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Horticultural and solar energy training project in Gambia

The project is to train rural youth and women in Gambia in modern agricultural techniques, horticulture, animal husbandry, poultry management and solar energy installation. We are trying to address the issues of unemployment, lack of productive skills especially in agriculture, illiteracy among...

Healthcare project in Haiti

Global Vision Over Haiti Today (Vision Globale Sur Haiti D'aujourd'hui ) is a non-profit humanitarian organization founded on April 15, 2006 which gave itself the mission to help the poor and quake victims, in particular the vulnerable people of Morne-A-Bruler, Haiti. The issue is that...

Help needed to drill wells the Tanga and Manyara regions in Tanzania.

Various regions in Tanzania are facing an acute water shortage. Our organisation is requesting help to drill simple wells among the Maasai Tribes in the Tanga and Manyara Regions. The water is reachable at a depth of 10 meters but not safe as it is shared with cattle, and the water is...

Agricultural project in Ivory Coast

We want to help poor villagers living in the Gaba Department near the Gagnoa Region of Ivory Coast. They live in an area of 160 hectares of forest in poor conditions. The region was destroyed in 1970 and since then nothing has been done to help the community, and they have been attacked by people...

Soap making project for women in Mali

We are trying to help a women's association in the rural commune of Massigui to manufacture solid and liquid soap. This organisation, Association Zerekoro Benkadi, is a union of women who are engaged in the fight against poverty. To help them do this, they want to implement a project for the...

Womens' Aquaculculture Project in Ghana

We are trying to help unskilled young teenage mothers and girl school drop-outs who have succumbed to alcoholism and teenage prostitution. We want to empower these young women with skills in fish farming and fish smoking, and also provide protein to undernourished/malnourished rural children of...

Construction of a water tank in Kumtem Village, Cameroon

The Kumtem Village water system, constructed mainly by villagers, who supplied the labour by digging the trenches for the pipes manually, is rapidly falling into a derelict state. This situation is compounded by the problem of indiscriminate planting of eucalyptus trees around the catchment area....

Medicine and medical equipment needed for dispensary in Tanzania

We are Bukwali Dispensary, an organisation that provides medical services in the villages of Bukwali and Kashenye in the rural remote Mmissenyi district, Kagera region, Tanzania. We work as a non profit, faith-based institution serving a population of about 10,000. Our services include...

Help needed to equip a primary school in Uganda

Quintos Primary School is a community school established by concerned parents in the Wakiso district who want children from poor backgrounds to have a quality education. These children, including orphans, cannot afford the cost of school fees, and there are many girls who drop out of school because...

Vocational skills training for poor youth in Pakistan

Through this proposed project we are trying to help the young unskilled youth of Baltistan, Pakistan to empower them economically and socially. The targeted youth are unskilled, unemployed, destitute, vulnerable and poor. Sustainable job skills training will enable them to access available jobs. In...

Home Schooling Project for Girls with physical disabilities in Pakistan

The Society for Disabled Women has been running an Inclusive School for poor, orphan and disabled children in Duadnagar Faisalabad district in Pakistan since March 2008. Physically disabled children have environmental and physical barriers which prevent access to mainstream schools. There are...

Fish Farming Project in Uganda

Uganda has the second largest lake in the world, which also contributes about 30% of the national income. This income is earned from fishing activities that take place in the area. The main fishing district is Kalangala which also doubles as Uganda's biggest island. This is an island district...

Vocational Training Project for Women in Mali

Women constitute 51.2% of the population of Mali, but despite this, they are marginalized in the development process and they are victims in regard to governmental decisions, in particular in regard to wages. AFDB has been involved in the struggle for the promotion of women since 2010, in...

Request to set up Braille Press, India

Due to the ignorance on part of both general public and the government administration, visually impaired children and youth are denied access to necessary study materials in Braille script. The core issue is the lack of a computerized Braille press in the state of Orissa, India. The organization...

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...

Computer skills training project for children in West Bengal

As part of our mission "Unlock Child's Potential", Suri Natun Juger Pratyasha establishes and manages programmes in care, protection, and development of children in difficult circumstances (orphans and destitute children, children from broken homes; trafficked and abused children; street children...

Water supply for pastoral communities in Kenya

Pastoral Communities Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies is a local NGO registered in Kenya committed to creating a peaceful environment where farmers can live together, nomads can graze together and merchants trade together without the fear of losing their livelihood. We do this through...

ICT Project for Young People in Kenya

We are trying to help poor people who fall within the youth bracket and who cannot afford or access ICT equipment or services because they are too expensive. Our work is premised on the need to reach out to marginalized and disadvantaged communities in developing countries through Information,...

Building a school in Yaounde, Cameroon

Rapid urbanization is leading to an explosive increase of the population in metropolitan areas in Cameroon such as the city of Yaounde. While the increasing population is bringing a huge number of social and economic problems, the impact of job and training availability, and the physical, social...

Centre for abused women and children in Meru, Kenya

Hakuna Matata, which means ‘’no worries, for the rest of your days’’, is a Kenyan NGO that is dedicated to supporting and providing care for orphans and abused women and children in the Meru/Isiolo area. Originally, Hakuna Matata was a shared vision between members of a Kenyan community who were...