How To Get the Most Out of this Group

Every lensmaster in this group is doing important work to help people living in Africa. The purpose of the group is to publicize our many worthy causes and gain exposure on an international level. As soon as a lens is accepted to this group, I read it, rate it, leave a guestbook comment (if there is one, and there really should be...) and lensroll it to my own Help Africa Group lens Would You Trade Your Daughter For a Cow? If you haven't visited my lens yet, I invite you to do so. While you're there you can link back to your own site by leaving a guestbook comment and adding your lens to my Friends of Asante Africa Foundation plexo. Then, take the time to network with a few of your fellow Help Africa lensmasters. Leave guestbook comments, rate them, lensroll with them, etc. More than likely, they will reciprocate. One of our busiest lensmasters, Comfortdoc uses the featured lenses module to link back to our group. Check it out here. Why not try this with your own lenses? All of these small actions will bring added exposure and traffic, and that's what it's all about. I'm always open to suggestions for improving this group, and appreciate your support.

Add Your Charity Lenses To SquidLinks.Org

SquidLinks.org

Now that you have created that great lens to help your selected charity, why keep it all to yourself? Share it with the world on Squid Links if you really want to help your charity. Here's directions on how to do just that. I have tried to cater to...

Featured Lensmaster ~ Comfortdoc

Malaria No More - Lets You Give More this Christmas

This Christmas a generous donor is allowing your gift giving dollars to do more. Until December 31, your gift of a net is doubled. Every dollar of any gift you make to end malaria in Africa will be matched, up to $250,000! So a gift of one net become...

Nothing But Nets

Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Malaria*, which was eradicated from the United States over 50 years ago, still claims one child's life worldwide every 30...

Idol Gives Back - American Idol Helps Others

For the second year running, American Idol and fans helped those who are less fortunate in the United States and around the world through Idol Gives Back. The second special night aired Wednesday, April 9th starting at 7:30/6:30 central on your Fox...

FreeRice - Donate Free Rice - Discover Some New Words

At FreeRice.com you can learn new words, improve your vocabulary at the same time you are donating free rice for the United Nation's World Food Program. When you play the game for each word you get right, FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to the Un...

Featured Lensmaster ~ Comfortdoc

Grobanites for Charity and The Josh Groban Foundation - Making a Difference in the Lives of Children

Josh Groban is the young baritone who is defining a new genre of music. This lens supports the work of the Josh Groban Foundation and the Grobanites for Charity a group of dedicated fans working to make a difference in the lives of children around th...

Do They Know It's Christmas Video Showcase

In late 1984 Irish singer Bob Geldof watched a BBC report on the famine in Ethiopia. He was so affected that along with Midge Ure they wrote and organized the recording of a pop record to increase awareness of the famine and to raise money. Do They...

One Laptop Per Child the Gift that Gives Twice for Christmas in 2008

In 2007 Americans bought 100,000 laptops for children across the world. This year, One Laptop Per Child hopes to give 1 million laptops to children in the least developed countries around the world for 2008. Once again you can give a laptop and get...

Keep a Child Alive

A single dollar can make a difference in the life of a child with HIV. Keep A Child Alive is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. 25 million people have already dead from AIDS, the disease continues, wiping out whole societies, t...

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Born out of a mother's love for her children and a desire to protect her children, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has played an important part in the research, the eradication and the prevention of Pediatric AIDS in the United States...

Sierra Leone

Potoru, Sierra Leone

This lens is to raise awareness for this village in Sierra Leone where they can use a library to help the local children learn. If you can donate books, please help.     Please mail all donations to: Potoru Coomunity Schools Library P.O. Box...

Beautiful Sierra Leone

Kusheh ow di bohdi? Literally translated to: Hello how's your body? This lens is about Beautiful Sierra Leone. Chock a block full of beautiful pictures and engaging videos. Her people are the kindest individuals I've ever met. Time and time again pe...

Medical Student Provides Programs of Hope for Amputee Victims in the Sierra Leone

John Daniel Kelly is a 4th yr medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. He traveled to Sierra Leone on a Global Health Fellowship to help those in need. A native Sierra Leonean doctor, Dr. Barrie, and Dan co-founded an...

Sweet Children of Sierra Leone

Many organizations and individual people are doing what they can to ease the hunger of flesh, spirit, and mind of the orphaned children in Sierra Leone. Read (Hear) the stories! Look (See) the children! Engage (Act) your heart to the sweet, sweet chi...

A Focus on Children

Delta Childrens Village

Delta Childrens Village is a natural outcropping of the Delta Development Project's mission to improve the socio-economic and educational problems of  poor children and their families in developing nations, especially Africa.    After r...

construct a school for kids in africa(CAMEROON)

In conformity with law No 90-53 of 19th December 1990 relating to freedom of Associations in the Republic of Cameroon, an association, Mustard Seed Charity Centre was born on the 14th of March 2007. The association is based in Kumba and it is a Chris...

Notre Dame High School Uganda

Notre Dame High School is located 85 miles from Kampala City in the Central Region of Uganda on Bukakata Road - Mukungwe Sub-county Kirinda Village Masaka District.

Volunteering in Kenya

AVIF is a relatively small "kitchen table" charity, we don't do bureaucracy and administrative fees ! We operate online as far as we can, keeping costs minimal and our aims focused solely on the children, our hosts, and of course...

A Focus on Children

Idealism Reloaded

Idealism and the desire to make a positive impact are sometimes shunned as naive utopias by some who believe that it is inefficient and misguided. I want to show that idealism and the desire to "do good" can be put into practice in simple ways - in...

Would You Trade Your Daughter for a Cow?

The very idea seems absurd, but for desperate families in parts of rural Africa, it's an all too common answer to a present-day economic problem. Thus, when a family runs out of food and sees no other solution, they will strike a deal with a neighbor...

The ONE Campaign

Why I support the One Campaign

Join the ONE Campaign to make poverty history, one person, one voice, one vote at a time. Make a lens at the ONE Campaign's Squidoo Headquarters.

Running Marathons for Keep A Child Alive

In December 2006 I ran my first marathon in Honolulu and I did a fundraiser for Keep A Child Alive. Thanks to the support of many amongst friends and family, more than $1700 were donated to this non-profit organization (more info below...

The ONE Campaign

If you know little about me, you know this: - I have been a big fan of U2 for about 20 years now. - I have always respected Bono Vox and his work to raise awareness to important social issues worldwide - I have always been passionate about using adverti...

ONE Lens To Make A Difference

What is ONE? ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE is students and ministers, punk rockers and NASCAR moms, Americans of all beliefs and every...

Featured Lensmaster ~ donna_m

Comfort dolls-knitting for African Aids Orphans

This squidoo is all about African Comfort dolls - patterns for knitting or crocheting are further down the page, photos of the kids with their dolls, addresses for where to send your completed dolls.... everything you need to get started. What is...

Comfort Doll Project

In spring of 2006, my partner and I came up with the wild idea to raise money for African charities using Comfort Dolls and the generosity of well-known musicians and bands. A comfort doll is a small knitted doll that Icross Canada uses ins...

Featured Lensmaster ~ jackclee

Kirinyaga, Kenya

This lens is created to highlight Kirinyaga, Kenya and to help the local community. The Kirinyaga Sports Foundation works to empower Kirinyaga youth to harness their ability in sports and other technical skills by continuously encouraging educationa...

Ituri Congo

This lens is to help publicize a worthy cause in Ituri, Congo.  PIRD is a Non Government Organisation focusing on rehabilitation and sustainable development in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. PIRD It is a village within...

NESC

This lens is to publicize our effort in trying to establish a Health Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. We are a village within NABUUR. NABUUR Please help donate to our fund thru ChipIn. (we are seeking a modest $1200 in the next month for NGO registration f...

Oprah's Leadership Academy

This lens is my tribute to Oprah. After seeing the ABC special on her new school for girls in South Africa, I am blown away by her generosity and personal connection to the project and the people. She is the epitomy of what the Horatio Algier story i...

Darfur

Save Darfur Shirts Store

The Save Darfur Shirts Store supports the Genocide Intervention Network, a non-profit organization working to bring an end to the Darfur genocide. If you buy something from this store, you will automatically be making a donation to the Genocide Inter...

Darfur : Stop The Genocide

I'm putting together this lens to not only introduce you to the problem in Darfur, but to give you the opportunity to make a difference. Please check out all the different organizations trying to stop the genocide in Darfur. Find the one you like and...

Use your Talents to Help Darfur!

OneBigU allows users to help a struggling student, earn some money, and support a Darfur Charity at the same time.

Featured Lensmaster ~ badmsm

Bette is definitely one of our busiest contributors! Please take a few moments to rate her lenses and leave guestbook comments.

Bpeace- The Business Council For Peace

The Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) believes that entrepreneurship is a foundation for creating hope and stability in regions where conflict exists. Bpeace gives business people the opportunity to have an active role in building peace. At Bpeace i...

BadMsM's Knit-O-Rama

Knitting has taken me places I never thought I would go, and helped me touch the lives of so many other people I would never have met otherwise. I never imagined that all the hours I spent teaching machine knitting to myself and others would pro...

Alpha Secondary Vocational Skills Development Center

c/o Alpha Childcare and Community Development Organization (ACCOD) P.O. Box 1274 Jinja, Uganda Tel: 256 77 448596  http://www.alphachildcare.org Richard Lubale, Director accod_ug@yahoo.co.uk  Alpha Secondary School & Vocational Skills D...

Opportunity International

Opportunity International strives to reach the world's poorest people through its microenterprise-development programs. Recognizing that the large majority of the world's poorest people are women, and that they contribute decisively to the well-being...

DESTINY CREATION MINISTRIES

http://groups.msn.com/destinycreationministries   P.O. Box 336 Nakuru. Kenya. East Africa.  Tel 254 724 215 807   Pastor John G. Kamau, Director   praises75@yahoo.com Our Vision  To connect people to their God given Destiny by first...

Featured Lensmaster ~SemperFidelis

World Vision | Humanitarian Organization | Ending Poverty | Helping Children | HIV ~ AIDS | Health Care

World Vision is a relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.

The Acumen Fund

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.  The Acumenfund seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of busi...

Featured Lensmaster ~ GrahamK

Talk Africa

Talk Africa is a publication from Ghana that wants to present a different view of Africa. Although its target is African youth, we believe it offers articles that will challenge readers from all parts of the world. It aims to rekindle a sense of pride...

Funding Charitable Causes

***The Absolute Best*** Totally FREE NPO Fund Raiser

I have been volunteering for vaccination Liberation since 2000. For some time now I have been on the look out for a simple FREE to do fund raiser and I must say this is truly the best FREE fund raiser for NPO’s that I have found.   &nb...

Make $2,000 Per Month with Disciple's Cross

Disciple's Cross began as a summer youth camp craft idea more than ten years ago. Pastor John Raymond was able to meet the growing demand for the necklaces, until his appearance on the Emmy Award winning CBS television show, Survivor: Thailand. After...

Search the Web...Make a Difference using GoodSearch

If you had the chance to effortlessly support your favorite charity every single day without taking time or money out of your life, would you? Now you can just by using GoodSearch.com.

Custom Photo Buttons @ Buttons of Hope | Personalize Your Cause Wear a Photo Button

I like to say "It's not just about the button"...it's about helping people personalize their cause & tell their story. Wearing a photo button in support of a friend, or to honor a loved one is simply powerful. Whether you are doing a charity walk li...

Stop FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)

Stop FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)

If you buy something from this page, you'll automatically be making a donation to the Genocide Intervention Network. Female genital mutilation (FGM), also called female genital cutting (FGC) or female circumcision (FC) is a cultural practice in many...

Stop This Crime of Female Circumcision !

This picture  of a woman undergoing female circumcision from the Difficult Images Blog says it all.The pain and agony that woman must have experienced is unbelievable.This surely is a case of Human Rights Abuse and Torture. Female Genital Mutilat...

Featured Lensmaster ~ LaurieBeth

Online Shopping with a Conscience

In this dismal economy, charitable donations have--like everything else--suffered a pretty devastating blow. So many people are being laid off, and for those of us lucky enough to be employed, job security is tenuous at best. Prices are up and stocks...

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