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Supporting Seniors in Rural British Columbia

Aging With Ease in Rural Communities is a non-profit organization aimed at improving access to important primary health services for senior citizens in isolated areas of British Columbia. They help seniors maintain an active lifestyle within their community by reaching out to vulnerable seniors and those with disabilities, empowering them and including them.

Providing Access to Fitness Facilities

The YMCA of Greater Cleveland began their go!FIT initiative with a large scale community outreach in December 2009. The goal of this program was to provide adults in Cuyahoga County with the tools necessary to improve their overall health through exercise, weight loss, and increased healthy lifestyle habits.

Providing Sustainable Affordable Housing in Montana

homeWORD created a process for affordable housing development that incorporates several core values: serves working families, community-designed, models new strategies for green building, and demonstrates sustainable methods. The charrette process is a public design meeting where interested community members come together to brainstorm ideas for the design, site plan, development and management of homeWORD’s proposed housing.

Farm Initiative for At-Risk Youth in California

In 2008, Conservation Corps North Bay launched the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden, a 5.8 acre teaching farm that provides unprecedented learning experiences, fosters environmental stewardship and provides solutions to California’s most pressing environmental problems.

Solar Energy Initiative for Homeless Shelter

In 2010, Green Las Cruces installed the first two (of a planned twelve) solar panels on housing for the chronically homeless. Their efforts serve as a symbol, showing community support for green energy and helping to leverage city-wide implementation of renewable energy.

Increasing Access to Fresh Produce in Central Detroit

In the summer of 2008, the Peaches & Greens Produce truck began traveling the community with fresh produce, and by the fall, opened a market 5 days a week. The goal is to provide fresh foods in areas where it would otherwise be difficult to access.

Jikaze IDP Resettlement Village - Uhuru Child - Maai Mahiu, Central Province, Kenya

Volunteers and villagers worked side by side to create a sustainable village for a group of 900 Internally Displaced Persons following the Kenyan Post-Election Violence of 2008.

Building the Capacity of Environmental Health Officers to Promote Sanitation in the Northern Ghana

Linking Sanitation and safer meat processing to Community Health and Development in Northern Ghana.

Environmental Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) issues are one area that compromises the health and well being of majority of people in Ghana, especially the underserved poverty stricken population of northern Ghana.

Project EXCELL

Project EXCELL (Extending College Education for Lifelong Learning) for  is a program that provides personal enrichment and life skill classes to adults 18 years and older with developmental disabilities. Students come from as far as 60 miles one way to attend classes in Manhattan KS. This program offers social and educational opportunities for students who may not otherwise be able to participate in a college setting through classes held on Saturday mornings on Kansas State University’s campus.

Re-usable, washable sanitary towels and undergarments program for poor young women in Kiambu County, Kenya

We began providing disadvantaged young women with sanitary towels and undergarments back in 2007 when a girl was brought to our office for counseling apparently her widowed mum could not afford sanitary napkins so she had improvised with rags which made menstrual blood to leak through her dress which was shaming.

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