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Increasing Income for Landless Farmers in India
India
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Economic Development
To improve the quality of life for 5,100 people in 40 rural villages in Bihar, India, through self-help groups to increase income, manage their savings, and improve their health and education.
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How You Can Help:
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$95
- Train 100 families to build smokeless stoves.
$190
- Supports a legal-awareness camp.
$238
- Trains midwives in safe delivery of babies.
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$429
- Implements drip irrigation.
$11,071
- Will fully fund this project
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Poorest Nicaraguans Start Sustainable Businesses
Nicaragua
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Economic Development
In the poorest rural communities of Nicaragua, farmers receive seed capital and business training to launch environmentally sustainable businesses; they become effective guardians of the environment
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How You Can Help:
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one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Provides skills training to one Nicaraguan microentrepreneur to start a business.
$100
- Provides the seed capital necessary to start one business to support a family in Blufields, Nicaragua.
$200
- Provides training, monitoring and support to 20 entrepreneurs over a 6-month period.
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$1,000
- Provides a fresh start for 10 of the poorest villagers, improving the lives of as many as 50 family and community members.
$17,089
- Will fully fund this project
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Literacy for Women Business Owners in Haiti
Haiti
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Economic Development
This project provides thousands of women microfinance clients with basic literacy training and the opportunity to learn business skills, as well as health and human rights education.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- Allows one woman to complete 2 literacy modules in one year
$75
- Allows one woman to be trained in 3 life skills areas
$125
- Allows one solidarity group of women their first module in literacy training
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$1,000
- Allows an entire credit center to begin literacy training
$84,663
- Will fully fund this project
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Enhancing skills for 1000 women in Bihar
India
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Economic Development
The project will provide suitable skill training for 1000 poor women in rural Bihar so their income earning capacity increases and improves their economic situation.
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How You Can Help:
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one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$30
- Teaching, learning materials, school dress and midday meal for one child for 1 year
$50
- Cost of one sewing machine
$100
- Cost of 600 sets of sample books for tailoring
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$200
- Remuneration for one tailoring trainer for 6 months
$300
- Remunerarion for one computer teacher for 6 months
$500
- Rent for one training center for one year
$1,000
- Cost of one computer
$3,000
- Revolving fund for skilled women towards capital investment for micro enterprises
$18,970
- Will fully fund this project
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Protecting Umoja: A Village of Women
Kenya
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Economic Development
The inspirational women of Umoja have asked MADRE to build a small fence around their village to stop hyenas and other wild animals from praying on their children and livestock.
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$35
- Will allow a woman to protect her goat and safeguard her source of income
$100
- Will prevent hyenas from attacking children at play
$350
- Will complete 20% of the fence, making a significant contribution to the security of the village
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$6,640
- Will fully fund this project
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Support Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Tanzania
Tanzania
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Economic Development
Support TechnoServe's work to make Tanzanian coffee competitive on global markets, benefiting small-scale farmers, their families and rural coffee-growing communities
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- Provides entrepreneurship and coffee quality improvement training for one farmer
$125
- Generates enough revenue to provide 25 children health care for one year
$500
- Generates enough revenue to provide 80 children health care for one year
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$23,895
- Will fully fund this project
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Cloth for Work
India
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Economic Development
Cloth is given as a motivation, with dignity, to people working on their own community issues. We turn age old charitable cloth into a resource for much needed development work in Indian villages.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$40
- Support for reaching material for 10 families to do development work
$200
- Support for one entire village to initiate various activities
$500
- Help spread the initiative in the remotest and poorest pockets of the country
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$37,205
- Will fully fund this project
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Help Haitians Grow Crops Affordably
Haiti
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Economic Development
The food crisis in Haiti is an urgent plea for more food. A seed bank enables Haitian communities to plant inexpensive, quality seeds and grow food to feed their families sustainably for years.
How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- one batch of corn seeds
$50
- one set of farming tools
$100
- seeds for peas, corn,millet
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$200
- training on managing a seed bank
$22,875
- Will fully fund this project
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Reduce poverty in rural Nicaragua
Nicaragua
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Economic Development
TechnoServe will expand its successful programs diversifying agricultural production in coffee farming areas across Central America to the agricultural communities of Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- Creates enough income for a family to send one child to school for a year
$100
- Generate enough income to pay the annual health care costs for 1 family
$700
- Permanently lift a Nicaraguan family out of poverty by creating sustainable long term employment
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$9,770
- Will fully fund this project
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Help Indian Rickshaw-Pullers Become Self-Employed
India
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Economic Development
The project creates a sustainable livelihood for poor, rural migrants living in urban India, helping them become self-employed through Rickshaw Bank. To date, 360 pullers have attained credit this way
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$200
- 1 rickshaw, insurance, uniform, card and license.
$1,190
- Insurance coverage for 500 rickshaw pullers.
$97,830
- Will fully fund this project
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