— can provide one child with a 1-month treatment of Plumpy'Nut — can provide 5 mosquito nets protecting 5 children from the threat of malaria 0 — can provide 45 jerry cans for refugees to transport clean water from the well to their families in the camp.

Summary
This spring, the Sahel received insufficient rainfall: meaning that there is not enough water to sustain crops, livestock, and people. Although the Sahel often struggles with food insecurity, this year's circumstances are far worse. Combined with other man-made factors, the Sahel entered the early stages of what could be a terrible famine. Sahel droughts endanger over 15 million people throughout various nations.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Famines are not high-profile emergencies like recent tsunamis, earthquakes or floods. The widespread concern with this type of humanitarian crisis is that it takes time to develop into a full-blown disaster, meaning that many fail to recognize the severity of the situation until thousands of lives are lost.

Activities
Fortunately, governments and humanitarian organizations have been working for years to develop early warning systems so we can spot famine conditions before they start and intervene early to save lives and prevent suffering. GlobalGiving partners with numerous organizations working to prevent disaster-like humanitarian conditions in the Sahel. Your donation will be disbursed to projects working in the region.

Potential Long Term Impact
We here at GlobalGiving believe that proactive measures are often better than reactive responses and that prevention truly is better than a cure. For example, preparing water sources for 80,000 Ethiopians before a famine cost 0,000 and prevented death and suffering, but trucking water across the desert for 5 months costs million, over three times as much. Your donation to help provide preventative aid to the Sahel region can help avert a humanitarian disaster.

Project Message
We are appealing, all of us, for an end to global indifference we have found so far... by acting vigorously and properly now, we can head off future crises.
- Anthony Lake, UNICEF executive director

Project Sponsor: GlobalGiving
Theme: Disaster Recovery | Location: Mali
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$75,000
Project #10506 on GlobalGiving.org

— will find and publish one lab on the site — will put a lab's projects on the site, and make them understandable to non-scientists 0 — will film a lab and its researchers to further build the personal connection between labs and patients

Summary
We want to make underfunded medical research projects more accessible and understandable in order to increase their funding opportunities. We will do this by finding medical research projects and publishing easily understandable descriptions of their research on our site, in both text and video form.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Patients are very disconnected from medical researchers. Seeing what research is being done can be very uplifting for patients. However, finding and understanding medical research is very difficult.

Many small medical research labs cannot compete with large labs for funding. In 2011, the NIH could only fund 17% of new grant applicants, which left over 45,000 projects looking elsewhere for funding.

Activities
By connecting patients with medical research labs, we can efficiently solve each others' problems. Patients can learn about research and stay connected with medical researchers. This can be very empowering in a time of helplessness. Researchers can raise funds from the people who need answers the most. This gives small labs a way to conduct research without winning major grants.

Potential Long Term Impact
Our primary long-term goal is to be able to raise enough money for research to become a viable funding option for research labs. Just because a lab is passed over by major grant institutions doesn't mean it shouldn't be able to look for answers.

We could potentially affect the 45,000+ projects that don't get funding by the NIH, along with the hundreds of millions of Americans touched by an illness in some way.

Project Message
After seeing the funding struggles of small labs and the difficulty patients have in understanding and supporting medical research, we realized connecting labs and patients could be very beneficial.
- Chris Rovin, Executive Director

Project Sponsor: we-search.org
Theme: Health | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #10497 on GlobalGiving.org

— Provides nutritious snacks and water for an at-risk youth — Provides a creative-holistic art supply kit for an at-risk youth — Sponsors an at-risk youth for one month of Vision Launch programs at Art Studio

Summary
Vision Launch and Art Studio Inc. have joined together to introduce the power of "Vision" to at-risk-youth in the Miami area. A Vision is a purposeful forecast of one's future and encourages people everywhere to realize their greatest dreams, and hence reach their greatest potential. Vision Launch offers events and information for artists, musicians, companies, and entrepreneurs, as well as local youth to put their vision into reality.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Youth in Little Haiti are on a 'cradle to prison' pathway that costs more than the educational solutions to fix it. They live in extreme poverty, some with no electricity or running water and are exposed to violence, drugs, and poverty-related trauma. Most youth have never left their immediate community and suffer from under-exposure to positive role models, academic/career possibilities, and viable solutions for upward mobility.

Activities
As part of a comprehensive youth empowerment program provided by Art Studio Miami, Vision Launch provides classes and support to help students discover their own personal vision. By nurturing the healthy vision that they create for themselves, these students realize the possibility of greater success, and develop the belief in themselves to achieve it.

Potential Long Term Impact
By engaging at-risk youth in the creation of creative solutions, ASI is taking action to halt the "cradle to prison" scenario (http://bit.ly/Cradle2Prison) that is currently playing out for youth here in Miami, FL and contributing to a new pattern of upward mobility; empowering them towards self-sufficiency and inspiring them to be a catalyst for positive change in their own lives, communities, and the world.

Project Message
"By supporting each others' visions, we make a positive impact in those around us by generating fulfillment, joy, and a renewed sense of community in our world."
- Jodi Darren and Bill Holderby, Vision Launch Leaders

Project Sponsor: Art Studio Inc.
Theme: Children | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #10485 on GlobalGiving.org

— 100 dipsticks for diagnosis of cholera in patients — Phone and mobile service for 1 health worker's data collection needs 0 — Treatment of 20 families suffering from cholera

Summary
Every year, millions of Bangladeshis contract cholera - the nation's most prevalent diarrhea disease. Using cell phones equipped with data collection software, the Village Zero Project (V0P) aims to create a map that will show the proliferation of cholera in time and space, thus exposing where outbreaks most commonly originate. With this knowledge, water and sanitation infrastructure interventions can be implemented at the most disease-prone regions, helping to mitigate the spread of disease.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In the spring, the Bay of Bengal - which serves as a natural reservoir for the cholera bacteria - flows inland, observably causing the first outbreak amongst coastal communities. Waste containing the cholera bacteria enters the sewage system and remains untreated due to poor water and sanitation infrastructure. Therefore, during the late summer monsoon season, flooding of cholera-contaminated sewage into drinking water sources results in a second outbreak.

Activities
We predict that by identifying the index region where the spring outbreak begins (Village Zero), resources can be redistributed to this area and ultimately reduce annual disease incidence via preemptive prevention (i.e. geographically targeted improvements in infrastructure). To perform this task, we have designed an endemic disease mapping schematic for cholera in Bangladesh that will use mobile technologies to discover where outbreaks originate and how they proliferate.

Potential Long Term Impact
By mapping annual outbreaks of cholera in Bangladesh, we can provide essential consultation services to the nation's water and sanitation sector. Identifying the most disease-prone regions in Bangladesh will allow the sector to best allocate its resources in order to effectively prevent cholera. If successful in Bangladesh, this endemic disease mapping schematic may be used to significantly reduce infectious disease burden in resource-poor countries worldwide.

Project Message
In my motherland, millions contract cholera every year, resulting in incalculable lost wages and treatment expenses. Prevention is the only solution; Bangladesh cannot afford cholera.
- Maimuna (Maia) Majumder, CEO

Project Sponsor: The Village Zero Project
Theme: Health | Location: Bangladesh
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$30,000
Project #10476 on GlobalGiving.org

— Will help pay for school fees — Will help pay for school fees — Will help pay for school fees

Summary
This project provides 20 young war-effected Ugandan students to attend better schools for both primary and secondary education and also supplies the necessary scholastics for the students.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Due to the civil war in Northern Uganda between the government and the Lord's Resistance Army, many children within the country and the surrounding countries were abducted and forced to become child soldiers. While the community of Gulu is trying to rebuild itself, many families do not have the proper resources to ensure their children are safe and have optimistic futures. Through this project, we allow our students to attend schools in which both of these criteria are met.

Activities
We provide school tuitions, scholastics, and other necessary items in order for these young children to attend private Ugandan schools within the community of Gulu.

Potential Long Term Impact
We will ensure every one of our 20 beneficiaries graduates from secondary school, providing each one with the education needed to maintain future occupations.

Project Message
Bringing us scholastic material and paying our school fees because I know when they were not paying for us things were dark and our lives really changed when they started paying for us.
- Atim Sharon, Beneficiary, Student

Project Sponsor: Dwon Madiki Partnership
Theme: Education | Location: Uganda
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$10,000
Project #10480 on GlobalGiving.org

— will buy one emergency radio receiver — will buy one heavy-duty back-up battery, together with other 25 donations — will buy an FM broadcasting transmitter, together with other 40 donations

Summary
An FM broadcasting station for supporting disaster victims ("Disaster Broadcasting Stations") is a specific kind of Community Radio system to supply "Emergency Control Programs," "Life Support Information" and other community related programs that re-unite the minds of refugees away from their old communities. Also, they supply information for foreigners residing in those areas, who lack vital daily life information in their own languages.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Many of the victims who lost their houses by Tsunami are now living in "Temporary Houses". However, it is difficult to get a good radio reception in these temporary houses which are mostly built by the hill-side or in the valley. To solve this problem, detailed research works and designing by experienced engineers is necessary before setting up a station.
Also, many of the broadcasting stations started in a hurry with make shift equipments, thus upgrading is required to continue services.

Activities
BHN experts will help launch an FM station or give advice to stations already in service by visiting the sites.
Depending on individual problems found for each station, BHN will set up a broadcasting antenna, re-locate an antenna, build additional radio relay station, build roof-top antennas and/or connect radio wave boosters to individual houses, etc.
Also, installation of emergency back-up batteries is imminent as the blackouts could happen by the closure of nuclear power stations.

Potential Long Term Impact
The life in the "Temporary Houses" may be prolonged for, at least, some more years and the "Disaster Broadcasting Stations" are going to last for another 10 years.(after this period, most of them will transform to "community radio broadcasting"). During this period, broadcasting systems will play a more and more important role to connect people and prompt interaction between the town administrations and inhabitants to jointly making the "Town Rebuilding Plan."

Project Message
We decided to open a radio station but no one in our organization knew how to do it. Thanks go to BHN who did everything for us.
- AidTAKATA, Operator of Rikuzen-Takata FM Station

Project Sponsor: BHN Association
Theme: Disaster Recovery | Location: Japan
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$50,000
Project #10457 on GlobalGiving.org

— buys plants and seeds for one season for one woman to plant in her rooftop garden — will provide an extra tube for one woman to plant her vegetables in. — will train one women in maintaining her rooftop garden.

Summary
Rooftop micro farms enable these women from Deheishe Refugee Camp to support their families and address the food insecurity they suffer from. Many families don't have sufficient access to fresh vegetables, effecting especially the children in their development. Providing these women with the training and materials to produce two healthy harvests a year has showed to be a successful way to address the need of Palestinian refugees, and should be made available to more women as soon as possible!

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Enduring occupation continues to reduce the freedoms,resources and future aspirations of the Palestinians,especially refugees and even more: refugee women. In Deheishe Camp almost no space is available for gardens or food production. Creating rooftop gardens is proved to be a great way to address the needs of these families and positively impact the lives of the women. But more funds are currently needed to provide more women with the necessary means to get their families out of food insecurity.

Activities
Rooftop micro farms create a green space on the houses of the women,giving them the opportunity to produce two organic harvests a year. The complete system will provide enough water,shade as well as sun to complete their diet with fresh vegetables,especially improving the development of the children. The green space will improve the environment in the camp,while the possibility of outdoor activity,training in a skill and social recognition for their work,will positively impact the woman's lives.

Potential Long Term Impact
Food security for the families involved will be guaranteed even if the fragile political or economic situation changes negatively. Also,the long-term physical and psychological health of the families will be improved and specifically the confidence and life satisfaction of the women involved will grow. The mental wellbeing of the community as a whole will be improved,because of increased access to green space,improved surroundings and the return of agriculture and nature into the families' lives

Project Message
Because of our small budget, the first purchase we leave out are vegetables. The farm enables me to produce my own vegetables, making me less dependent and enabling me to take better care of my kids.
- Participant of the project, Mother of 5 children

Project Sponsor: Karama Organization for Women and Children Development
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Palestinian Territories
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$40,000
Project #10473 on GlobalGiving.org

— Student supplies — One student for a month — One student for two months

Summary
The mission of Free the Kids is to provide financial support and counsel for Pwoje Espwa Sud (PES), home to 600 orphaned and vulnerable children in Southwest Haiti, a country where the average adult has 2.8 years of schooling, compulsory education is only 6 years, only 52.9% of the total population is literate and 74% of primary school girls are out of school. PES operates six schools from K-12 plus vocational for 2,100 students. 98% of our children are literate.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The mission of Free the Kids is to provide financial support and counsel for Pwoje Espwa Sud (PES), home to 600 orphaned and vulnerable children in Southwest Haiti, a country where the average adult has 2.8 years of schooling, compulsory education is only 6 years, only 52.9% of the total population is literate and 74% of primary school girls are out of school. PES operates six schools from K-12 plus vocational for 2,100 students. 98% of our children are literate.

Activities
The education program's mission is to promote academic excellence, improve the achievement of students, enhance educational opportunities and equity for all children and improve the quality of teaching and learning by providing leadership, technical assistance and financial support.

Potential Long Term Impact
Haitian teachers provide basic classroom instruction. Some students get scholarship funds to attend other specialized schools. We hope to give children everything they need to achieve self-sufficiency, allowing them to enter adulthood in a position of strength, freedom and promise.

Project Message
We hope to give children everything they need to achieve self-sufficiency, allowing them to enter adulthood in a position of strength, freedom and promise
- Fr. Marc Boisvert, Founder

Project Sponsor: Free The Kids dba Theo's Work
Theme: Education | Location: Haiti
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$400,000
Project #10468 on GlobalGiving.org

— will buy 3 bags of cement — will buy 4 desks and chairs — will buy a door

Summary
We work with some of the most vulnerable, most exploited young girls on the planet. We help them get off the street and into school and we make it almost impossible for them to fail. The government gave us this building to use. It's the former ministry of education. We need to fix it and we need your help. What it will be: an inspirational academy where girls will go to school during the day and learn cool things at night like baking, sewing, iPhone photography & social media.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
If a girl is not in school she is on the street and vulnerable for sexual exploitation. We work in a slum with the highest number of child prostitutes in the country. We help those girls get to school and make it impossible for them to fail. In an area with 75,000 people there is only one school. We are building another one especially for girls teaching them not only basic education but all kinds of other really cool things too so they can help themselves.

Activities
We are building an academy so the girls have a place to go that is safe and empowering.

Potential Long Term Impact
This academy will effect over 500 girls directly and 1,000's more indirectly.

Project Message
"Being a part of More Than Me is the best thing in the whole world!"
- Elizabeth, 9 year old girl (mom is a sex-worker she won't be)

Project Sponsor: More than Me Foundation
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Liberia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$150,000
Project #10443 on GlobalGiving.org

— Will provide the fabric and tailoring costs for one child's school uniform. — Provides the tuition costs for one primary school student for one year. — Purchases a primary school student's books for one year.

Summary
This project will sponsor 20 socially and economically marginalized children by providing for their school fees, books and uniforms for one year. Better Family Foundation has worked with local schools and church groups to identify the most vulnerable children in our community-- these children show scholastic potential and come from homes where they either cannot afford or soon will not be able to afford the cost of school. With your help we will allow these children to receive a basic education.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are a many barriers prohibiting children from having access to even the most basic education here in Cameroon. Children from economically marginalized families are most at risk. Instead of going to school these children are forced into labor in order to help support their families. Other times families may only have enough money to send one child to school though all are eager, able and willing. Through this project at least 20 of these vulnerable children will be sponsored for one year.

Activities
Better Family Foundation has worked with local schools and churches to identify children who show scholastic aptitude but do not have financial means to attend school. From those children identified BFF will select the 20 most vulnerable children and directly pay for their school fees, books and uniforms for one year. We will assist 10 primary school children and 10 secondary (high school) children.

Potential Long Term Impact
This project will have greater effects than just educating 20 vulnerable children. Providing education will help improve the general quality of life of not only those educated but those living in their community. The education provided can assist these students to make more informed life choices regarding healthy lifestyles and ultimately help end the cycle of poverty.

Project Message
The need here in the Fundong area in great-- we are at least trying this pilot program to begin addressing it, adjust it accordingly and then expand it so that we may make the most effective impact.
- Mbeng Simon, The Director of Better Family Foundation

Project Sponsor: Better Family Foundation
Theme: Education | Location: Cameroon
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$1,500
Project #10444 on GlobalGiving.org