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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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Keeping Hope Alive for 1000 Children and Youth
Kenya
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Health
Offering sports, games, lifeskills, counselling, clothing and education to 1000 children and youths affected by Ethnic Viloence at Kachibora IDP camp in Kenya.
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Equipping poor families with HIV/AIDS life skills
Kenya
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Health
We will provide 450 rural families affected/infected with HIV with home-based care, regular medical check-up, small business management and strengthen their psychosocial and self-esteem skills.
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Myanmar Cyclone Relief in Irrawaddy Delta
Myanmar
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Health
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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Free Cleft Surgery for 600 Poor Chinese Children
China
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Health
The Smile Train is dedicated to helping the 1.2 million children in China who suffer from unrepaired cleft lips & palates by providing free surgery. They will get a new smile and a new beginning.
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Support 250 Orphans with Education and Sport
Kenya
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Health
Support 250 orphans with intellectual disabilities by giving them food, medication, shelter, education, clothes and hosting Soccer Challenges.
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Educate 9000 Children through Sport in Africa
Cameroon
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Health
Six national country programs in Africa educate 9000 disadvantaged children, particularly girls, in health, social and soccer skills through fun recreational community based activities.
Uplifting Teen Mothers in Kenya
Kenya
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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
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Rescue Children Suffering From Severe Malnutrition
Nepal
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Health
Provide food and medical care to starving Nepali children. Educate mothers on nutrition and hygiene, enabling them to take this information back to the villages where they can teach other families.
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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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Immunization for Tribal Children and Young Mothers
India
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Health
Seva Mandir organizes camps to provide Immunization in remote areas not serviced by State Health Facilities. The Immunization covers 6 key diseases.
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Access to traditional healthcare for the poor
Laos
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Health
For the poor in rural Laos, healthcare is impossible to afford. This project seeks to improve rural health using traditional medicine as an avenue to educate and emphasize preventative treatments.
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Health Care and Water for 7,000 Gambians
Gambia, The
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Health
To provide African people in isolated communities with a means to access healthcare when it is needed; to be treated at home; to aid irrigation thereby improving nutrition and increasing income.
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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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Fighting HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya
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Health
CASL operates in a location, which is characterized by the middle and low class. The youth in the location (East lands-Nairobi) faces a myriad of challenges.
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Water & Toilet Loans in Indian Villages
India
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Health
Berhampur and Aska, face a clean water & sanitation crisis. Project assists families in obtaining individual loans to build their own water tap and latrine in their home.
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WaterCredit India
India
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Health
This project’s goal is to provide access to credit to rural & urban communities for water and sanitation projects. Access to safe water and sanitation facilities will reduce water-borne diseases.
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Saving Mothers' Lives in Rural Tanzania
Tanzania
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Health
A low-cost, off-patent drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through local businesses in developing countries.
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Empower Women to End HIV/AIDS Stigma, South Africa
South Africa
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Health
The Positive Women’s Network helps HIV-positive women, who are often ignored or blamed for their infections, to support themselves and their families and fight against the AIDS stigma in South Africa.
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Encourage Rural Communities Know their HIV Status
Kenya
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Health
The project seeks to reach out to an estimated 3,000 high-risk and vulnerable people who are unable to access health facilities to know their HIV status and thus seek treatment and social care.
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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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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.
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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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.
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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Reach the unreached! Delivering care in Africa
Zimbabwe
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Health
Training one public health nurse (phn) to ride and maintain her motorcycle to provide delivery of immunization and disease prevention.
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Housing & Healthcare for Rwandan College Students
Rwanda
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Health
Support housing and healthcare costs of 120 students currently in our program and 60 students that will join our program this summer. These holistic services enable students to succeed academically.
Bring Safe Drinking Water to Bangladeshi Children
Bangladesh
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Health
Imagine discovering the water your child drinks contains arsenic. This is what the community of Billi discovered. Help Billi build and maintain a water system and save their children’s lives.
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Help Victims of Myanmar Cyclone
Myanmar
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Health
International Medical Corps is securing emergency supplies, including medicines, blankets, water purification tablets, and hygiene kits and has identified local partners for distribution.
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Early Intervention for Mentally Disabled Infants
India
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Health
Children younger than 5 years, with mental handicaps or at risk for developmental delay, are identified and assessed by professionals. Trained women from the target area provide intervention.
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Providing microhealth services to 10,000 families
Pakistan
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Health
Kashf shall provide 10,000 families with low cost microhealth insurance giving low income household access to cheap healthcare facilities covering 24 hrs hospitalization.
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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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Creating a Sustainable Water Initiative in Jazmin
Costa Rica
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Health
We will build a water treatment system with the community of Jazmín and work with its members to create and implement a water education campaign to ensure project sustainability and replicability.
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Giving Sight to the Cataract Blind
Pakistan
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Health
This project will enable FMH to restore vision to 150 cataract blind persons by holding Free Eye Camps in the hospital for patients in need of intra-ocular lens (IOL) replacement.
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Teaching Traditional Midwives to Save Lives
Ethiopia
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Health
A low-cost, off-patent drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through local businesses in developing countries.
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Provide Shelter for Survivors of Myanmar Cyclone
Myanmar
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Health
CHF International is assessing the most pressing needs of the Burmese people. In the immediate term, we intend to provide shelter, and are examining longer-term livelihoods recovery projects.
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Build a Home for People Living with HIV/AIDS
South Africa
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Health
This project will provide a home with a caring, self-sustaining environment within a family structure for 100 children and adults infected and affected by HIV-AIDS in rural South Africa
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Preventing Childhood Malaria Deaths in Mashegu
Nigeria
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Health
This project provides families with malaria prevention education, life-saving medicines and insecticide treated bednets to protect 20,000 children from malaria related deaths in rural Mashegu.
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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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Fuel Efficient, Life Saving Stoves for 40 Families
Honduras
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Health
Train local tradesmen to produce fuel-efficient stoves for 40 rural Honduran families, improving the health of approximately 500 people in the first year and increasing long-term income potential.
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Food Security From Sustainable Agriculture, India
India
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Health
Create tangible changes in natural environment using community-based approach involving conservation and sustainable agriculture. Ensure food needs are met with livestock, horticulture, and seed-banks
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Mobile HIV Testing and Counseling Outreach Teams
Uganda
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Health
This project would increase the number of HIV testing and counseling outreach teams for the communities around the AIDS vaccine study sites in Entebbe, Uganda.
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Stop the polio outbreak in India
India
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Health
This project provides funding for essential social mobilization items needed to conduct high-quality polio immunization in India including media, posters, advertisements and volunteer caps and aprons.
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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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Provide piped water to 5000 people in Uganda
Uganda
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Health
This project will provide 5000 people with motorised piped water through solar energy in rural Buwama.
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Help Earthquake Victims in Mansehra, Pakistan!
Pakistan
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Health
Mansehra, an area most affected by the earthquake in Pakistan, is home to Pakistanis and Afghan refugees. These earthquake victims are in urgent need of relief with a death toll in the thousands.
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Preventing Mothers' Deaths in Childbirth
Nigeria
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Health
A low cost, off-patent drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through market distribution in developing countries.
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Sponsor a CFWshop in Kenya and Save Lives
Kenya
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Health
CFWshops seeks to prevent needless illness and death in Kenya by sustainably improving access to essential drugs and basic health services through a franchise network of health outlets.
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PlayPump® Water System: Bringing Water to the Poor
Mozambique
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Health
We will bring clean drinking water to the poor in Mozambique via a next-generation water pump, the PlayPump® Water System: a merry-go-round water pump powered by play with a decade of maintenance.
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HOPE HIV/AIDS: Fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
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Health
This project expands resources in Zimbabwean communities, where AIDS is a serious threat. The effort empowers people to fight the epidemic though focusing primarily on community-based action.
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A community-run clinic in Sikoro for 28000 people
Mali
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Health
This project will be providing some funding, accountability, institutional support, technical support and consulting to a community committee that is in charge of creating a clinic for basic care.
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Bringing Family Together Through Education
Brazil
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Health
Help poor mothers with sick children currently undergoing hospitalization or treatment far from home. Help the mothers relocate to be near the children and to find jobs.
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Supplying Critical Water for Haitian Hospital
Haiti
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Health
Increase and improve the hospital's water supply by drilling a second well. This is a collaborative project between U.S. water engineers and workers from the Cap-Haitien community.
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Save Rural Women and Children With Healthcare
Afghanistan
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Health
Support 3 clinics for 12,000 patients monthly in rural areas of Afghanistan with no other health services. These clinics provide medical services and prevent disease through health education.
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One Trained Doctor Saves 250 AIDS Patients
Vietnam
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Health
Healthcare workers in developing countries will get coached by Western physicians to improve their clinical skills in caring for HIV/AIDS patients, thereby saving lives.
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Micronutrients in Soymilk for 15,000 Kids-Orissa
India
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Health
This project provides 200ml of micro-nutrient enriched soymilk to 15,000 primary school students 6 days a week with 20 sets of non-electric equipment (VitaGoats) run by women's Self-Help Groups.
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Prevent Disease: Vaccinate and Train Villagers
Mali
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Health
7,500 vaccinations are provided for mothers and children in rural villages. Training is provided in 24 remote villages to prevent disease, including: AIDS, malaria, hygiene, wound care and more.
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Treatment for 100 youth with disabilities in Congo
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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Health
This project provides 100 Congolese youth with disabilities essential treatment and equipment, increasing their mobility, dignity and opportunities for the future.
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Save Poor Afghans From Starving
Afghanistan
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Health
Poor Afghans in Afghanistan with no jobs, food or homes face starvation in the winter and after natural disasters or being displaced. Provide emergency packets to support families.
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2 for 1: Safe Drinking Water & Planting Trees
Haiti
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Health
This project has dual benefits: Provide safe drinking water for 600 families in Haiti AND plant 100,000 trees to reforest the surrounding area. Healthy children + healthy land = hope for the future.
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Providing Clean Water in East Africa
Kenya
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Health
World Neighbors will identify and partner with communities to design, build and maintain water and sanitation systems that will provide clean water for drinking, household and agricultural purposes.
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Cup of Milk for West Bank Kids
Palestinian territories
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Health
Cup of Milk brings tons of milk and vital nutrition to West Bank kindergartners: white and yellow cheese, yogurt and local dairy products. This is protein for Palestinian families living in poverty.
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Improve Access to Clean Water in Kenya
Kenya
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Health
Fighting child mortality and diarrheal disease by protecting natural springs, organizing local groups to manage resources, and installing connections from water supplies to households.
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Mother & Child Health Clinic in Rural Nepal - 2008
Nepal
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Health
This project supports one year's operating expenses for the Karing for Kids Mother and Child Health Clinic, serving 7,000 people in the rural mountain communities of Rasuwa district, Nepal.
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Essential Oils to Improve Tibetans' Health
India
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Health
Provide seed funding for an herb garden and essential oils that are used topically to treat disease and infection within a refugee clinic in India for 380 families and over 600 Tibetan children.
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Free Surgery for 50 Burned Children in Zambia
Zambia
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Health
Interplast helps disabled Zambian children who suffer with severe burn injuries from kerosene lamps, kitchen fires, or acid-throwing. Free evaluations and surgery will restore mobility and hope.
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Securing the future for people with disabilities
Canada
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Health
Our goal is to ensure safe and secure futures for people with disabilities by developing Networks of Support, planning for the future and addressing the challenge of their isolation and loneliness.
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