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Water and related ecosystems

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Developing resource centre and orphanage through financial and material aid in India

We hope to bring just realistic, measurable, spiritual, social and economical transformation to most backward and needy 10,000 villages in Uttar Pradesh & Bihar, India by 2020. The villages we will focus on are economicaly very poor, their people are daily laboures and landless farmers whose...

Funding for Water Wells Project in Sierra Leone

The Foundation for Local Economic Development and Human Rights-Sierra Leone (FLEDHR-SL) is seeking to help vulnerable people and communities improve their access to safe drinking water, as well as make the act of accessing the water safe and secure. Women and children have to travel a long way...

Building hand washing facilities and wells in Magu Mwanza, Tanzania.

The Ebenezer African Hearts Organization is located in Mwanza Tanzania. The villages we serve are homes to 255 families, 945 inhabitants, of which 462 are female. The majority of villagers in these villages rely on small scale farming and fishing as their source of income. In the dry season, water...

Construction of pit latrines for foster homes in Uganda

The most vulnerable and marginalized group in our community are the children who have been orphaned or suffering the effects and impact of poverty. It is evident therefore that these orphans and other vulnerable children’s social problem is one of the biggest challenges facing many families in...

Emergency IDPs Hygiene and Sanitation Improvement Project, Somalia

Since the collapse of the government, the hygiene and sanitation infrastructures and more specifically in the capital area have been very poor. The IDPs (internally displaced person) influx hosted by the capital have worsened the situation and as the camps are overcrowded the hygiene and...

Installation of surface water plant, Ghana

Introduction and Project Rational Ghana is recognized as a model of democracy, characterized by political stability, and respect for the rule of law and fundamental human rights, the nation enjoys peace and political harmony which are essential for socio-economic progress and cultural...

Help flood affected families in Sialkot, Pakistan

Rose Human Rights Welfare Organization Sialkot Pakistan is trying to help the flood affected people due to recent monsoon rains caused serious damage to the people. It is necessary to mention that the recent monsoon rain have caused serious damage to the villagers living near the river bank, as the...

Water and sanitation project, Nigeria

The people of Zampet Village of Garram Community, to reduce the number of cases of waterborne diseases. They have been hard hit by economic and health care difficulties since independence from Britain in 1960. The literacy rate in the Community is very low. Less than 20% of the children in the...

Borehole project to avert water crises and diseases at Buloba Parents' School, Uganda

The borehole project is designed to enable Buloba Parents' school and the neighboring community access safe and clean water. The project will address the problem of diarrhea, caused by lack of safe water and basic hygiene,one of the biggest killers of children. Accessibility to a safe water...

Provision of direct financial assistance to individuals who are in dire need of food, cloth and water in Tanzania

The assistance is directed to individuals and families who are in dire need of foods and clothes due to either being displaced by natural or manmade disasters. The assistance is also aimed at providing pure and safe water to communities who live in arid area in Tanzania to prevent them from being...

Funding needed to support poor people to acces safe drinkable water in India

Varikuntapadu Mandal is under jurisdiction of Nellore District in India. Most of the people there are living in the rural and underdeveloped areas. These vulnerable people in the villages often lack of all kinds of facilities. Those people obviously lack improved sanitation facilities and drinking...

Funding for Low Cost Sanitary Latrines cum bathrooms for Dalits & Tribes in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India

Dalit Community comprises of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Economically backward classes are marginalized of rural society.Over 90% of the Coastal villages don’t have access to individual sanitary latrines or community toilets. Huge patches of empty lands are in existence and therefore,...

Condoms and bore hole drilling machines needed for HIV campaign and drinkable water program in Nigeria

EPF was established in 2008 as a critical response to fill a developmental vacuum in the Ewekoro Local Government, Ogun State,Nigeria. We offer community development assistance to those at the grass root level in Nigeria. Many people lack drinkable water, and some reports suggest that less than...

Funding needed for education of the teenage pregnancies problem in Teso, Uganda

The project idea is focusing to help the young girls still in school, but are threatened to drop out of school. The major issues the project is trying to address is the high teenage pregnancy rate which stands at 24.6 per cent. It is a result of harmful attitudes and practices like early/forced...

Funding for our Disaster Preparedness Training for Secondary School in Kenya

In Kenya, there has been increasing losses on population growth, as a result of which the impacts are now felt to a larger extent among the youths. Young people are the most important resources in a country as they have the strength to build the nation. However the vulnerable to the disasters are...

Borehole (water) project funding and donation of knitting/sewing machines and computers, Zambia

We are trying to help a community of underprivileged near Ndola in Zambia. This community lacks a close source of water –the closest one is 1 km away by foot. These community also does not have education for young people, who in the absence of educational or healthy activities just loiter...

Provision of better educational facilities for poor rural schools in Zimbabwe

I am trying to help children from poor rural schools in Zimbabwe who need proper facilities to carry out a successful education. The issue is that many children in Zimbabwe have classes under a tree or in dilapidated rural primary school with little school equipment and teaching resources. They...

Sustainable Economic Growth for Muslim Minorities in the Mewat Region, India

We are trying to help the following oppressed, exploited and downtrodden people living in Mewat one of the most economically backward regions of Haryana, INDIA: The Mewat region is a region of Haryana state in India and located at southern edge of Haryana, situated in the National Capital Region...

Shipping of filtration kits and funding for rain water harvester in Uganda

Water. "I wake up in the morning and I am very tired. I have to leave the house and walk for hours to the well. The water in this well is dirty. Mummy uses this water to drink and wash with...." Many children in Uganda have the same problem. It's the same schedule everyday for 88% of...

Emergency relief for flood victims in Kenya

We are helping the victims of the current heavy rains in Kenya. Homes, crops and animals have been washed away by rains. The people are being relocated to safer grounds without housing, food, clean water or medicine for the flood victims. We have 30,000 people displaced. We raised...