Website: finca.org
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About FINCA International

FINCA International provides financial services to the worlds lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living.

We target the poorest of the working poor: those who have the least access to services such as loans, savings programs, and insurance. Our clients include women, who make up 70 percent of the worlds poor; individuals unable to find work in the formal sector; families displaced by war and internal conflict; the rural poor; and those affected by chronic poverty.

With more than 20 years experience and over 700,000 clients on five continents, FINCA offers a proven solution to poverty.

Recognition: Barak Raviv

Website: http://www.jewishla.org
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About The Jewish Federation

The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles – L.A.’s largest Jewish nonprofit – identifies and funds social service, educational and humanitarian needs locally, in Israel and around the world. Through its network of agencies and programs, the Federation helps alleviate Jewish poverty, provide emergency relief, ensure a Jewish future, and support the greater Los Angeles community. They support a variety of programs for people in need on a nonsectarian basis, in both in Los Angeles and in over 58 countries around the world.

Their programs offer care for the elderly; day care for toddlers; relief to people with AIDS; help to battered women; free health care and job training for new immigrants; rescue for families in the Former Soviet Union, resettlement services for people in Israel and Los Angeles; and scholarships and Israel Experience programs for students.

Recognition: Stanley Gold, Rich Rosenbaum, Sam Yebri, Adam Lubin and Danyelle Neuman

Website: www.pih.org
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About Partners in Health

The PIH Vision: Whatever it takes

At its root, the mission of Partners in Health is both medical and moral. It is based on solidarity, rather than charity alone. When a person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at our disposal to make them well—from pressuring drug manufacturers, to lobbying policy makers, to providing medical care and social services. Whatever it takes. Just as we would do if a member of our own family—or we ourselves—were ill.

Recognition: Dana Raviv (my favorite sister in the whole wide world)

Website: http://www.nacoej.org
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About North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry

The North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ) is a grassroots, non-profit organization founded with four mandates: To help Ethiopian Jews survive in Ethiopia, to assist them in reaching Israel, to aid in their absorption into Israeli society, and to preserve their unique and ancient culture.

In Ethiopia, NACOEJ funds feeding, education and religious programs for about 8,700 Jews awaiting aliyah. Programs include a Jewish day school, a daily School Lunch Program, and adult education, employment and religious facilities. In Israel, NACOEJs yearly programming includes After-School programs of intensive education assistance for over 1,100 Ethiopian elementary school children, programs to help over 1,300 Ethiopian teens attain quality high school education; and programs that enables over 300 Ethiopian-Israeli students to pursue university degrees.

In addition, NACOEJ operates a Bar/Bat Mitzvah Twinning Program, and a School Supplies Collection Program provides basic, essential learning materials to underprivileged Ethiopian children.

Recognition: Richard and Middie Giesberg, Nili Salem, Evelyn Deitchman

Website: http://www.jdc.org/
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About Gebru Warka Primary School

Help Us Build a New School in Africa

Dear Friends,

For thousands of children living in the rural Ethiopian village of Gebru Warka, access to basic public elementary education is unavailable. Handfuls of children lucky enough to attend the current Gebru Warka primary school are forced into a cramped classroom, built out of sticks and mud-bricks, which averages a ratio of 84 students for every one teacher. In response to this village’s overwhelming need for accessible education, the Barak Raviv Foundation has committed to fully fund the building of a new primary school for the children of Gebru Warka, who so desperately deserve a better opportunity to learn.

On the Ground:
In order to build the school, the foundation has partnered with the Jewish Federation and the Joint Distribution Committee, which will oversee the construction. The JDC works with local rural communities to create sustainable solutions to many of the overwhelming issues across sub-Saharan Africa. Following Barak’s visit to Ethiopia several years ago, the foundation sponsored the construction of a water-well, also a project with the JDC, which today serves a community in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the new school, our foundation will be building its second well, which will provide access to clean drinking water to the broader community of Gebru Warka.

Community by community, the Barak Raviv Foundation is committed to bringing a sense of hope and aspiration toward a better reality. The recent construction of a new school in Shumargie (a project funded by Kulam), has provided students with a secure establishment that is conducive to learning. Similarly, our presence in Gebru Warka will supply locals with a new concrete block, two-room schoolhouse that will be equipped with desks, a dry pit latrine, and a community water well.

Take Action:
A project like this literally transforms entire communities – it has the ability to surpass the world’s expectations of these villages and produce incredible results, both immediate and long-term. For these special citizens of a third world country, your donation not only contributes to the building of a secure foundation for learning, but provides underprivileged children with the motivation to learn and will to achieve. To make a tax-deductible contribution, please visit our Donate Now Page or send a check to:

The Barak Raviv Foundation
10023 Westwanda Dr
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

I hope you’ll join us in this endeavor to give these children the opportunity to learn in a safe environment.

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Important: Please include “Ethiopian School” in the memo of your check to direct your donation toward this project. Contributions are tax-deductible.

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