Lend A Hand 2007
Each Christmas, I try to pick a couple of non-profit organizations to highlight. In the spirit of the season, I ask that you consider supporting the following organizations.
Carolina for Kibera
Established in 2001, Carolina for Kibera is an international, nongovernmental organization based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. In the United States, CFK is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation and major affiliated entity and program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based at the Center for Global Initiatives.
Named a TIME Magazine and Gates Foundation "Hero of Global Health," CFK fights abject poverty and helps prevent violence through community-based development in Kibera and beyond. CFK envisions a world where the poor have a voice in their futures and opportunities for healthy growth. It is rooted in the conviction that solutions to problems involving poverty are possible only if those affected by it drive development. Concerned outsiders can help by mobilizing communities, advising, networking, and providing resources. Ultimately, however, the community possesses the knowledge and motivation that are necessary to solve its own problems.
Run by Kenyans and advised by American and Kenyan volunteers, CFK's primary mission is to promote youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in Kibera through sports, young women's empowerment, and community development. Additionally, CFK works to improve basic healthcare, sanitation, and education in Kibera. Serving as a model for holistic, community-based urban development world-wide, CFK has helped grassroots organizations develop youth-based programs in six other nations and dozens of communities in Kenya.
To make a donation, click here.
Athens Area Homeless Shelter
The Athens Area Homeless Shelter (AAHS) provides a cooperative approach to homeless individuals and fosters public awareness of homelessness in the community. AAHS's Almost Home Transitional Program provides long-term residential support for single women and families with children who are homeless and who wish to make life changes to regain self-sufficiency and independence. AAHS's Job TREC program (Training, Referral and Education Center) provides case management and support to all homeless persons in Clarke County by offering personalized job training and placement services.
The Athens Area Homeless Shelter is a united and compassionate response to homelessness in the Northeast Georgia region. Its purpose is to educate the community that homelessness is the result of complex social, economic and personal factors and advocate for the homeless population and pledge to work cooperatively with the community to eliminate homelessness.
To make a donation, click here.
Athens Justice Project
Athens Justice Project (AJP) assists low income individuals with pending criminal charges in achieving a fair legal outcome and in becoming productive, law-abiding community members.
A large number of individuals involved with the criminal justice system suffer from the diseases of addiction and mental illness. They are often without financial resources, job skills, housing, education, and needed treatment; thus, they cannot deal effectively with personal, family, and job challenges. Many of these same individuals, though, sincerely desire to change their lives and they must receive strong support networks and effective strategies in order to effect change.
For those who demonstrate their commitment to overcoming such obstacles, AJP builds upon the unique lawyer-client relationship and provides legal representation, counseling and comprehensive social services and support. AJP offers hope and support to clients, helping them to understand that they can live differently if they are willing to do their part.
AJP's staff, including the attorney, the counselor and UGA interns, help clients to examine their lives, identify problems leading to crime, and devise strategies for productive personal growth and self-sustaining work so that, ideally, the clients do not re-offend. AJP works closely with social service agencies and mental health and addiction treatment providers to meet client needs and helps to identify and to provide other resources and support networks for empowerment and productivity. Ultimately, AJP helps individuals to become gainfully employed, safely housed, medically stable and otherwise-contributing citizens.
To make a donation, click here.
Heifer International
Heifer has learned over the years that a holistic approach is necessary in order to build sustainable communities. It has developed a set of global initiatives – areas of emphasis that must be addressed in order to meet the mission of ending world hunger and poverty and caring for the earth.
It includes agroecology, microenterprise efforts and focusing on urban agriculture.
To make a donation, click here.
IHN of Athens
A coalition of more than 15 Athens-area congregations that have mobilized to assist homeless families in crisis situations. Since opening its doors in October 2004, IHN of Athens has helped more than 60 families find sustainable independence.
To make a donation, click here.
Carolina for Kibera
Established in 2001, Carolina for Kibera is an international, nongovernmental organization based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. In the United States, CFK is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation and major affiliated entity and program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based at the Center for Global Initiatives.
Named a TIME Magazine and Gates Foundation "Hero of Global Health," CFK fights abject poverty and helps prevent violence through community-based development in Kibera and beyond. CFK envisions a world where the poor have a voice in their futures and opportunities for healthy growth. It is rooted in the conviction that solutions to problems involving poverty are possible only if those affected by it drive development. Concerned outsiders can help by mobilizing communities, advising, networking, and providing resources. Ultimately, however, the community possesses the knowledge and motivation that are necessary to solve its own problems.
Run by Kenyans and advised by American and Kenyan volunteers, CFK's primary mission is to promote youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation in Kibera through sports, young women's empowerment, and community development. Additionally, CFK works to improve basic healthcare, sanitation, and education in Kibera. Serving as a model for holistic, community-based urban development world-wide, CFK has helped grassroots organizations develop youth-based programs in six other nations and dozens of communities in Kenya.
To make a donation, click here.
Athens Area Homeless Shelter
The Athens Area Homeless Shelter (AAHS) provides a cooperative approach to homeless individuals and fosters public awareness of homelessness in the community. AAHS's Almost Home Transitional Program provides long-term residential support for single women and families with children who are homeless and who wish to make life changes to regain self-sufficiency and independence. AAHS's Job TREC program (Training, Referral and Education Center) provides case management and support to all homeless persons in Clarke County by offering personalized job training and placement services.
The Athens Area Homeless Shelter is a united and compassionate response to homelessness in the Northeast Georgia region. Its purpose is to educate the community that homelessness is the result of complex social, economic and personal factors and advocate for the homeless population and pledge to work cooperatively with the community to eliminate homelessness.
To make a donation, click here.
Athens Justice Project
Athens Justice Project (AJP) assists low income individuals with pending criminal charges in achieving a fair legal outcome and in becoming productive, law-abiding community members.
A large number of individuals involved with the criminal justice system suffer from the diseases of addiction and mental illness. They are often without financial resources, job skills, housing, education, and needed treatment; thus, they cannot deal effectively with personal, family, and job challenges. Many of these same individuals, though, sincerely desire to change their lives and they must receive strong support networks and effective strategies in order to effect change.
For those who demonstrate their commitment to overcoming such obstacles, AJP builds upon the unique lawyer-client relationship and provides legal representation, counseling and comprehensive social services and support. AJP offers hope and support to clients, helping them to understand that they can live differently if they are willing to do their part.
AJP's staff, including the attorney, the counselor and UGA interns, help clients to examine their lives, identify problems leading to crime, and devise strategies for productive personal growth and self-sustaining work so that, ideally, the clients do not re-offend. AJP works closely with social service agencies and mental health and addiction treatment providers to meet client needs and helps to identify and to provide other resources and support networks for empowerment and productivity. Ultimately, AJP helps individuals to become gainfully employed, safely housed, medically stable and otherwise-contributing citizens.
To make a donation, click here.
Heifer International
Heifer has learned over the years that a holistic approach is necessary in order to build sustainable communities. It has developed a set of global initiatives – areas of emphasis that must be addressed in order to meet the mission of ending world hunger and poverty and caring for the earth.
It includes agroecology, microenterprise efforts and focusing on urban agriculture.
To make a donation, click here.
IHN of Athens
A coalition of more than 15 Athens-area congregations that have mobilized to assist homeless families in crisis situations. Since opening its doors in October 2004, IHN of Athens has helped more than 60 families find sustainable independence.
To make a donation, click here.
posted by Jmac at 12:58 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for your continued support of our work, Jonathan. Enjoy your first Christmas with your daughter!
Courtney
Thanks very much for highlighting our work in Kibera on your blog over this holiday season.
Warmly,
Rye Barcott
Carolina For Kibera, Inc.
Thank you very much for the AJP plug.
Merry (late) Christmas!
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