Millennium Development Goals

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

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

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 donation will pay travel costs for farmers to join in the discussion of the future of our food system, side-by-side with representatives from large national and multi-national food companies (wholesalers, retailers), NGO's and government representatives. more

From bake sales to fundraising dinners, Millennium Promise is excited to support local efforts and initiatives to successfully raise awareness about ending global poverty. Your donation will provide an Action Kit for a new school or community to get involved in the fight to end extreme 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

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

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

Your donation of $25 will set a girl in Africa on the path to success by providing a pair of sturdy shoes to ease her long journey to school. Her new shoes will also boost her confidence to participate fully in her education. more

Your gift will provide a solar lantern for a rural house, which provides two hours of light every night for two years. Barefoot solar engineers trained by the Barefoot College fabricate and maintain solar lanterns used to provide light in their communities. more

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

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