Last updated by michaelpan on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 11:00.
According to 2007 census data, New York City is home to more than 970,000 Asian Americans, representing about 12% of the city’s total population. Chinese Americans comprise the largest Asian group in New York City mainly foreign born (75%) and the majority classified as limited English proficiency. In Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown, about 35% of children are living in poverty. Many Chinatown adults do not have a high school diploma and do not speak any English. Studies have shown that early language skills are critical.
Last updated by Konstantine on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 14:47.
Always Ready Kids (ARK) helps youth and their families prepare for disasters. ARK also provides funding and supplies for disaster relief. We provide information from FEMA to help youth prepare emergency supply kits. The ARK Preparedness Promise gets people to do something to help prepare for disasters.
Last updated by Nawleanteer on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 12:46.
The mission of College Students for New Orleans is to recruit and organize groups of students to volunteer for non-profit organizations in the Greater New Orleans Area.
Last updated by kaylerz on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 14:10.
We're simply recycling throughout the school year at our school. Though the project is to just recycle around Brewtech, we're hoping to get not only our members, but our fellow classmates and teachers to do so on their own time.
Last updated by thirstyseth on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 14:22.
1.1 Billion people on our planet do not have access to clean, safe drinking water. (That is one in every six of us.) 4,500 children under the age of 5 die every day as a result of drinking contaminated water. (That's approximately one child every 15 seconds.) Over 80% of all world-wide diseases are easily-preventable, water-borne illnesses. These kill over 2.2 million people each year- more than all worldwide violence combined.
Sound daunting? The problem is big, but the solution is easy.
Last updated by gregbotting on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 16:18.
We are attempting to spread awareness of the usefulness of Braille to blind and low vision students, as well as the larger community.
Last updated by lmcnulty08 on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 21:18.
In the Puerto Plata province of the DR, thousands of Dominicans and Haitians live in poverty without access to health care, adequate nutrition and housing, social services, or economic opportunity. Having participated in several week-long medical relief trips to this region, we have experienced the challenges of addressing long-term health and social problems using short-term interventions.
Our medical relief trips allow individuals to access health care, medicine, hygiene supplies, and for a few critically ill patients, funding for further care.
Last updated by mszcepanski on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 20:21.
The simple ways to protect yourself, your family, and the community from a possible pandemic are the issues the pandemic postcards are intended to do for the city of Kenosha. Reaching those through images and simple steps in the postcard format should promote a health concious community. Handwashing and ways to properly cough when around others are the key problems we focused on.
The postcards are meant to be visually appealing as to draw in the reader before giving them the information. The postcards can be sent out to at risk areas and placed in certain high risk areas.
Last updated by Sisterhood of t... on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 17:01.
We are military teen girls. Our community is filled with war, unity, uncertainty, and pride. Just as the nation felt the drastic affects of September 11, 2001, the fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters rose up in arms to protect the nation. But what happened to those left behind? Did the media put a spot light on the internal and external harms of war on military teenage girls? The military community feels the shocks every time a bomb drops, the earth quakes, the tornado rises, and the waves crash upon cities.
Last updated by ABlackmon11 on Sun, 08/16/2009 - 13:01.
At Clark Atlanta University, I saw a constant struggle of students to not only pay for school their first year but also maintain their attendance by becoming financially equipped.
Last updated by Cosmicthursday4... on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 18:09.
Mekele School for the Blind in Ethiopia is a school that really needs help. The children that go to Mekele are in dire need for a better environment. The school itself is not in the best condition, and barely has enough money to support it's food and basic necessities. Over the past summer, a security wall was built to keep away sexual predators from entering the school. I really want to help this school and its children by giving them a chance, an opportunity for them to have a better and brighter future.
Last updated by laurelizsmith on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 20:00.
Make a county park more accessible to the people who wish to enjoy the immense, yet hidden, beauty of Western New Jersey. We will restore several trails that hinder safe hiking.
Last updated by AlexKU1 on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 15:25.
The 4:10 House is a disaster relief shelter designed to accommodate people who have been displaced from their homes due to natural disasters. Different solutions are used all over the world when it comes to housing disaster victims or refugees many are of poor quality and lack the fundamental elements of a home.
Last updated by afabrizio on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 14:03.
Bella Luce Learning is a not-for-profit educational initiative for women that serves the women of Gainesville, Florida and the surrounding communities. According to the US Census Bureau (data and estimates, 1999-2003), Gainesville’s population is 109,146, with 26.7% below poverty, compared to the statewide average of 12.5%. East Gainesville is characterized by the most widespread poverty, with 65% of households having incomes below the city average. For women specifically, the statistics for poverty are crushing.
Last updated by dededancestudio on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 10:00.
DeDe Dance Studio is a burgeoning non-profit in South, Los Angeles that works to empower youth through multicultural arts and brotherhood and sisterhood clubs. The residents of the community that we serve are predominately from low-income families. Further the community as a whole is impoverished with lack of intervention programs such as DeDe Dance Studio that provides youth with the safe environment to express themselves in positive and creative ways.
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