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Funding for an orphanage building in tirunelveli, India

We have been running an orphanage for the last 12years in Tirunelveli,India. At the moment, we have 42 children living and studying here. At present we are in a rented building, we pay rentel rs.20000 per month. However, we need own building to better fulfill our mission with the orphans. We...

Funding for supporting the poor and disabled in Kampala, Uganda

In Kampala, Uganda, our organization has 152 disabled children that we are trying to help and they are between the ages of 0 – 17years. On addition to that, we also try to help disabled parents and poor parents to children with disabilities. This brings it to a total of 210 members that need a...

Volunteers and funding needed to facilitate 4 projects to protect vulnerable children in Uganda East Africa

Located near Kampala city along Gayaza Road, Can-Uganda is a not for profit community based organization initiated with the plight of transforming the most disadvantaged livelihoods and communities in Uganda East Africa. We aim to protect, rescue and prevent any form of children violence in Uganda....

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...

Growing capacity - reshaping the lives of oppressed families in the slums of India

Eddie and his team are encouraging, educating and empowering oppressed women who are now developing their own savings and micro-finance institutions, transforming their families and building productive futures. You will be amazed as your simple gifts of time release potential and grow incredible...

Networking, Financial and Informational support for Awareness campaign about Urban Migration in Zimbabwe

Chiyubunuzyo Arts & Culture Promotion (CACP) wants to help the community in Gokwe North Rural District in Zimbabwe. The target groups to benefit are the artists, women, youth, disadvantaged people and management committee members who will manage and implement our programs. Gokwe North Rural...

Helping Smallholder Coffee Growing Cooperative Societies Get into Coffee Certification through the Quality Management System (QMS) in Kenya

This project targets smallholder coffee growing cooperative societies comprising of small scale coffee farmers. Studies indicate that the world is quickly shifting towards sustainable farming because of: 1) Climate change concerns 2) Safeguarding consumers health and wellbeing Consequently...

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...

borehole

We are a community faced with a big challenge in accessing water for domestic use. We have managed to mobilize ourselves, registered the welfare but failed to rise enough money to drill a borehole due to its high cost.My piece of land is positioned on a higher ground from where if drilled and tanks...

Shipping 40ft container with 400 donated bikes to Mexico

"Bicycles for Humanity" is trying to help poor Mexican children by giving them bikes to get to school. In addition, giving the adults a way to improve their life by giving them bikes to get empowered. They can get water, go to work, get to health clinics and so much more. This project in called...

Improve employment and income for young women in Mufindi Iringa Region in Tanzania

We have had extensive experience of working with vulnerable groups in our community, including young people and street children. Girls and young women are among the most vulnerable of these groups. They live in an environment fraught with risks. The combination of an unstable family environment,...

Empower young girls in Nigeria

We are trying to address the issue of young girls who leave school and become prostitutes. It's a global problem. The facts abound from community to community round the world. Approximately one-quarter of girls in developing countries are not in school. We are focusing on 60 girls girls between...

Establish a seed fund for rural women entrepreneurs in Uganda

We are an organization that has helped to start village savings banks (over 17) among rural women in villages throughout Eastern Uganda. Each week, the women get together to add a small amount of money that they have saved to a combined fund. Women can then take loans from the savings bank and...

Partner needed to supply and transport cheap children's clothes to Australia

Dharriwaa Elders Group is a non-profit association of Aboriginal Elders in Walgett, Australia. It supports Aboriginal elders to resume leadership roles in the community keeping active and healthy. It also promotes local Aboriginal cultural knowledge and identity and aims to develop the Walgett...

Laptops needed for farming project in Andhra Pradesh India

Small and marginal cotton farmers who are vulnerable to suicides are our targeted beneficiaries. About 18000 distressed cotton farmers committed suicide between 2002 and 2006. Failure of monsoons, extremely fluctuating market prices, high input costs and exploitation of the farmers by middlemen etc...

Congo Leadership Accelerator

The Congo Leadership Initiative (CLI) develops the next generation of leaders to be catalysts for peace and prosperity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo has spent decades watching the rest of the world advance. It currently ranks last on the United Nations’ Human Development Index ...

Train indigenous locals in hospitality and tourism in poverty stricken West Timor, Indonesia

Our goal is to help the communities of the Delha region in Rote Island, West Timor in Indonesia. We are wanting to ready this community who are stricken with poverty and a very low level of health facilities and education, for the rapid increase in tourism that is happening at the moment. The...

Start-up capital for firstborn entrepreneurs in Kenya

First Comes First (FCF) is a Kenyan organization that seeks to bring together all firstborn children from every family and to help them improve their welfare despite the pressure that comes with the responsibility of being the first blood in the family. The organization is a peace ambassador, an...

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...

Using mobile technology to empower rural communities in India by tracking livelihood entitlements

The poor have suffered as they have little knowledge of their rights and entitlements and lack the collective strength to raise their voices. The outreach of the social protection schemes are quite limited due to lack of correct information, optimum community ignorance, lack of accountability of...