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Icons for Mapping Community Sustainability
United States, Technology
Funded $268 (of $27,500 requested)
Green Map Icons are a universal language for identifying environmental and cultural resources. Help local mapmakers foster sustainable living by updating this lexicon and a multilingual icon database. progress reportread updates from the field
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Green Schools Green Map for NYC & the World
United States, Education
Funded $155 (of $21,000 requested)
The replicable Green Schools Green Map project will spur eco-activities in 1,000 NYC K12 schools with Report Cards tracking progress in programs, purchasing, physical plant and student projects. progress reportread updates from the field
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AIDS Education for Students in Cameroon
Cameroon, Education
Funded $1,000 (of $1,000 requested)
"It's Your Choice--A Vacation With or Without HIV/AIDS." Children get access to facts, not fiction, about how deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are spread and prevented. progress reportread updates from the field
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Afghanistan Distance Learning Teacher Training
Afghanistan, Education
Funded $1,100 (of $1,100 requested)
The radio program Knowledge is Light provides direct audio teacher training and basic education content to remote schools via satellite radio. This project seeks to expand the program’s reach.
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Refilwe Clean Water Project
South Africa, Health
Funded $19,000 (of $19,000 requested)
Help us build a 10 unit sanitation facility for this community project. Our zero discharge sanitation systems require no water or chemicals and will enhance users personal hygiene standards. progress reportread updates from the field
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Afghanistan Rural Information Network Expansion
Afghanistan, Economic Development
Funded $1,200 (of $1,200 requested)
Equal Access' satellite radios and broadcasts will provide rural Afghans with access to vital information about topics such as teacher training, human rights and land-mine awareness. progress reportread updates from the field
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Afghanistan Distance Learning Teacher Training
Afghanistan, Education
Funded $1,100 (of $1,100 requested)
The radio program "Teacher" provides direct audio teacher training and basic education content to remote schools via satellite radio. This project seeks to expand the program's reach.
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New Technology for Farmers in Africa
Kenya, Economic Development
Funded $120,163 (of $200,000 requested)
KickStart creates and markets tools that enable African families to climb out of poverty forever. In FY 08, we plan to assist more than 90,000 more people to escape from poverty.
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Passport to Global Learning
United States, Education
Funded $625 (of $1,320 requested)
Train U.S. teachers to use the Internet in K-12 classrooms for international student collaboration on meaningful projects. The goal is to link every school in the United States with a non-U.S. school.
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PEARL World Youth News
United States, Democracy and Governance
Funded $385 (of $1,000 requested)
PEARL World Youth News is a unique global web-based news service at secondary schools around the world, co-sponsored by iEARN and the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
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Adjustable prosthetic arms for children and adults
Vietnam, Health
Funded $8,357 (of $33,000 requested)
Global assistance for amputees through our field-deployable Socketless Prosthetic Technology, providing durable, long lasting, high functioning, cost effective limbs for children and adults.
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Health Education for Students in Botswana
Botswana, Health
Funded $1,305 (of $10,000 requested)
Students "Learn Locally, Impact Globally". Children change lives by getting access to facts, not fiction, about how deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are spread and prevented.
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Learning While Playing Edutainment Radio Program
Nepal, Education
Funded $121 (of $1,200 requested)
While children enjoy the songs and rhymes that Learning While Playing uses to teach them about numbers and letters, parents learn the importance of developmental support for their child's future. progress reportread updates from the field
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Help Deaf Children Learn Sign/English Connection
United States, Education
Funded $440 (of $6,600 requested)
Provides deaf students with software featuring mentors that sign the meaning of English text, thus helping them attain literacy through independent study.
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Building dignity through habitat development India
India, Economic Development
Funded $2,366 (of $44,000 requested)
Enabling poor and marginalized rural communities in Orissa, India to lead a dignified quality of life through community managed development of habitat including housing, water supply and sanitation. progress reportread updates from the field
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Small Business Creation & Economic Empowerment
Tanzania, Economic Development
Funded $1,904 (of $50,600 requested)
ApproTEC will provide basic tools (like irrigation pumps) to poor people, enabling them to establish highly profitable micro-enterprises and lift their families out of poverty forever.
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Ceramic Water Purifier--Clean Water for Cambodia
Cambodia, Health
Funded $7,188 (of $350,000 requested)
Provide access to the children, women, and men of Cambodia to safe drinking water through a market-based approach, building capacity for local production and distribution of Ceramic Water Purifiers. progress reportread updates from the field
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IDE Worldwide Water Technology Dissemination
India, Economic Development
Funded $2,385 (of $660,000 requested)
Increase introduction and large-scale dissemination of water-control technologies like EazyDrip worldwide to current IDE country programs. Create new opportunities in such regions as Central America. progress reportread updates from the field
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Bridges to healthcare, education and hope in Nepal
Nepal, Economic Development
Funded $50 (of $18,000 requested)
EcoSystems builds a unique, popular, all-weather 'gondola' bridge in Nepal which moves 40-80 adults or 80-160 children per hour safely each way across rivers up to 160 meters wide. progress reportread updates from the field
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Solar Energy Transformation in Benin
Benin, Economic Development
Funded $650 (of $307,121 requested)
Improving agricultural productivity, health, income generation and education in the Kalale District of Benin through innovative uses of solar technology, micro-irrigation and micro-financing.
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Eliminating Deadly Open Fires in Latin America
Guatemala, Health
Funded $25 (of $15,000 requested)
The ONIL Stove eliminates toxic smoke and vastly reduces burns/respiratory problems, and minimizes wood consumption up to 70%. The time saved in gathering wood allows for economic development.
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Wiring the Global Village IT in a Developing World
Sudan, Technology
Funded $235 (of $200,000 requested)
NetHope is the only consortium providing mobile and fixed Information Technology (IT) solutions to international agencies working in a development capacity or humanitarian relief.
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Lamjung WireRoad - An Overhead Transport Solution
Nepal, Economic Development
Funded $88 (of $165,000 requested)
The WireRoad is an inexpensive, environmentally sound, sustainable monorail-like transportation technology, suitable for all-weather public carriage of people and goods in rural settings. progress reportread updates from the field
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Provide the World's Poor With Safe Sanitation
South Africa, Environment
Funded $115 (of $440,000 requested)
The Enviro Loo is a dry sanitation system made in South Africa, exported internationally. 3 billion people do not have access to fresh water and sanitation. Funding will mass-produce the system.
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Bring HIV/AIDS Information to Kenyan Pediatricians
Kenya, Health
Funded $25 (of $124,575 requested)
Create an electronic forum to engage doctors, nurses, and medical students in pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment and knowledge-sharing in collaboration with the Kenya National Pediatric HIV Training Program progress reportread updates from the field
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