Schools, Students and Teachers - We Want You!

Posted on: February 5th, 2013

Are you a teacher, student, parent of a student, faculty member, teacher's assistant or school volunteer? We'd love to partner with you to raise funds and awareness for a project or issue surrounding extreme global poverty. Together, we can have a meaningful conversation with students about these issues, inspiring awareness and igniting action at a young age. Read more »

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Improving Access to Maternal Care in South Sudan

Posted on: January 31st, 2013

Right on the heels of announcing FOUR funded projects in the last two weeks, we're proud to announce a new partnership with the John Dau Foundation (JDF) to help strengthen and improve access to quality maternal care in South Sudan.

The $20,136.27 raised through our matching grant with JDF will provide the funds for them to purchase and install solar panels Read more »

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Project #40: New Maternity Ward & Laboratory in Mali

Posted on: January 28th, 2013

Announcing funded projects is always a great day at the ODW office because we love getting to tell the story of a great organization and the people that we are impacting together.

So, we're thrilled to to tell you that our $34,644.90 matching grant to Mali Health has been fully funded! This grant will help fund the construction of a maternity ward and basic laboratory Read more »

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Project #39: Empowering Widows of AIDS and Young Girls in Uganda

Posted on: January 25th, 2013

We're very excited to announce our 39th project as a full grant of $6,987.60 to our partner, United African Orphans and Widows Foundation (UAOWF), an NGO in Eastern Uganda working to empower women, particularly widows of the AIDS pandemic. 

This project takes a two-pronged approach toward empowerment: Read more »

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