The Project Migration Foundation focuses on supporting young single mothers and their children in East Africa and providing for their basic needs as well as helping them to start a business. The culture in most countries in East Africa is such that once a young woman is married or has given birth, she is not allowed to return to her parents' home, regardless of divorce, death or abandonment by her husband or boyfriend. At young ages, single mothers are left alone, to fend for their new family. Help a single mother keep herself and her children healthy, when she has no other means of support, by donating now. 

Part of the United Nations MDG initiative to end poverty by 2015.

What Do We Give? 

We fundraise using our exclusive fashion products. For each Project Migration product sold, one or more struggling single mothers in East Africa will receive up to 20 years (depending on product sold) of clean water along with life-saving medical supplies for her and her children.

Why Single Mothers? 

Life in Africa is especially hard for single mothers and their children. Many single mothers are unable to get an education and have no reliable source of income with which to purchase food to feed their children, or to provide them with necessary shelter and care. Single mothers are often forced to leave their children unattended for more than three hours each day. 

Why? 

To walk for many miles in the hot sun carrying extremely heavy containers filled with the dirty, infected water that is likely to make her and her children ill. Infection from dirty water is not the only risk. Rape along these tough many-mile journeys is common, resulting in more children, depression, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and orphans. Both the mother and her children are at high risk of death from sickness due to lack of clean water and lack of medical supplies. 

The culture in most countries in East Africa is such that once a woman is married or has given birth, she is not allowed to return to her parents' home, regardless of divorce, death or abandonment by her husband or boyfriend. At young ages, single mothers are left alone, to fend for their new family.

What Do We do? 

Project Migration designs and sells exclusive products to raise money for clean water and medical supplies. Proceeds from the products also benefit fundraising projects, in addition to traditional cash donations. Selling products to support fundraising efforts allows more people to become a part of the Project Migration Movement, and also provides customers with a product to continually remind them of the cause they are supporting. 

Supporters have an opportunity to personally hand-deliver supplies during trips we call 'Migration Vacations', so named to inspire people to use their 'vacation time' from work to do something positive and meaningful in the world.

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