Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Health, Children, Microfinance, Hunger
Themes: Health, Children, Microfinance, Hunger
This project will empower families affected by HIV and individuals living with HIV to better nutrition, improve incomes and restore economic productivity. The funds raised will establish a food bank for nutrition and grocery store to provide a source of income, routinely manage group green house and start a micro-health insurance scheme for accessing health at local health institutions to treat opportunistic infections, transport to access health care where service is not locally available
Countries:
Mali
Themes: Education, Children
Themes: Education, Children
This year 1,471 children are attending school in 11 village elementary schools--maintained by the Alliance. Since the inception of our education programs, girls' school enrollment has increased substantially. This year 754 out of 1,471 attending are GIRLS! In addition to enforcing girl enrollment, we provide textbooks, supplies, and bench desks in order to maintain a strong educational environment. We also work with the Malian government to ensure long-term sustainability of our schools.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Women and Girls, Human Rights
Themes: Children, Women and Girls, Human Rights
Another NGO working in Patna, the Bihar State Capital here in India reported that 90% of female street children disappeared from the local streets after 13 years of age. Our Staff have 15 minutes from a missing or lost girl arriving at the station to find them before someone else does. This totally new initiative aims to give female street children support and a skill they can use to earn a living by providing high quality craft training and special support to female street children.
Countries:
India
Themes: Education, Children, Economic Development, Women and Girls
Themes: Education, Children, Economic Development, Women and Girls
A mainstream school started in Snehalaya Campus in July 2011 especially for girls from villages with aims to educate and make them independent helping with women empowerment. The girls are provided every thing as well incentive of Rs.10 per day for attending school and complete their school education. It is a unique pioneer project in Central India to educate village girls to make them self sufficient. Educating the girls ultimately will make a change for whole family and future generations.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
Since 1992, Shaishav has been committed to realising the basic rights of children, particularly the underprivileged. Through Balsena we support children's holistic development by organising a wide range of educational programmes, providing a platform for children's issues, and encouraging children to be protagonists for their rights. Children's participation is ingrained in everything we do, and all programmes are designed to empower and motivate children to become change makers in society.
Countries:
Zambia
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
Over half a million Zambian children are unable to access conventional education. Schools of Good Hope project works with 8 of Zambia's poorest communities, who have set up their own makeshift schools and enables them to provide the good standard of education they desire for their children. By training the untrained volunteer teachers and providing essential resources we will ensure that Zambia's poorest children don't have the poorest education!
Countries:
Nigeria
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
This project provides families with malaria prevention education, life-saving medicines and insecticide treated bednets to protect 20,000 children from malaria related deaths in rural Mashegu.
Countries:
Nepal
Themes: Children, Education, Hunger
Themes: Children, Education, Hunger
The goal is to provide food, water, education and improve healthcare alongside seven community development projects in Pokhara, Nepal.
Countries:
Haiti
Themes: Health, Children, Education, Women and Girls
Themes: Health, Children, Education, Women and Girls
To provide a maternity and pediatric service for some of northern Haiti's poorest families, providing many with their first ever access to medical care in pregnancy and childbirth. Our 44 bed facility with 2 delivery suites, operating theater for birthing emergencies, pediatric ward and NICU, will support many life saving interventions as well as training and equipping midwives, supporting local health centers and providing information about pregnancy and early child development.
Countries:
Virgin Islands
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education, Health
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education, Health
The Sisterhood Empowerment Project helps girls recognize their greatness and options in life by providing sisterhood mentoring, a positive peer group, exposure to career and work options, life skills, culture, and community awareness.
Countries:
Burundi
Themes: Children, Human Rights
Themes: Children, Human Rights
This project provides effective legal counsel and legal rights awareness for indigent juvenile detainees in Burundi, who are often abused and imprisoned with adult convicts.
Countries:
Sudan
Themes: Hunger, Children
Themes: Hunger, Children
Kids for Kids transforms the lives of the children in Darfur living in remote villages in the desert. In 2012, in one village alone 125 children died from acute malnutrition or malaria. We can help to stop this now. Our simple grassroots projects - goat loans, donkeys, clean fresh water from hand pumps, training midwives and first aid workers, providing blankets and mosquito nets, and much more - lifts families out of desperate poverty and transforms the lives of whole communities.
Countries:
Palestinian Territories
Themes: Children, Women and Girls, Health
Themes: Children, Women and Girls, Health
This project will support a women-led initiative to cook healthy, fresh, and affordable meals and snacks for the 400 children at the local schools in Masara Village outside of Bethlehem. The project is important for the children's physical well-being as well as modeling the importance of nutrition and eating fresh, local food.
Countries:
South Africa
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
This project aims to improve the lives of children affected by parental substance abuse as a result of poverty by providing them with the psychological support needed to help them deal with their circumstances. For more information about the the Hantam Community Education Trust, please visit our website (see 'Resources' below).
Countries:
Zambia
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
Over half a million Zambian children are unable to access conventional education. Schools of Good Hope project works with Zambia's poorest communities, who have set up their own makeshift schools and enables them to provide the good standard of education they desire for their children. By training the untrained volunteer teachers and providing essential resources we can help give Zambia's poorest children a lifeline out of poverty.
Countries:
Uganda
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
This project will pay school tuition for 618 children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, providing enough exercise books, pens and pencils.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education
This project will help empower and educate girls living in the Kibera slums by improving their chances of education and vocational training. It will give them the knowledge and confidence to empower themselves and will open the door to a world of opportunities. Includes education, reproductive education awareness, nutrition, and psycho-social support.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Children, Education, Health, Hunger
Themes: Children, Education, Health, Hunger
Retrak will work with local organizations to help some of the thousands of children living on the streets in Kenya to return to a family setting, with either their own family or a foster family.
Countries:
Palestinian Territories
Themes: Children, Arts and Culture
Themes: Children, Arts and Culture
The Rachel Corrie Children's Center in Rafah, Gaza provides children with a place to play, learn and take part in social and cultural activities. They are setting up a new room for free play and upgrading their library. The center is named for a young woman from the US who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah. The center is dedicated to building relationships between the children and youth in Rafah and their peers in other countries
Countries:
Japan
Themes: Disaster Recovery, Children
Themes: Disaster Recovery, Children
Fukushima Prefecture has been tragically marked by the disaster of the Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. In the aftermath of the terrible earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, around 160,000 citizens of Fukushima saw themselves forced to leave their homes behind and evacuate. Even today, more than a year later, the situation is severe. Please help AAR JAPAN improve the life of Fukushima's children and their families, the elderly, persons with disabilities and people living in temporary housing.
Countries:
Ireland
Themes: Children, Education, Arts and Culture
Themes: Children, Education, Arts and Culture
This project will bring the life-changing benefits of music education to vulnerable at-risk children from disadvantaged areas in Ireland.
Each 'Guitars for Kids' project provides groups of 12 children with weekly professional guitar lessons, twice weekly practise sessions and a series of specialist music workshops in singing, songwriting and live performance over a 12 month period.
For every $6,000. raised we will open another 'Guitars for Kids' project.
Countries:
Fiji
Themes: Education, Children, Economic Development
Themes: Education, Children, Economic Development
The community of Nacula in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji has access to only very basic resources with a severe lack of fresh water, power, nutritious food and education. This project will focus on helping the community to construct a kindergarten for children aged 2-5 and provide scholarships for older children to progress to high school.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
To identify & provide early intervention to children below 5 years with mental handicaps or at risk for developmental delay, by professionals & trained women from the target area.
Countries:
Bangladesh
Themes: Children, Health
Themes: Children, Health
Rickets occurs due to extreme vitamin D deficiency. Hope Foundation uses health workers to conduct community surveys surrounding the rickets problem and teach prevention measures. We evaluate the case of each child suffering from rickets and treat them with vitamin D and Calcium tablets which are of a low cost. For advanced cases, we arrange for the child to be helped with corrective surgery. Please change a life by sponsoring a child.
Countries:
Armenia
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
This program provides 90 working children with basic education by including them in the special training in Mkhitar Sebastaci Educational Complex in Yerevan.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
Our Family Support Workers are transporting children on a daily basis. They transport terminally ill children and their brothers and sisters to and from hospital appointments, school, after-school clubs and on fun days out to zoos, animal farms and leisure centres.
Countries:
Liberia
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education
We work with some of the most vulnerable and exploited young girls on the planet. We help them get off the street and into school and make it impossible for them to fail. We want to build a girls' academy which will be an inspiring school in the day and a safe place in the evenings, when we will provide support, recreational activities and vocational training. The government have given us this building to use; it's the former ministry of education; it needs some fixing! and we need your help
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education, Health
Themes: Children, Education, Health
This project provides shelter, medication, nutrition & education to 45 children orphaned and abandoned due to AIDS at Bangalore & Hyderabad. Opening its doors to these kids way back in 1998 the Foundation started 2 care homes named 'Positive Kids' & 'Diya' offering hope to these kids who also live with HIV themselves. Today these kids are healthy and enjoy a normal life due to the latest anti HIV drugs. They also attend regular schools. Compassion, care & support make all the difference!
Countries:
Cambodia
Themes: Children, Disaster Recovery, Education, Health
Themes: Children, Disaster Recovery, Education, Health
Ragamuffin provides Arts Therapy for children and families in crisis to recover from psychological trauma. Training in Arts Therapy and supervision builds Cambodia's mental health service.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Themes: Children, Education, Health
Themes: Children, Education, Health
YoungMinds is the UK's leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. Help us to help children and young people lead happy lives.
