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Poverty Alleviation Projects
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2009 Projects
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January 2009
$4,100 was given to AMEPANE in Mali from The $10 Club and UK-based High
Five Club to buy 1,500 notebooks, 500 small blackboards with 5,000 pieces
of chalk, more than 3,000 pens and pencils and more than a thousand
erasers, and nearly 700 treated mosquito nets. The people of Mali's Bafing
Fauna Reserve, where January's project took place, suffer from a serious
lack of supplies, despite the fact that people understand the need for
schooling. There is an insufficient number of classrooms; large number of
students; few teachers; severe lack of school supplies; poor water wells
and latrines in the schools; and difficulty in keeping girls in school
because they have to work in the fields to help their families.
Additionally, the people there lack health infrastructures and health care
staff. Mali is one of the poorest countries on the planet, ranking 173rd
out of 177 countries listed on the United Nations Human Development Report. Read more.
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February 2009
$3,660 was given to MOCAMDERCO to support their work throughout 15 communities in Panama. Specifically, we will underwrite local drawing and singing contests in school; meetings with communities to discuss reforestation projects; creation of nurseries; meetings with local groups to discuss agricultural development; establishment of agricultural projects; a summer youth camp; and project evaluation meetings with the communities. The population living in the territory in which this project will be implemented is composed of many young people, the majority of whom come from rural farming families. In terms of economic conditions, the predominant economic status of these communities is extreme poverty, demonstrated by the absence of essential infrastructure such as electricity, running water, and adequate outhouses. The World Bank estimates poverty among indigenous Panamanians running at 95%. Read more.
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March 2009
$3,600 was given to Health in Harmony in Indonesia to fund the addition
of a portable microscope and laboratory supplies for their mobile health
clinic to improve diagnosis and treatment of the patients served in remote
areas. The laboratory supplies will also allow clinic staff to test for
parasites, do blood counts, and test for syphilis. All of these tests are
essential to improve diagnosis and treatment. The quantity of supplies
ordered is estimated to last one year or more. The beneficiaries live
around the Gunung Palung National Park area of Indonesia. The communities
around the Park are severely impoverished with little or no access to good
healthcare. Local health care options are limited and expensive, making the
mobile clinic vital. One-third of the households surveyed reported that
they previously had to choose between food and medicine. Poverty and poor
health are locked together around Gunung Palung in a mutually-reinforcing
pattern. Read more.
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April 2009
$3,700 was given to Rose Charities to support their work performing eye
surgeries in Cambodia. Our donation will restore the sight of approximately
630 people through the acquisition of Intra-ocular implantable lenses and
other supplies needed for the surgery. Cambodia is estimated to have
100,000 people who are totally or partially blind. Over seventy percent
have surgically treatable conditions, such as cataracts and early glaucoma.
The majority of Cambodians cannot afford health care. Many eye infections
and diseases are left untreated for years. Cataracts and other conditions
are allowed to progress until they cause total blindness. Sight restoration
enables Cambodians to work, to get educated, to look after children. A
simple operation – implanting an artificial lens, can literally give
these folks in need a new lease on life. It will change their lives. Read more.
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May 2009
$4,150 was given by The $10 Club and the UK-based High Five Club to
Imani House to support their clinic expansion and renovation project in
Liberia, adding three rooms to the facility. Our grant will underwrite
2,000 dirt bricks; 98 bags of cement for the bricklaying, wall plastering,
and floor installation; 12 steel rods for pillars, rough sand for brick
laying and smooth sand for plastering; two wheel barrows; roofing
materials; 15 windows; 15 gallons of paint; whitewash; assorted other
building necessities; and a significant portion of the transportation and
labor costs. The Imani House Maternal and Child Health Care Clinic is open
five days a week from 8 am – 4pm. It serves approximately 14,000, mostly
women and children, offering, health care treatments, child immunization,
family planning, laboratory screening, pre-natal care, deliveries,
collaboration and training for local midwives, HIV prevention, and health
education. This clinic is the only clinic in the area. They have saved
thousands of lives during and since the war, and people come from near and
far, walking if necessary, to receive treatment there because of the
quality of service and the medicines that they are able to provide. Read more.
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June 2009
$3,500 was given to the Maun Homeopathy Project to pay for one year of
rent at their clinic in Botswana and six months worth of the
receptionist’s salary. The project provides homeopathic medicines for HIV
/ AIDS patients. They opened their permanent clinic in January this year
and treat everyone who is HIV positive for free, as well as other people
who need help – all those in the community who are suffering from a range
of health conditions. Within the last 4 months they have provided over 500
consultations and treatments for people in dire need. Read more.
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