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Provide Education to the Females of Afghanistan

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Partner:
Barakat
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$60
 
Related MDG:
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women
 
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.
 

Enable South Africans to get a College Education

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Partner:
Seattle South African Scholarship Foundation
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$98
 
Related MDG:
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women
 

SSASF provides college tuition and residency for academically strong South African students who have excelled despite adverse circumstances.  Your support will allow a very worthy student to realize their dream by contributing to the payment of their tuition and/or residency at university.  

 

Support Children's Education in India

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Partner:
India Rural Development Fund (IRDF)
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$75
 
Related MDG:
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Achieve Universal Primary Education
 
You can help improve literacy rates and empower future leaders in India by sponsoring a child's school expenses in one of five schools or a junior college in Andhra Pradesh State. Your donation will help provide students with textbooks, uniforms, mid-day meals and a well-rounded education.
 

Supply Medicine to Children in Sierra Leone

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Partner:
All As One
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$50
 
Related MDG:
Reduce Child Mortality
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
 
The All As One Medical Clinic provides much-needed medical assistance and treatment to all the children at the Children's Center. It also serves others in the community. The clinic has registered nurses on duty 24 hours a day and doctors who oversee the work of the clinic, intervening in serious cases. Your support can help provide medicine and related care for orphaned children in Sierra Leone.
 

Sponsor US Students Fighting Global Hunger

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Partner:
Action Against Hunger
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$170
 
Related MDG:
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
 
You can help to sponsor Action Against Hunger's Race Against Hunger program where students learn about global malnutrition, its causes, its effects, and its solutions. Students in the program will be empowered with the tools to help eradicate this global pandemic by educating their peers and community about worldwide hunger and malnutrition, advocating for effective solutions to the problem, and raising funds through participation in a non-competitive "fun run" at the end of the program.
 

Help Educate Underserved Youth of Color in USA

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Partner:
Technology Access Foundation
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$30
 
Related MDG:
Achieve Universal Primary Education
 

TAF Academy is a public 6-12 grade school that prepares underserved children of color to graduate from high school on-time and college-ready to pursue degrees in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Academic support and enrichment opportunities are provided to all students and specialized attention is given to students in need of academic and language support. Your gift in support of TAF Academy's students will help TAF to continue to provide free educational opportunities for underserved children of color in Seattle.

 

Provide Maternal and Child Healthcare in Guatemala

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Partner:
Project Concern International
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$166
 
Related MDG:
Reduce Child Mortality
Improve Maternal Health
 
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.
 

Plant Trees in Honduras

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Partner:
Trees for the Future
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$5
 
Related MDG:
Ensure Environmental Sustainability
 
You can reduce your carbon foot print by planting trees in Honduras. 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.
 

Build Latrine & Septic Tank for a Nepalese Family

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Partner:
Himalayan Healthcare
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$200
 
Related MDG:
Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
 
You can provide a latrine and septic tank for a family to help prevent diseases and sickness caused by lack of sanitation. In addition, your support of this project helps employ local villagers for the installation.
 

Sponsor Young Fellows to Help Earthquake Victims

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Partner:
iLEAP/ETIC
 
Country:
 
Starting at:
$70
 
Related MDG:
Develop a Global Partnership for Development
 
Through this "Disaster Recovery Leadership Program," you can sponsor talented young Japanese to become entrepreneurial disaster recovery leaders and energize their work reconstructing the Tohoku region in Japan. These young leaders in their 20s and 30s from all over Japan will be sent to 50 projects for disaster relief and community and industrial revitalization. Examples of such projects include: a community bus operation project and a project to create an association of food industries in the Eastern region of Japan. The Fellows in this Disaster Recovery Leadership Program must make full-time commitment for period of 3 months to 1 year. This can be made possible only with your financial support. Our goal is to sponsor Fellows who will become the leaders of next generation, and to generate 15,000 beneficiaries in community revitalization and 600 new jobs through industrial revitalization. Furthermore, this program cultivates social awareness and an entrepreneurial spirit in youth and the people around them, while taking advantage of their energy and ambition for long-lasting and effective development. This program has the potential to move past mere relief and progress and have a ripple effect towards social end economic development throughout Japan.
 
 
 
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