International Development Organizations: Boston University
The Supply Education Group
The Supply Education Group is a non-profit organization designed to promote awareness and insight to the growing slum problems in the world. UNESCO reports that over 2 billion people live in the slums and they predict that number to double by 2030. Slum children then are five times as less likely to attend secondary schools. The Supply then helps to bring a solution to growing slum problem by building secondary schools in these impoverished communities. Through education, The Supply believes the slums can move from apathy-driven places of desperation to realistic places of opportunity. A higher level of education becomes a practical, long-term solution for bringing these communities out of poverty and into a place where the dream of making a better life can become tangible rather than impossible.
As a college chapter, our financial goal is to raise $1000 by the end of May. 100% of our proceeds go towards The Supply Education Group where they will utilize the funds for their current projects. Through year-long donations, fundraising, or merchandise, we hope to accomplish our goal.
Change for Change
The organization will have monthly campaigns for people to bring in their change. With the money obtained we will be buying medical supplies and equipment for a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on which 1 milion people are dependent. After we will succeed in providing the hospital with the minimum equipment and find a long-term solution that will maintain the proper conditions for the hospital, we will move our focus and help a medical campus that is being built in the northern part of Kenya, in a region where people are undergoing unprecedented starvation. After this will be achieved, we will move to south america(probably during the summer) and help poor hospitals and orphanages by building a sustainable plan.
Boston University Microfinance Initiative
Boston University Microfinance Initiative is an emerging student organization that will aim to finance third world entrepreneurs in their business related endeavors. The organization will also host various events focused on encouraging involvement within microfinance and educating the BU community on the need to foster entrepreneurship and build business infrastructures to increase standards of living and decrease economic inequality in the world.
1001 Wells for the Darfur Initiative
Boston University’s own Dr. Farouk El-Baz (Director of the BU Center for Remote Sensing) and BU undergraduates are leading a charitable initiative to solve the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. The conflict is fundamentally rooted in the scarcity of clean water. Access to safe, clean water in Darfur is one of the hardest tasks that its people face on a daily basis, as there is minimal year-round surface water supply. Most exists as groundwater only accessible via wells. In order to directly tackle the problem, Dr. El-Baz is leading an initiative to drill groundwater wells throughout Darfur based on recent satellite image data analysis. The initiative is directed at raising awareness and committing the financial resources to drill 1001 wells in strategic locations as determined from satellite observations and ground-reference data. The project will be administered by the United Nations, and the drilling of the wells is expected to start in the first half of 2009. Dr. El-Baz is supervising a team that will coordinate its effort with UN personnel and agencies. The team believes that the completion of the 1001 wells project would initiate a solution to the water shortage problem and a basis for sustainable peace and economic development in this troubled region
More information can be found at The 1001 Wells for Darfur official website: www.1001wells.org. There is also a BU Facebook group open for everyone to join: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=28820954854&ref=ts
The primary goal of this organization is to raise $10,000 (the cost of one well) for The 1001 Wells for Darfur Initiative. This will be achieved by creating awareness on the atrocities that are ongoing in Darfur, Sudan, particularly the water scarcity of this region and the world over. More specifically, this organization will introduce The 1001 Wells for Darfur Initiative to the Boston University student population and community and will show how student contributions can directly help to solve this humanitarian crisis. The secondary purpose is to lead by example and set a trend for other academic institutions to get involved and donate a well of their own.
Above the Line
The focus of this club is to help the poor in the third world countries or in poverty-stricken areas by targeting large social centers. The idea is to teach these individuals a trade, such as jewelry-making, by sending them supplies from the U.S., teaching basic economic and math concepts, such as algorithms, in the process and then providing them with a microloan for their hard work. The goods would then be shipped back to B.U. where the jewelry would be sold for a profit. We hope to raise funds and secure grants to obtain start-up capital from which the initial materials can be bought. The organization itself is non-profit so any profits earned from selling the jewelry would only be used to cover shipping costs, materials and the remainder would be used to micro-finance loans to the individuals who helped make the products. These small loans would allow them to obtain the basic necessities until they are able to sustain themselves and search for more permanent, higher-paying work.
Chapters of Financia Microfinance, Inc. have already been established and successfully run in many colleges and universities nationally. We hope to spread awareness and send aid and support from Boston University as well.
Ambassadors for Sustained Health: Boston University
Ambassadors for Sustained Health is a non profit organization that builds community centers to holistically improve health in impoverished areas. ASH's holistic approach focuses on three core values: to provide, to prevent, to empower. ASH was started by a BU gradudate (Michelle Milee Chang BU'10) and has gone to great lengths since its inception.
At ASH:BU we intend to promote and to create awareness about the lack of adequate health care, and possible ways to tackle the situation. By inviting speakers and planning awareness events, we intend to educate students about the situation. We also intend to fundraise and donate money to help ASH's current cause in Wamuni, Kenya.
ASH has been featured in BU Today http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/web/kenya/
Boston University Liberian Education Fund
The Liberian Education Fund is a student-led, non-profit organization with the goal of providing educational opportunities to students in Liberia by fostering meaningful relationships between the youth of Liberia and the youth of the United States. High school and college students in the U.S. fundraise to give scholarships to high school and college students in Liberia. Boston University and George Washington University are the first colleges to join LEF. BULEF members will be working this year to provide educational scholarships to 6 Liberian univeristy students as well as planning and initiating empowerment trips to Liberia in the future.
FeelGood World
More than 1 billion members of our human family suffer from chronic, persistent hunger. It’s a reality that lies at the root of many of humanity’s most pressing challenges.
To respond to this global crisis, FeelGood students earn money to help put an end to global hunger by running FeelGood Grilled Cheese Delis on their college campuses, some of which include Columbia University, University of California-Berkeley, and Clemson University. Highly profitable, all deli proceeds—100%--are invested in organizations with a proven track record of sustainably eradicating global hunger.
More than a point of sale, FeelGood Delis are also a point of dialogue—a place to engage customers in an exploration of the causes, consequences and solutions to global hunger, from the broader perspective of our interconnected and interdependent world.
FeelGood students also take initiatives beyond the Deli, designing and executing events and campaigns to bring the message of ending global hunger to the extended campus community and beyond!
Please join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FeelGoodBU
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FeelGoodBU/
Global Brigades of Boston University
This is the overarching Global Brigades organization for all Global Brigades Issue Areas at Boston Univeristy. We currently have Global Medical, Global Public Health, Global Water and Global Business chapters at Boston University. Any new issue area looking to form at BU must work with this overarching organization to do so.
Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. It is made up of international nonprofit affiliates that mobilize student volunteers and professionals to empower communities in developing countries with programs that improve quality of life while respecting local culture.
Since 2005, more than 4,000 volunteers from 110 university chapters in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Ireland, traveled to provide health and economic development solutions to more than 100,000 beneficiaries through teams in Panama and Honduras.
Mishaal
Meaning "beacon," Mishaal seeks to improve universal access to education in South Asia. The core belief of Mishaal is that education is a critical ingredient in breaking the cycle of poverty and social inequality in the region, and the group seeks to reduce socioeconomic disparities in South Asia by promoting educational initiatives in underdeveloped communities. As an equally important goal, Mishaal also seeks to spread awareness on the BU campus about development efforts in South Asia and the obstacles facing education in the region. Mishaal additionally supplements ongoing development in South Asia by raising funds to support these efforts.
Students Helping Honduras
Students Helping Honduras is committed to helping the poor of Honduras raise themselves out of poverty. It is a student-run nonprofit which has already built 44 homes for the community in El Progreso; installed running water, electricity, and sanitation; started micro-finance projects where villagers make and sell eco-friendly handbags; built and given support to schools throughout the community; installed a learning center with computers and free classes; among many other projects. We are looking for people who are interested in helping this organization with future projects. For anyone interested in info about upcoming fundraisers and meetings, our email address is [email protected]
The Supply Education Group is a non-profit organization designed to promote awareness and insight to the growing slum problems in the world. UNESCO reports that over 2 billion people live in the slums and they predict that number to double by 2030. Slum children then are five times as less likely to attend secondary schools. The Supply then helps to bring a solution to growing slum problem by building secondary schools in these impoverished communities. Through education, The Supply believes the slums can move from apathy-driven places of desperation to realistic places of opportunity. A higher level of education becomes a practical, long-term solution for bringing these communities out of poverty and into a place where the dream of making a better life can become tangible rather than impossible.
As a college chapter, our financial goal is to raise $1000 by the end of May. 100% of our proceeds go towards The Supply Education Group where they will utilize the funds for their current projects. Through year-long donations, fundraising, or merchandise, we hope to accomplish our goal.
Change for Change
The organization will have monthly campaigns for people to bring in their change. With the money obtained we will be buying medical supplies and equipment for a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya on which 1 milion people are dependent. After we will succeed in providing the hospital with the minimum equipment and find a long-term solution that will maintain the proper conditions for the hospital, we will move our focus and help a medical campus that is being built in the northern part of Kenya, in a region where people are undergoing unprecedented starvation. After this will be achieved, we will move to south america(probably during the summer) and help poor hospitals and orphanages by building a sustainable plan.
Boston University Microfinance Initiative
Boston University Microfinance Initiative is an emerging student organization that will aim to finance third world entrepreneurs in their business related endeavors. The organization will also host various events focused on encouraging involvement within microfinance and educating the BU community on the need to foster entrepreneurship and build business infrastructures to increase standards of living and decrease economic inequality in the world.
1001 Wells for the Darfur Initiative
Boston University’s own Dr. Farouk El-Baz (Director of the BU Center for Remote Sensing) and BU undergraduates are leading a charitable initiative to solve the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. The conflict is fundamentally rooted in the scarcity of clean water. Access to safe, clean water in Darfur is one of the hardest tasks that its people face on a daily basis, as there is minimal year-round surface water supply. Most exists as groundwater only accessible via wells. In order to directly tackle the problem, Dr. El-Baz is leading an initiative to drill groundwater wells throughout Darfur based on recent satellite image data analysis. The initiative is directed at raising awareness and committing the financial resources to drill 1001 wells in strategic locations as determined from satellite observations and ground-reference data. The project will be administered by the United Nations, and the drilling of the wells is expected to start in the first half of 2009. Dr. El-Baz is supervising a team that will coordinate its effort with UN personnel and agencies. The team believes that the completion of the 1001 wells project would initiate a solution to the water shortage problem and a basis for sustainable peace and economic development in this troubled region
More information can be found at The 1001 Wells for Darfur official website: www.1001wells.org. There is also a BU Facebook group open for everyone to join: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=28820954854&ref=ts
The primary goal of this organization is to raise $10,000 (the cost of one well) for The 1001 Wells for Darfur Initiative. This will be achieved by creating awareness on the atrocities that are ongoing in Darfur, Sudan, particularly the water scarcity of this region and the world over. More specifically, this organization will introduce The 1001 Wells for Darfur Initiative to the Boston University student population and community and will show how student contributions can directly help to solve this humanitarian crisis. The secondary purpose is to lead by example and set a trend for other academic institutions to get involved and donate a well of their own.
Above the Line
The focus of this club is to help the poor in the third world countries or in poverty-stricken areas by targeting large social centers. The idea is to teach these individuals a trade, such as jewelry-making, by sending them supplies from the U.S., teaching basic economic and math concepts, such as algorithms, in the process and then providing them with a microloan for their hard work. The goods would then be shipped back to B.U. where the jewelry would be sold for a profit. We hope to raise funds and secure grants to obtain start-up capital from which the initial materials can be bought. The organization itself is non-profit so any profits earned from selling the jewelry would only be used to cover shipping costs, materials and the remainder would be used to micro-finance loans to the individuals who helped make the products. These small loans would allow them to obtain the basic necessities until they are able to sustain themselves and search for more permanent, higher-paying work.
Chapters of Financia Microfinance, Inc. have already been established and successfully run in many colleges and universities nationally. We hope to spread awareness and send aid and support from Boston University as well.
Ambassadors for Sustained Health: Boston University
Ambassadors for Sustained Health is a non profit organization that builds community centers to holistically improve health in impoverished areas. ASH's holistic approach focuses on three core values: to provide, to prevent, to empower. ASH was started by a BU gradudate (Michelle Milee Chang BU'10) and has gone to great lengths since its inception.
At ASH:BU we intend to promote and to create awareness about the lack of adequate health care, and possible ways to tackle the situation. By inviting speakers and planning awareness events, we intend to educate students about the situation. We also intend to fundraise and donate money to help ASH's current cause in Wamuni, Kenya.
ASH has been featured in BU Today http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/web/kenya/
Boston University Liberian Education Fund
The Liberian Education Fund is a student-led, non-profit organization with the goal of providing educational opportunities to students in Liberia by fostering meaningful relationships between the youth of Liberia and the youth of the United States. High school and college students in the U.S. fundraise to give scholarships to high school and college students in Liberia. Boston University and George Washington University are the first colleges to join LEF. BULEF members will be working this year to provide educational scholarships to 6 Liberian univeristy students as well as planning and initiating empowerment trips to Liberia in the future.
FeelGood World
More than 1 billion members of our human family suffer from chronic, persistent hunger. It’s a reality that lies at the root of many of humanity’s most pressing challenges.
To respond to this global crisis, FeelGood students earn money to help put an end to global hunger by running FeelGood Grilled Cheese Delis on their college campuses, some of which include Columbia University, University of California-Berkeley, and Clemson University. Highly profitable, all deli proceeds—100%--are invested in organizations with a proven track record of sustainably eradicating global hunger.
More than a point of sale, FeelGood Delis are also a point of dialogue—a place to engage customers in an exploration of the causes, consequences and solutions to global hunger, from the broader perspective of our interconnected and interdependent world.
FeelGood students also take initiatives beyond the Deli, designing and executing events and campaigns to bring the message of ending global hunger to the extended campus community and beyond!
Please join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FeelGoodBU
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FeelGoodBU/
Global Brigades of Boston University
This is the overarching Global Brigades organization for all Global Brigades Issue Areas at Boston Univeristy. We currently have Global Medical, Global Public Health, Global Water and Global Business chapters at Boston University. Any new issue area looking to form at BU must work with this overarching organization to do so.
Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. It is made up of international nonprofit affiliates that mobilize student volunteers and professionals to empower communities in developing countries with programs that improve quality of life while respecting local culture.
Since 2005, more than 4,000 volunteers from 110 university chapters in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Ireland, traveled to provide health and economic development solutions to more than 100,000 beneficiaries through teams in Panama and Honduras.
Mishaal
Meaning "beacon," Mishaal seeks to improve universal access to education in South Asia. The core belief of Mishaal is that education is a critical ingredient in breaking the cycle of poverty and social inequality in the region, and the group seeks to reduce socioeconomic disparities in South Asia by promoting educational initiatives in underdeveloped communities. As an equally important goal, Mishaal also seeks to spread awareness on the BU campus about development efforts in South Asia and the obstacles facing education in the region. Mishaal additionally supplements ongoing development in South Asia by raising funds to support these efforts.
Students Helping Honduras
Students Helping Honduras is committed to helping the poor of Honduras raise themselves out of poverty. It is a student-run nonprofit which has already built 44 homes for the community in El Progreso; installed running water, electricity, and sanitation; started micro-finance projects where villagers make and sell eco-friendly handbags; built and given support to schools throughout the community; installed a learning center with computers and free classes; among many other projects. We are looking for people who are interested in helping this organization with future projects. For anyone interested in info about upcoming fundraisers and meetings, our email address is [email protected]