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Literacy and Children's Education

Send a Girl to School in Africa Send a Girl to School in Africa
Poverty forces many girls in Sub-Saharan Africa to drop out of school before they gain the knowledge and skills they need to improve their future life options. This problem is greatest in rural areas. The girls and their parents know the importance of education, but cannot afford the costs of school uniforms, tuition fees, and school supplies. You can help.
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Teach a Woman in Darfur To Read & Write Teach a Woman in Darfur To Read & Write
Women and children comprise approximately 80% of the displaced population encamped throughout Darfur and Eastern Chad. Though many rural women are illiterate, they understand that education and skills training are vital to their future earning power. Just $30 gives a woman in Darfur the tools she needs to complete a six-month literacy training program, including school supplies, textbooks, and a literacy teacher.
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Empower Rural Women Weavers Through Education Empower Rural Women Weavers Through Education
Basic education in reading, writing, and number literacy is critical to a woman improving her earning potential, but education has not yet reached many rural women in the landlocked, southern African country of Swaziland. $35 enables eight students to participate in four lessons with a literacy trainer.
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A Bicycle to get to School A Bicycle To Get To School
Help a child reach his or her full potential by attending school. This Gift That Gives More™ helps fund the purchase, assembly, and delivery of a sturdy new bicycle, and contributes to training and equipping a local bicycle mechanic so that the magic doesn't disappear with the first flat tire. From $14.
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Send Girls to School in Sub-Saharan Africa Send Girls to School in Sub-Saharan Africa
In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 17% of girls attend secondary school. "If a girl does not go to secondary school, her fate will be to marry young and have a low standard of living as a farmer," says Tadele Atakelti, Education Coordinator for the Millennium Village of Koraro, Ethiopia. You can help! Connect To Learn is a global initiative providing secondary school scholarships to students in impoverished communities with a special emphasis on girls. Your $20 donation helps provide a girl with the tools and tuition she needs to be able to attend secondary school.
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Give Books to U.S. Children in Need Give Books to U.S. Children in Need
Literacy is of primary importance in today's world. Yet in the United States, the majority of children from low-income families have no age-appropriate books in their homes or classrooms. $10 gives ten children in the United States their first books, and the opportunity to discover a lifelong love of learning.
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Send an AIDS Orphan to School in Zambia Send an AIDS Orphan to School in Zambia
In the impoverished, landlocked country of Zambia, the chance for a school education can be as scarce as rainfall on the high plateaus. Primary education through age 7 is free, but after that, tuition is charged, and most children stop attending school altogether. You can help by donating $20 to fund two months of secondary school for an AIDS orphan in Zambia, including tuition, books, supplies, exam fees, calculator, and school uniform and shoes. $50 funds an entire year of primary school for an AIDS orphan in Zambia, including school uniform and shoes, pens, books, supplies, and exam fees.
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Help Protect Tibet's Cultural Heritage Help Protect Tibet's Cultural Heritage
The Chinese school system in Tibet, with its curriculum and all materials in Mandarin Chinese, has difficulties capturing the minds of its Tibetan-language-speaking students. The Tibetan Healing Fund is filling the need for Tibetan-language educational materials based on Tibetan folklore, including Tibetan customs, culture, art, geography, history, and life skills. A donation of $25 gives a whole classroom of Tibetan schoolchildren native Tibetan-language classroom materials, helping engage hearts, minds, and futures.
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Give Books to Children in Nepal Give Books to Children in Nepal
Hemmed in by mountains, most of the population of Nepal lives in rural areas where no phones, roads, clean water, or schools exist. A gift of $25-$100 will give the same number of Nepali-language books for children in Nepal through Room to Read, forever altering the lives of children by helping to provide them with an education.
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Help Build a School in Nepal Help Build a School in Nepal
The small country of Nepal boasts eight of the ten highest mountains in the world. But the very mountains that give Nepal its grandeur provide a challenge to building a sustainable infrastructure.Your gift of $35 or $170 will help Room to Read construct a four- to eight-room building to be used as a primary or secondary school.
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WhizzKids HIV Prevention Soccer Camp for African Kids WhizzKids HIV Prevention Soccer Camp for African Kids
The challenge of HIV / AIDS is one of the largest obstacles in Africa's path. To prevent its spread, awareness and accurate health information must be taught to the next generation before they put themselves at risk for infection. The innovative WhizzKids program uses the metaphor of soccer (football) -- the most popular sport in the world -- to teach lessons about obstacles, goals, rules, and self-empowerment to children aged 12 - 15. $20.00 provides a week-long training camp, and follow-up sessions, to a child in Ghana, Uganda, or South Africa, culminating in a "World Cup Tournament" -- a hotly contested event that reinforces lessons of teamwork, responsibility, and hope for the future.
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Provide School Supplies for Rural Afghan Children Provide School Supplies for Rural Afghan Children
In remote Afghanistan, literacy is the best indicator of which children will be able to escape the crushing cycle of poverty and which will not. $50.00 will cover the entire cost of school supplies for one month for a class of 50 children.
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Contribute to Children's Literacy Contribute to Children's Literacy
Take a stand against illiteracy! Your generous gift will benefit worthy charities helping to bring the opportunities of literacy to those in need. The gift of literacy and education is a gift that lasts a lifetime and beyond, as it benefits families and communities in profound and meaningful ways. Choose to give $1, $10, $25 or $100 towards a better future.
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School Supplies for Bolivian Children School Supplies for Bolivian Children
Bolivia is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America. Through education, motivated children in the rural countryside may be able to find an alternative to the life of grinding subsistence agriculture into which they were born, but in remote areas, families living on the knife's edge of poverty can easily be deterred from sending their children to school by inability to afford school supplies. $15 provides a child in Bolivia with school supplies so that she or he may continue with an education.
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Pay for Teacher Training in Zambia Pay for Teacher Training in Zambia
Bring the gift of education to a whole new generation of children! $60 covers tuition, fees, and all living expenses for an AIDS orphan in Zambia who wants to become a teacher.
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Computers for Cambodian Children Computers for Cambodian Children
In the 21st century, the keys to a child's future may turn out to be keys on a computer. Basic computer literacy is becoming more and more important for children's futures, but at the same time, more and more children are being left behind. In Cambodia's Siem Reap province, children whose families cannot afford the daily public school tuition of 300 Riel (approximately 7 cents U.S.) might never get a chance to attend school at all, much less the chance to ever touch a computer in real life. The Volunteer Development Poverty Children's Association exists to help these underserved children, offering free classes to more than 600 children. $36.50 funds 1/10th of a computer in the school's very first computer lab.
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Sit Stay Read - Happy Tales for Wagging Tails Sit Stay Read - Happy Tales for Wagging Tails
Help inner-city children learn to read by providing them with the best listener and motivation of all -- the quiet, loving attention of a real live dog! The opportunity to see, pet, interact with, and read aloud to a dog is a surprisingly effective strategy to engage struggling readers. Reading to a dog increases confidence, generates excitement about reading, and makes learning fun! $15.00 provides an at-risk child a weekly one-on-one reading session with a Sit Stay Read dog team in a school or community program.
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Pay a Teacher's Salary in Darfur Pay a Teacher's Salary in Darfur
In an area that has been continually ravaged by conflict and violence, education can make a huge difference in a child's life and help them work towards a better and more stable future. While many NGO aid organizations have been kicked out of Darfur, Sudan, there is still good being done, and there are still ways to help. $24.00 funds one week's salary for a teacher at a Peace School of the Darfur Peace & Development Organization (DPDO), which is running fourteen schools in North Darfur and one in Chad, serving over 8,300 children.
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Schoolbooks for Children in Darfur Schoolbooks for Children in Darfur
Darfur Peace & Development Organization's Schools for Peace are currently serving over 8,000 children of the ongoing conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Textbooks are needed at each class level. $21.25 covers the cost of five sets of books to be shared between ten children in the refugee camps of Darfur.
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Send a Child to School in Darfur Send a Child to School in Darfur
Just $36.00 covers the cost of sending a child in a refugee camp to a School for Peace. Before DPDO's involvement, teachers living in the refugee camps were volunteering their time to gather and teach children using any resources available. Students received their lessons sitting under trees or in the sun, writing in the sand instead of notebooks. Today, DPDO pays salaries for 160 Darfuri teachers and 56 support staff, provides materials to build classrooms, teacher and student supplies, textbooks, and allowances for school water delivery.
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Sponsor a Literacy Site Scholarship for a Girl in India Sponsor a Literacy Site Scholarship for a Girl in India
The Fabindia School in India's Rajasthan province has admitted, and expected funding, for 50 girls for the 2009-2010 school year. After admitting these bright, motivated girls, however, the school learned that it was no longer eligible to receive tuition funding for them; from now on, only government schools will be funded. The girls have already been admitted; they and their families are eager for them to learn. But the monthly tuition is simply an impossible expense for their families. The Literacy Site is proud to initiate an exciting scholarship program to fund tuition for these 50 girls. Sponsor a Literacy Site Scholar at The Fabindia School, and for just $21 a month, you will be helping a bright, motivated girl achieve her dreams.
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Send a Child to School in Guatemala Send a Child to School in Guatemala
Guatemala has one of the highest poverty rates in Latin America, with more than 75% of the population living below the poverty line. In rural and indigenous populations, that figure is up to 93%. Although education is one of the best ways to break the cycle of poverty, few families are able to afford to send their children to school. Just $17.00 goes a long way, covering a year of primary education (including school fees, transportation, and supplies), a month of education at the junior high level, or helping subsidize the expense of a year of senior high school.
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Lights for Students in Rural Africa Lights for Students in Rural Africa
How many times have you turned on the light at night? The chance to read whenever we want is something most of us take for granted, but for people living off the electrical grid, when the sun goes down, so does their chance to read and learn. $15 funds bicycle-rechargeable, pollution-free, longlasting LED lights to help children trapped in the Gihembe Refugee camp in Rwanda. For these students, the national exam is their only opportunity to escape the camp and the cycle of dependence on foreign aid.
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