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Children, youth and family welfare

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Help to orphans in Tanzania

About 5million Tanzanian children live in extreme poverty. (National Census, 2002) Many of these children live in child-headed households or cared for by elderly, or children caring for chronically ill parents, or those without home. 42% of the orphans are due to HIV/AIDS. 53% of them are cared...

Agro-Forestry and Fruit Tree School Project in Uganda

The project aims to give people access to fuel wood, timber, fruit, fodder and other non-timber forest products while halting and reversing the trend of the forest loss and related environmental degradation in Luuka district through promoting vegetable and fruit tree growing and agro-forestry...

Donation needed to finalize orphanage and training centre in Uganda

At this point in time we are struggling to get support for the orphans and needy children in Tororo & Kamuli - Uganda. Right now our team in Uganda has come forward to support the education of 20 orphans and provide scholastic items to about 100 children at their respective homes although we...

Help orphans in Utter Perdash, India

New life Mission is registered in India and working for the last 5 years in Utter Perdash. We are providing education, shelter, food and health to the orphans and needy children. At present we are taking care of 140 children aged 5-15 years. New Life mission wants to give these underprivileged...

Social Enterprise to Support Epilepsy Center in Lebanon

The Association for the Care of People with Epilepsy in Lebanon (ECAL), an NGO established in 2001, is the only association that targets people with epilepsy living on the Lebanese territory. ECAL’s mission is to support patients medically and socially, help them become more active &...

Ambulance and Emergency Medical Supplies needed in Myanmar (Karen State)

This project is about assisting the ethnic Karen people of Myanmar (Myawaddy) to develop a Emergency medical service of which presently there is none. The Karen people are 7% of the Burmese Population but have been persecuted by the Burmese Junta for decades. The KNLA (Karen Army) often engage...

Support vulnerable girls in Kenya

The community where we operate is classified as minority tribe and girls are facing severe challenges through traditional and customary systems and other effects from neighboring communities. The girls in the community are not regarded like their male counterparts. To rescue the girl child, we...

Community Development Programme in Zimbabwe in need of funding and equipment

Our organization is trying to help children affected and infected with HIV/AIDS, orphans, those who seek spiritual help, those with evil spirits tormenting them, those in difficult situations and those neglected by the community because of their past. We try to reach them through the word of God...

Help needy children to attain basic education in Uganda

St. Mark Day Care/Nursery and Primary School is proposing a project with the aim of caring, educating and improving the standard of living for orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) within the age range of 6 months to 18 years. This target group is selected because it is the most vulnerable...

Support Project: Access to Quality Education - Uganda

We are focusing on school-aged children including early childhood development, school drop outs, their parents/guardians/caregivers, teachers and school management committee members. Issues to address: * Poor pupil academic performance due to: absenteeism of pupils and teachers at schools, lack...

Partnership to share camp / outdoor centre in Canada

The Kinark Outdoor Centre is a year round facility supporting the recreation and education needs of clients with our parent agency, Kinark Child and Family Services, as well as those of over 100 other community organizations, schools, social service agencies and faith communities. We require...

Vocational training and HIV/AIDS awareness to vulnerable groups in Uganda

We are helping our community through the Palmyrah Workers Development Society by working on a project for disadvantaged people in our society; women with disabilities, widows, orphans, and teenage mothers. We address the issues on poverty, gender based violence, HIV/Aids prevalence, and...

Support youth center in Kenya to keep the young people of the streets

Rodi is the immediate town after Homa-Bay, Kenya, with population of about 10,000 residents. Out of this population 57% are youth. The town has numerous socioeconomic problems such as poverty, poor infrastructure, unemployment, poor social services and social ills. The town is incompatible with the...

Funding to construct a four classroom block for St. George Secondary School in Uganda

There are many needy and orphaned students in the Masaka area who cannot attend secondary schools. The reasons can be one of the following: - congestion in all schools in the area - the children cannot afford to pay school fees because of poverty - some children become heads of their...

Pens, pencils, chalk & exercise books to Malawi

The Tongole Foundation is asking for pens, pencils, chalk and exercise books for our schools in Malawi, Africa. The Foundation has people based in the UK who, when they visit Malawi, will take the items with them and distribute to the 3 schools the Foundation are currently building. Please watch...

Help homeless adolescent parents toward a life of independent living, Cameroon

Our target group are homeless teens, pregnant & parenting teens and their babies. Teen Foundation wishes to provide a safe, supportive, transitional home enabling homeless teens, pregnant & parenting teens and their babies to reach their full potential. Teen Foundation runs the...

Help to pay school fees for vulnerable children and orphans, Uganda

I am Keneth, born in Uganda and one of the people affected by the war of 1979-1986 which brought the current government to power. This war led to destruction of property and loss of many lives. In the war, I lost my grand mother and grand father and most of there property was destroyed, which led...

Integrated programme for child development in India

Bagnan Human Rural Development Society is an Indian NGO that has been working on the issue of promoting child welfare and women empowerment for the past 8 years. It is working in backward and minority (Muslim) dominated areas, both rural and urban. The children in this area struggle to meet basic...

Fighting AIDS through income generating projects in Kenya

Kenya is home to over 42 million people, and has the 6th highest HIV prevalence rate in sub-Saharan Africa. It has an HIV prevalence rate of 6.3%, and more than 1.4 million Kenyans are living with HIV/AIDS. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Kenya has been disproportionately impacting women. Roughly 3 out of...

Providing unemployed teens and rural youth with skills and training in Ghana

The aim of the project is to identify and support poor unemployed girls and women, particularly those under 18 years old, who are living below the poverty line and have engaged in social vices such as prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation, robbery, streetism and alms begging. The...