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Ashoka Innovators for the Public More info about Ashoka Innovators for the Public view all  |   1   2   3   4   5   6  Equipping poor families with HIV/AIDS life skills Kenya, Health We will provide home-based care to 250 rural families infected and affected by HIV, offer mobile VCT, provide orphans with economic and educational options to enable them increase their life options. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $10 - Provide school uniform for an orphan $20 - Purchase text books for 3 orphans $30 - Acquire a bag of fertilizer $40 - Agribusiness training for a grandmother for 1 week $50 - Purchase 3 sheep for grandmothers’ group $100 - Provide food basket for 2 grandmothers for two months show more $500 - Cultivate a community farm that will provide food to 10 families $1,000 - Hold a preventive, outreach campaign reaching 3,000 people $35,772 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Uplifting Teen Mothers in Kenya Kenya, Health The project seeks to identify,rehabilitate and empower 200 teen mothers to enable them access economic and educational opportunities through training and skills-building How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $40 - Offer a rehabilitation course for a teen mum for one week $50 - Offer remedial classes for a teen mum wishing to resume classes $70 - Provide emergency, basic necessities for a teen mum for a month $100 - Provide a short-term loan to a teen mum to start a business show more $200 - Facilitate training for 5 teen mums on business management $500 - Organize a marketing exhibition to benefit 20 businesses $1,000 - Provide life-skills training to 15 teen mums $5,000 - Establish & sustain a Marketing Product Bank to benefit 20 businesses $20,335 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   New - Toilets for 100 rural families India, Health Ecological toilets for 100 rural families for Musiri village at bank of River Cauvery, Southern India to improve health, reduce environmental pollution & generate fertilizers for agriculture How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $14 - Monthly contribution can provide 2 household toilets $40 - Two contributions can provide 1 household toilet $80 - 1 household toilet show more $8,000 - 100 Household Toilets $9,160 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Breaking the cycle of gender violence Kenya, Human Rights The project equips local leaders with adequate information to enable them collaborate with marginalized peasant women in opening up discussion on gender violence and offering abused women safe haven. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $90 - Provide a battered woman with basic medical care for a month. $100 - Offer counseling and psychological healing for 20 abused women $300 - Secure legal services for battered woman seeking justice in court show more $500 - Enable victim to launch & sustain business away from perpetrator $1,000 - Conduct training for 10 volunteer women wishing to be paralegals $3,000 - Empower 20 grassroots leaders with violence prevention skills $5,200 - Sustain safe haven for gender violence victims for 5 months. $10,000 - Develop prevention curriculum to reach 20,000 youth in school $40,960 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   New - MARINE DESERTS ON THE COAST OF KENYA Kenya, Environment This project provides Kenyan fishermen with new methods to improve fishing, consequently, conserving the marine environment. Our artificial reef will help with overfishing which is a major problem. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $50 - will feed 5 fishing families $150 - will train 8 fishermen in marine conservation $500 - will supply materials for 1 section of reef show more $1,000 - will fully support 10 fishermen $15,000 - will provide boat for construction of reef $25,000 - will provide floating devices/diving equipment $61,980 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Training Education for 400 Nepali Women & Children Nepal, 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 How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $10 - Will buy school supplies a child for a month. $100 - Will support a rural mountain woman for Trekking guide training with food $500 - A child will go school for a year, with full boarding facilities. show more $2,500 - 35 women will benefit from trekking guide training including food and accomodation for a month. $51,915 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Reforestation with Masai Communities in Kenya Kenya, Environment This project promotes community development, environmental conservation and wealth creation around the process of growing trees for charcoal as an alternative source of energy for 3800 Masai. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $50 - will provide 1000 seedlings for participating farmers $150 - will train 10 local farmers in agroforestry/conservation $500 - will plant out 1 acre of trees in the community show more $1,000 - provides irrigation equipment for farmers $5,000 - will set up a tree nursery (including water) for community $27,000 - will dig a man-made lake and provide access to water for 1000 people $73,965 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Reverse Deserts Through Community Transformation Kenya, Environment Rural Kenya and many urban dwellers rely on charcoal and firewood for energy, which is destroying Kenya's forests. We provide fast-growing trees as alternative sources of fuel and food for livestock. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $10 - Funds 140 trees for charcoal and re-forestation. $100 - 1 African household is self-sufficient in energy. $920 - Will fully fund this project $ Other amount   Capacity Building: Urban Farming and Gardening South Africa, Human Rights Individuals and teachers in poor communities are trained and supported to tackle hunger and environmental degradation by growing and replicating organic vegetable and indigenous teaching gardens. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $20 - Plants one tree in a disadvantaged township, and includes training and follow-up. $42 - Establishes one new township vegetable garden, and includes training, resources and follow-up. $82 - Trains one teacher in a disadvantaged school to use the outdoor classroom. show more $187 - Gives one learner full environmental community-theater training. $57,012 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Be! - inspiring girls to become entrepreneurs India, Education BE! is a multimedia movement to inspire millions of girls in India to choose to become entrepreneurs, to solve the social, economic & environmental problems they face in their lives. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $50 - 25 Be! books, printed, and sent to children in Government Schools $4,000 -  workshop to map the entrepreneurial skills of girls in one rural location: 40 girls $9,000 - For one radio program (15 minutes) show more $75,000 - For one radio program (15 minutes)For 150,000 books - print run of 3,000 copies of 50 storybooks @ $2 per book $113,845 - 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   The 50 Brides of Prajwala: Shattered Dreams Reborn India, 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. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $50 - Provides bride's saree and groom's dress. $100 - Provides the Magalsutra (the sacred gold chain for the bride). $300 - Funds an entire wedding ceremony show more $500 - Funds an entire wedding ceremony and provides household supplies for couple. $5,711 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   New - Defend Burundian Women & Children from Legal Abuse Burundi, Human Rights If you were suspected of a crime, would you be treated fairly? In Burundi... the likely answer is no. This project gives 80 women and child detainees a trained defense lawyer and their day in court. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $25 - Help IBJ defenders file legal paperwork for a woman or child lost in the legal system. $40 - Help IBJ defenders investigate the case of one woman or child lost in the legal system. $125 - Provide comprehensive legal counsel for a woman or child detained in Bujumbura. show more $250 - Provide comprehensive legal counsel for a woman or child detained in rural areas. $800 - Provide training and office space for an IBJ defender set up shop in a rural area. $9,200 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Educate 200 War & HIV/AIDS-Orphaned Ugandan Girl Uganda, Education This project will provide education, lunch, school materials and school uniforms to orphaned girls. Couselling support, nutrition and basic health care will be offered to rehabilitate these children. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $15 - Will enable one(1) child have lunch at school for three months $18 - One (1) child will have scholastic materials ( exercise books, bag, mathematical set, pens) for one year $20 - One(1) child is able to access individual and group counseling services for one year $20 - Will prevent and treat one(1) child from malaria and other killer diseases $30 - Buys two school uniforms for One (1) child for one year $50 - Provides vocational training materials for one(1) child for two years show more $120 - Will provide sixty(60) nutritious meals to twenty(20) children for one month $150 - Will provide a vocational start up kit for one(1) child for life $36,557 - Will fully fund this project show less $ Other amount   Help Rural Indian Women Save for Education India, Education By providing financial literacy courses to women of Maharastra and Karnataka, Mann Deshi empowers women to save money and pay for their children’s education. Women can buy books and pay school fees. How You Can Help:  Make a one-time monthly recurring donation $25 - Buy 5 children schoolbags $50 - Provide 20 women course supports $150 - Pay 3 children one year school show more $250 - Provide 100 women course supports $39,197 - Will fully fund this project