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Textbooks for a child

Plan USA

Provision of school books is a project active in many Plan countries. The classroom brightens when all children have clean, complete, up-to-date schoolbooks. Modern messages and improved ways of teaching are immediately apparent to kids. Teachers have something to work from. more

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$100 will cover an individual youth's stipend for one week. Youth will develop their typing skills. They will learn the whole production process for The Beat Within weekly magazine. Youth will also work in an environment with a diverse group of adult and youth staff all working to better the community. more

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Join READ Global in its quest to change the world—one country, one village, one individual at a time. When READ Global helps a community to build and outfit a library community center, the organization also helps to recruit and train a librarian who will help villagers make the most of their new facility. more

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Your gift has the potential to "teach students how to fish, rather than just giving them a fish." The digital divide grows daily as students in the US learn new digital media skills, while students in Africa are only passive recipients of low-end products and information produced outside their countries. more

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Sesame Street Mexico

Sesame Workshop

Your donation will help support Plaza Sésamo, the Mexican version of Sesame Street, and its “Healthy Habits for Life" initiative. The acclaimed Spanish-language television series for preschool children depicts a colorful neighborhood, the Plaza, which is home to a mix of families, children, and Muppets. more

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Your gift will supply a classroom teacher with an educational packet, including a discussion guide, suggested classroom activities and a 10-minute video selection of an ITVS program. more

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A gift of $50 will allow a group like the Union for the Emancipation of Indigenous Women to provide school supplies and school fees for 100 indigenous girls, daughters of the displaced survivors of the Rwandan Genocide, in the South-Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. more

$15 Add this gift item to your shopping cart

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One month after-school

Mercy Housing

Your gift will enable one child to attend Mercy Housing after-school programs, including homework help, tutoring and computer classes, for one month. more

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Boost Literacy Add this gift item to your wishlist or registry

Karaoke on TV

PlanetRead

Same Language Subtitling (SLS) recommends subtitling the lyrics of all film song programs on TV, nationally, in the “same” language as the audio. A decade of research has proven that this Karaoke approach to literacy improves the reading skills of millions of viewers. more

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Your gift will provide new learning opportunities to impoverished children. This educational project helps train teachers in new teaching methods so they can educate children, especially girls, in poor areas of the Congo. more

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Karaoke on TV

PlanetRead

Your gift will help us provide karaoke-style literacy assistance for one whole year to one million early-literate people in India. We add Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on Bollywood film songs on TV. Our annual cost of SLS per TV program is roughly $20,000. more

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Sesame Workshop

Your donation will help support Sisimpur the Bengali version of Sesame Street. With a curriculum defined by Bangladeshi educators, the series emphasizes not only literacy, math and science, but also helps foster values such as self-respect, empathy and cooperation. more