Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
Kibera Mpira Mtaani is using soccer to reach out to the youths in Kibera slums. Through soccer tournaments and after-school tuition they are educating youths in lifeskills and academic subjects.
Countries:
Sierra Leone
Themes: Technology, Economic Development, Education
Themes: Technology, Economic Development, Education
Training in basic computer skills provides essential job-related skills and empowers disadvantaged youths. Participants are better qualified and become productive individuals in their communities. Through the training provided, young adults are equipped with relevant technology skills and empowered to take their place as leaders. Computer competency or proficiency is a vital skill in today's computer connected society
Countries:
Georgia
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
We offer a home and vocational training for up to 20 homeless teenagers in Tbilisi. In the last 10 years, 400 children and teenagers have passed through our rehabilitation process and almost all have now built successful, independent lives. We run several small enterprises to provide training and work including a printer cartridge refilling service, which helps to fund our work. In today's tough climate, we are struggling and have had to turn teenagers away because we can't feed them.
Countries:
India
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
Located in the township of Pallurithy, in the city of Kochi this project aims to assist disadvantaged children and orphans in the area.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education, Hunger
Themes: Children, Education, Hunger
Establish 3 schools for 150 at risk out of school children in 3 remote slums in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Reduce child labor and out of school children by ensure primary education with nutrition meal and health care to build up a strong foundation to the lives of children to become responsible citizens in the society. Create linkages with local community, other like minded organizations and government to continue to serve permanently in the areas.
Countries:
Fiji
Themes: Animals, Education, Environment
Themes: Animals, Education, Environment
This project is focused on identifying and studying the behaviour of what is thought to be the only semi-resident pod of Spinner dolphins in Moon Reef, Fiji. With the addition of a local awareness-raising campaign, we aim to help the local community protect not only the Spinner dolphins, but the whole of their traditional fishing grounds. Fundraising efforts can empower local communities to manage their own marine resources in more sustainable ways.
Countries:
Nepal
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education, Human Rights
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education, Human Rights
In rural Nepal, impoverished families have been selling their daughters to be bonded servants. The Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF) provides the family with a goat or piglet as substitution for the daughter's wages, brings the girl home and ensures her access to education. Now that NYF has freed almost 12,000 girls and has nearly eradicated the bonding practice, it has shifted its focus to empowering girls to be leaders of the movement against bonding.
Countries:
Liberia
Themes: Women and Girls, Education
Themes: Women and Girls, Education
This project will provide school and after-school vocational training, mentoring, and support services for up to 500 girls in the 10-19 age bracket. West Point (our program's geographic focus) has the highest rate of child prostitution in Liberia. Most girls are expected to work from a very young age, and only if they are lucky do they avoid falling prey to sexual exploitation. This project aims to help them escape this awful fate.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
Acres of Mercy Kenya plans to build greenhouses to feed 150 vulnerable children yearly that come from poor families’ homes within and around Nguluni, Kenya and provide income to pay teachers salaries
Countries:
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
This project provides high school and elementary school scholarships for youth and vocational training for uneducated teenagers.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Human Rights, Education, Women and Girls, Health
Themes: Human Rights, Education, Women and Girls, Health
In Maasai community,young girls below age 10 years are subjected to horrific cultural practice of female genital mutilation/cutting, FGM/C, as rite of passage from childhood to womanhood. Thereafter, denied opportunity to go on with schooling and instead married off. The supposed women, at onset of puberty, begin to bear children and manage homes.Cherish Others has identified over 5000 girls at risk, some orphans, by making home visits, counsel and give support and educate community to stop FGM
Countries:
Nepal
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education, Human Rights
Themes: Women and Girls, Children, Education, Human Rights
In rural Nepal, impoverished families have been selling their daughters to be bonded servants. The Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF) provides the family with a goat or piglet as substitution for the daughter's wages, brings the girl home and ensures her access to education.
Now that NYF has freed almost 12,000 girls and has nearly eradicated the bonding practice, it has shifted its focus to empowering girls to be leaders of the movement against bonding.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education, Health, Human Rights
Themes: Children, Education, Health, Human Rights
This project aims to protect vulnerable children, such as street children, child labourers, and children of migrant families, from risks of abuse and exploitation and reduce incidences of infant mortality, malnutrition and child hunger in Orissa, India.
The project will do this through rehabilitation and reintegration of separated children back to their families and communities; training in safe sexual & reproductive health practices; and advocating for government entitlements.
Countries:
Tanzania, United Republic of
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
The village leaders in Mgaraganza Village requested assistance to construct their first ever secondary school for the hundreds of children in the area. The villagers are invested in the project and the school will be run by the Ministry of Education in Tanzania when completed. The design and construction efforts are community-driven and ongoing local support sustains the project. Your contribution helps them make their vision a reality.
Countries:
United States
Themes: Climate Change, Education, Environment, Technology
Themes: Climate Change, Education, Environment, Technology
Our goal is to help everyone get involved in local sustainability, and to utilize map making to engage and empower communities. Each locally-made Green Map promotes green living, ecological, cultural and activism resources, sharing a world view that's up-to-date, actionable and naturally attractive to all ages of residents, decision-makers and visitors. Hundreds of diverse cities, towns and campuses in 65 countries already benefit from the tools and skills we develop with your support.
Countries:
Panama
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
ENLACES: Creating Leaders Through Art.
Fundacion Calicanto's program works with children in social risk (from 7 to 12 years old) who live in the Historic District and its surrounding poor neighborhoods. With school journeys of just half a day, the kids spend a lot of unsupervised time in the street, exposed to violence and gangs. ENLACES is a program that uses contemporary dance as a tool for change; along with theater and art workshops, academic tutoring, and psychological support.
Countries:
Zambia
Themes: Children, Education, Women and Girls
Themes: Children, Education, Women and Girls
There are more than a million orphaned children in Zambia - 1 in 10 people! How would a wealthy country like ours cope with this size of problem? How would you as a child have coped alone in the world? If they survive, what kind of adults will they become? They need food, shelter, education and training. But also someone to love them, someone who cares if they live or die. With our partners, we are trying to help some of these very needy youngsters at Kaliyangile in the small town of Chisamba.
Countries:
Philippines
Themes: Education, Climate Change, Economic Development, Technology
Themes: Education, Climate Change, Economic Development, Technology
Community-based small scale renewable energy projects are harnessing hydro, solar and/or wind power providing clean/affordable energy to rural poor Filipino villagers. To replicate these projects in other rural poor villages while ensuring efficiency and sustainability, SIBAT will establish "Center for Renewable Energy & Appropriate Technology (CREATech)" in Brgy. Estrada, Capas, Tarlac Province to provide trainings, information and local fabrication of parts for ~4,000 poor families.
Countries:
Ghana
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
This project is aimed to provide literacy education for 100 adults in Ghana. Students learn how to read and write in both English and Ghanaian. They are also taught basic math and health skills.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Themes: Hunger, Education, Environment, Health
Themes: Hunger, Education, Environment, Health
At FoodCycle we think it's ridiculous to throw away perfectly edible food when there are people who need it in the very same communities - so we're doing something about it.
Each week, our teams of amazing volunteers collect surplus food from local retailers and cook it into healthy meals for people at risk from food poverty and social isolation in the community; bringing people from all walks of life together at the dining table over a three-course meal in a warm and welcoming environment.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
This project provides 100 girls and their babies rescued from early marriages, with healthcare, education, vocational training and psycho-social support in rural Kenya.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education, Women and Girls
Themes: Children, Education, Women and Girls
Buds of Christ aims at educating and protecting rural orphan girls until 18 years where girl children are neglected and exploited physically and sexually. This helps the orphan girls to make clear decisions and set goals for their future.
Countries:
Georgia
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
Radarami is a non-profit organization based in the country of Georgia (not the state). We bring globally significant topics to Georgians-things like climate change ("Fast Forward"), the role of China ("When a Billion Chinese Jump") and the global financial crisis. Currently, we are promoting Tony Judt's "Ill Fares the Land" which raises questions about the proper role of government and its engagement with the economy.
Countries:
India
Themes: Children, Education
Themes: Children, Education
Buds N Colors camp is for adolescent children orphaned and affected by HIV and AIDS in the HIV high prevalent Namakkal district in Tamilnadu. The aim of this camp is to share love, build hope and strengthen faith to live life with dignity and courage. Adolescents orphaned by HIV find it hard to set higher goals due to the fear that dominates their emotions. HIV has affected their self -image causing a severe low self esteem. Camp aims to build confidence and emerge as peer leaders for change.
Countries:
Kenya
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
Mustard Seed Project hope to build a new school which will accommodate 300 poor children. We are currently renting a building which is rapidly becoming too small. We have managed to buy a plot of land and urgently need to build two classrooms on this plot to house the new intake of children next year.
Countries:
Tanzania, United Republic of
Themes: Economic Development, Education
Themes: Economic Development, Education
BRAC's project will provide 500 girls in Tanzania with 20 safe spaces, education and micro loans to help them lead confident, self-reliant, dignified lives. BRAC manages a similar program in Uganda.
Countries:
Malawi
Themes: Education, Health
Themes: Education, Health
Through its Program on Social and Economic Rights, Partners In Health supports patients and their families to get through a particularly vulnerable time, and works to break the cycle of poverty and disease by making sure that all school-aged children in these families are able to go to school. Partners In Health will support 2,000 children in Neno District in 2012-2013.
Countries:
Pakistan
Themes: Education, Women and Girls, Human Rights
Themes: Education, Women and Girls, Human Rights
In Sindh, many of the poorest are the marginalized minority groups living in rural areas. The Primary Education Project targets these communities and seeks to empower and strengthen them by building sustainable and effective schools! Our teaching methodology was designed UNIQUELY for these communities that society has cast aside. Our local teachers not only teach standard subjects but peace education, disaster risk reduction, women's empowerment, sanitation, and financial education as well!
Countries:
Nicaragua
Themes: Education, Economic Development
Themes: Education, Economic Development
41% of Nicaraguans live in rural communities. For these rural students, access to secondary education is extremely limited. Of the 1.4 million school-aged youth (10-19 years old), UNICEF estimates that 50% are not matriculated in secondary education, and that only a third of the population graduates high school.The Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial (SAT) is an innovative rural secondary education program, which provides targeted quality and relevant educational opportunities to rural youth.
Countries:
South Africa
Themes: Education
Themes: Education
This is the first scholarship funded by contributions from alumni and existing scholars of the Canon Collins Trust. The first Scholars' Scholar Award was granted in January 2013. This will become our best and most prestigious award and will be open to any eligible applicants from southern Africa wishing to pursue a masters degree in South Africa.
