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Shipping 40ft container with 400 donated bikes to Mexico
"Bicycles for Humanity" is trying to help poor Mexican children by giving them bikes to get to school. In addition, giving the adults a way to improve their life by giving them bikes to get empowered. They can get water, go to work, get to health clinics and so much more. This project in called...
Improve employment and income for young women in Mufindi Iringa Region in Tanzania
We have had extensive experience of working with vulnerable groups in our community, including young people and street children. Girls and young women are among the most vulnerable of these groups. They live in an environment fraught with risks. The combination of an unstable family environment,...
Empower young girls in Nigeria
We are trying to address the issue of young girls who leave school and become prostitutes. It's a global problem. The facts abound from community to community round the world. Approximately one-quarter of girls in developing countries are not in school. We are focusing on 60 girls girls between...
Establish a seed fund for rural women entrepreneurs in Uganda
We are an organization that has helped to start village savings banks (over 17) among rural women in villages throughout Eastern Uganda. Each week, the women get together to add a small amount of money that they have saved to a combined fund. Women can then take loans from the savings bank and...
Partner needed to supply and transport cheap children's clothes to Australia
Dharriwaa Elders Group is a non-profit association of Aboriginal Elders in Walgett, Australia. It supports Aboriginal elders to resume leadership roles in the community keeping active and healthy. It also promotes local Aboriginal cultural knowledge and identity and aims to develop the Walgett...
Laptops needed for farming project in Andhra Pradesh India
Small and marginal cotton farmers who are vulnerable to suicides are our targeted beneficiaries. About 18000 distressed cotton farmers committed suicide between 2002 and 2006. Failure of monsoons, extremely fluctuating market prices, high input costs and exploitation of the farmers by middlemen etc...
Congo Leadership Accelerator
The Congo Leadership Initiative (CLI) develops the next generation of leaders to be catalysts for peace and prosperity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo has spent decades watching the rest of the world advance. It currently ranks last on the United Nations’ Human Development Index ...
Train indigenous locals in hospitality and tourism in poverty stricken West Timor, Indonesia
Our goal is to help the communities of the Delha region in Rote Island, West Timor in Indonesia. We are wanting to ready this community who are stricken with poverty and a very low level of health facilities and education, for the rapid increase in tourism that is happening at the moment. The...
Start-up capital for firstborn entrepreneurs in Kenya
First Comes First (FCF) is a Kenyan organization that seeks to bring together all firstborn children from every family and to help them improve their welfare despite the pressure that comes with the responsibility of being the first blood in the family. The organization is a peace ambassador, an...
Bus & vocational training equipment needed in Eastern Cape South Africa
Cookhouse is located in in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and has a population of 10,000 people. Cookhouse is a town with the highest number of HIV / AIDS infections, vulnerable children, orphanages, etc. Currently, there is only one clinic serving the entire community and surrounding farms...