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Capacity Building: Urban Farming and Gardening

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Individuals and teachers in poor communities are trained and supported to tackle hunger and environmental degradation by growing and replicating organic vegetable and indigenous teaching gardens.

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	$20 - Plants one tree in a disadvantaged township, and includes training and follow-up.
	$42 - Establishes one new township vegetable garden, and includes training, resources and follow-up.
	$82 - Trains one teacher in a disadvantaged school to use the outdoor classroom.
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Train Women Farmers in Organic Agriculture, Nepal

Nepal,

Climate Change (GG Green) ,

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Develop women’s cooperative groups in implementing sustainable agriculture and train groups with ways to connect to markets to sell their produce and improve their income.

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	$25 - 25 women can be trained to save local seeds, avoiding costly trips to the city to purchase seeds
	$50 - 50 women can be trained on organic vegetable cultivation (cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, potato, etc)
	$100 - 70 women can receive business skills to sell their produce collectively to vendors and increase their incomes
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Providing Access to Credit in Southern Nepal

Nepal,

Microfinance

To assist 13,350 people in low-caste communities to organize, through self-help groups; increase their social and economic status; reduce gender restrictions; improve their health and education.

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Making schools in Ghana more girl-friendly

Ghana,

Children

This project educates school children on their rights and responsibilities and helps abused children through counseling. It provides teachers/school staff with skills to respond to abused children.

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	$75 - Takes care of basic needs and assessment of a female victim of sexual assault.
	$100 - Provides counseling to 25 child victims.
	$250 - Equips 30 school counselors with basic knowledge and skills.
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Providing land and housing to 100 women in Uganda

Uganda,

Women and Girls ,

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This project provides 100 divorced women with land and housing. The women will speak out on the need to provide land and housing to divorced women in a country where family property belongs to men.

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	$10 - Provides 2 mosquito nets to a family
	$200 - Purchases 1 acre of land for a family
	$500 - Develops a protected spring to provide clean water to 10 families
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Qimaavik Transition House Revitalization Project

Canada,

Health

Funded $7,573 (of $12,500 requested)

Provide furniture and renovations for the domestic violence shelter. Create a more comfortable and uplifting environment that will raise the spirits of Qimaavik residents and staff.

Karno Kids, No Child Left Inside

United States,

Health ,

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KARNO KIDS is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support, encourage, and motivate youth to get outside and become physically active and to restore and preserve the environment for their ong

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	$67 - Cost per student of bringing a physical education program back to a public middle-school.
	$112 - Provides a scholarship for one inner city at-risk girl to participate in a 10-week after school running program.
	$500 - Print run of 5,000 20-page booklets of kid friendly trail activities in three languages.
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Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community

Uganda,

Women and Girls ,

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A farming co-op of AIDS widows and orphans in rural Uganda is working toward economic sustainability for 100 women or child-headed families, plus local orphans and disabled people, (1600 people).

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	$20 - Flock of chicks for egg production.
	$25 - Quality seeds for family/ kitchen gardens.
	$75 - Tailoring lessons for two widows.
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Reverse Deserts Through Community Transformation

Kenya,

Climate Change (GG Green)

Funded $40,000 (of $40,000 requested)

Rural Kenya and many urban dwellers rely on charcoal and firewood for energy, which is destroying Kenya's forests. We provide fast-growing trees as alternative sources of fuel and food for livestock.

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Environmental conservation builds families, India

India,

Climate Change (GG Green) ,

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Support poor, rural women farmers in Rajasthan, India in sustainable agriculture and conservation techniques to improve the natural environment and create stable food and water sources.

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	$50 - 1 group can start making organic fertilizer, allowing for good crop yields even during drought
	$50 - 1 group can start a fruit orchard with 20 fruit tree saplings & sell the fruit they grow for income
	$125 - 1 group can receive funds and training to renovate a well for household use and for crops
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Environmental Standards for Lead Battery Plants

India,

Climate Change (GG Green)

The objective of the Better Environmental Sustainability Targets (BEST) Certification is to reduce emissions from lead battery plants and recyclers to prevent lead poisoning in developing countries.

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