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Economic Empowerment of the Poor in Africa and Asia

The world is a place of great need. Sadly, most of the heartache and pain is unseen by us and therefore never properly addressed. The Entrust Foundation helps the poorest of the poor, forgotten people on this planet. With over 30 years of experience, we have identified 4 major Causes, which if...

Empowering poor Dalit in rural villages in India through job skills training

The Scheduled Castes (Dalit) constitute more than 70% of the total population of Orissa as per census 2011. Pana, Dom, Ganda, Ghasi, Hadi, Kandara, Bauri, Gokha, Dhoba are treated most socially and economical backward schedule castes in Odisha. These sub caste are socially untouchable, socially,...

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...

Funding & volunteers for Girls At Risk Support Unit (GARSU) in Uganda

Girl Child Network (GCN) UGANDA envisions a society where girls are empowered and enjoy their rights with support from whole communities so as to walk in the fullness of their potential. GCN: * Mobilizes whole communities to eradicate patriarchal structures that dominate homes, schools, and...

Support Orphanage Development Centre in Congo

We are helping orphans and children from poor families to attend school in order to have a brighter future. After many years of war many children were orphaned and no one there to help them. In 2006, we decided to start a Centre for orphans at Rumangabo (45 miles from Goma) Fifty percent of the...

Projects for community development in Zambia

Great Commission for People Development and Orphans gives support to the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable families especially women and children out of school. The project will support to improve family and community welfare to enable to raise their living conditions, reduce the...

Micro-credit for low-income women in Ghana

Human Development Focus is a NGO non-profit organization working for total development of humankind, especially for the disadvantaged and marginalized population in society. We started a micro credit scheme for low income women in 2002, helping to provide funding to improve incomes of poor women in...

Vocational Training Camp for Ugandan Youth

Lack of vocational training services has a devastating effect on the young people's economic situation. Young people have struggled with life and they need a hand that can support them through vocational training so that they can equip themselves with constructive knowledge and reliable skills. ...

Funding and volunteers needed for the vulnerable in Amolatar, Uganda

Bridge Of Hope Organization is a non-governmental and non-political organization, not affiliated to any religious denomination founded to create and develop programs for supporting and uplifting vulnerable children, youth and women within the district of Amolatar and, eventually, the whole of...

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...

Building and organizing self-reliant communities through integrated credit unions program in Cambodia

1. Lack of capital
 Capital input for farming (raise animal and poultries, fishing) and for small business is the main steam for increasing incomes for our target beneficiaries. Nowadays poor people are dependent on money lenders and private banks who charge a lot of interest (private money...

Help for opening school in Uganda

Coming February 2013, we are opening a nursery and primary school in Soroti. We have bought 11 hectare land to construct a children care center and a school and as we are looking for funds to complete the construction. In the beginning we shall be renting a premeses to conduct the classes. We...

Motorcycle Loans for Community Health Workers in Kenya

Motorbank is a for profit social hire purchase company in Kenya. It offers soft commercial loans to purchase motorcycles on hire purchase. As part of our social responsibility, we seek partnership in health care support in Kenya to reach as many people as possible. This project is driven by...

Agricultural project for farmers in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Farmers in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) generally have a low income. This is because of the following factors: a lack of water caused by unpredictable weather / rainfall conditions and poor irrigation; high labour costs per hectare due to poor access to main roads, as most small...

Fruit processing equipment and technical assistance for smallholder farmers group in Rumphi, Mlalawi

DAMRA intends to help 120 farmers (out of these 67 are women) living in the most marginalised rural remote and under-served areas of Rumphi district. Community members in these rural setup are poor on average living on less than 1 US$/day per household. On average each household has 4 to 5 members....

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...

Improved access to health, education and resources for vulnerable groups in Arusha, Tanzania

Our mission is to ensure vulnerable groups in Tanzania and Arusha in particular have equal access to health care, education and income generating resources. We aim to provide to and empower the older people within the region to claim these rights as citizens. The aim of our project...

Vocational training for women and vulnerable children in Uganda

The Charity Foundation Uganda is a community based NGO that operates in the Luuka district. We provide vocational skills designed to lead to job creation and we promote saving and credit schemes. We are also interested in environmental conservation and health. We want to assist young people and...

Start up capital for small business that will support education in Bafaka Balue, Cameroon

This project is in line with our program to aid children who cannot afford basic academic materials like books and uniforms. We also intend to help pay fees in part or full for children whose parents are either dead or are disabled in Bafaka Balue. This way the project will be helping both the...

Help HIV/AIDS affected households through micro-credit in Uganda

We are trying to help HIV/AIDS affected women and youth headed households in the Rakai & Lwengo Districts to improve their resource management and develop their ability to generate income. This will reduce their vulnerability. We want to do this through vigorous training of the...