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We love sharing stuff like this! This photo is from a recently FULLY FUNDED PROJECT seeing $1,000 micro-credit loans and business training go to five deserving women in Sierra Leone. Amazing.
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Friday Photo:
We love sharing stuff like this! This photo is from a recently FULLY FUNDED PROJECT seeing $1,000 micro-credit loans and business training go to five deserving women in Sierra Leone. Amazing.

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Sector of the week: Gender Equality
Millennium Development Goal 3 is to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education and at all levels by 2015. The inclusion of women in education - and hence, in the workplace - and development are two interrelated issues: societies where women are more equal stand a much greater chance of improving the quality of life for everyone.
Today, two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are women. The employment rate for women is two-thirds that for men. Related to the issue of gender equality is ensuring proper and appropriate maternal care and health, thereby reducing the infant and maternal mortality ratio.
Here is a pre-sorted list of partner projects on uend.org that deal directly with Gender Equality where you can learn more.
*Photo courtesy of Cause Canada.
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Tomorrow is World Aids Day. This photo is from Uganda, a part of the world where AIDS has affected the community, but projects such as those by Change for Children have helped many.
Sector of the week: Economy
Generally, relates to economic development of an area. This can be income generation, farm coops that are community owned even microcredit whereby the people are given very small loans within support structures to ensure success to start or expand a business. The ramification of more income means children can go to school instead of having to work, health care becomes accessible, as does a better standard of living.
>> Check out these projects that relate to Economy on the uend.org website.
Project Update: Children Education Program: School Staff Wages
Located in the Koinadugu District, the largest and poorest district in Sierra Leone, CAUSE Kids is supporting both quality formal education and proper nutrition for children. The community requires support to keep the schools functional. Addressing the second Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education, CAUSE Kids is a program that provides access to education for both children and their families.
Update from the field: "While our programming continues to ensure that both girls and boys have access to primary education, the challenge we have now is to ensure that they have a quality education empowering them for leadership roles in the future. We are currently paying stipends for 54 teachers in our 6 CAUSE Kids schools…"
>> Go to this project’s webpage to read more, donate as a gift or donate directly.

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Sector of the week: Community Development
Community development, in the context of extreme poverty, refers to the implementation and development of social programs (education, health care, etc.), and also, systems of governance that are effective and beneficial for the people at large. Proper governance ensures the appropriate allocation of resources and administration of social programs. In turn, this would benefit agriculture, infrastructure, health care, education, and many other avenues of social life.
Supporting Community Development projects helps ensure stability and builds the foundation for the future.
Check out these Community Development projects on our website to learn more.
Friday Photo
South Asia Partnership (SAP-Bangladesh) is a group dedicated to creating bright futures for women in impoverished areas. Here, we see a women tending to her chickens. SAP works with women on developing agriculture best practices, training and business skills, making women less likely to be involved in early marriage, trafficking and domestic violence.
Project Update: Igniting Imaginations Through Library Learning
The Igniting Imaginations: Library Centers in Sierra Leone project brings the world of books into the hands of hundreds of children who are deprived of the most precious resources for learning.
Update from the field: "Our central Integrated Learning Library has evolved into an Integrated Learning Centre with not just books for students, but computers for students to learn on after school hours and receive tutoring and workshops. It is becoming a hub of interactive learning with the space and resources to help students learn, think, create and grow…"
>> Go to this project’s webpage to read more, donate as a gift or donate directly.
Sector of the Week: Education
Millennium Development Goal 2 makes provision for all boys and girls to complete a full course of free primary schooling. Around 72 million children do not go to primary school - 57 percent of them are girls. Significant gaps in school enrollment still exist between children in urban and rural areas, and between boys and girls.
Additionally, 781 million adults (approximately one in five), lack minimum literacy skills. Two-thirds are women. Literacy rates remain low in South and West Asia (59%), sub-Saharan Africa (61%), the Arab States (66%) and the Caribbean (70%). Two-thirds of the world's illiterate population are women, clearly indicating that issues surrounding extreme poverty and education are closely linked to issues relating to gender equality.
There are 21 active projects on uend.org that deal directly with helping create equal opportunity for children and adults to receive a quality education. If this is something you'd be interested in supporting, visit this presorted list of education projects on our website.
Photo credit: CAUSE Canada
UEnd Partner Project Update
Community Leadership and Development in Guatemala
This five-year project will improve the quality of life and standard of living of families in marginalized communities in Guatemala through the promotion of women’s education, leadership, health and economic development.
Update from the field: A total of 111 women completed leadership classes in 10 communities in Guatemala in 2011, with an attendance rate of 94%. They saved a total of $3,732. Efforts by the promoters to create an environment where the women can feel safe and at ease, coupled with the personal attention directed to them, seems to motivate them to attend classes and share their experiences on many critical themes…
>> Go to this project’s webpage to read more, donate as a gift or donate directly.

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Cause Sector of the Week: Water
As get closer to Halloween, a time to scare and be scared, we can’t help but think about the horrific feeling living without access to safe water might be. Nothing could be scarier. The good thing is, there are amazing organizations out there doing great things to bring safe, clean drinking water to communities around the world.
UEnd has a small but important grouping of water-based partnership projects you can donate to directly, or gift to someone special. We ask that you take a moment to learn a bit about each of them and determine which project you’d like to support.
Water Projects on uend.org:
Drilling for Clean Water in Sierra Leone – Change for Children
Water Infrastructure in South Africa – Bulungula
Rural Access to Clean Water in Haiti – PAIDEH
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Project of the Week: Rural Returns For Greater Well Being
Project snapshot:
Total cost: $5,100
Lives affected: 200
Dollars raised: $360
Dollars needed: $4,740
Over 70% of the population of Kurunegala district is largely dependent on primarily small holder paddy farming, which is highly underproductive. Cost of production with dependence on high external inputs brings about meagre returns, with unstable low market prices causing income insecurity and food insecurity among farmers.
Rural Returns (Gte) Ltd., a non-profit company has developed a model in association with SLCDF and its network to address this issue. It helps rural communities fill missing links in value chains connecting communities to markets for small farmer produce.
As a pilot project the initial results will be for 40 families in several villages in Kurunegala district, who will gain at least a 140% increase in their paddy incomes, and moving away from chemical intensive agriculture they can increase their wellbeing as well and take control of their own communities’ development priorities.
For more information about this project, please visit the project page and the Rural Returns website.
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We gave away free coffee for World Poverty Day... raising some awareness of extreme poverty and the ways UEnd is helping people make a difference. Thanks again to our partners Caffe Rosso and SmartCalgaryHomes.com!
What a fantastic day we had on October 17th – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty!
Seriously, we have to share this with you…
Yesterday, October 17th, was International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (World Poverty Day). And we, along with our sponsor SmartCalgaryHomes.com, celebrated it by giving away FREE coffee from 7am – 11am in Calgary at one of our most favourite coffee spots, Caffe Rosso.
Why?
Wanted to do something different
Sure, we could have stood on a street corner interrupting people’s day. Or we could have sent 100,000 flyers through the mail and cluttered up people’s recycling bins. Instead, we simply engaged a few amazing volunteers, welcomed customers as they entered the café, and delighted them with news of a free coffee for World Poverty Day!
Give people a chance to donate
On top of raising awareness for UEnd and global extreme poverty (people living under $1.25/day), we basically gave people a reason to go donate that $3 or $5 they would have spent on coffee, to an extreme poverty-ending project on uend.org.
Make someone’s day
In the whole grand scheme of things, being able to tell someone we’d like to buy them a coffee was one of the best experiences ever. 99.9% of the people we met yesterday were completely delighted with what we were doing. And, 99.9% of the customers, in return, said they’d check out UEnd.org and think about donating. How awesome is that.
Oh and one more thing…
Because of the generous support of Caffe Rosso and SmartCalgaryHomes.com we are letting all the customers send A FRIEND a free coffee for Caffe Rosso too! … basically, doubling our awareness impact and hopefully doubling the number of people who will give to projects via uend.org.
Yesterday – free coffee on World Poverty Day. Tomorrow? Well, we’ll just have to see.
Massive (like, we’re talkin’ HUGE) thanks to our volunteers – Leonie, Ivan, Kate and Scott – for making the day an awesome one. And to some special people who came out to visit and support the cause :)
Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - a day to raise awareness about the progress made and the challenges that remain in the global fight against poverty.
FILL IN THE GAP: To end poverty we must __________.
Find out more about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how you can #EndPoverty: http://ow.ly/edpRZ
Pictured, a toddler stands by a pile of debris in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
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Ending Poverty: I believe we can, and I’m not alone
Today, on October 17, we celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. It’s a time to come together and put our collective global focus on one of the biggest issues of our time. In our world today there are approximately 1.3 Billion people living on under $1.25 a day. And to be clear, that isn’t some random number. Living on under $1.25 per day means that a person doesn’t have enough to get the necessary food, water, shelter, and medicine to survive. It means they are literally dying every day from being too poor. The immediate result is that over 24,000 people die every day from being too poor. The related negative effects of depression, psychological pain, loss of productivity, and financial implications are hard to quantify but no less real.
I bring up these facts not so anyone feels guilty about it, as guilt serves no one. I highlight these facts because I believe that we can’t truly change a thing until we look at that thing truly.
In 2000 the UN looked at the global situation truly. Their response was to say that we need to do better. They established the Millennium Development Goals: eight international development targets for the world to strive towards that would result in, simply stated, “at least enough” for all by 2015.
Today’s world is facing so many truly extraordinary exceptional challenges. Impending financial collapse, environmental degradation and destabilization, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and pandemic threats. And, extreme poverty.
But today, as we collectively focus on the end of extreme poverty, the facts point in one direction. Great progress is being made on extreme poverty around the world. In June 2011 the World Bank reported that 28 of the 63 low-income countries had moved out of extreme poverty since 2000. And as the Economist reported on March 3, 2012, for the first time ever the number of poor is declining everywhere.
And we also see a compounding and accelerating effect from the Gen Y culture and the current state of technology. Don Tapscott, leading Gen Y researcher, tells us that Gen Ys view themselves as global citizens and fully believe they will change the world for good. They see the challenges ahead of us, but believe that technology and innovation combined with the human spirit will be able to overcome those challenges. Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize and author of Abundance, would support that perspective. He believes that with three billion new minds and voices coming online over the next few years and joining the global conversation we’re about to hit a radical tipping point. He points out that the rate of innovation is a function of the people actually communicating, so get ready for the innovation explosion. This is the not the first generation to believe it can change the world, but it is the first time that the technology, tools and omnipresent communication are making it possible.
This is likely one of the most crucial parts in this journey towards the end of poverty on our planet. We have, as Jim Collins describes in “Good to Great”, started to turn the flywheel. The initial momentum has been born of immense and sustained effort. We could congratulate ourselves and relax because of the hard work we’ve done to get here. But a slight hesitation could reverse all of that work far too quickly. We have all worked too hard and come too far to take our foot off the gas right now. This is the very time at which a strong push will result in exponential positive effects. This is the time.
And it has never been easier to play a part in this historic movement. Donate to one of the great charities working to empower people to define and solve their own problems like Amanda Lindhout’s Global Enrichment Foundation or CAUSE Canada. Hold your own fundraising event on charity:water or IndieGoGo. Give up your birthday or other holidays and ask for UEnd:Poverty gift cards in lieu of traditional gifts. Educate yourself online or at the bookstore so you can make informed decisions about what to do or not do. Partake in one of the many great film festivals across the country. Go visit another nation to make these issues real to you. Go to a concert for a cause, like the recent GlobalCitizen.org concert in New York’s Central Park. Advocate through organizations like RESULTS for good legislation changes and appropriate governmental decisions and participation. Educate your friends by spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter.
What it comes down to, and what it has always come down to, is people. It’s up to me. It’s up to you.
And as Henry Ford said “whether you believe you can or you can’t, you’re right”.Â
I believe we can, and I’m not alone.
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JayÂ
Jay Baydala is Founder and Executive Director of UEnd:poverty (uend.org)
Yes Coffee. No Poverty.
October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. And while we’re seeing massive success in helping people all over the world, 1.3billion people still live under $1.25 per day.Â
The good thing is, for about the price of a coffee per month, you can help end extreme poverty.
Join us on Wednesday October 17th from 7am – 11am at Caffe Rosso locations in Calgary for a free coffee and to talk about ways to end poverty. Sponsored by SmartCalgaryHomes.com and Caffe Rosso.
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