Country:   Senegal
Project: Une poubelle plus belle
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Total Lives Improved : 510+

• 500 primary school students with climate change awareness programs

• 10 families with compost training

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Thierno has a dream to clean up the garbage and pollution in the capital city of Dakar. In 2007, Thierno and 6 other young people started the first climate change programs for local primary schools. They also introduced household composting as a central component of waste management in the city. They have worked with 10 families that has created compost projects in seven houses in the National Park of Hann and given climate change presentations to over 500 students.

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• Contacts to organizations that can provide composting bins and agriculture materials
• Educational materials to conduct the climate change documents
• Contacts to organizations that can donate used bikes (sustainable urban transportation)
• Advisors that can conduct online workshops on marketing, communication, management and video production

Country:   Rwanda
Project: ASOLATE
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IMPACT

Total Lives Improved : 302+

• 302 former child soldiers, street children and youth refuges with vocational training and schools fees

• Empower local street children with positive rap

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Seleman Nizeyimana, a former child soldier of the 2004 Rwandan genocide founded The Association for Youth Literacy and Trades Education (ASOLATE) in 2003. Seleman has made a difference for hundreds of youth by training former child soldiers in: (1) soldering and electrical work, (2) soap, candle, and paint-making, (3) sewing, and (4) project management; skills that will get them employed and able to support themselves and their siblings.

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• Contacts that can  help identify fundraising options
• Business advisor to develop an organizational/ management strategy
• Contact of organizations or individuals that can provide technical support to upgrade of training facility lop a business plan

Country:   Cape Verde
Project: Rebelados
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IMPACT

Total Lives Improved : 350+

• Disenfranchised community empowered with income and basic needs 

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Over the last 12 years, Misa (Maria Isabel Alves) used her art talent to empower a disenfranchised and remote community in Cape Verde. Through art (painting, ceramics and music) she created a sense of local among the community members. Through the sale of the art, the community has been able to start local businesses, create youth programs and implement basic infrastructure such as clean water and sanitation.

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• Botanist (flowers) who can coach local women to grow and sell flowers and plants

• Business advisor that can share tips on small catering business for local women

• Specialist in bamboo and sisal furniture making

• Contacts to organizations that can donate used or new instruments (music youth program

•  Contacts to organizations that can donate camping supplies (outdoor youth program)

Country: Zimbabwe

Project: Shingirirai Trust

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IMPACT

Total Lives Improved: 600+

• 200 orphans with education & healthcare
• 200 teenagers with vocational training
• 200 women with caregiving skills

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Shingirirai Trust was created under a tree in 2003 with a group of women dreaming of ways to support orphans in their community. The group was lead by Cecilia Masekereya who was windowed with eight children and caries the HIV virus. The uniqueness of Shingirirai lays in its name, which means perseverance. It is run by ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the face of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the economic implosion in Zimbabwe and very harsh living conditions. The goal of the Trust is to develop a model community based organization totally run and operated by people at grassroots that can be replicable in other communities. The trust has three programs it offers (1) special education, health care for orphans, (2) empower teenager with vocational training and (3) gives workshops for caregivers to work with orphans with HIV/ AIDS.

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• Provide advice on managerial training for local volunteers
• Provide advice on staff management and development training
• Advice on the development of a retail outlet
• Contacts that can help identify funding options
• Find organizations that can donate used computers/sewing machines

Country: Vanuatu
Project: Kanagai Project
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IMPACT

Total Lives Improved: 10,000+

• Job training for shop keepers and taxi drivers
• Job training for mothers and troubled youth
• Nutrient education for women in rural communities
• Education for children of low-income families
• Recreational activities for communities

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Nadia Kanegai grew up in one of the 82 islands of Vanuatu called Ambae. It was here that her grandmother taught her that the purpose of life is to help others. She went onto do just that. She studied to become a teacher, but every minute in her spare time and with her own money and no outside support she has impacted the lives of thousands over the last 18 years and continues her heroic acts to care for and help the struggling people of Vanuatu.

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• Identify organizations that can advice and install solar power systems for rural schools and hospitals

• Develop a vocational training program for drop out youth (ages 12- 15)

• Advice on ways to improve child care services for low income working mothers

• Advice on health and business training for women living in rural areas 

Country: Uganda
Project: NACODI
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IMPACT

Total Lives Improved: 6478

• Medical care for HIV/AIDS patients in isolated communities
• 73 nurses and volunteers trained for remote home care
• 30 vulnerable youth provided with income projects and school fee
• Health education via theater plays and presentations

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Nakaseke Community Development Initiatives-NACODI was founded in 2003 by Dr. Robert Kalyesubula and two other medical workers. Robert grew up as an orphan but studied to become a medical doctor. There dream was to provide medical care to the HIV-AIDS ravaged rural areas in Uganda. They have and continue to provide medical care to thousands but also offer homecare for the very sick and provide community health campaigns, protection and care of orphan children and agricultural income projects for vulnerable families. NACODI’s vision is to be a fully self-sustainable program that we can expand to other areas of the country.

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• Connect with health workers in HIV/AIDS to share best practices

• Find organizations that can donate used or new bicycles for home care visits

• Find organizations that can help provide educational materials for 40 orphan children

• Advice on organic agricultural practices for income projects

   
  

Country: Tanzania
Project: NECH
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IMPACT

Total Lives Improved: 30,083

• HIV/ AIDS awareness training
• Income project for 22 single mothers and widows
• Care centre for 30 orphan children
• Recreation programs such as soccer

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The New English Center for Hope (NECH) is a non-governmental organization run by refugees that works to educate and empower the refugees in the Nyragusu camp in Tanzania. It was established in 2003 by Bilombele, a young teenager that came to the camp as a refugee after escaping his native country of the Congo. The camp hosts close to 54,000 refugees who are only provided with the basic necessities by the UNHCR. Bilombele took the leadership to start NECH with the goal to empower the refugees with education, vocational training and recreational activities.

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• Advocacy on the camp and  to keep it operational
• Letter writing campaign with camp's youth and orphans
• Contacts to organizations that can donate computers for the camp's educational centre
• Contacts to organizations that can donate books and information kits in English and French

Country: Solomon Islands
Project: ICANSE
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IMPACT 

Total Forest Protected: 10,000ha
Total Coral Reed Restored: 50km
Total Lives Improved : 25,000

• Stopped toxic waste dumping on remote island
• Stopped capture and export of wild dolphins
• Trained communities on natural resources management
• Provided environmental income opportunities

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Morgan was one of the 8 people that started Environmental Concerns Action Network of Solomon Islands (ECANS) in 2002. ECANSI was formed by several professionals that resigned from the public sector to oppose a plan on the importation of 3.6 million metric tones of toxic waste from Republic of Taiwan by a private company and facilitated by Solomon Islands Government. ECANSI successfully stop the importation. It works with local communities to raise awareness and advocacy on illegal logging, marine protection, coral reef restoration and subsistence food production.

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• Advise in setting up a national forest and land manage network
• Volunteer with ECANSI in promoting its activities
• Develop a fundraising plan to support rural project
• Donate training materials, books, posters on sustainable resource

Country: Kenya
Project: Kibera Integrated Project
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IMPACT

Total Lives Improved : 352+

• 300 people with income generating activities
• 52 orphan children with education

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Getrude, a young woman from the urban Nairobi slum started the Kibera Integrated Project (KIP) with $1. KIP empowers and improved the lives of hundreds of people in Kibera, the largest and most densely populated slum in Africa with over 1 million people and an 80 % unemployment rate. KIP is successfully working in providing, community micro-lending and vocational training: selling fruits, vegetables, wood carving and more.

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• Contacts for experienced medical workers to develop an HIV/AIDS education program for local youth

• Contacts to organizations or individuals that can develop loan programs for micro-business development

• Contacts to organizations that can donate used or new tools for vocational, mechanics, welding and cobbling

   

Country: Rwanda
Project: AMAHORO
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• 2900 orphan children with HIV/AIDS provided with shelter, food and medical care, education and vocational

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The AMAHORO Association was founded in April of 2000 by fourteen passionate and creative young teenagers who were orphaned by HIV/AIDS, determined to empower others orphaned by the disease through providing education, vocational training, proper health care, counseling and even food and shelter. AMAHORO has helped over 3000 orphans during a period of seven years.

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• Contacts that can help identify fundraising options
• Business advisor to develop an organizational/ management strategy
• Contacts of organizations that can provide medical supplies and other materials for the orphanage

Country: Nigeria
Project: CDTI
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Iliyasu Nyako, 29 years old, founded the Capacity Development and Training Initiative (CDTI), a community based organization which uses communications technology to empower women and children in remote areas of Nigeria. CDTI conducts workshops with the women and youth of the communities about how to fight HIV/AIDS, and use information technology on health related matters, and where to find the nearest health clinics.

NOTE: Iliyasu Nyako was killed in a car accident on July 3rd, 2008. His dream was to flight for the justice and equality of the very poor in Nigeria. We could not refuse posting this project and help continue Iliyasu's dream.

This project is located in a non-SAWA country. Still want to connect and help? contact us: mentor@sawaglobal.com

Country:   Colombia
Project: Fundación Niña Maria

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Fundación Niña Maria is a unique orphanage, located in the countryside outside of Bogota. The organization provides a safe, supportive and empowering home for more than 113 abused and abandoned children between the ages of 0 and 21. This organization provides not only meals, housing, and medical care, but psychological care as well.

Note: This project is not located in a SAWA country, but was a SAWA pilot project in 2006.

This project is located in a non-SAWA country. Still want to connect and help? contact us:  mentor@sawaglobal.com