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Environment

Development in Costa Rica has led to numerous remnant forests, where wildlife is trapped. LRFF will plant 2500 native trees on open pasture creating a green passageway between two forest islands.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$16 - 10 living fence posts

$25 - 50 trees

$25 - 50 meters of fencing and staples

$ Other amount

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

Turning waste into wealth for 1000 households

India

Environment

Engaging 1000 households in solid waste management, thereby improving the living environment for poor people as well as rejuvenating soil and safeguarding agricultural biodiversity.

How You Can Help:

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$25 - Train one Green Friend, garbage collector, to mobilize and increase household segregation of waste in towns

$50 - Provide a Green Friend, garbage collector, proper uniform and protective gear to ensure the safety of the worker

$100 - Conduct awareness campaign for poor, rural communities on the benefits of solid waste management for public health, sanitation and the environment

$ Other amount

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

Help Rural Ethiopians Improve Access to Water

Ethiopia

Environment

This project is helping more than 30,000 villagers improve their use of existing water resources. It is rehabilitating natural springs and building wells for better access to clean drinking water.

How You Can Help:

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$25 - Provides 8 women with supplies for water purification.

$50 - Provides 5 families with fuel-efficient (as well as cost- and time-efficient) cooking stoves to reserve natural resources.

$100 - Helps build a hand-dug well for household farming.

$ Other amount

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

Build a school from recycled materials for Maya

Guatemala

Environment

The Tecnico Maya School is a green construction project being built by Long Way Home (www.longwayhomeinc.org) in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala using recycled tires and litter-packed bottles.

Save the "Agua de Angel" Campaign in Honduras!

Honduras

Environment

Provide financial support to continue the broadcast and outreach activities of Hondurasâ€™ first environmentally-focused radio campaign â€œAgua de Angel,â€ recently stalled by the Honduran government.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation

$10 - A drop (of water) in the bucket!

$30 - Buys CDs to use in production and to distribute copies of the show among community members.

$75 - Pays for 3 hours of technical assistance in evaluating impact achieved.

$ Other amount

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

Gulf Coast Bay Buddy: Conservation for Grades K-3

United States

Environment

The Gulf Coast Bay Buddy Program was created to inspire critical thinking skills with an emphasis on causal relationships between humans and the natural environment.

How You Can Help:

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$10 - Purchase 4 Bay Buddy Activity Booklets

$25 - Purchase 6 Bay Buddy Activity Booklets

$50 - Train 1 volunteer to conduct Bay Buddies in schools

$ 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:

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$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:

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$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

Credit for Collection of 31,000 ltrs of Used Oil.

Kenya

Environment

Motor vehicle mechanics are given small loans which they use for buying tools and imporving their business. The mechanics repay the loans by supplying used oil drained from motor vehicles they repair

How You Can Help:

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$10 - will enable the project to collect and recycle 3.0 litres of used oil

$70 - will enable a mechanic to purchase a toolbox and increase his income by $2 a day.

$100 - Will enable the project to save 1.5 million litres of water from contamination by used oil

$ Other amount

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

Prevent desecration of pristine Altai habitats

Russia

Environment

Stop governmental sale to developers of endangered habitats and pristine lands by securing legal communal title and rights to the ancestral lands of 60,000 indigenous Siberians.

How You Can Help:

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$10 - funds notarization of one family’s ownership claim

$32 - supays 1 week subsistence costs for full-time volunteer land rights coordinator

$64 - pays 1 week subsistence costs for full-time volunteer land rights coordinator

$ Other amount

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

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