Poverty Alleviation

Goats are low-cost, high-yield livestock that can quickly and sustainably improve a family's livelihood, providing milk and offspring for food and income. Your gift will provide one goat for a family, a warm, fuzzy gift that keeps on giving. more

Your gift will help support the Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, which represents more than 86,000 coffee growers in the verdant, humid forests of south-central Ethiopia. more

Added income from a $50 loan can help a Tanzanian mother expand her business and feed her children more nutritious food.. And you're providing a self-employment loan, not a gift. Your donation will build discipline, responsibility, and self-confidence as women create their own business. more

Your donation will allow WaterAid to purchase one handpump to serve 10 households, thereby reducing the burden of collecting water. Helping people to build safe water supplies directly translates to improved health, more free time, and a better quality of life and is the first step in poverty reduction. more

Your gift can train one woman to produce a highly nutritious food supplement to fight hunger. Everybody knows the adage of giving a man a fish versus teaching a man to fish. When IMC teaches a woman to grow, harvest, process, and sell therapeutic food, the result is that entire communities "learn to fish. more

To counter the forces of joining the dangerous drug supply chain, alternatives must be provided. Coffee production is a natural choice: Colombia's Andean slopes are uniquely suited to growing high quality coffee. It's not easy for a farmer to begin growing coffee, much less organic coffee. more

The members of The Fair Trade Zone are working to avoid that fate. This Nicaraguan cooperative was formed after Hurricane Mitch by a group of 11 women facing the loss of all of their belongings. more

$360 empowers 378 mothers like Raimuni with the knowledge and social support they need to guide their daughters to a better future. more

Your donation will restore hope to farmers living in a post-conflict war zone. By clearing the enough land of landmines and planting one grape vine, your gift will help restore the livelihood and the dignity of self-sufficiency to a farmer. more

Your gift will provide new learning opportunities to impoverished children. This educational project helps train teachers in new teaching methods so they can educate children, especially girls, in poor areas of the Congo. more

When you help a woman with few prospects to earn an income or establish her independence, you are, in fact, buying her a future. Goat husbandry is practiced around the world, from tsunami-wracked villages in Indonesia to earthquake-damaged mountainside settlements in Pakistan. more

Your gift will leverage $1000 in microloans. This could be used by a seamstress in Bolivia, allowing her to buy a sewing machine and materials to start a business that creates two additional jobs and livelihood for three households. more