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Brazil View country profile View funded projects view all  |   1   2   3  Trees and Education Protect Rainforest in Brazil Brazil, Environment Project educates farmers to restore Rainforest in Brazil with sustainable forest farming. They learn to preserve and recover the environment, water and wildlife, resulting in enhanced rural earnings. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $50 -  Takes 10 children to know the forest in an ecological guided visit tour. $50 - Buys 50 seedlings of Rainforest trees, palm trees or fruit trees. $100 - Makes possible to plant and care of 30 of those trees. show more $600 - Takes 30 community members for a full day environment education program. $1,500 - Gives 20 community members a "Three Days in the Forest" Immersion Course. $57,090 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   New - Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Poor Children in Brazil Brazil, Health Smile Train is dedicated to helping the hundreds of thousands of children in Brazil who suffer from unrepaired cleft lips & palates by providing free surgery. They will get a new smile, new hope. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $25 - Pays for sutures for one surgery $50 - Provides medication for one surgery $125 - Covers half the cost of one surgery show more $250 - Covers the cost of an entire surgery $150,000 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Music Brings Hope and Opportunity to Youth in Rio Brazil, Education The gift of music – through both learning and performance - transforms 180 youths’ lives in Rio’s poor communities, bringing happiness, a sense of worth and potential job and scholarship opportunities How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $25 - Price of new music stand (10 needed) $125 - Price of new violin (10 needed) more kids making music $500 - Price of new Cello (1 needed) show more $800 - Price of new computer & installation (3 needed) $2,850 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   New - Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil Brazil, Environment Irrigated vegetable gardens are provided for Brazilian rural families. As a result they have food, work and better habitat and environmental conditions. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $50 - Buys 1000 vegetable seedlings such as lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, etc. $100 - Buys 150 meters of water pipes for irrigation or nine 50 kg cement bags to pave reservoirs. $600 - Takes 30 community members for a full day environment education program. show more $1,500 - Gives to 20 community members a “Three Days in the Forest” Immersion Course. $2,000 - Donation of one organic and irrigated vegetable garden that can feed up to 5 families and provide surplus for the market. $2,000 - Donation of one tree nursery to produce tree seedlings for reforestation and to increase local income and jobs. $60,000 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Lunch for Children in Free NGO Day-Care Center Brazil, Education This NGO day-care center offers meals and diverse educational activities at no cost for 60 children. The center allows their extremely poor families to work and/or seek familial sustenance. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $326 - Provides food for 1 month for 60 children at day care while mothers scavenge for income. $350 - Provides an industrial stove, for many years' use, to cook food for 60 children. $562 - Provides a horizontal freezer to keep food for 60 children for many years' use. show more $3,172 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   After-School Program educates Rio’s excluded youth Brazil, Education Local professional teachers volunteer tutoring and encouragement to the individual and collective development of 50 children/youth living in a poor rural area severely lacking educational resources. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $25 - School materials for one month $30 - electric bill for one month $76 - Snacks for 100 children for one month $100 - annual hygiene supplies-incl. toothbrush (100 kids) show more $138 - Sports Teacher Monthly salary $373 - One Month's Coordinator salary $13,950 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Job Training and Internships for Favela Youth Brazil, Education Scholarships provide 20 Rio youths with long term training in performance art, circus, music and professionalism in order to provide an enjoyable but tangible income alternative to drug trafficking. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $28 - One monthly stipend for a youth in project and the hope of a promising future out of the drug trade $88 - 3 months of stipends $165 - 6 months of stipends show more $275 - One annual stipend for a youth in project and the hope of a promising future out of the drug trade $3,630 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Bringing Family Together Through Education Brazil, Health Help poor mothers with sick children currently undergoing hospitalization or treatment far from home. Help the mothers relocate to be near the children and to find jobs. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $50 - Enables one family member to generate income. $100 - Trains one family member for the job market. $1,000 - Improves housing conditions for family; enables income generation from the house. show more $23,044 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   A Lifeline for a Severely Disadvantaged Community Brazil, Education A community centre is needed to continue to provide vital services to an impoverished community of 4000, where many families and children live hand to mouth by combing the garbage heap and begging How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $10 - 1 bag of cement--850 bags of needed $13 - For one cubic meter of thick sand--50 cubic meters needed $13 - For one cubic meter Paving Stone $16 - For two cubic meters Fine Sand show more $116 - For one thousand bricks--11,000 bricks needed $4,845 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   An Alternative to Child Prostitution and Begging Brazil, Education Using art, music, dance and theatre to attract 178 children off the streets and the rubbish dump. Providing an alternative to child labor whilst also encouraging self-esteem and community education. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $11 - 1 costume - 20 needed $19 - for a makeup kit (20 needed) $52 - 2 months salary for dance educator $70 - 2 weeks salary for art educator show more $115 - various (didactic) educational materials $140 - 1 month salary for art educator $314 - 1 years salary for 1 dance educator $314 - 120 meters of fabric for show production $3,313 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Training Youths to keep them out of the Drug Trade Brazil, Education Working through a grassroots community centre in Borel, one of Rio’s most conflict-ridden favelas, to bring opportunities to 1300 youth through practical training and an alternative to the drugs trade How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $32 - Gas to bake for one month $185 - Teacher for bakery one monthly salary $210 - One month supply of Flour show more $5,843 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Creche Aids Families in Violent Rio Favela Brazil, Education Community-based preschool in Rio’s most dangerous favela that suffers from 20 years of rival drug trafficking wars aids working families & delivers targeted early childhood education to 45 toddlers. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $25 - Food for one toddler for semester $188 - One teacher's salary for creche for one month $565 - One teacher's salary for creche for 3 months show more $2,817 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Music & Education Program for Disadvantaged Youths Brazil, Education In NE Brazil an influx of tourism and development has led to exploitation, child prostitution and a drug culture. The program aims to return the region’s rich musical culture to its marginalized youth How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $100 - Provides reeds and stands for sheet music. $200 - Repairs various old instruments. $200 - Buys drums or other percussion instruments. show more $300 - Buys three trumpets. $300 - Buy two new alto saxophones. $400 - Builds a storage room for the instruments. $1,500 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   100 Needy Kids off the Street and Productive Brazil, Education The project gives 100 kids opportunities for learning, outlets for creativity & expression & physical exercise promoting peaceful community development and steering youth away from violence How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $115 - 5% of the price for the projector to entertain youth and an entire community $230 - 10% of the price for the projector to entertain youth and an entire community $575 - 1/4 of the price for the projector to entertain youth and an entire community show more $870 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Cultural Heritage Preservation Saves Kids Lives Brazil, Education Bringing alternatives through the performance arts, education & work programs to those children faced by the harshest of conditions, where child labor, prostitution and the drugs trade are rife. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $70 - 1 months salary for 1 educator $210 - 3 months salary for 1 educator $625 - 3 months salary for 3 educators show more $2,600 - One projector to show educational and recreational films for entire community and youth. $4,030 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Alternatives to Youth Drug Traffic Involvement Brazil, Education The project offers to 40 young people alternative activities after school in order to prevent their involvement with gang culture very common phenomena in low income communities (favelas) of Rio. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $20 - Provides equipment and radio training for a young person a month