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Music & Education Program for Disadvantaged Youths
Brazil
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Children
In NE Brazil an influx of tourism and development has led to exploitation, child prostitution and a drug culture. The program aims to return the region’s rich musical culture to its marginalized youth
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How You Can Help:
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monthly recurring
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$100
- Provides reeds and stands for sheet music.
$200
- Repairs various old instruments.
$200
- Buys drums or other percussion instruments.
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$300
- Buys three trumpets.
$300
- Buy two new alto saxophones.
$400
- Builds a storage room for the instruments.
$1,344
- Will fully fund this project
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Educational Materials for 48 Mayan HS Students
Guatemala
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Education
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This project is eligible for matching funds
48 indigenous students each year will benefit from academic, vocational, and leadership education. Upon graduation, students will intern in their home communities, serving in development projects.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- for resource books will aid 10 students
$250
- for dictionaries will aid 25 students
$1,000
- for textbooks will aid 10 students
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$2,000
- will provide a one-year scholarship
$10,000
- for a teacher’s salary will aid 48 students
$11,858
- Will fully fund this project
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Solar energy for families in rural Panama
Panama
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Environment
Northwestern University students are providing the Santo Domingo community with training and materials to install solar panel systems in their homes.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$15
- Buys wiring and accessories for systems to provide 3 families with reliable electricity
$30
- Buys efficient, long-lasting light bulbs that a family of six can enjoy for up to 7 years
$60
- Buys a charge regulator to minimize replacement costs for this low-income community
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$225
- Buys a battery to store electrical energy for a family, providing power at night and on cloudy days
$450
- Purchases a solar panel to provide one or more households with a convenient source of power
$675
- Brings an independent, solar-generated electricity system to a family in Panama
$14,448
- Will fully fund this project
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Help Feed 200 Neglected Elderly in Guatemala
Guatemala
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Human Rights
This project will provide a regular supply of basic foods and other items to the elderly population in parts of rural Guatemala, whilst educating families on age related issues.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$15
- Will feed 1 old person for a month
$180
- Will feed 1 old person for a year
$200
- Will buy a maize crusher to make tortillas
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$2,000
- Will provide a weaving loom to help make clothing
$5,000
- Will start a farming cooperative to feed the old people of 1 village
$10,000
- Will build an old people's community centre
$29,941
- Will fully fund this project
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Bringing Family Together Through Education
Brazil
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Children
Help poor mothers with sick children currently undergoing hospitalization or treatment far from home. Help the mothers relocate to be near the children and to find jobs.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- Enables one family member to generate income.
$100
- Trains one family member for the job market.
$1,000
- Improves housing conditions for family; enables income generation from the house.
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$22,876
- Will fully fund this project
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Cultural Heritage Preservation Saves Kids Lives
Brazil
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Children
Bringing alternatives through the performance arts, education & work programs to those children faced by the harshest of conditions, where child labor, prostitution and the drugs trade are rife.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$70
- 1 months salary for 1 educator
$210
- 3 months salary for 1 educator
$625
- 3 months salary for 3 educators
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$2,600
- One projector to show educational and recreational films for entire community and youth.
$4,030
- Will fully fund this project
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Colombia: Giving Hope to Children of War
Colombia
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Children
This project helps young people in Bogota channel the trauma of displacement and war into healthy self-expression through various after-school arts programs, academic tutoring, and counseling.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$50
- Purchases 2 weeks' worth of art supplies for a painting class for 15 young people.
$250
- Facilitates 10 trauma-counseling sessions for a group of 10 former child soldiers.
$500
- Buys equipment for a month-long videography class for 15 young people.
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$840
- Provides 12 hours of arts workshops for 15 young people.
$21,072
- Will fully fund this project
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Technology Access for Mayan Women in Guatemala
Guatemala
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Women and Girls
This project is creating community technology centers operated by and for Mayan women's groups in the Quiché region for inclusion, empowerment, learning, communication, and economic development.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$30
- Gives a girl introductory computer and Internet skills.
$60
- Lets a woman take a multimedia e-course designed especially for women.
$150
- Trains a woman to administer a technology center.
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$500
- Develops a unit of specialized e-training for Mayan women.
$3,685
- Will fully fund this project
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Creche Aids Families in Violent Rio Favela
Brazil
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Education
Community-based preschool in Rio’s most dangerous favela that suffers from 20 years of rival drug trafficking wars aids working families & delivers targeted early childhood education to 45 toddlers.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$25
- Food for one toddler for semester
$188
- One teacher's salary for creche for one month
$565
- One teacher's salary for creche for 3 months
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$2,737
- Will fully fund this project
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Empowering Rural Mothers as Home Educators
Chile
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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.
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How You Can Help:
Make a
one-time
monthly recurring
donation
$650
- 3 monitors to practice the strategies with the mothers.
$1,116
- Petrol for the transport of rural mothers to the training center.
$1,344
- Establishes 7 school libraries with CDA Strategy Handbooks.
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$5,016
- Therapist to teach strategies to 14 mothers.
$6,907
- Will fully fund this project
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