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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. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $15 - Provides a noon meal for 50 students for one day.
• $50 - Provides a noon meal for one student for the school year.
• $75 - Provides a noon meal for 50 students for one week.

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• $150 - Provides a noon meal for 100 students for one month.
• $4,388 - Will fully fund this project

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Support Mother-Child Health for 40,000 Kashmiris

Pakistan  Health   Safer World Matching Funds

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. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $30 - provides healthcare and medicines to 15 patients
• $50 - provides healthcare and medicines to 25 patients
• $100 - pays for a vaccinator for one month

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• $120 - pays for generator fuel to run the clinic and hospital for one month
• $300 - pays for a laboratory technician for one month
• $500 - pays for physician care for one month
• $1,000 - provides for medicines for 500 patients
• $2,500 - pays for the salaries of a full round-the-clock medical team to run the clinic and hospital for one month
• $50,088 - Will fully fund this project

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1st Palestinian Birthing Centr-Jordan River Valley

Palestinian Territories  Health

The British Embassy built a medical clinic. Now the villagers of Al Aqaba seek to upgrade it to become the 1st Birthing Center in the Jordan River Valley so that moms need not wait at checkpoints. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $40 - will buy food for two medical equipment trainers when they are staying in Al Aqaba Donna Baranski-Wal
• $75 - will buy a taxi for the training team from Ramallah to Al Aqaba
• $150 - will buy one session of ultrasound training

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• $250 - will buy two days of advocacy coordination
• $909 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Lambs Support Village Girls' Education

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 read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $20 - Buys classroom materials for a girl's first year of school
• $24 - Buys a T-shirt, skirt and book pack for a girl's first year of school
• $46 - Buys a girl's first lamb which her parents will raise and sell to support her remaining years of school
• $90 - Supports one village girl's education for 13 years

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• $180 - Supports two village girls' education for 13 years
• $900 - Supports ten village girls' education for 13 years
• $1,505 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims, 11-12

Israel  Education

Bringing together neighboring school communities of Jews & Muslims in the Upper Galilee, first time in their lives, for on-going deep and positive interaction. Citizens are empowered to actively shape their society. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $50 - Will provide invitations for 1 encounter of 100 people.
• $150 - Will transport the Muslim group to the Jewish school (or vice-versa) for 1 encounter of 100 people.
• $500 - Will cover facilitation and evaluation for 2 encounters of 100 people each.

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• $800 - Will fund a whole 1 encounter of 100 people.
• $1,387 - Will fully fund this project
• $4,800 - Will fund 6 months activity - 6 monthly encounters of 100 people each.
• $8,800 - Will fund annual activity - 11 monthly encounters of 100 people each.

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• $ Other amount

or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Save Poor Afghan Families From Starving

Afghanistan  Health

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. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $15 - Provides one emergency packet for a family of four for one month
• $30 - Provides emergency packets for 2 families or 8 people for one month
• $60 - Provides emergency packets for 4 families or 16 people for one month

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• $9,985 - Will fully fund this project

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• $ Other amount

or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Life Skills for Bantul Women of Earthquake Victims

Indonesia  Education

This project will empower 50 mothers by giving them life skills and capital assistance, and 50 children of earthquake victims in Bantul Yogyakarta will get free education program. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $10 - 50 mothers will get medical check-ups
• $15 - 50 children will get medical chek ups and additional nutrients
• $25 - 50 children will receive a free education program
• $50 - 50 mothers will gain skills

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• $3,980 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

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. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $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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• $2,990 - Will fully fund this project

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• $ Other amount

or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Save Rural Afghan Women & Children With Healthcare

Afghanistan  Children

Support 5 clinics for nearly 16,000 patients monthly in rural areas of Afghanistan with no other health services. These clinics provide medical services and prevent disease through health education. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $25 - 208 patients receive medicine.
• $50 - 26 children receive medical services.
• $75 - 42 women receive basic healthcare and health education.

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• $24,849 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Abir's Garden Playgrounds for a Safe Place to Grow

Palestinian Territories  Human Rights

Combatants for Peace (C4P) are building playgrounds as memorials to a child, Abir Aramin who touched so many hearts. They need your help. C4P brings their members, former Israeli and Palestinian Combatants, to meet, listen to the other, and work to end the Occupation. Through these playgrounds, C4P makes a tangible difference for Palestinian children and parents in the West Bank, speaks for the safety of all children, and introduces Palestinian children to Israelis who aren't soldiers. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $14 - buys one cubic meter of sand play area (50 total)
• $30 - buys one cubic meter of gravel
• $48 - buys a stone coping for the sandpit (40 total)

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• $200 - buys the dedication sign
• $440 - buys 2 benches with sunshades
• $1,700 - buys and installs merry-go-round
• $9,596 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Afghan Women Learn Traditional Carpet Weaving

Afghanistan  Economic Development

Women learn to weave beautiful carpets, preserving their ancient Persian traditions. Carpet sales earn women income to support themselves and their families. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $33 - 10 family members have food for 2 weeks because of a weaver’s income.
• $58 - One carpet weaver’s child can go to school for a year because of a weaver’s income.
• $66 - 20 people have a place to live for one month because of a weaver’s income.

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• $700 - 350 women and children have healthcare and education through AIL. because of carpet sales.
• $4,995 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

100 Mothers Literacy Program

Afghanistan  Education

This project provides 100 mothers in rural villages in Afghanistan with basic literacy program for a three- month period of time per term. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $15 - Pays one student's tuition for 1 Month
• $40 - Pays one teacher's salary to teach a class of 15 mothers for one month
• $150 -  Buys textbooks for 100 mothers

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• $37,491 - Will fully fund this project

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• $ Other amount

or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Library for 10,000 Moroccan Berbers

Morocco  Education

This project provides four remote Moroccan villages a library through the restoration of an historic building. Literacy & knowledge are increased via cultural preservation, book and computer access. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $15 - buys an annual subscription to a newspaper or magazine for the library.
• $50 - trains 10 women to learn to use computers.
• $400 - will train a librarian from the region.

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• $1,500 - will pay for the librarian's annual salary.
• $3,000 - will buy a solar system to charge the computers.
• $18,689 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

The Gift of Education: Adopt a Pakistani Student

Pakistan  Children

The project provides 1750 students in 42 formal and non-formal schools with free tuition & books. These economically challenged families need help to provide their children with a prosperous future. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $10 - Gives books to 2 students in a non-formal school
• $12 - Provides a school bag for 4 students in ABNI schools
• $42 - Gives one child free education and a new set of books for a year in a non-formal school
• $83 - Gives one child free education with books and a uniform for a year in a formal school

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• $16,365 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Action For Health : Empowering Communities in Mali

Mali  Health

Through Action for Health, the Mali Health Organizing Project provides health care for children in West African slums in exchange for their parent’s community service. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $10 - purchases mosquito nets for 5 local children.
• $30 - cures 3 children of malnutrition.
• $85 - covers the cost of 1 child's health care for 1 year.

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• $175 - funds a neighborhood trash clean-up day, promoting community activism and healthy habits.
• $275 -  trains medical staff at MHOP's clinic how to use an electronic medical records system.
• $500 - covers the salary of the doctor at the local clinic for two months, ensuring quality care for neighborhood residents.
• $4,860 - supports the cost of salaries for 12 Community Health Workers for one year, serving close to 2000 slum residents.
• $84,640 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Donate to the Safer World Fund

Afghanistan  Human Rights   Project of the Month Club   Safer World Matching Funds

The Safer World Fund was created by three people who lost loved ones during the 9/11 terrorist acts in 2001. Rather than respond to the tragedy with anger, the founders chose to honor 9/11 victims by helping the people of Afghanistan. The Fund promotes education, health care and economic opportunity to counter the sway of extremists and terrorist tactics. See www.globalgiving.org/saferworld for supported projects. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $50 - Provide one year of schooling to an Afghan child refugee.
• $100 - Support 56 rural Afghani women with basic healthcare and health education.
• $1,000 - Buy three cows and provide financial training for 10 farmers through microlending in Afghanistan.

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• $467,325 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Build Sustainable Housing for Families in Africa

Burkina Faso  Economic Development

In sub-Saharan Africa, the struggle to obtain decent housing plunges millions of families into a vicious circle of poverty. Association la Voûte Nubienne (AVN) offers a solution to this problem, based on three principles: A Roof + A Skill + A Market. AVN organises the training and support of local teams to promote this solution on a large-scale so that families can acquire affordable, sustainable, and decent housing, at the same time improving their economic conditions and quality of life. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $50 - Provides 3 months of training for an apprentice to learn the VN basics
• $100 - Helps 1 family help to obtain a VN house
• $200 - Provides 1 month's salary for an AVN staffer in the Sahel

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• $500 - Creates 1 job as a trained VN builder / entrepreneur
• $1,000 - Finances 5 rural promotion campaigns on sustainable housing
• $2,000 - Helps 20 families to each get a VN house
• $10,000 - Builds a VN school or health center for a rural community
• $42,366 - Will fully fund this project

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Help Home Industry in Make Shoes and Slippers

Indonesia  Economic Development

Before global crisis, this home industry in makes shoes have 113 employees, after global crisis knock over the world this home industry menaced disband and at this time only have 5 employees. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $50 - Training in bookeeping
• $65 - Training in marketing
• $75 - to buy equipments makes shoes
• $80 - 100 people will get their job again
• $100 - 5 people will get capital employ

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• $5,366 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Help Desperate Families from Pakistan Disasters

Pakistan  Disaster Recovery

The Afghan Institute of Learning is providing drinking water, food and shelter to Afghan refugees and Pakistanis who have lost everything from last year’s earthquake, heavy fighting and now flooding. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $10 - feeds two IDPs for 7 days
• $20 - feed a family of 4 for one week
• $40 - packet of food for 8 people for 7 days
• $80 - provides package of dishes for one tent

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• $11,899 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Establish and Support Afghanistan Model Schools

Afghanistan  Education

Our model schools provide highly-qualified teachers, innovative learning programs, a safe and secure learning environment where children can flourish, and strong local community investment. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $25 - provides a month of essential school supplies to 5 students.
• $50 - provides a one-month stipend for a deserving teacher.
• $75 - provides essential materials in maintaining a peace room, as part of HTAC’s peace education program.
• $100 - pays for planting a school garden that students will help maintain.

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• $250 - pays for printing and distributing 30 bi-lingual storybooks
• $500 - helps pay for one school playground equipment
• $43,455 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone

Inspiring Darfur Girls to Achieve

Sudan  Education

The Inspiring Darfur Girls to Achieve Project seeks to improve welfare and status of war-affected women and girls through the provision of sustainable services for women’s development into peacetime. read updates from the field

How You Can Help: 

Make a one-time monthly recurring donation

• $50 - Will train women leaders to mentor girls through difficult challenges and fill gaps in formal education.
• $600 - Provides literacy and numeracy classes for women and girls
• $3,000 - Covers the cost to of 1 girl-friendly youth center to be built in North Darfur

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• $15,346 - Will fully fund this project

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or give a gift in honor/memory of someone