Veterans for America’s Information Management and Mine Action Programs (iMMAP) has been providing vital mapping information to aid agencies for over eight years. We are leading the effort to create and distribute practical, usable information that allows food and supplies to get to the people that need them the most as quickly as possible in times of crisis. Your gift will provide life-saving information by...

Veterans for America’s Information Management and Mine Action Programs (iMMAP) has been providing vital mapping information of remote, undocumented areas to aid agencies for over eight years. We are leading the on-the-ground effort to create and distribute practical, usable information that allows food and supplies to get to the people who need them the most. Your gift will make this mapping information available to aid...

Veterans for America’s Information Management & Mine Action program has deployed a geographic information specialist to Africa who will help coordinate transportation of relief supplies, ensuring that aid will quickly reach all the affected communities. Working with the support of the United Nations, he is managing the collection and analysis of on-the-ground humanitarian relief efforts and coordinating this information flow to a number of agencies....

Building on lessons from service in four wars, Veterans for America galvanizes new war veterans nationwide, creating an empowered community and space to share common experiences. We raise awareness about challenges facing returning veterans and promote common-sense solutions. Our website and community blogs provide an active atmosphere to share experiences among those who understand their challenges. Veterans For America’s website serves as a unique portal...

Village Earth's Adopt-A-Buffalo campaign helps Lakota families reclaim their legally allotted lands from the BIA leasing system and access the resources needed to live on, protect, and utilize it, helping to return the balance between economy, ecology, and culture. To date - we have helped start two new Lakota owned buffalo ranches, and expand two more. We have also helped develop a marketing cooperative to...

This gift will help purchase 25 feet of quality buffalo fencing for Lakota bison caretakers living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

This gift will provide a doctor visit for our school as well as medicine, and health education, so students can get treated before a condition becomes serious, or referred to a hospital when it is serious. Our weekly clinics have helped hundreds, and are valued by the community. This gift will help approximately 30 people.

This gift will provide a capital loan which will be used to support a business run by a group of women or an individual woman. The loan will be linked with classes to support the business including account keeping, savings mechanisms, etc. In addition, the beneficiaries of the loan will be linked to the reproductive and sexual health services implemented by VEI. All loan reimbursement...

A gift of $100 will provide a Vision Entrepreneur with a “Business in a Bag” allowing them to start a VisionSpring micro-franchise. This includes 30 pairs of brand-new reading glasses, 10 pairs of sunglasses, eye drops, cases, cords, a uniform, marketing materials, and a bag in which to organize and carry all of these items.

Your gift of $250 will enable two Vision Entrepreneurs to conduct a vision screening camp by supplying marketing materials, reading glasses for the village, and transportation to the village.

A donation of $10 will restore vision and hope to one person by providing them affordable reading glasses.

With a gift of $5 you will provide a Vision Entrepreneur with the professional items they need to do their job and instill faith in their customers. Your generous gift will supply a Vision Entrepreneur with items they need, such as uniforms, ID, and professional eye charts. Through the familiar faces of local Vision Entrepreneurs, VisionSpring glasses reach the people who need them most, creating...

Due to the lack of awareness about the existence of low cost reading glasses among people in the developing world, our Vision Entrepreneurs find it necessary to launch comprehensive marketing campaigns which educate the public about eye health, as well as showing off their different products. This gift, of $50, will enable a Vision Entrepreneur to pay for these important eye care campaigns, increasing the...

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 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 $100 gift for a share of an arsenic filtration unit (total cost $2,000) will help protect the lives and health of West Bengali people for years to come. This simple filtration column is attached to a well and utilizes activated alumina to safely remove arsenic from the groundwater before it reaches the tap. You can help provide safe drinking water and prevent pain and...

This gift will provide a sustainable, safe water supply for one person in the developing world. It might be a child who will no longer be sick and can go to school. Or a woman who will no longer have spend hours every day hauling water for her family. Your gift will provide safe water for years to come and new hope for the future....

Your gift of five children's "arbor-loo" latrines will provide five Malawian children with a safe and hygienic way to defecate while developing good hygiene habits that will last a lifetime. This innovative gift will also help the environment. The arbor-loo latrines generate valuable compost that is used to cultivate fruit trees. After each use, ash and dirt are added to feces, which helps eliminate odors...

You read it right. Your gift of plastic poop will be used in an innovative hygiene training program in Bolivia that facilitates discussion of sanitation issues. Participants are given a "gift" which generates excitement and interest. When they open it, they discover plastic poop (or a fly or rat). It stimulates open discussion and analysis of sanitary practices in their village.

Your $100 gift will help provide a school sanitary block (total cost $5,000) in a rural Guatemalan school. This project will include water service, adequate, gender-sensitive sanitation facilities, and a hand-washing station to help children develop proper hygiene habits.