Browse by Sponsor: Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Kenya

The project seeks to identify,rehabilitate and empower 200 teen mothers to enable them access economic and educational opportunities through training and skills-building

How You Can Help:

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$40 - Offer a rehabilitation course for a teen mum for one week

$50 - Offer remedial classes for a teen mum wishing to resume classes

$70 - Provide emergency, basic necessities for a teen mum for a month

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Business School for Rural Women in Maharashtra

India

Education

The Business School provides technical skills to rural women without formal education and to girls forced to drop out of school, enabling them to start and/or improve their own micro enterprises.

How You Can Help:

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$30 - Provides one course in our business school using printing material and pamphlets.

$50 - Allows ten girls to attend classes at the business school for one month.

$100 - Buys one sewing machine for the business school to teach women basic tailoring.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Equipping poor families with HIV/AIDS life skills

Kenya

Health

We will provide home-based care to 250 rural families infected and affected by HIV, offer mobile VCT, provide orphans with economic and educational options to enable them increase their life options.

How You Can Help:

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$10 - Provide school uniform for an orphan

$20 - Purchase text books for 3 orphans

$30 - Acquire a bag of fertilizer

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Trees and Water for Masai in Kenya

Kenya

Climate Change (GG Green)

This project promotes community development, environmental conservation and wealth creation around the process of growing trees for charcoal as an alternative source of energy for 3800 Masai.

How You Can Help:

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$50 - will provide 1000 seedlings for participating farmers

$150 - will train 10 local farmers in agroforestry/conservation

$500 - will plant out 1 acre of trees in the community

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Breaking the cycle of gender violence

Kenya

Human Rights

The project equips local leaders with adequate information to enable them collaborate with marginalized peasant women in opening up discussion on gender violence and offering abused women safe haven.

How You Can Help:

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$90 - Provide a battered woman with basic medical care for a month.

$100 - Offer counseling and psychological healing for 20 abused women

$300 - Secure legal services for battered woman seeking justice in court

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Capacity Building: Urban Farming and Gardening

South Africa

Climate Change (GG Green)

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.

How You Can Help:

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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.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Rescue 2000 Women and Girls From Forced Labor

India

Children

Protect children, girls and women in the tribal belts of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa. Project will rescue girls from bonded labor and create a medical camp to serve rescued women and girls.

How You Can Help:

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$900 - Creates and maintains a medical campaign for 2,000 rescued women and girls.

$2300 - Rescues and rehabilitates 10 girls from bonded labor.

$2727 - Runs 10 vocational training programs for rescued women.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Save Endangered Zebras and Help Wild Dogs in Kenya

Kenya

Animals

To protect endangered species by training villagers in wildlife conservation and promoting economic growth through eco tourism and tree planting. Less than 2000 Grevy's Zebra remain in the wild today.

How You Can Help:

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$20 - Will provide binnoculars for participants

$50 - Will provide 1000 seedlings for participants

$100 - Will train 10 rural Masai in wildlife conservation

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Skills training for 20 unskilled South African men

South Africa

Education

This project provides 20 unemployed men the opportunity of attending training to learn technical skills such as gardening, painting, bricklaying, carpentry so that they may find work.

How You Can Help:

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$10 - Printing of pamphlets & posters to advertise new skills to the general public

$15 - Daily stipend, travel costs & refreshments for 1 unskilled day laborer

$24 - Cost per day to train 1 unskilled day laborer in either tiling, painting or bricklaying

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Bringing Family Together Through Education

Brazil

Children

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.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$50 - Enables one family member to generate income.

$100 - Trains one family member for the job market.

$1000 - Improves housing conditions for family; enables income generation from the house.

$ Other amount

or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

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