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Colombia: Giving Hope to Children of War

Children

This project helps young people in Bogota channel the trauma of displacement and war into healthy self-expression through various after-school arts programs, academic tutoring, and counseling.

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	$50 - Purchases 2 weeks' worth of art supplies for a painting class for 15 young people.
	$250 - Facilitates 10 trauma-counseling sessions for a group of 10 former child soldiers.
	$500 - Buys equipment for a month-long videography class for 15 young people.
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Help volunteers tackle community problems

Economic Development

New Heights is a revolutionary program that directs volunteers to where help is needed most. Your help enables more children to read, more battered women to find shelter and more ill to find comfort.

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	$25 - will mobilize 1,000 hours of volunteer service toward meeting community needs
	$50 - will match 10 volunteers with 10 community needs
	$250 - will mobilize 10,000 hours of volunteer service toward meeting community needs
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Give a Family a Chance in Colombia

Economic Development

More than 3 million people in Colombia have been displaced from their homes due to ongoing internal armed conflict. With no money or assets, 35,000 families each month struggle to survive.

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	$25 - will purchase a school kit for one child, including shoes and school supplies
	$50 - will purchase a school kit for one child, including shoes and school supplies
	$100 - will provide a habitat kit with bedding, cooking utensils and basic household supplies for one family
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Transform the lives of children through soccer!

Sport

"Soccer for Peace" is a community generating experience that is using soccer's pedagogical capacities to provide new life opportunities for disadvantaged children living in Barranquilla, Colombia.

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	$10 - will help two vulnerable children have a new uniform to play soccer
	$15 - will cover the program's costs to benefit one child
	$50 - will contribute to the recovery of spaces where children spend their free time
	$75 - will provide 10 nutritious meal key for children's development
	$100 - ill deliver 20 soccer kits containing a soccer ball, a notebook, a pencil and a bag
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Give Families in Colombia a Home

Economic Development

Providing community development through self construction housing, training and entrepreneurship credit so that vulnerable and displaced families can become agents of their own development.

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	$25 - Provide cement to a family building their house
	$43 - Donate the cement blocks a family needs to build the walls of their house
	$50 - Put windows to the house of a family with children.
	$65 - Put the door on the house a displaced family just built.
	$100 - Provide 320 hr of technical assistance and construction training for a woman building her own house
	$100 - Give a displaced family with children the bathroom they can't afford to build in their house.
	$100 - Give a woman head of household half of the initial capital she needs to buy her own house.
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A Tree for Peace: why protect Chocó's Biodiversity

Environment

Through participatory workshops in schools we educate children in Medellín about sustainable use of biodiversity in Chocó. We close this campaign on the one-day international event "A Tree for Peace".

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	$15 - 5 small trees as souvenir from the 'Tree for Peace' day
	$85 - 15 children attend the 'Tree for Peace' event
	$155 - 1 workshop for 15 children
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Provide electricity to 22 Colombian families

Climate Change (GG Green)

This micro hydroelectric project will bring electricity and lighting to 22 indigenous families living in rural Minaflores, Colombia, an area under threat by guerillas and paramilitary.

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	$21 - Maintenance costs per family
	$54 - Electronic equipment for one person
	$636 - Cost of bringing light to one family
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