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Build a school from recycled materials for 50 Maya
Guatemala
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Education
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Project Challenge 2008 participant.
This school will provide education beyond 8th grade to 50 Maya children in rural Guatemala. It will be built with recycled tires and liter soda bottles packed with trash collected by the community.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- 3 desks
$50
- concrete for the supporting walls
$175
- books for the library
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$21,400
- Will fully fund this project
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Help Guatemalan Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency
Guatemala
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Microfinance
Guatemalan women and their families will receive loans, training, and support necessary to start small businesses and achieve long-term economic stability and self-sufficiency.
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How You Can Help:
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one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- 10 families can receive basic financial management training to run their businesses better
$50
- 10 families will be trained on livestock care and disease preventions
$100
- 10 families can receive 1000 baby chicks and training to start a chicken cooperative
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$18,465
- Will fully fund this project
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Give Ergonomic Benches to 200 Guatemalan Weavers
Guatemala
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Economic Development
This project provides 200 Guatemalan weavers an ergonomic bench and education to increase their income potential, while also preventing serious damage to their bodies and preserving weaving culture.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Helps educate one backstrap weaver to use the bench safely & to maximum benefit
$70
- Helps bring the ergonomic bench to one backstrap weaver
$2,500
- Helps provide a start-up kit & tech support for local carpenters to produce benches
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$10,000
- Helps produce an educational DVD in Spanish, and makes it ready for dubbing into indigenous languages
$35,785
- Will fully fund this project
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Family Planning for Guatemalans Living in Poverty
Guatemala
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Health
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Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Provides poor, rural and indigenous Guatemalans with access to short and long-term family planning methods. Family planning allows couples to freely determine the number and spacing of their children.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$15
- pays for 1 man to receive a vasectomy
$50
- covers one year of Depo Provera injections for 4 women
$70
- pays for 2 women to receive Jadelle implants, which protect against pregnancy for up to 5 years
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$150
- covers the cost of voluntary tubal ligations for 10 women
$250
- provides a year's worth of protection from unwanted pregnancy for 95 couples
$9,624
- Will fully fund this project
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School for Mayan Children, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Guatemala
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Education
Our program is supplying funding for additional resources for the Peña Blanca primary school, including extra staffing to reduce class sizes and improve levels of education.
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$5
- 1 child to receive reduced class sizes for 1 year
$10
- 2 children to receive reduced class sizes for 1 year
$25
- Materials sponsorship for 1 child for 1 year
$50
- Materials sponsorship for 2 children for 1 year
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$150
- Materials sponsorship for 1 child throughout Primary School
$26,300
- Will fully fund this project
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Support Sustainability for Guatemalan Farmers
Guatemala
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Microfinance
Families in the village of Villa Linda will be able to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, buy the land that they are working.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Provides credit management training for one woman.
$60
- Provides a woman's first loan in a community bank.
$150
- Buys a cow to begin a dairy business.
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$500
- Funds a starting community's general store.
$12,506
- Will fully fund this project
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School Meals at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
Guatemala
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Health
Providing a daily balanced diet for 200 children in the Peña Blanca community elementary school. Often, this is the children's only meal of the day.
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$6
- School meals for 1 child for 1 month
$12
- School meals for 2 children for 1 month
$30
- School meals for 1 child for half an academic year
$60
- School meals for 1 child for 1 school year
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$12,768
- Will fully fund this project
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Help Feed 200 Neglected Elderly in Guatemala
Guatemala
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Human Rights
This project will provide a regular supply of basic foods and other items to the elderly population in parts of rural Guatemala, whilst educating families on age related issues.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$15
- Will feed 1 old person for a month
$180
- Will feed 1 old person for a year
$200
- Will buy a maize crusher to make tortillas
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$2,000
- Will provide a weaving loom to help make clothing
$5,000
- Will start a farming cooperative to feed the old people of 1 village
$10,000
- Will build an old people's community centre
$31,130
- Will fully fund this project
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Energy Efficient Cooking Stoves in Lake Atitlán
Guatemala
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Environment
Helping local indigenous communities in Guatemala, especially Peña Blanca, to install carbon efficient stoves which use less firewood and allow the community health, educational and financial benefits
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Cooking pot for the family
$28
- Local mason's salary to build the stove
$50
- Bricks and mortar for 1 stove
$100
- Hotplate and chimney for 1 stove
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$250
- A whole stove, inluding wages, transport etc
$12,300
- Will fully fund this project
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Free & Sustainable Secondary Education, Guatemala
Guatemala
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Children
Hundreds of indigenous children in Guatemala near Itzapa will receive free secondary education due to this programme. The majority now work in the fields as their parents cannot afford schooling.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$20
- Education for a month
$240
- Education for a year
$310
- Fund a teacher for a month to benefit the whole community
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$6,875
- Equipment for entire school
$62,400
- Builds a school to benefit children from all the surrounding communities
$93,255
- Will fully fund this project
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