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Free Surgery for 50 Burned Children in Zambia

Health

Interplast helps disabled Zambian children who suffer with severe burn injuries from kerosene lamps, kitchen fires, or acid-throwing. Free evaluations and surgery will restore mobility and hope.

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How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$40 - Funds quality review for 25 children's burn surgeries.
	$300 - Changes one disabled child's life forever through reconstructive surgery for burn injuries.
	$750 - Buys important burn-care equipment, such as a dermatome, to help 50 children this year, and hundreds more for years to come.
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	$ Other amount

Communities in East Africa respond to HIV/AIDS

Kenya,

Health

Local groups in Kenya and Tanzania working with World Neighbors address prevention, screening, nutrition and antiretroviral therapy, in addition to the social stigma, livelihood strategies and orphans

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Transportation and food to go to a voluntary testing facility
	$20 - Seeds and irrigation tubing for a kitchen garden
	$100 - School fees for one orphaned child
	$100 - Health education materials for one community group
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	$ Other amount

Build A Model Town In Apam, Ghana

Ghana,

Health ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

Install a Sewage Disposal and Sanitation System at the Apam Hospital

How You Can Help:

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	$50 - Will go towards the cost of the first sewage system in a hospital that serves over 250,000 people
	$100 - Help in building a model that can be replicated in the town of Apam
	$150 - Help break the cycle of diseases caused by lack of good sanitation
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	$ Other amount

Help blind children in slum areas in Cambodia

Cambodia,

Health ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

This project restores sight to 4,000 children from slum areas and 1,500 mothers at risk of damaging sight in one or both eyes, upgrade 800 health staff and set up a pediatric eye clinic in Toul Kork.

How You Can Help:

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	$72 - Fee for lid surgery for Trichiasis patient to regain sight
	$245 - Fee for surgery for a Trauma patient to regain sight
	$305 - Fee for Cataract extraction for a Cataract patient to regain sight
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	$ Other amount

Water & Toilet Loans in Indian Villages

India,

Health

Berhampur and Aska, face a clean water & sanitation crisis. Project assists families in obtaining individual loans to build their own water tap and latrine in their home.

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How You Can Help:

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	$35 - One child will have clean water and sanitation
	$70 - two children will have clean water and sanitation
	$200 - One family will have clean water and a toilet in their home
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	$ Other amount

GlobalGiving Relief Fund for Pakistan Earthquake

Pakistan,

Health

The donations to this fund will be distributed amongst projects addressing the devastating 6.4 earthquake that has displaced over 40,000 people and killed more than 300.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$10 - Pakistan Earthquake relief
	$50 - Pakistan Earthquake relief
	$100 - Pakistan Earthquake relief
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	$ Other amount

Books for Health Education: India & South Asia

India,

Health

This project sends free copies of Where There Is No Doctor and other Hesperian popular education materials to health workers and community leaders working to improve health in poor communities.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Sends a copy of HIV, Health, and Your Community to build local capacity for addressing HIV/AIDS
	$25 - Provides a copy of Where There Is No Doctor to a community health worker who can use it
	$50 - Gives a traditional birth attendants copies of A Book for Midwives and Where Women Have No Doctor
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	$ Other amount

Books for Health Education: Ghana & West Africa

Ghana,

Health

This project sends free copies of Where There Is No Doctor and other Hesperian popular education materials to health workers and community leaders working to improve health in poor communities.

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How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$25 - provides a copy of Where There Is No Doctor to a community health worker who can use it
	$25 - sends a copy of HIV, Health, and Your Community to build local capacity for addressing HIV/AIDS
	$50 - Gives a traditional birth attendants copies of A Book for Midwives and Where Women Have No Doctor
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	$ Other amount

Clean water for 2,700 on Wasini Island, Kenya

Kenya,

Health

Access to clean, sanitized water will change the lives of the 2,700 islanders of Wasini, who presently fall in to the World Health Organisation category of “no access” to water.

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How You Can Help:

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	$13 - Bag of cement, 300 needed
	$14 - Iron sheets for roofing, 100 needed
	$19 - 1 tonne of sand or concrete, 55 needed
	$28 - Guttering
	$94 - Water pump, 2 needed
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	$ Other amount

"Special Andy"

Laos,

Health

Supplying Andy with physical therapy, traditional medical treatment and supplies such as a special bed so that she can do exercise on her own. SEDA is raising funds to support Andy's treatment.

How You Can Help:

Make a donation
	$20 - diapers for a month
	$30 - herbal teas for a month
	$30 - food for a week
	$75 - Caretaker for a month
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	$ Other amount

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