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Solo Village School Repair
$360 of $500 donated
Bougouni, Mali
Originally constructed ten years ago, the school in the rural village of Solo in Mali, West Africa has severely deteriorated due to lack of quality structural supplies and the abuse of harsh weather conditions. The building was built with mud bricks covered by a thin layer of cement. The cement on the floors and ceilings is beginning to crack and break, and in one classroom the broken concrete has left a large hole in the floor, leaving the classroom unusable if the ground is wet from rain. Another classroom has a make-shift roof of poor-quality tin that leaks during the rainy season. The tin roof needs to be replaced by a durable cement roof and the floors are in need of durable cement to prevent cracking and flooding.
$360 of $500 donated
Bougouni, Mali
Originally constructed ten years ago, the school in the rural village of Solo in Mali, West Africa has severely deteriorated due to lack of quality structural supplies and the abuse of harsh weather conditions. The building was built with mud bricks covered by a thin layer of cement. The cement on the floors and ceilings is beginning to crack and break, and in one classroom the broken concrete has left a large hole in the floor, leaving the classroom unusable if the ground is wet from rain. Another classroom has a make-shift roof of poor-quality tin that leaks during the rainy season. The tin roof needs to be replaced by a durable cement roof and the floors are in need of durable cement to prevent cracking and flooding.
Supporting Queen Esther School
$344 of $550 donated
Akuapem, Ghana
Parents in Manpong, Ghana are currently pulling their children out of school due to insufficient supplies, teachers and space. They do not feel that their children are learning in the unfavorable environment. The children are attending school in rented buildings that are unsafe. They are unable to keep teachers due to lack of supplies and space. Most rooms do not have desks or seats for the students that do attend. Volunteers for International Development and Aid (VIDA) has partnered with this community to change the conditions and attract students back to class. Three classrooms were started in May 2010 and will be completed in the next month. Once the building is complete the community will need assistance with books, pencils, paper and learning tools. Volunteers will be traveling to the community this summer to build desks for the students.
$344 of $550 donated
Akuapem, Ghana
Parents in Manpong, Ghana are currently pulling their children out of school due to insufficient supplies, teachers and space. They do not feel that their children are learning in the unfavorable environment. The children are attending school in rented buildings that are unsafe. They are unable to keep teachers due to lack of supplies and space. Most rooms do not have desks or seats for the students that do attend. Volunteers for International Development and Aid (VIDA) has partnered with this community to change the conditions and attract students back to class. Three classrooms were started in May 2010 and will be completed in the next month. Once the building is complete the community will need assistance with books, pencils, paper and learning tools. Volunteers will be traveling to the community this summer to build desks for the students.
Rehabilitating Former Street-Children
$360 of $750 donated
Nairobi, Kenya
The Turning Point Trust works to prevent and rehabilitate street-children within Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, Kenya. When a child comes from the streets to the Turning Point Project, they bring with them behavioural characteristics that they have learnt in that environment. This behaviour frequently prevents them from immediately returning to school, and a period of rehabilitation is required. Our School Transition Class provides a safe, nurturing, educational environment that enables the child to slowly readjust to a more structured way of life: for example: relating to adults in authority; lengthening their concentration period and adjusting to being within four walls. During this time, our staff work to trace the child’s family and work alongside them to address the problems the family are facing. If appropriate, a parent or guardian might become involved in Turning Point’s Finance Programme, giving them the chance to start a small business and earn a steady income. Each ...
$360 of $750 donated
Nairobi, Kenya
The Turning Point Trust works to prevent and rehabilitate street-children within Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, Kenya. When a child comes from the streets to the Turning Point Project, they bring with them behavioural characteristics that they have learnt in that environment. This behaviour frequently prevents them from immediately returning to school, and a period of rehabilitation is required. Our School Transition Class provides a safe, nurturing, educational environment that enables the child to slowly readjust to a more structured way of life: for example: relating to adults in authority; lengthening their concentration period and adjusting to being within four walls. During this time, our staff work to trace the child’s family and work alongside them to address the problems the family are facing. If appropriate, a parent or guardian might become involved in Turning Point’s Finance Programme, giving them the chance to start a small business and earn a steady income. Each ...
Underfunded Public Schools in Afghanistan
$106 of $250 donated
Kabul, Afghanistan
Approximately 90% of women and 85% of men as well as 45% of school age children in Afghanistan are illiterate. Most do not have access to learning centers and materials. The existing schools are so sparse and the demands for them so high that each school operates three daily shifts to accommodate the demand: Elementary students attend from 7 am to 10 am, middle school students from 10:30 to 1:30 pm, and high schoolers from 2 pm to 5 pm. But there are not enough textbooks for students to study, or trained teachers to lead classes. In many high school classes there are perhaps two textbooks for a class of thirty students. Teaching material such as charts, laboratories, and libraries are virtually nonexistent. Only schools located in the richest and most influential parts of a district receive attention from the government; others only as time, resources and inclinations permit. It is not unusual to find schools without buildings – with rooms consisting of large metal shipping contai...
$106 of $250 donated
Kabul, Afghanistan
Approximately 90% of women and 85% of men as well as 45% of school age children in Afghanistan are illiterate. Most do not have access to learning centers and materials. The existing schools are so sparse and the demands for them so high that each school operates three daily shifts to accommodate the demand: Elementary students attend from 7 am to 10 am, middle school students from 10:30 to 1:30 pm, and high schoolers from 2 pm to 5 pm. But there are not enough textbooks for students to study, or trained teachers to lead classes. In many high school classes there are perhaps two textbooks for a class of thirty students. Teaching material such as charts, laboratories, and libraries are virtually nonexistent. Only schools located in the richest and most influential parts of a district receive attention from the government; others only as time, resources and inclinations permit. It is not unusual to find schools without buildings – with rooms consisting of large metal shipping contai...
Advocacy Development Ebook Project
$160 of $522 donated
Kibera, Kenya
The Turning Point Trust works to prevent and rehabilitate street-children within Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, Kenya. When a child comes from the streets to the Turning Point Project, they bring with them behavioural characteristics that they have learnt in that environment. This behaviour frequently prevents them from immediately returning to school and a period of rehabilitation is required. This is provided through our School Transition Class, which provides a holistic range of programmes to approximately 35 youth per year. Through the ADE Online Book Project, former street-children and other acutely vulnerable youth in the School Transition Class will be given the opportunity to write both fiction and non-fictional stories and publish them online. Advocacy We believe that the poverty these children suffer from is denying them their basic rights and yet they lack the resources to make their voices heard in order to demand their rights. We believe they deserve the opportunity t...
$160 of $522 donated
Kibera, Kenya
The Turning Point Trust works to prevent and rehabilitate street-children within Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, Kenya. When a child comes from the streets to the Turning Point Project, they bring with them behavioural characteristics that they have learnt in that environment. This behaviour frequently prevents them from immediately returning to school and a period of rehabilitation is required. This is provided through our School Transition Class, which provides a holistic range of programmes to approximately 35 youth per year. Through the ADE Online Book Project, former street-children and other acutely vulnerable youth in the School Transition Class will be given the opportunity to write both fiction and non-fictional stories and publish them online. Advocacy We believe that the poverty these children suffer from is denying them their basic rights and yet they lack the resources to make their voices heard in order to demand their rights. We believe they deserve the opportunity t...
Elementary School Uniforms
$110 of $540 donated
Guanajuato, Mexico
The girls at Buen Pastor go to a public school here in Guanajuato, in which a uniform is required. When they are wearing a uniform, they look like all the other kids. In a uniform no one can tell if your parents cannot afford to buy new clothing. They don’t know that you spend the rest of the day in ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, at $26 per uniform, many parents cannot afford the uniforms, placing the burden of buying them on Buen Pastor. This project will provide each girl with a skirt, a blouse, a sweater, a polo shirt and a pair of shorts.
$110 of $540 donated
Guanajuato, Mexico
The girls at Buen Pastor go to a public school here in Guanajuato, in which a uniform is required. When they are wearing a uniform, they look like all the other kids. In a uniform no one can tell if your parents cannot afford to buy new clothing. They don’t know that you spend the rest of the day in ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, at $26 per uniform, many parents cannot afford the uniforms, placing the burden of buying them on Buen Pastor. This project will provide each girl with a skirt, a blouse, a sweater, a polo shirt and a pair of shorts.
Emotional Health Project and Support Group
$275 of $1750 donated
Central Province, Sri Lanka
In January 2011 two of our students were attacked with a knife by their drunken uncle and hospitalized. Recovered and back at school we need to start a project to help them and many others like them whose lives are terrorized by the double-edged sword of alcoholism and violence. “The words which you gave me, to my feet they’re like a bright light.” Bhagya (2010) Tea estate communities surrounding Maskeliya have an alcoholism rate of 80 – 85% among the male populations. This then feeds into a multitude of social problems created by the slum conditions of the estate housing and the cultural subjugation of young women. The result is that 83% of tea estate women suffer violence against them of which 20% is sexual violence. Young men are also affected by the lack of hope and role models around them growing up and the immense pressure to drink and abuse. In tea estate communities there is a high level of deliberate self-harm as well as attempted and actual suicide as a result of t...
$275 of $1750 donated
Central Province, Sri Lanka
In January 2011 two of our students were attacked with a knife by their drunken uncle and hospitalized. Recovered and back at school we need to start a project to help them and many others like them whose lives are terrorized by the double-edged sword of alcoholism and violence. “The words which you gave me, to my feet they’re like a bright light.” Bhagya (2010) Tea estate communities surrounding Maskeliya have an alcoholism rate of 80 – 85% among the male populations. This then feeds into a multitude of social problems created by the slum conditions of the estate housing and the cultural subjugation of young women. The result is that 83% of tea estate women suffer violence against them of which 20% is sexual violence. Young men are also affected by the lack of hope and role models around them growing up and the immense pressure to drink and abuse. In tea estate communities there is a high level of deliberate self-harm as well as attempted and actual suicide as a result of t...
Community Education Project
$350 of $4490 donated
Central Province, Sri Lanka
Over 80% of the children on this programme live on US$1 a day or less, the UN indicator of extreme poverty. The children are surrounded by a culture of alcoholism and violence against women, leading to high levels of deliberate self-harm and the fourth highest suicide rate in the world. The way out of this poverty is to gain jobs outside the tea plantations, but to have any chance of overcoming the ethnic bias against Indian Tamils, a good level of education, particularly English, is crucial. This education, however, is deliberately denied them by influential companies and government who wish to maintain the dependent workforce. This project will bring crucial education to remote tea-picking communities, deprived of equality and falling behind the rest of the country on every poverty indicator and seen as 3rd class citiziens. With government schools in the tea estate communities having the poorest facilities and the least qualified teachers, children are destined to leave school wit...
$350 of $4490 donated
Central Province, Sri Lanka
Over 80% of the children on this programme live on US$1 a day or less, the UN indicator of extreme poverty. The children are surrounded by a culture of alcoholism and violence against women, leading to high levels of deliberate self-harm and the fourth highest suicide rate in the world. The way out of this poverty is to gain jobs outside the tea plantations, but to have any chance of overcoming the ethnic bias against Indian Tamils, a good level of education, particularly English, is crucial. This education, however, is deliberately denied them by influential companies and government who wish to maintain the dependent workforce. This project will bring crucial education to remote tea-picking communities, deprived of equality and falling behind the rest of the country on every poverty indicator and seen as 3rd class citiziens. With government schools in the tea estate communities having the poorest facilities and the least qualified teachers, children are destined to leave school wit...
Poultry Farm (David Davenport Chicken Farm)
$100 of $2900 donated
Kanisa , Uganda
This project is launched by David Davenport, former President of Peace International’s partner organization, Givology Spiders, with the objective of building a poultry farm that will make the school more self-sustainable financially. This will be done by raising egg-laying hens and selling the eggs for revenue that will go towards educating the students at the Peace School. The main goal is to establish a sustainable business with the capacity to grow. This project will build five chicken coops large enough to house about 5,000 laying hens. The grant will be used in part to purchase the first brood of chicks and some funds will be put aside to cover the costs of raising them until they turn a profit. By covering the startup costs of the project, the poultry farm will not begin its operations in a deficit, and by building additional coops, the farm will have space to grow.
$100 of $2900 donated
Kanisa , Uganda
This project is launched by David Davenport, former President of Peace International’s partner organization, Givology Spiders, with the objective of building a poultry farm that will make the school more self-sustainable financially. This will be done by raising egg-laying hens and selling the eggs for revenue that will go towards educating the students at the Peace School. The main goal is to establish a sustainable business with the capacity to grow. This project will build five chicken coops large enough to house about 5,000 laying hens. The grant will be used in part to purchase the first brood of chicks and some funds will be put aside to cover the costs of raising them until they turn a profit. By covering the startup costs of the project, the poultry farm will not begin its operations in a deficit, and by building additional coops, the farm will have space to grow.
Kibera School for Girls Arts Education Program
$50 of $3500 donated
Kibera, Kenya
At The Kibera School for Girls (KSG), we believe in hands-on interactive learning, utilizing the imagination and creativity that every child possesses. While the KSG teachers take an interactive, creative approach to lessons, there is currently no teacher on staff with expertise in the arts. This project would bring in a resident of Kenya with experience in arts education to periodically teach the girls, with the goal of eventually hiring a full time arts teacher. The arts teacher would conduct separate lessons to each class on different rotating topics, including drama and theater, movement and dance, music, and visual arts. Other types of art could also be included, like photography, sculpture, or performance poetry. Students would also take cultural field trips in Nairobi to museums, galleries, theaters, native dance companies, and more. This program would help KSG gain access to beneficial resources for arts education. At the school, the floors are often too dirty (from mud trac...
$50 of $3500 donated
Kibera, Kenya
At The Kibera School for Girls (KSG), we believe in hands-on interactive learning, utilizing the imagination and creativity that every child possesses. While the KSG teachers take an interactive, creative approach to lessons, there is currently no teacher on staff with expertise in the arts. This project would bring in a resident of Kenya with experience in arts education to periodically teach the girls, with the goal of eventually hiring a full time arts teacher. The arts teacher would conduct separate lessons to each class on different rotating topics, including drama and theater, movement and dance, music, and visual arts. Other types of art could also be included, like photography, sculpture, or performance poetry. Students would also take cultural field trips in Nairobi to museums, galleries, theaters, native dance companies, and more. This program would help KSG gain access to beneficial resources for arts education. At the school, the floors are often too dirty (from mud trac...
The Kibera School for Girls Think About the Future
$25 of $2000 donated
Kibera, Kenya
When you were a little kid, what did you say you wanted to be when you grew up? The students at the Kibera School for Girls are lucky to be thinking about this question. In Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum in Africa (houses 1.5 million people in an area the size of New York City’s Central Park), girls are not usually afforded the opportunity to attend school. The Kibera School for Girls was founded in 2009 by Shining Hope for Communities, a grassroots organization started in the slum. KSG currently serves 63 students in pre-k through 2nd grade. KSG does not only provide education, daily nourishment, uniforms, healthcare, and the only tuition-free school in Kibera to the brightest and most at-risk girls; it also teachers its students that they deserve to have a superior education and instills hope for successful opportunities in the future. At The Kibera School for Girls, our students have learned to love sharing their answers to the question: What do you want to be when you grow up...
$25 of $2000 donated
Kibera, Kenya
When you were a little kid, what did you say you wanted to be when you grew up? The students at the Kibera School for Girls are lucky to be thinking about this question. In Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum in Africa (houses 1.5 million people in an area the size of New York City’s Central Park), girls are not usually afforded the opportunity to attend school. The Kibera School for Girls was founded in 2009 by Shining Hope for Communities, a grassroots organization started in the slum. KSG currently serves 63 students in pre-k through 2nd grade. KSG does not only provide education, daily nourishment, uniforms, healthcare, and the only tuition-free school in Kibera to the brightest and most at-risk girls; it also teachers its students that they deserve to have a superior education and instills hope for successful opportunities in the future. At The Kibera School for Girls, our students have learned to love sharing their answers to the question: What do you want to be when you grow up...
Elementary and Middle School Workbooks
$25 of $1772 donated
La Libertad, Peru
Every year SKIP provides school supplies and matierals which enable 320 children of primary and secondary age to go to school. For 2012, we were hoping to receive a grant to cover the costs, unfortunately this has not happened and we are increasingly concerned about how we will be able to make these payments as we do not have sufficient resources in the bank. Our programme offers the provision of school materials and supplies to families as a conditional incentive in return for the participation of the children and their parents in workshops and educational activities at the SKIP Centre. The vast majority of our families are living in extreme poverty which means that they survive on an income of less than $1.20 per family member per day. As they struggle just to find enough money for food every day, there is not extra money to pay for school books and materials. We have until the mid March 2012 to raise the funds necessary to pay for these school materials. For the givology campaign...
$25 of $1772 donated
La Libertad, Peru
Every year SKIP provides school supplies and matierals which enable 320 children of primary and secondary age to go to school. For 2012, we were hoping to receive a grant to cover the costs, unfortunately this has not happened and we are increasingly concerned about how we will be able to make these payments as we do not have sufficient resources in the bank. Our programme offers the provision of school materials and supplies to families as a conditional incentive in return for the participation of the children and their parents in workshops and educational activities at the SKIP Centre. The vast majority of our families are living in extreme poverty which means that they survive on an income of less than $1.20 per family member per day. As they struggle just to find enough money for food every day, there is not extra money to pay for school books and materials. We have until the mid March 2012 to raise the funds necessary to pay for these school materials. For the givology campaign...
Help The Teachers
$0 of $500 donated
Bududa District , Uganda
Schools in Uganda face many challenges to providing quality education, such as large student populations, inadequate school facilities, and limited teaching supplies. Uganda classrooms have an average of over 100 students. Due to large numbers of students and a limited government budget for education, schools function without necessary tools and materials for teaching their students. The lack of funding and infrastructure has produced dismaying educational results. In Uganda, all students are required to pass the Primary Leaving Exam, a national exam taken at the end of primary school, in order to proceed on to secondary school. Unfortunately, our district consistently brings one of the lowest passing rates in the country; 25% of primary students in our district fail this exam outright and another 46%, while passing, are in the lower divisions with only 2% achieving Division 1 ranking. These are problems that can be partially addressed by providing better resources to teachers in ou...
$0 of $500 donated
Bududa District , Uganda
Schools in Uganda face many challenges to providing quality education, such as large student populations, inadequate school facilities, and limited teaching supplies. Uganda classrooms have an average of over 100 students. Due to large numbers of students and a limited government budget for education, schools function without necessary tools and materials for teaching their students. The lack of funding and infrastructure has produced dismaying educational results. In Uganda, all students are required to pass the Primary Leaving Exam, a national exam taken at the end of primary school, in order to proceed on to secondary school. Unfortunately, our district consistently brings one of the lowest passing rates in the country; 25% of primary students in our district fail this exam outright and another 46%, while passing, are in the lower divisions with only 2% achieving Division 1 ranking. These are problems that can be partially addressed by providing better resources to teachers in ou...
Let's Go for Geometry
$0 of $450 donated
Bududa and Manafwa Districts, Uganda
Schools in Uganda face many challenges to providing quality education, such as large student populations, inadequate school facilities, and limited teaching supplies. Uganda classrooms have an average of over 100 students. Due to large numbers of students and a limited government budget for education, schools function without necessary tools and materials for teaching their students. The lack of funding and infrastructure has produced dismaying educational results. In Uganda, all students are required to pass the Primary Leaving Exam, a national exam taken at the end of primary school, in order to proceed on to secondary school. Unfortunately, our district consistently brings one of the lowest passing rates in the country; 25% of primary students in our district fail this exam outright and another 46% while passing are in the lower divisions with only 2% achieving division 1 status. In addition, the mathematics portion of the exam often proves to be the most challenging subject for ...
$0 of $450 donated
Bududa and Manafwa Districts, Uganda
Schools in Uganda face many challenges to providing quality education, such as large student populations, inadequate school facilities, and limited teaching supplies. Uganda classrooms have an average of over 100 students. Due to large numbers of students and a limited government budget for education, schools function without necessary tools and materials for teaching their students. The lack of funding and infrastructure has produced dismaying educational results. In Uganda, all students are required to pass the Primary Leaving Exam, a national exam taken at the end of primary school, in order to proceed on to secondary school. Unfortunately, our district consistently brings one of the lowest passing rates in the country; 25% of primary students in our district fail this exam outright and another 46% while passing are in the lower divisions with only 2% achieving division 1 status. In addition, the mathematics portion of the exam often proves to be the most challenging subject for ...
Light for Learning
$500 of $500 donated
Kampala, Uganda
Project Purpose : The main purpose of this project is to provide electric lights to Peace School - its 10 classrooms, office, and dormitories. Because Uganda’s feeble electric grid does not reach the school, this project is part of a larger commitment to generate onsite electricity and biogas from sun, wind, and waste materials. A hybrid renewable energy system will be installed with enough capacity to meet both the needs of the school and nearby neighbors, thus creating a potential revenue stream for this private school. An applied curriculum will be developed to introduce children to the fundamentals of power generation and maintenance of renewable energy systems. The students will share responsibilities for servicing and maintaining the energy systems. In turn, they can help their families and community members develop the capacity to operate onsite renewable energy systems as they become available. Providing modern energy generated via renewable resources...
$500 of $500 donated
Kampala, Uganda
Project Purpose : The main purpose of this project is to provide electric lights to Peace School - its 10 classrooms, office, and dormitories. Because Uganda’s feeble electric grid does not reach the school, this project is part of a larger commitment to generate onsite electricity and biogas from sun, wind, and waste materials. A hybrid renewable energy system will be installed with enough capacity to meet both the needs of the school and nearby neighbors, thus creating a potential revenue stream for this private school. An applied curriculum will be developed to introduce children to the fundamentals of power generation and maintenance of renewable energy systems. The students will share responsibilities for servicing and maintaining the energy systems. In turn, they can help their families and community members develop the capacity to operate onsite renewable energy systems as they become available. Providing modern energy generated via renewable resources...
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