In Liberia, where the average life expectancy is 46 years old and the GDP is the 2nd lowest in the world, education can make all the difference. You can help provide girls (many orphans, street children, and former sex workers), with the educational tools they need to live better lives. Your support will provide a girl with a scholarship to attend school as well as with uniforms, books, supplies, and a matched mentor. Additionally, the girls learn proper nutrition, are provided with immunizations, and learn about disease transmission prevention as well as learn to read and write.

You can provide a woman with the opportunity to decide when to have children, allowing her to continue her education and work until the family has the means to feed their children. A planned pregnancy is often a healthier pregnancy. Your donation of $30 will help provide a woman with eight months of contraception.

SeaChar.Org is working with local partners and communities in Central America to introduce clean-burning, fuel efficient cook-stoves to the households most at risk from the deadly effects of smoky indoor fires. Able to use a wide range of dry organic fuels, these stoves lessen the demands on forest resources and create the soil-building, carbon negative byproduct known as biochar. The Estufa Finca has been developed in Seattle, field tested in Nicaragua and Costa Rica and emissions tested by Aprovecho Research Center. SeaChar works with local communities to train local women to fabricate and market these affordable stoves to their neighbors. They work with local farmers to utilize the biochar byproduct to enhance local organic alternatives to unsustainable chemical fertilizers and soil amendments. They also work with University partners to design effective implementation, testing and monitoring protocols. Their program is designed to educate both local and international volunteers.

Nepali village midwives provide regular prenatal examinations that include a history and physical examination and pregnancy counseling.  For just $30, you can help Himilayan Healthcare administer tetanus immunization and provide a supply of vitamins, iron, and folic acid to one pregnant woman in Nepal.  

MADRE is working with a group of Palestinian and Israeli midwives to help women safely deliver their babies. Your support of this project will help train and equip certified midwives in the West Bank to help women safely deliver their babies. Your gift can provide "safe birth" medical kits, portable ultrasound devices, pre-natal supplements or will support joint trainings for Israeli and Palestinian midwives.

MADRE is working with partners in Northeastern Kenya to respond to the crisis in Somalia, providing urgent aid such as calorie-dense, nutritious food, emergency water supplies, health kits with medicines to fight diarrhea and infections and oral rehydration salts. They are also providing training for mothers to detect the signs of malnutrition in their children. With your help, MADRE can give its partners the resources to help them feed another baby and to keep another mother from grieving the loss.

Your support of Project Concern International's (PCI) Casa Materna (Mother's House) program, an integrated reproductive and maternal and child healthcare program will help address the challenges of access to quality healthcare services for Mayan women and their children in the impoverished Department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Your gift will help provide women with clinical attention, evaluation, medicine and other services to ensure healthy pregnancies and access to health services for their children. Additionally, both parents and family members are trained in "low-tech" methods of effective infant care such as "Kangaroo Mother Care" where an infant is warmed through skin-to-skin contact, to improve the health outcomes of infants and improve their chance of survival.

Ensure healthy children by safeguarding vulnerable mothers in Calcutta, India. Once you provide a gift to a mother and child, you will receive information about the sponsored pregnancy and be able to follow the sponsored mother-child pair through the child's first birthday. Pregnancy and the first two years of life is the most important time for physical and cognitive development. Your gift will provide medical and social services to the mother and child that will maximize the possibilities for the child's future.

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