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Acquiring vehicle for mobile clinic in rural Enugu

Chukwumuanya Igboekwu — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:09:47 GMT

$18 — Buys car radiator coolant
$56 — buys a car battrey
$75 — buys one tyre

Summary
Physicians for Social Justice, PSJ, runs Mobile Clinics that provide life-saving health services to poor families in rural Enugu, Nigeria. Due to difficult terrain, we face serious difficulty to convey our medical personnel, supplies and equipments to these remote rural areas where we provide healthcare services. We urgently need a 4-wheel drive vehicle as reliable means of transportation. This will guarantee regular access to care, and improve the health and wellbeing of 34000 rural families.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In 90% of villages that PSJ operates mobile clinics, there are no functional transport service. The terrain is difficult, as there are no paved roads. We face serious difficulty to convey our medical personnel, equipments and medical supplies to target populations in remote villages who depend on us for life-saving health services. During the rainy season, it is sometimes impossible for us to reach some remote villages that depend on our life-saving health care, without 4-wheel drive vehicle.

Activities
If we procure a 4-wheel drive vehicle, we will have a reliable means of transport to convey our medical personnel, equipments and medical supplies to rural villages where we operate mobile clinic services, irrespective of the geographic location or the season. Poor people in rural communities who depend on us for health care services will have regular, uninterrupted access to primary care, ante-natal care, HIV counseling and testing, health education and free health commodities such as bednets.

Potential Long Term Impact
Clinical and preventive health care provided through PSJ's mobile clinic will benefit at least 34000 rural families with life-saving health services on regular, uninterrupted basis. Project will significantly improve maternal and child health and wellbeing in rural Enugu State. If we provide insecticide treated nets and water purification chemicals on regular basis, we will significantly reduce incidences of malaria, typhoid fever and diarrhea diseases especially among children

Project Message
The greatest injustice that people in our rural villages face is their exclusion from social services. Getting a means of transport for this project guarantees them regular access to basic health care
- Igboekwu Chukwumuanya, Team Leader

Project Sponsor: Physicians for Social Justice (PSJ)
Theme: Health | Location: Nigeria
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£24,027
Project #9821 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Using soccer to help vulnerable children in Africa

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

$12 — Life Skills and Soccer Training Pack (teaching strong moral values and lessons such as teamwork, peer pressure, leadership, discipline, commitment, etc.)
$18 — Weekly food for our feeding scheme in the Academy. (Each child is fed at the Academy).
$22 — 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:£15,900
Project #9822 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Environmental Education for over 300 Children

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

$6 — feeds 2 underprivileged children for 1 day at Daktari
$15 — covers the education, accommodation & food of 1 underprivileged child for 1 day at Daktari
$31 — 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:£25,467
Project #9825 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Provide healthcare to 34000 villagers in Enugu

Chukwumuanya Igboekwu — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:32:33 GMT

$31 — provides clinical consultations and medicines for 10people
$47 — pays for a month supply of water purifier for 15 families
$57 — pays for insecticide treated nets for 10 children or 10 pregnant mothers

Summary
This is a community-based primary health care program that utilizes Mobile Health Clinics to provide free life-saving health care to 34000 poor families in rural Enugu, eastern Nigeria. The mobile clinic team comprising a physician, a nurse, a midwife and two village health workers will regularly travel to these villages to deliver synchronized primary health services including consultations, antenatal care, dispensing medications, health education, and providing bed nets and water purifiers.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In Nigeria, 201 children under-5 die per 1000 live births, while 828 rural women die per 100,000 live births, according to Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Mid-point Report. Currently, approximately three-quarters of rural women lack affordable access to health facilities and medically-skilled personnel. This project will use mobile clinic model to provide 34000 poor families residing in remote villages in rural Enugu State, Nigeria, with essential health care services on continuous basis.

Activities
PSJ already operates a clinic that provides life-saving health care to the rural poor who would otherwise have been without healthcare in Mashegu, northern Nigeria. The mobile team lead by a community physician will use a 4-wheel-drive vehicle or motorcycles to reach families in remote rural villages to conduct synchronized primary health services including consultations, ante-natal care, dispensing medicines, HIV counseling/testing, health education, distribution of bednets and water purifiers.

Potential Long Term Impact
Clinical and preventive health care provided through mobile clinic will provide at least 34000 families with life-saving services on regular basis. Project will significantly improve maternal and child health and well being in rural Enugu State. If we provide insecticide treated nets and water purification chemicals, we will significantly reduce incidences of malaria, typhoid fever and diarrhea diseases. Hundreds of children in rural Enugu will be alive and well to witness their 5th birthday.

Project Message
In 2004, as a young physician serving in rural Mashegu, I witnessed dozens of children in rural villages die of highly preventable diseases. This mobile clinic provides us a means to save lives.
- Chukwumuanya Igboekwu, Team Leader

Project Sponsor: Physicians for Social Justice (PSJ)
Theme: Health | Location: Nigeria
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£30,226
Project #9819 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Special Initiative for Girls No Abuse for Life

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

$6 — will provide a weeks supply of craft materials for one girl
$16 — will provide one new set of clothes for one girl
$32 — 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:£5,020
Project #9798 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Support to Women and Children in Sierra Leone

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

$6 — will train a new mother on the importance of breastfeeding
$16 — will train three mothers on cultivation of nutritious crops
$44 — 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:£16,480
Project #9783 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

School Transportation for our Kids!

Jaco Van Schalkwyk — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:42:02 GMT

$6 — support the petrol in our vehicles
$16 — support the petrol in our vehicles
$48 — support the petrol in our vehicles

Summary
Our children have been extremely blessed with the opportunity to receive a proper education. This project will help fund the transportation of our kids to multiple schools on a daily basis by providing petrol for our buses.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are four different schools that the children here at Refilwe attend. Everyday we must transport each child to their school on time and return them home at the end of the day. We need help funding the petrol in our vehicles so that we may continue to transport these kids together. If we are unable to fund the transportation, our children will have to take a taxi everyday which is not always safe, reliable, and is unaffordable for the God Parents responsible for the kids.

Activities
The children will be safely and reliably transported to school everyday and returned home in a timely manner. Our families will not have to stress about how they can afford to send their child to school, and our children can receive the best education possible through reliable attendance and less stresses at home.

Potential Long Term Impact
The funding amount required funds our tanks for one year! One year with no worries about how to provide our kids with a safe, reliable lift to school everyday. Within that year we can gain support from the communities and donors to continue the support for the transportation of our children to school.

Project Message
We want to confidently KNOW that our safe and reliable transportation system will always be available. Through this project and with your help, we can make sure of that.
- Giana S., Long-term volunteer

Project Sponsor: Refilwe Community Project
Theme: Education | Location: South Africa
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£22,820
Project #9797 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Curing 1,000 Underserved TB Patients in Vietnam

Sandeep Ahuja — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:02:16 GMT

$16 — Contributes to TB treatment and health advocacy programs to reduce stigma
$32 — Cures a single patient of tuberculosis
$65 — Cures 2 patients of tuberculosis

Summary
Through a new model of Public-Private-Partnership, the goal of this project is to introduce a new way to receive treatment for TB patients in Vietnam. We aim to provide high-quality, TB treatment free of charge to at least 1,000 underserved patients in an urban district in Vietnam. Particularly, we strive to find those patients who are ineligible, unwilling or unable to afford treatment through the public and private systems and who would continue to infect others if left untreated.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Each year over 29,000 Vietnamese die of TB resulting from 180,000 new infections. This proliferation is due to the disease's contagious nature and associated stigma causing low detection rates - only 54% of new infections are found and properly treated. The remainder is treated in the private sector, if at all, where rampant treatment default (>40%) drives drug resistance. Hence, with undetected infections spreading increasingly virulent strains, Vietnam's TB problem is spiraling out of control.

Activities
By raising detections and reducing defaults among patients treated in the private sector! We will accomplish the former by hiring community members as counselors to seek out new patients. To accomplish the latter micro-entrepreneurs will be retained to build a convenient treatment network, while biometric monitoring will help counselors also track down non-compliant patients. Lastly, we will offer incentives to counselors and community members for successful detections and treatment completions.

Potential Long Term Impact
Each tuberculosis patient infects 10-15 new people per year. By increasing new case detection and providing free TB treatment, this project will prevent over 10,000-15,000 new cases of TB. Unlike many private providers, OpASHA will ensure that patients complete the entire treatment. It is estimated that this project will prevent at least 370 cases of drug-resistant TB from developing in the community.

Project Message
"Operation ASHA is one of the three best public health programs in the world."
- Barry Bloom, Former Dean of Harvard School of Public Health

Project Sponsor: Operation ASHA
Theme: Health | Location: Vietnam
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£32,348
Project #9777 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Bring the Internet to 6000 People in Rural Zambia

Brooke Hutchinson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:57:20 GMT

$16 — Provides a regulator for the solar panels
$26 — Provides for cable and connectors for the solar panels
$32 — Provides for a voltage switch for the solar panels

Summary
Imagine being a student in today's world with no access to a computer or the internet, relying solely on the few textbooks and newspapers that make their way along the dust roads to your village - that's the situation facing thousands of students in Samfya, a remote fishing village in Northern Zambia. This project will help provide IT resources and training to over 6000 children by providing reliable and sustainable solar technology to Samfya's only viable internet centre for hundreds of miles.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In sub-Saharan Africa, 24 million girls are too poor to go to school. Poverty not only excludes a girl from school but means she may marry as young as 13, has a one in 22 change of dying in childbirth, and one in six of her children will die before the age of five. Girls living in rural areas such as Samfya, where families rely on fishing and subsistence farming for food, are most effected, with many forced to drop out of school each year.

Activities
Innovations such as the Samfya Resource Center offer a route out of poverty. By accessing essential internet services, IT training and online learning resources, over 480 students a month in this remote region are building the knowledge and skills they need to participate in today's world. By equipping the Center with reliable and sustainable solar technology, you will be helping to train and educate even more students while, at the same time, reducing the center's carbon footprint.

Potential Long Term Impact
Approximately 6000 students, graduates and community members per year will benefit from online learning and computer training, greatly increasing their access to educational resources and providing students with the necessary computer skills and training to succeed in a modern and globalized world.

Project Message
"The SRC allows us to be connected with the rest of the world via the internet. The centre plays a very important role in the development of rural areas. I see the impact of this every day".
- Penelope Machipi, Information, Communications and Technology Manager

Project Sponsor: Campaign for Female Education (Camfed)
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Zambia
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,521
Project #9786 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Online olimpiad

Hermine Ginosyan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:49:12 GMT

$12 — will provide stationary, training and transportation services for each participant
$24 — will refer each participant to using ICT for his/her creative and research skills and abilities development
$77 — will provide encouriging gifts for the best participant

Summary
The main objective of the project is to create educational and cultural environment where the given chance of new media will be used for the benefit of the childrens/teenagers where information technologies will be used as an active factor in the educational process, where by means of competition children will reveal applied inexhaustible opportunities of new media.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Our country is a newly developing country and educational reforms are just being implemented. ICT is not an active ingredient of the whole Armenian educational process. Not all the children in schools have access to Internet. Those who can afford having internet and computer either in school or home do not use it for the benefit of their education and development. Rather, they use it for playing games and entertainment.

Activities
The project will help enhance the usage of ICT in the sphere of education and culture, increase the number of teenagers using media resources, and assist in their free speech and thought, identification of other nations. It will encourage the beneficiaries to write themes on mentioned spheres, to make media materials, which will take a chance to learn how to use internet as a tool of education, culture and information spreading.

Potential Long Term Impact
ICT will become an active factor in the educational process in Armenia
Will result in raising the awareness of the whole Armenian society
Will assist in development of cross cultural relationships
The research and creative abilities of teenagers will become more developed

Project Message
Don't go please. I will give you job, I will protect you. We will have this vision one day. Stop immigration.
- Nare Gareginyan, Project beneficiary, 9th grade in the school N 83

Project Sponsor: Zartonk-89
Theme: Education | Location: Armenia
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£22,905
Project #8969 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Comp.skill to 500 disabled & underprivilege adults

Vincent paul Bellamkonda — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:28:36 GMT

$19 — cost of one month net connection
$31 — cost of course material for 5 students
$51 — cost of two computer table and chairs

Summary
"CHHASE Computer education"a community outreach training program for less privileged disabled and adults, to enhance their skills, abilities and personalities. There is high demand for computer literates as companies hire more. Thus 1000 under privileged disabled and adults in our area need computer education in order to keep pace with time and society. We arrange placements in industries and offices.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Under privileged disabled and adults are lack of basic computer knowledge, even if they are interested, they are not afford to learn in a institute. CHHASE computer education is an ISO certified institute and course ware has been designed to be completed in three months and is planned in such a manner that the student develops a fully fledged understanding of the subject and would be eligible for placements.

Activities
CHHASE endeavors for the development of the less privileged disabled and adults, through its Education, Child Care, Women Empowerment, Computer Education and Tribal Welfare projects. CHHASE envisions strengthening disabled and adults to achieve substantial growth and progress through computer education. Empowerment through quality education and placement is the key. We need to help them acquire computer education and become change agents.

Potential Long Term Impact
Trainings are offered in computer related courses which is the revolution in today's times. 500 under privileged disabled and adults in our area will be trained in computers. We need to help them acquire computer education and become change agents.

Project Message
"I grew up in rural Tamil Nadu and worked in air force. Since my childhood, I have soft corner for disabled "
- Vincent paul, Director

Project Sponsor: Community Health, Housing and Social Education (CHHASE)
Theme: Education | Location: India
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£10,632
Project #9755 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Youth Apprenticeship in Tailoring and Decor, Ghana

Philip Appiah — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:29:29 GMT

$6 — Meals provided twice a week for one year during the training workshop
$19 — Helps to get materials for workshops
$31 — Acquisition of the shop for the training programme

Summary
The Apprenticeship in Tailoring, Event and Floral Decoration Program is a project which comprises young people aged 13 - 28 years who: have been forced to drop out from school or did not have an opportunity to get any formal education. Objectives: Empowerment of 50 boys and girls by building up their professional capacity in one year, Enable the youth to find employment after graduation, based on skills acquired during their apprenticeship and Enhancement of the abilities of single mothers.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
About 45% of Gbawe's residents are unemployed. Large number of young people in the area and youth unemployment is high. A lack of basic skills makes it difficult for individuals to secure employment and families continue to experience extreme poverty. Parents depend on their children in old age, so it is crucial that their children secure jobs. African women seem strong, however their social position is determined by their husbands and single women with families find themselves marginalized.

Activities
On short term, the project will address the need to enhance professional capacity building of the youth through handiwork in dressmaking, hair dressing, event and floral decoration. Additionally, English and core mathematics will be taught to improve the reading, writing, and calculating skills of participants and also to enhance their communications skills and chances in the job market. 50 boys and girls will be empowered by building up their professional capacity in a one year.

Potential Long Term Impact
On long term, the project will contribute to the development of the community, by reducing the number of unemployed young people after graduation, will empower young women, especially the single mothers, and help them to overcome being marginalized within their own communities.

Project Message
PAAJAF was established to provide a range of support services for children, young people and women who live in the Village of Gbawe, Accra, Ghana. Help us to bring our dream to reality.
- Philip Appiah, Founder

Project Sponsor: Paajaf Foundation
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Ghana
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£4,446
Project #9005 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help 125 Zimbabwean Families Have Better Nutrition

Tom Arsenault — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:23:12 GMT

$6 — Will provide a subsidized pack of seeds
$15 — Will provide a subsidized bag of fertilizer
$31 — Will provide training for a Cluster Facilitator

Summary
One hundred twenty-five families struggling to survive in rural Zimbabwe will be able to grow enough food to feed their extended families and have surplus food remaining to sell.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe has many of the recently resettled farmers facing major challenges with depleted soils and little money for fertilizer and seeds. Previously ASAP was able to provide some farmers with drip irrigation kits, along with conservation agriculture skills training, but these drip kits are no longer available in Zimbabwe. However, there is still a great need for the proper training in permaculture and conservation gardening so they can utilize local resources to

Activities
ASAP field officers will provide the training in permaculture and conservation gardening to 125 families in Manicaland, Zimbabwe as part of ASAP project, HANDIA. In addition, field officers will provide subsidized low cost seeds and fertilizer to be sure these families are fully prepared for gardening success and avoid becoming some of the "hungry".

Potential Long Term Impact
These 125 families will survive & thrive with a surplus of food because of this project! Those who receive the training also become members of ASAP's Internal Savings & Lending project which helps them improve their income generating activities.

Project Message
"My crops are now much better thanks to the ASAP training and I have plenty of food for the children, thank you ASAP!"
- Mrs. Chokono, Rural farmer, widow and mother

Project Sponsor: A Self-Help Assistance Program (ASAP)
Theme: Hunger | Location: Zimbabwe
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£7,972
Project #9697 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Provide opportunity through sport in Mbale Uganda

Martin Hansford — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:03:55 GMT

$20 — will buy a small pile of bricks
$31 — will buy a large pile of bricks
$63 — will pay for unskilled labour for a month

Summary
Mbale is a town with 15,000 children under the age of 16 who have no organised sports programmes outside of school. Mbales sports facilites are either in very poor condition or constantly used by adults. Our Tag programmes have been working in the local primary schools for 4 years and we are re-building the Rugby Club after 40 years of neglect. The new building and grounds will cater primarily for children, womens teams and be made available to the many hundreds of NGO projects in the region.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In Uganda 49% of the population is under the age of 16. Primary schools are packed with children (thanks to Universal Primary Education), but secondary education is beyond the means of many families. With teenage boys and girls having so much time on their hands they are extremely vunerable to bad influences and have predominantely negative role models. With no out of school activities and no postive role models this cycle would only be perpetuated for future generations.

Activities
By creating a "hub" for the Tag Rugby activities that have been working in the town for 4 years, young boys and girls will be able to participate in a fun, challenging and enjoyable sporting activity. Older children will be given the opportunity to take part in Young Leadership programmes and pass on their skills to younger primary school students. Importantly, positive influences and role models from within the Rugby club will be able to guide the behaviour and activities of the children.

Potential Long Term Impact
There are two key long-term impacts on Mbale Town of the Clubhouse and Community Centre.

1. As the Rugby Club strengthens, mens, womens and childrens (mixed) teams will be able to participate regularly at the facility without having to stop when other "big boys" turn up. The teams will host and travel to neighbouring towns to compete, providing a great opprotunity to broaden their horizons.

2. The Community Centre will be made available for non-rugby NGO developmental activities

Project Message
a Town the size of Mbale with so many young children has practically no outdoor spaces where they can play together - we are missing so much potential talent in many areas because of this
- Stephen Anguma, College Lecturer & Rugby player in Mbale

Project Sponsor: Tag Rugby Trust
Theme: Sport | Location: Uganda
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£32,161
Project #9646 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help troubled children get an education in Munich

Frank Wallmeier — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:13:08 GMT

$20 — will buy writing material for one child
$25 — will buy school books for one child
$50 — will provide daily breakfast for one child

Summary
Many children can't meet the challenges of mainstream school after facing traumatizing life events, from losing their parents to suffering from bullying and violence. We provide schooling in small learning groups of 6 children with teachers and social tutors. We help these children find ways to overcome their distressing experiences and enable them to return to school and eventually graduate with the qualifications that they will need for adult life.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
More than 60 % of young people that do not graduate from school remain unemployed and most of them become socially isolated.
The increasing number of school drop-outs is a challenge for schools and our youth welfare system.
Children face frustration and failure when they feel unable to meet the challenges of school which damages their self esteem and leaves them deeply unprepared for adult life.

Activities
We prevent school drop-outs by supporting children and finding ways to meet the challenges they face and to regain self-confidence and motivation. We collaborate with schools, the youth welfare office and other institutions to help support children and their families as soon as possible when problems start to show.
We also assist children and their families to reintegrate into school after they have dropped out and give them the confidence to complete their education and eventually graduate.

Potential Long Term Impact
We will help schools in the prevention of school drop-outs and improve their ability to work with emotionally distressed children. We will help children overcoming distressing life events to manage their fear of school and to gain motivation. We will help them gain self-confidence and experience success.

Less young people in Munich will leave school without graduating and more will find access to vocational training and social participation.

Project Message
"My child has developed so great, I sometimes can hardly believe it. You and your team have contributed to that enormously. I am very proud of my son."
- Corinna Welke, Mother of a 12-year old pupil

Project Sponsor: Adelgundenheim
Theme: Children | Location: Germany
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£14,863
Project #9641 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

St Mungo's - Opening Doors for Homeless People

Triona Larkin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:48:01 GMT

$20 — contribute towards a van for our ReVive painting and decorating training team
$31 — contribute towards a van for our ReVive painting and decorating training team
$63 — contribute towards a van for our ReVive painting and decorating training team

Summary
St Mungo's Painting and Decorating training project aims to give homeless people useful skills - offering them the chance to get work experience and helping to secure employment.
Trainees who commit to the programme can expect to spend six to eight weeks learning a variety of skills. Those who successfully complete the programme are awarded an Open College Network qualification and given the further opportunity to work with our painting and decorating social enterprise, ReVive.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
A poor education is often a contributing factor to homelessness, while unmet physical and mental health needs can seriously compromise a person's employability.

St Mungo's helps homeless people to overcome these barriers through education, vocational training, help with finding employment and engaging in meaningful activities - all of which play a key role in recovery from homelessness and are fundamental to our work.

Activities
St Mungo's Painting and Decorating programme has been running since November 2009 and was set up to help homeless people learn professional decorating skills and gain a recognised qualification.

Trainees who commit to the programme can expect to spend six to eight weeks learning a variety of painting and decorating techniques and can go on to work on live projects with ReVive, the social enterprise arm of the programme.

Potential Long Term Impact
In 2010 / 2011 37 people took part in the programme with many more completing 'taster days'. 29 people achieved qualifications and 3 progressed onto other training.

ReVive is helping many of our clients to gain valuable on the job training, work experience and new skills - and, most importantly, is helping them grow in confidence and self esteem and achieve sustained independence.

Project Message
This painting and decorating course got me better at something. The course has also kept me from doing negative things. In the future I would like to own my painting and decorating company.
- 'John', A painting & decorating trainee

Project Sponsor: St Mungo's
Theme: Education | Location: United Kingdom
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,395
Project #9621 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Merry Crisis

Megan Owens — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:55:58 GMT

$6 — helps the Homeless World Cup make a difference
$32 — helps change the life of a homeless person
$64 — helps the Homeless World Cup support its partners around the world

Summary
Over the festive period the Homeless World Cup is raising money to support our work across the world, combating homelessness by giving homeless people a hand-up, not a hand-out.

No one wishes to be homeless, yet one billion people worldwide will find themselves unsheltered, hungry and isolated this Christmas. This situation is unacceptable.

Help the Homeless World Cup to make a difference by donating today.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are one billion homeless people in our world today. This is a global issue that affects every nation. The Homeless World Cup has a vision for a healthy, abundant, confident world where everyone has a home, a basic human need.

Homelessness is a global issue that affects every nation.

Activities
Each year the Homeless World Cup invests in an international network of partner organisations, creating grassroots football projects that take homeless people from the street to the pitch and encourage them to beat addiction, find employment and education and rebuild relationships with family and friends.

Potential Long Term Impact
When a homeless person gets involved in football they communicate and build relationships with others; they become teammates, learning to trust and share; they have a responsibility to attend training sessions and games, to be on time and prepared to participate. They feel part of something.

These skills and attributes are all transferable to daily life and therefore help a homeless person see that they can change their lives.

Project Message
Your donation can make a difference.
Help the Homeless World Cup today!
- The Homeless World Cup team, Whole team

Project Sponsor: Homeless World Cup Foundation
Theme: Human Rights | Location: United Kingdom
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,442
Project #9650 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Philippine Flood Relief Fund

Britt Lake — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:40:11 GMT

$6 — emergency aid and long-term relief for victims
$16 — emergency aid and long-term relief for victims
$32 — emergency aid and long-term relief for victims

Summary
Tropical Storm Washi has caused catastrophic damage in the Philippines, causing at least 662 fatalities. This fund will provide emergency relief to the victims of the flash floods.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
On December 16,2011, Tropical Storm Washi brought 10 hours of torrential rains that triggered disastrous flash flooding. Some areas received more than 8 inches of rain during this period in areas where rivers were already swollen. During the overnight hours, hundreds of people were killed as flood waters and multiple landslides destroyed homes along mountain sides.

Activities
GlobalGiving is partnering with several organizations on the ground to provide emergency aid and long term relief to victims. We will post updates on how these funds have been used so that you can see the impact that your donation has had.

Potential Long Term Impact
Major disasters always require a huge amount of support to provide relief and long term recovery efforts. In this case, these initial funds will help survivors and victims get necessary services. Over time this fund will transition to support longer term recovery efforts.

Project Message
The situation in the evacuation center is very difficult/ There is no water or sanitation there. It's very easy to get sick
- Stella Cabilogan, victim, as quoted in NY Times

Project Sponsor: GlobalGiving
Theme: Disaster Recovery | Location: Philippines
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£32,213
Project #9651 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Essential Medical Supplies for Haitian Doctors

Danny Muller — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:13:23 GMT

$16 — Provides training time for 1 hospital clinician in how to use computerized inventory system.
$32 — Provides training time for 2 hospital clinical workers in how to use computerized inventory system.
$64 — Covers food for one week for additional staff/volunteers at the Justinien Hospital.

Summary
Patients at the Justinian Hospital, the 2nd largest public hospital in Haiti, suffer needlessly because the medical staff lacks reliable access to essential medical supplies. Problems of scarcity are compounded by poor management of existing resources. We are implementing supply chain improvements in the hospital depot, pediatrics, & mobile clinics that serve the poorest communities in Cap-Haitian. This will better match donations & the purchasing of medicines with the needs of the community

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Patients at the 250 Justinian Hospital in Cap-Haitian suffer needlessly for lack of adequate supplies. Doctors can't offer adequate care without the necessary supplies, equipment, and pharmaceutics. These essential supplies, equipment, and pharmaceuticals could be available but for an inability for international donors to adequately understand what is needed. The 800,000 Haitians served at the hospital receive substandard care for lack of effective management and inventory systems.

Activities
The project will dramatically improve Haitian doctors' ability to procure essential medical supplies, equipment, and medicines. We will create an online and accessible database of existing and needed medical hardware; detail supply usage rates in the Pediatrics Department and the Mobile Clinics; create a computerized supply inventory system; and develop a Pharmaceutical Essentials List. Haitian doctors & nurses at the Justinian Hospital will have the supplies to do their jobs more effectively.

Potential Long Term Impact
Essential medical supplies will be more readily available to Haitian clinical staff at the 250 bed Justinian Hospital serving 800,000 Haitians in the region. Supplies will be better managed and reach those most in need. Critical care will be more adequately provided with reliable access to supplies and equipment. Cholera, water borne diseases, pneumonia and other easily treatable illnesses will be reduced with reliable access to medicines and sanitizing supplies.

Project Message
"During the cholera epidemic this past year, I saw first hand how effective supply chain management makes the difference for patients most in need- it is essential for medicines to arrive on time."
- Danny Muller, Logistics and Outreach Coordinator, Konbit Sante

Project Sponsor: Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership
Theme: Health | Location: Haiti
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£7,524
Project #9065 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Help 500 Families Facing Drought & Hunger in Mali

Sarah Peterson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:44:10 GMT

$16 — will buy seed to grow enough rice to feed a family for one year
$32 — provides training to 5 families in improved rice farming techniques
$64 — installs a water harvesting system to give a family clean water

Summary
Many families in northern Mali have been forced to cut back to as little as one meal a day because of increasingly scarce water as a result of climate change. To combat drought and hunger, NEF teaches villagers new and simple ways to collect, store and manage the water they need, and provides seeds and training to grow rice - a reliable food source.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The majority of rural people in the Mopti and Timbuktu regions of northern Mali are farmers, herders, fishers, and collectors of forest products-families whose wellbeing is tied directly to the availability of natural resources that depend on water. In recent years, rainfall has significantly decreased because of a rapidly changing climate. Without a stable supply of water, villagers lack the resources needed to survive - water for drinking, growing fruits and vegetables, and raising livestock.

Activities
This project gives 500 farming families drought-resistant rice seeds that thrive in their increasingly dry climate, and provides training to grow the rice - a nutritious food source. We help villagers access scarce water by constructing simple systems to catch clean rainwater and deliver a steady supply where it's needed. To ensure that families have adequate water supplies now and into the future, we train community leaders in how to manage and maintain their new water harvesting systems.

Potential Long Term Impact
Project participants will have a reliable, sufficient source of food and water for the first time. With secure access to water, villagers can grow their new rice along with other traditional fruits and vegetables, and still have enough water for their drinking. More water and vegetation means an increase in fish stocks, more habitat for birds, and a healthier environment overall. Project training will allow villagers to take control of their own water resources and build a better future.

Project Message
"Our new water system is a miracle - we had almost no water and now we have more than 40,000 liters per day. The village is alive again!"
- Villager in Mounouwel, Gandamia, Project Beneficiary

Project Sponsor: Near East Foundation (NEF)
Theme: Climate Change | Location: Mali
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£9,583
Project #9634 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Healthcare for Mothers and Children in Bangladesh

Michelle Chaplin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:35:38 GMT

$6 — can provide vital neonatal nutrition to a mother in a rural village
$9 — can provide vital neonatal nutrition to a mother in an urban slum
$32 — can provide life-saving nutrition to 5 children under 5 years old

Summary
Every 4 minutes in Bangladesh, a child less than 1 month old dies because their mother didn't have access to proper post-natal and ante-natal care. The majority of these deaths can be prevented by providing children and their mothers with access to proper nutrition. By providing nutritional supplements to pregnant mothers, their newborn babies, and young children, we can drastically reduce child mortality.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Every 45 minutes, a woman in Bangladesh dies from complications in pregnancy or childbirth.

Every 4 minutes, a child less than 1 month old dies because their mother didn't have access to proper post-natal and ante-natal care.

Activities
BRAC will educate its existing frontline community health promoters and train new health promoters to provide basic health services to pregnant women and their newborns. The promoters will be able to record patient data on a mobile device, like a cell phone, and quickly refer any complications to the nearest clinic or hospital. BRAC's health promoters will also educate and encourage women to give birth in a hospital or BRAC safe birth hut. This education will also be given to husbands.

Potential Long Term Impact
In the long term, this project will reduce child and maternal mortality in Bangladesh, helping it succeed in reaching Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. Early childhood nutrition will also reduce the number of health complications the children experience later in life.

Project Message
Thousands of mothers and children die every day for preventable reasons. BRAC has pioneered simple solutions that save lives by providing nutrition and health care to millions of mothers and newborns.
- Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA

Project Sponsor: BRAC USA
Theme: Health | Location: Bangladesh
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,368
Project #9620 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Breast Feeding Saves Lives

Cassandra Nelson — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:44:35 GMT

$30 — Provides training for a mother to be a peer-counselor and organize Mothers Support Group in her community.
$63 — Covers the running costs of a mother support group for a year, including meeting costs and training materials for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who are members of the group.
$185 — Provides training for a midwife or doctor to champion and improve breastfeeding support and to establish and enforce pro-breastfeeding policies in a health facility in Indonesia.

Summary
Every second a child in Indonesia dies before reaching her 5th birthday. Millions more infants are at high risk of growth & mental retardation due to malnutrition. But there is an easy & inexpensive solution: Breastfeeding. An estimated 100,000 children in Indonesia under the age of 5 could be saved if all babies were exclusively breastfed in the first 6 months of life & continued breastfeeding until the age of 2 years. Your donations will help Mercy Corps expand this program & save more lives.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
During the first two months of life, infants who are not breastfed are nearly 6 times more likely to die from infectious diseases than those who are breastfed. Unfortunately, the number of newborns being breastfed in Indonesia is declining due to misconceptions, an increase in the number of mothers who must work outside the home, & adverse business practices of baby formula makers who give healthcare workers incentives for encouraging new mothers to use formula rather than breastfeed.

Activities
Mercy Corps' breastfeeding & maternal-child health program is focused on infants & their mothers during pregnancy & the first 6 months of the baby's life. The program aims to promote, support, and protect poor & vulnerable mothers & babies to ensure a healthy start. We are focusing much of our work in urban slum areas where unemployment is extremely high. The program is designed to deliver information, emotional & practical support to new mothers through community-led Mercy Corps trained groups.

Potential Long Term Impact
Mercy Corps has been working with communities, the government & healthcare providers to promote breastfeeding & maternal health in Indonesia since 2007. In line with efforts to improve the quality of maternal-child health services, Mercy Corps is piloting & testing the use of mobile technology to strengthen the existing maternal-child health service monitoring & tracking system & improve the use of data in local health planning & resource allocation which will have a long term positive impact.

Project Message
Early initiation & exclusive breastfeeding provide a strong foundation for optimum physical, cognitive & emotional development of a child, that will save her from the poverty trap. This program works.
- Fransisca Mardiananingsih, Health & Nutrition Advisor

Project Sponsor: Mercy Corps
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Indonesia
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£63,934
Project #9612 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Educate a Zambian child

Uzma Sulaiman — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:41:58 GMT

$32 — Will deliver a Prime radio for 50 students or more
$64 — Will deliver two Prime radios for two classrooms
$96 — Will deliver three Prime radios

Summary
Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children are able to access the Zambian Ministry of Education's highly successful Learning at Taonga Market radio distance education programme with our solar and wind-up radios. Now in its 11th year, the initiative delivers a high quality, basic education based on the Zambian national school curriculum. It uses effective interactive radio instruction (IRI) methodology and programmes are broadcast over community radio stations across Zambia.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Zambia has 1.2 million orphaned and vulnerable children. They face widespread poverty, often walk long distances to school and may have to work. HIV/AIDS has taken a heavy toll with many children heading households. Learning at Taonga Market was created to reach children in the communities where they live. However, rural areas are not electrified and the high cost of batteries makes listening to the programme unaffordable.

Activities
Even in deep rural areas, our radios enable students from Grades 1-7 to access Learning at Taonga Market on-demand. The radio programme reaches the poorest and most disadvantaged children - 35% of children enrolled are orphaned. 1 Prime radio can reach several classrooms, so it can benefit 100s of children, making your donation extremely cost effective. Importantly, teachers are all government trained, whereas a large percentage of teachers in other education programmes have no formal training

Potential Long Term Impact
A 2008 survey by the Zambian Ministry of Education showed that children who took part in the Learning at Taonga Market radio school programme performed better than conventional schools in reading, numeracy and life skills. Their overall performance was also considerably better. The Ministry of Education certifies the programme and when completed at Grade 7, students receive a certificate enabling them to enter the higher-level grades in government-run schools.

Project Message
The Learning at Taonga Market radio programme is a cost-effective way of providing children with a strong educational foundation for their future
- Kristine Pearson, CEO, Lifeline Energy

Project Sponsor: Lifeline Energy
Theme: Education | Location: Zambia
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,452
Project #9558 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Give 10 000 hot meals for childen in Bengal.

Dorota Kuriata — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:35:30 GMT

$6 — buy 30 hot meals for children
$35 — buy meals for whole village
$290 — build a water well

Summary
Our organization would help children who live in the Ganges river delta in India. Every year this region is haunted by the flood. That is why it is cut off from humanitarian aid. Our goal is to reach the islands on the Ganges river and to found 10 000 free hot meals for children.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Bengal is the most populated state in India and one of the most poor region as well. Because of floods and distant large cities it is very difficult to reach there. Those difficulties make the humanitarian aid is not suffice. The most threatened group, by starvation in Bengal are children. Volunteer Center in Darowo would send a group of volunteers on this December to Bengal. Those volunteers will have enough means to get there and for three months, prepare hot meals for most needed children.

Activities
Our volunteers provides nutrition, medicine, and health care to starving children in Bengal. In this mission will attend a doctor, a nurse and a cook, who will teach the inhabitants how to take care of health and cook meals from available products.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project is going to make inhabitants will feel need fight for better future. Our next step will be constructing a well, to prove that it is worth to operate for common good.

Project Message
Please help us to save starving children in Bengal.
- Dariusz Rusin, Project Leader

Project Sponsor: Darlowskie Centrum Wolontariatu
Theme: Children | Location: India
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£2,236
Project #8963 on GlobalGiving.co.uk

Purchase 4 Motorbikes for Women in Africa

Lyndsay Booth — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:32:52 GMT

$12 — Will help cover gas costs for a motorbike
$31 — Will help with maintenance costs for a motorbike
$63 — Will help cover major repairs for the motorbike

Summary
A primary method of transportation in our remote country offices where remote locations are difficult to access. Motorbikes are a necessity for our staff members to travel to the women in the field or transport goods to the market.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Our country offices are often in remote locations making it difficult for staff members to travel to our satellite offices and also making it difficult for the women in our programs to transport their goods to major market centers. Our offices are often in such remote locations, other NGO's do not work there. For example, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo most of our 19 satellite offices operate where there are no other NGO's.

Activities
Motorbikes will allow staff members to travel more quickly and easily to our satellite offices and will also allow the women in our program to quickly and easily transport their goods to major market centers, allowing them to earn a bigger income.

Potential Long Term Impact
The motorbikes will have two distinct effects. First, they will allow our staff members to have more interaction with the women in our programs allowing us to increase our capacity to serve women. Secondly, the motorbikes will allow women to visit major market centers to sell more goods, thereby earning a large income to help support their families and communities.

Project Message
"Motorbikes will help me reach the women in our programs more quickly so I can spend more time providing support and less time traveling."
- Lucienne, Skills Trainer

Project Sponsor: Women for Women International
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Funding to Date: £0 | Need:£6,395
Project #9528 on GlobalGiving.co.uk