Countries:
Ghana
Themes: Education, Children
Themes: Education, Children
The Meet Kate Foundation supports local initiatives that focus on youth in Ghana. We are now building a primary school, with sport and playground facilities in Ekwamkrom Ghana, providing quality education for 200 children in this small community. This school will focus on small class rooms and provide the children with computer classes. We have put several things in place to make this project sustainable and self-reliant, like a 6 acre cacao plantation and a poultry farm.
Countries:
Cambodia
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Human Rights
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Human Rights
Doorsteps empowers, mentors and assists local Cambodian leaders to protect children in the community against abuse, exploitation and trafficking by providing small improvement grants, collaboration, and capacity-building opportunities to grassroots programs. Doorsteps is a project of Chab Dai, a coalition of 50 organizations working to end abuse and trafficking in Cambodia.
Countries:
United States
Themes: Sport, Children, Education
Themes: Sport, Children, Education
Introduce thousands to parkour through free classes at the community-built parkour gym in Seattle and support the growth of a lifelong, respectful discipline that anyone can benefit from!
Countries:
India
Themes: Education, Children, Human Rights
Themes: Education, Children, Human Rights
After school education provides 1000 children and youth, who may not otherwise have an opportunity, a chance to participate in fun, safe, supervised activities. CHHASE aims to help children and youth get active, develop healthy eating habits, gain confidence and do better in school, which helps to decrease childhood obesity and youth violence.
Countries:
Russia
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
Teenagers in St Petersburg orphanages and recent orphanage-leavers are supported by psychologists and volunteer families to help them make the difficult transition to adult life. Training is also given to orphanages, college and hostel staff who wish to improve how they care for this vulnerable group.
Countries:
Cameroon
Themes: Health, Children, Education, Women and Girls
Themes: Health, Children, Education, Women and Girls
This program aims to improve community health standards by addressing nutritional deficiencies. This will include both theoretical and practical components, as well as access to a seed bank so that participants can grow crops rich in nutrients currently lacking in their diets. This program will be implemented in isolated villages in the Akwaya Subdivisions of Cameroon where malnutrition is critical. It will empower women primarily and their families with protein source (piggery) .
Countries:
South Africa
Themes: Children, Education, Hunger
Themes: Children, Education, Hunger
The Philippi Children's Centre is an oasis in a very poor farming community in Cape Town, South Africa. The Centre currently has space for 200 children and we are raising funds to increase their capacity to help more children and ultimately become a community hub for outreach programming and development.
Countries:
India
Themes: Health, Children, Women and Girls
Themes: Health, Children, Women and Girls
The Purpose of this project is to treat 3500 Tuberculosis patients annually in more than 2000 disadvantaged areas in India. The project will educate a population of 4.2 million about the prevention, treatment and control of TB.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Children, Disaster Recovery, Health, Humanitarian Assistance
Themes: Children, Disaster Recovery, Health, Humanitarian Assistance
Millions of children are at risk in drought-stricken East Africa - at least until the rains come in about 100 days. Save the Children is providing emergency nourishment to save lives. Our project goal of $100,000 will help keep 100 children alive through the drought. All you have to do is donate a dollar a day for 100 days.
Countries:
Zimbabwe
Themes: Women and Girls, Children
Themes: Women and Girls, Children
Zimbabwe is a dangerous place to grow up female. ZimKids is training 100 orphan girls to surmount the economic and social chaos and lead their community to a more vibrant and just future.
Countries:
South Sudan
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Environment, Health
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Environment, Health
Water for South Sudan, Inc. will build a well with hand pump in the new country of South Sudan to bring the first fresh, clean water to a village. Girls & women will no longer have to walk miles each day to get water they need.
Countries:
Malawi
Themes: Children, Health
Themes: Children, Health
World Child Cancer is helping children in Malawi by improving cancer diagnosis, treatment and supportive care at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. Many child cancers are curable at reasonable cost even within basic health systems with drugs and treatments which have been known to doctors for decades. World Child Cancer transfers this expertise through medical twinning partnerships. The project helps around 250 children a year by saving lives and reducing suffering.
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:
China
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
This project will underwrite the cost of continuing operations for a Special Care Nursery Room for medically-fragile infants at the HTS China Care Home in Beijing.
Countries:
India
Themes: Education, Children, Economic Development
Themes: Education, Children, Economic Development
In a region of largely tribal & uneducated population, this project aims to enable and support communities to educate all children thus achieving 100% enrollment & retention of kids for 10 years in school.
India Literacy Project (ILP) partnering with ChetnaVikas, an effective local NGO is working in 20 villages (Dumka district) allowing families to dream a better life via education/rights awareness, to show them that education is the best investment for their future & to live beyond serfdom.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
We teach children of women trafficked for sex computer skills through our institutes and find them jobs through partner organizations to prevent them from also being trafficked and contracting AIDS.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
Turning Point work in Africa's largest slum, Kibera. Each year we rehabilitate 35 street-children, enabling them to return to school, receive an education and create positive futures for themselves.
Countries:
Nigeria
Themes: Children, Environment, Health
Themes: Children, Environment, Health
This project will build 5 hand held water pumps, rehabilitate 3 tube wells in northern Nigeria, providing access to safe clean drinking water to 5000 children in communities who recently had an outbreak of cholera and dysentery. The project will also train community members on hand washing practices to improve on their hygiene and home management and storage of water thus reducing the incidences of water related diseases.
Countries:
Brazil
Themes: Children, Economic Development, Health
Themes: Children, Economic Development, Health
Help poor mothers with sick children currently undergoing hospitalization or treatment far from home. Help the mothers to be near the children, generate income and to find jobs.
Countries:
Cambodia
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
This project will provide over 7,000 hours of English, Khmer (the Cambodian national language), math and computer classes in 2013.
A quarter of the kids that come to Tiny Toones have never been to school. The rest often find they can't afford the fees or have to help support their families instead. Some are already working by the time they're five years old. They come to Tiny Toones because it's fun, creative and free.
With your help we can give them the education that they deserve.
Countries:
Chile
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
VE Global recruits, trains and organizes volunteers from around the world to achieve our mission of fostering the positive development of children at social risk in Chile.
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:
Kenya
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
As you know there is nothing more valuable in life as education. Tumaini Miles of Smiles Centre not only houses, feeds, clothes the orphans, abandoned and the poor, but goes deeper to provide quality education to enable them to become whole people in the society. Currently we are educating 300 children, Baby class - class 8 and 18 are joining high school this year. Our goal is to empower and equip these children to break the cycle of poverty. Get involved and lets experience the change together!
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education, Health, Hunger
Themes: Children, Education, Health, Hunger
"an unique place for community living in India," a care home for disabled and destitute children, homeless women and the aged, where they live together as a family. 63 now aiming to make it for 200.
Countries:
Uganda
Themes: Education, Children
Themes: Education, Children
Building Tomorrow's "Build A School Project" will fund the construction of a primary-level academy in rural Uganda for up to 325 students. Donations will be matched by our partner community in Uganda via a donation of three acres of land and 20,000 hours of volunteer labor. Community members and parents of future students will oversee construction and, ultimately, management of the academy. Upon its opening, the Ugandan Ministry of Education will staff the academy and fund operating costs.
Countries:
Lithuania
Themes: Health, Children
Themes: Health, Children
We aim to ensure that advanced medical treatment, diagnostic testing and social aid are provided to Lithuanian children with cancer, so that they feel less of both physical and mental pain.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
Through training we will empower the women with skills to improve their income. We teach life skills and sex education to adolescent girls so they can improve their quality of life.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Themes: Children, Health
Themes: Children, Health
The International Day for Street Children is celebrated every year on April 12th. The day provides a platform for the millions of street children around the world - and their champions - to speak out so that their rights cannot be ignored.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Children
Themes: Children
The St Andrews Baby Unit is located in a rural part of Kenya and provides care for up to 15 babies, from newborn to 3years, who have been orphaned, abandoned or neglected.
Countries:
Pakistan
Themes: Health, Children, Disaster Recovery, Women and Girls
Themes: Health, Children, Disaster Recovery, Women and Girls
CDRS provides emergency relief and mobile medical teams in times of disaster, then supports remote and rural villages with sustainable healthcare services. Our facilities provide primary and preventive care, with a mother-child focus. Lives are saved everyday by having on-site, round-the-clock urgent care facilities, a well-stocked pharmacy. On-going patient education and speciality camps help address chronic conditions and improve the quality of life for disaster affected families
