Health Projects

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Bring Safe Drinking Water to Bangladeshi Children

Health

Imagine discovering the water your child drinks contains arsenic. This is what the community of Billi discovered. Help Billi build and maintain a water system and save their children’s lives.

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How You Can Help:

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	$20 - One child will have access to safe, clean drinking water.
	$100 - 130 children will get hygiene/sanitation lessons for two months.
	$250 - 5 families will have materials to construct a household latrine.
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	$ Other amount

Elder Women in CA Lead Change for Healthy Aging

United States,

Health

Help build the capacity of diverse elder women and their allies to advocate for change that affects their health and well-being, and the broader community, by supporting the Elder Women's Initiative.

How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Pays for travel costs for one local elder woman to participate in a town hall meeting to voice her concerns about issues that impact her long-term health and vitality
	$50 - Pays for outreach to elder marginalized communities to encourage parcipation in town hall meetings
	$100 - Underwrites travel for one elder woman to the state capitol to meet with legislators and advocate for issues that affect the health and well-being of all elder women.
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	$ Other amount

Prevent Nigerian Mothers from Dying in Childbirth

Nigeria,

Health

A low cost, off-patent drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through market distribution in developing countries.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Provides medicine to stop hemorrhages after childbirth for 5 women.
	$50 - Trains 5 traditional midwives to use misoprostol to save rural women’s lives.
	$200 - Provides medicine to stop hemorrhages after childbirth for 100 women.
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	$ Other amount

Himalayan Cataract Project: Remote Eye Camps

Nepal,

Health

A remote eye camp will screen 1,500 patients and restore sight to 300 people in Nepal, Tibet, China, Bhutan or Northern India. Local medical providers also will receive training.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Protects 5 children from vitamin A-deficiency blindness.
	$20 - Restores sight to 1 individual enabling her to once again become a productive member of the family.
	$100 - Screens 50 people for eye disease preventing debilitating complications in the future.
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	$ Other amount

Giving Sight to the Cataract Blind

Pakistan,

Health

This project will enable FMH to restore vision to 150 cataract blind persons by holding Free Eye Camps in the hospital for patients in need of intra-ocular lens (IOL) replacement.

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How You Can Help:

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	$30 - One Patient gets free Intra-ocular
	$40 - Patient gets free IOL plus medicine
	$60 - One Patient gets free IOL +medicine + Surgery + lens replacement
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	$ Other amount

Give 6 Malawian Marathoners a Chance to Run

Malawi,

Health

This project will provide 6 Malawian runners from rural villages a chance to compete in the Austin Marathon in February, and shoes & clothes for 100 additional runners from disadvantage communities.

How You Can Help:

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	$45 - Will ship a box of new running clothes donated by Rogue
	$60 - will get a Malawian runner his/her first pair of new running shoes
	$150 - will provide lodging for 2 runners for a night in the US
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	$ Other amount

Healthy Living for Latina Women and their Families

United States,

Health

Somos Mayfair is empowering women, their families and their community to live healthy lives through free nutrition and exercise classes, health screenings and community teatro.

How You Can Help:

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	$50 - Childcare for 3 children whose mothers are taking classes
	$100 - Basic health screening for one woman
	$250 - Three months of exercise/nutrition classes
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	$ Other amount

Footsteps In Hope: Walk to Enhance Public Health

Zimbabwe,

Health

Walk to provide funding and resources for the operations of HIV-related Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centers (VCTs) and clinics in sub-Saharan Africa and the United State.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Starts an AIDS patient on life-saving anti-retroviral treatment
	$75 - Sponsors all hospital fees for every single child within our program for a month (per site
	$100 - Empowers women through income-generating education and projects.
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