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Education for 900 Rural Girls in Burkina Faso

Children

The project buys lambs & school materials for girls’ first year of school; and requires parents to raise, sell & purchase lambs to pay for their daughters’ remaining primary & middle school needs.

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How You Can Help:

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	$44 - Buys school materials for a girl's first year of school
	$46 - Buys a girl's first lamb which her parents will raise and sell to support succeeding years of school
	$90 - Supports one village girl's education for 10 years
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A Sanctuary for Empowering Refugee Girls

Kenya,

Women and Girls

The Children’s Empowerment Project is a safe space where adolescent girls regain their physical and mental health, create a network of peer support and achieve skills which lead to self-sufficiency.

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How You Can Help:

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	$50 - Pays for the tuition for 1 girl to attend 3 month job training course in either cooking or tailoring
	$50 - Provides weekly bus fare for 5 girls to attend job-training classes for 3 months
	$75 - Provides 3 girls with school supplies for one year, including books, notebooks, handouts and pens
	$100 - Pays for one girl's specialized medical care treatmemt
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Make College an Option for 70 Congo (DRC) Students

Congo, Democratic Republic of the,

Education ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

Courses in environmental management, sustainable agriculture, and community development equip students to build the region’s economy and expand the use of low-impact development techniques.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Pays a professor to teach a two-hour class for 30 students
	$20 - Buys enough textbooks for one student per year
	$35 - Covers one year of room and board for one student
	$100 - Pays one year’s tuition for one student
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Health Care and Water for 7,000 Gambians

Gambia, The,

Health

To provide African people in isolated communities with a means to access healthcare when it is needed; to be treated at home; to aid irrigation thereby improving nutrition and increasing income.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Provides 5 spark plugs to cover 30,000 kilometers.
	$10 - Provides a brake cable to cover 36,000 kilometers.
	$35 - Provides a tire to cover 15,000 kilometers.
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Help Mothers in Zimbabwe Keep Children in School

Zimbabwe,

Children

This project provides grants to 150 Mothers Groups in rural Zimbabwe to boost their income-generating activities and use the profits to meet school costs for 3,750 orphans and vulnerable children.

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How You Can Help:

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	$38 - Will support one woman to attend a Mothers Group local launch training on business skills.
	$56 - Will buy supplies to help 1 Mothers Group earn income to support 25 children's educations.
	$132 - Will pay the round-trip busfare for 5 participants to attend a two-day business training.
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Help 100 Families Grow Food in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe,

Economic Development

This project provides 100 at-risk families with irrigation kits and training so that over 600 people are able to grow enough food to attain food security, plus have extra to sell.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Buys seeds and fertilizer for 4 families with drip irrigation kits.
	$50 - Buys 1/2 of a drip kit.
	$100 - Buys a complete drip kit with training.
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Build a new life for 12 orphans in South Africa

South Africa,

Children

This project will pay for a new home in the Refilwe Community, South Africa for 12 orphaned children and their caregivers who will play a direct role in their education, care, love and nourishment.

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How You Can Help:

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	$75 - New bed with bedding for 1 orphan
	$400 - New windows for the complex
	$700 - New tiles and carpeting for the complex
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Solar cookers for the school in Fiadanana

Madagascar,

Environment

Using solar cookers in the village’s school to prepare meals by and for the students. Introducing a new technology to the village via the children, reduces the need to chop down firewood trees.

How You Can Help:

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	$10 - uys enough Mofo Gasy (Malagasy rice cakes) for 140 students for a day
	$40 - Buys black pots for the solar cookers
	$220 - Buys a parabolic solar cooker
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Help Build a School for 500 Girls in Sudan

Sudan,

Children

This project, initiated by Sudanese refugees, will create a new secondary school in war-torn Southern Sudan for 500 women and girls who would otherwise have virtually no access to education.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Provides medicine for a girl for one year
	$100 - Provides housing for a girl for one year
	$10,000 - Builds a new dormitory for 40 girls
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