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Poverty Alleviation Projects
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2011 Projects
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January 2011
$2,500 was given to the Kilimanjaro Orphanage Center to fund the acquisition and installation of a solar hot water heater. The Center provides food, clothing, shelter, education, spiritual guidance and medical care to the residents of the facility as well as to other needy children in the community. About 30 children currently live at the center, many of whom lost their parents to AIDS and all of whom are in need of care from others. The heater we will be helping the Center buy will allow for hot showers for the children, help prevent skin diseases and infections, and facilitate proper cleaning of the orphanage. Read more.
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February 2011
$2,700 was given to Fundacion Entropika to provide potable water to an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon, specifically for 330 people in the Vista Alegre community. With last year’s incredibly dry season, communities close to the Amazon River lacked access to safe water and faced an alarming sanitary crisis, which exposed local people – especially children and the elderly – to water-borne diseases. We will fund installation of a tubwell system for pumping water from the Amazon; promote safe use of potable water; increase awareness of the dangers of contaminated water; raise awareness of hygiene and sanitation issues; and ensure safe water to the community. Read More.
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March 2011
$2,600 was given to the Apostolic Carmel School in Sri Lanka to fund the annual salary of two teachers there. Children in Sri Lanka continue to suffer from a variety of significant daily stressors: family violence and internal strife, ongoing post-tsunami rebuilding, flooding, food insecurity, and the impacts of civil war. This small girls’ school serves just under 100 students. It came into existence in 1985 as a result of children not being well cared-for at home and lacking sufficient educational opportunities. About half of the girls are housed in modest dormitory facilities – these are students from “untenable” home situations.
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April 2011
$2,580 was given to Fundación Eudes to carry out their mobile health service program in Bogotá, Colombia for the next three months for advocacy and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Our grant enables women’s health exams (including HIV testing), dental services; legal and other support, and workshops in healthy lifestyles. Poverty, combined with lack of education, fragile living situations, and limited access to health services increases the risk of infection and exacerbates the social and psychological stigmas surrounding HIV/AIDS. Prevention and awareness-raising is left to private health companies, local departments and non-governmental organizations. Read more.
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May 2011
$2,560 Was given to the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP) to support educational development and environmental stewardship in the rural areas of the northern highlands of Ethiopia. The schools that EWCP is targeting are situated far from towns and villages, high in the Simien Mountains, where resources are scarce and the children who attend school, walking through rain and wind across the desolate highlands, are seen as the lucky ones. We will enable the printing of 1,500 exercise books for children in ten target schools, design and print 50 teacher’s manuals, and enable the school nature clubs to manufacture efficient, low cost cooking stoves. Read more.
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June 2011
$2,500 was given to Ninos con Valor to provide for the health care needs of 36 children living in two residential homes in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Corazón del Pastor and Pedacito de Cielo. We provide three months of healthcare, dental care, hygiene, and cleaning costs for both homes. The girls and young women served by our grant this month include those who have who have been orphaned, abandoned, or removed from high-risk home situations and require specialized residential care. They are living with special needs, including HIV/AIDS, health conditions, psychiatric or psychological disorders, and/or learning disabilities and may face discrimination. We enable direct health care, development of personal hygiene for children who may arrive undernourished and dirty, and a sanitary environment in which to thrive. Read more.
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July 2011
$2,500 was given to the Maun Homeopathy Project to enable Lebogang Sarwanyane to complete her training as a homeopath. Maun treats patients who are HIV positive, who suffered after violent rapes, who witnessed attacks on family members, who are ill and raising children on their own, who have had other complicating debilitations such as strokes, and who are pregnant and need to survive and ensure the survival of their children. In addition to meeting the urgent health needs of people in Botswana they also make their homeopathy service sustainable, run by and for local people. Read more.
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