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Build Bridges for Health, Education & Hope - Nepal

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.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$15 - Chaka (wheel) or hanger for one bridge.

$20 - Load-bearing spacer or nag spacer for one bridge.

$50 - Gabion block or roof for one bridge.

$ Other amount

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

Mapping a more sustainable future - for everyone!

United States

Climate Change (GG Green)

Support locally-led Green Mapmaking projects that connect, engage and empower communities across the US and worldwide to promote green living, nature, social and cultural resources and eco-education.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$10 - Will deliver printed Green Maps to 30 local families

$25 - Will supply a low-income children’s or grassroots group with a complete educational Green Mapmaking

$50 - Will support a regional Hub’s outreach and support of several local Green Map projects

$ Other amount

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

Build a new life for 12 orphans in South Africa

South Africa

Children

This project will pay for a new home in the Refilwe Community, South Africa for 12 orphaned children and their caregivers who will play a direct role in their education, care, love and nourishment.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$75 - New bed with bedding for 1 orphan

$400 - New windows for the complex

$700 - New tiles and carpeting for the complex

$ Other amount

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

Open Green Map to Support the Greening of China

China

Environment

With so much at stake and so much opportunity, we seek your help in developing a Chinese interface for our new interactive social mapping platform to support our emerging network of local leaders.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$10 - Will support the translation of a key website page

$25 - will give a Chinese grassroots group an educational Green Mapmaking session

$50 - will support a Chinese Hub’s outreach and support of several local Green Map projects

$ Other amount

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

Using Solar Energy for Cooking Fuel in Kenya

Kenya

Environment

Train rural women to use solar energy as an alternative fuel and make simple solar cookers for use and sale, freeing time for income generating activities, stopping deforestation and improving health.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$25 - For the purchase of 1 Solar cookit per family

$60 - To pay facilitators to train the community on how to make and use solar cookits

$100 - To empower the community with marketing & entrepreneurial skills to enable them start small scale businesses with the solar cookits.

$ Other amount

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

Prevent Youth Involvement in Drug Trafficking

Brazil

Education

The project offers 50 young people alternative activities out of school hours to prevent their involvement with gang culture in the low income communities (favelas) of Rio de Janiero.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$30 - per month guarantees the participation of one child in the project on an ongoing basis - SPONSOR A CHILD!

$30 - as a one-time donation guarantees the participation of one child in the project for 1 month

$125 - provides healthy food for 25 children once a day for a month

$ Other amount

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

Technology Access for Mayan Women in Guatemala

Guatemala

Women and Girls

This project is creating community technology centers operated by and for Mayan women's groups in the Quiché region for inclusion, empowerment, learning, communication, and economic development.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$30 - Gives a girl introductory computer and Internet skills.

$60 - Lets a woman take a multimedia e-course designed especially for women.

$150 - Trains a woman to administer a technology center.

$ Other amount

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

Training 150 Community Video Producers in india

India

Democracy and Governance

The project creates a media network for the poor to accelerate social change by creating teams of Producers who create monthly Video Programs that are screened to local communities and globally.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$100 - Funds 15 community video screenings to an audience of 4000 people

$500 - Covers a training workshop for five community producers

$1000 - Supports a local Community Producer for 1 year

$ Other amount

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

Banish darkness, light a lamp in Nepal

Nepal

Economic Development

VillageTech Solutions funds an advanced 6V home electrical power system for multiple uses: LED lamps, phone charging, radio, water cleansing, etc.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$25 - Helps one family install their home power system and four LED lamps (partial support)

$300 - Enables a school to install lighting in four classrooms (full support)

$2500 - Assist a group of 100 homes to install the Sun Light system

$ Other amount

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

Free Cleft Surgery for 600 Poor Chinese Children

China

Children

The Smile Train is dedicated to helping the 1.2 million children in China who suffer from unrepaired cleft lips & palates by providing free surgery. They will get a new smile and a new beginning.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$25 - Pays for sutures for one surgery.

$50 - Provides medication for one surgery.

$125 - Covers half the cost of one surgery.

$ Other amount

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

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