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Prosthetics & Orthotics
  • Category: Disability Inclusive, Education, Health
  • Grant: $10,001 to $25,000
  • Target Group: Displaced people
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Any
  • Country: Sri Lanka

Prosthetics & Orthotics

As in most developing nations, Sri Lankan society carries a certain degree of stigma toward the disabled, especially those with a congenital impediment or missing limb(s).  In spite of free public health services, the provision of prosthesis and orthotics for disadvantaged individuals does not attract any government funding but is instead heavily reliant on the non-profit sector.

Public Health Initiative
  • Category: Health, Water Security
  • Grant: $10,001 to $25,000
  • Target Group: Any
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Any
  • Country: Indonesia

Public Health Initiative

As Indonesia is midway through epidemiological transition, its health system must strain under simultaneous burdens of infectious and degenerative illnesses.  Health inequity is a deep-seeded problem as locational disparities exist in institutional capacity, access to services and prevalence of disease.

Remote-access Aviation Services
  • Category: Community development, Emergency Relief, Health
  • Grant: $10,001 to $25,000
  • Target Group: Any
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Any
  • Country: Bangladesh

Remote-access Aviation Services

During the dry season many thousands of Bangladesh’s ‘extreme poor’ live on chars (sand islands) that are washed away each year when the monsoonal rains come.  The low-lying terrain means that up to one quarter of the country suffers severe flooding from swollen rivers and sea level rise. Whilst jeopardising the safety of residents (especially women and children), rising floodwaters cause great loss of homes and harvests.

Rescue and Emergency Relief
  • Category: Agriculture & food security, Education, Emergency Relief, Health, Social Enterprise, Water Security
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Displaced people, Ethnic minorities
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Any
  • Country: Myanmar

Rescue and Emergency Relief

Ethnic tension is rampant in Burma.  Skewed spending on defence has stagnated economic growth and development indicators are ubiquitously dubious.  The government refuses basic services to some minorities and the military targets them in ruthless bouts of conflict.  An epidemic of statelessness has emerged whereby many Burmese are internally displaced or have taken refuge in neighbouring countries.

Rural Capacity Building
  • Category: Community development, Education, Health
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Any
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Any
  • Country: Nepal

Rural Capacity Building

In the hilltop highlands of Nepal’s North East, locals live a traditional subsistence existence.  Village life is built around small scale farming and yak grazing with some young men finding employment as Sherpas in mountaineering tourism.  

School and Dormitory
  • Category: Education
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Any
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Children
  • Country: Indonesia

School and Dormitory

On one of Indonesia’s remote islands, lack of access to clean water and quality education were seen to be two of the root causes of poverty.  Having built strong ties with the community and engaged locals in the decision-making processes, our project partner has turned aspirations into realities with the installation of a water pump and the construction of a school.

School Project
  • Category: Education, Social Enterprise
  • Grant: $75,001 - $150,000
  • Target Group: Any
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Children
  • Country: India

School Project

In one of India's most impoverished rural regions, illiteracy is generational as each child gets caught in the same web of disadvantage as their parents and grandparents.  Teacher absenteeism is high, and student enrolment is low because buildings are dilapidated and roads leading to and from schools are scarcely maintained.

School Project
  • Category: Education
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Marginalised people
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Children
  • Country: Indonesia

School Project

In the Tobasa region of Indonesia, educational biases and inequalities take many forms. Teachers arrive hours late; students with learning difficulties are harshly treated; poor families cannot afford adequate nutrition; religious favoritism weighs upon academic results; and children are denied access to education if they cannot afford the mandatory books and uniform.

Special Needs Care
  • Category: Disability Inclusive, Life / Vocational Skilling
  • Grant: $75,001 - $150,000
  • Target Group: People with Disabilities
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Children
  • Country: China

Special Needs Care

Infant and child abandonment is still a problem in China, particularly due to various forms of disability. Rather than being forsaken to fight for their life, these minors need a program of loving care, medical attention and personal development to enable eventual independence and a prosperous future.

Special Needs Children
  • Category: Disability Inclusive, Health
  • Grant: $150,001 - $500,000
  • Target Group: People with Disabilities, People with HIV/AIDS
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Children
  • Country: China

Special Needs Children

Though there is no known cure for neither AIDS nor Cerebral Palsy, HIV-infected patients and those disabled by CP can enjoy improved health outcomes through medical attention, good nutrition and a positive mindset.

Squatter Community Care & Education
  • Category: Education, Life / Vocational Skilling
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Homeless people, Orphans
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Children
  • Country: Philippines

Squatter Community Care & Education

Instead of going to school, many slum-dwelling children in the Philippines roam the streets begging, peddling and sometimes stealing in order to get by.  In a prominent squatter community we have a project striving to break the cycle of poverty by providing ‘catch-up’ education and vocational training to at-risk children and their families. 

Street Children Care Centre
  • Category: Education, Health, Life / Vocational Skilling
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Marginalised people
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Children
  • Country: Philippines

Street Children Care Centre

The National Department of Social Welfare estimates that there are approximately 220,000 children living on the streets of towns and cities across the Philippines.  Some willingly leave their households to escape domestic violence, neglect or hunger; others are forced out by their parents to beg, scavenge or even sell themselves into prostitution or labour.

Syrian Refugee Relief
  • Category: Emergency Relief
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Displaced people
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Any
  • Country: Lebanon

Syrian Refugee Relief

Refugees numbering in the millions have fled across the Syrian border into Lebanon.  More often than not, they are traumatised and have very little means of self-sufficiency.  Many are multi-generational female-headed families as their husbands have been killed, displaced or are still engaged in the Syrian war.

Tailor Training
  • Category: Life / Vocational Skilling
  • Grant: $10,001 to $25,000
  • Target Group: Ethnic minorities, Marginalised people
  • Gender: Female
  • Age: Adults
  • Country: India

Tailor Training

A deep-seated caste system has caused the Dalits to not only live a life of limited opportunity, but also perceive their lowly status as permanent and prevailing as it is considered deserved for past ills. Typically, they must endure chronic underemployment with no job security and little opportunity to save for times of illness or their children’s education.

Tertiary Education Support
  • Category: Education
  • Grant: $25,001 to 75,000
  • Target Group: Marginalised people, Orphans
  • Gender: Any
  • Age: Adolescents
  • Country: Indonesia

Tertiary Education Support

If without financial means, highly competent and motivated students in the Tobasa region of Indonesia are met with few opportunities to pursue further education upon their completion of high school.  Places at the only government university in the area are extremely limited as applications outnumber available positions by approximately ten times, so many aspiring scholars must turn to the private sector.

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