Pangea's 2007 grants focused on community strengthening and improvement, in Central America, and on improving the capacity of rural families, communities and institutions to overcome the impacts of HIV/AIDS and poverty in East Africa.  The following organizations were chosen to receive grants:

Africa

Rabuor Village Project (previous grantee, Kenya) will expand production of sunflower crop funded in 2006 and begin selling sunflower oil to neighboring communities.

Common Ground Program (previous grantee, Kenya) will construct a deep well and water storage tank to supply water to the Pathfinder Academy and to the surrounding community of Kiminini.  Our grant will also pay boarding school fees for a promising secondary school girl who wants to become a doctor.

GWAKO Ministries (Kenya) will provide a deep well for Kambare Village and provide training on improved agricultural practices.

Omeko Women's Group (Kenya)  will start a poultry breeding program, a pharmacy, and a revolving loan fund to provide capital for micro enterprises by the women of the village.

Precious Tears Initiative (Kenya) will expand their day care feeding program, equip girls' study centers to help girls stay in school, and enhance food security with agricultural training.

St. Margarita Development Centre (previous grantee, Kenya) will provide scholarships for 17 children to attend secondary school until graduation.

Movement of Men Against AIDS in Kenya will expand services in 2 rural districts to provide support groups for HIV+ men, home-based care training, and provide training intended to influence attitude and behavioral change.

Ark Foundation of Africa (previous grantee, Tanzania) will equip the science laboratory for their newly registered secondary school.

Teens Against AIDS (previous grantee, Tanzania) will expand their HIV/AIDS outreach among the Masai to include an environmental education program and trash management scheme.

Latin America

Adopt-a-Village (Guatemala) will use Pangea funds basic veterinary education to students in 10 villages in a remote area where the nearest veterinary services are 60 km away.

Guatemala Friendship School will use its grant from Pangea to build toilets and hand-washing sinks for use by the school's 67 students.

COMUNDICH (Guatemala) will provide training in leadership, computer skills, and the arts to youth in a high-risk area where teens are being recruited into the drug trafficking business.

Kinal Antezetik (Mexico) will use Pangea's grant to put on 15 workshops to train villagers in basic health education and use of natural medicines to cure common ailments.

Jubilee House Community (previous grantee, Nicaragua) will build a pipeline to supply water from an existing well to a refugee camp and coffee cooperative, neither of which currently have access to clean water.

Living Earth Institute (Nicaragua) will build two water storage cisterns and repair existing latrines at a school in Diria that has 550 students. One cistern will catch and store rainwater; the other will store water from the municipal supply, which is often out of service for several days.

Lambi Fund (Haiti) will build five cisterns to store water in one of the most arid parts of Haiti.

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