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Build a new life for 12 orphans in South Africa
South Africa
,
Children
This project will pay for a new home in the Refilwe Community, South Africa for 12 orphaned children and their caregivers who will play a direct role in their education, care, love and nourishment.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$75
- New bed with bedding for 1 orphan
$400
- New windows for the complex
$700
- New tiles and carpeting for the complex
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$1,000
- Painting complex
$2,250
- Cost per orphan for new home
$18,478
- Will fully fund this project
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Open Green Map to Support the Greening of China
United States
,
Environment
With so much at stake and so much opportunity, we seek your help in developing a Chinese interface for our new interactive social mapping platform to support our emerging network of local leaders.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Will support the translation of a key website page
$25
- will give a Chinese grassroots group an educational Green Mapmaking session
$50
- will support a Chinese Hub’s outreach and support of several local Green Map projects
$75
- will support an inclusive workshop for Chinese educators and youth group leaders
$100
- will help popularize the newly expanded Green Map Icons throughout Chinese communities
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$200
- will pay for mural-making resources for Green Map displays in low income communities
$500
- wil cover the cost of moderating the Open Green Map for 6 months
$1,000
- will pay for outreach that will help people across China hear about and utilize the Open Green Map
$6,990
- Will fully fund this project
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Aid for Myanmar cyclone victims
Myanmar
,
Disaster Recovery
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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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$18
- 1 plastic and bamboo emergency shelter
$25
- 1 water basket system (provides clean water for 250 people)
$50
- 2 water basket systems (provides clean water for 500 people)
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$150
- Urgent Aid for Survivors - water storage, shelter, food
$250
- Urgent Aid for Survivors - water storage, shelter, food
$9,131
- Will fully fund this project
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Mapping a more sustainable future - for everyone!
United States
,
Environment
Support locally-led Green Mapmaking projects that connect, engage and empower communities across the US and worldwide to promote green living, nature, social and cultural resources and eco-education.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Will deliver printed Green Maps to 30 local families
$25
- Will supply a low-income children’s or grassroots group with a complete educational Green Mapmaking
$50
- Will support a regional Hub’s outreach and support of several local Green Map projects
$75
- Will support an inclusive workshop for educators and youth group leaders
$100
- Will help popularize the newly expanded Green Map Icons in communities where they are needed most
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$200
- Will pay for mural-making resources for Green Map displays in low income communities
$750
- Will pay for the translation and distribution of adaptable Green Map tools and website elements.
$1,000
- Will develop the Open Green Map's sharing capacity to mobile phones, widgets and other formats
$65,885
- 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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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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$150
- provides broadband access and maintenance of the computers for a month
$200
- Pays for an Activities Teacher (English, Arts, Dance etc) for the project on a monthly basis
$750
- Provides the salary of the project coordinator for a month
$1,500
- will fund the entire project for 1 month
$7,818
- Will fully fund this project
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Give Pedal-Generated Light to Millions of Nepalis
Nepal
,
Climate Change (GG Green)
An alternative to dirty & dim kerosene lamps, a 70-watt Pedal Generator easily lights two lamps in more than 100 homes for 3 hours every night & our individual home-lighting kits also let kids study.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$20
- Funds a home-lighting kit: one '4.5 Amp-hour' battery, one storage box, cables, two 8-LED lamps
$40
- Funds an income-generating charging station to simultaneously charge five '4.5 Amp-hour' batteries
$450
- Funds a village or school power plant: 70-watt pedal generator (output: 6V, 12V, and 13.8V)
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$19,058
- Will fully fund this project
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Training 150 Community Video Producers in india
India
,
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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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$100
- Funds 15 community video screenings to an audience of 4000 people
$500
- Covers a training workshop for five community producers
$1,000
- Supports a local Community Producer for 1 year
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$15,000
- Supports one year of operating costs for a CVU
$48,915
- Will fully fund this project
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Give Ergonomic Benches to 100 Mexican Weavers
Mexico
,
Economic Development
This project provides 100 Mexican weavers an ergonomic bench and education to increase their income potential, while also preventing serious damage to their bodies and preserving weaving culture.
read updates from the field
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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$11,375
- Will fully fund this project
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Literacy for a billion with Bollywood songs
India
,
Education
,
Everybody Can Win Challenge Participant
PlanetRead uses SLS in 10 languages nationwide to provide automatic reading practice to 300 million early literates people who are officially “literate” but who cannot read.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- A town of 100,000 people reads for a year.
$20
- 100 villages of 2,000 people each read for a year.
$40
- 200 villages of 2,000 people each read for a year.
$50
- Reading for half-a-million people!
$100
- Reading for a million people!
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$1,000
- Reading for 10 million people!
$2,000
- Reading for 20 million people!
$5,000
- Reading for 50 million people!
$48,641
- Will fully fund this project
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Fish to Feed HIV affected families in Malawi
Malawi
,
Economic Development
1000 poor farmers, including women and HIV affected householders in Chingale, Malawi will be taught fish farming methods to help improve their income and nutritional status for the long term.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Buys enough fish fry ‘baby fish’ to stock one family’s fish pond for one farming season i.e. 3 month
$50
- Buys enough fish fry to stock five families’ fish ponds for one farming season i.e. 3 months
$200
- To construct a 20m by 10m fish pond with aeration pipes and a nursery
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$294,711
- Will fully fund this project
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Build Sustainable Housing for Families in Africa
Burkina Faso
,
Economic Development
La Voute Nubienne trains and supports local builders (over 100 to date) in the construction of earth brick vaulted houses which are environmentally sound and economically feasible in Burkina Faso.
read updates from the field
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- Provides 3 months of training for an apprentice to learn the VN basics
$100
- Helps 1 family help to obtain a VN house
$200
- Provides 1 month's salary for an AVN staffer in the Sahel
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$500
- Creates 1 job as a trained VN builder / entrepreneur
$1,000
- Finances 5 rural promotion campaigns on sustainable housing
$2,000
- Helps 20 families to each get a VN house
$10,000
- Builds a VN school or health center for a rural community
$98,620
- Will fully fund this project
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Improved Carpet Looms for 200 Families in Pakistan
Pakistan
,
Women and Girls
Empower 200 rural carpet-weaving families in Pakistan by reducing reliance on child labor, improving income and health, and ending debt bondage by providing better-designed adult friendly carpet looms
read updates from the field
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$500
- Supplies ergonomic carpet loom, work bench, first-aid kit, transportation, health and safety controls and follow-up visits.
$2,000
- Buys 200 first-aid kits for the families.
$3,000
- Provides training and awareness materials (posters, leaflets, etc.) to the families.
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$5,000
- Transports looms and other materials to 500 places in different villages.
$5,000
- Supplies lighting, ventilation improvement and dust controls at 500 locations.
$5,000
- Pays for travels of volunteer experts over one year to follow up and train the families on usage of better loom and associated controls.
$80,000
- Buys 200 ergonomic looms and workbenches.
$997,385
- Will fully fund this project
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Technology Training for Rural Indigenous Youth
Guatemala
,
Children
Empowering rural indigenous youth in Guatemala to learn to use computers and the Internet as tools for local development and for strengthening their native language and culture.
read updates from the field
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$30
- Motivates a child to stay in school after learning about educational computing and Internet.
$60
- Provides a micro-entrepreneur with technology skills to improve his or her business.
$120
- Prepares a youth for success in high school with basic computer and Internet skills.
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$161
- Will fully fund this project
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Technology Access for Mayan Women in Guatemala
Guatemala
,
Women and Girls
This project is creating community technology centers operated by and for Mayan women's groups in the Quiché region for inclusion, empowerment, learning, communication, and economic development.
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