Aid Details

Each of the three “Aid” prizes are being done in partnership with an organization called Global Aid Network (GAiN).

Who is GAiN?

GAiN is a worldwide humanitarian relief and development organization dedicated to bringing hope and tangible help to the poor and suffering.

GAiN Canada has grown to become part of a diverse global network with offices in Canada, United States, Germany, Australia, Austria, South Korea and Holland. Since beginning in 1998, GAiN Canada has mobilized resources to help people in over 43 countries around the world.

Our focus is around the following 5 areas:
1) Water for Life Initiative
2) Children
3) Humanitarian Aid
4) Disaster Response
5) Development

Water

Our Water for Life Initiative is mostly focused in 4 countries in Africa: Benin, Tanzania, Sudan and Togo. At the moment, we have currently drilled 295 productive wells, reaching 295,000 people with clean water. The cost per well is $8,500-$10,000 (cost is dependent on drilling depth, geological subsurface and additional community services provided). GAiN Canada has been drilling wells in Africa since 2004 and currently has 30 African staff that make up the drilling teams and operations.

If you choose water, $1,000 is donated to the Water for Life Initiative to cover the cost of the hand pump and concrete pad. It helps provide deep well India Mark II hand pump and concrete pad for a newly drilled deep capped water well in a village in Africa. Once the hand pump is installed and concrete work is completed, this water well would potentially serve a community of 1,000 people with clean drinking water for up to 25 years.

For more information about the Water for Life Initiative go here.

Orphans

Under the children area GAiN focuses on orphanage support, child sponsorship, widows and destitute women in Tanzania, India, Vietnam and Haiti.

If  you choose orphans, $1,000 will go toward providing a month’s sponsorship for 22 children at the Upendo Orphanage in Tanzania. The sponsorship would cover school supplies, medical expenses, meals and rent of the property/house for one month.

For more information about GAiN’s work with children go here.

Shelter

GAiN has been in Haiti since the hurricanes in 2004 and has developed an ongoing relationship with a few local partners. When the earthquake hit on January 12th, their team arrived in country just 3 days after to work with our local network. Since that day, they have had;

• - 38 medical teams with 1,043 medical personnel to treat more than 20,154 people
• - conducted 12 trauma training seminars for 2,242 people
• - conducted 165 distribution events benefiting 363,000 Haitians
• - over 11,800 water filters distributed
• - over 650+ tents distributed

Over the next 6 months, GAiN will continue with

• - medical clinics
• - temporary shelters & permanent housing
• - Ca-Ira orphanage (75 children)
• - construction of a volunteer camp that will be phased into an orphanage, a 5,000-square foot warehouse for the staging & distribution of aid, and kitchen facilities for the volunteer camp that can later be the base for a micro-enterprise, trade schools, & an agricultural project

If you choose shelter you would provide two temporary shelters for two families of 8 in the earthquake devastated region of Haiti. This tent has an approximate life of 3+ years and will provide shelter from rain, wind and heat till proper permanent shelters can be provided.

For more information about GAiN’s disaster response work go here.