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Environmental conservation builds families, India

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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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Empowering Fishing Communities in the MAR Reef

Guatemala,

Environment ,

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This project will provide funding to at least 5 fishing communities along the Mesoamerican Reef coast in order to encourage community participation in the management of local fish stocks.

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	$30 - For the regional fund
	$50 - For the regional fund
	$100 - For the regional fund
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Easing Women’s Burden Through Water Security

India,

Environment

Funded $2,228 (of $5,000 requested)

Increase the availability of drinking water and irrigation for crops, reduce incidence of water borne diseases, and ease everyday drudgery on women by promoting traditional water harvesting structures

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Indonesian Ecological Restoration & Education

Indonesia,

Environment ,

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Restore native forest and build an ecology education facility in Jepara, helping to rebuild economic capacity in a sustainable way, demonstrate environmental stewardship, and create community pride.

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	$15 - Buys educational materials for 5 students
	$30 - Plants 15 trees
	$50 - Puts 10 educational signs on an interpretive forest trail
	$100 - Trains the site manager in Non-Timber Forest Product cultivation
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Restoring 10 sacred groves in Rajasthan

India,

Climate Change (GG Green) ,

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Using water conservation techniques and tree and grass planting we revive these forests and restore the sacred groves. This secures the livelihoods of the 8000 people who depend on the groves.

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	$10 - Raising and planting in oran of ten tree saplings
	$150 - One month’s salary for a community worker teaching conservation and management
	$1,500 - Renovation of one whole water harvesting structure
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Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems

Tanzania, United Republic of,

Environment

Funded $490 (of $10,000 requested)

The International Volunteer Project is part of the SUCCESS Program which focuses on improving the well-being of coastal people and communities in Ecuador, Nicaragua and Tanzania.

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Community-run Eco-lodge on the Indian Ocean

Madagascar,

Economic Development

An environmentally, socially and economically beneficial community-run lodge for eco-tourists in a spectacular coral-reef coastal region, improving the unique environment and people's livelihoods

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Clean Water and Conservation in the Philippines

Philippines,

Climate Change (GG Green) ,

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On the island of Negros, in the Philippines, an innovative pump will bring clean running water to thousands of people in 13 villages and encourage watershed conservation within these communities

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	$10 - fund the nursery and planting of 50 trees
	$30 - fund the nursery and planting of 150 trees
	$103 - Will fully fund this project
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Rights for Moroccan Girls to Practice Sport

Morocco,

Women and Girls

-Empower 100 girls from the rural country to practice sport -Train them daily and organize tournaments. -The project will demonstrate the positive impact of gender in sport for social change

Afghan Institute of Learning Empowers Afghan Women

Afghanistan,

Women and Girls ,

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AIL works to empower Afghans by expanding their educational and health opportunitites and by fostering self-reliance and community participation.

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	$25 - 15 women will learn to read.
	$50 - 36 women receive health services
	$75 - 44 girls will learn computer skills.
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Computers Educate Orphans and Empower Women

Uganda,

Women and Girls

Computers and Internet access will enrich learning for AIDS orphans, open jobs for rural women and widows, improve AIDS education and support regional economic development. A self-sustaining project.

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Save the Children Empowering Girls in Bangladesh

Bangladesh,

Women and Girls ,

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This project creates safe environments for girls living in poverty in Bangladesh to develop the skills and receive support to stay in school, learn how to remain healthy and develop life skills.

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	$10 - Can train two adolescent girl leader-educators in Bangladesh
	$12 - Can equip two adolescent girls with essential knowledge and information
	$60 - Can equip 10 adolescent girls with essential knowledge and information
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Help Adolescent Girls (15-24) Develop Businesses

Kenya,

Women and Girls

Funded $6,428 (of $100,000 requested)

TechnoServe’s Young Women in Enterprise (YWE) program is equipping adolescent girls in Nairobi slums with the skills and support they need to build successful businesses and transform their lives.

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Give people a voice

India,

Women and Girls ,

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The community radio, run by women, will improve the wellbeing in and around Mhaswad through useful and relevant programming, which will enrich their civic and cultural life.

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	$20 - Makes one day of community broadcasting possible
	$40 - To donate a FM radio to the underprivileged within the community
	$100 - Provides basic radio equipment for the Mhaswad community
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Free and Educate 300 Bonded Nepali Girls

Nepal,

Women and Girls ,

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This project rescues 300 young Nepali girls from bonded servitude and provides them with six years of education, which will enable them to graduate from high school.

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	$19 - gives a piglet or goat which a family can raise and sell for what their daughter would have earned
	$20 - provides one year of primary school education for a girl who has been rescued from virtual slavery
	$100 - rescues a girl from servitude, pays her school expenses for one year, and gives a piglet or goat
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Help Plant Family Gardens in Nicaragua

Nicaragua,

Women and Girls ,

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The goals of Harvesting Hope are to increase economic self-sufficiency and sustainable access to food for Indigenous Miskito women and families on the underserved North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.

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	$50 - Vaccinates 20 chickens.
	$100 - Covers the cost of monthly veterinarian visits for 2 months, to ensure healthy farm animals.
	$200 - Provides one day of business training for 20 women.
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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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Provide Clean Energy for Rural Poor in Tanzania

Tanzania, United Republic of,

Climate Change (GG Green)

Build the capacity of the rural poor to utilize and generate income from alternative and renewable fuel technologies such as fuel briquettes and bio-gas systems.

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Provide Renewable Energy to 22 Colombian families

Colombia,

Climate Change (GG Green) ,

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This micro hydroelectric project will bring electricity and lighting to 22 indigenous families living in rural Minaflores, Colombia, an area under threat by guerillas and paramilitary.

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	$21 - Maintenance costs per family
	$54 - Electronic equipment for one person
	$636 - Cost of bringing light to one family
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Micro Hydro Power for 1,000 People in Philippines

Philippines,

Climate Change (GG Green) ,

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A community-based micro-hydro power (MHP) system will be installed to provide household lighting and run community-based corn mill enterprises allowing people to secure food and income.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - fund the nursery and planting of 50 trees
	$30 - fund the nursery and planting of 150 trees
	$100 - Contribute to Micro Hydro Power Project for one beneficiary
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Vegetable Gardens & Internet for Indian Youth

India,

Economic Development ,

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The Growing Connection trains youth and their communities to grow produce with water-saving, high-yield techniques and connects them to the Internet for info, advice, and communication with peers.

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	$20 - Buys seeds and fertilizer for one garden.
	$50 - Buys planting materials (buckets, seed starter trays, planting medium) for one garden.
	$100 - Trains 20 people in vegetable production.
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PlayPumps: Bringing Water to Children in Africa

Mozambique,

Health ,

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We will bring clean drinking water to children in Africa via the PlayPump water system (a merry-go-round connected to a water pump), other safe water solutions and associated programmatic activities.

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