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Build Bridges for Health, Education & Hope - Nepal
VillageTech Solutions funds a popular, all-weather "gondola" bridge in Nepal. The bridge moves 40 to 80 adults, or 80 to 160 children per hour, safely each way across rivers up to 160 meters wide.

Location: Nepal | Need: $4,000


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Support Sustainability for El Salvadoran Farmers
Enable one family in a new Agros village in El Salvador to increase its income through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, to buy the land that they are working.

Location: El Salvador | Need: $7,535


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Empowering Palestinian Families through Jobs
CHF is providing much needed food aid, gainful employment opportunities, and viable job skills trainings to assist over 22,000 Palestinian families, totaling approximately 150,000 people.

Location: Palestinian Territories | Need: $10,000


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Donate a Pig: Invest in Haiti's Future
In rural Haiti, wealth is measured in pigs. Owning a pig means your children get health care and go to school. Help families rise out of poverty by buying a pig for them to raise.

Location: Haiti | Need: $16,744


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Afghan Women Learn Traditional Carpet Weaving
Women learn to weave beautiful carpets, preserving their ancient Persian traditions. Carpet sales earn women income to support themselves and their families.

Location: Afghanistan | Need: $11,367


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Help 35 Families Become Self-Sufficient with Honey
Beekeeping and selling honey can be a sustainable livelihood for struggling families in Haiti. Help 35 families out of poverty with the gift of a beehive.

Location: Haiti | Need: $19,860


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Reduce Malnutrition for Children in Nicaragua
Supporting Save the Children’s food security programs in Northwest Nicaragua, you can help reduce the chronic malnutrition that children are facing.

Location: Nicaragua | Need: $15,000


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Give Microcredit Loans to Women in Bosnia
Women for Women International’s Microcredit Lending Program in Bosnia provides small business loans to women survivors of war so they can move from victim to survivor to active citizen.

Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina | Need: $1,000,000


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Szadvar castle project and youth camp, Hungary
This project provides 30 children each summer with fun activities, food and lodging and 100 volunteers with food, tents,and other supplies at Szadvar Castle in rural Hungary.

Location: Hungary | Need: $25,000


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Help 100 Families Grow Food in Zimbabwe
This project provides 100 at-risk families with irrigation kits and training so that over 600 people are able to grow enough food to attain food security, plus have extra to sell.

Location: Zimbabwe | Need: $9,950


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Ergonomic benches for Guatemalan backstrap weavers
This project: teaches carpenters how to make the ergonomic bench. It trains weavers to use the bench to protect their health and increase their income potential, while also preserving weaving culture.

Location: Guatemala | Need: $14,960


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Profit for Poor Farmers
The creation of a cooperative dal (lentil) processing business to be owned by local farmers. This market-based intervention stands to improve incomes 50+% for over 1,000 tribal families

Location: India | Need: $17,000


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Ergonomic benches for Mexican backstrap weavers
This project: teaches carpenters how to make the ergonomic bench. It trains weavers to use the bench to protect their health and increase their income potential, while also preserving weaving culture.

Location: Mexico | Need: $14,960


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Livelihood for 500 Tribal Women in Gujarat
This project enables livelihood for women in rural Gujarat through Sakhi Sangathan, a women's collective, which grows, buys and sells its own farm produce at profit in a male dominated market.

Location: India | Need: $75,066


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Help 500 Rural Haitian Families Fight Hunger
"Feeding Families" is a sustainable farm project to help 500 families address hunger in Haiti through vegetable gardens, fruit tree plantings, and the breeding of goats, rabbits and chickens.

Location: Haiti | Need: $67,800


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Improving Food Security for Tribal Farmers
Enable 5,000 poor tribal households of Udaipur region to shift onto better agriculture practices, and ensuring the resource-poor communities sustainable livelihood and enhance food security.

Location: India | Need: $40,000


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Fish to Feed HIV affected families in Malawi
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.

Location: Malawi | Need: $300,000


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Rebuilding Hope: Veterans & Others w Disabilities
People with disabilities need jobs, encouragement. Veterans with disabilities also need tangible ways to recover from trauma. Help us hire & train talented people with disabilities, including vets.

Location: United States | Need: $28,133


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GlobalGiving Fund
This fund allows donors to contribute to a general fund that will be used to reward the 5 projects that post the most updates per quarter and to run challenges to incent projects to raise more funds.

Location: United States | Need: $500,000


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Prosperity Packages for Rural Bangladeshi Farmers
This project will impact 300 $1-$2 a day farmers. IDE will use over 25 years of experience to provide farmers with tools necessary to move from subsistence farming to commercial farming.

Location: Bangladesh | Need: $75,000


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Building a Women's Center in Nebkit, Mali
The World Food Program (WFP) is promoting self-sustainability by creating a Women's Center in Nebkit, Mali - one of the least developed and poorest countries in the world.

Location: Mali | Need: $22,000


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Help Farmers in Nicaragua Move Out of Poverty
This project will increase the annual incomes of 1,500 small coffee farmers by promoting low-cost micro-irrigation technology, improved farming skills, and installing market systems.

Location: Nicaragua | Need: $75,000


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Help Girls Move from Gangs to Restaurants in L.A.
Support cooking classes for up to 28 disadvantaged young women that could lead to full time employment at Homegirl café, a full service restaurant in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.

Location: United States | Need: $15,000


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Increase safety and incomes for Nepal climbers
At our climbing school, Nepali students are taught mountain safety, English, technical mountain climbing skills, and emergency medicine. The outcome is safer expeditions and higher wages for guides.

Location: Nepal | Need: $15,000


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Help Haitians Grow Food Themselves
Haiti is leading the world in protest of rising imported food prices. Ox plowing is a way that Haitian farmers can cultivate more land and grow more food themselves to feed their families.

Location: Haiti | Need: $24,769


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Combating Hunger via Livestock for Families, Niger
RI's Livestock Program is supplying starving pastoral households or communities, the most vulnerable populations in Niger, with herds & flocks of livestock for income & food supplies during droughts.

Location: Niger | Need: $52,000


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Help Families of Guards of the Islamabad Marriott
Many guards of the hotel's main gate were tragically killed while trying to stop a bomber trying to enter the hotel. Their families are in need. Support their children's education and living expenses.

Location: Pakistan | Need: $30,000


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