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Conservation of endangered forest in Kabuna-Kaderuna, Uganda
BYEPO has been working to protect and conserve nature by promoting afforestation and creation of habitats for the wildlife. The achievement is evident with more trees growing on the land of some local farmers and schools who have benefited from our program. You can see the results of our programs...
Increase sport participation for children in Uganda
Uganda Sport for Health, Recreation and Development (USHRD) is a not-for-profit organization that exists to help people of Isingiro district improve their quality of life through sports. USHRD is the only organization promoting sports in the district, and sports include soccer, volley ball, net...
Uganda Sport for Health, Recreation and Development (USHRD)
Uganda Sport for Health, Recreation and Development (USHRD) is an NGO that exists to help people in the Isingiro district improve their quality of life through sports such as soccer, volley ball, net ball, and athletics for schools and communities. The organisation has completed a girls’ sports...
Hakuna Matata Project
The Hakuna Matata Project is a community based organisation in Kenya. The Project aims to provide a home and shelter for women and children built in an eco-friendly way and to establish a permaculture-designed farm that will provide healthy, nutritious food for the residents. There are also plans...
Bus & vocational training equipment needed in Eastern Cape South Africa
Cookhouse is located in in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and has a population of 10,000 people. Cookhouse is a town with the highest number of HIV / AIDS infections, vulnerable children, orphanages, etc. Currently, there is only one clinic serving the entire community and surrounding farms...
Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan - Creating Value for All: Community-Based Tourism
Tourism is a rapidly growing industry throughout the world. It can contribute to poverty alleviation through creating new jobs and providing entrepreneurial opportunities for people from a variety of backgrounds, skills and experiences. Community-based tourism - a type of tourism that is owned and...
Eco camp and environmental education in Tanzania
The conditions in most rural areas in Tanzania prevent development to happen. Economic hardship, lack of knowledge and other structural difficulties lead families to act inefficiently and unaware which in turn reinforces their poverty and environmental depletion. Therefore, Ngeriv's main goals...
Mercy Corps and Nike promote Sports for Peace and Life in Sudan
Mercy Corps has been working in Sudan using sports as a way of both rebuilding post-civil war communities and educating young people about HIV/AIDS. This effort has been supported and greatly helped by Nike's donation of large amounts of sporting equipment to the project.
Carlson
Carlson (previously named Carlson Companies) is one of the largest family-run and privately-held corporations in the United States with business in the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, Carlson brands and services, including...
Fair Trade Sports teams up with Project Hope Worldwide
Fair Trade Sports Inc, a company that manufactures sports equipment in the US, has teamed up with Project Hope Worldwide.
Creating Value For All: Community-Based Tourism in Kyrgyzstan
Community-based tourism (CBT)-a type of a tourism that is owned and managed by the local community and its members- has emerged as a mechanism to facilitate locally based tourism activities in many developing countries, including the Kyrgyz Republic. The first CBT group was established in May 2000...
Indonesia's tourism industry is getting tsunami ready
Following the Asian tsunami the Indonsesian Ministry of Culture and Tourism has partnered with the Bali Hotels Association (BHA) to improve tsunami readiness amongst hotels. The initiative is supported by the German Centrum für Migration und Entwicklung (CIM).
The Veolia Foundation helps Bulgarian children with disabilities to experience outdoor activities
The Veolia Environment Foundation has made a grant to the Get Involved" Project of Outward Bound Bulgaria, an organization that provides outdoor adventure courses for young people.
Southern Water supports WaterAid in a variety of ways
Southern Water, its employees and customers have supported WaterAid since 1981, promoting WaterAid through organising and taking part in fundraising events and making donations.
Through an initiative of ASGN, micro-credit and tourism save giraffes in Niger
ASGN (the Association to Safeguard the Giraffes of Niger) used grants from the Wildlife Protection Foundation in the UK and from the Zoo de Doue in France to set up a successful micro-credit scheme.
Timberland partners with Big City Mountaineers to provide wilderness experiences
Timberland partners with Big City Mountaineers (BCM), an organization uniting volunteer mentors with urban youth for life-changing outdoor journeys.
Funding required for Girl Power Project in Uganda
Care for African Kids (CFAK) is a Ugandan NGO that takes care of 165 children at its orphanage centre in Wakiso, and provides support towards the childrens' shelter, education, medication, clothing, and food while also attemping to prevent child abuse and violence and the spread of HIV/AIDS, and...
ConocoPhillips signed the Gold Sponsorship deal for ROTA's Wheels 'n' Heels
In February 2008, ConocoPhillips Ltd Qatar was the exclusive Gold Sponsor of Qatar-based NGO Reach Out To Asia, ROTA’s, third Wheels 'n' Heels community fun day.
Partnering with Mercy Corps, Nike is helping to build better, healthier communities.
Nike has been working closely with Mercy Corps, aiding in their efforts to use sports - particularly soccer - as a method of community rebuilding and to bring hope to the world's youth.
Sponsors needed for 12 orphans in rural Nepal
There are 12 orphaned, helpless children between 4 to 14 years of age in the Child Welfare Home (CWH) Khandbari in the Sankhuwasabha district of Eastern Nepal. SESF would like to provide proper education, food and medical care for them and help them to become able to earn their living in the...