loan of $69 is repaid after 4 months and reloaned 3 times in 12 months. Each client has 5 dependents and therefore 1 loan impacts 15 people in one yr.

Project Message
When I met Zawadi, who took a £20 loan to buy more stock for her fruit stall, I was moved by her enthusiasm, drive and desire to succeed to help her family.
- Rachel Millward, Development Director

Project Sponsor: Five Talents
Theme: Microfinance | Location: Tanzania
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£19,999
Project #2660 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Trees for Water for Life in Cameroon

Anita Prosser — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:13:08 GMT

$6 — Buys a pair of waterproof boots as a thank you for seed collecting.
$31 — Provides two spades for permanent use by a village community.
$62 — Buys a truckload of manure for fertilisation!

Summary
This project will support the development of a community tree nursery enabling four local villages to collect, grow and plant out 5000 seedlings to protect critical drinking water supplies.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Following a successful pilot project the village head of Kingomen described water as the 'greatest food'.
The project benefits all members of four village communities in the Bamenda Highlands region of Cameroon where overuse of trees for firewood and construction has directly affected the quality of drinking water supplies in the communities. Through this project local people will be able to plant trees to preserve their water supplies and provide new food and income sources.

Activities
Seeds collected by local people will be grown at a central community nursery and distributed to four villages for planting. The project will provide tools and equipment including pots, watering cans, protective clothing and locally sourced compost.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will provide permanent protection of healthy drinking water supplies of four rural village communities and a source of fresh food, wildlife habitat and income from honey production and plant use in each community.

Project Message
"Water is the greatest food" - Kingomen village head, pilot project beneficiary community.
- Julius, Kingomen Village Head

Project Sponsor: BTCV
Theme: Environment | Location: Cameroon
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,291
Project #2654 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help farmers rear silk moths to restore forests

Robert Weber — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:12:29 GMT

$6 — purchases eggs to start a new season
$18 — buys a month's production of cocoons from a farmer
$52 — 50,000 plastic pots, sufficient to start a new villages' rearing

Summary
Sustainable management of the Makira Forest requires changes in the practices of local subsistence farmers. CPALI teaches them silk rearing that bolsters family income by 60-200% and restores habitat.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Madagascar faces an environmental and economic crisis. Its own people, in struggling to survive, are destroying the country’s unique biological heritage. Compensatory subsidies, previously used to dissuade farmers from encroaching on protected areas are not sustainable and stifle farmer independence. We seek to extend a proven, locally implemented, methods of wild silk production and give 300+ families living near the Makira protected area access to profitable markets.

Activities
Maintain CPALI demonstration site. Construct 5 more demonstrations in new villages near Makira. In each village provide 5 farmers with 1000 host plants, 9000 moth eggs. Provide on-site instruction & technical support for two years.

Potential Long Term Impact
Economic uplift for subsistence farmers, their families and communities during a difficult period in the history of Madagascar and in the survival of critically endangered wildlife.

Project Message
"Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head; dignity won’t allow him to bow it down."
- Malagasy proverb, Trad.

Project Sponsor: Conservation through Poverty Alleviation
Theme: Environment | Location: Madagascar
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£34,373
Project #2650 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Water pumps in the Sahara desert.

David Musenge — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:11:54 GMT

$6 — Production of educational material (brochures and leaflets)
$8 — Provides 20 families with supplies for water purification
$12 — Organising awareness meetings and workshops of 100 people each

Summary
This initiative will provide sustainable access to water for up to 30,500 people in rural district of N’BOUT, located at 750 km south of the Capital Nouakchott.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The availability of water in Southern Mauritania is a growing problem due to declining rainfall, desertification and the absence of a water distribution network. Women and children spend more than two hours to fetch water. This takes time and energy away from efforts to pursue activities such as child care, attending school, and farming. The UN and the Ministry of Health reported in 2005 more than 120,000 cases of diarrhoea, 4,200 of cholera, and 17,000 of parasitic intestinal diseases.

Activities
-Provide water hand pumps (5 m3/h each) for up to 30,500 people.
-Train 150 user leaders in hand pump operation and maintenance.
-Organise awareness raising campaign to 1,500 community members in health, hygiene and sanitation

Potential Long Term Impact
-Improved health and longevity,
-Attitudinal change toward health and sanitation,
-improved maintenance and sustainable use of water resources,
-improved economic productivity of local communities ,
-Increased household income and reduced poverty

Project Message
None
- None, None

Project Sponsor: Conserve Africa Foundation
Theme: Environment | Location: Mauritania
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£24,061
Project #2649 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Permanent Clean Water for a Community in Kenya

Sophie Bown — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:11:07 GMT

$5 — Gives one person clean water for life
$27 — Gives a family water for life
$398 — Provide skilled artisans to support the community building the dam

Summary
The members of Uvaani community group in Mbooni district, southeast Kenya have asked for support to build a sand dam so 1,200 people can have their own local source of clean water. (See pics for info)

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Uvanni community live in a semi arid area where water is in short supply. Women and children spend hours a day collecting water from far away, thus having no time for education, housekeeping and generating income. 46 associated community members have approached Excellent for support to build a sand dam: it will capture the seasonal rain and filter it through the river sand. This will positively impact the wider community of 9,600 people by providing year-round clean water for at least 30 years

Activities
The community gets ownership of the project: They will collect the sand and stones needed, build the dam & terrace the land next to the site in order to grow food. Excellent Development will provide technical support, cement and monitor the progress.

Potential Long Term Impact
Very low maintenance technology, a sand dam typically provides permanent clean water for 1,200 people, allowing them to grow more food, plant trees and raise livestock. The local water table will also be recharged, improving the environment.

Project Message
"I love the dams more than anything, because they came out of nowhere. We have created our own springs for our own people."
- Joshua Mukusya, Founder/Exec. Officer, Excellent Development Kenya

Project Sponsor: Excellent Development
Theme: Environment | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£7,499
Project #2647 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

You can give 140 orphaned chimpanzees a safe haven

Claire Quarendon — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:03:24 GMT

$9 — Will feed nearly four chimpanzees for a day
$18 — Covers food for one chimpanzee for a week
$62 — Provides a uniform for a Sanctuary Caretaker

Summary
The Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in Congo - one of our four santuaries - provides a safe home and rehab for 140 chimpanzees under the care of the Jane Goodall Institute.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Only about 150,000 chimpanzees remain in the wild today compared to 2 million in the 1900s. The main threats to their survival are greater demand for agricultural and living spaces for people, logging, bush meat poaching and capture of young chimpanzees for the pet trade. We work to intercept and report this activity and provide vetinary care and a safe home for chimpanzees that are caught up in these activities and can do this by working with local communities to support their needs too.

Activities
Many chimps are very distressed when they first arrive at Tchimpounga. Our local staff care for the chimps and give them food, shelter and medical attention. We also help the chimps to become acquainted with other chimpanzees again.

Potential Long Term Impact
The Sanctuary is currently housing 140 orphaned chimpanzees. Over the last two years we have had 40 chimpanzees brought to us, and in the past year alone, we have seen more than a 20 percent increase in the number of chimpanzees brought to us.

Project Message
New resident Timi (10) is afraid of storms. His care taker said "When lightning starts, Timi acts like a tiny baby and tries to stay close to his mates so that he doesn’t feel alone against the danger
- Fernando Turmo, Program Co-ordinator, Congo

Project Sponsor: Jane Goodall Institute
Theme: Animals | Location: Congo, Republic of the
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£34,572
Project #2663 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Creating playroom for disabled children in Yelatma

Alison Payne — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:59:03 GMT

$6 — will buy an educational DVD
$21 — will pay for the weekly support costs of a children’s care worker
$24 — will pay for a white board and pens

Summary
This room will provide a safe stimulating play area for mobile children with special needs who have nowhere else to play in Yelatma orphanage.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
A number of children in Yelatma Orphanage (Russia) aged 9-17, have learning and/or behavioural difficulties and are not suited to Portage. These children spend their days in a small room sitting or lying on padded mats, ‘guarded’ by an elderly woman who stops them physically harming themselves and makes sure they don’t escape. There is no play equipment and children tend to rock and moan as a form of self-stimulation. Some have their hands tied if they are a risk to themselves or others.

Activities
We will recruit and train two care workers and develop a programme of activities for each individual child supervised by a UK qualified Occupational Therapist, refurbish the room providing toys and equipment and create a quiet space for storytelling.

Potential Long Term Impact
The aim is to give these young people a quality of life, help them interact with and enjoy their surroundings. Some will go on to receive an education. Others will become more independent, learn to make choices, work in the home and feel valued.

Project Message
These young people have had nothing their whole lives. No love, no laughter, no toys. To be able to give these and enrich their lives is one of the most important things I have ever been involved in.
- Jo Wooster, Volunteer Physiotherapist

Project Sponsor: The Promise
Theme: Children | Location: Russia
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£10,885
Project #2639 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Helping families rise out of poverty

Louise Smith — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:31:34 GMT

$6 — Purchase security box / locks for savings group
$18 — Provide contribution towards 1 x VSLA facilitator monthly salary
$43 — Supply 1 bicycle for facilitators to travel to groups on.

Summary
This project provides salaries for 6 Village Savings and Loan Facilitators (VSLA), who are developing 54 new groups to all collectively save / loan their money to help them increase their income.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
This project helps families / individuals to develop sustainable livelihoods through the provision of VSLA facilitators to help reduce poverty within the communities who are caring for orphans & vulnerable children. By sponsoring 6 workers, 54 new VSLA groups will be set up in the Iganga district of Uganda. Each group has 30 people (usually women) who collectively save their money & loan out to the group. Average rates of return are 30-70%. Enable families to increase their livelihood income.

Activities
Providing salaries for 6 VSLA facilitators to create 54 new groups. Helping to reduce poverty and increasing sustainable incomes in over 1,620 families.

Potential Long Term Impact
54 new VSLA groups will have an impact on 1,620 individuals who will then be able to increase their incomes and provide for their families and communities.

Project Message
VSLA is the only hope for Uganda & Africa as a whole. VSLAs are self help groups, where even the weak financially can raise a small amount of money to save & use the savings to boost household incomes
- Members of Faith and Hope VSLA, Members of new VSLA group in Kampala, Uganda

Project Sponsor: Hope for a Child
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Uganda
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£10,776
Project #2635 on GlobalGiving.co.uk