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ASHA (Asha Samajik Vidyalaya)
$500 of $500 donated
Bihar, India
This project supports the Gonwara center and also centers in Mahe and Dengrahi which function like after-school programs for children after attending government schools. The children are not charged any fees for attending the centers. There are around 60 children (age range 3-14 years) currently enrolled in the ASV Gonwara center. Initially, Asha Philadelphia was supporting only the center in Gonwara, but it has extended support to two more centers in nearby areas: (a) one in Mahe which has 30 children of different castes and one at Denghrahi with 55 children of Mushar community.
English Education at Bukomero Primary School
$500 of $500 donated
Gitarama, Rwanda
This initiative will focus upon improving English education within Bukomero Primary School for all grade levels. The project will tackle this goal on several fronts: providing better quality English education materials, creating a specialized curriculum to aid the transition from Kinyarwanda/French to English, and training teachers to better facilitate the instruction of English as a foreign language. Uses of Funds : $350 for textbooks and workbooks $150 for the salary of a government English teacher
Expansion of Circle of Peace School
$3000 of $3000 donated
Kampala, Uganda
Circle of Peace School project is an educational initiative designed to provide kindergarten and elementary education. Currently, the existing location of the school will be unavailable after December 2009 because the school is being evicted from its existing property. As a result, the school is moving all primary school students to the Upper school where they will have to share space until new shelters can be provided for them. The Circle of Peace School is asking for help to start building structures to allow their students to continue their education. Most of their students are orphans, aids victims whose parents have died, and poor children who can’t afford to pay for education. Currently there are 105 students in the lower school and 100 in the upper school. With these funds, the school will purchase all the necessary materials to begin building. Please click on “view my updates” (under the profile picture) to see pictures of the school and read additional commentary. Mor...
Teacher Training and Support - Ms. Sania
$490 of $490 donated
Punjab, Pakistan
Ms. Sania of age 22 years is working as school teacher with SHEED Society from last five years. Her education is matriculation (continued to stay and teach in the same institution). She was brought up in red light area Lahore by her parents and knew the situation of the children of the sex workers. She also has witnessed that many of young girls of the sex workers were forced by their mothers and acre takers in the prostitution only because they were not provided opportunity of the education and had no other choices for income. She says “I joined the SHEED Society only because of the reasons that SHEED is committed to work for the rights of the female sex workers and their children. After joining the SHEED society I am able to contribute for the efforts the education of the children. The students of my class now have dream to become TV artists, Teachers, Doctors, Managers etc but none of them says that they will be a prostitute in future. These outcomes give me much satisfaction a...
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.
School Reconstruction in La Vallee
$2500 of $2500 donated
Sud East, Haiti
An earthquake registering over 7.0 on the Magnitude scale has devastated the country of Haiti. Almost 100% of the schools in the earthquake zone have been damaged or destroyed. Due to the instability of all the buildings, the Haitian students are without schools and many of them have been left homeless, forced to live outside. Almost every Haitian citizen has been affected by this tragedy. Many of the families in La Valle have lost loved ones. A large number of those dead have been children attending schools in Port Au Prince or the surrounding area. Due to the overwhelming numbers of dead buried in mass graves, many of these families will never know what has happened to their children. This project will be dedicated to the rebuilding and repairing of the schools in the La Valle/Jacmel region of Haiti in order to provide hope for Haiti’s future. [The project profile picture shows the high school before the earthquake.]
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 ...
Training for Independence
$12000 of $12000 donated
Uttar Pradesh, India
The Mushahar tribe is an extremely disadvantaged community in India. As a dalit (untouchable) group, they are immensely discriminated against in public institutions, especially schools, to the point that they are discouraged from going. This program, known as Training for Independence, provides these Mushahar children with an alternative form of education – in a nonformal education setting with trained teachers (that are, in most cases, more effective than primary government school instructors). In addition to this education, the children will have the opportunity to receive a vocational education, exposure to life in the nearest city (Varanasi, U.P.), as they have never left the village and live extremely traditional lives. The purpose of this program is to give them the set of knowledge that will prepare them for life in the 21st century India – outside of the village – where they are aware of how to interact with people in urban settings, how to run their own small enterpri...
Long Term School Fund for Amarseva
$1000 of $1000 donated
Rajesthan, India
The named scholarship initiative is a chance for families to donate two hundred dollars or more and create a fund in their family name or in the name of a loved one that will help children not only today, but tomorrow. It is at the cutting edge of a new field – sustainable charity. The donated money will be placed into a term deposit (CD) that will run for five years. Each year, the interest earned will help pay for the expenses to run the school. The current project is to fund night classes for teenage boys and girls so they can prepare for some of India’s competitive college entrance exams and hopefully study at a college. The school is currently several mud and brick open aired shacks. The students sit on the floor and there is only one blackboard for 20 or more students. Yet, the students come every day, and the teachers have an almost perfect attendance record. The fact is the students and teachers have the passion, the school just needs financial help to get to the next le...
Kibera School for Girls Monthly Feeding Program
$375 of $375 donated
Nairobi, Kenya
Shining Hope for Communities founded the Kibera School for Girls in 2009. The Kibera School for Girls provides a superior education, daily nourishment, uniforms, healthcare, and school supplies all free of charge to Kibera’s brightest and most at-risk girls. The school also provides students with after-school programs and psychosocial support to prevent further rape and abuse and to address trauma. Run by a staff of female teachers from Kibera, the school gives students and community-members positive female role models. The Kibera School for Girls currently serves 67 students in pre-K through 2nd grade. The daily feeding program ensures that our students and staff are receiving a nutritious breakfast, lunch, and snack at school. For $375 per month, we can feed 67 students and the 30-person staff of our school and health clinic in Kibera. Proper nourishment is instrumental for academic success, but our students are lucky if they receive even one full meal at home each day. The feed...
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