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Computer skills for 100 Sri Lankan students
Sri Lanka
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Education
Lessons in computer programming and English fluency were previously unavailable to schoolchildren in rural Mahavilachchiya. Training gives them the opportunity to bring their families out of poverty.
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Going to School in India - Mini-Books for Children
India
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Education
"Going to School" (GTS) is a multimedia project for children that celebrates what school can be. The project provides a series of 10 mini-books in regional Indian languages and also inspiring movies.
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Half the Sky Children's Earthquake Relief Fund
China
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Health
The Fund provides emergency shelter, food, and medical care for children orphaned or separated from their families, also temporary or long-term foster care or, if needed, temporary institutional care.
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Street Children Back to School
Indonesia
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Education
This education program provide opportunity for fifty street children boys and girls who lived in Jakarta to back getting formal education
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Group Homes for Armenian Orphans with Disabilities
Armenia
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Human Rights
Our project provides long-term care to Armenian orphans with disabilities over the age of 18 with no place to call home. We offer them an alternative to the Soviet psychiatric institutions.
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Reconstructing earthquake-damaged schools in China
China
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Education
This project re-constructs 2 earthquake-damaged schools and other facilities for 104 school children in Yunnan, China.
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Non Formal Education for Tribal Children in India
India
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Education
Non Formal Education Centres provide children in remote tribal areas with access to quality education, in an interactive and joyful environment. Children are enabled to join mainstream schools.
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Practice Lessons for 7 Disabled Kids
Indonesia
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Education
Help 7 disabled children who have physical handicaps, such as autism, blindness and hyperactivity. The lessons that we provide are: swimming, singing, drawing, playing, and lunches together.
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Provide computers for high-risk children in India
India
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Education
We teach children of women trafficked for sex computer skills through our institutes and find them jobs through partner organizations to prevent them from also being trafficked and contracting AIDS.
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New
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Prosperity Packages for Rural Bangladeshi Farmers
Bangladesh
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Economic Development
This project will impact 300 $1-$2 a day farmers. IDE will use over 25 years of experience to provide farmers with tools necessary to move from subsistence farming to commercial farming.
Give Life to 100 Indian Orphans and Needy Children
India
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Education
60 children up to 5th grade attend Dazzling Stone School and the other 40 older children study in outside schools. Children receive free accommodation, clothes and education.
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Training and Maintenance of Solar Clinics in Burma
Myanmar
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Health
This project will train medics and provide equipment maintenance for solar powered clinics that serve hundreds of thousands of people in rural Burma (Myanmar).
Immunization for Tribal Children and Young Mothers
India
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Health
Seva Mandir organizes camps to provide Immunization in remote areas not serviced by State Health Facilities. The Immunization covers 6 key diseases.
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Help blind children in Inner Mongolia, China
China
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Health
This project restores sight to 3,000 children and 5,000 adults at risk of losing sight in one or both eyes, fully trains 600 medical professionals and establish a pediatric eye care centre in Baotou.
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Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India
India
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Health
In order to rebuild the livelihoods of surviving victims and protect children, we provide boats and fishing nets to fishermen; shelter for villagers, especially orphans, and medical/ school supplies.
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Renovate Three Elementary Schools in Laos
Laos
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Education
Ban Phao School is in need of urgent attention with some classrooms little more than an open hut. This project will bring about the renovation of Ban Phao and two other similar schools.
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Training Education for 400 Nepali Women & Children
Nepal
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Economic Development
We provide practical skill-based training and a paid apprenticeship program to involve women in the country's most wanted economic resources. 400 Nepalese women from 33 districts benefitted so far
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Myanmar: Stop Second Wave of Deaths by Hunger
Myanmar
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Health
The World Food Program (WFP) is delivering 8,500 tons of food to victims of the devastating cyclone. Help WFP to feed 750,000 people still in need of immediate food assistance in the next 6 months.
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Learning Center for Cogreg Village Children
Indonesia
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Education
This project helps 70 children (from the poorest families) who were threatened with dropping out of school and provides a learning center, scholarship, school equipment, village library and playground
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Quality education for rural China
China
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Education
Support rural teachers to develop new curriculum and teaching approaches that foster students' well-rounded development and ability to contribute to their rural communities.
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Tibetan Natural Birth and Health Training Center
China
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Health
The center will provide safe, affordable, linguistically & culturally appropriate health services & health education and will serve as a training facility for community midwives & health educators.
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Self Sufficiency Store for Prostitution Prevention
Thailand
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Education
The store will sell clothing and other goods to poor migrant families in the community. DEPDC vocational students will operate the store and sell their own products.
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10,000 Disabled Persons on the go..wow!
Philippines
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Health
500 trained volunteers in 20 of the poorest municipalities provide 10,000 handicapped persons with basic rehabilitation services to make them optimally self-reliant.
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Water & Toilet Loans in Indian Villages
India
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Health
Berhampur and Aska, face a clean water & sanitation crisis. Project assists families in obtaining individual loans to build their own water tap and latrine in their home.
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Improve Children's Health and Development
India
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Education
Provide child care, education, and improved health and sanitation for boys and girls in India. Educate girls about their rights.
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Rescuing Young Girls From Bonded Labor in Nepal
Nepal
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Women and Girls
Educating and enabling families to keep their young daughters at home, having the girls attend school, while affording the families' sustainable ways for the successful eradication of this practice.
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Towards New Life for 5000 Filipino Sex Survivors
Philippines
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Human Rights
Through 6 "Belen Drop in Centers," 3 "Nazareth Growth Homes," and 2 "Bethany Transition Homes," survivors of incest, rape and the sex trade are ministered to for healing, leading to a new life.
The 50 Brides of Prajwala: Shattered Dreams Reborn
India
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Human Rights
Child victims of sex trafficking and exploitation will get a safe home, with a holistic program for healing. The home is a haven for these children, most of whom are HIV-positive.
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Development Program for 2000 Youths in Thailand
Thailand
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Education
Provide training to 146 volunteers who meet weekly with the children and youths for 3-hour activities, so they mature socially, intellectually, spiritually and physically, to serve their communities.
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Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security in Nepal
Nepal
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Economic Development
Strengthen food security by promoting sustainable agriculture practices among women farmers. Improve the economic position of shareholders through income generation projects.
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Restoring 10 sacred groves in Rajasthan
India
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Environment
Using water conservation techniques and tree and grass planting we revive these forests and restore the sacred groves. This secures the livelihoods of the 8000 people who depend on the groves.
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Easing Womens Burden Through Water Security
India
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Environment
Increase the availability of drinking water and irrigation for crops, reduce incidence of water borne diseases, and ease everyday drudgery on women by promoting traditional water harvesting structures
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Sending Children to School in Remote Villages
Nepal
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Education
Provide an education to the first generation of children in remote areas of Nepal. These disadvantaged children would remain illiterate, and continue their life of poverty without any hope of change.
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Develop Women Savings & Credit Cooperative, Nepal
Nepal
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Economic Development
Strengthen womens cooperative, increase management capacity of the members, and improve the economic position of shareholders via income generation projects and sustainable agriculture practices
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Tree Cultivation to lessen impact Global Warming
Indonesia
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Environment
This project will cultivate a forest of 1500 trees that has been destroyed in Bogor, province West Java to lessen the impact generated by global warming.
Ensure Food Security for 300 Families, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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Economic Development
Poor people have limited capacity to recover from crises. This project will encourage savings, provide credit, adopt sustainable agriculture and diversify risks using multicropping and aquaculture.
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Life Skills for Women affected by Java Earthquake
Indonesia
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Education
This project will empower 50 mothers and 50 children of earthquake victims in Bantul Yogyakarta by giving them life skills and capital assistance.
Saving 200 Runaway Girls from Prostitution
India
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Women and Girls
Runaway girls who arrive at Mumbai Central station are at high risk from prostitution and domestic slavery. The project provides care, counselling, repatriation and education for 200 runaway girls.
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Aid for Myanmar cyclone victims
Myanmar
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Health
IDE is distributing water storage and treatment, shelter materials, and cash support for food to cyclone victims. Half the funds will be for immediate relief, and half will be reserved for rebuilding.
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Train Women To Be Self-Sufficient in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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Economic Development
Promote the access of rural women to resources, services and security by providing them with the skills and tools to become self-sufficient and generate a better livelihood for their families.
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Protect Vital Rainforest in Australia for Climate
Australia
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Environment
Purchase, protect, and replant 100 acres in one of the worlds oldest and most diverse tropical rainforests, which contains rare and threatened flora and fauna.
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One Trained Doctor Saves 250 AIDS Patients
Vietnam
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Health
Healthcare workers in developing countries will get coached by Western physicians to improve their clinical skills in caring for HIV/AIDS patients, thereby saving lives.
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Ecological Restoration in Tribal Villages of India
India
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Economic Development
Enable the tribal people of the Udaipur Region to protect and manage natural resources through activities like tree planting, soil and water conservation, and agricultural improvement.
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Access to traditional healthcare for the poor
Laos
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Health
For the poor in rural Laos, healthcare is impossible to afford. This project seeks to improve rural health using traditional medicine as an avenue to educate and emphasize preventative treatments.
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Reconstruct a School in China Post-Earthquake
China
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Education
This project will rebuild Chujiang School, severely damaged by the earthquake that hit Sichuan China May 12th 2008. It will be a permanent school for 1200 students now in temporary schools and tents.
Provide Microfinance to Disadvantaged Laos Farmers
Laos
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Economic Development
Empowering men and women through agricultural development, help us transform 24,725 acres of unused village land into a source of sustainable income for poor farmers in rural Laos.
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Bring Safe Drinking Water to Bangladeshi Children
Bangladesh
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Health
Imagine discovering the water your child drinks contains arsenic. This is what the community of Billi discovered. Help Billi build and maintain a water system and save their childrens lives.
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Livelihood for 500 Tribal Women in Gujarat
India
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Economic Development
This project enables livelihood for women in rural Gujarat through Sakhi Sangathan, a women's collective, which grows, buys and sells its own farm produce at profit in a male dominated market.
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Empower Women to Seek New Opportunities in India
India
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Economic Development
Self-help groups in India provide women space to participate in training, avail new ideas, and develop self-confidence, self-esteem, & solidarity. Access to credit helps them start income generation.
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Help women regenerate degraded natural resources
India
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Environment
Organize poor rural women into self-help groups that provide small loans and training on sustainable agriculture and conservation, improving the natural environment and creating stable food sources.
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Build Life Skills in 200 Young Women, Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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Education
Develop positive self-esteem and confidence in 200 young women (between the ages of 12 and 19) by enhancing their livelihood security through socio-economic empowerment.
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GlobalGiving - China Recovery and Rebuilding Fund
China
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Health
Support long-term rebuilding and recovery efforts in Sichuan. In the aftermath of the disaster, GlobalGiving will work with organizations who are identifying solutions based on local needs.
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Pakistan Earthquake Medical Relief Clinics
Pakistan
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Health
CDRS works in Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot where health facilities were destroyed. We also provide health education events for kids and work with local govt to re-establish a permanent healthcare system
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Training 150 Community Video Producers in india
India
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Democracy and Governance
The project creates a media network for the poor to accelerate social change by creating teams of Producers who create monthly Video Programs that are screened to local communities and globally.
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Help 5000 Poor Village Women avoid exploitation.
India
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Women and Girls
Untouchable women, poor & voiceless, face caste-based sexual abuse & domestic violence.The project enables women in 100 villages develop economic independence & raise their voice against injustice.
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Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Poor Children in India
India
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Health
The Smile Train is dedicated to helping the millions of children in India who suffer from unrepaired cleft lips & palates by providing free surgery, giving them a new smile, new hope, & new beginning.
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Build a preschool for 150 children in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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Education
This project will provide 150 Afghan children with a safe school and quality pre school education. This new school will enhance the economy by enabling parents in the neighborhood to work.
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Help 1000 farmers start a community business
India
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Economic Development
The creation of a cooperative dal (lentil) processing business to be owned by local farmers. This market-based intervention stands to improve incomes 50+% for over 1,000 tribal families.
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Reduce Poverty for Indigenous Rat Catchers
India
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Technology
3 million indigenous rat-catching tribals in India suffer from poverty through use of an inefficient and hazardous traditional rat-catching method. New technology/plan is safer and more profitable.
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Fellowship Programme for Tribal Community in India
India
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Democracy and Governance
The community-leaders are helping create societies where the poor participate to foster their own development. The Fellowship recognizes their contributions & provides necessary support for their work
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Providing education for 100 children in Armenia
Armenia
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Education
This program provides 100 working children with basic education by including them in the special training in Mkhitar Sebastaci Educational Complex in Yerevan.
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Tsunami Recovery in Five Coastal Villages, India
India
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Health
Providing post-tsunami help to 250 villagers, 20 urban families and 25 girl students for livelihoods recovery, home reconstruction, medical care and school enrollment in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India
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Providing 500 infected kids with smile in Armenia
Armenia
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Health
Our project provides 500 infected children with smile and hope for leading a healthy life by means of "therapeutic" clowns in one of the infectious hospitals in Yerevan.
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Save the Children Empowering Girls in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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Women and Girls
This project creates safe environments for girls living in poverty in Bangladesh to develop the skills and receive support to stay in school, learn how to remain healthy and develop life skills.
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Earthquake Response for China's Rural Communities
China
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Human Rights
ActionAid is taking supplies to small, rural earthquake-stricken communities to meet their immediate needs. These small communities were overlooked by city-centered response efforts.
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Increase safety and incomes for Nepal climbers
Nepal
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Economic Development
At our climbing school, Nepali students are taught mountain safety, English, technical mountain climbing skills, and emergency medicine. The outcome is safer expeditions and higher wages for guides.
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A Clean Solar Alternative to Kerosene Lamps, Nepal
Nepal
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Economic Development
This project aims to replace kerosene lamps with solar-based household lighting (known as Solar Tuki) through an integrated approach of community mobilization and technological intervention.
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