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Give enterprise skills to unemployed young people
United Kingdom
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Economic Development
As the jobless total for 16-24 year olds hit record figures of 1.02 million, it is critical to help young people into work for the future of the economy and society. In deprived areas where jobs are not available, the enterprise voucher scheme will allow Head for Business to work with 10 young people to become empowered, explore enterprise, promote creativity and risk taking, as well as enhancing their personal learning and thinking skills in a entrepreneurially-minded, supportive environment.
Build houses for 50 homeless families in Uganda
Uganda
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Economic Development
Housing is a basic need in life, but due to high levels of poverty in Uganda many families have no access to decent housing. Community Shelters Uganda are building houses for 50 families who are currently homeless or in inadequate and unsafe housing and providing pit-latrines, bathrooms and water tanks for harvesting clean water. These houses will be built for targeted vulnerable people, such as the elderly, HIV/AIDS affected and infected mothers and children.
Help 100 Additional Families Grow Food in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
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Economic Development
One hundred additional families struggling to survive in rural Zimbabwe will be able to grow enough food to feed their extended families and have surplus remaining to sell.
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Empowering Palestinian Families through Jobs
Palestinian Territories
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Economic Development
CHF is providing much needed food aid, gainful employment opportunities, and viable job skills trainings to assist over 22,000 Palestinian families, totaling approximately 150,000 people.
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Micro-Loans to 56 Rice Farmers in the Philippines
Philippines
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Economic Development
Farmers borrow from money-lenders at 25% per 100 days. Loans from the ECLOF buy supplies to cultivate crops, expand activities and help farmers make a profit and improve their standard of living.
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Support farmer-to-farmer mentoring in Nicaragua
Nicaragua
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Economic Development
North American farmers volunteer and work with landless farmers in Nicaragua, helping 54 farmers with land/finance, new crops, marketing, and value-added projects to grow sustainable family incomes.
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Soul of Africa
South Africa
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Economic Development
This project employs 70 women to hand-stitch shoes for a fair wage. The women are taught life-skills and work in a safe environment.
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Give Job Training to Marginalized Indian Women
India
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Economic Development
Training in the embroidery arts of "zari" and "zardosi" will pave the way to economic sustenance for the women of the remote village of Holtikotti.
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Help 35 Families Become Self-Sufficient with Honey
Haiti
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Economic Development
Beekeeping and selling honey can be a sustainable livelihood for struggling families in Haiti. Help 35 families out of poverty with the gift of a beehive.
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Engaging Ugandan AIDS Widows in Business
Uganda
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Economic Development
Trickle Up helps the lowest income widows in Uganda take the first steps out of poverty by providing business training, conditional seed money and support services to start or expand a small business.
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Rice processing creates jobs for 10 people Nigeria
Nigeria
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Economic Development
To create secure jobs in the rural area of Igbeagu-Izzi the project gives 10 women and men the machineries and training for processing and marketing of parboiled rice for the reduction of migration.
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Help Female Entrepreneurs in Peru Escape Poverty
Peru
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Economic Development
Help female entrepreneurs in the poverty stricken area of Cajamarca, Peru build the capacity and skills necessary to expand their business supplying fruit to local mines.
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Finance Microlending in Rural Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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Economic Development
CHF is one of the only agencies working to empower low-income families by providing microcredit loans averaging about $300—many to women—in Afghanistan’s rural areas.
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Food security and freed from tragedy life of tribe
India
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Economic Development
Tribe families (Paliyan Community) are under starvation and tragedy life in to cave of Sirumalai Hills and Palaini Hills. Most of them have been retrieved and are being provided by small huts in to the forest with some basic helps such water facilities, solar lighting, crèche centre, human rights issues supports, ration card, community certificate, housing patta land issues, etc by us. Remaining people are being retrieved from the cave / risk places
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Educate, Mobilize and Empower Tanzania's Disabled
Tanzania, United Republic of
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Economic Development
This project will facilitate the provision of appropriate wheelchairs and provide training programs and a facility to enable Tanzanian's disabled to become productive, valuable members of society.
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Community-run Eco-lodge on the Indian Ocean
Madagascar
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Economic Development
An environmentally, socially and economically beneficial community-run lodge for eco-tourists in a spectacular coral-reef coastal region, improving the unique environment and people's livelihoods
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Give a Family a Chance in Colombia
Colombia
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Economic Development
More than 3 million people in Colombia have been displaced from their homes due to ongoing internal armed conflict. With no money or assets, 35,000 families each month struggle to survive.
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Miracle Berry Changing Lives at Top of the World
Nepal
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Economic Development
The miracle Seabuckthorn plant grows wild in the Himalaya Mountains. We equip communities to plant nurseries and harvest wild berries, lifting people out of poverty and protecting the environment.
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Help volunteers tackle community problems
Colombia
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Economic Development
New Heights is a revolutionary program that directs volunteers to where help is needed most. Your help enables more children to read, more battered women to find shelter and more ill to find comfort.
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Increasing Income for Landless Farmers in India
India
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Economic Development
To improve the quality of life for 5,100 people in 40 rural villages in Bihar, India, through self-help groups to increase income, manage their savings, and improve their health and education.
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Smart Business Solutions vs. Poverty in Africa
Ghana
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Economic Development
5 high-growth, business development programs for African firms to help them maximize operations, train staff, create new jobs, spur innovation, inspire younger generations, and compete globally.
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Help Aging Musicians Meet Daily Needs
United States
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Economic Development
Music Maker Foundation helps musicians over the age of 55 avoid poverty through providing food, shelter, and medical care, and helps them continue making music and sharing their gifts with the world.
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Enhancing skills for 1000 women in Bihar
India
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Economic Development
The project will provide suitable skill training for 1000 poor women in rural Bihar so their income earning capacity increases and improves their economic situation.
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Literacy for Women Business Owners in Haiti
Haiti
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Economic Development
This project provides thousands of women microfinance clients with basic literacy training and the opportunity to learn business skills, as well as health and human rights education.
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Poorest Nicaraguans Start Sustainable Businesses
Nicaragua
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Economic Development
In the poorest rural communities of Nicaragua, farmers receive seed capital and business training to launch environmentally sustainable businesses; they become effective guardians of the environment
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Increase safety and incomes for Nepal climbers
Nepal
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Economic Development
At our climbing school, Nepali students are taught mountain safety, English, technical mountain climbing skills, and emergency medicine. The outcome is safer expeditions and higher wages for guides.
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Support Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic of
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Economic Development
Support TechnoServe's work to make Tanzanian coffee competitive on global markets, benefiting small-scale farmers, their families and rural coffee-growing communities
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Cloth for Work
India
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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.
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Livelihood for 500 Tribal Women in Gujarat
India
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Economic Development
This project enables livelihood for women in rural Gujarat through Sakhi Sangathan, a women's collective, which grows, buys and sells its own farm produce at profit in a male dominated market.
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Fish to Feed HIV affected families in Malawi
Malawi
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Economic Development
1000 poor farmers, including women and HIV affected householders in Chingale, Malawi will be taught fish farming methods to help improve their income and nutritional status for the long term.
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Help feed 1000 Indigenous People in Honduras
Honduras
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Economic Development
This pilot project will provide 100 farmers with quantities of seeds, tools and fertilizer to recover from poor harvests last year. After 1 year they give back the initial quantity for another farmer.
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Support Sustainability for Latin American Farmers
Guatemala
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Economic Development
With your support, communities in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua will be able to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects.
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Help Indian Rickshaw-Pullers Become Self-Employed
India
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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
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Reduce poverty in rural Nicaragua
Nicaragua
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Economic Development
TechnoServe will expand its successful programs diversifying agricultural production in coffee farming areas across Central America to the agricultural communities of Matagalpa and Jinotega, Nicaragua
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Sustain the Lives of Kenyan AIDS Orphans&Families
Kenya
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Economic Development
This project provides initial education and healthcare sponsorship to HIV/AIDS orphans. Families will get training and business start-up capital so they can further support the orphans.
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Sustainable Agriculture for Women Farmers
Guatemala
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Economic Development
MADRE will provide farm animals and sustainable agriculture training to Indigenous Ixil women in El Quiché, Guatemala, helping them generate economic resources and develop sustainable livelihoods.
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Help Empower 300 Women in Kosovo through Education
Serbia
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Economic Development
By helping to educate women in Kosovo about business, religious and racial tolerance, and how to work together as one, women can become beacons of resolve in their country.
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Bringing Business to Bridges in Nepal
Nepal
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Economic Development
EcoSystems Nepal has requested MWB's support in providingide affordable renewable energy to villagers that are not connected to grid po
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Field office for unemployed people in South Africa
South Africa
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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.
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Breaking barriers to Agriculture in Ukraine
Ukraine
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Economic Development
MBA Volunteer Alasdair Maughan is assessing agriculture regulations in Ukraine to improve the effectiveness and minimize the burden of laws, making it easier for farming businesses to prosper.
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Help Kenyan Dairy Farmers Increase Their Income
Kenya
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Economic Development
TechnoServe is increasing incomes and opportunities for poor, rural households in Kenya by lending its business support services to dairy enterprises.
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The Desert Fridge: Give Electricity-Free Cooling
Nigeria
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Economic Development
This project provides the rural areas of the developing world without electricity a means to refrigerate and preserve their food. Sales are on-demand and liberate young girls to attend school.
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Irrigation Water Project in Honduras
Honduras
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Economic Development
The newest Agros village of Bella Vista, Honduras is in need of funding the build of a sustainable water project which aims to provide irrigation for the families’ productive fields.
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Supporting Business Leadership in Nigeria
Nigeria
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Economic Development
MBAs Without Borders has partnered with LEAP Africa (LEAP) to recruit a MBA for a challenging and exciting project in Lagos, Nigeria to support their business leadership program.
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Help 500 Rwandan women rebuild their communities
Rwanda
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Economic Development
Through education about health issues, as well as human rights and general education, women in Rwanda will give not only themselves, but their entire community, a chance to strengthen and grow.
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Help Provide Health Care and MicroCredit, Cameroon
Cameroon
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Economic Development
Help provide health care and financially enable a rural mother to cater for a family in impoverish sustainable farming and fishing villages in Cameroon.Health care and micro credit gives hope, smiles.
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Give Families in Colombia a Home
Colombia
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Economic Development
Providing community development through self construction housing, training and entrepreneurship credit so that vulnerable and displaced families can become agents of their own development.
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Bringing Digital Inclusion to Amazonian Residents
Brazil
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Economic Development
CDI-Pará is part of CDI - an NGO who conducts technology and civic engagement education and trainings. Pará is a large, impoverished state in the Amazon region with a complex environmental landscape.
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Redesigning Destinies: Women Changing Their Worlds
India
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Economic Development
MarketPlace is a leading textile Fair Trade nonprofit organization. It provides access to global markets for low-income Indian women by using design to bridge the gap between skills and markets.
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Supporting Community-based Microinsurance in India
India
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Economic Development
Micro Insurance Academy (MIA) is a Delhi-based org dedicated to microinsurance options serving the poor. MIA has requested a MWB volunteer to help develop its fundraising and general local programs.
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Training and a trade for people who are homeless
United Kingdom
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Economic Development
Volunteers who are homeless will be trained in House and Garden maintenance work and encouraged to take over, run and manage the project as paid co-operative members, then help expand the enterprise.
Help Haitians Grow Crops Affordably
Haiti
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Economic Development
The food crisis in Haiti is an urgent plea for more food. A seed bank enables Haitian communities to plant inexpensive, quality seeds and grow food to feed their families sustainably for years.
Skills training and co-op formation
Colombia
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Economic Development
Breadmaking skills training to enable displaced communities living in the suburbs of Bogotá, Colombia, to form a co-operative and re-establish livelihoods.
Reconnecting 200 kenyan women with food sources
Kenya
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Economic Development
2 million people in western Kenya are threatened with hunger as result of cassava mosaic disease causing food shortage however with $ 40 one farmer can acquire certified cassava stem to plant.
Women in Ecuador Learn Microfinance and IT Skills
Ecuador
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Economic Development
CDI-Ecuador provides IT education to underserved populations and offers services specifically to indigenous women in rural and urban areas to strengthen their skill sets and roles in their community.
Indian Youth: from business training to start-up
India
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Economic Development
33 street youth from across India who participated in our Street Business training in March '09 will be given loan funding to start or grow their own small businesses on the path to self-sufficiency.
Sneezing elephants: protecting crops in Zambia
Zambia
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Economic Development
This project works with the Elephant Pepper Development Trust to support 50 Zambian households to protect their crops from wild elephants by growing chilli hedges.
Organic Mangoes in the Philippines
Philippines
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Economic Development
To test the feasibility of growing mangos organically in the Philippines, allowing the local farmers to produce a valuable product that competes with larger commercial and international markets.
Strengthening our Congo Community with a Goat Bank
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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Economic Development
We want to organize our community around a 'goat bank' business: importing two Boer goats and cross breeding with local goats we will produce and share a high yield goat herd, ensuring constant supply
Teach beekeeping to 58 young people in The Gambia
Gambia, The
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Economic Development
This project provides training and facilities for 58 young unemployed in The Gambia to become beekeepers and sell honey to hotels. It also helps protect the African honey bee.
Restore Hope for Communities in Thailand
Thailand
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Economic Development
Build bridge to have 1,000 people reach Whispering Seed’s Community Education Centre and farmland to get basic education and vocational training in subsistence farming.
Give 180 young people beekeeping skills in Jamaica
Jamaica
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Economic Development
This project provides training for 180 young unemployed people to become beekeepers and sell honey products to the tourism industry in Jamaica. It also helps protect the local honey bee.
Clean Water for Ruhanga SW Uganda
Uganda
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Economic Development
Clean water for Ruhanga is part of much wider project to create income generating activities for this remote African village set on the main road to Rwanda and DR congo.
Teach Colombian Women Vital Vocational Skills
Colombia
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Economic Development
Through educating Colombian women on basic trade skills, they will be given a chance to utilize those skills and provide for their single income household.
Be a Good Egg- Eggs for kids in poorer countries
Kenya
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Economic Development
The Be a Good Egg campaign is aiming to raise money to buy chickens to lay eggs for people living in poorer countries around the world.
Vocational & Life Training for Madagascan Youths
Madagascar
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Economic Development
The Madagascar YMCA will assist up to 3600 disadvantaged orphans, school drop-outs, young women and rural youths to break the cycle of poverty and despair through life skills & vocational training.
Empowering women with income opportunity
India
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Economic Development
NYDHEE has planed to install 210 fuel efficient devices -smokeless chulla(Cooking stove) and to give training to 3 SHG group on smokeless chulla manufacturing, casting and installing to reduce the fuel wood need, improve the livelihood and reduce the drudgery in collection of fuel wood for kitchen in the village Chudang (a tribal revenue village with indigenous people located adjacent to the Chandaka-Damapada elephant sanctuary)
Enhance Governance Of Financial Services Delivery
Tanzania, United Republic of
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Economic Development
Build the capacity of 2000 members, 150 leaders and 100 treasurers of 100 Savings and Credit Associations(SACAs) in Kagera Region to improve the managerial competencies for better financial services.
Phra Thong Island - Community Conservation Center
Thailand
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Economic Development
We are committed to helping create a model for sustainable development and tourism on the North Andaman coast of Thailand that will then be used to lift up communities around the world. With our partners at Planeterra, we are: 1) Building a Community Centre and Tourism Training Institute; 2) Creating environmentally-friendly jobs; 3) Conserving the local environment; 4)Empowering people and communities to reach their goals; 5)Teaching local youth the importance of education and the environment
Esenyi Dairy Goat Project
Kenya
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Economic Development
A project for 25 HIV/AIDS affected women farmers and the 80 orphans they support, providing dairy goats and training in sustainable farming so families can improve their nutrition, health and income.
Candle Making Project for 600 PLWH/AIDS
Kenya
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Economic Development
This projects aims at providing 600 people living with HIV/AIDS in Korogocho slums of Nairobi Kenya with 10 machines and 50 boxes of wax to enable them earn income and support their families.
Purchase a Land Cruiser - support rural projects
Mali
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Economic Development
Daily travel to villages is necessary to complete school and drinking well construction, provide vaccinations, and transport staff to villages for project support, trainings and more.
Poverty reduction to 300 families living in Rwanda
Rwanda
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Economic Development
This project consists in training concerning agriculture and modern rising to increase production. After the cycle of formation they will be equipped there of tools relative and goats and cows. .
Rehabilitation Village Srilanka
Sri Lanka
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Economic Development
Mother Helpage is aiming to rehabilitate the homeless and displaced people of Sri Lanka who were affected by the devastating Tsunami and the recent civil war.
Housing unit for Polio Victims
Sierra Leone
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Economic Development
The aim is to minimize or eradicate the suffering and marginalization of the Polio victims by creating a village with toilets, showers, skills workshops and housing.
Empowering the Community of Nyalebbe - DRC
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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Economic Development
We want to organize our community around a 'goat bank' business: importing two Boer goats and cross breeding with local goats we will produce and share a high yield goat herd.
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