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Girls Kick It Chicken (Gweno) House Project

Girls Kick It, Global Youth Partnership for Africa

Girls Kick It aims to provide the loan-funding to build a poultry (gweno) house in the Paicho community, and simultaneously provide the management training necessary to oversee the social enterprise. The plan is for the Girls Kick It team to manage and maintain a poultry house that would provide, for the first time, real economic opportunity for these young girls and women of Paicho. Essentially, through this program, the money generated from the sale of chickens to local hotels, businesses and nearby food markets would permit the team to pay for their team needs such as transportation to tournaments and practices, coach salaries, equipment and refreshments like sugar cane, water and bananas (and not rely on fundraising money from the U.S.) Also, school fees for themselves or their children. Finally, the gweno house (or similar agri-business social enterprises) has the potential to be replicated and thus, enable economic opportunity for other girls and women living in northern Uganda. We would also like to invest in the capacity of our players in staff through further skills courses in management, accounting and business. Girls Kick It hopes to expand income generating programs like our poultry houses and thus, reducing dependency on outside donors, and two, through establishing relationships with local small businesses and markets who are looking to purchase poultry and other local agri-goods. Our organization’s approach moving ahead is to encourage more creative, social enterprise and income-generating projects in Uganda, and collaborate with the foundations and organizations that believe this approach is the future of development.

CoachMe Sports & Arts

CoachMe Sports

CoachMe Sports and Arts Academy looks to establish a positive role in the future of today and tomorrow's youth. By providing an academy for students of both sports and arts and allowing students the best available training in their preferred genre. Providing students with choices of theater, music, visual arts and more as well as providing the academic foundations to allow students to continue on to higher educations and professions with confidence. With an understanding of what hardwork, desire and team work is needed to play a positive role in their communities as well. CoachMe Sports & Arts helps youth train and develop for the future. We use basketball as a self esteem builder as well as to develop team work and self-lessness in our players. We use selected arts as way for students freely express themselves and learn what the world has to offer and how to offer their full abilities for the world to share. We are looking for an opportunity to build a college prep academy for youth in the Round Rock/Austin-metro area. CoachMe Sports & Arts feels with each person there comes an opportunity for success, we want to broaden that opportunity by establishing a place where students and athletes are asked to be role models not only in their community but throughout the world's community.

OAKLAND SCHOOLYARDS INITIATIVE: Fitness Structures

Oakland Schoolyards Initiative

As we have revitalized schoolyards from barren and dangerous places into active, green and healthy spaces, we have failed to develop and build play structures that meet the needs of our schoolchildren. To help reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity, our schools need structures that are physically challenging, safe, beautiful and low cost. Hopefully these can be built by community volunteers and be approved by the District and review agencies. They should work like a Marine Corps Obstacle Course, look like a Henry Moore's sculpture and cost a lot less than Kompan playgrounds. Pilot project designs for 5 to 12 year olds for elementary schools and another configuration for middle schools would be ideal. Construction can occur at one or more of our school sites. Play structures that are endemic to schoolyards look like chutes and ladders built by plumbers to satisfy risk managers not children. They are boring and do not provide for vigorous exercise. Typically, children wait a while to climb a few steps then slide down and repeat. None of the innovative playground designs address the fitness issue. Neither KaBOOM’s formulaic structures nor the community-build groups’ innovations provide strenuous activity that is fun as well as healthful. Girls particularly need upper body exercise that schoolyard games do not provide. We believe that the design talent available through Architecture for Humanity and modest funding can develop and build a prototype fitness structure that can be replicated in all of our renovated schoolyards and in other districts. The epidemic of childhood obesity is a serious problem that needs to be addressed in many ways. We hope that this proposal will succeed for our schoolchildren.

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We are looking to fund groups and individuals we call GAMECHANGERS. They broaden the idea of play. For them it is not about winning a game, it is about using the game to change lives. They use sports to address community issues, raise awareness and create real social change.

If you are using any sport as a way to break barriers, improve education, increase access to health or one of many other social catalysts and are looking to build a facility for your initiative - we want your ideas. Enter today.

Round 1 Project: Mahiga High Rainwater Court

The Mahiga Hope Rainwater Court in rural Kenya is the latest recipient of GAMECHANGERS funding. Architecture For Humanity Design Fellow Greg Elsner is working with The Nobelity Project and the St. Joseph Mahiga Hope School to design and build a full-court basketball court with an integrated rainwater collection and UV purification system.

See the latest design progress here.

Round 1 Project: Skateistan

Architecture for Humanity and Nike are proud to announce the first recipient of the GAMECHANGERS funding to Skateistan, Afghanistan’s first co-educational skateboarding school. Skateistan works with young boys and girls between 5 - 17 years from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. With funding assistance from a range of funding sources, Skateistan is undertaking the construction of Kabul’s first indoor skate park at Ghazi Stadium.

Learn more about Skateistan's new park.

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If we like your project, we put our money where our mouth is. We want to support the design and development of as many innovative structures for the worlds' best GAMECHANGERS.

Now you are thinking that the 'usual suspects' will probably end up being selected. Wrong. Just like you, we feel that lot of grants are written to satisfy the donor not the end user. We think this limits creativity, causing the more creative proposals to get overlooked.

We want to fund as many groups as possible. So if you are pragmatic in your proposal, chances are you've got a pretty good shot at being selected.

Also we want to build only sustainable and well designed solutions. So if selected we will partner you with a professional design team from Architecture for Humanity who will design and build a facility to suit your needs.

Environmental Windsurfing Activists to West African Amputee Football Teams

We're not making this stuff up. We've already met both groups. There is no idea too bold or world changing that we won't review. We not going to fund some feel good afternoon fun run, we are looking for folks who are beating the system, changing the game and creating a real difference on the ground. If your running or starting a project that is going to make us sit upright....submit it today.

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Tell us why we should build for you. It is real is simple. Tell us about your program, how it is a GAMECHANGER, what you want to do and throw up a couple of images to show you've got an awesome project. We review it, we like it, we build it. We'll be reviewing projects on a rolling basis over three rounds ending April 15, July 15, and October 15, 2009.