This gift will provide a widow a real chance to survive. The average income for a widow-headed household in Afghanistan is only $16/month - compared to $48/month for a men. Owning a cow that produces milk will not only give her family an income, on average $120/month, it gives them nutrition. In addition, the income will make it possible for her to send her children...

With a Flock of Hope, egg production will begin in almost no time! Where families, especially children, are malnourished, delicious eggs will mean daily protein. Where families are impoverished, eggs will be taken to market and sold, raising much-needed funds for clothing, medicine and more. And where the earth is dry and barren, droppings from the birds will provide the fertilizer to increase farm production....

CHF’s development finance institution in Afghanistan, established in March 2004, has made more than 3,200 loans to low-income men and women in the rural provinces, helping them establish or expand small businesses, such as tailoring, food services, and manufacturing. Your gift of $75 can help one woman buy a sewing machine, which will help her increase her household income by 70%. In addition, each loan...

Your gift will support shelters, drop-in centers, and local pastoral teams with humanitarian efforts to assist people migrating through Mexico. Migrants often fall prey to assault and extortion as they pass through Mexico, and they risk their lives passing through treacherous deserts and rivers. CRS and the Catholic Church work to promote alternatives to migration in Mexico and advocate for comprehensive immigration reform in the...

Your $10 donation will provide 3 hygiene kits. Last year, through the Safe Choices program, we distributed 838 hygiene kits to the women on the streets. However, we depend on the items to be donated for the hygiene kits, and there were many nights where we ran out of hygiene kits to pass out. We also have a walk-in resource room with a shower. For...

Remember how exciting it was to get to go on field trips when you were in school? These trips are fun, they are educational, and they give our students exposure to the real world. Field trips give students memories, experiences, and lessons they will never forget. Your donation will ensure that students can have those great experiences.

Your gift of $60 buys 10 midwife supply kits for graduates of Women for Women International’s Health Training Workshops. Classes teach women about basic prenatal, maternal and infant and child health care, giving women the skills they need to educate other women in their communities about prenatal care and provide safer, more hygienic, deliveries. The kits include basic materials such as iodine, forceps, and clean...

This gift will provide help with small items that make a big impact on health. Assistance provided may include paying for prescriptions or over-the-counter medications (cold/flu, asthma, nutrition supplements, pain relievers) that homeless and very poor people cannot afford. It may also include home exercise items (exercise tubs or fitness balls), air cleaners/purifiers, humidifiers, or other household items that help people maintain safe and healthy...

Your gift will provide food for the family of a malnourished child for two months.

You want to ease hunger. You need to enhance your online reputation.

Now you can do both, at the same time. Your donation of just $2 (that is less than a cup of coffee) will:

• help our nonprofit generate more funding for the nonprofits that feed hungry and malnourished people.
• improve your online reputation with a profile page on this site.

It's easy!

• Donate $2 (or more if you want to help feed more people)
• Grab the order number from the thank-you page or from the email receipt.
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• Create your profile page.
• It will go live within a few business days, and we will notify you when it does.

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Your gift of $25 will provide health and nutrition education to a poor child for an entire year, and help break the vicious cycle of hunger and poverty. The World Food Program (WFP) teaches children the basics of a healthy lifestyle, such as proper nutrition, safe hygiene, and HIV/AIDS prevention. The program focuses on the development of knowledge, values and life skills that will empower...

This gift will provide a Dalit child with the opportunity to receive a quality education. These children will be the first members of their family to attend secondary school;the first who can read and write more than their own names. Your generous gift of $30 will provide room and board and tuition for a Dalit child for one month.

Miracle Balloons: Children’s Miracle Network’s most recognizable symbol and greatest fund raising tool—the red and yellow Miracle Balloon—is sold online and in more than 33,000 sponsor locations throughout North America. When you buy a Miracle Balloon you're contributing to the treatment and preventative care of the 17 million children helped each year through the 170 Children's Miracle Network hospitals in the U.S.

Your donation will help put us one step closer to finding a cure for hydrocephalus. Since the government gives almost no funding toward meaningful Hydrocephalus research, hope for a cure has been hard to come by. Most research being done is focused on creating a new type of shunt; since treating a condition is much more profitable than curing one. In the entire United States,...

Your $10 contribution to HALO will be used to support locally recruited deminers in Mozambique.

A gift of $25 will sponsor a HALO deminer for one week. Using his or her metal detector, a typical deminer will clear 250 square feet of hazardous ground per day. HALO currently fields nearly 8,000 mine clearance staff around the world. This work not only removes deadly landmines and items of unexploded ordnance from the ground but also provides employment in war-ravaged communities.

But the story isn't finished. Dalit Freedom Network trained the father to drive a bicycle-rickshaw, leading to increased income so the mother could stay home and the daughter could attend school. As this story illustrates, the gifts that make up the Dalit Economic Fund are wisely used to contribute to the economic independence and stability of Dalit families in India. DFN's Self-Help groups provide money-management...

This gift will provide a cancer patient with a Chemo Comfort kit. In the kit are products to manage the side effects of chemotherapy such as a specific toothpaste, toothbrush and mouthwash to help cope with mouthsores. Also included in the kit are teas and other products to help with nausea; a sleep cap, satin pillowcase and socks for hair loss, warmth and comfort; a...