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Educate girls and fight poverty in Senegal

Senegal,

Education ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

By providing access to education, our project empowers girls to fight the causes and effects of poverty in their lives and build a brighter future for themselves, their families and their communities.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Provide a mosquito net and help a scholar prevent malaria
	$25 - Enable a scholar to receive after-school tutoring for a month
	$50 - Cover a scholar’s tuition and fees for one school year
	$100 - Cover tuition, fees, and room and board to a scholar who lives far from the nearest school
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	$ Other amount

Village Loans for self-reliance in rural Mali

Mali,

Microfinance

Revolving loans are offered for development committees in rural villages. Loan profits support the elementary school program for the village community and provide a way for long-term sustainability.

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How You Can Help:

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	$150 - Provides business training for one village micro-enterprise committee for an entire year.
	$4,000 - Funds an entire village revenue-generating project.
	$12,000 - Sponsors 3 village revenue-generating projects.
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	$ Other amount

Mobile HIV Testing and Counseling Outreach Teams

Uganda,

Health

This project would increase the number of HIV testing and counseling outreach teams for the communities around the AIDS vaccine study sites in Entebbe, Uganda.

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How You Can Help:

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	$12 - Provides HIV testing and counseling for 3 people.
	$185 - Pays for 1 outing of a mobile unit serving 50 people.
	$750 - Pays for 1 month of VCT services for more than 200 people.
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	$ Other amount

Safe Water and Latrines for Ethiopian Villages

Ethiopia,

Health

Communities near Tigray Ethiopia face a clean water crisis. This 3-phase project will assist these villages in obtaining clean water and latrines in households as well as the local elementary school

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How You Can Help:

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	$15 - One child will have access to safe, clean drinking water
	$60 - One family can build a latrine for their household
	$100 - 130 children will receive health/education classes
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Schooling for Sudanese refugee children and women

Sudan,

Education

NEF supports the Tagwa primary school in Dar al-Salaam al-Rabwa, the Tawheed pre-school and the Awatif women’s literacy program, all founded and operated by local residents.

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How You Can Help:

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	$18 - required school uniform without shoes passed down from child to child each year; for 240 students, $4,320
	$25 - teacher salary for 1 month; $300 for 1 teacher for 1 year
	$35 - exercise book for one student
	$100 - table/bench seating for 5 children; $600 per class; for entire school--48 sets for 240 students in 8 classes,$4,800
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Water & Sanitation ensure 2000 Kenyan girls learn

Kenya,

Children

Over 4000 children (mostly girls) attend and complete schools because of better water and sanitation. Over 1000 more kids have come to already overcrowded schools, following post election skirmishes.

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How You Can Help:

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	$50 - provides 1 orphaned girl with sanitary ware, hygiene training for a year
	$100 - provides 2 orphaned girls with sanitary ware, hygiene training for a year
	$1,000 - provides 25 girls or 30 boys with one complete toilet unit with handwash
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	$ Other amount

Educational Support for 1,200 Girls in Ethiopia

Ethiopia,

Women and Girls

This program will provide educational opportunities through four years of high school for Ethiopian girls who otherwise would not have the opportunity to complete school.

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How You Can Help:

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	$265 - Supports one female student for one year.
	$560 - Supports one girl for two years.
	$1,120 - Enables student to finish high school.
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	$ Other amount

Water-Saving Agriculture and IT for Ghanaian Youth

Ghana,

Children

The Growing Connection trains youth and their communities to grow produce with water-saving, high-yield techniques and connects them to the Internet for info, advice, and communications with peers.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Buys seedlings for 5 water-efficient high-yield vegetable gardens
	$50 - Trains 1 teacher in water-efficient vegetable production
	$250 - Trains and equips 20 students for innovative horticulture
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Help Feed Thousands of Refugees in Ethiopia

Ethiopia,

Health

Support the United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP) in its life-saving work to provide basic food assistance to Sudanese, Somali, and Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia.

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How You Can Help:

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	$24 - Feed and educate a young girl for 6 months
	$36 - Provide food and healthy conditions to a child for an entire school year
	$92 - Provide nutrition for a pregnant or breastfeeding mother
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Smart Business Solutions vs. Poverty in Africa

Ghana,

Economic Development

5 high-growth, business development programs for African firms to help them maximize operations, train staff, create new jobs, spur innovation, inspire younger generations, and compete globally.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Provides a worker with on-the-job training
	$15 - Supports a business owner with bi-weekly mentoring
	$50 - puts the "want-ads" into the hands of 200 jobseekers
	$70 - Can fund a local pharmacy for a day
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	$ Other amount

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