Search Results For Region: Africa
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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African Training Fund
The IDP Foundation has funded a new African program at Field Museum of Chicago to enhance its African training and research programs in the following scientific capacity building efforts: the Field Museum/IDP Foundation African Scholars and fieldwork ... Read More
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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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Agriculture
Seeds and agricultural tools distribution to internally displaced people, refugees and other war affected people returning to their areas of origin. Read More
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AIDS Awareness
Project Harambee presents programs in the United States and in Africa to educate and raise awareness about the AIDS pandemic. Read More
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Alliance of Hope Adoption Programs
Adoption-Link is now working with Children’s Hope International (CHI), of St. Louis Missouri, to provide additional adoption opportunities to our prospective adoptive families. Children's Hope Internatioanl currently has adoption programs in Ethiop ... Read More
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Anthropological Research
Through anthropology we seek to understand what makes us human, our place in nature, and our common concerns. We teach others what we learn through our exhibits, programs, and world class collections. Join us and make a difference in our scientific ... Read More
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Art and International Development
CASID is breaking new ground. Art is a powerful form of communication and CASID is using theater, dance and visual arts to share stories of exemplary individuals in international development to the public and to stimulate conversations among American ... Read More
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Awassa Children's Center
Provides housing, education, career education training, healthcare and support to approximately 60 children, most of whom have been orphaned by AIDS. Read More
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Awassa Youth Campus
Provides a safe environment for youth in Awassa, and is home to One Love Theatre (AIDS Education, Landmine Awareness Training, environmental and female-rights issues), an Aikido Peace Dojo, and Children's Workshops based on sports, art, music and dan ... Read More
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Benin: Medical InterAction: Linking Sustainable Ecology and Medial Innovation
Contacts and relationships have been developed with colleagues in Benin that crosscuts various areas: health and illness, poverty and sustainability, environmental concerns, traditional and medical sciences/health treatment and education. We plan to ... Read More
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Bringing Global Best Practices to Chicago
This ongoing program promotes sustainable, democratic and competitive development: the High Road. Work is profoundly influenced by international best practices on industrial policy and public-private development partnerships. We promote active intern ... Read More
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Business Training Seminars
GBA business training seminars typically cost $15,000 and can provide training for up to forty budding entrepreneurs. In addition, GBA often provides loan capital to help these talented men and women get their new businesses started. Please help GB ... 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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Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS)
Northwestern University sponsors and facilitates collaborative interdisciplinary scholarships on crucial problems facing the world. By promoting dialogue on international affairs, Northwestern works with a variety of organizations and communities to ... 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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Children's Education Programs
Although Sierra Leone now has a policy in place to give every child free primary education; overcrowding, lack of trained teachers, lack of paying teacher salaries and many other problems still plague the public school system. LemonAid Fund works wit ... Read More
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Clean Drinking Water for Darfur
Support GBA’s efforts to bring safe, clean water to the war-torn region of Darfur. 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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Containers for Angola
RISE partners with schools churches, businesses, organizations and individuals to make a difference in Angola providing a tangible connection. The resulting projects have a direct impact on the Angolan people while providing hands-on involvement and ... Read More
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Days of Interfaith Youth Service
The Days of Interfaith Youth Service (DIYS) grew out of a vision from the first National Conference on Interfaith Youth Work in 2003. By 2006, DIYS was an international event, pairing community service and interfaith dialogue. Boasting thirty-four ... Read More
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Developing Country Honorary Membership Program
ISPCAN invites applications and nominations for Honorary Memberships Awards given to child abuse and neglect prevention professionals working in developing countries. Awardees will receive all ISPCAN benefits for two years, including subscriptions to ... 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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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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Educational Support
RISE provides educational support through training workshops conducted by teams who travel with RISE to Angola on a Pilgrimage of Service. AIDS education and prevention is also taught through the It Takes Courage! curriculum. Leaders and teachers are ... 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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Emergency Response
Quick response to emergency needs due to poverty, famine, conflicts, civil strife and natural disasters. Read More
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Empowering Farmers
One Acre provides a permanent, proven investment package for farmers and their families, which doubles farm income by providing seeds and fertilizer, weekly farm education, and market access. This investment package is the core of our program.
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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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Entrepreneurship Development
Heartland International, in partnership with two Kenyan NGOs, is now conducting a training program for young entrepreneurs (ages 25-35) in Kenya. This two-part training program addresses issues of high unemployment and lack of opportunities for youn ... Read More
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Fund for BME Design in Healthcare, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Global Initiatives in Management, Kellogg School of Management
The GIM program is an intensive global business leadership course designed by students. Teams of classmates plan and facilitate a challenging 10-week curriculum with a faculty advisor, and coordinate a two-week international field experience. By part ... Read More
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Global Leverage Fund
With the help of the Global Leverage Fund, Opportunity International's vision to mobilize $1 billion to reach 100 million people with microfinance loan, savings and insurance products will be realized. To reach this aggressive goal, the organization ... Read More
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Global Partnerships
Woodstock Institute provides technical assistance internationally to organizations seeking to bring mainstream financial resources to underserved communities effectively and affordably. Likewise, Woodstock Institute’s international research seeks to ... 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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Health
Distribution of health kits to returnees, donation of dental chairs and other medical equipment to the Bie Central Hospital. Read More
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Health Care Initiatives
Project Harambee recruits lay and medical volunteers to provide outreach and services to those impacted by HIV/AIDS. Read More
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Health Partnerships
Our Health Partnerships enable students to improve global health by mobilizing the resources of their university campuses to support partner grassroots health organizations throughout the world. Read More
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Healthcare
To live healthy, to be free of disease and suffering, to be able to breathe the open air, to play, to learn and to work; these all seem like simple requests and yet for millions around the world these simple human rights are unattainable. It is consi ... 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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Higher Education
Since last year, at the request of all stakeholders in Bie province of Angola, SHARE has been forging strategic partnerships to establish a university in Kuito city, the capital of Bie province. Read More
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HIV/AIDS Conferences
Key elements of our program in Cameroon are four-day conferences for clergy and community leaders. Focused on education, the intense conferences provide training and practical approaches to attacking the ignorance, stigma, and discrimination surround ... Read More
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HIV/AIDS Prevention
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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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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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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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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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International Scholarship Program for Developing Country Professionals
ISPCAN sponsors numerous scholarships for leading professionals from developing nations to learn about child abuse and neglect and how to become leaders in their countries. Attendance at ISPCAN conferences and training events is valuable for learnin ... 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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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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Matanya's Hope
Matanya's Hope is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty in Kenyan communities by offering educational opportunities to children who would otherwise have none and by assisting with projects critical to their survival. Read More
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Micro-Power
Maybe help comes from a micro-enterprise grant for a agricultural or poultry farm in Sudan. It could be needed assistance in starting a cattle ranch in Uganda, or a small hamburger stand on the streets of a small town in Kosovo. Empowerment might c ... Read More
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Microeconmic and Craft Projects
Project Harambee facilitates microeconomics projects giving women & children a "hand up" to care for themselves without relying on a handout. These include livestock and agricultural projects, and sewing machines. Project Harambee also provides mar ... 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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Orphan and Youth Initiatives
Our programs address the needs of OVC of all ages, including shelter, education, food security, access to health care, psycho-social support, and legal services. However, a significant number of our programs focus on providing services for orphaned ... Read More
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Outreach Education and Trainings Program
IFYC provides a variety of in-depth trainings around the world to equip young leaders, faith leaders, civic organizers and others to organize their own interfaith youth service projects. The program also seeks to educate the wider public on the impo ... Read More
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Pilgrimage of Service
One of the elements that makes RISE unique is its focus on people and relationships. Keeping our mission on a personal level, RISE teams travel to Angola on a "Pilgrimage of Service" to provide workshops and educational programs for all ages that are ... Read More
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PolioPlus Program
PolioPlus, the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history, is the volunteer arm of the global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. For more than 20 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this c ... Read More
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Post-Secondary Scholarship Support
Believing in the restorative power of education, Child Restoration Outreach Support Organization (CROSO) is dedicated to helping street children in Uganda by providing scholarships to fund their post-secondary education. Read More
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Primary and Secondary Education
Distribution of school kits, desks and chairs to primary schools. 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 CHAI
World Bicycle Relief in support of CHAI – the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative – provided 300 bicycles to people across six different countries to help specific HIV/AIDS initiatives in Africa. The bicycles were provided to healthcare workers ad ... Read More
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Project Intandane
Project Intandane provided a baseline study of the living conditions and circumstances of a sample of child-headed housholds in the high density suburbs of Bulawayo. It defined a child-headed family as one whose breadwinner is the eldest of the sibl ... 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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Scattered Seeds
In Southern Sudan, the area near Nyinbuli which is currently home for some 30,000 people was encased near the frontline of war. While a 2005 peace treaty dulled the extremity of violence, walking to the nearest clinic in this war-torn land was still ... Read More
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School Group Connections
Project Harambee builds communication bridges between school groups in Africa and in the United States. Read More
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Schools for Angola
A spirit of collaboration and common purpose among churches, local leaders, the Ministry of Education and RISE makes the building of schools in rural Angola possible.
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-Provides design and plans for building pri ... 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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ShoreCap Exchange
ShoreCap Exchange recognizes that banks worldwide need more than simply capital to thrive. The Exchange strives to build stronger banks that focus on serving the poor in developing countries in Africa and Asia. Expert practitioners and consultants br ... 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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Small Business Development
Small business development is at the core of Global Alliance’s model for economic strengthening. By listening to our local partners, and working with them to design and implement an integrated and contextual model that helps communities and househ ... 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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Sustainable Development in Southern Sudan
- Provide clean drinking water by digging water wells for the community.
- To establish effective health programs geared towards combating common diseases through health education, and training of health personnel.
- To provide educationa ... Read More
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Tanzania: THRIVE
The kindergarten we helped to found in 2005 is expanding its scope via THRIVE. We are using education as a basis for developing resilience of the orphans as well as those providing healthcare in the neighboring clinic/hospital. We will be developing ... 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 International Network of Child Policy Research Centers
Make an investment in the future of children. The well being of children is a concern that crosses national boundaries. The International Network of Child Policy Research Centers facilitates the sharing of ideas and information among child policy re ... 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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Thianwe School in Bor, Sudan
After creating a temporary school in Bor, HELPSudan leadership has also provided mosquito nets, blankets, notebooks, and pencils to students. They toured the school and interviewed the volunteers to listen to their views on the school's progress, ge ... Read More
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Training and Capacity Building Program for Child Physical and Sexual Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Effective Child Protection requires a multidisciplinary approach among professionals working in every community world-wide. ISPCAN’s unique network of local and diverse professionals creates a global force to protect children in need. The need to pro ... 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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Tuition Assistance in Kenya
We provide tuition assistance to secondary school bound students from rural communities in western Kenya who have excelled in the national primary school examinations but cannot afford to pay for their secondary school tuition. We give special consid ... 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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Working Bikes Cooperative
A bicycle worth $20 in Chicago can be worth the equivalent of $1,000 in Africa. Your donation can possibly mean the difference between work and unemployment to someone in need. The bicycle is the primary means of transportation for the majority of t ... Read More