Other Suggested Donations
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Sponsor a promising young girl in East Africa to go to college to become a teacher or a nurse. $1,200 to $2,000 USD a year for three years can offer hope to a young woman and her community. Any amount can be donated and will be added to The Butterfly Project scholarship fund. To sponsor a young woman, contact our team
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Any amount
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Support environment and public health education for village youth by donating to the Environmental Youth Action Corp. Through a two-day workshop, village youth learn the hazards of improper disposal of batteries, burning plastics, farm chemicals, and other public health hazards. $35 USD supports training, supplies, and a solar flashlight for one youth.
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Any amount
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Sponsor a ceramic
water
filter, which will provide clean drinking water for a school, clinic, feeding program, or orphan home. Filter plants are locally owned and operated.
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$20 USD
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Purchase a school uniform
for an orphan in Ghana from the Dzidefo Women's Cooperative.
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$25 USD
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Donate
five library books that can be shared with an entire community.
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$25 USD
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Donate
12 fruit-bearing trees that will have a long-term benefit
for families as a source of food and/or income.
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$25 USD
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Sponsor one woman to participate in a bio-intensive organic farming workshop. $32 USD provides training, seeds, and tools for each participant.
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$32 USD
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Donate
10 mosquito nets to help prevent malaria.
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$35 USD |
Support
Kick it with Kenya's week-long youth empowerment conference and soccer (football) tournament. The conference combines
health education, leadership, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS
education during the morning, hosting the games
in the afternoon. $50 USD sponsors one participant, and
provides him or her with room and board and sports equipment.
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$50 USD
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$50 USD
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$120 USD
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$100 USD
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Donate
one bicycle, a key means of transportation needed for retrieving
medicine and supplies in remote areas.
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$100 USD
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Provide
seed money for a woman to start or expand her micro-enterprise in areas
such as tailoring, weaving, poultry, dairy, milling, farming
and baking.
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$100 USD
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Donate
two goats for breeding that will provide nutrition and a
source of income-generation.
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$150 USD
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Sponsor
an orphan's primary school (day school) books, uniform,
meals and basic health care for one year.
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$450 USD
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Sponsor
an orphan's secondary school tuition, books, uniform, room,
board and basic health care for one year.
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$750 USD
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Fund
vocational workshops for women. Past workshops
have concentrated on business development, solar food dehydration, solar cooking, briquetting,
and organic farming methods. $1000 USD will provide 20 women with training and supplies.
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Any amount
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Contribute to partner operations -- supplies, equipment, salaries and maintenance -- of existing over-burdened clinics and schools, or by funding much needed new construction or expansion.
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Any amount
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Contribute directly to Village Volunteers' general operations fund. Despite keeping costs to a bare minimum, we are in constant need (especially during this recession) of funds to continue our advocacy and support for our partner village programs, and our eight initiatives:
Village Volunteer Initiatives/Projects.
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Any amount
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