This gift enables us to provide high-yield seed varieties and a range of farming equipment to one farming household to enable it to attain self-sustainability in as short a time as possible.

This gift enables us to provide nutritious grain and other food staples to a family of four for an entire month. This food is selected based on the specific needs and culture of the community that this family is a part of.

This gift contributes to our efforts to rehabilitate wells that had been destroyed in the earthquake of October 2005. Action Against Hunger has been working in the areas affected by the earthquake since 2001. From the start of this year, we have been focusing on rehabilitating and building the infrastructure required in the affected regions needed to provide food and water security, including rehabilitating water...

The gift allows us to pay for the drilling equipment and labor required to rehabilitate one existing well. This would provide water for cooking, drinking, sanitation and agriculture and benefit many lives, because in some communities, as many as ten thousand people share a single well.

Action Against Hunger is working to alleviate extreme hunger amongst 400,000 beneficiaries in the eastern and western parts of the country. This gift enables us to provide food and other nutritional supplements to victims of extreme malnutrition, who can be nursed back to health within 30 days.

This gift enables us to pump and deliver (via trucks) enough freshwater to a village of 300 people that would sufficiently last them a week.

This gift pays for the labor, equipment and supplies needed to create a 50 foot deep well in a village that will sufficiently provide water to be used in a variety of different essential activities. This will guarantee that this necessity to human survival is made accessible to those who so urgently need it. The well that is created will help provide water security to...

This gift will pay for the costs of keeping Idealist.org online for one day.

Your kind gift will aid us in working with local Haitian communities so that they may escape the bonds of drought, famine, and malnutrition through improved farming techniques, and income generating projects. These include: a microcredit program that enables poor women to build their farms or buisnesses, and classes that help women to market and sell their goods so that they may escape poverty's grip.

Your kind gift will help individuals claim their right to clean water by building sustainable and safe water supplies, encouraging local residents to maintain them, and holding educational campaigns on sanitation and health within some of Afghanistan’s most remote regions.

Your kind gift will help ActionAid to provide direct assistances to communities so that they may prepare for and recover from tragic events, such as the Asian Tsunami, the South Asian Earthquake, war, and genocide. Special attention will be placed on the needs of the region's poorest and most overlooked people.

Your kind gift will go far towards helping children and their families survive the cruelties of AIDS and hunger through home-based care, agricultural education programs, and community-building activities, such as the one pictured here: an ActionAid-supported vegetable garden for children orphaned by AIDS in Kadoma District, Zimbabwe.

Your gift will help provide one day of advocacy tools and online support to one organization. While this might sound unglamorous, please remember that the efficacy and safety of human rights activists is directly related to how well they are able to get their information out.

Just $10 per week provides shelter, food, clothing, medical services and education for a child in need.

This gift will provide a poor child with a chick to raise and the quality feed it will need to produce eggs. Because the chicks will be produced as part of other African Children Haven projects, the children will also receive basic instructions in how to raise their birds, produce a larger flock and market their eggs for cash income.

This gift will send an African girl with a high aptitude for science and math to an elite secondary school for a week. Your gift includes not only school fees, but also room, board, books and mentoring by some of Africa's leading women scientists.

This gift will provide a needy child in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya with a healthy lunch, five days a week for a month. Younger children will also receive a nutritious mid-morning snack. Food is a precious commodity for Kenya's poor and is especially important to young children who are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. The St. Phillips School lunch program addresses this...

What greater gift could you or your loved one receive than to know that you have literally put a smile on a child's face? And, it's so simple! When AMREF surgeons perform the procedure, the child receives a new smile and the chance for a better future. Gone is the stigma, fear and misunderstanding because of the cleft. What is more, AMREF's surgeons use every...

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...

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...