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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 projects name. This will take you to a page dedicated to that project.

1 Susan Education Scholarship Susan Nabukenya is a 14-year-old Ugandan girl who arrived in the US for life-saving plastic surgery at Boston Shriner's Hospital in May 2008. Her course of treatment will keep her in the United States until August. Susan was burned from her chest to her toes when she stepped too close to a cooking fire and her kerosene-stained dress ignited. She has lived with burn contractures and open wounds for four years and was forced to drop out of school. She had lost all hope. Journey with Susan toward a brighter future. For updates, visit her care team's blog at SusansBlogSpot	Amount to fund: $7,000 25% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
2 Open Arms India - Farmland Open Arms operates over nine orphanages in five states in India and they have proposed creating a farm that would help raise food for each home. This would reduce expenses, be a sustainable project, and would allow them to help even more orphans. Please - help us fund this project! They just sent us some new pictures and shared the following with us: Here is photo of orphanage boys working in the small garden- which is behind our hospital - in an effort to grow some few vegetables. The boys really love this work and compete to see whose plants get largest and produce most vegetables.	Amount to fund: $7,000 13% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
3 Desks for Education The 2007 Uganda Village Project partnered with us a few months ago to provide 'blackboards and desks' for some of the schools they work with. The need was great and the impact can be huge by promoting education and effecting change. See the success stories page to read about the success of the first project and see why we would like to do this at least one more time.	Amount to fund: $1,000 61% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
4 STOP - Stop Trafficking and Oppression of children and Women Human trafficking, the forcing of a person into sexual or labor exploitation, is both a human rights violation and one of the fastest growing criminal activities in the world with over four million people disappearing into trafficking every year and 70% of these being trafficked into the sex trade. The physical and emotional pain that victims of sex trafficking endure is unfathomable. This project will fund the healthcare needs of women and children rescued from brothels in India. STOP will work with local hospitals and physicians to provide health care services (including annual physical exams, immunizations, vision and dental check ups, HIV/STD screening, and mental health counseling) for the 50 rescued survivors/vulnerable children in STOP’s AASRAY large extended family home in New Delhi.	Amount to fund: $5,000 20% Complete Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
5 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 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 9% Complete Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
6 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.	Amount to fund: $3,550 17% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
7 East African Law Reports - UCLF The East Africa Law Reports are a set of reference materials that this organization could use to help them in their representation of the poor in Uganda.	Amount to fund: $1,100 0% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
8 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.	Amount to fund: $1,630 5% Complete Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
9 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 0% Complete Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
10 UVP Eye Surgeon Project Uganda Village Project, a close partner of CAN, has provided us with an opportunity to help them provide eye surgery. They have located an eye surgeon who provides his services as a donation through a partnership with another charity. UVP needs to train individuals to screen the local villagers to find and schedule appropriate patients so that the eye surgeon can show up and operate on 20 patients at a time. If this need were funded it would pay for the initial training of these screeners.	Amount to fund: $500 0% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
11 UVP Eye Surgeon Generator Uganda Village Project, a close partner of CAN, has developed a new partnership with a local cataract surgeon in Uganda who through partnership with another local charity is able to provide free cataract surgeries to patients in need. In order to accomplish this he needs two things - one: patients who are pre-screened (see the need above this one) and two: a generator to run his equipment. If funded this need would provide the funds to purchase this generator and make these rural surgeries a reality.	Amount to fund: $300 0% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
12 Open Arms India - Huts - Buy a house! Open Arms India has partnered with ChooseAneed to help raise funds and build new huts for families who have lost their homes in a fire. Each hut is 360 dollars and there are at least 50 families currently without a home. Help us provide housing - one hut at a time. We CAN make a difference.	Amount to fund: $360 100% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
13 2008 Uganda Combined Project The Longs have returned and we will have a report on their trip posted soon! This is a combined project that will fund the creation of an administration building for Uganda Village Project, seven new wells, and two scholarships for university students. Four individuals from the Long family will be traveling to Uganda this summer where they will represent ChooseAneed and participate in completing this project that they have personally helped raise the funds for.	Amount to fund: $15,000 103% Complete Admin costs: $25 100% Complete
14 2008 BONUS WELL - A Combined Project Four members of the Long family are going on a mission trip in the summer of 2008. They have done the hard work of raising the money and making the personal sacrifices required to both go on the trip and fund the needs they will be working on while in Uganda. This project is what we call a BONUS WELL. Our hope is that you will show your support for their mission trip by dropping your funds in this bonus well. Our goal is to raise 800 dollars by the date of their trip and you will help them fund an eighth well! This is in addition to the six wells that donors like you helped fund and build last year.	Amount to fund: $800 100% Complete Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
15 UVP Well Number 7 - BONUS Well for Combined project! Uganda Village Project has identified severals areas in need of clean water wells. With funding from ChooseAneed donors, they have already created five wells with the funding we gave them for four wells. This project is to raise funds for the seventh well.	Amount to fund: $800 106% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
16 University Scholarships for Ugandan Children Through a partnership with the Uganda Village Project we would provide discrete scholarships to children for a University Education. These are in essence ‘full rides’ and would be awarded to promising children who would otherwise be unable to obtain an education. University education is typically a two year degree.	Amount to fund: $1,200 104% Complete Admin costs: $150 100% Complete
17 Uganda Village Project Well Project Number Six! Uganda Village Project has identified severals areas in need of clean water wells. With funding from ChooseAneed donors, they have already created five wells with the funding we gave them for four wells. This project is to raise funds for the sixth well. FUNDED! Awaiting transfer of funds and completion of project.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
18 Clean Water Solution Grant Uganda Village Project and its workers have spent a great deal of time researching clean water solutions since they recognize, as does every health organization in the world, that clean water makes a huge impact in the community. This project would fund a year long program to provide clean water and education to several villages. It has the potential to be sustained by the villages after the initial phase.Awaiting Project Completion and report.	Amount to fund: $2,500 100% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete
19 Salema School Deep Water Well - Tanzania The Salama Secondary School Water Project provides water through the creation of a new deep water well. The Malaika project is seeking to provide clean water a basic human right and need to impoverished people living in rural Tanzania. This water will not only provide for drinking and basic hygiene, but will make it possible for the entire community to continue building the school even during the dry season. This project provides life sustaining water and will enable the community to realize their dream of building this secondary school. Awaiting project completion.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete Admin costs: $1 100% Complete
20 Lydia Foot Surgery Bagonza Lydia is a teenage child in Uganda and attends the Greenfield Secondary School in Uganda where she is 9th out of 84 students. Lydia suffers from club foot and must use a cane to painfully walk. This project would help fund a surgery to repair Lydia's foot.Funding Complete. Lydia has been to Kumi hospital but they do not feel her foot is operable. We are obtaining a second opinion and evaluation to make sure this is truly the case.	Amount to fund: $500 100% Complete Admin costs: $35 100% Complete

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