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Build Bridges for Health, Education & Hope - Nepal
Nepal
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Economic Development
EcoSystems builds a unique, popular, all-weather "gondola" bridge in Nepal. The bridge moves 40 to 80 adults, or 80 to 160 children per hour, safely each way across rivers up to 160 meters wide.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Chaka (wheel) or hanger for one bridge.
$20
- Load-bearing spacer or nag spacer for one bridge.
$50
- Gabion block or roof for one bridge.
$100
- Carriage assembly or wire for one bridge.
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$250
- Chaka assembly for one bridge.
$500
- Pillar for one bridge.
$1,000
- Anchor assembly for one bridge.
$1,000
- Post for one bridge.
$16,796
- Will fully fund this project
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Smart Business Solutions vs. Poverty in Africa
Ghana
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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:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$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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$250
- 3,000 people can get access to a PC for 1 year at an internet café
$350
- Sponsors a Scholarship for a US MBA to work in Africa for a week
$500
- Creates a 6-month internship for an African college graduate
$70,266
- Will fully fund this project
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Help Aging Musicians Meet Daily Needs
United States
,
Economic Development
Music Maker Foundation helps musicians over the age of 55 avoid poverty through providing food, shelter, and medical care, and helps them continue making music and sharing their gifts with the world.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Help with an artist's grocery bill
$50
- Provide gas to a gig
$100
- Pay an artist's utility bill
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$250
- Buy prescription medicine for an artist
$500
- Pay an artist's rent for a month
$1,000
- Provide a quality instrument for an artist
$23,412
- Will fully fund this project
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Increase safety and incomes for Nepal climbers
Nepal
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Economic Development
At our climbing school, Nepali students are taught mountain safety, English, technical mountain climbing skills, and emergency medicine. The outcome is safer expeditions and higher wages for guides.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Pays registration and insurance for one Nepalese Student to attend the Khumbu Climbing School
$100
- A full scholarship, including room and board, for one porter to attend the Khumbu Climbing School
$200
- Pays for the salary of one Nepali teacher for English or Climbing courses
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$500
- Pays for graduation patches and printed instructional materials for entire class of 54 students.
$2,000
- Pays for on American Instructor’s airfare to Nepal and from Kathmandu to Lukla and back
$14,350
- Will fully fund this project
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Sustain the Lives of Kenyan AIDS Orphans&Families
Kenya
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Economic Development
This project provides initial education and healthcare sponsorship to HIV/AIDS orphans. Families will get training and business start-up capital so they can further support the orphans.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$250
- Will provide school books to 20 orphans.
$500
- Will create 2 jobs and support 6 family members.
$1,000
- Will keep 20 orphans alive through healthcare insurance.
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$5,000
- Will enable 20 orphaned youths to start a business to support themselves.
$20,000
- Will enable 60 families to start a business to provide for 200 orphans.
$223,484
- Will fully fund this project
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Combating Hunger via Livestock for Families, Niger
Niger
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Economic Development
RI's Livestock Program is supplying starving pastoral households or communities, the most vulnerable populations in Niger, with herds & flocks of livestock for income & food supplies during droughts.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Provide one weeks worth of fodder for one families' livestock
$50
- Provide necessary veterinary care to one families' livestock for one year
$74
- Provide veterinary care to one village for a month
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$112
- Provide fodder for an entire village
$485
- Fund the training of animal health workers
$830
- Provide one family with an income-generating oxen
$1,000
- Provide one oxen, fodder, and veterinary care for one family for a year
$50,825
- Will fully fund this project
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Give Microcredit Loans to Women in Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Economic Development
Women for Women International’s Microcredit Lending Program in Bosnia provides small business loans to women survivors of war so they can move from victim to survivor to active citizen.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- or less will be combined with other gifts to give a first-time loan to a woman survivor of war.
$900
- provides a loan to a woman, giving her the chance to launch her own business.
$5,000
- provides 6 microcredit loans to women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, helping them to build a better future for their families.
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$50,000
- provides 55 microcredit loans, transforming the economic landscape of an entire community.
$980,085
- Will fully fund this project
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Livelihood for 500 Tribal Women in Gujarat
India
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Economic Development
This project enables livelihood for women in rural Gujarat through Sakhi Sangathan, a women's collective, which grows, buys and sells its own farm produce at profit in a male dominated market.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$40
- Will teach 1 woman how to drive - will enable 500 more to market their products
$40
- Is the cost of 2 months of management training for one woman
$90
- Will obtain crop insurance for 15 women
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$150
- Creates entry into the market. Women can then return total of $22500 to SS
$73,440
- Will fully fund this project
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Creating Opportunity for Darfur Women
Sudan
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Economic Development
The Baskets of Darfur project aims to support the livelihoods and dignity of Sudanese women who are living in Internally Displaced Persons camps in Darfur, Sudan.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Buys one Basket of Darfur produced by IDP women
$50
- Provides training for one young woman to learn to weave
$100
- Buys the raw materials for 25 handwoven baskets
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$24,600
- Will fully fund this project
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Restore Historic Castle in Szadvar, Hungary
Hungary
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Economic Development
This project provides 100 volunteers with food, tents, building material and other supplies to work for three weeks on a historic monument restoration at Szadvar Castle in rural Hungary.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- would provide food & place to sleep for a volunteer for a day
$50
- would provide building material and tools for a volunteer
$120
- would allow hiring a carpenter to work on the restoration
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$24,700
- Will fully fund this project
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