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In the section below you can see all of the active projects and a brief description of each project. If you are interested in a particular project you can obtain more information by clicking on the project's name. This will take you to a page dedicated to that project.

1 Malaika Malaria Project This is an in depth project by Malaika that will dispense 2,100 new bed nets to protect against Malaria. Malaria is endemic in this region of Tanzania and children and adults die daily due to this disease and its complications. Not only will Malaika distribute 2,100 new bed nets, they will educate the community, provide on going follow up, but they will also retreat old bed nets and treat the new nets with a insecticide that helps make the bed nets even more effective. The total cost for this project is above 12,000 US dollars but Malaika is only asking for our help with 5,075.00 Let's help them save lives. Click on the project to read a very in depth statement about the project.	Amount to fund: $5,075 26% Complete ($1,298) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
2 Mechanizing a Borehole in Ghana Women and children line up for water from the few bore holes that serve the whole community in this region of Ghana. This project seeks to mechanize a borehole so that the community may have easy access to clean water and reduce the time spent waiting in line to pump water.	Amount to fund: $4,000 7% Complete ($267) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
3 Spring Well - Rural Health Care Foundation The group RCHF, Rural Health Care Foundation, is located in the Mubende district of Uganda and plans to build a new spring well in the Mijunwa Parish in Kuyuni sub-county of the Mubende district.	Amount to fund: $2,500 7% Complete ($180) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
4 HARKITA Water Project HARKITA is an active and very responsive charitable organization in India which is currently focused on a large water project in Madhya Pradesh and Mukarba Village. This need when funded will help complete the funding and collaboration amongst several groups to provide two new latrines, a new well and water storage system providing free clean easily accessible water for these villagers, and an ongoing education project regarding sanitation.	Amount to fund: $3,000 2% Complete ($50) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
5 COYIDA Goat Project Community Youth in Development Activities (COYIDA) is a local charitable organization registered under the trustee’s incorporation act of Malawi. COYIDA is further recognized by the council for Non-Governmental Organizations in Malawi and the National Youth Council of Malawi. Malawi is located east of Zambia in Southern Africa and became an independent nation in 1964. COYIDA plans to purchase 50 female goats and 6 male goats at $60 each and distribute them among 50 of the most needy. Male goats will be kept at a strategic place to ensure that all beneficiaries will have access. Each recipient will be trained in the use and care of their goat. Training is projected to cost $11 for each goat. This project will boost the economic status of COYIDA's targeted constituents (the poorest).	Amount to fund: $4,000 18% Complete ($715) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
6 Onura Primary School (Phase One) Lofiriha Primary school is a community set up in collaboration with Hope Ofiriha in 2006. It began with 2 teachers and 72 pupils who were then in P1 (first year primary education) and P2 (second year primary education). The purpose of this project is to build a classroom, a pit latrine, and to provide teaching, and learning materials for Onura, a sub Village of the Lofiriha community in Southern Sudan. The ultimate goal is to build two classrooms. Hope Ofiriha is a Sudanese charity working in Magwi County Sudan. Hope Ofiriha seeks to Recognize women’s potential, and promote education & healthcare locally in Magwi County.	Amount to fund: $3,140 34% Complete ($1,080) Admin costs: $30 100% Complete
7 Kids with Knowledge (KWK) Karambi Maternity Ward Kids with Knowledge hopes to replicate the completed Mugusu Maternity Ward project at the Karambi, Uganda Maternity Ward. Karambi Maternity Ward currently has 10 bare wire metal beds and no equipment such as mattresses, blankets, gloves, basins, gauze, bed sheets, mattress covers and cotton which can help during and after the delivery. Kids with Knowledge hopes to provide the funds to purchase 10 mattresses, 10 leather mattress covers, 10 blankets, 10 bed sheets, 10 basins, 5 boxes of gloves and gauze and 10 boxes of cotton.	Amount to fund: $1,500 8% Complete ($120) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
8 UVP - Subsidized Mosquito Nets According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Uganda and is responsible for up to 40% of outpatient visits, 25% of hospital admissions and 14% of hospital deaths. The burden of malaria is greatest among children under 5 years of age and pregnant women.” The WHO also reports that malaria causes 23% of all deaths in Ugandan children under five, and causes 11% of all general deaths in Uganda (2002 data). Uganda Village Project is working to prevent malaria in Iganga District, Uganda, through the distribution and promotion of subsidized mosquito nets. This initiative is one part of UVP’s “Healthy Villages” program, which will bring a basic healthcare package to 70 of Iganga’s most under-served villages.	Amount to fund: $1,500 1% Complete ($20) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
9 Uganda Cow Project - Fourth Site In rural developing regions animals, such as cows, have a huge impact on the family and community. Please click on this need to read in more detail how a cow can be a lifesaving donation. This project is the fourth phase of the original cow project that started ChooseAneed.org This project if funded will allow for the purchase of ten cows and four bulls for a rural community in Uganda. Our original cow project has tripled in size and our second cow project has doubled in one year! Each cow costs roughly 300 dollars. Each bull costs approximately 500 dollars.	Amount to fund: $5,000 13% Complete ($630) Admin costs: $50 100% Complete
10 Pig Loan Project (Part 1 of 2) The immediate goal of this project is to buy 30 pigs for the 6 poorest families in Omilling sub village - Sudan. This pig loan project will increase school enrollment rate in Omilling sub - Village. Most women are unable to afford study materials for their children so they force them to drop out of school. If the family has a certain income annually they would be able to send their children to school. Children who get education will help the development of the whole village. Each pig costs $35 and every family that receives a pig will be able to earn an additional $250 (£500 Sudanese pounds per year by selling piglets). One mature female pig can give birth to at least 5-8 piglets per year. Therefore this added income will alleviate many problems simultaneously. For example, sales of cheap labor in the construction sites, teenagers work force and early marriage for girls. Meanwhile it can ease family basic needs such as tea leaf, salt, sugar, soap bar, and pay for study materials for their children which will have a major contribution to poverty alleviation. Two pigs from the first litter will be given to additional families making this project grow over time.	Amount to fund: $1,050 2% Complete ($25) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
11 UVP Well Number 12 Over the past five years, Uganda Village Project (UVP) has been striving to make safe water an accessible reality for residents of Iganga District. They are working not only to increase the number of shallow wells in the district in order to cut down on water collection time, but they are aiming to eliminate water contamination altogether. Through promoting a comprehensive safe water education program, which highlights various parts of the “safe water chain,” UVP works to teach villagers how to keep safe water clean. Please help ChooseAneed and Uganda Village Project continue to fund these wells! Click on this link GPS Well Locations to view 14 of these wells via GPS coordinates on Google Maps. Click on the title of this need to read more about UVPs well projects. You can click on this link to view the entire shallow well process: Shallow Well Process	Amount to fund: $800 0% Complete ($0) Admin costs: $15 100% Complete
12 Hope Alive Uganda (HAU) Mosquito Nets Hope Alive Uganda (HAU) was officially registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO) in 2008. HAU was also officially registered in the Netherlands in October 2009. Hope Alive Uganda supports orphans in the field of education (school fees, school uniforms, school materials), runs an HIV/AIDS counselling program, sets up income generating activities for women and runs other health programs. HAU is working in Kisozi which is located about 6 miles west of Kamuli, Uganda. Most orphans don't have mosquito nets and sleep unprotected. This project will provide 300 orphans with a mosquito net which will help to combat malaria. Each net will only cost $2.05 which is a very small price to pay for such important protection from deadly malaria.	Amount to fund: $615 0% Complete ($0) Admin costs: $30 100% Complete
13 HelpHeal - Abandoned Patients Aid through Chicken Raising HELPHEAL is a membership community-based organization formed in 2006 in Kisumu, Kenya to promote respect for rights of patients abandoned in hospitals. HelpHeal is dedicated to helping the abandoned patients that are just dropped off at the hospital/clinic and then forgotten. Their plan is unique as they plan to raise chickens so that the offspring can be given (two chicks at a time) to the abandoned patients to give them a source of income so that they might not return.	Amount to fund: $500 0% Complete ($0) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
14 GHEI Poly-Tank The Ghana Health and Education Initiative (GHEI) began implementing a hand washing behavior education campaign in 2009. However, in order to promote community ownership of the program GHEI plans on installing ‘Choose-a-need funded’ POLY-TANKS within community institutions, most notably public schools. A Poly-Tank is a large water storing mechanism with a tap that eliminates the need for daily water fetching. It collects rainwater and then stays filled most of the year. Funded.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
15 UVP - Latrine Coverage and Sanitation Uganda Village Project (UVP) is working to increase latrine coverage and sanitation in communities in Iganga District, Uganda. This initiative is one element of UVP’s five-year “Healthy Villages” program, which seeks to bring a basic healthcare package to 70 of Iganga’s most under-served villages. Lack of sanitation, most especially household latrines, is one of the leading causes of disease in Uganda. Unsanitary compounds can lead to an increased risk of malaria or eye disease such as trachoma, while lack of latrines and other unsafe water practices lead to waterborne diseases such as typhoid and chronic diarrhea. Waterborne diseases are particularly fatal to children in Uganda – seventeen percent of all deaths for children under five are caused by diarrheal diseases, while eight percent of all total deaths are caused by diarrheal diseases (WHO). Funded.	Amount to fund: $1,000 100% Complete ($1,000) Admin costs: $30 100% Complete
16 UVP - Obstetric Fistula Repair for Women Uganda Village Project (UVP) is working to help repair women with obstetric fistula in Iganga District, Uganda. Obstetric fistula is a painful and isolating condition characterized by an abnormal passageway between the vagina or uterus and internal organs such as the bladder or rectum, which leads to persistent leakage of urine and/or feces through the vagina. This is a picture of Women being transported by UVP to a repair camp at Kamuli Mission Hospital. Funded.	Amount to fund: $1,000 100% Complete ($1,000) Admin costs: $30 100% Complete
17 Piggery Demonstration Project The teachers association to cater for children (TTATCC) was formed in 2006 and fully registered in 2007 as a community based organization in Buwenge town council Jinja district-UGANDA. The low – income levels in Buwenge Town council have a number of negative consequences in the homes of the registered children. Such as: inadequate basic needs, early marriages, theft, school drop outs, malnutrition, divorce and inaccessibility to medical care. This project will fund the purchase of 10 pigs at a cost of just $71 per pig. Cost includes initial food and medicine expenses associated with starting a pig raising operation. Once funded, the sale of 20% of the offspring will support the continuing food and medicine needs. The other 80% of the offspring will be given to the needy orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) once the OVC are trained in the care of the pigs. TTATCC and the local community will bear the labor and expense of constructing the housing for the pigs. Funded.	Amount to fund: $710 100% Complete ($710) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
18 UVP Well Number 11 Uganda Village Project has identified severals areas in need of clean water wells. With funding from ChooseAneed donors, they have already created ten wells with the funding we have provided. This project will raise funds for well #11. Please visit the success stories page for each of the previous well projects in Uganda, where you can see actual videos of the wells that have been created through donors generosity and caring. Funded.	Amount to fund: $800 100% Complete ($800) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
19 Goat Rearing (Small-Scale Business) Part 2 of 2 (50 of 100 Goats) This is part two of a project that will supply two goats to 25 guardians (quite often grandmothers and widows) of orphaned and vulnerable children in the Kabondo, Kenya. The goats will help individual households to have a sustainable source of milk and income through goat rearing. Goats are the least expensive livestock to raise locally. When the goats produce offspring, these guardian families will be able to purchase school materials and school uniforms. They will be able to afford to provide basic medical care and food for the orphans under their care in a sustainable manner. Funded.	Amount to fund: $2,700 100% Complete ($2,700) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
20 UVP - Malnutrition Education and Workshops Uganda Village Project (UVP) is working to educate communities in Iganga District, Uganda about malnutrition – the signs and dangers of it, how to prevent it, and how to remedy the situation if a child is already malnourished. This initiative is one element of UVP’s five-year “Healthy Villages” program, which seeks to bring a basic healthcare package to 70 of Iganga’s most under-served villages. Click on this need's title to read the details of UVP's two tiered education plan. Funded.	Amount to fund: $750 100% Complete ($750) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
21 Lifewater Community Church Water Well The objective of this project is to raise the living standards of rural poor by delivering sustainable health and hygiene benefits through improvements in water supply within schools. ChooseAneed will be partnering with Lifewater Community Church with this project by purchasing the pump for the well. The pump will cost $500 USD. Kano plains of Kisumu district in the republic of Kenya is one of the poorest regions within the republic of Kenya with a per capita income of US$ 220. As much as 40-60 per cent of the populations are below the poverty level. Because of flat topography of the area it does suffer from perennial floods once it rains on the nearby Nandi hills. The effluents from the sugar factory along the Nandi hills are carried down streams once it floods. This result in incidence of cholera outbreak and water-related diseases, which do contribute significantly to low productivity in the area. Rural productivity is also constrained by the high time cost of collecting water, often more than 4-5 hours per household per day. Funded. Funds transferred March 9, 2010.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($510) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
22 UVP - Eye Repair and Rehabilitation This project will train a Village Health Team representative in five separate villages to recognize and diagnose various eye problems. A visit by Sight Savers International (SSI) will also be sponsored in order to ensure the newly trained village eye specialist is connected to Sight Savers. The funds will also support a screening event for each village to identify surgically correctable eye health issues, and transport for patients from those events to a surgical facility. Through this Eye Care Training program Uganda Village Project (UVP) hopes to restore vision to members of some of Iganga, Uganda's most disadvantaged villages. Funding Completed. Awaiting Final Project Completion Report. Click on this need's title to see some of the results.	Amount to fund: $450 100% Complete ($450) Admin costs: $22 100% Complete
23 Costa Rican Housing Project This project will help to create a new house for a family that cannot afford safe housing. Housing is an important need and this group has been involved in this type of work since 1953. Your funds will buy a house! Click on the description to read more about this Christian ministry in Costa Rica. Funds Raised. Funds Transferred on September 2, 2009. Awaiting project completion report.	Amount to fund: $3,550 100% Complete ($3,550) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
24 GHEI Mosquito Net - Malaria Prevention This project has the potential to save lives. Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children in Ghana. Despite the enormous impact of malaria, prevention efforts in Bibiani District are rudimentary at best. Private individuals do not have the means or the education to protect themselves from malaria. This is compounded by the fact that the government cannot provide the nets or the needed education to the most vulnerable. The provision of insecticide treated bednets with accompanying education is a powerful and proven tool in the fight against malaria. This is a simple intervention that has the potential to drastically reduce the number of children that die from malaria each year in Bibiani District. Funds Raised. Funds Transferred. Awaiting project completion report.	Amount to fund: $1,630 100% Complete ($1,630) Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
25 Goat Rearing (Small-Scale Business) Part 1 of 2 (50 of 100 Goats) This is part one of a project that will supply two goats to 25 guardians (quite often grandmothers and widows) of orphaned and vulnerable children in the Kabondo, Kenya. The goats will help individual households to have a sustainable source of milk and income through goat rearing. Goats are the least expensive livestock to raise locally. When the goats produce offspring, these guardian families will be able to purchase school materials and school uniforms. They will be able to afford to provide basic medical care and food for the orphans under their care in a sustainable manner. Each goat along with veterinary training for the guardians will cost $54. Funded. Funds transferred March 4, 2010.	Amount to fund: $2,700 100% Complete ($2,716) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete

Total Donated: $110,257.00 Site Hits: 49193 Date: Time: Last updated: 2/28/2010