Special Projects

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for your school, club, congregation

 

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We know that people and groups in our network are often looking for a special project to support as a way of doing some good in this world. And our partners abroad have needs that NCP cannot fully meet.

 

This creates a winning combination of generosity meeting opportunity! 

 

Here's how you can help in the areas of supporting girls and women, and protecting and restoring forests

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NCP support of women and girls 

Women and girls face many challenges in our world. Some 129 million girls around

the world are not in school who should be. This often leads to early marriage,

generational poverty and limited options for their future. Women are often consigned

to work in sweatshops, low-paying construction or field labor or other difficult or

dangerous work. Our Give a Girl a Chance program works with partners in six

countries in Asia and Africa to give women and girls a better chance for the better

life that education and empowerment can provide.

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GAGAC helps girls by providing them with scholarships, sanitary materials, shoes,

backpacks, uniforms and even food sometimes. While costs differ from place to place

and by grade level, $200-250 can typically provide these for a girl. See details here. 

The more we raise, the more girls who can go to school!

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We support the Chepang girls in Nepal over and above our normal grants for girls'

education. When we first met them in their mountainous communities, we learned

that after fifth grade school is over for them. This could mean a life of early marriage

(as young as 13 or 14), a life of field labor - or even being trafficked. 

                                       

                                                    To go on to secondary school requires a 7-hour round trip

                                                    walk down and up the mountain, but they were

                                                    willing to do that. The problem was that their farming

                                                    families couldn't afford the $200 per girl per year in tuition.

                                                   Then we recently learned that they weren't getting lunch - their

                                                   families couldn't provide it and they couldn't afford to purchase

                                                   it at school - so we're adding $200 per girl to have lunch in

                                                   between leaving home and returning home - with a hike down

                                                   and up a mountain in-between!

                                       

We are currently supporting 41 Chepang girls. Can you help us send one or more beyond 5th grade?! Here's how!              

 

As always, 100 percent of donations to our Special Projects go to the programs themselves - really!

                                    

A Girl and A Bike is a special program for schoolgirls in Malawi who were walking 14 miles

each way to get to a good high school. As we promote bicycling, in cooperation with our

partner there we had the idea for A Girl and A Bike. For $200 a girl gets a sturdy bike which

significantly increases the access of these young women to an education. This effort is

funded by designated gifts: more donations = more bikes! Roll on, girls!

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Women’s Empowerment

We are also active in supporting women's programs through Give a Girl a Chance. Typical

needs are for microloans ($200-$500 per woman), agricultural projects (a pair of goats

for $70), lemon trees to produce fruit for trafficking survivors to sell for income in Nepal.

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We also provide skills training, including basket-making, tailoring or beautician training.

Ongoing needs include helping women who graduate from tailoring or beautician classes

have start-up money to put their newfound skills into practice. Through our partner we are

offering $75 to each graduate, with the woman also pitching in $75. This will purchase a

treadle sewing machine or buy needed items to get started as a beautician.

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Earth care: protecting and restoring forests

We are always looking for support for our Two Million Tree Campaign. Few things are more

important than protecting and restoring the world's forests. We are actively working at this

in Myanmar, South Sudan, the Congo, Rwanda, and Malawi. It can cost as little as $0.10

to plant a tree. Imagine the fundraising opportunities! Our newest partenership is in Borneo,

where we are restoring forests (habitat for orangutans!) and mangroves (wonder trees for

their ability to protect coastal areas, provide habitat and sequester carbon!).

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