Your gift will pay for transportation for a grandparent to visit and care for the siblings at home. Your gift will help with gas, a long distance bus ticket, or plane fare. Not only will your gift give siblings their loving grandparent to care for them during this fragile time, but it will give Dad peace of mind knowing that he can focus on his...

A gift of $25 will provide clean water to an African family for one month. Your donation will truly be a "gift of the magi." With your contribution, AMREF will work to reduce the prevalence of water and sanitation related diseases that needlessly kill African families -- and improve their general hygiene. How? We will work with community water committees to build shallow wells, boreholes...

IMED, an Opportunity International partner, is a microfinance organization based in Chennai. When the tsunami struck, the IMED staff was quick to respond, surveying the damage in stricken areas, participating in relief activities and gauging the future needs of tsunami victims. Opportunity is now embarking on an aggressive expansion plan in India. By the end of 2006, IMED’s microfinance activity will be transferred to a...

With the Cell Project, students build 3D models of cells with colorful clay. Each organelle is built with a different color, and the cell is assembled from the inside out. Once the clay model dries, the students slice them open and examine the cross-sections. In stead of merely memorizing vocabulary, the students physically build a model of a cell and discuss the parts of the...

Casa Anna's back yard can become a cool and breezy outdoor classroom to serve more children if we raise money for supplies: outdoor chairs, all-weather tables, awnings, tenting for shade and rain protection. There is no money in our very limited start up budget for any of these items. If you choose to give us money for this we will be thrilled to begin spending...

CHF’s participatory approach to development starts with the communities, and ends with the communities, giving individuals the technical skills, training, leadership and conflict mitigation techniques, and market connections they need to design, implement, and maintain their social and physical infrastructure for the long-term. In Iraq, for instance, CHF has worked with more than 450 communities to establish neighborhoods councils that democratically decide whether to build...

This gift will provide a box of nails for the construction of a new home for a family in need in our community. Through this gift, we are one step closer to getting our friends and neighbors out of substandard housing.

Little gifts add up. Every nail, piece of lumber, everything that goes into home building has a price... down to the tube of caulk. Play a small part in something huge!

This gift will provide two days of fruit and formula for a baby orphaned chimpanzee.

The cost of a house is huge but if we can break it up... everyone can play a part! Help change the lives of a family in need by buying the faucet for a family that is in need of a safe and decent home in which to raise their children.

Give a family in need the safety, privacy, and dignity of a new dry latrine, including leach pit, commode, and shelter. With this gift, a family will no longer need to relieve themselves outside which creates an unhealthy environment and can spread disease.

Your gift will leverage 30 minutes of low cost design services to develop the next phase of the DtM Infant Incubator, in order to provide improved neonatal care to the developing world.

You gift will provide school supplies for 5 children in Tattaguine, Senegal. World Vision, along with several church partners, is planning to build a secondary school in the region that would give a chance to our supported children to continue their schooling and break the cycle of poverty. This school will serve the 4 villages where Covenant members sponsor 250 children. For more information about...

With decades of experience in post-disaster environments, CHF has fine-tuned a methodology to help homeless families by rapidly building temporary-to-permanent shelters that use locally available materials. The construction of these shelters, which are structurally sound for the short-term and can be reconstructed into permanent homes for the long-term, is done by local community members who are then equipped to help their neighbors and be better...

Everyone recalls the thrill of flying through the air and that moment when you wondered if might be able to touch the sky. Your gift will help provide a timeless thrill from one the most universal symbols of play! If we want a world full of healthy, happy and successful adults, we need to create a world where kids can play! And after all, what...

Your gift of a water tap stand will provide safe water to a family close to home and give a woman the freedom to pursue other, more productive activities. Instead of hauling water, she can care for her family and perhaps contribute to her family's income. Her children won't be as sick and she can spend her limited income on food, education for her children...

Your gift will help pay the way for one researcher to attend the ABC2 Annual Scientific Meeting. Over the years, we have found this annual scientific meeting to be the most effective means by which to draw the field closer together and foster collaboration across institutional lines. The annual meeting emphasizes the importance of creating a supportive climate for scientific and medical research with a...

$20 provides one student with water for their entire childhood This gift will be used entirely to fund the construction of wells at schools in Kenya. Each well will serve over 400 students and their communities. With proper access to water, these students can get back to work preparing for a future full of hope. Their communities will develop quickly as they break the cycle...

Your gift will enable a civil society activist or organization based in a developing country to become a member of CIVICUS for a year. They will be able to participate in, and benefit from, a global network of civil society organizations. All members support CIVICUS' vision and mission of strengthening civil society around the world and building a community of informed, inspired and committed citizens...