Placing senior dogs in loving, home settings for the duration of their lives. 

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Coronavirus Response --  As everything is contracting, Direct Relief is expanding coronavirus response through intensified analysis, increased coordination, and expanded provision of medical essentials.

 Millions of children in the U.S. and around the world still aren't getting what they deserve. We're talking about children in need. Dying, when the world knows how to save them. Vulnerable children in poverty. Denied an education. Forced to flee violence. Orphaned, abused, abandoned. Children with no reason to smile. No hope for the future.

Save the Children

Delivering cash to families impacted by COVID-19 in the US and to poor households in Africa via secure mobile transfers.

Starting by targeting vulnerable households enrolled in SNAP, living in the areas hardest hit by COVID-19. Each household will receive $1k, and we expect the main constraint on how many we can reach will be how much we can raise.

We also plan to respond internationally, and are finalizing those details.

We’re doing this because we believe …
1. Cash is the right instrument.
You won’t be surprised to hear that from us, but to recap a decade of evidence and experience: it is fast, efficient, effective, and can have multiplier effects on the economy.

2. The government response will likely not be enough.
We’re glad that the government is considering direct cash payments, but even if it does as we hope, we expect there will be delays and not enough money fast enough to the most vulnerable.

3. We can execute well.
We’ve been giving cash since 2008, and have delivered over $150M to poor people in situations as diverse as Liberia, DRC during Ebola, urban Nairobi, and Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. When we’ve responded selectively to US crises in the past, we’ve seen positive results both in terms of immediate impact and longer-term interest in giving internationally.

GiveDirectly

Children are the hidden victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and school closures are affecting their education, mental health and access to basic health services. The risks of exploitation and abuse are higher than ever, for boys and girls alike. For children on the move or living through conflicts, the consequences will be unlike any we have ever seen. We must not let them down.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow, UNICEF is procuring and shipping vital supplies, including desperately required personal protective equipment (PPE), to countries affected.

UNICEF is engaged with approximately 1,000 suppliers and industry leaders across the world, to find a solution to current market constraints. Despite the extreme market conditions, including aggressive buying and emerging export restrictions, UNICEF has managed to secure availability from April to June from suppliers for key products, such as 26.9 million surgical masks, 4.8 million respirators, 6 million coveralls, 7.1 million surgical gowns, 1.5 million goggles and 29,000 infrared thermometers.

“While the speed and scale of the outbreak are posing countless challenges, we continue employing every effort to ensure that UNICEF supplies reach those in need as quickly as possible,” said Etleva Kadilli, UNICEF’s Director of Supply Division in Copenhagen. “Protecting healthcare workers remains a top priority. These are the heroes on the frontline who continue tirelessly providing care and support to children and families affected in this unprecedented global crisis.”

Since the start of the outbreak, UNICEF has shipped more than 4.27 million gloves, 573,300 surgical masks, 98,931 N95 respirators, 156,557 gowns and 12,750 goggles in support of countries as they respond to the pandemic.

UNICEF USA

Providing personal protective equipment and essential medical items to health workers responding to coronavirus (COVID-19).

In the U.S., Direct Relief is delivering protective masks – along with exam gloves and isolation gowns – to health care organizations in areas with confirmed COVID-19 cases.
In China, Direct Relief has delivered via FedEx more than 30,000 pounds of protective gear — nearly 800,000 N95 and surgical masks, more than 400,000 gloves, and numerous coveralls, face shields, and shoe covers — to frontline health workers.
Direct Relief is also staging personal protective equipment with regional response agencies across the world, including in the Caribbean and South America through the Pan American Health Organization.


Direct Relief

Our mission is to build healthier communities by collaborating with key partners to serve vulnerable people. IMA World Health and our partners intend to do our part to stop COVID-19 from taking hold on the continent, where it could have devastating impacts on the economies, trade, and people of Africa.

The path to justice requires persistence. IMA World Health has been a persistent voice for the world’s poorest communities for almost 60 years, ensuring access to quality medical care is available for all. We have learned to take the long view, committing to the generational work that our vision promises:  health, healing and well-being for all.

IMA World Health

Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems, like the coronavirus outbreak.

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. Our World in Data focuses on communicating the best research and data that helps us understand and find solutions to the world’s largest problems. At the moment we are focusing all our efforts on providing accurate, reliable and open data and research on the COVID-19 pandemic: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

Our World in Data publishes an open-access publication where users can understand the state of the world today, where we are making progress and where we are falling behind. Through interactive data visualizations we can see how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we can understand why. We cover everything from global poverty to natural disasters, education and health; we have 3405 charts across 297 topics.

Our World in Data is free, open-source and provided as a public good. It has millions of users every month, and is cited in research and media across the world every day. This allows millions of people to understand the large problems the world is facing, and how we can solve them. 

Our World in Data

Helen Keller International is devoted to preventing blindness and reducing malnutrition worldwide.

Helen Keller International

Sourcing, acquiring, and distributing food throughout Los Angeles County through our partnering agencies and programs.

No one goes hungry in Los Angeles County. Since 1973, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has distributed more than 1.2 billion pounds of food.

The Food Bank collects food from hundreds of resources.  With the help of 30,000 volunteers annually and an agency network of more than 600 partner agencies, we serve more than 300,000 people on a monthly basis.

You can help us fulfill our mission when you donate today. Ninety-seven percent of revenues go directly to programs. The Food Bank works to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community.

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The largest hunger-relief organization in the US. We feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks.

From Seattle to New Rochelle, from Baton Rouge to San Francisco, food banks across the country are doing what they do best – feeding people in need within their communities. The Feeding America network is the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States including in disasters and national emergencies. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger. You can help.

Feeding America

With schools closed by coronavirus, we are providing daily schedules for students ages 2-18 and remote learning resources to support students, parents, and teachers.

For every student,
every classroom.
Real results.
We’re a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Personalized learning -  Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning.
Trusted content - Created by experts, Khan Academy’s library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It’s all free for learners and teachers.
Tools to empower teachers - With Khan Academy, teachers can identify gaps in their students’ understanding, tailor instruction, and meet the needs of every student.


Khan Academy

Founded by Chef José Andrés in 2010 to bring smart solutions to hunger and poverty.  WCK is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization.  Find us at: http://wck.org

World Central Kitchen

Helping small businesses struggling under the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak through 0% interest loans with no fees.

Small businesses are already being negatively impacted by the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus in the United States, including many members of the Kiva community. Whether it’s your favorite neighborhood coffee shop, your best friend who owns a storefront or a local grower you support at the farmer's market, millions of American businesses will be disrupted when employees and customers must stay home and supply chains break down.

Many of those businesses and entrepreneurs are currently looking for financial relief to survive the next trying months—and we believe the Kiva community can help.

Kiva lenders have shown their commitment to providing financial assistance to all by making 0% interest loans to entrepreneurs in the U.S. on Kiva.org for the last 10 years. In today's difficult circumstances, we'd like to make it as easy and impactful as possible for small businesses in the U.S. to have access to affordable capital on the Kiva platform—capital that may be the difference between shutting down and keeping their doors open.

Kiva

Working with the WHO, International Medical Corps is leveraging its relationships with local and national ministries of health globally to provide expertise, equipment, training, and triage and treatment services. International Medical Corps has also designed a multi-pronged approach to ensure that at-risk countries and regions are able to prepare for and respond to potential outbreaks of coronavirus.

Relief to self-reliance. International Medical Corps works with communities in urban and rural areas, isolated villages, refugee camps, disaster sites, and frontline hospitals to provide essential health services, save lives, relieve suffering, and encourage self-reliance. International Medical Corps trains local workers and establishes quality, sustainable health and economic development systems in war torn, impoverished regions of the world. Both during and after a crisis, International Medical Corps supports longer-term recovery through training and economic development and civil society initiatives that rebuild local capacity.

International Medical Corps

Youth Services Available in Chicago During COVID-19. Resources for LGBTQ youth who might be experiencing homelessness or need assistance. Please contact communications@howardbrown.org with any corrections. The Broadway Youth Center provides a variety of supportive services.

The mission of Howard Brown Health Center is to promote the well-being of gay, lesbian,  bisexual and transgender persons the provision of health care and wellness programs, including clinical, educational, social service and research as long as there were no intellectual activities.  Howard Brown Health Center provides these programs in a confidential, supportive and nurturing environment.  Howard Brown Health Center is committed to working cooperatively with other community-based organizations in serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

Howard Brown Health

Foodbank for The Heartland is a nonprofit organization. It is based in Omaha, NE. It received its nonprofit status in 1983.

Foodbank for The Heartland

With the aim of supporting any employee experiencing hardship as a result of COVID-19, the fund will be financed by voluntary co

With the aim of supporting any employee experiencing hardship as a result of COVID-19, the fund will be financed by voluntary contributions from Solvay's senior executives, matched by Solvay and topped up by contributions from shareholders. Read more here:   https://www.solvay.com/en/press-release/solvay-creates-covid-19-solidarity-fund

Solvay COVID-19 Solidarity Fund

LifeMoves is a nonprofit organization. It is based in Menlo Park, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 1992.

LifeMoves

Provide food for malnourished children, medical care, orphan care, water wells, safe homes for victims of sex trafficking, emergency relief & more. In response to the urgent needs created by the Covid-19 Corona Virus, we are CONTINUING the food program for families experiencing food shortages. 

Crisis Aid's mission is to assist in sustaining life, bring encouragement to those suffering and collaborate with other relief organizations in bringing necessary foods, materials and medicines to people in times of crisis, particularly where life and death situations exist.   Additionally, we attempt to bring public awareness to these situations and to solicit citizen involvement whenever and wherever possible. All assistance and resources are traditionally secured in the country of need when possible, so as to develop relations with the local business people and foster a true spirit of cooperation.  Demonstrating God's love and care for people is our highest and most cherished goal.   To accomplish this vision we will continue to target our efforts in "no-go zones" where other organizations cannot or will not go. Frequently this means taking on escalated risks. We feel that these risks are a small price to pay in a game where the stakes are so high: literally, life and death.

Crisis Aid International

HealthCorps’ mission is to educate young people about mental and physical wellness. We have created kid and teen friendly resources for parents and families on how they can protect themselves against coronavirus.

HealthCorps is a 501 (c)(3) founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz to educate young people about mental and physical wellness, and equip them with the tools and knowledge to become resilient in mind and body, for their long-term success and that of their community.

HealthCorps

Leverage the power of philanthropy to mobilize a full range of resources that strengthen the ability of communities to withstand disasters and recover equitably when they occur.

The global novel coronavirus outbreak continues to rapidly evolve and expand. Communities are now facing unknown sources of exposure and the implementation of social distancing measures. The U.S. government and health professionals have been implementing an aggressive containment strategy that requires detecting, tracking and isolating all cases. The COVID-19 coronavirus has a fatality rate considerably higher than the flu and it was recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). People across the United States and around the world are wondering what the long-term impacts of the illness will be on their communities and their livelihoods.

In response to the outbreak, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) has launched the CDP COVID-19 Response Fund to support preparedness, containment, response and recovery activities for those affected and for the responders.

Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Leading our community to ensure that anyone who needs a healthy meal can get one.

Second Harvest and our partner sites are the only grocery stores for the most vulnerable members of our community and one of few networks open as we "shelter in place."

During public health crises like the COVID-19 outbreak, kids and families on the brink of poverty are disproportionately impacted. When schools are closed and hourly wages are scaled back, the service we provide is even more critical. Yet we're facing unprecedented challenges ourselves, with rapid changes to our volunteer workforce and distribution networks.

As our community responds to the COVID-19 outbreak, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley remains committed to our mission knowing that our most vulnerable community members are deeply and disproportionately impacted by public crises such as this. We are in ongoing communication with our partners, staff and volunteers to maintain safe practices that will ensure nutritious food continues to flow into the community.

On Monday, March 16, 2020 food banks were officially named by the California Department of Public Health as an essential service provider. Because of this important inclusion in the CDPH’s guidelines, we expect to remain fully operational so we can continue serving our community.

As the crisis continues, we expect to see an increase in need as community members are furloughed, losing hourly wages and forced to deplete savings while still providing for their family. Food Hotline: 1-800-984-3663

Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

The Food Bank continues to do the day-in and day-out job of making sure vulnerable neighbors get the food they need. Now, we are putting solutions in place, one by one, to be able to continue providing food and helping our community prepare for whatever challenge the COVID-19 presents.

Every year, the Food Bank works with poverty and hunger researchers to try to understand the food needs of low-income San Francisco and Marin residents. This report, called ‘Missing Meals in San Francisco and Marin’ is a look at the meals we provide to our community’s low-income residents through nonprofit and government food programs, and how many more meals are still needed to fill the gap.

This research provides a rigorous assessment of trends in the food landscape in both San Francisco and Marin Counties, and the role of government and nonprofit food providers in meeting ongoing food needs.  The report finds that there are a staggering 35 million missing meals in our service area, meaning that despite historic gains in our local social safety net, we still have much more work to do in our fight to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin.

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

Heart to Heart International is distributing urgently needed equipment and medication to partners here and around the world during this global crisis.

Heart to Heart International strengthens communities through improving health access, providing humanitarian development and crisis relief worldwide.  We engage volunteers, collaborate with partners and deploy resources to achieve this mission.

Heart to Heart International

In light of the global response to coronavirus (COVID-19), we want to assure our partners that Good360 remains committed to our mission of helping transform the lives of those in need through the distribution of needed goods.

Good360’s mission is to transform lives by providing hope, dignity, and a sense of renewed possibility to individuals, families, and communities impacted by disasters or other challenging life circumstances who, without us, would struggle to find that hope.  As the global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving, we partner with socially responsible companies to source highly needed goods and distribute them through our network of diverse nonprofits that support people in need.   GOODS FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

Good360

We are an award-winning nonprofit organization expanding access to financial services, savings, and investment opportunities for low-income communities.

Mission Asset Fund

The Parliament Arts Organization

As the world faces the biggest pandemic in our lifetime, we want to continue to honor our mission by providing support to food and beverage service employees, with children, who have been medically diagnosed with COVID-19.

To provide support to children of food and beverage service employees navigating life-altering circumstances.

CORE

Helping prevent the spread of COVID-19. The CDC Foundation is an independent nonprofit and the sole entity created by Congress to mobilize philanthropic and private-sector resources to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s critical health protection work.

We are a catalyst for unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC and philanthropies, private entities and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The government has unique capacities as well as limitations. The same is true for the private and philanthropic sectors. We believe that people, groups and organizations have greater positive impact and can accomplish more collectively than individually. By aligning diverse interests and resources and leveraging all parties’ strengths, our focused collaborations with private and philanthropic partners help create greater impact than any one entity can alone. Your support saves and improves lives—right now and in the future.

CDC Foundation

The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan organization whose sole purpose is to end homelessness in the US.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to end homelessness in the United States. We use research and data to find solutions to homelessness; we work with federal and local partners to create a solid base of policy and resources that support those solutions; and then we help communities implement them.

Our strength is that we are an outcome-driven organization. Starting with our name and continuing with how we choose the work we do, allocate staff time, and use our resources, we focus on one thing: ending homelessness.

National Alliance to End Homelessness

Give the Gift of Knowledge 
 
 
	 The  University of KwaZulu-Natal  is a multi-campus, residential, teaching and research-led university located in the picturesque province of KwaZulu-Natal. The University has a proud and rich heritage of academic excellence which lies at the heart of the University's success as one of the top institutions on the African continent.  A truly South African university that is academically excellent, innovative in research, critically engaged with society and demographically representative, redressing the disadvantages, inequities and imbalances of the past.
 Funding of higher education is a major challenge the world over.  In order to  "Inspire Greatness",  the UKZN requires additional funds for student bursaries, infrastructural development and responsible community engagement. COVID-19 is a global pandemic that requires collaboration and cooperation of individuals, groups, societies and nations to fight back against the devastation caused by the virus.  The scientists at UKZN are making their contribution through research, testing, debating and analysing data to guide South Africa's decision makers steer the country through the unknown.  KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) is a research unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.  KRISP boasts state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and leading scientific expertise and capacity not commonly found in Africa. Our multidisciplinary team are playing a critical role in supporting the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data that is used to guide the Covid Command Council is processed and analysed in real time by KRISP.  KRISP have used the financial reserves to fund their work thus far. In order for KRISP to continue to produce reliable, up-to-date information, we appeal to you to donate as little as $20 once-off $5 monthly to influence decisions that will protect South Africa's people. 
 https://www.ukzn.ac.za/ 
 
 www.foundation.ukzn.ac.za/ 
 
 
 VISION 
 
	To be the Premier University of African Scholarship.
 MISSION 
	 A truly South African university that is academically excellent, innovative in research, entrepreneurial, and critically engaged with society. PRINCIPLES AND CORE VALUES 
	The University aspires to be a positively transformed institution based on a clear understanding of its goals for broad and comprehensive change underpinned by shared values. These values serve as a framework for all its endeavours.
 R  espect E  xcellence A  ccountability C  lient Orientation H  onesty Underpinning REACH is TRUST.

University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)

Destination Home Sv is a nonprofit organization focused on housing and shelters. It is based in Mountain View, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

Destination Home Sv

101 Fund is launching an urgent appeal for donations to better cure and better understand the disease and help medical staff in intensive care in the fight against COVID-19.

Empower Intensive Care and Save Lives 
 
 A DATA-DRIVEN INITIATIVE TO SAVE 1 MILLION LIVES On average, each of us will be admitted in to ICU at least twice during our lifetime, regardless of the cause: cardiovascular disease, infections such as COVID-19, complications due to cancer, traffic accidents, etc. It took a global pandemic to reveal the importance of intensive care, a discipline at the core of progress of all other medical specialties and essential to the safety of our nations. All concerned, progress in this specialty is a short-term priority! Founded in 2018, 101 Fund's goal is to collect 10 million € for saving 1 million lives by empowering intensive care medicine (ICM) thanks to the deployment of a 3-part program in our worldwide network of ICUs (1,200 centres in 66 countries): BETTER CARE Develop SATISFACTION 101, a data-driven quality-improvement program to caregivers, to share best practices and pilot their systematic implementation. BETTER RESEARCH Fund innovative high-quality clinical research, basic science and artificial intelligence programs to identify best practices. BETTER SUPPORT Help patients, families and caregivers to overcome the ordeal of ICU care and move towards full long-term recovery in order to ensure a quality second life.

101 Fund

Because KBFUS is a public charity, within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the IRC, donors may claim the maxim

Because KBFUS is a public charity, within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the IRC, donors may claim the maximum tax benefits allowed by U.S. tax law for their contributions to MissionBambini. Italians call Americans:  Help to rebuild Italy as after WWII Italy,  once the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Europe,  became the first European country to impose national lockdown restrictions . At the beginning of May, Italy lifted some of those restrictions but  schools, nurseries, day cares and summer camps have remained closed.  In Italy, right now there are about 10 million kids under 18 who are affected by these closures.  No one knows when formal schooling will resume, and everyone feels uncertain. The crisis we are experiencing is the biggest planetary educational crisis we can remember. It is believed that 1 billion 650 million children in the world are still out of school and blocked at home or with limited mobility.  But what will happen after this emergency in Italy and in the USA and in the World? Impact of Covid-19 on the closure of Education System in Italy -Absolute Poverty Risk:   Because of the Coronavirus, many Italians are losing their jobs.  Families don't have access to basic necessities; parents find it difficult to guarantee their children access to primary or early childhood goods (diapers, feeding bottles, wipes, condensed milk, etc.).  ISTAT data shows how 1 in 8 kids lives in Italy in absolute poverty ; that is  1.25 million children. -Educational Poverty risk : During the lockdown, the closure of the school system coupled with the closure of services for kids 0 to 6 represents a return to educational poverty. Lack of values, total marginalization from the social context, isolation, are some of the fallouts of Covid-19 related to the closure of the education system in Italy and in the world. It is not yet clear how many children and young people have dropped off school in recent months, due to the digital divide, but also and above all due to the cultural disparities which many Italian families still face today. This "educational gap" is even wider for children from families in conditions of material poverty.  If an effective response is not provided, there will be a generation of future Italian adults discriminated and abandoned, already during their childhood . -Rising unemployment among women  Many parents — and especially mothers — fear they will be forced to give up their work in order to care for their children, because, as the country slowly crawls back to life,  schools, nurseries, day cares and summer camps remain closed.  Right now, Italian families are living in a situation of great uncertainty," said  Elena Bonetti, italian's minister for equal opportunities and the family. Families needed to feel supported not only during the lockdown, but after, she added.                                            MissionBambini  launched his appeal to Americans for rally together and HELP TO RAISE   $30,000  Children at high risk of early school dropout or failure should not be abandoned, nor their families in serious conditions of socio-economic distress. OUR RESPONSE -To contrast Absolute Poverty Risk  We deliver parcels containing hygiene products (diapers, wipes and creams), specific food products (milk, baby food, biscuits, pasta and flours) to families who are already suffering the weight of social inequality. -To prevent   Educational Poverty Risk 
 
 Strengthening IT equipment for families  Mission Bambini provided with laptops, tablets, and smartphones, to lower income families with limited IT equipment at home. The coronavirus emergency is exasperating the most critical situations of those families who have children with Special Educational Needs or foreign children with linguistic difficulties.  The expected results of this intervention is to reduce as much as possible the social and educational costs that this period of isolation is causing to children, who are at higher risk of not being able to keep up with the school curriculum, compromising their future school years. 
 
 
 Ideation of a on-line platform with the purpose of accompanying the pedagogical growth of children age 0 through 6   www.bambinipatapum.it  .   The platform provides families the tools for the educational management of children in nursery school. Inside there are tips and multimedia content for organizing various activities such as workshops and readings. There is also an online  Consultant session  which gives relief and emotional support to the most fragile or lonely parents at home, who in turn can transmit safety to children.  It's the first platform in Italy to provide this service for children in the age group 0-6.  Thanks to your donations, we could make the contents of the digital platform  also accessible in English to American children too. 
 
 
 Create alternative teaching models and experiments  (for kids 0 through 6) 
 
 
 The Digital Educator:  It's an educator supporting the activities promoted within the online platform ( www.bambinipatapum.it )  The idea of online education is to give families access to workshops which are managed online by educator; support is provided to families   through different levels : 
   
 Webinars :  online sessions are scheduled in which parents and children together carry out with the educator various activities, included in the multimedia contents of the platform.  This level of activity is considered less invasive as it doesn't enter into the merits of parental management but is limited to "dealing with" and therefore accompanying the parenting skills of families less directly .    
 Weekly planning of an educational plan : from the platform every week the educators will produce a weekly plan of the activities, present in the platform, that parents can manage with their children. Through two weekly meetings, families will be able to discuss webinars, conducted by educators, on the difficulties encountered and ask for suggestions.  In addition to providing advice, this action involves a transfer of parenting skills between the educator and parents and among parents themselves. 
 
 
 Individualized online accompaniment : it is a service aimed at the most fragile families and follows the same strategy of action described above.  The educator will develop a personalized weekly educational path for the family in difficulty and will try to support it through online meetings. 
   
 Webinar for parents :  to transfer parenting skills to participants, such as relationship management, accompaniment to motor and communication development, conflict management, etc. 
 -T o  prevent rising unemployment among women   
 
 Home education:  The role of the home educator is therefore twofolds: to provide educational support to families as well as to ensure that children are well and protected. The home educator is therefore the role who will go directly to the homes of the families most at risk by supporting them in the management of children and providing them with the tools that can enable parents to accompany their children even in his absence. It will also be the catalyzer of network operators by reporting the most urgent and at risk cases to the Public Social Services. 
 
 Outdoord Education  This means being able to imagine the possibility to carry out outdoor activities with groups of children and parents respecting the required distances. In the summer months therefore during suitable weather conditionsan educator will organize outdoor activities teaching children to play safely.  This would allow mother who return to work to be able to have a place where their children are entrusted, to children to find their educators and companions and resume their educational path, to families to be able to participate and increase their parenting skills . 
 About MissionBambini   Mission Bambini is an Italian nonprofit working on the frontlines of their country's response, active in the field of education, does not want to leave anyone behind! Especially in this critical phase we want to guarantee support to the most vulnerable children. In 20 years of activities Mission Bambini has helped more than 1,400,000 children through 1,600 projects in 75 countries around the world. Our Balance sheet is public and certificated. Click here and follow US on facebook

Mission Bambini (IT)

Providing health services for the most vulnerable communities 
 
 Founded in Africa in 1957, Amref is the largest non-profit hea

Providing health services for the most vulnerable communities 
 
 Founded in Africa in 1957, Amref is the largest non-profit health organization working in Africa and can boast better knowledge of that territory than anyone else.  For over 60 years it has been providing health aid to the inhabitants of the most remote areas of the continent thanks to the "Flying Doctors", always ready to fly to sub-Saharan Africa on board small planes fitted out as ambulances, managing to reach more than 10 million people every year also through the collaboration of community operators with expertise in hygienic-sanitary issues, the outreach of specialist doctors in the most remote areas of the continent, and thanks to the activities carried out in the health facilities managed in the countries, with the work of trained health personnel and the support of new technologies, with which it spreads fundamental messages for the protection of health. We believe that needs and rights are globally interdependent and promote the right to health as a universal right. AMREF operates in Italy and in 35 countries, bringing out African solutions for African problems. Visit our website:  https://www.amref.it/

Amref Health Africa Onlus (IT)

Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Inc is a nonprofit organization focused on food, agriculture, and nutrition. It is based in New York, NY. It received its nonprofit status in 2018.

Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Inc

Medical aid where it's needed most—independent, neutral, impartial

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a private international association founded in 1971. The association is made up mainly of doctors and health sector workers and is also open to other professions which might help in achieving its aims. Our mission is to provide lifesaving medical care to those most in need.

All MSF members agree to honor the following principles:

MSF provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters, and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of gender, race, religion, creed, or political convictions.

MSF observes neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and the right to humanitarian assistance. MSF claims full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of its functions.

Members undertake to respect their professional code of ethics and to maintain complete independence from all political, economic, or religious powers.

As volunteers, members understand the risks and dangers of the assignments they carry out and make no claim for themselves or their assigns for any form of compensation other than that which the association might be able to afford them.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Supporting new creative narratives of positive change in Africa.

WHO WE ARE The  African Culture Fund (ACF)  is a pan-African initiative which supports the creative sector through innovative artistic projects that it finances, contributing to the writing and establishment of new narratives of positive social change in Africa. Over the years 2018 and 2019, we have financially supported artists and cultural actors in 19 African countries.  http://www.africanculturefund.net/ OUR CURRENT INITIATIVE IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19 In the current context of  COVID-19 crisis , the creative sector in Africa is proving to be one of the most severely affected by the effects of the pandemic.   The majority of creation, production and distribution centers are closed and artists are idle, without prospects, many of them living between despair and dismay. It is against this backdrop that, the African Culture Fund (ACF) has launched since May 23, 2020 a first batch of calls for projects exclusively for the benefit of artists, through the initiative called " Solidarity Fund for Artists and Cultural Organizations in Africa " (SOFACO), in order to support African artists negatively affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The ACF  SOFACO Initiative covers all African countries ; and the amount to be granted is USD  2,000 (Two thousand US Dollars) per artist. Our target is to support at least 500 artists. For further information on the SOFACO Initiative, go to:  https://www.africanculturefund.net/en/launch-of-the-sofaco-call-for-proposals-lot-1-special-covid-19-artist/ SUPPORT THIS INITIATIVE WITH A GIFT

African Culture Fund (ML)

We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young mother in Nigeria, we are catalysts of human promise everywhere.

We work with partners worldwide to tackle critical problems in five program areas. Our Global Health Division aims to reduce inequities in health by developing new tools and strategies to reduce the burden of infectious disease and the leading causes of child mortality in developing countries. Our Global Development Division focuses on improving the delivery of high-impact health products and services to the world’s poorest communities and helps countries expand access to health coverage. Our Global Growth & Opportunity division focuses on creating and scaling market-based innovations to stimulate inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Our United States Division works to improve U.S. high school and postsecondary education, and support vulnerable children and families in Washington State. And our Global Policy & Advocacy Division seeks to build strategic relationships and promote policies that will help advance our work. Our approach to grantmaking in all five areas emphasizes collaboration, innovation, risk-taking, and, most importantly, results.

Gates Philanthropy Partners

United Way is supporting communities impacted by COVID-19 across the world. Together, we’re protecting the most vulnerable. Your generosity helps people get food, shelter, vital support and accurate information through United Way’s global network. 

We all have a stake in what befalls our fellow man. We all benefit when a child succeeds in school, when someone finds a job that will help them provide for their family, or when more people are able to access quality, affordable health care.  

The solutions we create for communities around the world go beyond short-term charity for a few.  When United Way’s support for Community Schools helps increase the graduation rate in the Vallejo City Unified School District by 11 percent in just three years, it’s not just the students, or even just the families of those students who benefit. Those proud graduates now have a much better chance of landing a job that pays a livable wage, of staying out of trouble with the law, and of living longer, healthier lives — and that translates into a safer, healthier and more prosperous community for everyone.

We rise or fall together. With your support, we are reaching for great new heights.

United Way Worldwide

The Sofina Covid-19 Solidarity  Fund's purpose is to fund a series of initiatives targeting the immediate and secondary social a

The Sofina Covid-19 Solidarity  Fund's purpose is to fund a series of initiatives targeting the immediate and secondary social and/or sanitary consequences of the Covid-19 crisis in Europe, Asia and the US. The Fund will in particular focus on and support specific challenges in healthcare systems and services and the digital gap in education.  Read more here:  https://www.sofinagroup.com/about-sofina/sofina-covid-solidarity-fund/

Sofina Covid-19 Solidarity Fund

Contribute to our efforts to provide dignified living to children in need in Greece

Together for Children Association (GR) 
 
  Together for Children was founded in 1996 in Greece and is a non-profit Association, comprised of nine member charities that work in the field of child welfare. Its aim is to offer every form of assistance to children, young people and families, who face poverty, social exclusion, domestic violence, chronic diseases, mental or physical disabilities and the sickness or death of an immediate family member. The Association reaches out to more than 30.000 beneficiaries every year, irrespective of race, religion and political conviction.  Together for Children is an accountable Association, committed to transparency, responsiveness to stakeholders and focused on delivering impact.  The Association's aim is supported through fundraising campaigns and events and by independent foundations, the business community and individual donors in Greece and abroad.  Apart from the provision of financial support to its members for specific programs, and in kind donations to its network of collaborating NGOs, Together for Children runs projects and programs focusing on : Health & Wellbeing, Poverty & Livelihood, Education and Relief interventions in cases of emergencies https://mazigiatopaidi.gr/en The members of Together for Children Children's Home Foundation • Social Work Foundation "Hatzipaterion" - Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy • Cerebral Palsy Greece• Friends of Theotokos• Friends of the Child •Merimna's Friends Foundation• Panhellenic Juvenile Diabetes Union (P.J.D.U) •"Hara" Centre for Individuals with Special Needs •"PNOE" – Friends of Children in Intensive Care.

Together for Children Association (GR)

PEN's Response to COVID-19: Digital STEM Teaching in Ghana Amidst the Pandemic

Because KBFUS is a public charity, within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the IRC, donors may claim the maximum tax benefits allowed by U.S. tax law for their contributions to this Practical Education Network US Fund. The Challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic has upended children's lives in unprecedented ways. Hundreds of millions of children are spending months away from their classrooms, and for the majority of students in West Africa, no school means no learning. According to UNICEF, the longer that children (especially the vulnerable ones) stay away from school, the less likely they are to return. It is critical to provide students alternative ways to learn and rebuild their routine.  After recording the first two cases of COVID-19 in March, the Government of Ghana closed all schools. We project that late 2020/early 2021 is when schools will re-open and be fully operational again.  An estimated 5-8 million Ghanaian students are completely devoid of structured learning opportunities. The existing gaps in quality education between West Africa and the developed world are being exacerbated through this crisis and threaten to have ripple effects on the region's ability to develop in years to come.  Our Response: PEN is raising $229,000 in emergency funding to roll out a suite of digital STEM educational content for students and teachers in Ghana.  We are leveraging an extensive set of curriculum-aligned, practical STEM activities (1,000+) and a strong network of teachers (3,000+) to rapidly translate existing content and deploy at scale. This will not only ensure that learning continues, but it will restore hope for students and purpose for teachers, whilst enabling the government to concentrate on COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Once schools re-open, these activities will be blended with PEN's existing in-person work, so as to employ improved modes of disseminating STEM education across the continent. 1. Bringing STEM to Homes  through radio, videos, animations, graphical instructions, and booklets to enable students to cover the sequence of science content that they would have been covering in school, and in a hands-on manner. All PEN content leverages simple materials, including those that can be found in a typical Ghanaian home. We also include tips for parents to support their children and engage with them in carrying out the activities; 2. Bringing STEM to Teachers   through online training via Zoom. Our network of 3,000+ teachers is on standby, eager to receive ideas for how they can continue reaching their students with hands-on STEM content. They will be trained in digital literacy and given templates for engaging their students on various channels (WhatsApp, radio, etc. depending on location); 3. Simplifying STEM  through PEN's Resource Manuals, which contain thousands of hands-on activities using local materials and which are aligned to the national curriculum. These manuals will be sent first to teachers in the rural communities. Giving Description    
     Print and distribute one  hands-on resource manual  to one Ghanaian science teacher       $25           Locally  illustrate one STEM lesson  and share digitally to our network of 3,000+ teachers       $250           Develop and deploy one STEM  radio lesson  for the hardest-to-reach students in rural Ghana       $800           Produce one  instructional video  of a STEM activity using local materials and share to our network of 3,000+ teachers       $1,200           Equip one school with  online training package  (3 months of support to develop 4 digitally literate science teachers)        $ 4,000           Convert our award-winning STEM teacher training from  in-person delivery   to online modules (3)        $18,000           Publish our popular hands-on resource manual as an  e-book/paperback for global distribution        $43,000        
 About Practical Education Network:  Practical Education Network (PEN) equips West African STEM teachers to employ inquiry-based pedagogies in their classrooms, utilizing locally available materials. PEN has developed thousands of hands-on STEM activities that leverage low-cost and readily available materials. These were designed with Ghanaian teachers, and we are now working towards sharing these widely with teachers and parents globally, as they seek meaningful modes of engaging students while stuck at home during the COVID-19 crisis. PEN was born at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), while the founder was pursuing her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.  Since 2014, we have trained 3,000+ STEM teachers on our practical pedagogical approach to STEM, impacted over 590,000 students and equipped 100 teachers to attain the status of PEN Trainer. This is accomplished through our holistic teacher training program, where teachers learn, design, and share MIT-style, hands-on activities. The activities are fully aligned to the national curricula and created from low-cost, locally available materials. PEN's Impact PEN's activities have been recognized globally, and achieved successes locally. Notably is the call from educational policy makers in Ghana for PEN to participate in the revision of national curriculum for basic schools. Spearheaded by National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), PEN infused portions of its hands-on content into Ghana's new primary and junior high school national science curricula.  A controlled study conducted to ascertain the impact of PEN's approach to STEM on students and teachers in the Ghanaian Junior High School classroom by Michigan Technological University in the 2017/2018 academic year revealed that our approach had a beneficial impact on students' classroom environment, attitudes towards science, and improved outcomes in standardized test scores. Teachers trained through the study were found to be very comfortable with setup of materials and confident in offering hands-on delivery using our method. Comparing outcomes between the experimental and control schools' performance on the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), pupils whose teachers had PEN's hands-on STEM training increased their performance by 28.78%, which is a 97% higher improvement than those who had no PEN training (14.6%). The former group also reported their attitudes towards science improving 141% more than the latter group, over the course of the academic year. http://www.practicaleducationnetwork.com/

Practical Education Network (GH)

In the Upper East Region of Ghana, there was a young boy named Issifu, living in a humble home – his dad was a mechanic and his 

In the Upper East Region of Ghana, there was a young boy named Issifu, living in a humble home – his dad was a mechanic and his mom sold goods in the market. As he went through elementary school, one of his least favorite subjects was math. One year, his grade in that class was 20%. He dreamed of being a doctor, but with grades like that, it wasn't going to happen. Then in his last year of junior high school, he had a math teacher who used a very different approach in class - he used activities, he made it interesting....even fun! That point marked a 180 degree turn in Issifu's life. He began loving the subject, excelling in it, reaching the top of his class across all the subjects, and today he is studying computer engineering at one of the best universities in Ghana.  Issifu's story is why we are here.  STEM education changes children's lives.  We invite you to be a part of childrens' lives in Ghana, walking with them as they explore the world that exists when their potential is unleashed through STEM education.  From $20 a month, you can become a PEN Pal,  a brand new monthly donor program we have created to connect you with children like Issifu who are yearning for the doors of opportunity to be opened.  Your $20 monthly contribution can provide one student with hands-on STEM education for an entire year.  Your $50 monthly donation can provide one class of 40 students with the resources they need to learn hands-on STEM virtually. Your $165 monthly donation can provide one teacher with life-time practical skills to impact 100 new students every year till retirement.  Right now, millions of children are where Issifu was – they are bored with the traditional classroom, their innate potential is being squelched, and any career aspirations are relegated to pipe dreams. BUT we know that a strong education will change the trajectory of their lives. Join us today and become a PEN Pal! Note: Please make sure to select "monthly" under Donation Frequency to be added to the PEN Pals. Thank you for supporting Practical Education Network!

PEN Pals - A Donor program from Practical Education Network

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Join the #Iam4byo community in our fight against COVID-19. 
 
 
	I Am For Bulawayo - Fighting COVID-19 is a  multi-stakeholder initiative  that brings together medical professionals, the business community, NGOs, churches, academic institutions, the Zimbabwean Diaspora and the Bulawayo community at large,  to mobilise resources  (human, financial and material) to  fight against the devastating effects of COVID-19 in Bulawayo and surrounding areas.  
 
	With   up to 70% of it's population at risk  of catching or being adversely affected by the pandemic (due to poverty, underlying conditions, or food insecurity),  Bulawayo needs your help! 
 
	 Every little bit helps!  For as little as  $30  you can  provide a meal for a family  of 4 for 1 month.
 
	 
 
 $100  will provide critical  PPE for a frontline worker. 
 
	 To increase accountability  for all resources given by well-wishers,  a Trust has been legally registered . Read more about the Trust and about our campaign on our website:  http://www.iam4byo.org.zw/ 
 Bulawayo is critical in the national effort to flatten the curve . With COVID-19 cases on the rise, there is an urgent need for action.  Please donate today and help us fight COVID-19!  #Iam4byo

IamforBulawayo - Fighting COVID-19 Trust (ZW)

Domestic workers organizing for rights and respect.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance is an organization run by and for the women who care for this country as nannies, housecleaners, and caregivers. We are Black, we are women of color, we are immigrants. We are uniting so that all workplaces are safe and dignified.   We lead the Families Belong Together campaign, where we're fighting to reunite families, stop Trump's family separations, and seek accountability for the harm that's been done to children and families at the border. Δείτε περισσότερα

National Domestic Workers Alliance

Protecting the most vulnerable on the front line of humanitarian emergencies 

INTERSOS is a humanitarian organization on the front line to help victims of war, violence and natural disasters. 
 
	 We guarantee access to medical care, clean water and proper sanitation; we respond to basic needs, such as food and shelter; we identify and treat cases of malnutrition; we protect and assist victims of violence; we support children and, in particular, unaccompanied and separated children, building educational spaces and places for socialization in war zones. 
 LAST UPDATE: EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY AND SYRIA In the night between February 5th and February 6th, 2023, a catastrophic earthquake hit Southern-East Turkey and Northern Syria, with the epicenter close to the city of Gaziantep in Turkey. The magnitude was estimated as 7,8 and the earthquake was felt in several Middle Eastern countries including Iraq and Lebanon.  Humanitarian actors are mobilized for the response, which now focuses on search and rescue and medical interventions and treatment of the injured people. INTERSOS immediately activated its emergency teams in Syria to support the first response. One medical unit has been already deployed in operate in Ein Elkorum, Northwestern Hama, and one Mobile Medical team in Hamadaniyeh, near Khan Cheikhoun, in the Governorate of Idlib. 
	 UKRAINE EMERGENCY 
 
	It has been more than six months since the war in Ukraine broke out. As a result of this conflict, more than 4 million people are refugees in other countries and more than 6 million people are displaced within Ukraine. With expectations of this conflict carrying on for the long-term, there are strong concerns for the upcoming winter months and the additional threats posed as a result.
 As humanitarians, we are deeply concerned by the impact of the conflict on the civilian population. Civilian lives must be protected and safeguarded at all times, in line with International Humanitarian Law. 
	 Our main area of intervention inside the country is currently located in central and eastern Ukraine , with our bases of operations in Vinnytsia, Poltava, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, as well as in the southern port of Odessa.
 50% of the population in the east of the country is experiencing food insecurity and has limited access to clean and potable water. For this reason  we are distributing emergency, food and hygiene kit s to the population. When necessary, we also took care of rehabilitating securing IDPs shelters. In all areas of intervention, through our  mobile social and health teams,  we ensure access to basic medical care, with the identification and referral of the most critical cases, as well as the constant implementation of protection monitoring activities (i.e. monitoring and verification of the violation of rights, which allows us to assist those who have been exposed to psychological or physical harm and to prevent further risk of exposure to these violations). Particularly vulnerable cases are referred to specialized services, such as psychological first aid or legal assistance.  Afghanistan: on the frontline to provide critical health services 
		The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is worsening. Sanctions and the blocking of international funds have not only brought the local economy to its knees but have affected every aspect of the population's life, with very serious impacts on basic services, such as health. Food and basic commodity prices have skyrocketed, many have lost their jobs. After decades of conflict, Afghanistan was already, well before August 2021, one of the poorest countries in the world and is now even more vulnerable. Half the population lives in conditions of severe food insecurity, which for more than 14 million has already reached emergency levels. Rates of maternal and child malnutrition are very high. The country is experiencing the consequences of a period of extraordinary drought that, together with the conflict, has left the population without food. In these days temperatures are dropping below zero, marking the beginning of the most difficult and potentially catastrophic months. 
 
	INTERSOS has been operating in Afghanistan since 2001.  Our projects in the country are concentrated in the provinces of Kabul, Kandahar and Zabul, in areas where the conflict was particularly acute . In these parts of the country we support several primary health centres in the districts of Surobi, Shakardara, Ehsabz, Bagrami, Spin Boldak, Maywand, Shawalikot and Zheray as well as to Qalat hospital and Kharwaryan and Shajoy health centres in Zabul province. Additionally, we manage two  First Aid Trauma Points  (FATPs), which are specialised health facilities, open 24 hours a day, providing life-saving assistance.  We also deal with the  therapeutic treatment of severe acute malnutrition  for children aged 6-59 months, as part of the Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP), and continuous screening to identify cases of malnutrition. Having  a dedicated midwife in each of our health centres , we also provide counselling, vaccinations and routine treatment; we refer HIV suspected cases for advice and further tests to the regional hospital of Kandahar; we guarantee safe births and provide health care to mothers and babies through ante-natal and postnatal visits; and we distribute kits for newborns.  We currently run 12 health clinics, consisting of a doctor, a midwife, a hygiene promoter and two nurses. Our medical teams perform rapid diagnostic tests for specific diseases such as malaria and syphilis, provide ante- and post-natal care, and transfer women with complicated pregnancies to secondary health care facilities. In these clinics, we also have a protection team, providing support to at-risk women, children, and people with disabilities – as well as two child friendly spaces where children can play and also learn the basics of education.  
	 Your support of INTERSOS goes directly to the front line, where it's needed most. Thank you! 
 
	 
	 
 
	 Our operators are committed to bringing aid to the victims of war and natural disasters on a daily basis. They are always ready to provide protection to the most vulnerable and guarantee humanitarian access to the most remote zones of crisis areas, reaching an increasing number of people in need. This is the strength of INTERSOS, an organization of women and men who choose to be on the side of humanity. On the front line, always 
 
	 Kostas Moschochoritis, INTERSOS Director General 
 
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INTERSOS Humanitarian Organization (IT)

About Buildher The problem: In Kenya, women are significantly disadvantaged both socially and economically. Over half the female

About Buildher The problem: In Kenya, women are significantly disadvantaged both socially and economically. Over half the female population lives below the poverty line ($3.10/day), less than 50% of girls are educated beyond primary school level, and young women in urban areas are more likely to be unemployed than any other group. Meanwhile, Kenya has an alarming lack of skilled designers and construction professionals and booming demand for urban development, particularly housing. This high-potential sector is currently male-dominated, with women representing less than 3% of those it employs. By the end of this century, 40% of the global population will reside in Africa. By 2030, more than half of Africa's population will reside in cities. We are working to ensure that women actively contribute to and benefit from this urban development. Our solution: Buildher recognizes an opportunity in this problem. We designed and deliver an innovative technical training and employment program exclusively for low income earning women that produces semi-skilled artisans and places them with construction industry employers. Our model is designed by women, for women: It enables participants to earn as they learn, significantly increase their earnings, and secure a professional certification that creates opportunities for career growth. Our goal: Buildher will train and empower thousands of Kenyan women through construction. In the process, we will develop a replicable model for gender integration in our industry to deeply impact hundreds of thousands of women across the continent. Buildher equips disadvantaged women in Kenya with accredited construction skills leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes and promoting gender equality within the construction industry Learn more at  www.buildher.org .

Buildher / Orkidstudio (UK)

The purpose of  Joliet Youth for Malawi:   Access Brings Change , a  donor-advised fund  at KBFUS, is to enhance the lives of people in Malawi, Africa. Partnering with Mary Mudron, our purpose is to bring access to water by creating borehole wells for hundreds of people in rural Malawi, Africa.  Through our friends, Fr. Elizeo Nthalika and Fr. Benedict Zele, we have identified two villages where our help is strongly needed.  Our goal is to start with the Chisawani and Chazemba villages and then move forward with others to provide essential positive changes in the lives of many. Currently, multiple villages with over 600 families share one borehole well.  Hundreds of people travel several hours and many miles to obtain water for their daily necessities.  Sadly, on many days, after walking this long distance these individuals find the well is dry with no available water.   Since 2017 our organization has raised funds to assist with providing clothing, electricity, water supply, books, and with the building of a school.  Currently, our focus is set on creating these two wells in the Chisawani and Chazemba villages which will each cost $5,000. All proceeds will go directly toward the needs of Malawi, Africa.    Click here for PHOTOS:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R0ZI9v1VXa...

Joliet Youth For Malawi:  Access Brings Change

Will you co-create a global ecosystem for a sustainable, socially just world?

Your gift of as little as $100 can help sustain the Mandela vision through the only university bearing his name and building his legacy, academically.  
 
 
	 Donate now to support young people studying, enable academics to deliver world-class research, and help share the Ubuntu philosophy globally. Nelson Mandela University, a dynamic, engaged and transformative African university rooted in the values of Ubuntu and service of society, is the academic expression of Mandela. Based in Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa, we are locally responsive, nationally active, regionally alive, and globally aware. We are committed to being in service of society, and we also seek to co-create, with our stakeholders, a global ecosystem dedicated to the development of a sustainable, socially just world.   LEARN ABOUT OUR ENGAGEMENT AND TRANSFORMATION EFFORTS 
	 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) opened on January 1st, 2005, the result of the merging of the PE Technikon the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE) and the Port Elizabeth campus of Vista University (Vista PE). The union of these institutions came about as a result of government's countrywide restructuring of higher education – intended to deiver a more equitable and efficient system to meet the needs of South Africa, the African continent and the world in the 21st century.  LEARN MORE 
	 
 
	 On July 20th, 2017, the university was officially renamed Nelson Mandela University,  the only university in the world to carry the name of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.  With the full support of the Mandela family and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, it is our unique privilege to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, South Africa's most beloved statesman and a man who became the world's moral compass.  LEARN MORE 
	 
 
	 We honour his name by leading our university into an era of transformative innovation, development and change. As an innovative 21st-century institution of higher learning, we ensure that his values are reflected in the way that we teach, learn, research, engage with our communities, and work and live as students, staff, alumni and partners. 
 
	 
 
	 
 
	 Today, Nelson Mandela University is a sought-after educational destination and the most diverse university in South Africa, reflecting Nelson Mandela's values of diversity -- especially the coming together of different minds, different backgrounds, different talents and different approaches to achieve greatness. 
 
	 We are also the largest higher education institution in the Eastern and Southern Cape of the country, serving our 29,000+diverse students through seven different campuses, ranging from one at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains, to our main campus built in the heart of a private nature reserve covering 830 hectares. The reserve's protected wildlife includes 22 mammal species, 16 reptile species, four amphibian species and 66 bird species. We also provide education about environmental and animal welfare issues, in keeping with Mr. Mandela's message that "If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever". 
 
 
 
	 
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		 TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF OUR CAMPUSES 
	 
 
 
	 
		 MAKE OUR UNIVERSITY YOUR SOUTH AFRICAN HOME AWAY FROM HOME 
		 
	 
 
 
 
	 
	 
 
	 
 
	 
	 Did you know that the top three leadership roles at Nelson Mandela University are held by women?  
	 Vice Chancellor Professor Sibongile Muthwa, Chancellor Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, and Chair of Council Ambassador Nosipho January-Bardill (shown left to right) are leading our University, building upon the foundation of our namesake's legacy, ethos and values.  LEARN ABOUT OUR LEADERSHIP 
 
	 Under their leadership, we aspire to function in service of society, primarily through our core mandates of learning, teaching, research, innovation, internationalisation and engagement. Our Vision 2030 Strategy (V2030) is an articulation of our strategic intentions and aspirations as we seek to embody the soul of Mandela through our core academic missions. The University strives to promote the public good by expanding human understanding, pushing forward the frontiers of knowledge, and cultivating socially conscious graduates who will make a positive impact on society as responsible global citizens and leaders.  LEARN MORE ABOUT V2030 
 
	 We invite all our stakeholders to journey with us as Nelson Mandela University sets out to be a dynamic African university recognized for its leadership in generating cutting edge knowledge for a sustainable future. 
 
	 
 
	 
	 
 
	 Nelson Mandela University aims to converge and connect with the communities that we serve through our faculties and a variety of engagement interfaces or "Hubs of Convergence." These are forums for the collaborative articulation, elaboration and implementation of African-purposed solutions to society's challenges -- with the goal of developing a sustainable, socially just world. As the Vice Chancellor has explained, "The Hubs of Convergence (HoC) initiative endeavours to co-create physical spaces where the University meets the community to engage on common platforms to find solutions to problems that affect our immediate communities."  LEARN MORE ABOUT HoC 
 
	 MEET SOME OF OUR AWARD-WINNING FACULTY MEMBERS 
 
 
	 Rose Boswell, PhD, DSI-NRF South African Research Chair in Ocean Cultures and Heritage 
 
 
	 Jean Greyling, PhD, Associate Professor / Director, Tangible Africa, Department of Computing Sciences 
 
 
	 Darelle van Greunen, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Information Technology / Director, Centre for Community Technologies 
 
 
 
 
	 LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR FACULTIES AND PROGRAMMES 
 
	 EXPLORE OUR RESEARCH 
 
	 
 
	 
 
	 Nelson Mandela University and our founding institutions have conferred 171,178 qualifications, including  1,785 doctorates  and  9,153  masters' degrees  on  127,718 graduates  from more than  80 countries . Since the merger in 2005, we have bestowed  Honorary Doctorates on 71   leaders around the  globe,  working in various spheres. 
 
	 MEET OUR OTHER NOTABLE ALUMNI AROUND THE GLOBE 
 
	 MEET OUR OTHER HONORARY DOCTORATE RECIPIENTS AROUND THE GLOBE 
 
	 
 
	 
 
	 A well-known African proverb states, "If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together." We recognise that we do not have all of the answers to address the challenges of the world, and for that reason -- and in the spirit of Ubuntu -- we invite you to co-create a sustainable, socially just world by investing in: 
 
	 Increasing student access to a holistic 21-century education leading to life and career success. 
	 Advancing impactful, world-class research that helps improve lives and protect our planet. 
	 Enabling students to develop African-purposed enterprises that address youth unemployment. 
	 Helping to co-create solutions to the challenges faced by the vulnerable in society. 
 
	 To explore partnering with Nelson Mandela University, to discover study abroad options at our University, and/or to visit any of our seven campuses, please email Denver Webb, Senior Director of Strategic Resource Mobilisation and Advancement at Denver.Webb@mandela.ac.za. 
 
	 
 
	 
 
	 
 
	 The Nelson Mandela University Trust (ZA)  is the fundraising arm of the Nelson Mandela University. It is a registered trust in South Africa, of which Nelson Mandela University is the sole beneficiary.  KBFUS is a U.S. public charity within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations made to the Nelson Mandela University Trust (ZA) are eligible for a U.S. income tax deduction, to the extent permitted by U.S. tax law. 
 
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