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Ashoka Innovators for the Public (nominal)
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Business School for Rural Women in Maharashtra
India, Education
The Business School provides technical skills to rural women without formal education and to girls forced to drop out of school, enabling them to start and/or improve their own micro enterprises. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Provide sanitary napkins for 200,000 Indian women
India, Health
Poor women use the dirtiest rag in the house during menses. Most don’t even have enough cloth to cover themselves. We provide clean sanitary napkins made of repurposed waste cloth (from the cities). progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Promoting Literacy at The SEED School
United States, Education
The SEED School of Washington, D.C. seeks to foster literacy growth by providig students with leveled books that they can and want to read as well as individualized literacy instruction and support. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Skills training for 20 unskilled South African men
South Africa, Education
This project provides 20 unemployed men the opportunity of attending training to learn technical skills such as gardening, painting, bricklaying, carpentry so that they may find work. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Rescue 2000 Women and Girls From Forced Labor
India, Children
Protect children, girls and women in the tribal belts of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa. Project will rescue girls from bonded labor and create a medical camp to serve rescued women and girls. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Trees and Water for Masai in Kenya
Kenya, Climate Change
This project promotes community development, environmental conservation and wealth creation around the process of growing trees for charcoal as an alternative source of energy for 3800 Masai. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Saving Wildlife Through Environmental Education
Brazil, Environment
Donate 2,000 educational kits, containing video and informational folder to public schools in the Distrito Federal state. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Training Education for 400 Nepali Women & Children
Nepal, Children
We provide practical skill-based training and paid apprenticeships to involve women in some of the country's leading economic opportunities. 400 Nepalese women from 33 districts have benefitted so far progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Improve Children's Health and Development
India, Education
Provide child care, education, and improved health and sanitation for boys and girls in India. Educate girls about their rights. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Ensure the rights of China’s children
China, Children
The most proven way to ensure legal rights is to provide people with attorneys at the time of arrest. We will train 100 Chinese defenders, promote their services, and link them with those in need. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Empowering Rural Mothers as Home Educators
Chile, Education
The project is to empower rural mothers as instructors and co-educators by training a minimum of 14 mothers from 5 rural schools in strategies to improve cognitive and social skills. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Primary School Environmental Education
Peru, Environment
6,000 children will improve reading comprehension and appreciation for Lima's natural surroundings through a fun story that tells the adventures of 2 characters in Lurin, Lima’s last existing valley. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Promoting Kickapoo heritage for kids in Mexico
Mexico, Education
This project provides 300 families and/or schools with didactic materials in three languages to learn or reassure the cultural elements of Kickapoo heritage. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Connect Rural and Urban Indian School Children
India, Education
Urban students contribute supplies to their rural counterparts. School to School is a unique solution to the lack of infrastructure and basic facilities critical for a rural child to learn. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Grow Clean Food & Harvest Water in Rural Oaxaca
Mexico, Environment
We provide practical solutions for improving quality of life for 30 rural families in Oaxaca by teaching them how to grow their own food, catch rainwater for irrigation, and cook with solar energy. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Educate Ecuadorian Children to Face Global Warming
Ecuador, Children
We provide resources, training and hands-on opportunities to create awareness and teach children about conservation in the Galapagos Islands and poor areas of Quito, the most polluted city in Ecuador. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Cloth for Work
India, Economic Development
Cloth is given as a motivation, with dignity, to people working on their own community issues. We turn age old charitable cloth into a resource for much needed development work in Indian villages. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Help Indian Rickshaw-Pullers Become Self-Employed
India, Economic Development
The project creates a sustainable livelihood for poor, rural migrants living in urban India, helping them become self-employed through Rickshaw Bank. To date, 360 pullers have attained credit this way progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Children Advocate for Rights & Transform Community
Ecuador, Human Rights
Adolescents are trained to organize and lead children. Children learn and defend human rights, gain self-esteem, and identify and advocate for change in impoverished communities. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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My Father's House for 100 So. African AIDS Orphans
South Africa, Human Rights
MFH is run by men renewing their responsibility as the head of the household. We give orphaned children security in a home environment, helping them reach their full potential and be good citizens. progress reportread updates from the field
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HIV-Free Babies and Treatment of Infected Families
India, Health
Freedom Foundation prevents mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Our goal: 25 people living with HIV/AIDS in friendly hospitals that deliver services to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Save Endangered Zebras and Help Wild Dogs in Kenya
Kenya, Animals
To protect endangered species by training villagers in wildlife conservation and promoting economic growth through eco tourism and tree planting. Less than 2000 Grevy's Zebra remain in the wild today. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Stop Overfishing and Preserve Kenya Marine Life
Kenya, Environment
This project provides Kenyan fishermen with new methods to improve fishing, consequently, conserving the marine environment. Our artificial reef will help with overfishing which is a major problem. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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HIV/AIDS Care for 600 Migrant Workers in India
India, Health
600 industrial workers of Surat, India, receive free HIV care. Medicine, nutrition and counseling support for 80 patients a month, improving health, productivity and family life. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Providing Sign Language to 3000 Nigerian Pupils
Nigeria, Education
This project provides 3000 pupils sign language skills which they will, over time transfer to other youths in Nigeria for the inclusion of hearing and speech impaired people. We will do this through progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Field office for unemployed people in South Africa
South Africa, Economic Development
This project creates a safe, reliable and visible field office / collection point for 100 unemployed day labourers who wait on the side of the road for work. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Miguel Angel Asturias Academy
Guatemala, Education
A school that provides education for more than 300 impoverished children that come from the most vulnerable sectors of society who would otherwise have no access to education. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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EMPOWERING MASAI WOMEN/GIRLS THROUGH CONSERVATION
Kenya, Women and Girls
This project will train 400 Masai women and 2500 school children in conservation. Empowering women by providing income generating opportunities through tree planting to overcome obstacles such as FGM. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Quality Education for Migrant Children of Colombia
Colombia, Education
This project recovers the right to quality education to 1300 Colombian children who have been displaced by the armed conflict and kept out of the formal system due to drug-related warfare progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Hope & direction for children in Mumbai’s slums
India, Education
We work with 660 7-9yr olds living in Mumbai’s slums. Weekly sports sessions provide them with positive role models, allow them to express themselves and present a view of a world outside the slums. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Treat 10,000 Fluoride-Poisoned Children
India, Children
Provide safe drinking water to 10,000 children in 70 schools. Also, provide a nutritious mid-day meal to these children that is rich in calcium, iron, vitamin C, vitamin E, and other antioxidants. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Offering Sporting to 720 Children in IDP camps
Uganda, Education
This project uses sport as a medium to disseminate HIV/AIDS, Health and Education awareness to children & communities they live in. The project has reached over 25,000 children.
retired
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Power to the Poor
Nigeria, Health
From health and environmental hazard to energy: create biogas plant to transform noxious cassava waste into low-cost off-grid energy for 2,250 poor families with organic fertilisers for poor farmers.
retired
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