Social inclusion for children in Argentina

‘Murgas’ are groups in where music, dances and acrobatics are combined.The children have to work together and think as a team to become a ‘Murga’, fostering values of teamwork and solidarity.

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

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

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

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

Library for Indigenous Wichi Kids in Rural Salta

Fundación Leer will develop community capacity to build a Reading Corner, a free and attractive library full of new and culturally appropriate books for 42 indigenous children and their families.

Support for goat farmers in Santiago del Estero

Caprines (dairy goats) are a key source of income for rural families in Santiago del Estero. However, many do not meet the standards required to sell their goat milk. Our goal is to solve this issue.

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

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

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.

Bringing IT to one of the poorest states of Brazil

CDI administers 26 computer and IT schools in the impoverished Amazonian state of Maranhão. These centers create opportunities for better jobs and lives for participants from these communities.

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.

Save Children and Youth Through Sports in Brazil

Through the project, we rescue children and teenagers from the grip of drugs and marginalization, improving their nutritional and health conditions, involving them in society.

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

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

Mobile Rede Jovem: SMS for social change in Brazil

Mobile Rede Jovem Project sends daily SMS with: job opportunities, cultural and sports events, courses, activities and free public services to 500 boys and and girls from poor communities in Brazil.

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.

Lunch for Children in Free NGO Day-Care Center

This NGO day-care center offers meals and diverse educational activities at no cost for 60 children. The center allows their extremely poor families to work and/or seek familial sustenance.

Teaching Citizenship to 100 kids in Taguatinga

This project teaches citizenship, through individual and collective rights and duties, using situations that occur during sports activities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Displaced Residents in Chile Learn IT Skills

CDI-Chile is helping with disaster relief for evacuated Chaiten volcano victims through IT training and engagement via virtual and real community building which will lead to recovery and reconnection

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.

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.

Provide Renewable Energy to 22 Colombian families

This micro hydroelectric project will bring electricity and lighting to 22 indigenous families living in rural Minaflores, Colombia, an area under threat by guerillas and paramilitary.

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 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.

Women in Ecuador Learn Microfinance and IT Skills

CDI-Ecuador provides IT education to underserved populations and offers services specifically to indigenous women in rural and urban areas to strengthen their skill sets and roles in their community.

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

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.

Educate Ecuadorian Children to Face Global Warming

We provide resources, training and hands-on opportunities to create awareness and teach children about conservation in the Galapagos Islands and poor areas of Quito, the most polluted city in Ecuador.

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.

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.

Clean Water and Sanitation Remote Rain Forest Peru

We build sustainable, low tech water, and eco-friendly sanitation systems, and implement health education in native communities in the Manu Rain Forest Biosphere, Peruvian Amazon.

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.

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.

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.