The Livingstone Tanzania Trust is a self-help development charity that alleviates poverty through education. Through grassroots participation, Livingstone helps local communities realize their development aspirations in a cost effective, sustainable way. In August 2010, Roadmonkey and The Livingtone Trust will once again team to build a fuel-efficient kitchen at the Waangwaray Primary School farm in Babati, Tanzania, following the Roadmonkey group’s summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. In June 2010, a 9-person Roadmonkey expedition team built a fish pond and turned a cinder-block classroom into one of the few primary-school libraries in Tanzania.
The Catalyst Foundation provides families living in Vietnam’s most extreme poverty access to education and economic opportunities, with the goal of building a sense of collective empowerment. Many of these families are particularly vulnerable to child trafficking. Catalyst Foundation raises awareness of trafficking at the grassroots level. In November 2010, Roadmonkey expedition members will work with Catalyst to build a playground for impoverished children in the Mekong Delta.
Awamaki empowers impoverished indigenous women in the region near Cusco, in southern Peru, to improve the quality of their weavings, revitalize the rich Quechua textile tradition and provide the weavers a reliable income. In May 2010, Roadmonkey expedition members will refurbish the weavers’ headquarters in a village on the historic Inca Trail. Awamaki U.S. is a tax-exempt not-for-profit organization. In November 2009, Travel & Leisure named Awamaki as a Global Vision award winner.
For more than a half century, The Fabretto Children’s Foundation enables impoverished Nicaraguan children and their families to break the cycle of poverty and reach their full potential with programs that promote nutrition, health, education, community and character development. In March 2010, Roadmonkey and Fabretto built a playground at a school in northern Nicaragua. Based in Virginia, the foundation is a not-for-profit organization.
The East Meets West Foundation (EMW) is “the foundation for learning, healing and health.” EMW’s work reflects the belief that every person deserves access to clean water, proper medical treatment and a solid education. Founded in 1988, EMW has a 21-year track record of innovative and effective work in Vietnam and a vast portfolio of completed projects. EMW projects and programs are known for their high quality, long-term sustainability, emphasis on results and significant scale. EMW is registered by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) organization.
In July, Roadmonkey teamed with our partner in Tanzania, The Bibi Jann Children’s Care Trust, to build a clean-water system and build and paint several classrooms at a school in Mbagala, a suburb of Dar es Salaam, for 130 children, some of whom were orphaned by AIDS. We are deeply grateful for the opportunity to work with Bibi Jann’s founders, Jann Mitchell-Sandström and Fatuma Gwao, and Fatuma’s son, Dickson Pyuza, and all school teachers and the inspiring group of local “bibis” and residents to improve the lives of these children.
Worldwide Orphans Foundation was founded in 1997 by Dr. Jane Aronson, a pediatric infectious disease and adoption medicine specialist. WWO’s mission is to transform the lives of orphaned children by taking them out of anonymity and helping them to become healthy, independent, productive members of their communities. In November 2008, Roadmonkey teamed with WWO to build a playground for HIV-positive orphans in Ba Vi, west of Hanoi. WWO and Roadmonkey are currently working to develop a hands-on volunteer project to benefit orphaned children in Ethiopia.
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The Omprakash Foundation lists volunteer opportunities at more than 100 grassroots social projects in more than 25 countries, including Peru, Uganda, India and many others. Omprakash screens and verifies all volunteer organizations we list and we offer connections to them free of charge. We represent organizations focused on issues as diverse as deforestation, women’s empowerment, clean energy, food security, and access to clean drinking water.
