Your Nominations for Grants
Your Nominations for Grants
We believe in a thorough vetting process for all of our grants but we also look to our members to make suggestions and nominations for smaller organizations. Have you served somewhere? Volunteeed? Have you personally traveled to visit these organizations?
Child Rescue Project supported by HHCR Foundation
HHCR Foundation is a 501(c) (3) organization founded by my wife's parents to support charitable activities on behalf of at-risk children in the Philippines. This includes programs such as Happy Horizons Children’s Ranch for street children, crisis centers, transitions homes, Child Rescue Project, feeding projects, community health and welfare projects, and community development projects primarily in the Visayan region of the Philippines. The Philippines is listed as the SECOND nation on the U.N. and the U.S. State Department's lists of countries where human trafficking originates. The Philippine government has identiifed the Visayan Region as the primary source of victims for traffickers - this is where Child Rescue Project (CRP) and HHCR Foundation have focused its current efforts. Read more »
La Senda: Orphanage and school in Guatemala
I want to recommend supporting a La Senda, an orphanage and school for abandoned, neglected, and impoverished Guatemalan children. La Senda was founded by a couple, Pam and Steve English, who moved to Guatemala and started helping people living in the trash dumps in Guatemala City. Now they direct La Senda, near Sumpango, Guatemala, and have dedicated their lives to loving and educating orphans, abused and abandoned children, and those who can’t afford a good education.
The children at La Senda receive an education that will equip them to get a good job and to have more opportunities open to them. In addition, Steve, Pam, and the children of La Senda now serve and provide food to local families who continue to live in extreme poverty. Steve and Pam hire local Guatemalans to work as teachers and nannies for the children. They started a sponsorship program where people can help support the children in contributing to their medical costs, education, food and clothing. Read more »
These Numbers Have Faces - Academic Equality in South Africa
These Numbers Have Faces provides college scholarships for township youths in Capetown, South Africa. Township youths can not afford higher education due to the adverse systemic inequality that the apartheid government caused. These Numbers Have Faces pledges all of its energy, finances, resources and support to the youths in the townships around Capetown, South Africa. Please check out their website www.thesenumbers.org
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The Raining Season
The mission of The Raining Season is to provide a hopeful future for orphaned children and impoverished families living in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In September I traveled with The Raining Season to Sierra Leone to set up an orphanage which currently houses 18 children with beds and room for 50 more. The Raining Season also plans to work with teen moms to help them support their children and provide grants, jobs, and education so they can sustain their families. It is a new organization with a big vision and huge heart. You can read all about our trip on the blog at savetheorphan.blogspot.com and check out the organization at therainingseason.org.
Saving Grace In Uganda - Street Kids
Saving Grace in Uganda works with street children in northern Uganda
Uncle Fred's House is a program of SGU that provides a home for over 30 former street children. Thirteen others have been reintegrated with relatives or have graduated from the program as independent and productive members of the community.
Uncle Fred's House provides a truly loving environment, a formal education, medical care, friendships, counseling, AIDS training, leadership training, discipleship and agricultural training.
The children at Uncle Fred's House are not only receivers of care and ministry. They go out and minister the love of Jesus to their friends still on the streets, of which there are over 300, ranging in age from 4-17. Almost 100 children come to Uncle Fred's House on a weekly bases to be fed, bathe, wash their clothes and receive medical care. But more importantly they are ministered to and shown love and respect. Read more »
WELCOME HOME AFRICA
Welcome Home Africa is an orphanage in Jinja, Uganda for children ages birth to 5 years old. (www.welcomehomeafrica.com)
Yes it is an orphanage, but it is not one whose primary goal is to have kids adopted. Yes, it is a piece of what they do, but it is far from the whole of it.
On a basic level, they love, feed, and provide often life altering medical care to 65 children.
However, they also are fully run and staffed day-to day-by local Ugandan's- something very few organizations in all of Africa do. They are changing the staff and the families they work with. They give micro-loans to families who can't afford to feed their children and need a leg up, with the hope of giving children back to local, healthy, self-sustaining Ugandan families. Read more »
CURE Clubfoot Worldwide
Globally, 200 million children and youth have some form of disability; the overwhelming majority of these children live in the developing world. Despite the vast numbers and the great vulnerability that comes with being disabled in the developing world, the humanitarian community has failed to promote prevention of disabilities as a primary strategy for lifting families and communities out of poverty. Not a single MD goal is specific to disabilities but none of the MDGs will be achieved without preventing disabilities Read more »
Bridge for Hope International
I have been friends with the founders of Bridge for Hope International for about 4 years and they are amazing people. They have a wonderful heart for the people of Africa and are in the foundational stages of their ministry.
This is from their website (http://www.bridgeforhopeinternational.org/):
Bridge for Hope International exists to equip African individuals and communities to be the catalyst of change in their society. Through holistic and compassionate service we aim to bring transformation and sustainable solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
I would love One Day's Wages to be able to partner with what they are doing.
kiva.org and heifer.org
Try contacting the folks at Kiva: www.kiva.org. They have an amazing microcredit program with individual entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Also, Heifer International is really sweet (www.heifer.org). Rather than giving cash, they give people in developing countries animals, which produce milk, eggs, income, and more animals. It's a longer-lasting donation than simple money and has the potential to give someone a real long-term livelihood.
Foundation for Peace
I'm super excited about this group, mainly cause I'm working with them right now. They work in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Kenya. They work with differnt communities in each of these countries and help them to develop schools, water purification and distribution centers, clinics, churches, and other various needs in the communities to improve standard of living and health in these impovirshed communities. They emphasize working with the communities hand in hand to develop sustainable community run projects. Here is their website if you want to check out more. We are currently planning several projects and I feel that ODW would be a great partner for us.
Unified for UNIFAT
Hello, I saw this page on facebook and decided to check it out. After watching the intro video, I knew I wanted to help, and when I saw that I could suggest an organization to be assisted, I knew the perfect one.
Unified for UNIFAT is a student-run organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio that works in conjunction with Friends of UNIFAT, a registered nonprofit.
UNIFAT school is a primary school located in Gulu, Uganda, of over 1300 students from kindergarten to 7th grade. Northern Uganda has been caught up in the turmoil of a twenty-year war complete with mass killings, burning of villages and child abductions. Abitimo Rebecca Odongkara, the school's founder, started it in an effort to instill the youth with values of education to give them opportunities to better their lives. Read more »
