This gift will provide an Afghan family with the tools and fertilizers necessary to maintain their family orchard, allowing them to generate income from the sale of fruit, vegetables and trees.

Your contribution will enable a community organizer to meet for up to five hours with a local group of people with disabilities who want to change, for example, a transportation, voting, or healthcare policy or practice, or fix a problem in their community. This interaction will include an analysis of the issue(s), development of step-by-step action strategies, and a plan for media involvement.

Your gift will assist farmers to organize themselves into farmer's organization and gather enough quantities of bananas to sell in bulk and consecutively buy their own trucks to transport bananas to bigger markets. Organized farmers will also be able to compete in the open market for exports such as multi-national companies as Dole, Nestle. Farmer products could be sold to big supermarkets with higher prices,...

Your contribution will support one half-day community meeting with local leaders and residents with disabilities in West Oakland, California. DREDF has been reaching out to grassroots community organizations that have organized in response to environmental injustice in their neighborhoods. Community meetings provide a forum to strengthen our collaboration and plan future steps including methods to promote disability anti-discrimination education, training and, if necessary, litigation in...

With the growing recognition of the importance in local level participation in decision-making processes surrounding water, IWMI has been working in a number of regions around the world to support the formation and running of local level water institutions such as Water User Associations. The Water user associations are a vital approach to ensuring participation by farmers in water management and allocation decision-making. Support to...

This gift will provide one orphan-athlete with the uniform, shoes and equipment needed to participate in local athletics. It also provides the food needed to maintain a rigorous training program, pay for effective coaching, ensure access to a decent playing field and provide transportation to and from events. Ethiopia is famous for its Olympic runners and athletes. Local kids idolize these champions and want to...

Your gift of $35 a month will help provide for the basic needs of Iraqi orphans in the form of clothing, shoes, food, and other staple items.

Your gift of $35 will provide two sets of uniforms for a deaf student including shoes for one school year. Since a lot of children have tattered uniforms and when they receive your gift of new threads, they will feel very proud of their attire! Imagine the pride in the child as he goes to school, ready to learn! Because of you, the child will...

Your gift will provide one backpack of school supplies to a child, including one ruler, two notebooks, two pencils, two pens, and one backpack.

This gift will provide paint for the interior of a home. The cost of a home is great. However, through your generous donation you can help to change lives-- help to change a community, one family at a time.

This gift will provide 5 gallons of low VOC paint for the exterior of a home. It takes on average 28-30 gallons of paint or primer to restore the entire exterior of a house, this gift will help sponsor of the overall cost to make a house a home again.

Includes ten gallons of paint and painting supplies to transform an empty playground into a vibrant place for children to play.

In 2000, ACA and its local partner ACCA established the world's first private conservation concession in the Los Amigos River watershed. The Los Amigos Conservation Concession covers 360,000 acres of old growth Amazonian forest at the base of the Andes in southeastern Peru. This watershed forms a lowland forest corridor that protects the eastern access of Manu National Park and connects it to the Tambopata...

One Day's Rent

Your generous gift will help a single parent family stay stable and in their home while their child is in treatment for a catastrophic illness. By paying a month's rent, you relieve a family's immediate financial burden and give mom or dad breathing room. Now they can focus on helping their child heal.