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Noon Meal Improves Girls' Learning in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, Children
The project pays for a noon meal for girls who attend a girls’ middle school and whose parents cannot afford school. Girls walk 6 km to and from school and have no other source of food during the day. progress reportread updates from the field
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Support Child & Family Wellness shops in Kenya
Kenya, Health
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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Immunization for Tribal Children and Young Mothers
India, Health
Seva Mandir organizes camps to provide Immunization in remote areas not serviced by State Health Facilities. The Immunization covers 6 key diseases. progress reportread updates from the field
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Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, Children
The project buys lambs & school materials for girls’ first year of school. It requires parents to raise, sell & purchase lambs to pay for their daughters’ school needs the following 12 years of school progress reportread updates from the field
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Clean Drinking Water for Five Moroccan Villages
Morocco, Health
This project is bringing safe drinking water and improved sanitation to over 1,600 people in five of Morocco's most remote rural villages, and reducing high infant mortality rates in the process. progress reportread updates from the field
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Business School for Rural Women in Maharashtra
India, Education
The Business School provides technical skills to rural women without formal education and to girls forced to drop out of school, enabling them to start and/or improve their own micro enterprises. progress reportread updates from the field
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Fast-Tracking Education for Afghan Women and Girls
Afghanistan, Children , Safer World Matching Funds Available
Provide literacy and fast-track education to 1,000 women and girls who were deprived of learning by the Taliban and are now eager to become literate and earn grade certificates at an accelerated pace progress reportread updates from the field
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Sports to Empower Women & Girls in Rwanda
Rwanda, Sport
AKWOS empowers women through sport & education to improve their rights, break barriers between social classes, raise women's standing in society, enhance unity & reconciliation and prevent HIV/Aids. progress reportread updates from the field
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Give a girl a bike: help her go to school
India, Education
Each year these projects provide 400 bicycles to girls in rural Maharashtra so they can continue their education. Otherwise they are unable to visit the school because they live too far away. progress reportread updates from the field
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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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Clean Water and Conservation in the Philippines
Philippines, Climate Change (GG Green)
On the island of Negros, in the Philippines, an innovative pump will bring clean running water to thousands of people in 12 villages and encourage watershed conservation within these communities progress reportread updates from the field
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Cultivating Young Women Leaders in Northern CA
United States, Education
Give young women the reproductive health knowledge and life skills they need to build self-confidence and hone their leadership abilities through this peer-based leadership program. progress reportread updates from the field
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Give Microcredit Loans to Women in Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Economic Development
Women for Women International’s Microcredit Lending Program in Bosnia provides small business loans to women survivors of war so they can move from victim to survivor to active citizen. progress reportread updates from the field
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Improve Quality of Teaching in Rural China
China, Education
Support schools and network rural teachers across China to develop new curriculum and teaching approaches that prepare students to make improvements in their own lives and communities. progress reportread updates from the field
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Provide Bicycles for Poor Students in India
India, Children
Our project is providing 300 bicycles and shoes to 300 students --150 boys and 150 girls--to help them go to school in poor coastal areas of Kerala, India. progress reportread updates from the field
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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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Micro Hydro Power for 1,000 People in Philippines
Philippines, Climate Change (GG Green)
A community-based micro-hydro power (MHP) system will be installed to provide household lighting and run community-based corn mill enterprises allowing people to secure food and income. progress reportread updates from the field
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Be! - inspiring girls to become entrepreneurs
India, Microfinance
BE! is a multimedia movement to inspire millions of girls in India to choose to become entrepreneurs, to solve the social, economic & environmental problems they face in their lives. progress reportread updates from the field
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Help Feed 200 Neglected Elderly in Guatemala
Guatemala, Human Rights
This project will provide a regular supply of basic foods and other items to the elderly population in parts of rural Guatemala, whilst educating families on age related issues. progress reportread updates from the field
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Ablution block and Kitchen for 500 in Nairobi Slum
Kenya, Technology
This project will provide 500 residents of a Nairobi slum with access to toilets, showers and safe cooking facilities. progress reportread updates from the field
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Restoring 10 sacred groves in Rajasthan
India, Climate Change (GG Green)
Using water conservation techniques and tree and grass planting we revive these forests and restore the sacred groves. This secures the livelihoods of the 8000 people who depend on the groves. progress reportread updates from the field
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Develop Women Savings & Credit Cooperative, Nepal
Nepal, Microfinance
Strengthen women’s cooperatives, develop management skills of the members, and improve the economic position of the women through income generating projects and sustainable agriculture practices. progress reportread updates from the field
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Protect Vital Rainforest in Australia for Climate
Australia, Climate Change (GG Green)
Purchase, protect, and replant 100 acres in one of the world’s oldest and most diverse tropical rainforests, which contains rare and threatened flora and fauna. progress reportread updates from the field
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Promote Sustainable Agriculture in Chiapas, Mexico
Mexico, Climate Change (GG Green)
Help train subsistence farmers on eco-friendly farming methods. This improves the income and health of families, protects the rainforest and conserves resources for future generations. progress reportread updates from the field
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Fellowship Programme for Tribal Community Leaders
India, Democracy and Governance
The fellowship supports tribal community leaders to act as catalysts of change in their communities through financial support, networking and learning workshops for them. progress reportread updates from the field
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Train Women Farmers in Organic Agriculture, Nepal
Nepal, Climate Change (GG Green)
Develop women’s cooperative groups in implementing sustainable agriculture and train groups with ways to connect to markets to sell their produce and improve their income. progress reportread updates from the field
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Character and Leadership Training for Thai Youths
Thailand, Children
Give on-going training to 140 volunteers who run weekly program for kids/youths and coach young leaders, so they attain self-control, reverence, a sense of responsibility, empowered to serve others. progress reportread updates from the field
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Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil
Brazil, Environment
Irrigated vegetable gardens are provided for Brazilian rural families. As a result they have food, work and better habitat and environmental conditions. progress reportread updates from the field
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Mama Hope Health Clinic for Rural Kenyan Families
Kenya, Health , Project Challenge 2008 participant.
Mama Hope Health Clinic is the only community-run health clinic in 500 miles and serves 120,000 people whose communities have been destroyed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. progress reportread updates from the field
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Train 3000 Kibera youth in sport & life skills
Kenya, Sport
We help lift talented youth out of poverty through sports, education, and life skills. To end a successful training year, we are fundraising to reward children and youth who performed well progress reportread updates from the field
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Solar energy for families in Santo Domingo, Panama
Panama, Environment
Northwestern University students are providing two communities with training and materials to install household solar panel systems and build educational capacity by equipping schools with computers. progress reportread updates from the field
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Provide Kibera Slum Children with 1500 Solar Lamps
Kenya, Climate Change (GG Green)
Providing a first reading and lighting experience for children in Kibera through the provision of 1500 solar lamps and establisment of a resource centre progress reportread updates from the field
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Stop Overfishing and Preserve Kenya Marine Life
Kenya, Environment
This project provides Kenyan fishermen with new methods to improve fishing, consequently, conserving the marine environment. Our artificial reef will help with overfishing which is a major problem. progress reportread updates from the field
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Music & Education Program for Disadvantaged Youths
Brazil, Children
In NE Brazil an influx of tourism and development has led to exploitation, child prostitution and a drug culture. The program aims to return the region’s rich musical culture to its marginalized youth progress reportread updates from the field
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Global Educational Empowerment for 100,000 Girls
United States, Education
The Sisterhood Empowerment Project has two parts: 1) A Journey Toward Womanhood Replication and 2) Sisterhood Agenda Positive Media. The Sisterhood Empowerment Project serves 100,000 girls globally. progress reportread updates from the field
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Equip Mobile Medical Clinics in rural Nepal & Peru
Nepal, Health
Provides equipment for annual Mobile Medical Clinics (aka "Camps") to deliver critical health care to 14,000 remote mountainous villagers in rural Nepal and Peru, from 2008 - 2012. progress reportread updates from the field
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