Founded in 2016, The Superkids Foundation has an innovative solution to improving education in Latin America. They mobilize children as agents of change; parents who haven’t studied beyond third grade struggle to keep up with the new economy and don’t have the time or skills to help kids out, but 4th-6th grade children do. “Kid […]
2018 is the second year of our 3-year $120,000 Challenge Grant awarded to a joint project of Global Emergency Care (GEC) and LifeNet International (LN). The project utilizes the emergency care training capability of GEC to train the nurse-trainers of LN. LifeNet International currently partners with 125 health facilities in Burundi, Uganda, Democratic Republic of […]
Over the past year, Kossoye Development Program (KDP) seed producers have grown many more carrot seeds than expected – more than enough for the 200,000 packets that will be combined in sets with 3 other kinds of seed (kale, chard and cabbage). 140 seed packers in 3 locations (Yenege Tesfay’s new storage building, the University […]
A second $10,000 Project Grant has been awarded to A Breeze of Hope Foundation (ABH) in 2018 to support its school-based sexual violence awareness project in Cochabamba, Bolivia. During 2017-2018, A Breeze of Hope 1) conducted 79 workshops in middle and high schools in Cochabamba, reaching 4,501 students, 414 parents, 349 educators, and 146 school-based […]
Established in 2011, Sunsar Maya is a small, non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California and Kathmandu, Nepal. Its mission is to build pathways out of poverty by improving the livelihoods of disadvantaged children and women through holistic, community-based services. They directly serve 185 children and women in Mahalaxmi (Lalitpur) and Jorpati (Kathmandu). An AllPeopleBeHappy […]
The Pangea Network was born over 12 years ago and exists to equip women and youth with education, life-skills and resources to improve their overall quality of life and realize their full potential. The Network has over 600 active members in cooperatives across Kenya who have completed Pangea’s intensive 6-months of social, personal and financial […]
Lisa Hall and Steve Meicke – Lisa, a water resource engineer, and Steve, a mechanical engineer, both quit their jobs to spend a year volunteering with Green Empowerment in Nicaragua. The plan was for Lisa, along with Nicaraguan engineers in the communities of El Cua, El Bote, and San Jose de Bocay, to work on […]
Elizabeth Prosser is volunteering with Yspaniola in the Dominican Republic. Yspaniola is an education-focused nonprofit organization that works with youths in the Dominican Republic. They are based in Batey Libertad, a marginalized community in the region of Esperanza. Elizabeth will be volunteering for one year, from August of 2018 to August of 2019, serving as […]
Nate Bohm-Levine is volunteering in Mexico with Partners In Health. In May 2017, Nate began a year-long commitment to volunteer in Chiapas, Mexico with Compañeros En Salud (CES) a Mexican non-governmental organization partnered with Partners in Health. As a volunteer research assistant for two projects, one studying the implementation of the mental health program in […]
Anvy Tran is volunteering in Vietnam with the Pacific Links Foundation (PLF), working in counter-trafficking initiatives. PLF’s multi-pronged, grassroots counter-trafficking initiatives include: (1) prevention services for at-risk youths living in trafficking hotspots, (2) reintegration services for trafficking survivors, and (3) partnerships for long-term solutions to prevent trafficking in school-based, factory-based, and community-based settings. As a […]
