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Build a school from recycled materials for 50 Maya
Guatemala
,
Education
,
Project Challenge 2008 participant.
This school will provide education beyond 8th grade to 50 Maya children in rural Guatemala. It will be built with recycled tires and liter soda bottles packed with trash collected by the community.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- 3 desks
$50
- concrete for the supporting walls
$175
- books for the library
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$21,400
- Will fully fund this project
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Trees and Education Protect Rainforest in Brazil
Brazil
,
Climate Change (GG Green)
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.
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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.
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$600
- Takes 30 community members for a full day environment education program.
$1,500
- Gives 20 community members a
$55,044
- Will fully fund this project
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Give Ergonomic Benches to 200 Guatemalan Weavers
Guatemala
,
Economic Development
This project provides 200 Guatemalan weavers an ergonomic bench and education to increase their income potential, while also preventing serious damage to their bodies and preserving weaving culture.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Helps educate one backstrap weaver to use the bench safely & to maximum benefit
$70
- Helps bring the ergonomic bench to one backstrap weaver
$2,500
- Helps provide a start-up kit & tech support for local carpenters to produce benches
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$10,000
- Helps produce an educational DVD in Spanish, and makes it ready for dubbing into indigenous languages
$35,785
- Will fully fund this project
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Help Guatemalan Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency
Guatemala
,
Microfinance
Guatemalan women and their families will receive loans, training, and support necessary to start small businesses and achieve long-term economic stability and self-sufficiency.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- 10 families can receive basic financial management training to run their businesses better
$50
- 10 families will be trained on livestock care and disease preventions
$100
- 10 families can receive 1000 baby chicks and training to start a chicken cooperative
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$18,465
- Will fully fund this project
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Safe drinking water for 10,000 children in Bolivia
Bolivia
,
Health
,
Everybody Can Win Challenge Participant
10,000 school kids in Bolivia will be trained on how to obtain safe drinking water by applying simple and affordable methods of water disinfection, such as Solar Water Disinfection.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$20
- Trains one teacher on how to provide safe drinking water at school
$50
- Provides educational materials for a class of 25 children
$100
- Provides safe drinking water for a class of 25 children
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$500
- Provides safe drinking water for an entire school
$1,500
- Provides safe drinking water for 500 school kids
$3,000
- Provides safe drinking water for 1,000 school kids
$15,000
- Provides safe drinking water for 5,000 school kids
$28,963
- Will fully fund this project
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Family Planning for Guatemalans Living in Poverty
Guatemala
,
Health
,
Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Provides poor, rural and indigenous Guatemalans with access to short and long-term family planning methods. Family planning allows couples to freely determine the number and spacing of their children.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$15
- pays for 1 man to receive a vasectomy
$50
- covers one year of Depo Provera injections for 4 women
$70
- pays for 2 women to receive Jadelle implants, which protect against pregnancy for up to 5 years
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$150
- covers the cost of voluntary tubal ligations for 10 women
$250
- provides a year's worth of protection from unwanted pregnancy for 95 couples
$9,624
- Will fully fund this project
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Scholarships for Outstanding Students in Argentina
Argentina
,
Education
,
Everybody Can Win Challenge Participant
VisionAR provides scholarships and mentorship to outstanding college students that demonstrate high academic performance, a commitment to succeed, and financial need.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$125
- 1 full scholarship (as above) for 1 student for 1 month
$375
- 1 full scholarship (as above) for 1 student for 1 quarter
$1,500
- 1 full scholarship (tuition, books, supplies, transportation) for 1 year at national university
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$3,532
- Will fully fund this project
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Partners In Health - Hurricane Recovery in Haiti
Haiti
,
Disaster Recovery
As part of its long-term commitment of providing comprehensive healthcare in Haiti, Partners In Health will support relief and recovery programs in communities affected by the hurricanes.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- can buy an essential supplies kit (flashlight, bottled water, bug spray)
$50
- can feed a family for a week
$500
- can provide mattresses for a family
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$5,000
- can build a home for a family in Haiti
$38,022
- Will fully fund this project
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$
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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.
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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.
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$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.
$59,850
- Will fully fund this project
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Help 500 Rural Haitian Families Fight Hunger
Haiti
,
Economic Development
"Feeding Families" is a sustainable farm project to help 500 families address hunger in Haiti through vegetable gardens, fruit tree plantings, and the breeding of goats, rabbits and chickens.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Provides seeds and watering can for a square foot garden
$20
- Buys a rooster and a hen for a family to start egg production
$25
- Plants two fruit trees for a family
$30
- Buys two rabbits, supplies and training for a family
$50
- Pays for a complete square foot garden with training
$100
- Buys a goat, supplies and training for a family
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$2,000
- Buys a complete nursery for raising fruit trees for on-going distribution
$64,788
- Will fully fund this project
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Hurricane Medical Relief in Cuba
Cuba
,
Health
In partnership with the World Health Organization, we will deliver medical equipment and supplies to Cuban hospitals gravely damaged by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- will provide 1 case of gloves or bandages
$75
- can supply a nebulizer to treat asthma and respiratory conditions.
$100
- will provide 5 refurbished blood pressure units.
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$500
- will replace hospital mattresses for a patient ward.
$1,200
- will provide an operating table.
$17,365
- Will fully fund this project
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Goats: Help Families Become Self-Sufficient
Haiti
,
Animals
The gift of a goat is a sustainable way to help a struggling family in Haiti. Goat milk is not only a source of nutrition but goat breeding can be a pathway out of poverty.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Buys a quarter-share of a goat
$50
- Buys a half share of a goat
$100
- Provides one goat
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$200
- Provides a pair of breeding goats
$548
- Will fully fund this project
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Combat Childhood Malnutrition in Haiti
Haiti
,
Health
,
Everybody Can Win Challenge Participant
Zanmi Lasante (Partners In Health) fights childhood malnutrition by producing Ready To Use Theraputic Foods, enrolling kids in a food supplement program, and providing nutritious school lunches.
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$49
- Provide a child with an entire school year's worth of daily lunches
$60
- Supplement a moderately malnourished child with Nourimil
$115
- Pay the monthly salary of an employee in Nourimanba/Nourimil production
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$125
- Treat a severely malnourished child with Nourimanba
$49,266
- Will fully fund this project
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School for Mayan Children, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Guatemala
,
Education
Our program is supplying funding for additional resources for the Peña Blanca primary school, including extra staffing to reduce class sizes and improve levels of education.
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$5
- 1 child to receive reduced class sizes for 1 year
$10
- 2 children to receive reduced class sizes for 1 year
$25
- Materials sponsorship for 1 child for 1 year
$50
- Materials sponsorship for 2 children for 1 year
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$150
- Materials sponsorship for 1 child throughout Primary School
$26,300
- Will fully fund this project
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Prevent Youth Involvement in Drug Trafficking
Brazil
,
Education
,
Everybody Can Win Challenge Participant
The project offers 50 young people alternative activities out of school hours to prevent their involvement with gang culture in the low income communities (favelas) of Rio de Janiero.
read updates from the field
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$30
- per month guarantees the participation of one child in the project on an ongoing basis - SPONSOR A CHILD!
$30
- as a one-time donation guarantees the participation of one child in the project for 1 month
$125
- provides healthy food for 25 children once a day for a month
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