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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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Save Children and Youth Through Sports in Brazil
Brazil
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Health
Through the project, we rescue children and teenagers from the grip of drugs and marginalization, improving their nutritional and health conditions, involving them in society.
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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Help 800 Kenyan Children with Disabilities
Kenya
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Human Rights
This project aims to improve the quality of life of 800 children with disabilities living in the slums of Nairobi by improving their physical activity level and by promoting an inclusive society.
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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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Funding 15 'service' scholarships in Belize
Belize
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Education
Fifteen secondary students in Belize's poorest districts will earn multiple-year scholarships in exchange for serving his/her local community. They'll develop professional skills and service values.
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Making footballs that can save lives in Africa
Kenya
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Education
80 stitchers are making tough, repairable leather soccer balls & volleyballs in Africa for kids who hardly get to see a proper ball. Each ball carries a simple HIV/AIDS or Malaria awareness message.
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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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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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Train 3000 Kibera youth in sport & life skills
Kenya
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Education
Educate and provide job placement and networking support in lifeskills, sports, healthcare and environmental leadership to 3000 young athletes, girls, disabled, coaches and volunteers in Kibera slums.
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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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Provide Kibera Slum Children with 1500 Solar Lamps
Kenya
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Education
Providing a first reading and lighting experience for children in Kibera through the provision of 1500 solar lamps and establisment of a resource centre
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Improving Lives of Youth with Disabilities, Kenya
Kenya
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Human Rights
Best Buddies brings social opportunities to people with intellectual disabilities and strives to reduce their barriers to full participation with in their community; creating a more inclusive society.
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The African Child Sport & Education Fund Needs You
Kenya
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Education
Sports training, support, education and welfare of 15 talented but needy children and youth in East Africa at Sadili Oval, enabling them to become responsible citizens of the global community.
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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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Scholars Latino Initiative Scholarships
United States
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Education
This fund provides college scholarships for Latino students who have completed SLI’s intensive three-year program and are accepted to college but lack sufficient funds to matriculate.
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Valuable Girl Project: Empower 1000 Girls in Egypt
Egypt
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Women and Girls
This educational mentoring program empowers 1,000 at-risk girls in Egypt by creating and providing role models, increasing self-esteem, leadership skills, creativity, and educational attainment.
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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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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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A Library for 1,500 Students in Mprumem, Ghana
Ghana
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Education
The project will build a library in Mprumem for 1,500 primary and middle school students to also benefit students from three other villages, including Simbrofol, Otsow-Jukwa, and Onyadze.
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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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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).
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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Gender-Based Violence Counseling in Schools
Ghana
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Women and Girls
Responds to the prevalence of sexual, physical, and other abuses in schools and the growing needs of victims. Provides counseling and support services, training of school counselors and outreach.
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Library for 5000 Moroccan Berbers
Morocco
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Education
This project provides four remote Moroccan villages a library through the restoration of an historic building. Literacy & knowledge are increased through cultural preservation.
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Baby Supplies for 60 families in The Bronx
United States
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Education
This project provides clothing, gear and products for infants and young children, coupled with family budgeting classes, to needy families enrolled in early education programs in the Bronx.
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Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims, 2008-9
Israel
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Education
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Buy Gifts for Good
Bringing together neighboring school communities of Jews & Muslims, first time in their lives, for on-going deep and positive interaction. Citizens are empowered to actively shape their society.
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Educational Support for 1,200 Girls in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
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Women and Girls
This program will provide educational opportunities through four years of high school for Ethiopian girls who otherwise would not have the opportunity to complete school.
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Solar Electric Systems for 10 Low-Income Families
United States
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Environment
This volunteer-based program helps make it affordable for low-income families to install solar energy systems on their homes, reducing energy costs and having a positive impact on the environment.
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Income Generation for 5,000 Poor Ethiopian Women
Ethiopia
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Women and Girls
The project will select 5,000 poor women from three regions of Ethiopia; provide them skills and basic enterprise-management training, a start-up fund and technical assistance for self-reliance.
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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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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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Israeli-Palestinian Interfaith Encounter of 80
Israel
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Education
An intensive weekend retreat, with 80 people, creates the space for positive first interaction with 'the other' and consolidates a joint community that then starts regular monthly encounters.
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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 world’s oldest and most diverse tropical rainforests, which contains rare and threatened flora and fauna.
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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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Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
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Education
The project buys lambs & school materials for girls’ first year of school; and requires parents to raise, sell & purchase lambs to pay for their daughters’ remaining primary & middle school needs.
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Life-Saving Food Assistance to Haiti in Crisis
Haiti
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Health
The World Food Program expanded food assistance, particularly to pregnant women and children, to assist the people of Haiti, who have been particularly susceptible to the skyrocketing price of food.
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Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
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Education
The project supports the education of village girls whose parents are too poor to educate them. There is a need to provide a noon meal for girls who walk 6 kilometers to and from school.
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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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Rural Family Nutrition Initiative in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
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Economic Development
The project will enhance the nutrition and household security of 300 at risk families in rural Zimbabwe by providing home nutritional garden drip irrigation kits and agriculture training
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End Infant and Child Malnutrition in Guatemala
Guatemala
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Health
The World Food Program (WFP) works alongside the Guatemalan government to provide food to rural areas where almost half of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition.
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Empowering Girls in Kibera
Kenya
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Women and Girls
This project provides a safe space and advocacy platform for adolescent girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya to fight gender-based violence and discrimination.
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Help Feed Thousands of Refugees in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
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Health
Support the United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP) in its life-saving work to provide basic food assistance to Sudanese, Somali, and Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia.
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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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Clean Drinking Water for Five Moroccan Villages
Morocco
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Health
This project is bringing safe drinking water and improved sanitation to over 1,600 people in five of Morocco's most remote rural villages, and reducing high infant mortality rates in the process.
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Providing health care to 20,000 Kibera residents
Kenya
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Health
This project provides primary health care and laboratory services to more than 20,000 residents in one of the most densely populated areas in the world, the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Empowering Fishing Communities in the MAR Reef
Guatemala
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Environment
This project will provide funding to at least 5 fishing communities along the Mesoamerican Reef coast in order to encourage community participation in the management of local fish stocks.
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Education for 5000+ Families of Premature Babies
United States
,
Health
This project provides educational materials and support to 5000+ families whose babies are struggling in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Recycling 2,000 Tons of Trash in Kibera
Kenya
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Environment
Taka ni Pato (Trash is Cash) is an income-generating, solid waste management and recycling project that removes more than 2000 tons of trash each year from the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
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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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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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Access to Education for AIDS Orphans in Kenya
Kenya
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Education
Provide 70 HIV/AIDS orphans in Kenya access to education by supporting student run income generating projects that pay their school fees and teach ‘Rural Entrepreneurship’.
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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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Dancing shantytowns - 150 children in Casablanca
Morocco
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Education
Thanks to this project, 150 children of the shantytowns of Casablanca improve their life skills like commitment, discipline and self-confidence through street dancing lessons.
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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.
Social Change through Sport for 5000 Kibera Youth
Kenya
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Education
This project promotes ethno-religious and gender cooperation, and leadership, through sports to 5000 youth in one of the world's most densely populated urban settlements: Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya).
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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.
Village Learning Centers for 5000 Beneficiaries
India
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Education
Build a Village Library/Learning Centers for supplementary and vocational education and a place for communities to organize coalition for economic development and infrastructure planning.
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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.
GlobalGiving Relief Fund for Myanmar Cyclone
Myanmar
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Health
The donations to this fund will be distributed amongst organizations working in the field in Myanmar.These include IDE, IMC, CHF International and MADRE.
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Support Social Entrepreneurs
United States
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Economic Development
Peace Health etc. is a professionally managed fund working to solve the worlds interrelated problems. Your single donation is divided equally among six carefully chosen organizations
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Fight child hunger in Niger
Niger
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Health
The World Food Program (WFP) works to provide food to more than 3 million people, three-quarters of them children, in Niger – considered the world’s least developed country.
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Give 600 students access to music education
United States
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Education
Public school teachers receive specialized training and free musical instruments to offer innovative music education to low-income students in schools having limited or no instrumental music program.
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Send Migrant Burmese and Thai Children to School
Thailand
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Education
This project provides free primary education and vocational skills training to 200 Burmese and Thai hill tribe children who could otherwise not attend school and are at risk of being trafficked.
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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.
Educate and Empower 500 Women & Girls in India
India
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Women and Girls
Through training we will empower the women with skills to improve their income. We teach life skills and sex education to adolescent girls so they can improve their quality of life.
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Clean Water and Conservation in the Philippines
Philippines
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Women and Girls
On the island of Negros, in the Philippines, an innovative pump will bring clean running water to thousands of people in 13 villages and encourage watershed conservation within these communities
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