Search Results For Issue: Families
Access to Healthcare
In rural Western Kenya, access to health care is almost non-existent for a large share of the population. There are hospitals in some of the larger towns and in the cities, but the rural poor cannot get there, because their only means of transportati ... Read More
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Artisan Support
You are invited to be a part of this, to join these wonderful women as they continue to succeed and grow. MarketPlace would like to open opportunities to more women to achieve societal and economic dignity. Currently MarketPlace cooperatives facilita ... Read More
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Arzu Education
Arzu's social contract requires that all children under the age of 15, and at least one woman from each household attend education classes that cover literacy, basic numeracy and units on health, hygiene, nutrition and human rights. In 2006 we began ... Read More
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Arzu Healthcare
ARZU strategically focuses on addressing Afghanistan’s highest public health priority – lowering the maternal death rate. Our healthcare services include weekly visits by our health monitors to weavers’ homes, 4-wheel drive transportation to cl ... Read More
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Bolivia: Project Ninos
The Center for Global Initiatives collaborated with the Flying Doctors of America in a pioneering and critical project. We were the first non-Bolivian group to be granted access to three Bolivian prisons. Hundreds of children live with their parent(s ... Read More
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Causes for Change Programs
Through outreach and education, Causes for Change International seeks to build strong communities by providing the tools for self-sufficiency. We supply medical assistance and training in health and economics to areas in need. We focus on children, w ... Read More
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Chances by Choice
Chances by Choice specializes in providing domestic and internationally born HIV exposed children, and the families who support them, the resources to thrive. Chances by Choice takes a multi-dimensional approach to providing life enhancing services f ... Read More
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Changing Communities
Play for Peace is all about change—changing the way people relate to each other.
Our objectives:
- To promote positive relationships among the people of societies in conflict.
- To foster leaders for peace around the world.< ... Read More
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Children and Education
Coprodeli offers first level outreach prevention to children and teenagers who live in abusive or otherwise detrimental environments. The cornerstone of this effort is the NAR/Children at High Risk preventive health program. NAR consists of 2 residen ... Read More
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Development / Sadaqa Jariyah
Beyond immediate emergency relief, we must enable men and women to change their social conditions once and for all. In order to achieve this, now is the time to turn our efforts towards long-term development projects that ensure individual and commun ... Read More
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Economic Self-Sufficiency
Micro-loans are at the heart of the Ember Project. Grandparents decide for themselves what is feasible in beginning a small business for themselves. Ember helps them to choose what they might do to earn money for themselves so they can afford to rais ... Read More
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Emergency Relief
Disaster strikes at any time and without warning an entire family, town or nation can be devastated by natural or man-made disasters. It is a great mission that we undertake to help those who have been displaced either physically, financially or both ... Read More
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Foundation for Children in Need
The Foundation helps provide shelter, education, clean water, medical care, and clothing for thousands of individuals, from children and students to elderly. A reforestation project is planting trees as well. Read More
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Grandparents Working Together
From living in rural isolation believing that they were alone in their struggles to provide for grandchildren, the Ember grandparents are now organized into groups where they find support from each other. Read More
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Heshima Safe House
Heshima Kenya’s Safe House provides temporary shelter to unaccompanied refugee children and youth, and on an exceptional basis, vulnerable refugee women who are experiencing homelessness or significant protection issues related to sexual gender bas ... Read More
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HIV/AIDS Testing, Education, and Treatment
Though Mwangaza's focus is on the treatment of children with disabilities, we could no longer ignore the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Working together with Selian Hospital and the Arusha Community Church we have two children on antiretroviral treatmen ... Read More
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Insurance
As the world leader in providing micro insurance, Opportunity International is poised to bring significant change to the world of microfinance and sustainable development. Opportunity began providing micro insurance to clients in Africa beginning in ... Read More
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Kumba HIV/AIDS Treatment Center
The Cameroon America AIDS Alliance (CAAA) HIV/AIDS Treatment Center in Cameroon has provided free HIV testing and treatment to hundreds of men, women and children since opening on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006. The clinic, based in Kumba, is direc ... Read More
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Maternal and Child Health
The future health of our global family depends largely on the health of infants and children and their mothers, who act as primary care givers and educators. Women also play an important role in the health of communities and families by serving as mi ... Read More
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Nicaragua-Direct
We need almost anything that can be shipped or taken along to Nicaragua. More specifically: Basic, over the counter, Medicine - Bandages - Tooth Brushes and Paste - Wheel Chairs - Walkers and Canes. School Supplies: Pencils - Erasers - Rulers - ... Read More
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Partnering with Families
Education - Tuition support for deaf children and their siblings; school transportation costs.
Vocational Training - Capital investment in shoe repair business; tuition for one year of beauty school. Read More
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Preventative Healthcare
Coprodeli provides preventative healthcare and humanitarian aid to the most impoverished families in Peru. Doctors, dentists, lab technicians, and pharmacists from the United States, Europe, and Peru volunteer their time to improve and, in many cases ... Read More
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Primary School Health Education
Mwangaza learned that many disabilities can be prevented through early treatment, education and improving health and hygiene. We have designed health education seminars for primary school students and teach these classes on a regular basis. Topics ... Read More
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Project Safe Water
Linking Mine Action to Development Planning: Providing Mine Affected Communities Access to Clean Safe Water
Objectives:
-Provide families in mine-affected communities access to clean water
-Improve the overall health of the comm ... Read More
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Project Zambia
World Bicycle Relief has partnered with a USAID-funded, World Vision-led coalition of relief organizations to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Zambia. We will provide 23,000 bicycles to community home-based care volunteers, disease prevention educators ... Read More
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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Internationally, Heartland Alliance Provides a variety of protection and support services for victims of sexual and gender-based violence. Programs include support for individual victims through psychosocial, medical, and legal services. A focus on t ... Read More
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Share Your Soles
Shoe collection, cleaning, processing, shipping and distriubtion - donate shoes, funds, or help organize the shipment. Read More
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Surgical Treatment for Disabled Children
Mwangaza travels to remote villages to identify disabled children and assist them in getting plastic and orthopedic surgical procedures to correct clubfoot, cleftlip and bone deformities caused by excess flouride in drinking water, as well as burn co ... Read More
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The Chagas Project
Chagas is a disease of poverty and most often afflicts populations like the one served by Centro Medico. Chagas is a chronic disease that commonly causes heart and gastrointestinal problems which are often further complicated by other health conditio ... Read More
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The Exploration Institute
The Exploration Institute is intended to celebrate human potential,create participation and inclusion. This one-of-a-kind facility will be specifically designed to serve children and youth with varying and differing abilities; and when complete, it s ... Read More
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The Pediatric Anti-Parasite Program
Gretchen Myers, our US volunteer nurse, with some help from a local hospital and health education center, is in the process of implementing a prevention program aiming to curb the number of kids with parasites. Gretchen is going to local schools to e ... Read More
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United Nations Study on Violence Against Children
ISPCAN develops quality research questionnaires and appropriate methodology used to provide greater understanding of the scope of violence against children internationally and to inform policy development. Read More