Help at Risk Haitian Families Recover and Rebuild
You can help in the re-building process of Haiti in 30 communities that have been identified in and round Port-au-Prince where Project Concern can make the most impact with an integrated package of services. Re-building interventions include: meeting immediate sanitation needs through temporary latrines while working with communities to design and build community based and low-cost, permanent solutions to waste disposal; implementing mobile medical clinics in target communities in partnership with local NGOs and clinical providers; designing and building safe housing alternatives that allow families to stay close to home; and establishing “safe spaces” that provide supervised activities for children as well as counseling, nutrition and health monitoring, which also allow parents to seek out job opportunities.
Give Care to HIV-Infected Cambodian Children
Partner:
New Hope for Cambodian Children
Starting at:
$75
Related MDG:
Reduce Child Mortality
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
New Hope for Cambodian Children (NHCC) adopts a multi-disciplinary approach in order to support and assist thousands of children infected with HIV and AIDS, and their affected families, throughout Cambodia. Your sponsorship will provide support to "Our Village, an 18 acre property located in Kampong Speu province that provides a full range of housing, nutritional, health and educational needs to orphaned and abandoned children currently infected with HIV/AIDS.
Free and Educate Enslaved Nepali Girls
Partner:
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF)
Starting at:
$100
Related MDG:
Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Achieve Universal Primary Education
You can help free enslaved Nepali girls. Working closely with local communities, NYOF helps parents bring their daughters home from the city and provides a tiny piglet or goat - much valued in this culture - which the families can raise and sell for the same amount their daughters would have earned if sold as bonded servents. Your gift to NYOF will help bring these girls home and pay for all expenses for them to attend the local school.
Provide Education to the Females of Afghanistan
Partner:
Barakat
Starting at:
$40
Related MDG:
Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Help to educate women and girls in Afghanistan. This gift will help towards increasing female literacy rates in Afghanistan. You can sponsor a female student's education in either a lower level literacy course (called Sowat Amausi which literally means 'to teach one to become literate') or throughout her higher level literacy courses (called Sowat Hayati which translates to 'literate for life'). Lower level courses include an accelerated 10-month curriculum covering grades 1-3 and higher level courses cover grades 4-9 in six years.
Build Green, Hygienic Toilets in Rural India
Partner:
Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES)
Starting at:
$260
Related MDG:
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
You can help improve the physical environment of the villages from which many of the PPES students live in. By providing toilets in the student’s home, you can help reinforce the health lessons learned at school. It will also help improve the overall sanitation in the village and decrease many preventable illnesses associated with poor sanitation in the region.
Plant Trees in Brazil
Partner:
Trees for the Future
Starting at:
$5
Related MDG:
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
You can reduce your carbon foot print by planting trees in Brazil. Trees for the Future integrates tree-planting into agriculture and land restoration projects providing countless, sustainable benefits to our Earth and to the life upon it. Not only do trees bring life back to degraded lands, they also create better conditions to grow food, they provide people with a means to generate income, and they mitigate climate change through sequestering carbon dioxide.
Invest in Education in Bangladesh
Partner:
Grameen Foundation
Starting at:
$1,500
Related MDG:
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Invest in the education of a poor rural child living in Bangladesh FOREVER! Your investment in a child's education in rural areas of Bangladesh will cover tuition, books, uniforms and other related educational expenses. With your support to the Grameen Foundation Education Scholarship program, your donation is invested at a local bank in Bangladesh for 6 months to generate the necessary interest income to fund the monthly scholarship disbursements in support of the education of a poor rural deserving student every five years. Supporting a student's education helps not only the student but the entire family to break away from the cycle of poverty.
Build Kilns for Nicaraguan Artisans
Partner:
Potters for Peace
Starting at:
$300
Related MDG:
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Potters for Peace (PFP) plans to add more kilns to communities in Nicaragua using local materials and labor. You can help this effort of preserving the cultural tradition of pottery-making and helping to provide a source of income for these poor artisans by sponsoring the installation of a fuel-efficient kiln for a community.
Support Underserved Youth of Color in USA
Partner:
Technology Access Foundation
Starting at:
$40
Related MDG:
Achieve Universal Primary Education
The Technology Access Foundation (TAF) has changed the trajectory of over 1,000 students in Washington State. TAF programs improve educational outcomes for students of color by providing exceptional public school options that emphasize Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). You can help more students graduate high school on-time and be ready for college by supporting afterschool and in-school programs that target traditionally underserved communities.
Give Wheelchairs to Disabled in Vietnam
Partner:
Arthur B. Schultz Foundation (ABSF)
Starting at:
$165
You can give the gift of mobility to a poor disabled Vietnamese individual. Without mobility, disabled adults and children often lead an isolated life-confined to their homes, ostracized by society, and perceived as a burden to their families. Your gift will provide a sturdy, rugged, locally manufactured RoughRider wheelchair to a needy disabled individual in Vietnam who is unable to afford this most basic tool of independence. This gift of mobility brings autonomy, dignity and unlimited potential to some of the most disenfranchised people in Vietnamese society.