Region: United States This program, located on the Pine Ridge Reservation, is home to two of the poorest counties in the United States. One of the biggest social problems on the reservation is a lack of adequate housing for Native American families, especially women and children. Project Lakota addresses this issue by engaging Lakota youth … Read more
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa Since 2004, IPM has partnered with Bride Rescue, located in Kajiado, KENYA aims to eliminate disparities in education, social and economic status for prosperity within the community especially women, children, and youth, through different initiatives: Rescue Center which provides long-term care and protection to girls from harmful cultural practices such as forced … Read more
Region: Sub_Saharan Africa The St. Charles Lwanga School in Kibera, a slum of Nairobi, Kenya, aims to rehabilitate and develop children in special circumstances from the streets or out of school due to socio-economic & psychological factors, through non-formal, vocation training, and community interventions based on values of charity and love. The School has three … Read more
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa St. Martin de Porres (Nyabondo, KENYA) is a school and rehabilitation center for children with disabilities, many of whom have cerebral palsy. It is the only center that provides these services in all of western Kenya, and because of this, students come from Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Cerebral palsy is caused … Read more
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa This project helps to provide fortified peanut butter to children who were admitted to hospitals for malnutrition. The children once released were taken into the same malnutritious conditions as they were to start with, and peanut butter helped more than 200,000 children in 2009 whose recovery rate through peanut butter jumped from … Read more