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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 Uganda Cow Project - Fifth 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 fifth phase of the original cow project that started ChooseAneed.org. This project when 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 10% Complete ($520) Admin costs: $50 100% Complete
2 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 9 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 40% Complete ($200) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
3 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 10 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 0% Complete ($0) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
4 COYIDA Goat Project (Part 3 of 3) 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. This is the final part of a three part project to provide goats to needy families. Once funded this part will provide 17 families with a female goat. Two male goats will also be purchased to service the female goats.	Amount to fund: $1,333 17% Complete ($227) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
5 UVP Well Number 19 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: $1,200 18% Complete ($220) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
6 UVP Well Number 20 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: $1,200 0% Complete ($0) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
7 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: $5,075 100% Complete ($5,075) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
8 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: $4,000 100% Complete ($4,000) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
9 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: $2,500 100% Complete ($2,500) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
10 COYIDA Goat Project (Part 2 of 3) 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. This is the second part of a three part project to provide goats to needy families. Once funded this part will provide 17 families with a female goat. Two male goats will also be purchased to service the female goats.	Amount to fund: $1,333 100% Complete ($1,333) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
11 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 has been adopted by Delta Kappa Theta a service fraternity at Mars Hill College. The brothers are helping to raise funds for this project and they welcome your support as well. 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: $5,000 100% Complete ($5,000) Admin costs: $50 100% Complete
12 Chicken Raising Project - Empowering Child and Youth Support Organization (ECAYSO) Empowering Child & Youth Support Organization (ECAYSO), is a CBO (Community Based Organization Located in Nampirika ‘B’ Village, Nakalama Sub-County – Iganga District (Uganda – East Africa). The Organization exists to empower and support disadvantaged Children and Youth in our Communities through Education, Vocational Skills, Aid & Care provision to these youth or Children and their families. The Organization was initiated in 2006 by eleven members (Pioneers) who felt the urge to uplift the standards of living of the needy Youth and Children. ECAYSO is now active in seven communities; Nampirika, Buwongo, Buseyi, Rwelera, Nakalama, Magogo & Bukaye. ECAYSO hopes to expand their influence to other places. This chicken raising project will provide an income stream for ECAYSO that will help fund their educational training, skills training, and Aid & Care programs for the children and youth of their community.	Amount to fund: $1,750 100% Complete ($1,750) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
13 Pig Loan Project (Part 2 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: $1,050 100% Complete ($1,050) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
14 GHEI Latrine Project Diarrheal diseases and typhoid pose serious health threats in this rural district of Ghana. The local Junior Secondary School (the equivalent of American High School) has 260 pupils (140 boys, 120 girls), ranging in age from 12 to 18. There are also 10 teachers. Currently there are no toilet facilities at the school, meaning that students urinate and defecate in the bush which surrounds the school. The area is therefore a serious health risk, and the odor of the area surrounding the school is sometimes unbearable. Younger children wander round the bush during the day, often putting themselves at risk of transmission of fecal-borne diseases. In Humjibre it is common for families to lack personal latrine facilities, relying on community latrines, if present. If not, defecation is often done in the bush, with children defecating into plastic bags which are then thrown into the bush or onto communal rubbish tips. However, there is only one community latrine, approximately 15 minutes walk from the Junior Secondary School. This latrine seats 7 people, clearly inadequate for a village of approximately 4500. Humjibre is a village where the majority of the population lives below the poverty line, so the cost of building a safe latrine is beyond most families. This is why it is vital for students to have access to at least one serviceable latrine at their school. This is a picture of the Humjibre Junior High School where the latrine will be built.	Amount to fund: $1,160 100% Complete ($1,160) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
15 Child Legacy Well Child Legacy, International, Inc. is a non-profit organization working in Africa to transform lives by providing opportunities that break the generational cycles of poverty and despair, and support each person’s pursuit of their God-given destiny. Child Legacy International has been working in Africa for over 20 years. They have seen first-hand the needs of the African people and they are great, but the most fundamental need is water. Having the ability to provide a local source of clean water will help sustain the Mchemani school outside Lilongwe, Malawi. The school provides basic education for nearly 1100 students and 7 nursery schools that have gone for 12 years without a functioning operable well. Every day children at the Mchemani School cross a busy highway to get clean water. At this time 6 children have died while crossing that highway in order to obtain water. This is a picture of the school.	Amount to fund: $6,150 100% Complete ($6,150) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
16 Hope Alive Uganda (HAU) Medical Beds The medical center in Kisozi, Uganda offers medical assistance to people in Kisozi and surroundings. Currently patients are admitted in the medical center on improvised mattresses on the ground, because the medical center is lacking proper beds, blankets, sheets, mattresses. When funded, this project will improve the circumstances of patients admitted to the medical center by providing beds with sheets and blankets. The medical center requires 7 beds. Each bed will cost $86 (this includes bed, mattress, sheets, blankets, and mosquito net). It will also cost $70 to transport the beds and mattresses to the medical center.	Amount to fund: $672 100% Complete ($672) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
17 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 1 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
18 UVP Well Number 15 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: $1,200 100% Complete ($1,200) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
19 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 2 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
20 UVP Well Number 16 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: $1,200 100% Complete ($1,200) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
21 UVP Well Number 17 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: $1,200 100% Complete ($1,200) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
22 UVP Well Number 18 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: $1,200 100% Complete ($1,200) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
23 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 3 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
24 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 4 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
25 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 5 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
26 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 6 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
27 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 7 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
28 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 8 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
29 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 9 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
30 UVP - HIV and Syphilis Testing (Part 10 of 10) Since 2009 UVP has been providing the people in our Healthy Villages with outreaches for HIV voluntary counselling and testing. In 2010 they also added syphilis testing to this outreach. UVP found that the numbers of people suffering from syphilis were shockingly high. Because syphilis is a disease that is easily treatable with cheap medications, and it can also be devastating and lethal, particularly during pregnancy, UVP expanded their program to include syphilis treatment as well. The terrible impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Uganda has now been widely recognized. The Ugandan Ministry of Health currently (2010) estimates that 6.4% of Ugandans are HIV-positive. In Uganda’s “East Central” region, where Iganga District lies, HIV prevalence is even higher than the national average – 8% of women are HIV positive, and 5% of men. Due to reports from health centres and concerns raised by the Healthy Villages communities regarding a high prevalence of syphilis, UVP began to include the option of syphilis testing in June 2010. Total Number Tested: 250 (70 Male, 180 Female) Positive Total Number: 135 (45 Male, 90 Female) 05 – 18 yr old Total Number Tested: 30 (10 Male, 20 Female) 05 - 18 yr old Positive Total Number: 13 (3 Male, 10 Female) This need will provide funds to continue testing one additional village in the Iganga District. There are 10 total villages that need this testing.	Amount to fund: $400 100% Complete ($400) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
31 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 2 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
32 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 3 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
33 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 4 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
34 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 5 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
35 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 6 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
36 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 7 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
37 Develop Africa Microfinance Part 8 of 10 Develop Africa was formed in 2006 in an effort to help establish meaningful and sustainable development in Africa. This project empowers economically disadvantaged people in Sierra Leone and helps to open doors of opportunity. The project focuses on providing practical and meaningful toolkits (such as sewing machines, soap-making kits, gara tie-dying and batik kits, hairdressing kits, business start-up / growth funds etc.). The selected individuals are primarily graduates who have already received training in their respective areas. The toolkits / funds provided enable them to launch or improve their businesses immediately. This simple assistance enables them to rapidly move towards self-sufficiency and independence. Click on project title to learn more.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
38 Myanmar Water Well The people living in Western Burma (now called Myanmar) were devastated by two powerful cyclones (Nargis - May 2008 and Giri - Oct 2010). Their homes were swept away by the powerful storm surge and strong winds. This need will provide much needed access to water. This picture shows a typical house for the area affected. Click on this need's title to see additional pictures showing the devastation left after the cyclones. Funded.	Amount to fund: $890 100% Complete ($890) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
39 GHEI Poly-Tank #2 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. Funds mailed Nov 17, 2011.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete ($500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
40 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. Funds wired June 22, 2011.	Amount to fund: $3,140 100% Complete ($3,140) Admin costs: $30 100% Complete
41 UVP Well Number 14 - Buwolomera 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 Funded April, 2011.	Amount to fund: $1,200 100% Complete ($1,200) Admin costs: $40 100% Complete
42 HARITIKA Water Project HARITIKA 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. Funds wired March 2, 2011.	Amount to fund: $3,000 100% Complete ($3,000) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
43 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. Funds wired Feb 18, 2011.	Amount to fund: $615 100% Complete ($615) Admin costs: $30 100% Complete
44 COYIDA Goat Project (Part 1 of 3) 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. This is part one of a three part project to provide goats to needy families. Once funded this part will provide 17 families with a female goat. Two male goats will also be purchased to service the female goats. Funds wired Feb 4, 2011.	Amount to fund: $1,333 100% Complete ($1,333) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
45 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. Funds mailed Feburary, 2011.	Amount to fund: $1,500 100% Complete ($1,500) Admin costs: $45 100% Complete
46 UVP Well Number 11 - Kabira 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
47 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. Funds transferred May 27, 2010.	Amount to fund: $2,700 100% Complete ($2,700) Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
48 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. Funds wired Dec 30, 2010	Amount to fund: $1,050 100% Complete ($1,050) Admin costs: $35 100% Complete

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