Give More, Get More: GlobalGiving is Matching Donations to Hope Ofiriha from October 17th 2012. Are you looking for a way to support Hope Ofiriha get more bangs for your bucks? On October 17th, GlobalGiving will be matching donations 30% up to $ 1000 per donor, per project. There is $50,000 available in matching funds. Matching will begin at 12:01 am EDT and last until funds run out or until 11:59 pm EDT. Once funds have been depleted, no more donations will be matched. Let’s… Read More
Get More Bang for Your Donation Buck
Give More, Get More: GlobalGiving is Match Donations to Hope Ofiriha from June 13. Are you looking for a way to support our projects and get more bangs for your bucks? Starting at midnight at 12:00am EDT on June 13, GlobalGiving is matching all donations by 30% for partner, 40% for leader, and 50% for superstar. Good news! – HOPE OFIRIHA is ranked a superstar and donation to the charity will be matched by 50% on the same day. There is a total of $75,000… Read More
We’ve Reached $50,000 in GlobalGiving Donations
I’ve got great news to share! Today, thanks to our generous donors, we reached $50,000 in GlobalGiving donations, more than $32,000 of it this year. GlobalGiving has given us an invaluable boost at a time when many of our regular donors are cutting back due to the global recession. Thank you Global Giving! Thank you Hope Ofiriha supporters! Thank you donors! As you may recall, last July GlobalGiving’s participated in (or turbo charged) our rally to throw a baby shower for our Onura clinic in South… Read More
Combating Poverty through Education
Omilling’s former child-soldier problem is a complicated one! Astrid Wang and Lunde Arneberg from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design are returning to Omilling to construct Mario primary school in November. The plan A – is to build one classroom, girl-pit latrine, and a teacher’s house. They are busy re-designing the school’s structure to match village’s standard. Fighting against decades of marginalization and intense state of poverty that spawn the practice, it is sometimes hard to imagine there is a way to help. Funding… Read More
Meeting in Omilling, South Sudan
Work on the Mairo Primary School is at a new stage! Last August, Astrid Rohde Wang and Lunde Arneberg from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design, and I visited Omilling to meet with the villagers. The Traditional Authority has approved the building plan and the community has already taken the ownership of the project. The two volunteers visited the donated plot and measured the site where the school will be built. The villagers gave a helping hand, and also assisted in searching for the red soil discovered… Read More
GlobalGiving’s ‘Baby Shower’ One-Day Miracle
UPDATE: Due to the overwhelming support of GlobalGiving’s donors, we’ve raised our funding goal to $14,074 to save even more mothers and babies. I am over joyed to report that GlobalGiving’s participation in our rally to throw a baby shower for our Onura clinic in South Sudan has raised nearly $4,000 so far in less than a day. Our Onura Maternal Survival Project has gone from being one of our least supported projects on GlobalGiving to being fully funded (between May 2010 and yesterday, donors had only given… Read More
100 Women Become Beekeepers in Onura
Hope Ofiriha’s Onura Beekeeping Project has raised $3,328 on GlobalGiving, and the results are just terrific. The project is running very well under the guidance of the village’s woman project manager and her team at the Onura Women’s Beekeeping Association. Women’s businesses are growing steadily larger and the local economy is also expanding noticeably in Onura sub village where the project is running. The beekeeping project will provide local women with the opportunity to learn a sustainable agricultural skill and earn an income to support their… Read More
Hope Ofiriha Named a GlobalGiving ‘SUPERSTAR’
I have exciting news. Thanks to our generous donors, Hope Ofiriha is listed as a SUPERSTAR on GlobalGiving’s new Partner Rewards Program. This is the highest level that an organization can reach on GlobalGiving! As you may remember, we only became a permanent member of the GlobalGiving community just over a year ago. During the December 2009 Global Open Challenge we raised $4,093 from 51 unique donors for our Omilling HIV-AIDS Project , just getting us over the required $4,000 in donations and 50 unique donors threshold. Since then, we have raised… Read More
HIV-AIDS Project Makes Remarkable Change
Hope Ofiriha’s Omilling HIV-AIDS Project has made a remarkable change increasing the number of people knowing their HIV status. In Omilling Sudan, 1 out of 5 is HIV-infected. If people can find out their status, they can take necessary steps to remain negative or access care, and treatment services if positive. To further this goal, Hope Ofiriha made a decision to expand HIV-awareness campaign and counseling availability by visiting HIV-experts. Integrating HIV-awareness program into local health services allows local volunteers to offer testing and counseling as… Read More
June 16 is a GlobalGiving Bonus Day
From 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 on Wednes, June 16, 2010 (Eastern time/GMT-4) ,the GlobalGiving Bonus Day will offer a 50 percent match for your donations. Additional cash bonuses of $1,000 each will be awarded to the top project that generates the largest amount of money and the top project to solicit the greatest number of unique donations. Please make a donation to Hope Ofirha through GlobalGiving by clicking here, on June 16.
GlobalGiving Global Open Challenge a Success!
Thanks to you, our generous supporters, Hope Ofiriha has been invited to stay on GlobalGiving website and is now officially a permanent member of the GlobalGiving Community. We look forward to your continued support and participation in GlobalGiving‘s online marketplace for giving. Without your support, we could not have won a spot on GlobalGiving’s site. The $4,093 raised for our Omilling HIV-AIDS Project came from 51 different donors during the December 2009 Global Open Challenge, just getting us over the required $4,000 in donations and 50 unique… Read More
