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ARGENTINA

Health Care for Deaf Women in Argentina

Health Care for Deaf Women in Argentina

This project provides healthcare training to deaf women through workshops and videos in sign language in the fields of self care, child birth and upbringing.


Scholarships for Outstanding Students in Argentina

Scholarships for Outstanding Students in Argentina

VisionAR provides scholarships and mentorship to outstanding college students that demonstrate high academic performance, a commitment to succeed, and financial need.


Technology reaching poor communities in Argentina

Technology reaching poor communities in Argentina

CDI is creating Regional Offices to decentralize its operations to in order to have a greater capacity to open and operate Digital Inclusion Centers. The first center to be opened is in Santa Fe.


Elearning and education support for kids-Argentina

Elearning and education support for kids-Argentina

Introduce the children into the digital world and teach them to use different virtual environments as an education tool.


Education through arts for under-served youth

Education through arts for under-served youth

Provide a photography workshop for 30 young people of a Buenos Aires shantytown which will enable them to acquire the skills to develop self-confidence and improve their job prospects through art


Fight for a Vaccine Against Cancer

Fight for a Vaccine Against Cancer

The development of cancer vaccines is progressing at laboratory and clinical levels. It is undergoing a Phase I clinical trial with 20 patients & a Phase II/III on 108 patients is set to begin shortly


Garabato artistic workshop

Garabato artistic workshop

We support and help each child in their particular conflicts.Through the different activities we help the children to develop their own identity and to build the needed tools to face their issues.


Fight poverty with energy access

Fight poverty with energy access

We are extending gas lines to poor communities & seek sponsors for 10 community centers so they can connect to the gas line. Help schools, clinics & shelters deliver better services to needy families.


BOLIVIA

Safe Drinking Water for 80,000 Children in Bolivia

Safe Drinking Water for 80,000 Children in Bolivia

80,000 school children in Bolivia will be trained in simple, affordable techniques to sustainably improve their health. Techniques include hand washing and solar water purification (SODIS).


Helping Children Survive to 5 in Bolivia

Helping Children Survive to 5 in Bolivia

Help children in Bolivia survive to age 5 by supporting Save the Children’s project to train health workers to diagnose and treat common childhood illnesses and promote better health practices.


Provide agriculture training for Bolivian children

Provide agriculture training for Bolivian children

The project will build an animal farm at the Santiago community high school in Arampampa, Bolivia. Agricultural certification will improve nutrition, food security, job skills and local development.


Rescuing children from a life on the streets

Rescuing children from a life on the streets

The Kaya Center provides education, counseling, family support, and life skills training to children on the streets in La Paz, Bolivia, giving them a chance to reinvent their futures.


BRAZIL

Trees and Education Protect Rainforest in Brazil

Trees and Education Protect Rainforest in Brazil

Project educates farmers to restore Rainforest in Brazil with sustainable forest farming. They learn to preserve and recover the environment, water and wildlife, resulting in enhanced rural earnings.


Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Poor Children in Brazil

Free Cleft Surgery for 400 Poor Children in Brazil

Smile Train is dedicated to helping the hundreds of thousands of children in Brazil who suffer from unrepaired cleft lips & palates by providing free surgery. They will get a new smile, new hope.


Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil

Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil

Irrigated vegetable gardens are provided for Brazilian rural families. As a result they have food, work and better habitat and environmental conditions.


Prevent Youth Involvement in Drug Trafficking

Prevent Youth Involvement in Drug Trafficking

The project offers 50 young people alternative activities out of school hours to prevent their involvement with gang culture in the low income communities (favelas) of Rio de Janiero.


Bringing Digital Inclusion to Amazonian Residents

Bringing Digital Inclusion to Amazonian Residents

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.


After-School Program educates Rio’s excluded youth

After-School Program educates Rio’s excluded youth

Local professional teachers volunteer tutoring and encouragement to the individual and collective development of 50 children/youth living in a poor rural area severely lacking educational resources.


Community Development Through IT Training In Rio

Community Development Through IT Training In Rio

CEAC@DIGITAL is an internet and graphics service center in Morro dos Macacos, a Rio De Janeiro slum. The center provides job skills and income earning opportunities for residents of all ages.


Integration Olympics for 300 Children and Youth

Integration Olympics for 300 Children and Youth

The Project offers sports and leisure to 300 low-income children and youth from the port district of Rio de Janeiro, through sports competitions and recreational activities for integration between soc


Music & Education Program for Disadvantaged Youths

Music & Education Program for Disadvantaged Youths

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


Bringing Family Together Through Education

Bringing Family Together Through Education

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.


Help Brazilian children at high risk

Help Brazilian children at high risk

Our work aims the emotional and mental rehabilitation of children who were victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence.


Give children the chance to learn in Brazil

Give children the chance to learn in Brazil

Working with children as young as 2 who may otherwise be on the streets this project will bring a safe place for kids to learn, enjoy their childhood and develop.


Adapting small farmers to climate change impacts

Adapting small farmers to climate change impacts

Adapta Sertão has developed a pro-poor market mechanism to disseminate a modern agricultural model that helps increasing the yields of subsistence crops and animal feeds of small farmers.


Rehabilitating Convicted Men through IT education

Rehabilitating Convicted Men through IT education

The Pemano project is helping to rehabilitate convicted young men (between 18 and 25 years old) in a prison in Vale do Paraíba (São Paulo-Brazil) through IT education and digital inclusion


CHILE

Helping the fishermen of Robinson Crusoe-Chile

Helping the fishermen of Robinson Crusoe-Chile

Slow Food plans to rebuild the community centre for the fisherman on the Robinson Island, struck by the earthquake last February, being fishing the main source of income on the island


Linking people after the earthquake in Chile

Linking people after the earthquake in Chile

The Mobile Telecenter is giving access to and training on ICT skills to families, NGOs and small businesses that are struggling to get back on their feet several months after an earthquake hit Chile.


Medical Supplies to Hospitals in Chile

Medical Supplies to Hospitals in Chile

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile early Feb 27, destroying hospitals around and in Santiago, VIDA has connected with our local partner FEDES to supply needed medical supplies.


GlobalGiving Relief Fund for Earthquake in Chile

GlobalGiving Relief Fund for Earthquake in Chile

The Fund is supporting our partners' efforts to provide emergency relief after the devastating earthquake. Proceeds will be allocated amongst partners providing food/water, shelter, and medical care.


Levantando Chile Fund

Levantando Chile Fund

In response to the tragic earthquake in Chile, the Levantando Chile Fund supports local nonprofits that are channeling assistance to affected communities to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.


Earthquake Reconstruction for At-Risk Children

Earthquake Reconstruction for At-Risk Children

Orphanages are severely damaged, endangering 450 vulnerable children. Donate now for urgent hazard removal, structural repairs, sanitation, and post-disaster therapy and survival education programs.


Education & Career Openings for Women of the Andes

Education & Career Openings for Women of the Andes

This project of education develops the human potential and proposes the training of 500 Peruvian & Bolivian women migrants of very limited resources.


Chilean Family Farms Fund: aid to rural farmers

Chilean Family Farms Fund: aid to rural farmers

The earthquakes that hit Chile in early 2010 left farming families without homes, loved ones, clinics, schools. This Fund supports short & long term efforts to help rural communities to rebuild.


COLOMBIA

Colombia: No Child Should be a Soldier

Colombia: No Child Should be a Soldier

MADRE provides critical services for Colombian youth who are at risk of being recruited as child-soldiers, giving them the support they need to create alternatives to a life of combat and violence.


Help Colombian Children with Chronic Malnutrition

Help Colombian Children with Chronic Malnutrition

The project will provide specialized nutritional support and recovery treatment for 150 vulnerable children under 5 years old that suffer from chronic malnutrition.


Mentoring displaced youth for success in Colombia

Mentoring displaced youth for success in Colombia

This program provides e-mentoring for 17 internally displaced youth in Medellin, Colombia on career development, financial planning and self-esteem to increase life skills and enhance employability.


Vocational education for youth in Colombia

Vocational education for youth in Colombia

This project provides vocational education in science, technology, professional and entrepreneurial skills suited to needs and interests of 17 internally displaced youth in Medellin, Colombia.


Nutritional Recovery for 70 children in Colombia

Nutritional Recovery for 70 children in Colombia

This project will provide nutritional recovery services for 70 children with malnutrition residing in Medellín. They will receive medical, nutritional, psychological and social treatment for one year.


Educating 100 displaced youth in Colombia

Educating 100 displaced youth in Colombia

This project provides mentoring and vocational training, enhanced by technology and entrepreneurial skills, to internally displaced youth in Medellin and Cartagena, Colombia.


Educate 160 Colombian orphans and conflict victims

Educate 160 Colombian orphans and conflict victims

This project provides free and qualified primary education, nutritional reinforcement and recreational activities for 160 orphans and victims of conflict from the municipality of Santander, Colombia.


Colombian Down Syndrome Awareness Campaign

Colombian Down Syndrome Awareness Campaign

Help us raise awareness, dispel common myths and allay fear about people with Down syndrome in the Colombian Caribbean coast through an informative campaign that will promote inclusion in our society


Children's Land:Promoting responsible citizenship

Children's Land:Promoting responsible citizenship

Children's Land sponsors 120 colombian children from Medellín and Tadó in the exercise of active and responsible citizenship, respect for the environment and interculturality.


ECUADOR

Ecuador Clean Water Supply

Ecuador Clean Water Supply

1000+ individuals who live and travel to this Andean Mountain village will have access to clean drinking water by utilizing sustainable technologies to overcome engineering challenges.


More than Just Scholarships in Rural Ecuador

More than Just Scholarships in Rural Ecuador

This program will provide accessible secondary education to hundreds of indigenous children in the mountains of Ecuador, many of which work in the fields as their parents cannot afford schooling.


Lifesaving Diabetes Education for Ecuadorian Youth

Lifesaving Diabetes Education for Ecuadorian Youth

AYUDA educates and empowers Ecuadorian children with diabetes to better manage their disease in order to prevent serious complications, by learning from other youth with the condition.


Building a Women's Shelter in Cotacachi, Ecuador

Building a Women's Shelter in Cotacachi, Ecuador

FWAAR works to provide the necessary funding and research for the building of a sustainable women's shelter that will house Cotacachean victims of gender violence in rural Ecuador.


Native Blueberries and Andean Paramo Conservation

Native Blueberries and Andean Paramo Conservation

Through the semi-domestication of wild andean blueberries this project aims to combine both a conservation and market approach to alleviating poverty and climate change.


PARAGUAY

Empowering Poor, Rural Girls in Paraguay

Empowering Poor, Rural Girls in Paraguay

A financially self-sustaining agro-forestry school in Paraguay's Mbaracayu Forest Reserve will empower poor girls to overcome poverty.


Feed a Community in Paraguay

Feed a Community in Paraguay

The project will help strengthen the community, offering them elements that help the families, providing them a better living, avoiding the displacement of their land.


PERU

Improving Nutrition for Children in Peru

Improving Nutrition for Children in Peru

The Becky Fund will build greenhouses and provide agricultural training at schools in the rural villages of Peru's Sacred Valley to educate and improve the health of students.


Free Education in the Desert around Arequipa, Peru

Free Education in the Desert around Arequipa, Peru

Secondary education in the pueblos jovenes around Arequipa will be provided to all children in their own communities. Presently the few that can get an education have to walk miles each day.


Community-led Total Sanitation Program in Peru

Community-led Total Sanitation Program in Peru

The project will help build and subsidize the construction of private latrines in Ciuidad de Dios and will implement a community-led sanitation, awareness, education, and training program.


Clean Water and Sanitation -Rainforest of Peru

Clean Water and Sanitation -Rainforest of Peru

We empower native people and build sustainable clean water and eco-friendly sanitation systems in remote villages in the Manu Rain Forest of Peru.


Baby formula for HIV+ teen mothers in Lima, Peru

Baby formula for HIV+ teen mothers in Lima, Peru

VIDA ships fresh baby formula to Hogar San Camilo a clinic in Lima, Peru. With a wing devoted to caring for late term HIV positive teenagers.


Protect the rainforest & indigenous rights in Peru

Protect the rainforest & indigenous rights in Peru

In partnership with the Peruvian Achuar, Amazon Watch is working to stop new oil projects & change industry policies and practices that will ultimately protect 20 million acres of conserved rainforest


Employ Families Working on Recycling in Peru

Employ Families Working on Recycling in Peru

We are organizing families into small micro-enterprises that work on recycling activities, which will improve their current working conditions, increase their income level and create healthier cities.


Machu Picchu, Cusco, Sacred Valley Disaster Relief

Machu Picchu, Cusco, Sacred Valley Disaster Relief

The people of the Cusco region are experiencing flooding, slides and soon water born diseases. Local clinics will need supplies to serve the overwhelming medical care needs.


Market access for isolated Andean communities

Market access for isolated Andean communities

With a 4x4 truck, Awamaki will be able to reach more isolated, impoverished communities of Quechua women weavers and provide them with access to a sustainable income through our fair trade initiative.


Providing education for 50 Kichwa artisans

Providing education for 50 Kichwa artisans

Provide 50 Kichwa artisans with workshops and training to start a handicrafts business and earn steady income. This will allow conservation of the rainforest and the Kichwa lifestyle in Chipaota, Peru


Help community efforts to protect Peruvian Forests

Help community efforts to protect Peruvian Forests

Rainforest Partnership works with communities in Pampa Hermosa to build infrastructure for ecotourism, in turn providing alternative, sustainable income sources and thus protecting their cloudforests.


Equip Mobile Medical Clinics in rural Nepal & Peru

Equip Mobile Medical Clinics in rural Nepal & Peru

Provides equipment for annual Mobile Medical Clinics (aka "Camps") to deliver critical health care to 14,000 remote mountainous villagers in rural Nepal and Peru, from 2008 - 2012.




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