2022 Allocations to Recipients

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DECEMBER

total Allocations -

Afghanistan

  • $200 sent to HGC “secret school” for 2 months of education (notebooks, school supplies)

Appalachia

  • $50 to Amanda Smith - HGC Advisor - for writing HGC Mutual Aid notes

  • $240 in technology to Margaret Noles, autistic with social anxiety, to take online graphic arts classes. Cost is new Nokia tablet, 2016 iPhone SE, and postage.

Bangladesh

  • $150 to help three impoverished children stay in school

Mexico

  • $1,220 to Ikojtz Women’s Collective (Zapotecs) in Juchitlan, Oaxaca State, for their development of tototas (regional tortillas), traditional textiles, and jams and preserves for sale

NIGERIA

  • $110 to Ogechi, a humanist single mother with a baby - both have HIV and need money for medicine and food.

  • $110 to Bello Abdulrazzak for his medical school tuition and textbooks

  • $110 to Sunday Okoro to help him start his own car repair business

  • $100 sent to Amina Ahmed to replace her stolen phone

  • $300 - HGC representatives visit Mubarak Bala in prison - give him medicine and supplies

  • $300 to buy food for a month for 3 families of 6+ members in the Maiduguri refugee camp.

  • $600 to provide blankets and Vaseline to 30 Almajiri in Maiduguri

  • $500 to Benue State for LGBTQ+ funding - five people at $100 each

  • $200 to Terungwa James Nguhar to teach two Critical Thinking workshops

Palestine

  • $300 to Al Rowwad - a secular, cultural organization, for computer education

PERU

  • $300 sent to Peru Association of Atheists to provide slum children with school supplies

TANZANIA

  • $45 sent to Tanzania Mutual Aid for food for their first meeting

USA

  • $90 to Geo-Tinyism Institute (fiscally sponsored by HGC)

  • $300 to South Sound Street Medics (t-shirts & postage + $150 via PayPal)

  • $50 to South Sound Street Medics

zambia

  • $150 - Humanist Used Clothing Store in Lusaka

WIRING - $133

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November

total Allocations - $6,474

Bangladesh

  • $210 to provide school fees to three impoverished children

INDIA

  • $300 to Apna School in Bihar, gift bags for poor children

  • $10 sent to Akanksha Panday to download HuManure book on composting

  • $300 sent to Birsa School in Jharkhand, gift bags for poor children

  • $300 sent to Sikshit Bharat School in Uttar Pradesh, for lunch food

  • $90 sent to Shreya Pandey, to buy a cell phone to study for college admission

  • $40 sent to Adarsh Pandey for his mutual aid group in New Delhi

  • $30 sent to Kumar Guarav for his activist group in New Delhi

  • $70 sent to Akanksha Pandey for a cell phone

  • $215 sent to Akanksha Pandey at Sikshit Bharat School in Uttar Pradesh for a sustainability sewing project with women in her village.

  • $1,500 sent to Apna School in Bihar for Watermelon Project

Indigenous People of America

  • $300 sent to South Sound Street Medics, an indigenous-led Mutual Aid group in Washington State that delivers medical care to homeless people and American Indian reservations, and also provides trainings.

  • $300 sent to Mothers Against Meth Alliance, M.A.M.A. - an Oglala Sioux Mutual Aid group established at Pine Ridge Reservation, North Dakota.

  • $95 pencils delivered to Trique indigenous people in Oaxaca

  • $115 to four Trique indigenous women in Oaxaca. They were driven out of their mountain villages and off their corn farmland by paramilitary in 2010. Now they are impoverished, they’ve been living in tents in Oaxaca Zocalo for twelve years, selling crafts for meager income.

  • $90 to Rodrigo Avila Flores, humanist LGBT 15-year-old 30% indigenous student in Oaxaca for his educational needs.

  • $95 to Ikojts indigenous activists who are protesting the massacre of 15 relatives, killed by the PRI party because they opposed a megaproject to build windmills by their lagoon (this would have destroyed the shrimp population).

  • $150 to Ikojts Women Mutual Fund in Oaxaca to start a women’s collective that generates funds by selling corn-based totopos & atole, and tamarindo products.

  • $115 to Rodrigo Avila Flores for his translation / communication assistance in locating, negotiating and interviewing Trique and Ikojts indigenous people.

  • $140 given in small amounts to 20-25 impoverished people on the streets of Oaxaca in 100, 200, and 500 peso amounts.

Kenya

  • $100 to buy shoes and sandals for the Kenya Humanist Orphans

Myanmar

  • $200 to Fish Farmer - we gave him carp to stock his pond.

NEPAL

  • $300 sent to Kathmandu orphanage to provide wool jackets, caps and scarves for 14 orphans

NIGERIA

  • $100 to Amina Ahmed for transportation fees to visit Mubarak Bala.

Tanzania

  • $300 to Tanzania Mutual Aid Association to dig water well for beetroot garden

uganda

  • $300 to ShelterMi Safe House & Orphanage for Water Well Project

  • $300 to Kabughobe Humanists for Coffee Project

  • $100 sent to Muwanguzu Rogers, the director of Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School in a village near Jinja, Uganda. Funds are for his medicine - he has severe ulcers that can lead to cancer. We wish him a speedy recovery.

  • $800 to Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School for their Administration Building

USA

  • $200 to Appalachia Community Meal to provide two dinners in November and December - a variety of casseroles, plus buttered rolls, will be served to hungry people in a public dining area.

ZAMBIA

  • $150 to environmental entrepreneurs making products to reduce tropical diseases - recommended by Whisper A Dream.

  • $50 to Kansenshi Mutual Aid for first meeting food.

WIRING - $129

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OCTOBER

total allocations - $4,502

Afghanistan

  • $260 to HGC “secret school” with 20 children

  • $100 to Afghani ex-Muslim who was stabbed by the Taliban, to pay for food

Bangladesh

  • $210 to help three poor children pay their school fees

CHEROKEE

  • $115 to Heart of America Indian Center for Food Pantry

  • $25 to Cherokee Foundation to provide scholarships to Cherokee students

INDIA

  • $150 sent to Dalit children garbage scavengers in New Delhi for school & food

  • $100 sent to Shreya Pandey to buy an iPad

  • $100 sent to Shreya Pandey to develop lanterns for $7 each

  • $250 sent to Akanksha Pandey to set up compost toilet

KENYA

  • $300 for tools & equipment for Humanist Global Charity Orchard

  • $185 Clarice Gogo - humanist student at Nairobi University - for school fees.

NEPAL

  • $292 for Women’s School in Kathmandu - school & hygiene supplies

NIGERIA

  • $290 for Sex Education Class in Minna

TANZANIA

  • $150 total for three poor school girls ($50 each) one is an orphan, the other two are hated by their stepmothers

UGANDA

  • $600 sent to ShelterMi to provide accommodation to 6 women

  • $600 sent to ShelterMi for well

  • $300 sent to ShelterMi for orphan dormitory

  • $55 to Bwethe Orphanage (Masika Eliza) near Kyarumba

UNITED KINGDOM

  • $220 sent to Dan Beaton for online Critical Thinking workshop as part of the UK national curriculum

USA

  • $100 to Peaceful Seeds Community Farm in Warnersville, North Carolina - for tools & shed

  • $100 to Radical Monarchs in Richmond, California, they build self-esteem and encourage community service to Black and Latina girls 8-11 years old

wiring - $83

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SEPTEMBER

total allocations - $10,713

Afghanistan

  • $115 to a teacher who will start a “secret school” to educate 20 children

Bangladesh

  • $210 to help three poor children stay in school

  • $150 to a Bangladeshi atheist activist who fled to India - needs money for food

Greece

  • $50 for food for Yemeni and Somali refugees in a camp in Athens

INDIA

  • $56 to Bandepar Dani Mutual Aid for their first meeting (Uttar Pradesh)

  • $56 to Apna Adult Education Center for their first meeting (Bihar)

  • $55 to Birsa Humanist Mutual Aid group in Jharkhand state, India

KENYA

  • $100 to Kayole Humanist for her egg-selling business

Myanmar

  • $300 for food & medicine to give away to poor villagers in Hlaing Thar Yar. A project with Burmese Atheists.

  • $300 for a refugee education center - food & school supplies

  • $300 for an orphanage in a village - 17 children

NIGERIA

  • $50 to Minna Mutual Aid Group for food for their first meeting

  • $50 to Humanist Global Publishing to publish an e-book on Nigerian atheism

  • $100 to Benue State to teach Critical Thinking workshop

SRI Lanka

  • $185 to Washeer Fathima Nuzha for her college education needs

uganda

  • $55 to Nyamwambwa Humanist Mutual Aid Group for food for their first meeting

  • $55 to Kabughobe Humanist Mutual Aid Group for food for their first meeting

  • $150 to Rwenzori Humanist Collective for their Brick-Making project

  • $7,451 to Kanungu Humanist Primary School for construction & scholarships

  • $300 for ShelterMi Safe House to lodge and feed three women

TANZANIA

  • $150 for netball equipment for women’s LGBT team in Dar Es Salaam

  • $145 for three orphan girls who need funding for school supplies

Zambia

  • $100 for two sewing machines to start a tailoring business

  • $55 for Luanshya Mutual Aid group in Zambia

wiring - $158

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August

total allocations - $6,6887

Bangladesh

  • $200 given to three orphans who need funding for school

INDIA

  • $1,300 in computer equipment to Shikshit Bharat School in Uttar Pradesh

  • $784 to Shreya Pandey for her college preparatory classes and exams.

KENYA

  • $324 to Maugo Humanists to make pot & utensil holders

Myanmar

  • $300 for food & medicine for old people in refugee camp, via Burmese Atheists. They are in Sagaing region and have been abandoned by their families due to battles nearby.

NEPAL

  • $150 to 14 orphans in Kathmandu to buy them clothes - tshirts, socks, pants

  • $300 to three orphans in Kathmandu for full sponsorship

NIGERIA

  • $1,452 to Maiduguri to build two tiny houses for Almajiri (abandoned street boys)

  • $300 to Gada-ko village to vaccinate children against Polio, Measles & Hepatitis

Uganda

  • $300 to ShelterMi Safe House to provide food & lodging to 3 women

  • $995 to Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School to build a new classroom

  • $163 to Biira Gorret to install a water tank in her village in Uganda

USA

  • $175 to Homeless Garden Project in Santa Cruz

TANZANIA

  • $150 to LGBT netball team, women’s empowerment

Zambia

  • $100 to six orphans cared for by a humanist in Kabwe

Wiring - $69

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JULY

total allocations - $3,968

INDIA

  • $300 to Sikshit Bharat school in Uttar Pradesh for girls education

  • $120 to Kumar Gaurav to inspect Sikshit Bharat School

kenya

  • $20 to pay for essay on Land Reform in Kenya by Primafacie Matua

Morocco

  • $150 to Moroccan woman who was beaten by her husband (a police officer), and is now an impoverished refugee in Belgium

  • $175 sent to Morocco feminist Ibtissame Lachgar, for her work on the e-book “The Macabre Dictionary of Virginal Testing” and for her future women’s rights & LGBT activism

  • $150 sent to Amine Peageours, Moroccan refugee in Belgium, for food and rent

NEPAL

  • $150 to Sushil Chauhan, a boy with bone cancer, to help pay hospital bills

  • $158 to Kathmandu orphanage to provide health & hygiene kits to 14 children

NIGERIA

  • $245 for sandals & school supplies for poor primary school students in Abuja

  • $200 to Obayomi Patience Damilola to escape persecution from Yoruba in-laws

  • $600 to Maiduguri to build two tiny houses for Almajiri (abandoned street boys)

SRI Lanka

  • $150 to humanists Nilanthi Deepika and Ashen Nawod for their street food business

Uganda

  • $300 to ShelterMi Safe House to provide lodging to three women

  • $300 to two orphan girls / burn victims for food, lodging, school

  • $200 to Eagle’s View Humanist School for lunch food

  • $540 to Top Care Humanist Nursery School, for food

ZAMBIA

  • $150 to Alice Mwanje, humanist widow in Ndola, she needs funds for her children’s education and to invest in her restaurant

Wiring - $60

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June

total allocations - $5,135

Afghanistan

  • $300 to Ebrahim Sayaad, atheist refugee in Herat wounded by Taliban

  • $255 to Najiba Qanbari & Hosein Ali - refugees in Iran

bangladesh

  • $100 to Tapan Ghosh. He has gall bladder cancer; he needs money for chemotherapy.

INDIA

  • $300 to Shikshit Primary School near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, for science equipment

  • $235 to Shreya Pandey, a poor girl in Uttar Pradesh who wants to study Engineering in college and needs funds to attend a school that prepares her for the examination.

  • $300 for food & school supplies to children in Sakshi Paathshala - New Delhi slum school

  • $150 to Dikshika Gurung to write a book called Sikkim: Folktales and Harmful Superstitions

  • $250 to Chilla in Trivunadrum, Kerala, to buy a water purifier for their orphanage for children of sex workers

Nepal

  • $300 to Safe House in Kathmandu for 10 Dalit women victims of gender-based violence

Nigeria

  • $300 - sanitary pads and menstrual hygiene information to Gada-ko village

Tanzania

  • $250 to start Beetroot garden to combat sickle cell anemia

Uganda

  • $300 to Eagles View Humanist School for a Banana Farm

  • $300 sent to Eagle’s View Humanist School for teacher salaries

  • $500 sent to ShelterMi Safe House, for three women to reside there

  • $300 for Namanda Lariah, female humanist with albinism who wants to study science at Makarere University for a career in medicine or counseling.

  • $300 to Top Care Nursery School to buy posho (corn meal) for student lunch

  • $175 to three orphans in Mpigi who need school tuition fees

  • $300 for one week of lodging of Viola Namylo, who is seeking asylum, to stay in the HGC Safe House in London.

Zambia

  • $150 to Towemu Nyimba for her college education

wiring - $69

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May

total allocations - $4,486

Afghan Refugee in Pakistan

  • $100 to Mohammad Bashar in Peshawar, Afghan refugee

Bangladesh

  • $700 to children at Dhaka Orphanage Society

INDIA

  • $450 to impoverished organic farmers in Sikkim.

  • $200 to Shreya Pandey, a poor girl in Uttar Pradesh who wants to study Engineering in college and needs funds to attend a school that prepares for the examination.

  • $300 to help three impoverished students (who want to be doctors) in Sikkim attend school.

NEPAL

  • $660 sent to children at Pabitra Sewa Samaj Orphanage to provide them with food, school supplies, and transportation to school

  • $50 sent to Sonnu Kaphle to take photos of women in Safe House in Kathmandu

Nigeria

  • $400 for de-worming intervention in Benue State refugee camp

  • $200 to Maiduguri widow for medicine needed after cervical cancer surgery

  • $100 to student at Kwara State University to pay for tuition

  • $100 to Dauda Joel, a refugee from Boko Haram

  • $50 to Esther Oluwafunmilayo in Gada-ko Village, for midwife certification

Saudi Arabia

  • $100 for Saudi Arabia Pride 2022 and demonstration for the release of gay prisoner Suhail Alyahya.

SPAIN

  • $91 to Barry Duke, ex-editor of THE FREETHINKER - he lost his job unexpectedly - he is elderly without sufficient funds to survive.

Uganda

  • $400 to ShelterMi Safe house

  • $285 to Eagle’s View Humanist School for food

  • $300 to Mpigi, Uganda, to pay school fees for four orphans

wiring - $66

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APRIL

Total allocations - $4577

Bangladesh

  • $260 for Dhaka Orphanage - school shoes and books for 80 orphans

INDIA

  • $600 to children in Kolkata slum for tuition, books, and school supplies

  • $50 to Chilla, a foster home for orphans and children of sex workers, in Trivandrum

NEPAL

  • $1200 to 12 impoverished students in eastern Nepal, to pay school tuition

  • $50 to Kriti Sharma to travel to Dang and photograph orphans

Nigeria

  • $300 to Saliu Olumide Saheed to conduct Skin Disease intervention in Gado-Ka village

  • $300 for a Corn, Yam, and Peanut farm that will give 70% of food to Benue State refugees

  • $100 for school fees for Abdulahi Muhammad (3 years old) and Abdulahi Saratu (8 years old) in Minna (Saliu Olumide Saheed is their benefactor)

  • $200 to Amina Umar, 46 year old widow with 5 children in Maiduguri refugee camp. She needs money for cancer surgery - her womb needs to be removed.

PERU

  • $95 to Peruvian Rationalist Humanists for publication of the book Inventing God and shipment of 11 copies to college libraries, plus four copies to the Peruvian National Library

Uganda

  • $300 to ShelterMi Safe House, to provide lodging to three victims of domestic violence

  • $97 to Bwambale Robert Semaluku, for laptop for college studies

  • $100 to Kabughobe Humanists for Salt Project

  • $300 to Kanyenze, for Atheist Community of San Jose Clinic

  • $525 to Top Care Nursery School for eight orphan sponsorships

Zambia

  • $100 to Kasango Nevers of Ethical Society of Zambia for his Mobile Money business

Wiring - $51

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MARCH

Total allocations - $5,124

INDIA

  • $100 to Rinki Yadav, single mother in Uttar Pradesh & her children (husband was abusive)

  • $100 to Sharmila Pandey, widow in Uttar Pradesh, to start a pickle business

  • $200 to Shikshit Bharat school in Uttar Pradesh, to sponsor Dalit and orphan students

  • $300 for Kolkata Slum children - food and school supplies

NEPAL

  • $300 to provide food, clothes, and school supplies to 14 orphans in Kathmandu

  • $50 to Gita Budakshetri to travel to Armala and other villages near Pokhara to locate Dalit children that HGC can support with school funds

  • $300 to teach a Momo (dumpling) workshop to 14 orphans in Kathmandu

MYANMAR

  • $200 to Mawlamyine Safe House for food, medicine, hygiene supplies

Bangladesh

  • $125 to Sristy Rajbongshi to buy a sewing machine to support her family

  • $125 to Padma Ghosh to buy a sewing machine to support her family

  • $75 to Rafi Ahmed to travel to Dhaka orphanage and establish partnership

Nigeria

  • $308 sent to medic in Makurdi to provide de-worming and UTI medicine to refugees

  • $100 to Saliu Olumide Saheed for Humanist Hotline and to put e-books on Amazon

  • $100 to Karim Aminat Anu, impoverished lesbian in Ondo State

Uganda

  • $100 to Namitabha at ShelterMi Safe House, for one month room and board

  • $40 to Nacungai Dorothy at ShelterMi Safe house - she fled her husband because he wanted to sacrifice their newborn son for riches (advised by a witch doctor).

  • $100 to Rosemary Ankunda, to stay at ShelterMi SafeHouse. Her husband abandoned her.

  • $1,270 to Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School for orphan sponsorships

  • $200 to Pearl Mukasa Vocational College to pay science teachers (one teacher is Emmanuel Sseregundo - HGC paid for his college education)

  • $300 to Top Care Nursery School for eight orphan sponsorships

ZAMBIA

  • $150 to deliver 50 sanitary pads to Baluba village and offer a workshop on making pads

wiring costs: $81

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FEBRUARY

Total Allocations - $6604

Bangladesh

  • $500 to provide $125 each to poor people selling food in the street

zambia

  • $200 to Mwanza Vegetable Farm

NIGERIA

  • $100 to Amina Ahmed to visit Mubarak Bala and to buy medication for their son

  • $100 to Terungwa James Nguhar to teach Critical Thinking in Benue State

  • $100 to Ado John Terkimbi to study Human Kinetics at Benue State University

  • $100 to Saliu Olumide Saheed to teach Climate Change & Environmentalism

  • $20 sent to Cynthia Godwin for essay on Ritual Killings

  • $300 sent to medic in Makurdi to provide de-worming and UTI medicine to refugees

NEPAL

  • $1,100 to provide food, clothes, and school supplies to 14 orphans in Kathmandu

Philippines

  • $300 to HAPI videographers for promotional video

  • $100 to HAPI humanist library

UGANDA

  • $1,940 to Kasese Humanist Schools

  • $486 to Top Care Humanist Nursery School - in mountains near Kasese

  • $480 to Eagles View Humanist Primary School

  • $700 to Pearl Mukasa Memorial High School, to pay salaries of three science teachers

WIRING COSTS: $78

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JANUARY

TOTAL allocations: $15,060

INDIA - $5,310

  • $2,400 to Sikshit Bharat School in village near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh - funding for teacher & director salaries, student tuition, warm sweaters, sanitary pads, classroom construction

  • $2,400 to Birsa Humanist School in Jharkhand State, India, for student tuition.

  • $60 to Apna Humanist School in Bihar State, India, to support teacher salaries.

  • $250 for school supplies to Kalbelia children in Pushkar, India.

  • $200 for education and medical funds to Dikshika Gurung and her mother in Sikkim

UGANDA - $6,220

  • $1,200 to four Uganda Humanist Collectives for their entrepreneur projects in bulk grain sales, vegetable farm, school uniform sewing,

  • $2,915 to Kasese Humanist Schools, Uganda, for day scholar and orphan student sponsorships

  • $890 to ShelterMi Safe House in Mpigi, Uganda for victims of gender-based violence.

  • $640 to Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School to dig a latrine and general support.

  • $575 to Dan Beaton to teach Critical Thinking in Kampala and Mpigi, Uganda

Nigeria - $2,350

  • $1,500 to Maidurguri, Nigeria for blankets, mosquito nets, and Vaseline (to prevent chapped skin in the dry windy winter) - to 30 orphan girls and abandoned boys who sleep on the street

  • $350 to Abuja Great Minds Humanist Group for Organic Food Stall and group activities

  • $50 for food for three Almajiri in Abuja, Nigeria

  • $100 to Nigeria for Adebowale Victor Mayowa - humanist with hepatitis

  • $240 to Nigeria for 4 humanist women in Abuja Great Minds group to take vocational classes.

  • $110 to Rafiu Abdulganiyu, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria for his farm stricken with drought

Nepal - $300

  • $300 to Nepal to buy school supplies for Orphans in Radha Krishna Ghansyam School

MYANMAR - $300

  • $300 to Myanmar for medical supplies delivered to refugees from civil war

Mexico - $580

  • $580 to Mexican craftspeople in Baja California, to buy them bicycles and art supplies.

Wiring Costs: $171

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