Underwearness for Haiti!

Secular Week of Action is underway! Want to participate but can’t come up with an activity idea on “brief” notice? We’ll cover your butt. In fact, we’ll cover a lot of peoples’ butts. We’re talking about Underwearness for Haiti. Folx living in tent camps and other impoverished areas in Haiti need undergarments. These are people…

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Guide: Organize an underwear collection

Collections offer opportunities for everyone in your community to participate. If someone has money and no time, they can make purchases. If someone has time but no money, they can volunteer to organize the collection and send the items. Collections can be done on their own or as part of another event. What to collect…

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How did it happen? Haiti food crisis explained.

Limited access to at least one meal a day is causing a phenomenon in Haiti some call ‘grangou kloròks’: hunger so acute it causes stomach pain akin to bleach eating through clothes. The people of Haiti are dropping unbelievable quotes on the press like “I don’t remember the last time I drank juice,” or “we…

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OLOUGUELEMO: Inter-Village Association for the Protection of the Environment and the Management of Natural Resources in the Township of Wadouba

Team Introduction: Our activities include:  Erosion Control techniques in crop fields,  Reforestation campaigns to adapt to change climate  The expansion of ponds and reservoirs to save water for gardening and livestock,  The creation of grain banks  Practice of Assisted Natural Regeneration in fields Immediate goals: 1. To support one group…

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SOSEC Nepal

Promotion of health and education rights and improvement in daily lives of Raute people (Nomade Community); Raute Project- Immediate goal is to improve the livelihood status of Raute Population Climate and Gender Responsive Resilient Agriculture and Enterprises in Karnali River Basin; Green Karnali Project-Immediate goal is : Individuals and communities have adapted to climate change…

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The Humanist Past and Future of the Republic of Haiti

Sixteen months ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the southern arm of Haiti, decimating the region. Hospitals lay in ruins, unable to treat the 12,000+ people injured in the quake. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless. Roads, bridges, power plants, and schools were destroyed and have never been rebuilt. Compromised water supply systems have led…

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December Volunteer Network Roundup!

Teams in our Food Security Project (FSP) reported 49 events in December, serving 14,613 individual beneficiaries and giving out 5,632 meals!  Additional GO Humanity Service Teams held 12 more service events.

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