May 2012
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May 25th
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Project of the Week: Literacy training for African...
Project Snapshot Total Cost: $5000 Lives Affected: 440 Dollars Raised: $2,802            Dollars Needed: $2,198 Women. They are one the most powerful and effective tools out there in the battle against extreme poverty. We are all becoming familiar with the concept that if a woman in one of the poorest places in the world is empowered with an education, there is an immediate impact on the...
May 21st
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May 18th
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Project of the Week: $5 to the Finish Line
For the past four months, Carla White has been riding her heart out, raising money to bring awareness to Energy Poverty in Africa, and provide solar lanterns to impoverished communities across the continent. Carla’s been keeping a blog of her adventure along the way. Today, she’s at the finish line. And we’re almost at our fundraising goal: Goal: $25,000 Remaining: $1,462 Facts...
May 14th
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She was the one who gave you breath...
Whether she did that by giving birth to you, opening your eyes to the world, or cheering you on as you took on the world, a day dedicated to reciprocating those gifts with a little inspiration of your own fast approaches. Now, the only question is what sort of inspiration do you want to give her? DIRECT CHANGE IN HER NAME and make a donation in Mom’s name to the project that you think best fits...
May 8th
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Project Of The Week: Seed Paddy Comes Out Trumps!
Project Snapshot Total Cost: $4,650 Lives Affected: 80 Dollars Raised: $1,989 Dollars Needed: $2,661 Living conditions are very difficult in the Kiribamunagama village, part of the Karunegala District in Sri Lanka. This very poor area has just about 65 acres of Seed Paddy acres combined in storage, with most families having no land at all. Most of these families with almost nothing receive income...
May 7th
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May 4th
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April 2012
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Project of the Week: Lawra District Micro-Credit...
Project Snapshot Total Cost: $13,500 Lives Affected: 300 Dollars Raised: $797 Dollars Needed: $12,703   This project is designed to empower the women of the Lawra District, in Ghana, through the improvement of their living standards. This is expected to help both them and their immediate families throughout the process. Our friends at ‘FORDG’ (Friends of Rural Development Ghana) are implementing...
Apr 30th
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Apr 27th
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Project Of The Week
Total Cost: $10,000 Lives Affected: 4,200 Dollars Raised: $8,361 Dollars Needed: $1,639   Building on the success of other water well projects around the world, ‘Change For Children’ is heading a ‘Drilling for Clean Water’ project in Tonkolili, Sierra Leone. They are teaming up with a local organization to raise funds in order to drill 5 water wells in the Romano Village region of the nation....
Apr 23rd
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Apr 20th
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Project Of The Week: Micro-Loans For AIDS Orphans...
Project Snapshot Total Cost: $5,084 Lives Affected: 109 Dollars Raised: $3,629    Dollars Needed: $1,455   Our partners at ‘True Vision Ghana’ are heading a project in Wa, Upper-West Region, Ghana, to assist those caregivers who must take care of at least one AIDS orphan, aside from their family. Northern Ghana is the most impoverished region in Ghana, and one of the most...
Apr 16th
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Apr 13th
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Project Of The Week: Micro-Credit for Families...
Project Snapshot: Project Cost: $ 5,500 Lives Affected: 5,000 Dollars Raised: $ 125 Dollars Needed: $ 5,375   Change for Children is teaming up with their partner organization, KIHEFO (Kigezi Healthcare Foundation), by assisting families/entrepreneurs in Kabale, Uganda, who have been affected by civil strife and HIV/AIDS. This project was initiated as a response to the growing need for financial...
Apr 9th
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Apr 6th
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Project Of The Week: Literacy Training- Creating...
Project Snapshot: Project Cost: $5,000  Lives Affected: 200+  Dollars Raised: $2,226  Dollars Needed: $2,774   $5000 will enable 25 women in a village to take literacy classes for one year, including health, human rights and financial management training. Their savings are also matched for a household project. This five-year project will improve the quality of life and standard of living for...
Apr 3rd
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March 2012
15 posts
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Mar 30th
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POTW: “Motlan” Dental Clinic and Oral Health...
Snapshot Project cost: $4,900 Lives affected: 2,640 Dollars raised: $377 Dollars needed: $4,263 The sorry state of most villagers’ teeth, both in terms of caries and gingivitis, attest to the real need for low cost dental services, oral hygiene education and better nutrition. There are various reasons for the deteriorated condition of people’s teeth: 1) Their level of poverty, which doesn’t allow...
Mar 26th
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Mar 23rd
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World Water Day – 5 questions with 3 partners....
It’s World Water Day… …And we have the pleasure of working with fantastic organizations doing great things around the world to help eradicate global extreme poverty. A few of our partners are specifically targeting water, making it easier for people to access clean, healthy drinking water. So we asked each partner 5 questions about their take on the current water crisis and what people...
Mar 23rd
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World Water Day – 5 questions with 3 partners....
It’s World Water Day… …And we have the pleasure of working with fantastic organizations doing great things around the world to help eradicate global extreme poverty. A few of our partners are specifically targeting water, making it easier for people to access clean, healthy drinking water. So we asked each partner 5 questions about their take on the current water crisis and what people...
Mar 22nd
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World Water Day – 5 questions with 3 partners...
It’s World Water Day… …And we have the pleasure of working with fantastic organizations doing great things around the world to help eradicate global extreme poverty. A few of our partners are specifically targeting water, making it easier for people to access clean, healthy drinking water. So we asked each partner 5 questions about their take on the current water crisis and what people...
Mar 22nd
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If it's Yellow let it mellow, the Couch Potato's...
Tomorrow is UN World Water Day. And UEnd has decided to create a guide for the uninitiated. Most people believe that their water habits don’t need to be changed. UEnd begs to differ. There are a number of things one can do without too much effort to observe this significant day all without venturing too far from the couch. Jay Baydala, Founder and Executive Director of UEnd states...
Mar 21st
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POTW: U:Powered
This week’s Project of the Week is UEnd Poverty’s very own U:Powered project. It’s a project near and dear to our hearts and is ultimately what will help UEnd stay afloat. See, every dollar donated to a project through UEnd goes to those projects, leaving administration costs up to private donors and our U:Powered membership. $5/month is all it takes to help change the world. For...
Mar 19th
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Mar 16th
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A UEnd:Poverty Word Cloud
Mar 14th
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Mar 9th
: My visit to Strong Hearts - Addis Ababa,... →
carlabikesafrica: Greetings from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Today I spent the day with Dundee, the co-founder and visionary behind Strong Hearts - the recipient organization of the first two solar lights. An incredibly special day for me. Dundee’s real name is Getinet Tafesse. A few years ago a couple…
Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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: Separation.... →
carlabikesafrica: After 19 days of Ethiopian children throwing rocks, soccer balls and sticks trying to separate cyclists from their bikes (and ONLY 3 days from the Kenyan border) - I too have been separated from mine. More specifically my shoulder has been separated from me! Ugh!!! The good news is I’ll be…
Mar 5th
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Mar 3rd
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February 2012
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Lanterns ready to go to Africa.
Carla White is doing such a great job cycling from Cairo to Cape Town in the Tour d’Afrique in her bike to end energy poverty in Africa, encountering 100+KM/day rides, extreme heat, sleeping in tents, being whipped by nasty children with sticks, and a daily 5am wake up call. Yikes! (it’s not ALL that bad, read her blog to hear about her other amazing stories) BUT, she’s also raising money to give...
Feb 28th
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Feb 24th
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POTW: Ensuring Livelihood Security For Widows
Project Snapshot Lives affected: 1750 Project cost: $10,000 Dollars raised: $893 Dollars needed: $9,107 Here is a project that might pull at your heart-stings. In parts of Bangladesh, men make a living working in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans; something they’ve been doing for centuries. However, these parts are also the habitat of Royal Bengal Tigers, which presents a real danger to...
Feb 23rd
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The SEED Event – Thank you!
UEnd was graciously invited to attend and have a presence at The SEED Event, held in Calgary on Sunday February 19th. UEnd Founder and Executive Director, Jay Baydala also had a chance to speak to a captive audience of 1200 people. So many thank you’s need to be given to SEED Event for donating proceeds of the event to UEnd and for allowing us to set up information tables, have a silent auction...
Feb 23rd
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Friday Photo
Amazing work being done by the Global Enrichment Foundation in Somalia. Like the Hoops for Hope project providing funding and gear for a female basketball team. Awesome. Learn more about this project here: http://www.uend.org/dt/projects/165
Feb 17th
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POTW: Wage Labour To Dignified Self Employment
Snapshot: Lives affected: 156 Project cost: $4,100 Dollars raised: $441 Dollars needed: $3,659 Boraluwewa village in the Kobeigane Divisional Secretary’s Division in the Kurunegala District, Sri Lanka, has 30 families who work for a producer supplying coconut husk chips to an exporting firm in the district. There are several such producers but there is a large unsatisfied demand for these...
Feb 13th
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Friday Photo
Don’t you just LOVE this photo! It was taken at a Change for Children water well project in Sierra Leone. And now you can give a LOVE-filled UEnd gift with our Valentine’s Day themed gift cards. What better way to say “I love you” than with the gift of ending poverty. Give.
Feb 10th
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12 projects that are proof you are changing the...
We hear it all the time: “How do I know my money is going to good use?” Well, we’ve mandated that we share with you every project that has succeeded or hit a milestone or needs more help. Here we’d like to share with you 12 projects that have seen a major change in their outcome since they started: 1) While only 23 families were targeted to benefit from the original project proposal, 37 families...
Feb 9th
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POTW: Holistic Home Improvements
Project Snapshot Lives affected: 80 Project cost: $12,447 Dollars raised: $55 Dollars needed: $12,392 Project Description:Classes are offered in family planning, pre/post natal care, exclusive breastfeeding, menopause, nutrition and first aid, as well as financial planning, budgeting, and saving. Students have the opportunity to save money while enrolled in classes. Once they graduate,...
Feb 7th
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Friday Photo
Oh Carla… so happy! Follow Carla’s adventures as she bikes Africa to End Energy Poverty: www.carlabikesafrica.com
Feb 3rd
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January 2012
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POTW: Students For Change: Twinning For...
Project Snapshot: Lives affected: 350 Project cost: $7,424 Dollars raised: $408 Dollars needed: $7,016 Twinning is about establishing formal linkages for the purpose of deriving benefits in terms of social, economic, educational and political development of beneficiaries involved. The pilot twinning project established by Healthy Child Uganda in partnership with Faculty of Development...
Jan 30th
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Friday Photo
Friday Photo Micro-Credit For Families Of Malnourished Children As part of Change for Children’s Agriculture & Micro-Credit to Combat Infant/Child Mortality Project, the micro-credit loans component has the potential to make lasting and sustainable change in the region. Visit this project http://www.uend.org/dt/projects/140 Give $5 as a gift card to a friend...
Jan 27th
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POTW: Lawra District Micro-credit for Women...
Project Snapshot Lives affected: 300 Project cost: $13,500 Dollars raised: $793 Dollars needed: $12,707 Project Description: This project will empower women through the improvement of their living standards. This is expected to impact not only their own lives, but the lives of their immediate family as well. The intention is to provide beneficiary women with micro-credit aimed at helping...
Jan 24th
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Jan 20th
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POTW - January 16
POTW: Vocational Training for Women - Phase Two. Project snapshot: • Lives affected: 35,000 • Project cost: $10,000 • Dollars raised $5,102 • Dollars needed: $4,898 • Cause Sector: Economy - Gender Equality   Project Location: Chipursan/Pakistan  Project Description:  The Chipursan valley is located in north Pakistan at the border of Afghan Pamir. Three thousand people live in this...
Jan 16th
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Friday Photo!
This photo is from a CAUSE Canada project: To build the capacity of indigenous Mayan women to lead their families and communities to increased well-being, including better health and higher incomes, through microcredit access and business management training. Visit the project page
Jan 13th
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Cairo Times... →
carlabikesafrica: On January 8th I left Calgary to begin the easy part of the next five months of travel – the flights to Cairo, Egypt. Along the way - from the Calgary Airport through Heathrow and into Cairo I met up with four fellow TDA riders. Ian from England, Ester from Australia, Michael from…
Jan 13th
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POTW-Home Improvements Empowering Women
Project snapshot: • Lives affected (including yours): 50 • Project cost: $15,559t • Dollars raised $595 • Dollars needed: $14,964 • Cause Sector: Education, Gender Equality Project Description: To build the capacity of indigenous Mayan women to lead their families and communities to increased well-being, including better health and higher incomes, through leadership and asset...
Jan 3rd
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December 2011
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An Easy New Year's Resolution
I’ve never kept a New Year’s resolution for the entire year. There, I said. They usually last the first two weeks of January. I make a “commitment” to run every day. I “promise” I will finally master that song on the guitar. But I don’t. Feel the same? Still bummed about those 10 pounds you didn’t lose? Or the trip you didn’t take? ...
Dec 30th
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