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The Tibet Fund (New York, NY) is a nonprofit, founded in 1981, to help improve the lives of Tibetan refugees and enable them to maintain their Tibetan way of life and culture.
In the past 26 years, the Tibet Fund has increased its funding for programs to the present level of $5.5 million annually.
The Tibet Fund supports [...]

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) was founded as a nonprofit in 1987 by a Minnesota businessman who witnessed the starving children of Honduras during a humanitarian visit. In 2007 alone, FMSC produced a total of 40-million meals with the assistance of 170,000 volunteers. The 2010 goal is to produce 100-million meals.
About 50 countries have been sent [...]

Fairloom (Westport, MA) is a nonprofit with a mission where young people in the USA and Brazil work together to build a sustainable education and economic foundation for the community of Terra Prometida, Brazil. Fairloom helps local Brazilian artisans grow their businesses and expand their markets, and use the growing profits to provide education for their community.
Graduates [...]

International Foundation of Hope (IFH), USA offices in Wenatchee, WA and Grand Junction, CO, is a charity that has been working in Afghanistan since 1998 on projects related to economic development, community empowerment and education.
From the Russian invasion in 1979, through a civil war from 1989 to 1994, and Taliban rule from 1995 to 2001, the [...]

The USA Today, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health conducted a joint Public Health Survey in January 2008 of 1,695 American adults ages 18 and older. 41% of Americans said paying for prescription medicines was either a ’serious problem’ or a ‘problem, but not serious’ … 58% said it was ‘not much [...]

Whitman Direct Action (WDA) is a nonprofit, open source, student-run organization from Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington) that is dedicated to helping marginalized people by promoting economically and environmentally sustainable community development.
The current project of WDA is the Sadhana Clean Water Project in rural India. WDA aims to explore possible strategies with local non-profit organizations and [...]

World Hope International (WHI) is a faith based relief and development organization alleviating suffering and injustice through education, enterprise and community health. WHI (Alexandria, VA) is working in over 30 countries worldwide in programs such as:
* Anti-Trafficking
* Hope for Children

DAY 2 OF RITU’S DIARY
Worldwide, over a billion people … 1 out of every 6 human beings worldwide … live in extreme poverty … less than $1/day. What does living on a $1 a day look like? Ritu Sharma Fox, President and Co-founder of Women Thrive Worldwide, traveled to Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries [...]