The Gibson Soto Foundation works to break the poverty cycle by supporting young women from impoverished or marginalized communities in Mexico to complete university-level education and providing additional programs and developmental skills to have a sustainable, fulfilling life and rise above poverty. This project will give the gift of education to 14 more amazing women, allowing them to break down barriers of gender inequality, leave poverty behind, and achieve a new life beyond their dreams.
This project is aimed at poor patients in rural areas of the state of Morelos in Mexico, who suffer from visual diseases such as cataract, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, who are treated at the ACREC ophthalmological clinic, and do not have enough money to have surgery and recover their sight. With surgery, people recover their vision and improve their quality of life.
This project will supply 20,000 solar lamps in Mafuta, Chinunda & Munukwa Chiefdoms of Eastern Zambia to women and girls living on less than $2 a day. The solar lamps will enable women to save up to $2 Million from kerosene purchases within a year of owning a solar lamp. It will enable girls to study when the sun sets and improve their school performance to enable them to remain in school and reduce early marriages. Environmentally, The project will save more than 20,000 tonnes of CO2 emission.
The food crisis in Venezuela is real and harms all components of society. When kids experience severe forms of malnutrition they experience a delay in their growth which affects them not just physically, but can also affect their mental growth. Malnutrition is taking lives in orphanages due to the lack of food supplies provided by the current government. Without your help, there is no hope for these innocent kids.
At Backup Uganda, we focus on giving learners the attention and instruction that best suit their learning needs. In Uganda, it is not yet a priority to meet the needs of learners with learning difficulties. With class sizes upwards of 70 children, struggling learners are overlooked and pushed along in their education. We empower their teachers and parents to identify their difficulties and work with them in order to prevent dropping out of school or getting lost in the system.
Want to create a healthier and more successful future for kids, families, and communities? The generosity of our supporters helped us reach 16,000 schools and 4.4 million kids in all 50 states - and we're just getting started. Whether you're a school district administrator, food service director, School Food Professional, concerned parent, policymaker, community advocate, or student, we want you to join us in getting schools cooking.
This project aims to plant 7,000 trees across urban, semi-urban, and rural areas to combat climate change, reduce air pollution, and promote a healthier environment. The initiative will actively engage communities in plantation and long-term care of saplings to ensure sustainable impact. Additionally, fruitful and shade-giving trees will be distributed to marginal farmers to support environmental conservation while enhancing their livelihoods.
With your help, we've already supported over 10,000 children, many of them girls, to leave child labour in India's tobacco industry and enter education. With this incredible success and the closure of many of the tobacco making factories in our area of work - Now, we're taking the next step: helping girls stay in school from primary education all the way to college. This project gives girls the long-term support they need to complete their education, overcome poverty and lead community change.
Access to information and knowledge is the most effective method of self-empowerment. This is why Women's Resource Center provides free emotional support, referral services and informal education to women and girls in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. Our workshops on topics such as women's health, women's rights, domestic violence, positive parenting and financial literacy help women gain the skills and confidence they need to change their lives for the better.
In rural Mpigi, Uganda, 500 women who head households are trapped in poverty with no capital to start businesses. Our Booster Grants program gives each woman $300 + quarterly business training so she can launch a shop and earn steady income to feed her family and keep her children in school.
This project will help low income girls, boys and young people with cancer in Mexico , by providing them with special studies, medicines, prostheses and endoprotheses.
For more than 10 years, YUM has worked to increase the quality of children's education in Bukit Batu, Central Kalimantan, home to 19,000 inhabitants, most of them living with less than $2 per day. YUM's Community Library is the only library in the area and more than 500 children enjoy not only reading the books available but also the various educational activities offered. With your help, we can continue to enrich their lives through reading, ultimately promoting their intellectual development.
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