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Nourishing 500 Children in Ho, Ghana
We partner with the Ghana Health Service to fund community health and outreach projects at the H.O.P.E. Center, a primary health clinic in Ho, Ghana. The principle project that began in 2006 is used to fortify the diets of malnourished children in the Ho area with protein and vegetable supplements in conjunction with promoting sustainability through seed distribution.
Location: Ghana | Need: $30,000
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Safe Drinking Water for 80,000 Children in Bolivia
80,000 school children in Bolivia will be trained in simple, affordable techniques to sustainably improve their health. Techniques include hand washing and solar water purification (SODIS).
Location: Bolivia | Need: $30,000
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Support Mother-Child Health for 40,000 Kashmiris
This is an affordable community-funded healthcare model, and serves 40,000 rural poor in northern Pakistan. The facility provides comprehensive primary and preventive care, with a mother-child focus. Lives are saved everyday by having on-site, round-the-clock urgent care facilities, a well-stocked pharmacy, a laboratory, dental unit and more. On-going patient education and speciality camps help address chronic conditions and improve the quality of life of the earthquake affected rural residents.
Location: Pakistan | Need: $400,000
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Save Poor Afghan Families From Starving
Poor Afghans in Afghanistan with no jobs, food or homes face starvation in the winter and after natural disasters or being displaced. Provide emergency packets to support families.
Location: Afghanistan | Need: $37,500
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Teach Traditional Ethiopian Midwives to Save Lives
By ensuring mothers and frontline health providers in Ethiopia have access to simple, proven, and affordable technologies, thousands of lives can be saved during pregnancy and childbirth.
Location: Ethiopia | Need: $15,000
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Giving Sight to the Cataract Blind
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.
Location: Pakistan | Need: $10,689
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Saving Mothers' Lives in Rural Tanzania
An affordable generic drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through local businesses in developing countries.
Location: Tanzania, United Republic of | Need: $25,000
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Rescue Children Suffering From Severe Malnutrition
Fifty percent of Nepali children under five-years-old are malnourished. Among the consequences of malnutrition are stunted growth, increased susceptibility to disease and permanent intellectual damage. Malnutrition is the main cause of death for as many as 50,000 Nepali children each year.
NYF's unique program restores health to a malnourished child while simultaneously educating the mother in proper childcare, hygiene, and nutrition. And all of this can be done with a donation of $260.
Location: Nepal | Need: $20,000
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Support Child & Family Wellness shops in Kenya
CFWshops is a pioneering franchise network of basic medical clinics & drug shops in Kenya, each owned & operated by a Kenyan nurse or community health worker, preventing & treating prevalent diseases.
Location: Kenya | Need: $300,000
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Stop deaths from TB on Likoma Island, Malawi
African Steps will build, equip and run an isolation ward for TB patients in St Peter's Hospital on Likoma Island. People are dying constantly of TB, which is a totally preventable disease and the isolation ward and facilities will prevent these unacceptable deaths and the spread of the disease throughout the Island.
Location: Malawi | Need: $44,000
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