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Community development to help the most needy in Uganda

We initially started with a goal of addressing the marginalization of persons with disabilities but we later realized the need to expand our service provision to: - Orphans - Children under difficult circumstances - The youth - Poor men and women We have a number of projects through which...

Human Rights Awareness Project, Uganda

The proposed project is a human rights awareness project in the Kalungu district. The general situation shows that there is a wide scope of ignorance about human rights amongst people. Human rights activities such as seminars, workshops formation of human rights awareness groups and distribution...

Improve Health Conditions in Coastal and Tribal Villages, India

Our project is concentrated to 250 costal and tribal villages of East Godavari, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam Districts. The major source of livelihood of the people in the districts is hunting, fishing and allied activities. The districts tribal people are also known for its backwardness in...

Market Gardening as Poverty Alleviation for Women, Mali

Given the gravity of poverty, which has become daily experience of people and the negative impact on the well-being of individuals and families, women and children in general are the most vulnerable segments of the population. Based on these different realities, a national strategy against poverty...

Alleviate Poverty and Climate Change, Mali

Mali’s economy rests on agriculture, pastoralism and fishing with more than 80% of the population. Since the drought in recent years the economy is threatened by climatic variations. This change in climate has had negative effects on vegetation cover leading to land degradation. To contain the...

Malaria Prevention and Control, Ghana

Malaria is a major public health problem in Ghana. It is a major cause of poverty also a significant reason for the low productivity in the country. The disease accounts for over 38% of all outpatient attendance and 21% of under-five mortality. Children under-five and pregnant women are the groups...

Buruli Ulcer Reduction and Water Project, Ghana

Many communities in the Dormaa Municipality in the Brong-Ahafo region are suffering from Buruli ulcer and other related water diseases due to lack of access to clean water in the affected communities. The ever increasing buruli ulcer in the communities is having negative effects on health and...

War Victim Reach Out Initiative, Uganda

War Victim Initiative (WVRI) is a charitable organization, concerned with the plight of orphans and disadvantaged children. WVRI was founded in 2000 to contribute to the development needs of the war affected and orphan children in Kabulasoke Parish. The idea behind the setting up of the...

RO Water Plants for Poor Community in India

Our organization provides services to poor and needy irrespective of caste and creed in the fields of health, education, rural development, HIV/AIDS, water and sanitation, agriculture, housing, etc. We are badly in need of donation for the reverse osmosis plants (drinking water purification...

Help funding orphanage in India

We need help for developing our orphanage called the "Sahara Yatim Khana Orphanage" Our orphanage aims at helping orphans, disabled and physically challenged as well as slum children. Our project has been active for two years, currently taking care of 50 children. We provide them with a...

Support Mbororo orphans to go to school, Cameroon

The orphans and vulnerable children are increasing in numbers in our communities. We are familiar with what it means to be an orphan or a vulnerable child. How friends and families are torn apart and how through death, stigma and discrimination the social fabric of communities are destroyed. ...

Give education to orphans in Uganda

Kanungu Orphans Good Hope-Uganda, is a community based orphans care project, that is aiming at helping orphans get a hopeful future, hence transforming Kanungu community from absolute poverty seed bed, to a qualitative developing community. In Uganda, most orphaned children are a result of the...

Funding to Maintain Special Needs Camp for Children, US

Two issues we are trying to address, 1.) Children living with spina bifida don’t have the same opportunities to do physical activities in life that other children get to experience because of their special needs. They are required to use mechanical devises to move from one place to another and...

Improving and diversifying water supply, Kenya

We are trying to facilitate provision of water to the schools in the area. The project is also directed at HIV/AIDS victims, and low income peasants/fishermen around Lake Victoria in Kenya. These communities rely on water from the river for their daily use, scanty piped waters or they have to...

Women’s health and education for children in Niger

We are trying to help children who did not have opportunity to go to school, especially the Muslim children who have not been part of the formal education system. If these children do not get education, they will remain poor for the rest of their lives. Our organisation also works for improving...

Marginalised community in North Kenya

We are supporting orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS in the marginalised community in the northern part of Kenya. These are people who live below 1$ per day and only survive by herding the small livestock that has remained after the drought that swept most of their livestock. It is a young...

Scholarship Fund for Poor Children, Kenya

The project is targeting orphans and vulnerable children from poor families in the slums and rural areas in Kenya. The aim is to offer poor children a basic foundation for his/her career in life to follow and succeed through education. The project will provide opportunities to children who seek to...

Increased representation of women in policy-making bodies in Bamako District, Mali

This project is part of a greater awareness program for women to have greater representation in decision-making bodies, in two municipalities in the district of Bamako, Mali. In the last parliamentary and municipal elections, there was a low representation of women in political decision-making...

Increased representation of women in political decision-making, Mali

This project is part of a greater awareness program for women and political leaders – intended to increase representation of women in decision-making bodies. Given the low representation of women in political decision-making bodies registered in the last parliamentary and municipal elections, due...

Support income generating activities for women in Mali

AFEM has since 2007 been fighting for the advancement of women through improving their living conditions. Malian women are called to play an important role in the projects, if we want to reach real development - "development, seen only in males, results in a non-development". The objective...