Location Manyagiro Sector, Gicumbi District, Rwanda Community Description The Manyagiro sector of the Gicumbi District is located in the northern province of Rwanda in East Africa. The rural area is mountainous and does not have running water, spigots or electricity. Subsistence farming is the main source of income for residents of the Manyagiro sector. The […]
Location Rubona, Rwamagana District, Eastern Province, Rwanda Community Description Rubona is a rural community in Rwamagana District in the Eastern Province of Rwanda, with a health center that serves a population of 24,620 people. Health center services are comprehensive and include general consultation, maternity, voluntary counseling and testing for HIV, vaccinations, and laboratory testing. The […]
Location Iviani, Eastern Kenya Community Description Iviani is located about 5 Kilometers outside of Matuu Town, about 1 ½ hours east of Thika. The community is comprised of about 400 people, mostly of the Kamba tribe of Kenya. The Citdo Orphanage teaches primary education to about 20 Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), free of charge, […]
Location Candelaria, Sociedad Morazan, El Salvador Community Description Candelaria is a rural town in northeast El Salvador in the department of Morazan. It has a population of about 1000, and an economy based on small-scale farming and cattle. Within the community, there is a school for kindergarten to ninth grade, Centro Escolar Canton Candelaria Codigo […]
Location Vynnyky, Ukraine Community Description The Vynnyky Sanatorium Secondary Boarding School is home to 220 orphans and social orphans. Fourteen are orphans and ten are special needs children. All of the children have tubercle bacillus, but they are not ill. Most of the children are from poor families where the parents are ill with tuberculosis. […]
Location Saré Sara, Bagadaji, Dabo, Kolda, Senegal Community Description Saré Sara is a small Pular village along the road in the southern Senegalese region of Kolda, about twenty kilometers outside of Kolda, the regional capital. Spread across its sixty-one compounds is a population of approximately 450 people. Of that, 22% are adult men, 21% are […]
Location Ker Ngornyan, North Bank Region, The Gambia Community Description Ker Ngornyan is a small village of about 400 people on the main road. The people are farmers who mostly grow groundnuts, coos, and sesame. Some people are keeping livestock including cows. At least two farmers are making good efforts in tree planting. The main […]
Vaipu’a is a beautiful village on Savai’i Island in Western Samoa. The Vaipu’a and Fogasavaii Primary School serves 180 to 200 students from both villages, and is staffed by 8 teachers. The project is to plant and provide irrigation for sixty fruit trees within the Primary School’s campus fence for the benefit of the students. […]
Location Basse Santa Su, Fuladu District, Upper River Region, The Gambia Community Description Basse Santa Su is located in the Upper River Region of the Gambia, which is the furthest region from the capital city of Bangul. Although Basse is a regional capital, it has taken many years for the inhabitants to see the development […]
Location Sub District Piman, District Nakae, Province Nakhon Phanom, Thailand Community Description Ban Bak Bang is a rural community in the northeast province of Nakhon Phanom Thailand. The village is comprised of 176 houses/families totaling more than 850 people and is located approximately 25 kilometers from the Mekong River, which is the Thailand-Laos border. Bak […]