Deep Poverty & Hunger Can break a child’s spirit and humble a community. Poverty is on rise. Today, close to one billion people around the world live in less than $ 1 a day.But where there’s poverty there’s also hope. For more than 45 years, we’ve been addressing extreme poverty around the country. Anderson Schools has more than 1500 children coming from remote village.
Books are a blessing for children, women, and men as they learn to read, write, and simply learn. Give a gift of a few books.
You can help a child like and his family have enough food to eat, clothes to wear, and the Opportunity to attend school. Free a Family from poverty today with a one-time gift of $42 for one month or $504 for one year or give automatically every month. Monthly Free a Family supporters receive a letter of introduction and a color picture of the family.Each quarter donors also receive updates telling the story of the family’s lives as an example of how hundreds of families’ lives are changing for the better worldwide because of Free a Family supporters.
Primary school students often have to walk great distances to school, without breakfast. This gift provides a breakfast at school for a child for one month.
India’s rural population lives in dire poverty. Parents recognize the only way out of poverty for future generations is through education, but necessities like food and shelter must take priority over school fees for these poor families.
AECT helps rural kids gain access to education through scholarships. Education is a gift that multiplies. Your gift will educate a child who can improve his/her life and positively impact their community.
Clean water is something Americans can easily take for granted, while millions worldwide don’t have a source of clean water near their home. Give a gift of water this year to make clean water a reality for a family or an entire village. Give a gift to the Clean Water Fund to meet the greatest water need.
Love Without Boundaries works with schools in this region to ensure that students are given access to healthy living and learning conditions by providing items for a healthy living conditions.
Many students in India learn to read and write without a desk. Give the gift of a desk to better equip classrooms and the children and adults who learn there. Desks distributed in Honduras are made to sit three students to a desk.
Infected mosquitoes cause malaria in millions of children, women, and men every year, leaving them incapacitated for days at a time. Sleeping under a mosquito net each night greatly reduces the risk of infection.
Sewing machines and the training to create clothing provides a livelihood and a path out of poverty for women in India. Give a sewing machine to “sew” hope in a woman’s heart.
Goats are a treasure for families around the world. They are easy to care for and will eat almost anything! Goat milk is nutritious for children, and the goat itself acts as a piggy bank for the family, an asset they can sell when they need money to pay for a doctor’s visit or school tuition. And it’s a gift that keeps on giving—the firstborn kid of each goat is given to a neighboring family.
Pigs are valuable animals to own in Asia. Each family that receives a pig agrees to plant enough grass, beans, and corn to feed their pig, to build a well-designed pigpen with help from the village, and to vaccinate the pig, all with the advice and training of AECT staff. After the sale of the first litter the family will pay back the cost of the mother pig and have money left over to buy clothes, medicine, and other household items.
A cow is a great investment in India. Cow’s milk provides much needed nutrition for children, and any excess milk can be sold to increase the family’s income.
Challenge your workplace, small group or youth group to build a house for Indians.
Help a woman struggling to put food on the table, buy clothes, and send her children to school with a small loan to start a business. A gift of USD $300 will help a woman start a small business selling food staples, setting up a fruit and vegetable stand, or making and selling candy or fried food. Microloans are held for about eight months. Each month throughout the life of the loan, borrowers make a loan payment of capital and interest, put some aside to save, and have funds left over to meet family needs.
Men and women in India dream of having the income they need to provide for their families’ needs. Help them reach their dreams through training in small business development. With a gift of USD $ 80 one man or woman will join a small business group, attend a business class, receive a small loan for start-up capital, and begin running his or her own small business.
Lack of proper sanitation makes children sick, keeps them from school, and contributes to thousands of preventable deaths each year. Properly built and installed latrines and hygiene education can improve a community’s health.
The malnutrition level of children in many villages in India remains a concern with stunting occurring in over 55 percent of children in the target villages. AECT is training village leaders, parents and caregivers in nutrition, aiming to reduce the number of underweight children. Training sessions include a variety of activities such as role playing to convey what behaviors must change to better feed young children. A gift of USD$100 provides one training session over two days in the series of three trainings.
Teachers put in long days in Anderson Schools, often teaching students all day and then teaching adult literacy classes in the evening. These long days are rewarded with small salaries. Help support this work of education through a teacher stipend.
School Supplies for Children Equip boys and girls with the resources they need to begin their journey out of poverty. Many parents cannot afford these supplies for their children. Your gift will help mothers and fathers provide this vital first step
According to the World Health Organization, over 100 million disabled people need a wheelchair, but do not have the means to obtain one. Over 80% of these disabled individuals live in developing countries. The disabled poor are forced to crawl, must wait to be carried, or remain bedridden. They are dependent on others for basic needs. Families in poverty strain to care for disabled loved ones. Free Wheelchair provides wheelchairs, free of charge, to disabled individuals and their families.. The wheelchairs are life-changing, not only because they provide mobility, but they allow a disabled person to participate fully in society - giving independence, hope and dignity.
In India, cultural practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) put education further out of reach for girls. Extreme poverty prevents 65% of students from completing school. The challenge is even greater for girls from some communities and tribes who are some of India’s most desperately poor citizens and where female education is not valued. Less than 10% of girls from tribes make it to high school.AECT believes these girls can become change makers in their communities and beyond, and gives their tribe girls access to education. Students attend boarding schools where they are safe, stable and receive a quality education.
Families of physically disabled children in the India can rarely afford the surgery, special medical equipment, and therapy needed to enable their children to walk. Often these children are left at home and ostracized by their community since they cannot walk, attend school, and contribute to society.
AECT works to equip these children with leg braces and the finances needed to support primary education for disabled Indian children. When a child attains maximum mobility, they have hope and dignity which comes from receiving the same educational opportunities as other children.
Families in rural India rely on what they can grow to put food on the table and generate income. However, most families are struggling to survive as deforestation and environmental degradation have reduced the land’s ability to produce.
AECT works with rural farmers. The farmers, who are primarily women, are given resources to grow organic, bio-intensive gardens that improve family nutrition and grow marketable produce to sell at market.
AECT strategy includes caring for several tree nurseries, planting trees, distributing seedlings to local residents and schools, caring for a model forest, and training local students and farmers in sustainable agricultural techniques.
In rural areas of India, children cannot get a quality education even at the most basic, foundation level of preschool or elementary school—especially girls.
AECT has developed a system to overcome that obstacle. Utilizing new technologies, AECT develops and shares digital teacher training lessons through on-the-ground networks. This system enables highly trained and skilled teachers to share their knowledge with teachers in need of training—in their native language. People around the world are joining talents in this initiative—motivated by a simple but powerful vision: to break the chains of poverty through education!
Education is crucial to the long term development of children. In India the journey a girl takes to school is usually on foot. It can be long and exhaustin, it can also be dangerous. Girls may have to avoid numerous hazards and dangers on the way. Many girls are forced to travel to school in fear, arriving exhausted after a gruelling journey, and that is only the start of their long school day! The toll this takes on them and the difficulty in getting to school regularly can disrupt their learning, or tragically, see them drop out of school entirely. A simple gift of a bike can empower a girl to get to school safely, and play a big role in stabilising her future learning. You can make this dream become a reality by supporting today. Your gift can make all the difference!
AECT want to give vulnerable girls in developing countries a means to get to school safely and on time. It takes just USD 140 to buy a bike and change a life. Your support can provide vulnerable girls with a pathway to a more stable future. Lets help them get there.
This gift goes towards training and supplies of vaccinated local chickens for rural families in India to start a free range poultry farming.
This gift will enable a school to capture and store rainwater for use by the students and teachers.
Primary school students often have to walk great distances to school, without breakfast. This gift provides a breakfast at school for a child for one month.
This gift provides staff and resources for school students to learn about their environment and how to care for it.
To help offset your environmental impact, this gift of any amount will be used for tree planting for long term growth.
Not sure what gift to give? Give to AECT Where Needed Most. AECT works with several projects, churches and community organizations in India. Your gift marked “where needed most” allows AECT to respond to the greatest areas of need.