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Computers Educate Orphans and Empower Women

Women and Girls

Computers and Internet access will enrich learning for AIDS orphans, open jobs for rural women and widows, improve AIDS education and support regional economic development. A self-sustaining project.

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	$35 - Provides food, basic medical care, water, electricity, clothing, and school fees.
	$420 - Provides a year of school for one Great Aubrey graduate who has no other resources.
	$500 - Provides one computer for use by Great Aubrey students, allowing gradual progress toward goal.
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Mobile HIV Testing and Counseling Outreach Teams

Health

This project would increase the number of HIV testing and counseling outreach teams for the communities around the AIDS vaccine study sites in Entebbe, Uganda.

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	$12 - Provides HIV testing and counseling for 3 people.
	$185 - Pays for 1 outing of a mobile unit serving 50 people.
	$750 - Pays for 1 month of VCT services for more than 200 people.
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New - Support HIV Prevention Tools for Women in Africa

Health

Women bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, where their increased biological & social vulnerability fuels the epidemic. A vaccine would be among the most powerful health & equity tools ever.

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	$20 - Pays for a 1 piece of small equipment (ex: stethoscope/blood pressure machine) for a field clinic
	$138 - Pays for 1 box of 100 HIV Rapid Test Kits
	$500 - Contributes to the salary for an AIDS vaccine researcher
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Providing land and housing to 100 women in Uganda

Women and Girls

This project provides 100 divorced women with land and housing. The women will speak out on the need to provide land and housing to divorced women in a country where family property belongs to men.

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	$10 - Provides 2 mosquito nets to a family
	$200 - Purchases 1 acre of land for a family
	$500 - Develops a protected spring to provide clean water to 10 families
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Engaging Ugandan AIDS Widows in Business

Economic Development

Trickle Up helps the lowest income widows in Uganda take the first steps out of poverty by providing business training, conditional seed money and support services to start or expand a small business.

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	$10 - Provides the support our local grassroots partner agencies need to assist a Trickle Up entrepreneur.
	$40 - Enables a Ugandan widow to learn new business skills essential to the launch of her enterprise.
	$100 - Provides the seed capital necessary for a Ugandan widow to start a business and support her family.
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Empowering Women to Fight Malnutrition

Health

IMC is working with 10 women's groups in northern Uganda to teach women to feed their families and to produce a surplus of a world-recognized nutritional supplement, which they can sell to NGOs.

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	$10 - Can train one woman to produce therapeutic food and sell it.
	$50 - Can buy one carton of therapeutic food for children (IMC supplies food before production begins).
	$120 - Can train three local health workers to run a therapeutic feeding program.
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Information Technology for Uganda Medical Students

Technology

Enrich medical education by providing students with virtual libraries of information on handheld computers to complement current training and for field use upon graduation.

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	$19 - Adds storage capacity with an expansion card acquired at preferential rate from corporate donor.
	$20 - Enhances a PDA with electronic medical dictionary acquired at preferential rate from corporate donor.
	$325 - Covers cost of shipping a 100-pound box filled with PDAs, accessories, and software to Uganda.
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Offering Sporting to 720 Children in IDP camps

Education

This project uses sport as a medium to disseminate HIV/AIDS, Health and Education awareness to children & communities they live in. The project has reached over 25,000 children.

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	$100 - Cater 1 child for 7 wks of the sporting season with footballs & uniforms
	$10,149 - Cater 1 team-season 16 children footballs & uniforms
	$69,933 - Will fully fund this project
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