Human Rights Funded Projects
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Hurricane Dean Disaster Relief in Yucatan, Mexico
Mexico, Human Rights
Funded $2,065 (of $30,000 requested)
Through this project we will be helping the thousands of indigenous Mayans and residents displaced by the hurricane and its aftermath, as well as the many small NGOs that have lost valuable resources. progress reportread updates from the field
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China Radio Information Project for the Blind
China, Human Rights
Funded $1,085 (of $357,500 requested)
A self-powered radio project makes information and education accessible to visually impaired people in China. Isolated listeners can receive advice, and connect with each other and their communities. progress reportread updates from the field
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Disaster Relief for Survivors of Hurricane Felix
Nicaragua, Human Rights
Funded $273 (of $110,000 requested)
MADRE is supporting our Indigenous partners in Nicaragua in the wake of Hurricane Felix, a Category Five storm that destroyed thousands of people's homes and up to 90% of infrastructure in some areas. progress reportread updates from the field
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Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign: Building Story
Palestinian territories, Human Rights
Funded $4,100 (of $4,100 requested)
Hundreds of Americans raised the funds to help the Nasrallah family rebuild their home in Gaza. Help create a video series, following the family as their home takes shape and Gaza's fate unfolds. progress reportread updates from the field
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One Heart for Aceh
Indonesia, Human Rights
Funded $25,000 (of $25,000 requested)
ACEH SEHATI is implementing a flexible network to provide immediate support to victims in tsunami-affected areas in Indonesia. progress reportread updates from the field
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Helpline for Women: Project Specific Corpus Fund
India, Human Rights
Funded $53,091 (of $53,091 requested)
The project assists at least 600 women in distress through 24 hour telephone rescue services, and provides them shelter, medical aid, repatriation, legal and other long term support. progress reportread updates from the field
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Urgent Action: Aid to Women and Children in Darfur
Sudan, Human Rights
Funded $37,500 (of $37,500 requested)
Send aid to Sudanese refugees with MADRE and Zenab, a Sudanese women’s organization. MADRE and Zenab have decades of experience addressing the particular needs of women in humanitarian crises. progress reportread updates from the field
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Improve Camp Conditions for Liberian Refugees
Ghana, Human Rights
Funded $7,000 (of $7,000 requested)
Support women and orphans who seek sanctuary from war by improving camp conditions, engaging them in training and education, and safeguarding their rights as refugees.
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Youth Musical Center in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, Human Rights
Funded $12,000 (of $12,000 requested)
Equip a youth center in Bo District, Sierra Leone, so that youths have a space to practice and perform music, mentored by one of Sierra Leone's most popular musicians, Steady Bongo. progress reportread updates from the field
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Increasing Crops, Protecting Land in Guatemala
Guatemala, Human Rights
Funded $1,500 (of $1,500 requested)
In collaboration with the Mayan group PRODESSA, the project benefits 5,900 people in Poqomchi' villages to increase food production and protect the environment through sustainable agriculture.
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Assisting Iraqis With Disabilities
Iraq, Human Rights
Funded $2,000 (of $2,000 requested)
An extensive awareness campaign across the country targeting both people with disabilities and the general public in order to improve understanding and promote inclusion of people with disabilities.
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Gardens for abused children of South Africa
South Africa, Human Rights
Funded $2,200 (of $2,200 requested)
Gardening provides a therapeutic outlet for young victims of domestic abuse, while empowering them to be self-sufficient by producing their own nourishment in an area where fresh food is scarce.
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School for Former Child Slaves
India, Human Rights
Funded $19,439 (of $30,000 requested)
Rescue bonded child laborers working in India's carpet industry. Offer rehabilitation and comprehensive care, including education, healthcare and social services, to create new life paths. progress reportread updates from the field
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Peace Carnival in Bo, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, Human Rights
Funded $6,856 (of $35,000 requested)
To stage a 3-day event to promote peace, particularly to youth. Activities include musical and drama performances, discussion programs, and booths to engage residents in constructive dialogue on peace progress reportread updates from the field
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Abir's Garden: a Safe Place to Grow
Palestinian territories, Human Rights
Funded $1,930 (of $10,993 requested)
Bring former combatants together to create a playground for children of Anata, advocate for safety of all children, especially Palestinian children in school zones, and pursue justice for Abir Aramin progress reportread updates from the field
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Urgent Appeal for Emergency Relief in Lebanon
Lebanon, Human Rights
Funded $1,620 (of $10,000 requested)
CHF is distributing emergency relief items—such as food, shelter, and medical supplies—and establishing hygienic sanitary systems to urgently assist thousands living in camps around the country. progress reportread updates from the field
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Send Aid to Women and Families in Lebanon and Gaza
Lebanon, Human Rights
Funded $1,207 (of $10,000 requested)
Help MADRE deliver urgently needed humanitarian aid—and hope—after a wrenching summer of warfare in the Middle East, to the women and families who suffer the most when war engulfs their communities. progress reportread updates from the field
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Empowering Youth in Angola to Promote Peace
Angola, Human Rights
Funded $1,188 (of $11,550 requested)
Search for Common Ground will support a group of Angolan youth leaders from different sides of the conflict to work together in leading their community toward peace and reconciliation. progress reportread updates from the field
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Child Radio Journalists in Liberia
Liberia, Human Rights
Funded $680 (of $10,000 requested)
To organize a group of children and provide them with equipment and training to be radio journalists and report on displaced people's issues in Liberia progress reportread updates from the field
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Urgent Aid Needed for Earthquake Victims in Peru
Peru, Human Rights
Funded $1,895 (of $33,000 requested)
The destructive August 15th earthquake in Peru left families in Afro-Peruvian and poorer communities without shelter, medical care, or protection from the Andean winter. progress reportread updates from the field
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The Rachel Corrie Rebuilding Campaign in Gaza
Palestinian territories, Human Rights
Funded $1,575 (of $36,823 requested)
Rebuilding the Nasrallah Family's home in Gaza as a first step to build momentum worldwide to stop demolition bulldozers, so that children can sleep safely and peacefully in their homes at night. progress reportread updates from the field
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Litigating Female Circumcision In Kenya
Kenya, Human Rights
Funded $1,650 (of $39,600 requested)
This project involves training and deployment of monitors in rural areas of Kenya to report cases of FGM to us and we take legal action to protect the victims. progress reportread updates from the field
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Empowerment in the Waterloo Refugee Camp
Sierra Leone, Human Rights
Funded $355 (of $10,000 requested)
This project focuses on alleviating the suffering of over 5,000 children affected by war by providing better hygienic and learning facilities at an existing refugee camp in Sierra Leone.
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Child Abuse Prevention
Mexico, Human Rights
Funded $996 (of $30,000 requested)
Material production, training and attention to prevent child abuse and help parents, families, teachers, social workers, therapists etc. to promote a respectful way of bringing up children.
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Bridge to torture-free life for Rwanda’s children
Rwanda, Human Rights
Funded $2,295 (of $90,000 requested)
The most proven way to end torture is to provide citizens with attorneys at the time of arrest. This project will train 250 African defenders, promote their services, and link them to those in need. progress reportread updates from the field
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Peruvians Against Violence
Peru, Human Rights
Funded $192 (of $7,700 requested)
Intergenerational project preventing violence against older people in marginalized neighborhood of Lima.
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Child Abuse Advocacy in Mexico
Mexico, Human Rights
Funded $1,256 (of $55,000 requested)
Creating materials and supporting several spaces where professionals working with children can be trained and families can receive attention dealing with abuse (physical, emotional, or sexual).
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Disaster Mitigation Institute (DMI) - India
India, Human Rights
Funded $425 (of $25,000 requested)
DMI is introducing long-term social security among vulnerable poor communities who are subject to repeated disasters, most recently in the Tsunami-affected Chennai region. progress reportread updates from the field
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Mobility--A Human Right: Wheelchairs for Colombia
Colombia, Human Rights
Funded $685 (of $42,000 requested)
560 wheelchairs are sent to children, parents and grandparents in Columbia, who otherwise may lead a life of isolation. Mobility means an opportunity to rejoin the social fabric of society.
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Supporting Community Development in Northern Ghana
Ghana, Human Rights
Funded $250 (of $20,000 requested)
This program works with 53 community-based organizations in northern Ghana to address causes of hunger and poverty in 104 villages with a total population of over 150,000.
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Conflict Resolution and Peace building.
India, Human Rights
Funded $119 (of $10,000 requested)
To foster improved relationships between different communities and lessen polarization in the state of Gujarat to build social justice, peace and harmonious co-existence between conflicting groups.
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Better School for Bedouin Children,Poorest of Poor
Palestinian territories, Human Rights
Funded $260 (of $24,200 requested)
A Bedouin community in greater Jerusalem built a school for their children, then rebuilt their school each time it was demolished. A Jerusalem rabbi and the village ask your help w school upgrades.
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Relief for Darfur: Fund to Rebuild Sudan
Sudan, Human Rights
Funded $1,014 (of $100,000 requested)
Support initiatives driven by the men and women of Sudan to combat difficulties including violence, disease, lack of medical care for injuries, shortages of water and food, and inadequate shelter.
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Human Rights for India's Dalit Community
India, Human Rights
Funded $300 (of $33,000 requested)
Empowering Dalit communities through strengthening livestock as a livelihood base. Fighting discrimination through building the skills and knowledge base of Dalit communities.
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Preventing commercial child sexual exploitation
Mexico, Human Rights
Funded $398 (of $44,000 requested)
To work to advocate against the trafficking of children through workshops educating teachers and promoting an educational video.
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Sensitize Counselors Working With MSM Communities
India, Human Rights
Funded $235 (of $30,000 requested)
Due to the complexities of the issues of MSM and HIV/AIDS there is a tremendous need for counselors to be trained to provide adequate, sensitive and confidential services to the MSM community. progress reportread updates from the field
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Strengthening Peasant Organizations in Haiti
Haiti, Human Rights
Funded $432 (of $55,450 requested)
By strengthening 8 peasant Associations to improve in agricultural production, health care and income generation, this program aims to reduce poverty and promote self-led development activities.
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Inheritance Rights for Tanzanian Widows
Tanzania, Human Rights
Funded $100 (of $15,500 requested)
A civic education project that provides older women with the opportunity to become peer educators and community-based paralegals, to increase women's rights and influence long lasting change.
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Slovakia: Services for Disadvantaged Youth
Slovakia, Human Rights
Funded $225 (of $41,800 requested)
Advocacy in welfare services for socially disadvantaged children.
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Lebanon Crisis - Provide Emergency Relief Supplies
Lebanon, Human Rights
Funded $1,735 (of $500,000 requested)
Mercy Corps is distributing food packages, hygiene kits, infant kits, water and other essential supplies to hundreds of extremely vulnerable families displaced by the conflict. progress reportread updates from the field
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Strengthening Indigenous Communities in Guatemala
Guatemala, Human Rights
Funded $50 (of $30,000 requested)
In collaboration with the Mayan NGO PRODESSA, the project supports 1050 people in 6 Poqomchi' communities in improving food production and environmental management through sustainable agriculture.
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Poorest of Sudan's Poor--Displaced AND Disabled
Sudan, Human Rights
Funded $50 (of $50,000 requested)
In 2 settlements in Khartoum, Salama and Soba-Aradi, disabled people have organized for self-improvement & human rights. NEF seeks support for their amazing initiative & planned basic services. progress reportread updates from the field
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