Other Suggested Donations

Sponsor a promising young girl in East Africa to go to college to become a teacher or a nurse.  $2,000 USD a year for three years can offer hope to a young woman and her community. Any amount can be donated and will be added to The Butterfly Project scholarship fund.

Any amount

Sponsor a ceramic water filter, which will provide clean drinking water, for an orphan-headed household, school, clinic, or orphan home in rural Kenya. Filters are crafted by Kenyans, using local materials.

$20 USD

Purchase a school uniform for a needy child in Ghana. The cost of a school uniform is prohibitive for some parents, single mothers and orphans caregivers. Dzidefo Women's Cooperative works closely with local schools and makes uniforms for the children who are in the most need.

$20 USD

Donate five library books that can be shared with an entire community.

$25 USD

Donate 25 fruit-bearing trees that will have a long-term benefit for families as a source of food and/or income.

$25 USD

Support environment and public health education for village youth by donating to VV's Environmental Youth Action Corp. Through a two-day workshop, village youth learn the hazards of improper disposal of batteries, burning plastics, farm chemicals, and other public health hazards. $15 USD supports training for one youth.

$30 USD

Donate 10 mosquito nets to help prevent malaria.

Sponsor bio-intensive organic farming workshops for women farmers. The food from the Feed Villages demonstration farm is donated to a local school or orphan home.

$50 USD

Support Kick it with Kenya's week-long youth empowerment conferences, and support youth health education. The conferences combine health education and sports, teaching youth about subjects, such as malaria, TB, sanitation, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS during the day, and hosting soccer (football) tournaments in the afternoon. $50 USD sponsors one participant, and provides him or her with room and board for the week, a jersey, and school supplies. For more ways to support Kick it with Kenya, visit www.KickitwithKenya.org.

$50 USD

Donate a one month supply of fabric to the Dzidefo Women's Cooperative in Ghana.

$50 USD

Sponsor an HIV/AIDS training program for 20 youth to become Youth Outreach Mentors.

$60 USD

Donate one sewing machine to the Dzidefo Women's Cooperative in Ghana.

$75 USD

Donate one bicycle, a key means of transportation needed for retrieving medicine and supplies in remote areas.

$100 USD

Provide seed money for a woman to start or expand her micro-enterprise in areas such as tailoring, weaving, poultry, dairy, milling, farming and baking.

$100 USD

Donate two goats for breeding that will provide nutrition and a source of income-generation.

$150 USD

Sponsor an orphan's primary school (day school) books, uniform, meals and basic health care for one year.

$365 USD

Sponsor an orphan's secondary school tuition, books, uniform, room, board and basic health care for one year.

$650 USD

Fund vocational workshops and supplies for 50 women. Past workshops have been about solar cooking, solar food dehydration, briquetting, and organic farming methods.

$2,000 USD