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End Hunger for Rural Families in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
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Economic Development
Poor people have limited capacity to recover from crises. This project will encourage savings, provide credit, adopt sustainable agriculture and diversify risks using multicropping and aquaculture.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$22
- 100 women can gain access to vital medicine
$50
- 1 woman can start a small trade or business which will increase her income.
$150
- 100 women can receive pre and post natal health care for themselves and their babies
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$500
- 150 women receive training on sustainable agriculture techniques, nutrition and aquaculture.
$9,326
- Will fully fund this project
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Give Ergonomic Benches to 100 Mexican Weavers
Mexico
,
Economic Development
This project provides 100 Mexican 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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$11,375
- Will fully fund this project
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Support women farming sustainably in rural Nepal
Nepal
,
Economic Development
Develop women’s cooperative groups to promote sustainable farming. The women will also learn business skills and ways connect to markets to sell their produce and improve their income.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- 5 women trained in sustainable farming; pest management, composting, seed banks, kitchen gardens
$100
- 70 women can receive business skills training to better sell their produce
$150
- 100 women can receive health training on how to improve their family’s nutrition
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$12,679
- Will fully fund this project
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Give Ergonomic Benches to 200 Guatemalan Weavers
Guatemala
,
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.
read updates from the field
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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Prevent Sex Trafficking of Women in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
,
Economic Development
Provide indigenous women and girls in Bangladesh economic alternatives to prostitution and forced labor. Empower women with skills based education and rights awareness training to improve self-esteem.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- 40 women and girls can learn about their rights and know how to protect themselves
$75
- 1 teenage girl can start a successful business, avoiding sex trafficking
$100
- 20 women can receive training in raising chickens and fish to improve their family income
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$5,680
- Will fully fund this project
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Changing lives in the village of Fiarenana
Madagascar
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Economic Development
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Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Zahana, a rural development NGO, has been approached by a new village (pop. 283) for help with malaria prevention, revitalizing a nursery, introducing new crops and getting safe drinking water.
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How You Can Help:
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one-time
monthly recurring
donation
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Profit for Poor Farmers
India
,
Economic Development
The creation of a cooperative dal (lentil) processing business to be owned by local farmers. This market-based intervention stands to improve incomes 50+% for over 1,000 tribal families
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Contribute towards the cost of a Splitter
$30
- Contribute towards procuring a Grader cum Polisher
$50
- Contribute towards the Machinery Installation
$70
- Contribute towards the cost of Diesel Generator
$100
- Contribute towards the Mill-House (infrastructure)
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$1,400
- Support the procurement of a Dal Mill
$5,000
- Support the total cost of a Mill-House (infrastructure)
$16,405
- Will fully fund this project
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Empower 10,000 Students to Launch Social Business
Kenya
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Economic Development
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Everybody Can Win Challenge Participant
Young people making a living by making a difference. umake100 connects young people with great business ideas to mentoring, hands-on learning experiences and seed funding for social businesses.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Empowers 2 students as social business innovators
$50
- Inspires 5 students to transform their communities
$100
- Equips 10 students to be successful entrepreneurs
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$200
- Builds a mini-movement of 20 social change-makers
$98,270
- Will fully fund this project
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Improving Food Security for Tribal Farmers
India
,
Economic Development
Enable 5,000 poor tribal households of Udaipur region to shift onto better agriculture practices, and ensuring the resource-poor communities sustainable livelihood and enhance food security.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Support 2 vegetable nursery for 30 Families
$15
- Support 1 vegetable garden for 1 housefhold
$25
- Help establish 1unit of Vermicomposting (organic fertilizer)
$30
- Support 2 vegetable garden for 2 households
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$115
- Support establish 1 Mini Orchard of 30 fruit trees for 1 family
$125
- Support a seed bank in 1 village
$200
- Provide imporved seeds for monsoon crops to 20 households
$38,970
- Will fully fund this project
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Bringing Business to Bridges in Nepal
Nepal
,
Economic Development
EcoSystems Nepal has requested MWB's support in providingide affordable renewable energy to villagers that are not connected to grid po
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Cost for 2 days of MBA volunteers insurance
$20
- Provides daily stipend for MBA volunteer to continue supporting Ecosystems
$60
- Supports MWB Staff to manage project for 1 week
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$2,950
- Will fully fund this project
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Breaking barriers to Agriculture in Ukraine
Ukraine
,
Economic Development
MBA Volunteer Alasdair Maughan is assessing agriculture regulations in Ukraine to improve the effectiveness and minimize the burden of laws, making it easier for farming businesses to prosper.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- 2 Days of Insurance for MBAs Without Borders volunteer Alasdair
$25
- Supports Alasdair's monthly accommodation while volunteering
$33
- Provides MWB MBA Alasdair's daily stipend
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$5,675
- Will fully fund this project
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Supporting Community-based Microinsurance in India
India
,
Economic Development
Micro Insurance Academy (MIA) is a Delhi-based org dedicated to microinsurance options serving the poor. MIA has requested a MWB volunteer to help develop its fundraising and general local programs.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Cost for 2 days of MBA volunteers insurance
$16
- Cost of accomdation for 1 day for MWB Volunteer
$33
- Provides daily stipend for MBA volunteer to continue supporting One Acre Fund
$50
- $50 of $1,500 flight for volunteer
$60
- Supports MWB staff to manage project for 1 week
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$10,000
- Will fully fund this project
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Help 500 Rural Haitian Families Fight Hunger
Haiti
,
Economic Development
"Feeding Families" is a sustainable farm project to help 500 families address hunger in Haiti through vegetable gardens, fruit tree plantings, and the breeding of goats, rabbits and chickens.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Provides seeds and watering can for a square foot garden
$20
- Buys a rooster and a hen for a family to start egg production
$25
- Plants two fruit trees for a family
$30
- Buys two rabbits, supplies and training for a family
$50
- Pays for a complete square foot garden with training
$100
- Buys a goat, supplies and training for a family
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$2,000
- Buys a complete nursery for raising fruit trees for on-going distribution
$64,788
- Will fully fund this project
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Supporting Business Leadership in Nigeria
Nigeria
,
Economic Development
MBAs Without Borders has partnered with LEAP Africa (LEAP) to recruit a MBA for a challenging and exciting project in Lagos, Nigeria to support their business leadership program.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$10
- Cost of 2 days of insurance for volnteer
$25
- Contributes to medications and vaccinations needed by MBA volunteer
$33
- Provides daily stipend to MBA Volunteer
$50
- $50 of ~$2,000 flight for volunteer
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$5,475
- Will fully fund this project
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Light Up Uganda (Project to raise $15k)
Uganda
,
Economic Development
Project15K is a pilot project involving 3 organizations: Net Impact, MBAs without Borders, & Barefoot Power. Our goal is to send an MBA professional to aid a solar enterprise in Uganda.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- General funding
$600
- Travel & Medical Insurance
$950
- Pre-departure Prep/Training &Laptop & Equipment
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$1,200
- Medication/Vaccination
$1,500
- Accommodation (partly provided by Barefoot)
$2,200
- Emergency Fund + Project Logistics: Recruiting, Logistics, Management
$2,500
- Travel Cost (Flight & Visa)
$6,000
- Program Stipend
$15,000
- Will fully fund this project
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Support Sustainability for El Salvadoran Farmers
El Salvador
,
Economic Development
Enable one family in a new Agros village in El Salvador to increase its income through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, to buy the land that they are working.
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