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Refuge City

Refuge City's mission is providing safe places for children who have been sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and re-integration in a family focused environment.

Richardson, Texas

Blazor Technology Foundation

Making a difference in communities through dedicated service and impact.

Ridgeland, Mississippi

The Spirit of Humanity.Org Inc

Our mission is a multifaceted one. All projects are interconnected to one another. The pilot program is designed to increase the rural educational program from the current first through fifth grades to sixth through eleventh grades. Using the Lao village of Kengmaihia (Champasak Province) as our model, we hope to expand our project to similar rural villages throughout Lao. Cambodia and Myanmar children also suffer from an inadequate rural schools program and are future countries of interest to expand our reach. These three nations are widely known for their strong family work ethic, beginning at a young age. They are poor countries with limited opportunities, which targets them for the child labor recruiters.The young children (about 10 years of age) have completed their education and are hopeful to find work. Many of their working age parents have left the village, migrating to population centers, often illegally. They send their meager earnings home to help care for their families. Grandparents and other family members will serve as custodians to the children. Savvy recruiters can play upon the desperate people. The children are happy and encourage their custodians to allow them to work. They in turn will accept the small amount of money offered along with the false promises of training and a good job. Another important component of our project is the loss of cultural heritage. These rural communities have existed for hundreds of years without major environmental consequences. They know how to live without damaging the surroundings. We need some of these kids to carry on with the long established practices of how to live in a self-sufficient world. This problem can be solved with our future Eco Retreat project. Teaching the children skills they can use in their home environment can provide jobs while preserving the cultural heritage. The fourth part of our integrated projects is to provide assistance in clearing the countryside of unexploded ordnance (UXO). From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Lao. More than 580,000 bombing missions, equal to a plane load of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day for nine years. This made Laos the most heavily bombed country in history, equaling the total number of bombs dropped by both sides in World War II. The bombings were part of the U.S. Secret War to support the Royal Lao Government against the Pathet Lao and to interdict traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The bombings destroyed many villages and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lao civilians during the nine year period. The legacy of this once secret war continues. Millions of the small cluster bombs are strewn across the country, threatening the lives of its people. These remaining bombs kill or injure people to this day, with many children being among the victims. With a poor economy and little hope of employment, people actually search for these bombs for scrap metal. Cluster munitions are the small explosive devices released from cluster bombs. Although they are designed to explode on impact, cluster munitions have a significant failure rate (estimated at 30% in Laos during the Vietnam War). They are usually the size of an orange or soup can and can stay buried in the ground indefinitely. Cluster munitions continue to kill villagers and prevent the redevelopment of bombed land. Over the past four decades, fewer than one million of the estimated 80 million cluster munitions that failed to detonate have been cleared. It’s estimated that it will take 200 years to clear the countryside. Programs set up in Laos to clear unexploded ordnance left over from heavy U.S. bombing during the Vietnam War are being hindered by shortfalls of funds from foreign donors. For direct donations: https://www.uxolao.org/donation-2/ For Champasak Province donations, contact Mr. Chanthy Pkoumya, Provincial Coordinator. Address: Ban Sok Am Naow District, Pakse, Lao. Tel: 031 213415 Website: http://www.uxolao.org

San Diego, California

Afterschool Village

Afterschool Village partners with parents and schools to raise children who can master an increasingly challenging world: emotionally resilient, intellectually independent, courageous and loving. Afterschool village is here to create a third space that bridges the gap between home and school so children grow to be both individual makers of meaning and active participants in their communities and the world.

Studio City, California

COVE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INC

To provide hope and healing for grieving children and teens.

Meriden, Connecticut

Enabled Children Initiative Ltd

ECI supports children in Afghanistan with disabilities with residential, educational and income generation support for families. Through our programs, we support children with disabilities who are the most vulnerable—abandoned by families living in extreme poverty who have no resources to cope, or unclaimed by family after the death of one or both parents. We also work with families with disabled children, providing educational and income generation support, in order to prevent the abandonment or institutionalization of children with disabilities.

Bradenton, Florida

Givelist for Good

Givelist for Good works to create and increase Social Capital in our country and the world by serving others, nurturing and building community, and encouraging, facilitating and supporting the acts of giving and sharing. Specifically, we directly serve several distinct vulnerable and under-served groups in the community by providing needed items for their daily lives. Additionally, Givelist for Good works to create, nurture and sustain a stronger sense of community through strategic projects and programs that address multiple problems at their core while promoting a “pay-it-forward” movement, using kindness as currency and fun to drive engagement and participation.

SAN DIEGO, California

Indiana Council on Problem Gambling

The ICPG works with all of the groups involved with gambling in Indiana. These include those State government entities involved with gambling including the State Legislature, Gamblers Anonymous, Gam-Anon, problem gambling treatment providers and all of the businesses providing legal gambling in Indiana. The ICPG works to ensure that state funded quality treatment for problem gambling exists and to ensure that those providing treatment are among the best trained therapists in the country by providing approximately 30 hours of training each year by the best presenters in North America. We offer help for gambling problems 24/7. This help includes direct referral to individuals and organizations involved with assisting problem gamblers and their family members and friends. Our other activities focus on raising the awareness of the issue of problem gambling in Indiana. The ICPG works with our sister organizations in the surrounding seven states via the Midcentral Alliance on Problem Gambling which the ICPG founded. This organization exists to share resources via joint activities so as to leverage our collective knowledge and other resources.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Crossroads Pets - Shop and Adopt

A nonprofit "pet store" operated by the Crossroads Campus, offering pet product retail, pet adoptions, professional grooming, dog self-wash

Nashville, Tennessee

Arlington Food Assistance Center

Our mission is to feed our neighbors in need by providing dignified access to nutritious supplemental groceries.

Arlington, Virginia

Celebrate Planet Earth

We grow children who love and protect our home.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Emmaus

To support male survivors' journey out of the sex trade and into lives of restored purpose and wholeness, to prevent vulnerable males from entering the sex trade and to equip organizations worldwide to work with male survivors.

Wheaton, Illinois