— One cent per mile ridden — Two cents per mile ridden — Three cents per mile ridden

Summary
The team at Dry Fly Distilling will be riding their bikes from Vancouver, BC to San Diego, CA in an effort to raise critical research funds and awareness around Rett Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that strikes young girls. The funds raised thru the ride will be used to help fund research and family support programs funded by Casting 4 A Cure and The International Rett Syndrome Foundation. Dry Fly is a proud sponsor of Casting 4 A Cure.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Rett Syndrome is a rare neurological disorder that affects 1 in every 10,000 girls. It is a very debilitating disorder that robs what seems to be a normal girl of her ability to speak, radically affects their gross and fine motor skills, and is life threatening.

Activities
The Dry Fly Ride for Rett Syndrome will help to fund both current and upcoming research projects and clinical trials to find a cure for Rett Syndrome. Rett Syndrome affects approximately 1 in ever 10,000 children.

Potential Long Term Impact
The long term impact of finding a cure for Rett Syndrome is far-reaching as such a breakthrough would lead to advances in other neurological disorders like Autism, Parkinsons, and Cerebral Palsy.

Project Message
"Our daughter Ella was diagnosed at 4 years old with Rett Syndrome. She is now 8 and has benefitted greatly from the programs and resources that the International Rett Syndrome Foundation provide."
- Bill Farnum, Executive Director, Casting 4 A Cure

Project Sponsor: Casting 4 A Cure, Inc.
Theme: Health | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$20,000
Project #14048 on GlobalGiving.org

— Will provide hot lunch for one student for one month — Will pay tuition fees for a student for one month 0 — Will purchase a toolbox for a student

Summary
The project will provide a one year full time training to 20 economically deprived orphans in fabrication of stainless steel kitchen equipment, metalwork, electrification, refrigeration and interior design. They will sit for a government grade-test, attend classes in entrepreneurship and be recommended for revolving funds that will enable them start and run their own individual small-scale businesses hence be able to be self employed, generate income and uplift their living standards.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Ziwani community has a population of about 10,000 people, majority being children and youth aged below 35 years. Most residents are poor and depend on small-scale businesses (street hawking). High illiteracy levels, school dropout, unskilled, unemployment , HIV/AIDs infection rates are alarming hence an increase in the the number of orphans and child-headed homes. Young men are involved in crime, drug abuse and peddling for survival. The project will identify 20 needy boys for training.

Activities
We will equip the identified candidates with relevant self-employment skills of their choice. They will be introduced to relevant financial and government agencies upon completion of the training, they will be recommended for government accreditation. We will emphasize on entrepreneurship training to enable them learn some book-keeping, recording, accounting and marketing so that they can repay their loans. They will create jobs for other young people hence alleviate poverty and reduce crime.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will continue beyond the funding period as a locally self-sustainable project that will equip the 20 young men yearly with self-employment skills for more future job creation and poverty eradication.

Project Message
The boys project has changed my social life by equipping me with skills. I now have my own business, am married and can take care of my family.
- John Kioli, Past beneficiary of the project

Project Sponsor: Single Mothers Association of Kenya
Theme: Technology | Location: Kenya
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$15,000
Project #14014 on GlobalGiving.org

— Nutrition support for a child for a week (to be used at home) - 70% — Daily breakfast and lunch for a child during a week at the Day Care center - 70% — Nutrition support for pregnant mother for a week - 70% nutrients diarios

Summary
This project will support the integral development of 1200 vulnerable children between 0 and 5 years old providing support in nutrition, health, education, family integration and high quality day care services. These children will grow in safe and protective environments and will have the basis to grow healthy and develop their full potential.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Babies and children in tough economic, social and affective conditions, cant access high quality early education, health and nutrition in rural Colombia (Madgalena State). They are born in poor homes, torn apart by conflict, mostly from single mothers, carpenters, fishers and fruit sellers. Family's dont have the capacities to educate them in safe and protective environments. Day care centers often lack resources (physical, economic, educational) to serve them well.

Activities
It will develop and enhance protective environments adapted to the needs of children. It will support the family as a key element in society and as co-responsible in the childrens development, the community whole and early development care centers. Children's capacities and skills will be strengthened, working together with families and care-givers. Healthy life styles will be fostered and parents and teachers will be trained. Nutritional complements will be given and health conditions will be

Potential Long Term Impact
Thanks to this project, social equality will be promoted and poverty will be reduced. Children will grow with the adequate health and education and within a protective environments minimizing their economic, social and affective vulnerability. Families, care-givers and communities will be empowered as responsible for early development. Fiscal and morel development of children will set the basis for healthy young and adults with the right ethical values.

Project Message
"I am very thankful for the attention that my child is getting at the care center. He is learning to eat, to socialize, he is healthy and that makes me very happy"
- Ricardo, Parent of one of our care centers

Project Sponsor: Corporacion Juntos Construyendo Futuro
Theme: Children | Location: Colombia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$10,000
Project #14037 on GlobalGiving.org

— will pay a lower level teacher for one week — will pay a higher level teacher for one week — will pay a cook for one month

Summary
Christian Upliftment School serves extremely impoverished children in Kampala, Uganda, most of whose families have been displaced by war. Education is their future. Lets work together to change their future.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
A civil war has been taking place in Northern Uganda for the last twenty
years. Members of a rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army
have been fighting the Ugandan government for control of the region. As a
result, thousands of civilians have been murdered, 1.5 million have been
displaced, and children live in fear of being kidnapped and forced to fight for
the rebel army. Many families seek refuge in the capital city of Kampala.

Activities
Once farmers, most of these families now work in the stone quarry. They break rocks into tinier pieces all day long, earning a little less than . Many children who should be in school are forced to work such jobs as well. The Christian Upliftment School provides meals and education so that they do not have to work and continue in the cycle of poverty. It gives them a childhood and a future. It also provides work for educated teachers and cooks where work is hard to come by otherwise.

Potential Long Term Impact
The Christian Upliftment School will educate 200 children each year, giving them a childhood and a future. As a result, they will grow as individuals with several times the amount of opportunities for work and life in general, than if they were not educated. They will also likely live longer as stone quarry work is very dangerous. By pairing students with foreign sponsors, we facilitate life long relationships and support that can provide security and opportunity for the student past school.

Project Message
We are the leaders of tomorrow.
- Waswa Emmanuel, Student

Project Sponsor: Project Esperanza
Theme: Education | Location: Uganda
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$24,000
Project #13966 on GlobalGiving.org

— will buy a jump rope. Each starter kit contains 10 jump ropes. — will buy 1 pair of bag gloves. Each starter kit contains 15 pairs of bag gloves. — will buy a head protector. Each starter kit contains 2 head protectors.

Summary
Girls are challenged every day by violence in their communities.
Boxing and self-defense training improve girls' strength & resilience and help them to better negotiate the urban environment.
The skills girls learn in the ring bring them further in their schooling, family & career.
The Boxgirls Int'l network links innovative projects around the world using boxing as a catalyst for social change.
Help get new members of the network started by providing them a bag with basic sport equipment.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Across the globe girls face a daily threat of violence. Boxing provides a useful structured activity to teach the girls and young women here self-confidence, discipline, self-respect and self-defense skills. Sports help them learn to relax, work in a team and concentrate.

Activities
The Boxgirls Int'l network provides sports/girls projects from all over the world with
- a comprehensive curriculum to utilize boxing as catalyst for social change
- expert support by licensed coaches & experienced pedagogues to implement the curriculum
- a peer exchange network to teach & learn from one another.
We work with existing local initiatives that seek to broaden their programs. And we need your support to supply them with basic equipment to start coaching girls & young women.

Potential Long Term Impact
Girls and women who have sports skills, can solve problems and defend themselves change the climate of the violent neighborhoods they live in by showing that females must be treated with respect. The girls and young women also go on to share their skills with their friends and families. Each training kit can be used to reach 30 girls a time, so with training 5 days a week we support a minimum of 150 girls in a sporting program.

Project Message
Atlantis [in Cape Town] is an area which is prone to much violence and vices. Boxing is the best thing to do for self-defense. I want to work in community development and give back to the youth.
- Bongiswa, Coach at Boxgirls South Africa

Project Sponsor: Boxgirls International
Theme: Women and Girls | Location: Germany
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #13945 on GlobalGiving.org

— will pay the OnlineSupport annual membership fee for an entrepreneur — will pay the OnlineSupport annual subscription fee for an entrepreneur for two years of membership — will pay the OnlineSupport annual fmembership fee for an entrepreneur for three years

Summary
The Association of African Entrepreneurs through our Member OnlineSupport Program enables entrepreneurs to make informed decisions by offering detailed information on available resources, economic status, risks and ideal ventures; and advice on how to work on how to work constructively with local governments and communities each country in Africa.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Africa is home to many severely needy and marginalized but enterprising individuals. These people subsist in low-income communities. They are affected by unfavorable economic policies, illiteracy and poor enterprise support infrastructure.

Activities
The association has its main office in Ghana, and operates mainly through its online and website services with meetings being held in those African countries where it has a national representative or partner. AAE website offers a business directory, e-coaching program, e-books, regular articles, and newsletters to keep members up to date with research and information.

Potential Long Term Impact
Entrepreneurs are an essential component of wealth creation. They help grow prosperity in communities and nations. In turn, their actions are part of the solution to alleviating poverty. They are a vital piece of this puzzle that cannot be completed by government and international NGOs alone.
This project is helping entrepreneurs to achieve success by forging cooperation, promoting access to informaton and fostering a productive business environment.

Project Message
Our manuals and articles tells any aspirant entrepreneur everything s/he needs to know to undertake to an entrepreneurial venture in Africa
- Kirthi Jayakumar, Project Coordinator, Publications.

Project Sponsor: Association of African Entrepreneurs
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Ghana
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$10,000
Project #14012 on GlobalGiving.org

— buys a month's worth of glucose testing materials to screen pregnant women for diabetes and blood sugar abnormalities that could lead to serious pregnancy complications — provides two days of nurse aide's worki at health clinincs, enabling more than 800 prenatal consultations per month to check important health indicators like blood pressure. 0 — provides supplies and materials for three days of high-risk obstetrics care at the hospital

Summary
Women and children in Haiti are among the most vulnerable to disease and death in the western hemisphere. HAS brings health care to the most remote communities and homes in its central Haiti service area to ensure that pregnant women receive pre-natal and post-natal care that is literally life-saving.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
As in the rest of Haiti, up to 75 percent of births in HAS's service area are at home, and Haitian women and children are at much greater risk for serious complications related to pregnancy than in any developed country.

Activities
HAS brings pre- and post-natal care to those who need it in the community. Through continuous health posts, home visits, and mothers' clubs organized by community health workers throughout the HAS service area, women are encouraged to attend at least three prenatal visits and one post-natal visit, although many attend more.

Potential Long Term Impact
In the HAS service area, approximately 75 percent of new mothers receive post-natal home visits by community health workers within the crucial three-day post-birth period, compared to 13 percent nationwide. Nearly 100 percent of women in the hospital's service area receive prenatal screenings by trained personnel, compared to 90 percent throughout Haiti. HAS aims to expand its reach for pre- and post-natal care this year and beyond.

Project Message
"I am so happy that HAS exists. I hope that it will always exist, so that it will continue to provide good services to everyone in this community - including those who need it most."
- HAS Obstetrics Patient Peguy, Peguy received care at HAS her entire pregnancy

Project Sponsor: Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
Theme: Children | Location: Haiti
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #14000 on GlobalGiving.org

— will buy supplies for art workshops — will buy instruments for music lessons — covers classroom materials

Summary
Support 320 children coming from abuse, deprivation and neglect environments, inhibiting their proper development as subjects of rights. Some of the children are going to the school and some of them not. The government has given some spots for education in some public institutions, but some of our children have not been so fortunate to receive it. This project aims to make sure these children have access to basic education trough a different approach that temporary replace the school.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Education system in Colombia has had several problems over the years, due to lack of school coverage in some areas of the country. Some children in CRAN are affected by this situation since they may have not a spot in any of the public schools, while some of their peers can attend school. This problem of inequality and deprivation, shows a noticeable delay in their educational process hindering appropriate cognitive, physical, emotional and social development.

Activities
This project will give funding for us to build a space for the development of activities that validate individual differences in children, not only in terms of academic performance and achievements in learning, but in an inclusive manner in each of the characteristics of the personal history, educational experience, cultural, sports, among others. Always under the principle of respect for the learning dynamics of each child allowing unrestricted access to the knowledge, skills and values.

Potential Long Term Impact
The long-term impact of this project will be reflected in the evolution and improvement in the learning process of conception of equality, understanding their needs and recognition of difference, so we believe in the benefit of offering children different environments that allow them to apply those topics in everyday activities that will give them the foundations for the future learning, contributing to their proper growth, development and overall happiness.

Project Message
I would like to learn how to say things in English and know about math
- Shirley, 6 year old girl living in CRAN

Project Sponsor: Fundacion CRAN
Theme: Children | Location: Colombia
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$20,000
Project #13771 on GlobalGiving.org

— will pay the annual membership fee for an entrepreneur at the Associate level — will pay the annual membership fee for an entrepreneur at the General level — will pay the annual fmembership fee for an entrepreneur at Fellow level

Summary
Nigerian entrepreneurs operate under unfriendly business environment including poor access to finance, difficulty in getting licenses, multiple taxes and illiteracy. The small entrepreneurs need to be rescued. The wave of militancy in Nigeria needs to be checkmated. Hopelessness needs to be arrested. The AAE Nigeria Chapter project will register entrepreneurs for associate, fellow and affiliate levels and empower them through knowledge and information-sharing, training/mentoring and advocacy.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Nigerian entrepreneurs operate under unfriendly business environment. The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys (2007) identified fifteen (15) problems and challenges facing entrepreneurs in Nigeria. These include: access to finance, access to licenses/permit, corruption, courts, crime/theft/disorder, customs & trade registration, electricity, inadequately educated workforce, labour regulations, political stability, practices informal sector, tax administration, tax rates

Activities
We hope to help alleviate these problems and challenges within the limited resources of AAE Nigeria through knowledge, information-sharing, partnership, advocacy, investment clubbing, grass root training et cetera. This can only be realised with your moral support, annual dues, donations and participation in our programmes.

Potential Long Term Impact
AAE Nigeria has a number of projects/programmes such as Civic Projects and Lobbying, Community Outreach, Mentorship on Investment Clubbing, Production of Handbook on Investment Club, Membership Handbook and Operational expenses. These would contribute to Nigeria's social and economic development on a long-term basis.

Project Message
I humbly request you to write your name in gold by supporting AAE Nigeria to take off. In order to make our laudable projects/programmes a success, I request moral and financial assistance.
- Raimi, L. MNIM, AMIMC, Member Support Volunteer (Nigeria), AAE

Project Sponsor: Association of African Entrepreneurs
Theme: Economic Development | Location: Nigeria
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$5,000
Project #13983 on GlobalGiving.org

— purchases supplies for an afternoon of creativity and learning at the Redeemer After School Program (RAP) — buys supplies for a Saturday morning in Pedal Power, igniting the minds of middle school girls with science and technology 0 — waters the Redeemer Urban Garden for one month so we can grow healthy food for our neighborhood

Summary
Redeemer Center for Life creates programs that empower and educate youth in North Minneapolis. Through the Redeemer After-School Program (RAP), the Redeemer Music Academy (RMAA), the Housing and Transition program (HAT), and Venture North Bike & Coffee Shop, young people have a rich array of opportunities for hands-on learning, leadership development, job skill training, and preparation for healthy, happy futures.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Harrison is a diverse North Minneapolis neighborhood of approximately 3,200 residents. The community faces many challenges, including an unemployment rate of 14.3% (over double the city-wide average of 6.6%) and 42% of residents living below the poverty line.

Activities
The Harrison neighborhood has identified youth development as priority, and RCFL is deeply engaged in working to create youth enrichment opportunities that, through relationship, tutoring, empowerment, education, and skill development, begin to narrow or eliminate the large achievement gap.

Potential Long Term Impact
The project will allow RCFL to continue providing high quality youth programming. Funds help support the participation of young people who would not otherwise have resources to afford similar educational and skill development opportunities.

Project Message
As an agent of hope and transformation, RCFL will preserve a vibrant community in which every child is supported, each family is empowered, and all neighbors are encouraged to grow and thrive.
- Marilu Thomas, Former Executive Director

Project Sponsor: Venture North Bike Walk Coffee
Theme: Children | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$1,000
Project #13928 on GlobalGiving.org