Health Projects

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Health

This project’s goal is to provide access to credit to rural & urban communities for water and sanitation projects. Access to safe water and sanitation facilities will reduce water-borne diseases.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Safe Drinking Water to Someone for Life
	$100 - Provide a Water Access Point For a Household
	$150 - Meet the Water Needs of a Whole Family
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Help 150 South African Nurses Treat AIDS

South Africa,

Health

Provide 150 nurses in Port Elizabeth, South Africa with mobile, digitized libraries of essential medical information for treating HIV-infected and AIDS patients at the point of care.

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How You Can Help:

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	$70 - Pays for one nurse’s training to use digital HIV/AIDS information to diagnose and treat her patients
	$140 - Pays for two nurses training to use digital HIV/AIDS information to diagnose and treat her patients
	$178 - Buys one nurse a handheld computer -- possibly the first computer she’s ever used.
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Providing 500 infected kids with smile in Armenia

Armenia,

Health

Our project provides 500 infected children with smile and hope for leading a healthy life by means of "therapeutic" clowns in one of the infectious hospitals in Yerevan.

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How You Can Help:

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	$35 - Will provide one ill child with the visit of clowns and psychologists per year.
	$35 - Will provide one ill child with the innovative methods of treatment.
	$39 - Will provide one ill child with the equipment of the game room for one year.
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Provide Health Care to Sick Women in Kenya

Kenya,

Health

Help give 250 sick women access to health care at a low cost. We provide treatment for cholera, malaria, cancer, AIDS, malnutrition, infectious diseases, infertility, and pregnancy complications.

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How You Can Help:

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	$100 - Will purchase medicine and a mosquito net for one women
	$176 - Will drill a water well to provide one woman with clean water
	$833 - Will fund a community health camp for 250 women
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Providing Haemodialysis to Renal Failure Patients

Pakistan,

Health

Provision of free maintenance haemodialysis thrice a week to ensure survival of 100 poor chronic renal failure patients for whom this procedure is a virtual lifeline and is absolutely out of reach.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - One dialysis on a patient with re-use of dialyzer
	$50 - One dialysis on a patient with single use dialyzer
	$640 - Treatment of one dialysis patient for one month (13 dialysis)
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Fighting Trauma in Kenya

Kenya,

Health

The Moving Forward, Trauma Recovery project will aid in the recovery and personal development of children affected by the skirmishes in Kenya's 2007 presidential elections.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Sponsor school necessity for one traumatized child
	$50 - Assist CASL in the production and distribution of newsletters and materials to increase awareness in schools
	$100 - Sponsor a 2-hour mentor training for 10 mentors.
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Bring Safe Drinking Water to Bangladeshi Children

Bangladesh,

Health

Imagine discovering the water your child drinks contains arsenic. This is what the community of Billi discovered. Help Billi build and maintain a water system and save their children’s lives.

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How You Can Help:

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	$20 - One child will have access to safe, clean drinking water.
	$100 - 130 children will get hygiene/sanitation lessons for two months.
	$250 - 5 families will have materials to construct a household latrine.
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Elder Women in CA Lead Change for Healthy Aging

United States,

Health

Help build the capacity of diverse elder women and their allies to advocate for change that affects their health and well-being, and the broader community, by supporting the Elder Women's Initiative.

How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Pays for travel costs for one local elder woman to participate in a town hall meeting to voice her concerns about issues that impact her long-term health and vitality
	$50 - Pays for outreach to elder marginalized communities to encourage parcipation in town hall meetings
	$100 - Underwrites travel for one elder woman to the state capitol to meet with legislators and advocate for issues that affect the health and well-being of all elder women.
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Prevent Nigerian Mothers from Dying in Childbirth

Nigeria,

Health

A low cost, off-patent drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through market distribution in developing countries.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Provides medicine to stop hemorrhages after childbirth for 5 women.
	$50 - Trains 5 traditional midwives to use misoprostol to save rural women’s lives.
	$200 - Provides medicine to stop hemorrhages after childbirth for 100 women.
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