Dear Writerml,
ICICI Communities:
ICICI Communities is an initiative of ICICI, India's largest financial
institution, and GIVE Foundation. Unlike other institutions, it works
like a donation facilitator and a watchdog. The entire amount of the
donated money will reach the non profit organization for the activity
that you choose. It provides feedback on how the donation is used. All
charges of the financial transaction are borne by ICICI and your
chosen donor organization gets the entire donation. GIVE Foundation
audits the accounts of all organizations and ensure that your money is
used for the right cause (
http://www.icicicommunities.org/communities/finalgive/howweselectngos.htm
). After auditing they have listed many charitable organizations.
For poverty alleviation, they have over 20 organizations listed after approval.
One can choose organizations by name or activity. Some of the
activities listed at the site include:
-- Care for disabled
-- Care for elderly
-- Child welfare
-- Education
-- Environment
-- Health & Sanitation
-- Human rights & empowerment
-- Livelihoods & Poverty
-- Women & family services
-- Youth welfare
""India's First Online Donation channel that guarantees.." ICICI Communities.
http://www.icicicommunities.org/communities/index.asp
(The navigation window for various charities is on the left.
Registration is required prior to donate.)
They also have a US-based organization that ensures that donations in
USA also are tax-free (http://www.giveworld.org/ ). The minimum amount
of donation to them is just around USD 11.
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Project Small Family
Project Small Family promotes small family norms in under privileged
segments of world population by providing direct financial incentives
to female members of the households. It aims to raise the status of
women, in their household, by improving their financial status. It
raises the financial status of a family, by promoting a smaller family
size. It also helps in controlling the runaway population growth, in
regions where it is least affordable.
Project Small Family is running projects in the poorest areas of the
poorest Indian state. They accept a minimum donation of USD 100.
"Contribute". Project Small Family.
http://www.projectsmallfamily.org/contribute_money.htm
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Send a Cow
"The gift of just one cow can make an enormous difference to a
desperately poor East African family, enabling them to combat
malnutrition with protein-rich milk and earn an income from the sale
of the surplus milk. Manure from cows and other livestock can also
double and even treble crop yields - making a real difference to
families dependent on tiny plots of exhausted soil for their living.
Families can invest their increased income in a better future: sending
their children to school, or starting new enterprises, such as poultry
breeding. Most of our livestock goes to women, because they are
usually the poorest people in their communities and because this is
the best way to ensure that help reaches the whole family. Our initial
gifts go on multiplying indefinitely, as each woman who receives
livestock promises to hand on her animal's first female offspring to
another poor woman farmer, who will do the same in her turn. We also
work particularly with disabled people, child-headed orphan families
and families bringing up young orphaned relatives. We now work in
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Lesotho."
They take flexible amounts of money as donation. The payment is made
in UK Pounds. Apart from cows, they can also send goats, poultry, bees
or pigs. For example, you can donate 12 chickens and 8 turkeys for
just 60 UK pounds. They also plant trees and provide education.
In order to see all the options, please choose "Click here to make a
donation using the
Special Occasions Gift Catalogue" at
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/make-a-donation.html.
"Send a cow livestock for life". Send a Cow website.
http://www.sendacow.org.uk/
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HelpAge India
HelpAge India is working for the cause and care of Older Persons, with
the ultimate aim of empowering them to take decisions pertaining to
their own lives. Over the years HelpAge India has changed its
orientation from implementing welfare projects to those that focus on
development. It now lays stress on income-generation and micro-credit
projects that enable the participation of Older Persons in the
mainstream of society.
They can take any amount of your choice as donation.
"Donate Online". HelpAge India.
http://www.helpageindia.org/login.php
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CARE India
" CARE confronts the underlying causes of poverty. We save lives,
provide economic opportunity and promote self-help. With excellence
and compassion, we seek to forge a world of hope, tolerance and social
justice. CARE is an international relief and development organization.
In 2000, CARE directly improved the lives of more than 27 million
people in 69 countries across Africa and the Middle East Asia and the
Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Tens of millions
more benefited indirectly from CARE projects addressing the complex
problem of poverty."
One of their main projects is Small Economic Activity Development
(http://www.careindia.org:8080/displaySector.jsp?sCode=CIS18 ).
They can take any amount of your choice as donation.
"Homepage". CARE India.
http://www.careindia.org:8080/index.jsp
Search strategy:
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Donate+India
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=donate+poor
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Clarification of Answer by
kapilr-ga
on
18 May 2004 00:49 PDT
Dear Writerml,
Thank you so much for sending in a clarification request! It helps to
know that how we can enhance the answer as per your requirements. Here
are some more charities that operate in other third-world countries:
Trickle Up:
"Founded in 1979, the Trickle Up Program's mission is to help the
lowest income people worldwide take the first steps out of poverty, by
providing conditional seed capital, business training, and relevant
support services essential to the launch or expansion of a
microenterprise. This proven social and economic empowerment model is
implemented in partnership with local agencies."
They give priority is given to countries that rank low on the United
Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index (HDI) , which
tracks per capita income, adult literacy rates, life expectancy, and
school enrollment. They also target regions emerging from war and
suffering from natural disasters such as Rwanda and El Salvador.
"Home page". Trickle Up.
http://www.trickleup.org/
Grameen Foundation:
"Grameen Foundation USA works in partnership with the Grameen Bank,
pioneer of small loans to the poor, to fight poverty all over the
world. The Grameen Bank was started in Bangladesh in 1976 as an
action-research project that attempted to provide tiny loans to very
poor people to allow them to start "micro-businesses." Twenty-five
years later, Grameen Bank has 2.4 million borrowers, 94% of whom are
women, and has loaned more than $3.7 billion in amounts averaging less
than $200."
They work mostly in Bangladesh and cover other countries.
"Grameen Foundation USA donation page." Grameen Foundation.
http://www.gfusa.org/give/#online
Freedom from Hunger:
"Credit with Education is Freedom from Hunger's worldwide strategy to
bring self-help solutions to the fight against hunger--one family at a
time. In 1988, we initiated the Credit with Education program,
launching a new era of impact and outreach in our fight against
hunger. The success of the program lies in its ability to combine
information for improving people's lives with the means to do so.
Through a combination of cash credit and vital health/nutrition
education, Credit with Education enables women to buy more and better
food, invest in their children's education, take control of their
families' health, and help each other to have a greater influence in
their communities."
They work in Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala
and other countries.
They can take flexible amount of donation, starting with USD 20.
"You can make a difference." Freedom from Hunger.
http://www.freefromhunger.org/help.html
Please do let me know if you have any more clarifications.
Regards,
kapilr-ga
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