Dochoward

Location: Maryland
Occupation: Accountant
About My Inner Philanthropist (why I give): "A Life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

Education ,

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Nyaka AIDS Orphans School uses a community-based approach to meet the challenges of poverty and HIV/AIDS. Nyaka provides free education and other services to orphans and vulnerable children.

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	$30 - Provides a solar lamp so a student can study at night
	$55 - Provides breakfast and lunch for 1 student for a year
	$80 - Provides a bicycle for a student travelling to school from over 5 km. away
	$85 - Provides weekly health care visits for 1 student for a year
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Colombia: No Child Should be a Soldier

Colombia,

Children ,

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MADRE provides critical services for Colombian youth who are at risk of being recruited as child-soldiers, giving them the support they need to create alternatives to a life of combat and violence.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Facilitates one trauma counseling session for a group of 10 former child soldiers,
	$50 - Purchases 2 weeks' worth of supplies for an art therapy painting class for 15 young people.
	$250 - Facilitates 10 trauma counseling sessions for a group of 10 former child soldiers.
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Fight child hunger in Niger

Niger,

Children ,

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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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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Provide food assistance to the hungry in Niger.
	$34 - Can provide a year of school lunches for a child
	$55 - Can purchase 100 packages of High Energy Biscuits for hungry kids
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Fight for Peace Sports and Education Centre

Brazil,

Education

Funded $4,000 (of $4,000 requested)

Access to sport and solutions for 1400 youth and 180 regular visitors in Rio’s most dangerous favela that suffers from 20 years of rival drug trafficking wars; youth thrive in an environment of peace.

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Help Afghan Boys Trade Guns for Books

Afghanistan,

Children ,

Safer World Matching Funds Available ,

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Many Afghan boys want schooling but are too old and must work. Help 360 boys who have been refugees and/or soldiers get an education that will prepare them for successful, peaceful futures.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - 1 boy has books and school supplies for one year
	$20 - 120 boys have a classroom in which to study for six months
	$55 - 1 boy fast-tracks his education in a six month course
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Help Vulnerable Women Become Leading Change Agents

Rwanda,

Women and Girls ,

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Global Grassroots' Conscious Change Academy provides 12 months of conscious leadership and social venture training, seed grants and high-engagement support for grassroots change agents in Rwanda.

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How You Can Help:

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	$50 - Provides annual health insurance for 5 Graduates
	$100 - Provides training materials for one course at the Conscious Change Academy
	$200 - Provides one month of hands-on advisory support for a social venture
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