Millennium Development Goals

Your gift will support efforts in Maharashtra, India's second most populous state, to create solutions that can be scaled up for use in many parts of the country. A local organization, the Bhavishya Trust, has been created to undertake this important task. more

Help determine a “fair price" for produce from family farms in developing countries selling to global markets. Forward thinking companies that want to do the right thing need to know how their business practices impact on poverty. more

Your gift will help TI-USA ensure that resources reach those who need them the most. We work with donor organizations, including multilateral banks and US foreign aid institutions, to ensure that the full potential of development aid is achieved. more

Your gift would help remove 35,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: the equivalent of that which would be created on 6 plane trips across the United States! How? The microbial communities that exist in organic soils transform carbon from organic debris into biomass, thereby “sequestering" the carbo... more

Candlelight is celebrated anually in more than 1,000 communities in 65 countries. Run by volunteers, these events are forums for advocacy, knowledge sharing, community building and remembering. Your gift will provide a coordinator in the U.S. more

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

Condoms save lives and they are a vital tool in our efforts to prevent HIV infection. They are also essential to the maintenance of other elements of sexual and reproductive health, such as the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and of sexually transmitted infections. more

When you help IMC vaccinate children against diseases like measles, tetanus, and meningitis, you enhance their chance for survival. You also reduce the likelihood of an epidemic, especially in crowded, unsanitary conditions such as refugee camps. more

$36 ensures that women like Helene learn the importance of breastfeeding. more

Your gift will help return 10 square meters of land to productive use by clearing it of landmines. more

Your donation will provide a mobile phone (and a year’s service fee) or a radio to a farmer to enable him to communicate with his peers, researchers, or agriculture advisory services. more

Your gift will support an advocate in informing policy-makers about the issues, so that children get basic health services such as immunizations and nutrition. The tragedy is not that we don't know what to do, because we do. more