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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

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According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. Why is that? 2) How do M-Changa’s crowdfunding services fill that void?

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My Triple Ripple of Kindness: Helping Women in San Jose and Kenya

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I used my $100 check to purchase holiday gifts for Next Door Solutions, an agency here in Silicon Valley that safety for battered women and their children through emergency shelter; multiple points of entry for victims; individuals, system and institutional advocacy; crisis intervention; education for victims and the community. Your turn.

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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

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These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Mango trees in Kenya. ChildFund wants to show folks how their efforts and these items benefit children and their communities. The organization has served children since 1938 and helps 15.2 A goat for a family farm in Zambia.

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The Power of Sport in Changing the World

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Our vision is to use this power to end violence, discrimination, and disadvantage for young people and children. Without the power of sport, they wouldn’t have had an opportunity to dream and be children again. Among its successes: 72,878 children and young people became less socially isolated.

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Kenya: What Can One Person Do?

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According to a recent AP report , 300,000 people in Kenya were forced to leave their homes, and over 800 people were killed during this past month's post-election violence. Feministing suggests making donations to the Kenya Red Cross Society. Kenya donation I want to do something. El Oso made a donation through MamaMikes.

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

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She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children. Panelists from Brazil, Kenya, and Jamaica discussed the importance of empowering communities in the African diaspora. I shared about my great-grandmother, “Lil Mama,” who was born in Louisiana 30 years after the end of slavery and lived until 108.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

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Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. On the last stop of that trip, I went to Kenya to climb a mountain.