Search Results For Issue: Women
AfWiAm (African Women in America)
African Women in America is an organization of women with an urgent mission which includes education, action and advocacy for the human rights and cultural issues facing African children and women in Africa and America. The organization is a united b ... 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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Business Development Centers and Business Incubator
One of COPRODELI's primary objectives is to strengthen the economic activity in Peru by promoting and supporting micro-entrepreneurs and enterprises. The COPRODELI Business Development Centers and Business Incubator provide financial support, subject ... Read More
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Cambodia: SMART: Sustainable Medical Arts, Research, & Technology
We are developing a project that will bring training and potentially telehealth services to rural areas that is delivered by indigenous village women. Public heath, primary care, first aid, and emergency services are all but absent in rural areas of ... Read More
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Case Management Program
Due to a myriad of health, emotional and physical protection issues experienced by unaccompanied refugee children and youth, comprehensive case management support is necessary to ensure success in our other programs. Heshima Kenya provides the follow ... 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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Chicago Council on Global Affairs General Programming
With more than 150 programs and events every year, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs delivers a diverse and balanced spectrum of programming related to international relations, global issues, and U.S. foreign policy. Programs range from renown ... Read More
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Community Connections, Open World, FORECAST
Through its programs, Heartland International seeks to strengthen emerging democratic institutions; provide training and technical assistance to encourage microenterprise development; support the role of women in economic, political and social affair ... Read More
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Comprehensive HIV health care and women's empowerment
We care about HIV-positive women, and we act. WE-ACTx is an international community-based initiative launched by frontline AIDS physicians, activists and researchers with extensive experience in caring and advocating for HIV-positive women. With you ... Read More
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Education
We believe that education is a human right. Children are born into this world as eager learners and it is our duty to provide them with every opportunity for education. UNICEF estimates that over 120 million children worldwide are not receiving an ed ... Read More
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Energy/Share the Sun/Solar Bakery
SHARE distributes sun ovens to widows of war, land mine victims (amputees) and other needy women. Returnees are taught how to bake bread using a village solar oven. Share the Sun allows donors to "adopt a family" in Angola with a sun oven. 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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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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Holistic Resources to Mongu in the Western Province of Zambia
Agriculture
-Training, technical assistance and resource development in production and post harvest management for over 1000 rural farm families
-Development of agricultural business services to create markets for farmer crops
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Human Rights Law - Americas
The Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Program for Human Rights in the Americas began in 1992 with the first of a series of generous grants provided by the Jeanne M. and Joseph P. Sullivan Foundation. The Sullivan Program coordinates an array of human rights ... Read More
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Human Rights Law - Iraq
IHRLI began its coordination of major projects for Iraq in 2003, when the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded IHRLI a $3.8 million grant for Raising the Bar: Legal Education Reform in Iraq, a broad-based initiative aime ... Read More
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IDP Rising Schools
IDP Rising Schools' mission is to transform the lives of impoverished children by providing them with a quality education in both urban and rural areas of Ghana through the combination of microfinance loans and capacity building services that are spe ... Read More
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International Gender Persecution Project
Heartland Alliance supports NGOs dedicated to combating violence against women, including domestic violence and threats of honor killing. We comprehensively approache the eradication of gender-based violence by providing direct services to victims of ... Read More
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LEAD Campaign (Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Development)
As the microfinance sector commercializes and rapidly expands, experienced banking and finance leaders are in short supply. The microfinance community is waking up to the pressing need for leaders with these skills. Tomorrow’s leaders must be identif ... Read More
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Lending Hope to Africa
Opportunity’s Lending Hope to Africa Campaign raised $25 million dollars to develop 10,000 new Trust Banks in Africa, providing microfinance interventions for families coping with HIV/AIDS. The next phase of the initiative will support a Trans-Africa ... 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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Microfinance - Women's Lending Club
Your generous gift of $750 will help support an entire lending club, consisting of five women, accountable to each other for the repayment of their loans. All loan repayments go back into the local micro-lending fund, where it can be re-invested in o ... Read More
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Professional Publications on Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
ISPCAN produces several major publications containing up-to-date information and research in the area of child maltreatment: 1) World Perspectives on Child Abuse (bienniel), 2) Child Abuse & Neglect the International Journal (monthly), 3) The Link n ... Read More
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Project Latina
This program will support the creation of a Spanish-language version of "voicesandfaces.org," one that features the stories of Latina Women from Mexico, Central America and South America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. We will also inc ... 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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Sisters to School
Through its Sisters to School program, the Women's Global Education Project provides access to education and training for women and girls in Senegal, West Africa. Your contribution can help ensure girls go to school and stay in school. The program r ... Read More
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Support and Travel to Cambodia
We Support Worthwhile Organizations - We provide on-going financial support to those organizations that we have visited, scrutinized, and found worthy of our continued assistance.
We Help Others Contribute - Build Cambodia does not solicit ... Read More
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The Cervical Cancer Prevention Project
Bolivia has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world. Centro Medico is working toward implementing a cervical cancer prevention program. Ultimately, the program would coordinate and provide regular cervical cancer screenings and ot ... Read More
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The Girl's Empowerment Project
The Girl's Empowerment Project is a multi-phase program offering a safe community for girls and young women to learn about their human rights and how to access them while addressing avenues for self-sufficiency and leadership building. Participants e ... Read More
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The Voices and Faces Project Middle East Initiative
This initiative seeks to empower women in select MENA countries to explore The Voices and Faces Project model, to be adopted and modified to their country's unique cultural aspects. The countries of Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Morocco and Tunisia would ... Read More
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Trust Banks
Trust Banks serve women in the lowest levels of poverty who have no assets and no access to a guarantor. A Trust Group is an innovative lending methodology that provides microloans, thereby creating jobs and economic empowerment in poor communities. ... Read More
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Women Entrepreneurs
As little as $150 will help a woman in Ghana start her own business and feed her family. Read More
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Women's Empowerment Program
Over 70% of refugees are women. Many have been widowed or have lost children to violence, and most have been oppressed and victimized in their home countries. Women refugees often struggle with chronic depression and anxiety, making it difficult for ... Read More