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Take a look at the running charities for June 2013. Click on “LEARN MORE” for videos, pictures, and information.
Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO) brings love, play, health care and hope to orphans and vulnerable children through programs focused on attachment, early intervention, health care, sport and the arts. WWO’s programs address the needs of the whole child, helping them grow up to be healthy, happy, productive members of their own communities.
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Sheltering Arms Early Education & Family Centers is celebrating its 125th anniversary of giving low-income working parents a choice and young children a chance. Sheltering Arms provides nationally-accredited, early education and child care for almost 2,500 infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. 90% of those children qualify for needs-based child care tuition scholarships. That means their parents can work and don’t have to choose between their child’s safety and food on the table. As one parent said, “Sheltering Arms is the village that all parents need to help raise their child.”
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Established in 1980, the Regional Food Bank is the largest private hunger-relief organization in the state of Oklahoma. In Fiscal Year 2012, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma distributed 42.2 million pounds of food and product through a network of nearly 1,000 partner agencies and schools throughout 53 central and western Oklahoma counties. The Regional Food Bank provides enough food to feed more than 90,000 people each week – nearly half of which are children.
The Regional Food Bank’s administrative costs are below four percent, which means 96 cents of every dollar donated helps to directly provide food to Oklahomans in need.
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For nearly 30 years, Agros International has pioneered the groundbreaking work of combining land ownership with holistic community development, empowering thousands of families to break the cycle of chronic poverty and provide a future of hope and success for their children. Through Agros’ holistic model, every family gains access to land and training that empowers them to produce at least three income-generating crops that contribute to their improved nutrition and economic stability. The impact of each community’s success reaches into the surrounding regions as well, and provides hope and stability to others who benefit from the resources available in each Agros community.
Agros International
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KickStart is a non-profit social enterprise with a mission to lift millions of people in Africa out of poverty, quickly, cost-effectively and sustainably. KickStart succeeds by designing, promoting and mass-marketing simple money-making tools that smallholder farmers buy and use to start highly profitable family enterprises. These new businesses create a sustainable solution to the rural poor’s most important need —a way to make more money—and enable the farmers to lift their families out of poverty. To date KickStart has helped over 700,000 of the world’s poorest farmers and their families break free from poverty.
KickStart
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Tostan’s mission is to empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights. Since 1991, Tostan has brought its holistic three-year Community Empowerment Program (CEP) to thousands of communities in eight African countries. Through the CEP, communities learn and build skills around democracy, problem solving, health and hygiene, literacy, numeracy, and project management. Tostan’s approach enables participants to use what they have learned to define their own futures and ensures that every person can lead a life of dignity.
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