KamaeChildrensProject (Kenya)

Location: a small village outside Nairobi

Description: The Kamae Children’s Group is located in a small village outside Nairobi, and serves children who have been orphaned by parents with HIV/AIDS. Anne Mburu took it upon herself to try to see that these children of all ages get a meal each day. Her dream is to help these children break the cycle of poverty by making education a priority. Anne's dream has started to become a reality. In January, two of the Kamae girls were able to begin their high school education through generous funding from Omidyar.net and LemonAid Fund. Now Anne is putting together a plan for an agricultural project to help feed the children and possibly generate some income. However, this group needs ongoing support to continue the education of these two girls and to support Anne's agricultural project until it is sustainable.

LemonAid Fund will continue to provide 501(c)3 status and fiscal agent support so that more money can get directly into the hands of Anne and her children in hopes to break their cycle of poverty.

Founder: Anne Mburu

Champion: Stephanie Paone, LemonAid Fund, Nancy Peddle

Month Goal(s): To provide an article for LemonAid Fund Annual Report. To speak with Anne directly about any progress in the agricultural project.

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Web: Kamae Childrens' Project

Workspace: KamaeChildrensProject

TheBreakfastClub (Uganda)

Location: Gulu, Uganda

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Founder: Christina Jordan

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HaMakhataSchoolhouseProject (Lesotho)

Location: Lesotho

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GlobalPeaceTilesProject (Global)

Location: Global / US based

Description: The Global Peace Tiles project seeks to create and nurture bonds between people and communities through art. Through collage-making workshops, tile "swaps" and exhibitions, the Peace Tiles project will enable young people to learn about global issues, share their "visual voice" on those issues, and engage in peer-to-peer support and self-advocacy activities. In addition to promoting cross cultural exchange, the Peace Tiles project is presently focused on the issues of HIV/AIDS, children earning a living at dumps, human trafficking, and children in conflict.

The Peace Tiles project is currently seeking partners around the world to implement World AIDS Day 2007 activities.

Founder: Lars Hasselblad Torres

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Phone: 802-563-2757

Email: peacetiles@gmail.com

Web: http://www.peacetiles.net

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Sanlaap (India)

Location: India

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Hlomelikusasa (South Africa)

Location: South Africa

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LemonAid Fund (Global)

Location: a small village outside Nairobi

Description: LemonAid Fund believes no individual, nor any individual effort, is too small to make an important difference. We support people who believe in their own abilities to create positive change, despite any hardship or injustice they may experience… people who take action on their own behalf, to turn the “lemons” in their lives, into “lemonade”. With our help Frances Browne in Sierra Leone is making lemonade as she educates 360 children and networks with another 600+ children and Anne Mburu in Kenya is making lemonade as she provides for the basic needs of children orphaned by the AIDS virus. These are just two of the many people being supported as they summon their best selves and create positive change.

Founder/CEO: Nancy Peddle

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Phone: 1-312-951-5526 (U.S.) or 23276865470 (Sierra Leone)

Email: nancy@lemonaidfund.org

Web: http://www.lemonaidfund.org

Workspace: LemonAid Fund

Helping Developing Countries Help Developing Countries (Global)

Location: LiA to start - The rest of the world soon.

Description: Volunteers from western countries for programs in developing nations are in a position to provide for their own expenses. Such is the wealth of the world’s 50 or 60 richest countries that even the “poor” seem wealthy to most people living in one of the poorer developing countries. Even when someone from a richer country is temporarily without the money to pay their own costs when working as a volunteer, opportunities are nearly always available (through sponsorship, taking on extra work, making savings or setting up fund raising ventures, for example) to enable that person to become a self-financing volunteer within a reasonable time frame.

On the other hand there is no realistic way that many talented and strongly motivated young people from developing countries who aspire to volunteer can possibly raise the basic costs for a volunteer to function, for three months, living frugally but meeting all the expenses necessarily incurred when performing all his or her appointed duties. There are many skilled, well-educated and qualified Africans, for example, who cannot obtain permanent employment. Similarly, there are many disadvantaged and powerless individuals who may lack formal education but who nevertheless would welcome the opportunity to work to improve the lives of others even more disadvantaged, powerless and uneducated than themselves.

It is these individuals from the developing countries that this Fund is designed to help. In true Omidyan spirit, the funding is to enable those who are funded to discover their power to make good things happen. Founder/CEO: Nancy Peddle

Month Goal: Generate $3150 for the first Tag Team at LiA in May

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Phone: 66-8-102-4342 (Thailand)

Email: LindaNowakowski@gmail.com

Web: HDC^2 Project Description

Workspace: HDC^2 Fund