Centro Escolar Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe School)

Location: Tola Setting: Rural-Urban

Subject Areas
Education; Environment

Organization Objectives
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is a public school that offers educational services at the primary level, including “official” (publically-funded) and “unofficial” (volunteer-run) classes. Approximately 531 children between the ages of 3 and 12 years old attend the school in two shifts (morning and afternoon). The school's mission is to “teach children the skills and abilities they need in their personal, family, and social lives to contribute to the economic development of Nicaragua, under the principles of equality, justice, and solidarity.”

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Manos Abiertas

Location: Salta

Subject Areas
Microfinance
Environment

Organization Objectives
Mission: Manos Abiertas assists members of the community in situations of poverty, illness, and hardship. Through various programs they work to re-integrate and dignify this population, providing job training, shelter, education, and health care.

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Manav Rozgar Kshamta Vikas Sansthan (Human Employment Ability Development Society/HEADS)

Location: Udaipur Setting: Rural Established: 2000 Staff: 15

Subject Areas:

Community Development: Community Empowerment; Building Social Capital; Social
Work; Social Responsibility
Environment: Sustainable/Organic Agriculture; Vermicomposting
Microfinance: Microcredit; Microlending; Entrepreneurship; Community Financial
Institutions; Budgeting; Managing Financial Resources; Social Entrepreneurship
Women's Empowerment: Intra-familial violence; Reproductive Rights; Self-Help Groups

Organization Objectives:
As the name suggests, Manav Rozgar Kshamta Vikas Sansthan (Human Employment Ability Development Society) aims to empower the marginalized through capacity building workshops, skill-building sessions, and other activities to enable human beings to seek more economic opportunities for themselves and their villages. Since its inception, HEADS has focused its attention on various community mobilization and development projects, such as creating self-help groups for microfinance activities, promoting sustainable agricultural practices (i.e. vermicompost production), organizing HIV/AIDS and reproductive health awareness programs, and offering skill training for women and adolescents. HEADS is committed to ensuring that equal opportunities exist for women, children, and the marginalized so they are able to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty. Specially, HEADS aims to:

  • Empower poor and marginalized people through participation in local government
    and community development programs
  • Facilitate greater economic freedom through livelihoods training and self-help groups
    (SHGs)
  • Increase land fertility, seed viability, and yield through vermicomposting and
    sustainable agriculture methods
  • Build awareness about women’s health, reproductive health, and violence against
    women through a network of peer educators

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Alcaldia de Ciudad Sandino: Departmento Del Medio Ambiente (Mayor's Office Environmental Department)


Location: Ciudad Sandino Setting: Rural and Urban Established: 2002 Staff: 3

Subject Areas:

Community Development: Social Responsibility, Infrastructure Development

Environment: Environmental Education, Reforestation, Waters Systems Management, Conservation

Health: Public Health


Organization Objectives: The Environmental Department of the Mayor’s office of Ciudad Sandino strives to guide, regulate, coordinate, and promote the sustainable management of the environment and its natural resources. Through educational campaigns, reforestation initiatives and workshops, they are attempting to reverse the cultural tendencies that have ignored the importance of the surrounding environment. Their goals are:

  • Educate students, professors, NGO’s, companies and the general public on the negative externalities of ignoring the environment
  • Improve the quality of life of the citizens through implementing projects to decrease the overwhelming pollution throughout the municipality of Ciudad Sandino
  • Implement reforestation projects in the rural areas to alleviate the extreme deforestation due to the high demand for fire wood
  • Provide Ciudad Sandino with a greener atmosphere through the reforestation of the boulevards, parks, plazas, schools, and businesses
  • Work for the elimination of illegal trash dumps and protect forests against illegal wood poachers

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Kakamega Forest Dispensary

Location: Isecheno, Kakamega Setting: Rural Established: 1970's Staff: 5

Subject Areas:

Health and Community Outreach

Organization Objectives:
The Kakamega Forest Dispensary’s main objective is to provide accessible, reliable health care for persons living in and around the rural area of Isecheno and the surrounding communities. In addition the Dispensary is involved in the following:
• Provide home-based care for those living with HIV/AIDS in and around Isecheno
• Provide and encourage community members to know their HIV status through a government-sponsored Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) center.
• Educate community mothers on the importance of vaccination for infants and children and provide once-weekly vaccination days in which they are able to benefit from the administering of free vaccines.
• Promote prevention through outreach programs and the distribution of verbal and printed information regarding pressing health threats like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and malnutrition.

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Renewed Efforts to Alleviate Poverty (REAP)

Location: Masaka, Uganda Setting: Urban Established: 2001 Staff: 5

Subject Areas:

Human Rights: Democratic Governance


Environment: Sustainable environmental management for income generation


HIV/AIDS: Sensitization and counseling

Organization Objectives: The Renewed Efforts to Alleviate Poverty (REAP) seeks to improve peoples’ standards of living through leadership development, policy awareness, promotion of human rights and facilitating active participatory development planning and action through is mission. Its main goal include the following: • Improved living standards of people especially children, women and the youth.

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ST. JUDE FAMILY PROJECTS

Location: Masaka, Uganda

Setting: Rural

Established: 1994

Staff: 25

Subject Areas:

Sustainable Integrated Organic Agriculture: seed beds, trainings farmers, environmental management

Organization Objectives: St. Jude family projects (Rural Training center for Sustainable Integrated Organic Agriculture)’s mission is to provide trainings and inspiring demonstrations in integrated organic agriculture. Its main goals include the following.

To work towards making rural areas a better place to live in, a place that young people want to remain in instead of migrating to urban areas. More specifically related to their purpose seeing healthy people eating diverse and healthy food with reliable income.

To work with communities by building on and strengthening existing resources whether they are tangible ones like natural resources or intangible ones such as indigenous knowledge.

To nature a culture in which farmers are continually learning from each other.

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Instituto José de la Cruz Mena (JCM)

Location: Masaya / Ciudad Sandino Setting: Urban Established: 1973 Staff: 70

Location: Masaya / Ciudad Sandino      Setting: Urban      Established: 1973      Staff: 70

 

Subject Areas

Youth and Education: Communication, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development, Complimentary Learning, Teaching

Environment: Environmental Education

Human Rights: Child Advocacy, Mediation

 

Organization Objectives

Instituto JCM strives to foster growth and development in youth so that they can succeed in their higher education and career endeavors. Its goals are to:

  • Provide a practical education for youth in Masaya
  • Offer technical education to prepare youth for employment
  • Encourage youth to participate in cultural and extracurricular activities
  • Support youth in their goals and obstacles
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The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)

Organization Name: The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)

Location: Masaka Setting: Urban/Rural Established: 1998 Staff: 50

 

Subject Areas

Health: HIV/AIDS, AIDS Orphans, Public Health, Nutrition, High-Risk Behavior, Prevention Education

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Building Social Capital, Famine and Food Security

Environment: Resources, Conservation, Environmental Health, Environmental Education, Organic/Sustainable Agriculture

Microenterprise: Small Business Management, Microcredit, Micro-Lending, Strategic Management

 

Organization Objectives

The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) strives to improve the lives of HIV-infected or -affected persons as part of the larger effort to address the world’s AIDS pandemic. It promotes prevention, hope restoration, and general support physically and emotionally to its clients. Its goals are to:

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Organization for Development Education (UNNATI)

Location: Jodphur Setting: Urban Established: 1990 Staff: 25

Subject Areas

Community Development: Social responsibility, Community empowerment, Infrastructure development
Environment/Appropriate Technology: Water, Natural resource management
Human Rights: Poverty, equality and social Justice, Forced migration
Women's Empowerment: Advocacy and rights, Capacity building

Organization Objectives

UNNATI aims to create an inclusive society where all stakeholders, particularly the vulnerable dalits ("Untouchables"), participate with full empowerment and gain equal access to and control over services, resources, and institutions. Its goals are to:

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