Provides farming families in Central America with training and tools to preserve our planet's tropical forests while overcoming poverty.
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- No band-aids – sustainable and lasting change, not just alleviating human suffering.
- Accountability and self-assessment
- Working directly with people (bottom-up, not top-down – no big plans or governments)
Brings clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. They use 100% of public donations to directly fund sustainable water solutions in areas of greatest need. Just $20 can give one person clean water for 20 years.
With gifts of livestock and training, the Heifer Project help families improve their nutrition and generate income in sustainable ways. They refer to the animals as “living loans” because in exchange for their livestock and training, families agree to give one of its animal’s offspring to another family in need.
A global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. They carry out this mission through three essential activities: mobilizing village clusters at the grassroots level to build self-reliance, empowering women as key change agents, and forging effective partnerships with local government.
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