Foldscope
The Foldscope is an extremely light and affordable microscope made of paper and a small glass lens. The Foldscope allows poor areas to perform a variety of essential tasks from checking water for pathogens, to reading a blood sample, and even to checking for toxins on plants. The Foldscope is generally donated to rural and impoverished areas that aren't able to access the instruments that would commonly be used in hospitals and other medical foundations. As travel costs are quite expensive for rural areas, your donation will be going towards the airfare required to transport these invaluable tools.
For more information please visit: www.foldscope.com/
A video about the initiative: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-cqSI5mwE
To donate directly: Foldscope Donation Page (scroll down and click "donate"): https://www.foldscope.com/donation/
For more information please visit: www.foldscope.com/
A video about the initiative: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-cqSI5mwE
To donate directly: Foldscope Donation Page (scroll down and click "donate"): https://www.foldscope.com/donation/
Embrace Innovations Baby Blanket
The Embrace Innovations Baby Blanket helps save the lives of premature babies born in rural and impoverished areas by helping them to maintain a healthy body temperature in the first months of their lives. This baby blanket is less than 1% the cost of the traditional baby incubator, which means it has the potential save lives premature babies in nearly every area of the world. Embrace Innovations has the lofty goal of saving the lives of at least 1,000,000 babies around the world. Embrace Innovations is a for-profit social enterprise. As a result, it cannot accept donations directly. However, they work with 501(c)(3)non-profit partners in deploying the Embrace infant warmers to developing countries. The non-profit partner we have selected is the One Heart World-Wide organization and when we direct your donations to that organization we will indicate that the funds should go toward deploying the baby blankets throughout the world.
Embrace Innovations' Website: www.embraceinnovations.com/
To donate directly: One Heart World-Wide Donation Page (donte by inputting "Embrace" in the "I would like to make my donation in honor/in memory of" section in order for your donation to be allocated to deploying baby blankets worldwide): http://donate.oneheartworld-wide.org/
Embrace Innovations' Website: www.embraceinnovations.com/
To donate directly: One Heart World-Wide Donation Page (donte by inputting "Embrace" in the "I would like to make my donation in honor/in memory of" section in order for your donation to be allocated to deploying baby blankets worldwide): http://donate.oneheartworld-wide.org/
Thistle Farms: Refugee Life Vest Mat
A.k.A. the Welcome Project
When women and their children risk their lives to flee the war and violence of their country they land in a refugee camp of a foreign country with poor conditions and few job opportunities. Thistle Farms has partnered with these refugee women to help weave welcome mats out of the life vests the refugees used in their perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea. These life vests would otherwise go waste and potentially pollute the environment. The women then sell these mats to start earning money to rebuild an entirely new life.
More information on the Welcome Project: https://thistlefarms.org/pages/the-welcome-project
To donate directly: Thistle Farms Donation Page (click "donate" and click "select a campaign" box and select "The Welcome Project") : https://thistlefarms.org/pages/support
More information on the Welcome Project: https://thistlefarms.org/pages/the-welcome-project
To donate directly: Thistle Farms Donation Page (click "donate" and click "select a campaign" box and select "The Welcome Project") : https://thistlefarms.org/pages/support
