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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

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As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. CARE Packages: CARE has a very unique holiday gift program that allows you to compile care packages to send to women entrepreneurs and girls worldwide.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

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How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded. We are also planning a trip to Peru! We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. If you would like to join that campaign, please let me know.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. For example, when women have this kind of specific skill-set training, they are more likely to have less children, to keep the children they do have in school, to be able to provide access to medical care, and things like that. She had four children.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

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I went off to Peru and went trekking in the mountains, and came face-to-face with developing country poverty for the first time, and thought well, maybe something could be done with engineering, and design, and poverty. I applied for a Fulbright Fellowship to go back to Peru. You're not going to Peru."