Africa

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Women for Women started off 2008 with 60 Minutes featuring our program in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the segment, Anderson Cooper shows women who have suffered from rape in the DRC.

How You Can Help:

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	$50 - Teaches 5 Women about proper health education
	$100 - Gives 15 Women an opportunity to get a physicians check up
	$250 - Allows 30 Women the chance to obtain medicine and basic health education skills to remain healthy
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	$ Other amount

Empowering Women to Fight Malnutrition

Uganda,

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.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$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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	$ Other amount

Rights for Moroccan Girls to Practice Sport

Morocco,

Women and Girls

-Empower 100 girls from the rural country to practice sport -Train them daily and organize tournaments. -The project will demonstrate the positive impact of gender in sport for social change

How You Can Help:

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	$25 - For sport shoes for 1 girl (in total 100 girls)
	$50 - For sport equipment for 1 girl (in total 100 girls)
	$200 - Adopting a girls running team (training costs) for 5 teams in total
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	$ Other amount

Free Surgery for 50 Burned Children in Zambia

Zambia,

Health

Interplast helps disabled Zambian children who suffer with severe burn injuries from kerosene lamps, kitchen fires, or acid-throwing. Free evaluations and surgery will restore mobility and hope.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$40 - Funds quality review for 25 children's burn surgeries.
	$300 - Changes one disabled child's life forever through reconstructive surgery for burn injuries.
	$750 - Buys important burn-care equipment, such as a dermatome, to help 50 children this year, and hundreds more for years to come.
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Communities in East Africa respond to HIV/AIDS

Kenya,

Health

Local groups in Kenya and Tanzania working with World Neighbors address prevention, screening, nutrition and antiretroviral therapy, in addition to the social stigma, livelihood strategies and orphans

How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Transportation and food to go to a voluntary testing facility
	$20 - Seeds and irrigation tubing for a kitchen garden
	$100 - School fees for one orphaned child
	$100 - Health education materials for one community group
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Water-Saving Agriculture and IT for Ghanaian Youth

Ghana,

Economic Development

The Growing Connection trains youth with water-saving innovations to grow nutritious produce, for their family & for market, & connects them via Internet to info, advice, opportunity & peers globally.

How You Can Help:

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	$50 - trains a teacher in water-efficient vegetable production
	$250 - trains and equips 20 students for innovative horticulture
	$500 - training and access for a school to the Internet for a year
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Ensure Healthcare for 40,000+ Displaced Darfurians

Sudan,

Health

Relief International's health clinic in the Zam Zam refugee camp in North Darfur trains indigenous doctors, midwives, and community health workers to provide services to more than 50,000.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$15 - Provides essential medicines for 100 displaced people living in the Zam Zam Camp
	$25 - Trains 2 Traditional Birthing Attendants (includes 3 training sessions and training materials)
	$50 - Provides life-saving health services to 100 conflict-affected people in Darfur
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Healthcare for 350,000 in Troubled Eastern DRC

Congo, Democratic Republic of the,

Health

Providing people in remote regions with basic healthcare and help for those assaulted, abused, and left homeless by ongoing insecurity. IMC focuses on women and children, who are suffering the most.

How You Can Help:

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	$21 - Can give 7 families mosquito nets to prevent deadly malaria. Prevent for $3 what costs $15 to treat.
	$50 - Can provide a community with one month of health education about preventable diseases.
	$100 - Can protect pregnant women and their infants with emergency obstetric care at one clinic for two months.
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Support Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Tanzania

Tanzania,

Economic Development

Support TechnoServe's work to make Tanzanian coffee competitive on global markets, benefiting small-scale farmers, their families and rural coffee-growing communities

How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$50 - Provides entrepreneurship and coffee quality improvement training for one farmer
	$125 - Generates enough revenue to provide 25 children health care for one year
	$500 - Generates enough revenue to provide 80 children health care for one year
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