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GreaterGood.org's unique Gifts That Give More™ program program allows you to support the programs and projects that you choose. Help us find sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty through your contributions here or at The Literacy Site. With your help, we can do even more for people in need.

Support Literacy Programs

Contribute to Children's Literacy Contribute to Children's Literacy
Give the gift of literacy and education, a gift that lasts a lifetime and beyond. Even a $1 can create a better future for a child.
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Give Books to U.S. Children in Need Give Books to U.S. Children in Need
"While in middle-income neighborhoods the ratio of books per child is thirteen to one, in low-income neighborhoods the ratio is only one age-appropriate book for every 300 children."- First Book. Give a child a book today, create a reader for tomorrow.
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Give Books to Children in Nepal Give Books to Children in Nepal
Hemmed in by mountains, most of the population of Nepal lives in rural areas where no phones, roads, clean water, or schools exist. By providing Nepali-language books for children, Room to Read helps to provide them with an education.
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Sit Stay Read - Happy Tales for Wagging Tails Sit Stay Read - Happy Tales for Wagging Tails
Help inner-city children learn to read by providing them with the best listener and motivation of all -- the quiet, loving attention of a real live dog! The opportunity to see, pet, interact with, and read aloud to a dog is a surprisingly effective strategy to engage struggling readers. Reading to a dog increases confidence, generates excitement about reading, and makes learning fun!
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Schoolbooks for Children in Darfur Schoolbooks for Children in Darfur
Darfur Peace & Development Organization's Schools for Peace needs textbooks are needed at each class level for students eager to make up for years of missed education. DPDO Schools of Peace enroll children from all ethnic groups and encourage the attendance of girls, traditionally excluded from primary education.
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Send A Child To School

Send a Girl to School in Africa Send a Girl to School in Africa
Poverty forces many girls in Sub-Saharan Africa to drop out of school before they gain the knowledge and skills they need to improve their future life options. By covering the minimal costs of school uniforms, tuition fees, and school supplies, this Gift ensures a girl will receive an education.
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Send a Child to School in Guatemala Send a Child to School in Guatemala
Guatemala has one of the highest poverty rates in Latin America, with more than 75% of the population living below the poverty line. In rural and indigenous populations, that figure is up to 93%. The best way to break this cycle of poverty is to make education easily accessible for all.
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Send a Girl to School in Afghanistan Send a Girl to School in Afghanistan
Improving the education of girls is one of the most lasting ways to increase stability, prosperity, and peace. When girls have the opportunity to further their education, their standard of living rises, and their families have a better chance of escaping the crushing cycle of poverty.
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Sponsor a Literacy Site Scholarship for a Girl in India Sponsor a Literacy Site Scholarship for a Girl in India
Sponsor a girl at The Fabindia School and help achieve her dreams. . With a library, science lab, computer center, sports fields, and a forested area, as well as a remarkable teacher-student ratio of 1:24, The Fabindia School offers an exceptional education to more than 700 students. It is a matter of pride that girls hold many leadership posts in the school.
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A Bicycle to get to School A Bicycle To Get To School
Help a child reach his or her full potential by attending school. This Gift That Gives More™ helps fund the purchase, assembly, and delivery of a sturdy new bicycle, and contributes to training and equipping a local bicycle mechanic so that the magic doesn't disappear with the first flat tire.
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Send Girls to School in Sub-Saharan Africa Send Girls to School in Sub-Saharan Africa
In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 17% of girls attend secondary school. "If a girl does not go to secondary school, her fate will be to marry young and have a low standard of living as a farmer," says Tadele Atakelti, Education Coordinator for the Millennium Village of Koraro, Ethiopia.
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Send an AIDS Orphan to School in Zambia Send an AIDS Orphan to School in Zambia
In the impoverished, landlocked country of Zambia, the chance for a school education can be as scarce as rainfall on the high plateaus. Primary education through age 7 is free, but after that, tuition is charged, and most children stop attending school altogether. Provide an AIDS orphan in Zambia with tuition, books, supplies, exam fees, calculator, and school uniform and shoes.
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Send a Child to School in Darfur Send a Child to School in Darfur
DPDO Schools of Peace enroll children from all ethnic groups and encourage the attendance of girls, traditionally excluded from primary education. School enrollment and attendance are free for all students. All DPDO schools reported at least 94% of their students achieved passing grades in the high school exam. Three students in the program were the highest-scoring students in Northern Darfur.
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Build Better Schools Worldwide

Help Protect Tibet's Cultural Heritage Help Protect Tibet's Cultural Heritage
The Tibetan Healing Fund is filling the need for Tibetan-language educational materials based on Tibetan folklore, including Tibetan customs, culture, art, geography, history, and life skills. Fill a a whole classroom with native Tibetan-language classroom materials, helping engage hearts, minds, and futures.
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Help Build a School in Nepal Help Build a School in Nepal
These schools include a Room to Read library - often the first library the students have been able to use. These libraries also provide extracurricular reading materials, games and activities that nurture intellectual curiosity and improve reading.
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School Supplies for Bolivian Children School Supplies for Bolivian Children
To help rural families with the financial burden of sending their children to school, school supplies are distributed in the remote areas north of the capital city of La Paz.
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Pay for Teacher Training in Zambia Pay for Teacher Training in Zambia
Bring the gift of education to a whole new generation of children! After completing high school with the help of donors like you, many of these motivated young people want to pass along the gift of education. Help an AIDS orphan in Zambia become a teacher.
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Computers for Cambodian Children Computers for Cambodian Children
In the 21st century, the keys to a child's future may turn out to be keys on a computer. Basic computer literacy is becoming more and more important for children's futures, but at the same time, more and more children are being left behind. The Volunteer Development Poverty Children's Association exists to help these underserved children, offering free classes and setting up computer labs in schools.
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Pay a Teacher's Salary in Darfur Pay a Teacher's Salary in Darfur
In an area that has been continually ravaged by conflict and violence, education can make a huge difference in a child's life and help them work towards a better and more stable future. DPDO's Darfuri teachers and a large group of support staff educate thousands of students. With assured salaries, teachers have expanded school schedules to assist students who have missed years of education.
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Hire an English Teacher for Cambodia Hire an English Teacher for Cambodia
An English language instructor in rural Cambodia can help students eager for a modern education and a brighter future. With a sound grasp of English, these students can attend college, changing their own lives and becoming future leaders in the fight against poverty, corruption, and human trafficking.
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Lights for Students in Rural Africa Lights for Students in Rural Africa
How many times have you turned on the light at night? The chance to read whenever we want is something most of us take for granted, but for people living off the electrical grid, when the sun goes down, so does their chance to read and learn. Light a child's night and enable them to study.
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Empower Women Through Education

Empower Rural Women Weavers Through Education Empower Rural Women Weavers Through Education
Basic education in reading, writing, and number literacy is critical to a woman improving her earning potential, but education has not yet reached many rural women in the landlocked, southern African country of Swaziland. $35 enables eight students to participate in four lessons with a literacy trainer.
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Teach a Woman in Darfur To Read & Write Teach a Woman in Darfur To Read & Write
Women and children comprise approximately 80% of the displaced population encamped throughout Darfur and Eastern Chad. Though many rural women are illiterate, they understand that education and skills training are vital to their future earning power. Just $30 gives a woman in Darfur the tools she needs to complete a six-month literacy training program, including school supplies, textbooks, and a literacy teacher.
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Hire an English Teacher for Cambodia Make College Possible For A Cambodian Woman
Provide education, housing, and leadership training to young women in Cambodia and support the belief that educated women with leadership ability constitute the most powerful force to bring about positive change in developing countries.
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