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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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More than Just Scholarships in Rural Ecuador
Ecuador
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Education
This program will provide accessible secondary education to hundreds of indigenous children in the mountains of Ecuador, many of which work in the fields as their parents cannot afford schooling.
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Send Ugandan Children Orphaned by AIDS to School
Uganda
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Education
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Buy Gifts for Good
The Nyaka School will alleviate poverty by providing free primary education and extracurricular activities to children who have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS in rural villages of Uganda.
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Sustainable Education and Training, Rural Honduras
Honduras
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Education
Over the coming years, this program will provide accessible secondary education to hundreds of indigenous children in Honduras near Copan.
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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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Free & Sustainable Secondary Education, Guatemala
Guatemala
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Education
Hundreds of indigenous children in Guatemala near Itzapa will receive free secondary education due to this programme. The majority now work in the fields as their parents cannot afford schooling.
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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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Free Education in the Desert around Arequipa, Peru
Peru
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Education
Secondary education in the pueblos jovenes around Arequipa will be provided to all children in their own communities. Presently the few that can get an education have to walk miles each day.
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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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Lunch for Children in Free NGO Day-Care Center
Brazil
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Education
This NGO day-care center offers meals and diverse educational activities at no cost for 60 children. The center allows their extremely poor families to work and/or seek familial sustenance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Send Rural Girls to School in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
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Education
In the rural area near Victoria Falls, many girls are in great need of school fees to continue their education. This fund provides school fees, uniforms, meals and support for an empowerment center.
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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 SLIs intensive three-year program and are accepted to college but lack sufficient funds to matriculate.
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Fight for Peace Sports and Education Centre
Brazil
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Education
Access to sport and solutions for 1400 youth and 180 regular visitors in Rios most dangerous favela that suffers from 20 years of rival drug trafficking wars; youth thrive in an environment of peace.
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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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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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Bringing digital inclusion to Colombia's Villages
Colombia
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Education
This project provides digital inclusion to 60 poor children in a village in Yumbo, Colombia improving the quality of education through the use of computers, Microsoftoffice tools and software.
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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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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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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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Engaging students through innovative teaching
United States
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Education
Help Center for Inspired Teaching improve schools by training and mentoring hundreds of teachers, positively impacting thousands of students.
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Help Build a School for 500 Girls in Sudan
Sudan
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Education
This project, initiated by Sudanese refugees, will create a new secondary school in war-torn Southern Sudan for 500 women and girls who would otherwise have virtually no access to education.
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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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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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Skills training for 17 unskilled South African men
South Africa
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Education
This project provides 17 unemployed men the opportunity of attending training to learn technical skills such as gardening, painting, bricklaying, carpentry so that they may find work.
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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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Provide Skills and Jobs to 425 Disabled in Nigeria
Nigeria
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Education
Help disabled youths with no basic education or job skills. They resort to begging and become victims of dangerous activities. Educate and train them in job skills for economic and social independence
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Provide Job Training to Teens in Argentina
Argentina
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Education
The project Pescar is a network of Educational Centers that operate in different companies providing labor-training to teenagers with a low-income status.
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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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Building empathy in children in 800 classrooms
Canada
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Education
This project will build empathy in 800 elementary-school classrooms to reduce the levels of aggression in school-aged children and build a more caring & peaceful society.
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Game On! Youth Sports in Kenya
Kenya
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Education
Game On! Youth Sports program will provide ALL children with the opportunity to actively participate in sports and physical education by exposing them to the skills and knowledge of individuals.
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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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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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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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Help Mothers in Zimbabwe Educate Orphans
Zimbabwe
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Education
This project provides grants to 150 Mothers Groups in Zimbabwe to boost their income-generating activities to meet school costs of 3,750 orphans and vulnerable children in their rural communities.
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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Educate 500 Orphans and Needy Children in Tanzania
Tanzania
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Education
This project will provide grants enabling schools in rural Tanzania to keep 500 orphans and vulnerable children in school by paying for uniforms, supplies or fees needed to continue their education.
Be! - inspiring girls to become entrepreneurs
India
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Scholarships for Outstanding Students in Argentina
Argentina
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Education
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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Provide Education to Poor Children in Argentina
Argentina
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Education
This project aims to provide education, medical attention, food, and clothes to the poor children in Argentina in order to permit them to finish their schooling.
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Project FOCUS: Art for AIDS Orphans in Uganda
Uganda
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Education
Empower youth with a voice to share their stories. This project connects AIDS orphans in Uganda with local and US artists through collaborative art projects and creative storytelling.
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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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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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Life Skills for Women affected by Java Earthquake
Indonesia
,
Education
This project will empower 50 mothers and 50 children of earthquake victims in Bantul Yogyakarta by giving them life skills and capital assistance.
Help Afghan Women Catch up on Their Schooling
Afghanistan
,
Education
Provide literacy and fast-track education to 1,000 women and girls who were deprived of learning by the Taliban and are now eager to become literate and earn grade certificates at an accelerated pace
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Provide Bicycles for Poor Students in India
India
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Education
Our project is providing 300 bicycles and shoes to 300 students --150 boys and 150 girls--to help them go to school in poor coastal areas of Kerala, India.
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A Lifeline for a Severely Disadvantaged Community
Brazil
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Education
A community centre is needed to continue to provide vital services to an impoverished community of 4000, where many families and children live hand to mouth by combing the garbage heap and begging
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Colombia: Giving Hope to Children of War
Colombia
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Education
This project helps young people in Bogota channel the trauma of displacement and war into healthy self-expression through various after-school arts programs, academic tutoring, and counseling.
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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.
Grameen Shikkha Scholarship Program
Bangladesh
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Education
Grameen Shikkha Scholarship Program provides financial support to bright underprivileged children. The scholarship winners are selected based on criteria set by the donors.
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The Gift of Education: Adopt a Pakistani Student
Pakistan
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Education
The project provides 410 students in 42 formal and non-formal schools with free tuition & books. These economically challenged families need help to provide their children with a prosperous future.
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