Economic Development Projects

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Support Sustainability for El Salvadoran Farmers

Enable one family in a new Agros village in El Salvador to increase its income through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, to buy the land that they are working.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Provides a tree for a reforestation project.
	$60 - Provides one composting latrine.
	$150 - Provides training for a group of eight in organic composting.
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	$ Other amount
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Prosperity Packages for Rural Bangladeshi Farmers

Bangladesh,

Economic Development

This project will impact 300 $1-$2 a day farmers. IDE will use over 25 years of experience to provide farmers with tools necessary to move from subsistence farming to commercial farming.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - 1 share of a prosperity package that will provide necessary training for farmers to increase income
	$50 - 2 shares of a prosperity package that will provide necessary training to farmers to increase income
	$250 - Prosperity package: farmer training in irrigation, seed and fertilizer quality and marketing
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Help 500 Rural Haitian Families Fight Hunger

Haiti,

Economic Development

"Feeding Families" is a sustainable farm project to help 500 families address hunger in Haiti through vegetable gardens, fruit tree plantings, and the breeding of goats, rabbits and chickens.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Provides seeds and watering can for a square foot garden
	$20 - Buys a rooster and a hen for a family to start egg production
	$25 - Plants two fruit trees for a family
	$30 - Buys two rabbits, supplies and training for a family
	$50 - Pays for a complete square foot garden with training
	$100 - Buys a goat, supplies and training for a family
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Help Farmers in Nicaragua Move Out of Poverty

Nicaragua,

Economic Development

This project will increase the annual incomes of 1,500 small coffee farmers by promoting low-cost micro-irrigation technology, improved farming skills, and installing market systems.

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How You Can Help:

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	$30 - Help a small farm family access micro irrigation
	$70 - Help provide agronomic training
	$100 - Help provide equipment and training for a small farm family
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

Give Ergonomic Benches to 100 Mexican Weavers

Mexico,

Economic Development

This project provides 100 Mexican weavers an ergonomic bench and education to increase their income potential, while also preventing serious damage to their bodies and preserving weaving culture.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Helps educate one backstrap weaver to use the bench safely & to maximum benefit
	$70 - Helps bring the ergonomic bench to one backstrap weaver
	$2,500 - Helps provide a start-up kit & tech support for local carpenters to produce benches
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Building a Women's Center in Nebkit, Mali

Mali,

Economic Development

The World Food Program (WFP) is promoting self-sustainability by creating a Women's Center in Nebkit, Mali - one of the least developed and poorest countries in the world.

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How You Can Help:

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	$25 - Help purchase materials for the construction of the community center
	$50 - Feeds a child of one of the community women for a full year
	$92 - Provide nutrition to a pregnant or breastfeeding mother
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Changing lives in the village of Fiarenana

Madagascar,

Economic Development ,

Project Challenge 2008 participant.

Zahana, a rural development NGO, has been approached by a new village (pop. 283) for help with malaria prevention, revitalizing a nursery, introducing new crops and getting safe drinking water.

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How You Can Help:

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	$10 - Buys two mosquito nets for the village
	$50 - Buys ten mosquito nets for the village
	$335 - Pays for the transportation of the mosquito nets and seeds to the village
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	$ Other amount
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Community-run Eco-lodge on the Indian Ocean

Madagascar,

Economic Development

An environmentally, socially and economically beneficial community-run lodge for eco-tourists in a spectacular coral-reef coastal region, improving the unique environment and people's livelihoods

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How You Can Help:

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	$100 - 1 month's salary for hotel manager in start-up phase
	$500 - 6 month's salary for the foreman of the building workers
	$1,000 - Building costs for one of the 25 huts
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	$ Other amount
	or give as a gift in honor/in memory of someone

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