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Make your city beautiful
Fusterlandia, a neighborhood of Havana, Cuba based on the art of Antoni Gaudi.

By Visionary, Sunday, Dec 08, 2024
Yuditha’s Green Garden
Just to inform what is going on and how the applicants are happy. That they can't believe the way they got the money without any hastle.

By Yuditha, Sunday, Aug 25, 2024
 
Develop a distinctive art scene here!
Culture, Art, Beauty
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Oneness with people in need
People in need
Learning center and community hub
Understanding - Education
Let’s create a new kind of learning center that is open to everyone.
Undertake your education as a monastic vow to grasp your higher nature. We need the mental fortitude to approach any question,...
Enhance 400 Cambodians’ lives through Education
Education – Understanding
Salariin Kampuchea runs a school of English, Chinese, Computing, & Life Skills classes in Siem Reap, one of the poorest provinces of Cambodia. Children from rural areas don't receive a proper...
Help Rural Cambodians Escape Hunger & Poverty
Food
Trailblazer Foundation, a community development NGO, is working in Siem Reap province; one of the poorest regions of Cambodia. Through our Food Security and Economic Development programs, we focus on...
Improve Health with Clean Water in Rural Cambodia
Food
Trailblazer's mission is to improve health, food security, education and economic development in Cambodia's Siem Reap Province. Our first priority is the health of our partner villages. It all starts...
Empowering Cambodian Girls with Health Education
Education - Understanding
PROJECT G, as in G for Girls!! We are focused on bringing health education and sustainable menstrual solutions to girls in rural Cambodia. Without basic hygiene education and sanitation, rural girls...
Provide women and girls education in Tanzania
Education - Understanding
Access to information and knowledge is the most effective method of self-empowerment. This is why Women's Resource Center provides free emotional support, referral services and informal education to...
School 135 poor Cambodian children to prosperity
Education - Understanding
Two schools for vulnerable, disadvantaged children from poor families that have operated for 10 years in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia need donors. Administered by a registered NGO of 25 years,...
Help 10 young women in Zanzibar learn English
Education - Understanding
We have 10 friends in Zanzibar that would like to learn English. We work in local shops for minimum wage and believe that we can improve our situation if we knew English. $800 would be enough for all...
Visit Zanzibar!
Community and city
Affordable reality tours from Visionary Society core members. Not your standard tourism, this is a way to find out what life is really like in Zanzibar....

A second chance for teenage mothers in Tanzania
Youth
Until November 2021, teenage mothers were banned from continuing their education in public schools, and even now there are few public schools that meet their needs. We are setting up a new inclusive...
Post Secondary Education for Girls in Tanzania
Girls Education International is partnering with Project Wezesha, a local NGO, to ensure that young women in Tanzania have access to the education, support, and skills necessary to achieve their...
Donate for lifesaving projects in Mwanza Tanzania
Health
Tanzania Rural Health Movement runs three lifesaving projects providing immediate healthcare services to the underserved population in urban-rural Mwanza, Tanzania. Among them is the Street Medicine...
Support Women’s WONDER Hubs in Tanzania
Women
The WONDER Hub initiative is part of the Women's EARTH Project which provides One Health training to rural women in Tanzania. One Health is an approach that recognizes the link between human, animal,...
Help 200 youth in sustainable agriculture Tanzania
Youth
Help Networking for Society Development Organization to implement the project of solving among of the main challenges facing youth in Tanzania which is unemployment caused by population increase...
Educate Girls in Tanzania
Creating the education infrastructure needed to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young girls requires a multi prong approach with efforts lasting years, if not decades. Our first priority...
Startup toolkit for graduates with disabilities
Disability
In Tanzania, there are still stigma and discrimination practices in the community regarding employing people with disabilities, and this has made it a challenge for graduates with disabilities to...
Reconciliation of Refugees from Exile
Social services
The 2020 post election period in Burundi opened an opportunity for those who fled the country in 2015 crisis to return to Burundi. Two convoys from Mahama Refugee's Camp in Rwanda returned back to...
A Vibrant Space for Arts to Thrive in Tanzania
Culture, Art, Beauty
Nafasi Art Space is Tanzania's most vibrant & vital independent art space, providing artist studios and mentorship, trainings for young artists, curators and arts managers, and creating platforms for...
Take 2 Minutes to calculate your carbon footprint
Solving climate change requires reducing carbon emissions. When you offset your footprint, you neutralize your emissions by protecting forests that absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
It’s easy to...
Literacy and learning in a Dar es Salaam slum
Education in Haiti is highly valued, and yet the literacy rate in Haiti is only 60%. Many adults would love to have the opportunity for learning, both the basics and learning about society and life.
...
Be my friend in Dar es Salaam!
I’ve had a hard life here in the slum of Cite Soleil, but for the most part I can take care of myself. What I want is a friend — someone who cares about my real situation and wants to learn and...
Digital storytelling in Zanzibar
We will create a 6 - 10 minute video to tell a story about important events in our lives, Videos may include drawings, photos, and songs.
Free and low-cost spay/neuter
Animals
Improve the welfare and reduce the population of feral and stray cats through spay/neuter programs and education.
Feral, stray and pet cats.. Vaccines. Healthier cats. Save money.
Running team can take shelter dogs on runs
Animals
Members of the St. Joseph High School cross-country team in California invited more than a dozen shelter dogs to accompany them on their morning run this week. I am not sure who was more excited and...
Help the elderly continue to live in their homes
Elderly
90% of elders would prefer to age at home, but the resources just aren’t there. As we get older our social group tends to get smaller. Neighbors help neighbors stay neighbors.

Develop any idea you...
Support the homeless in creating their own center for self-improvement
Homelessness
Help create a center that can serve as a shelter, meeting space, and a base for a series of activities and projects. Members of the Association (all of whom are homeless) design their own hygiene...
Connect people to the social services they need 24/7
Social services
A computer application to find social services for homeless people. “Chalmers,” a web-based app designed by tech non-profit Ample Labs with the help of people experiencing homelessness, uses...
Support Anti-Corruption Grassroots Work
Politics, Government
Support local and international grassroots anti-corruption efforts, led by a small group of Port-au-Prince residents.
Support an orphanage in Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Youth
The Tysea Orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is a small house with 34 children. Because of the virus and the overall situation in Haiti we are not able to feed them or provide basic necessities. The...
Give tricycle rides to the elderly
Elderly
The elderly have a right to wind in their hair, the right to experience the city and nature close up from the bicycle and by giving them an opportunity to tell their story in the environment where...
Support Beyond Borders in ending child slavery
Youth
To create the kind of social change needed to end child slavery permanently in Haiti, we’re addressing the conditions that perpetuate this system – extreme poverty and social acceptance of child...
Install a water purification system in a village near Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Food
The neighborhood of Fequier in Cite Soleil has poor access to safe water. We would like to install a bio-sand filter provided by the organization Clean Water for Haiti.
Reframe sports to promote empathy
Culture, Art, Beauty
Reframe the rules in which sports are played to promote empathy, team-work, inclusion and leadership in young people and adults, in a way that appeals to everyone playing soccer – from professional...
Mini-library, museum and café – and plenty of cats
Create a synthesis of a tiny library, museum and cafe, and put it in a mall, big box store, or any commercial or residential street. Librarians select their favorite books. Museums loan special works...
Cooperative café, bookstore & thrift store – with a Cause
Bookstores and thrift stores are natural places to create a cooperative, because they may be able to get most of their stock at no cost. Many people are happy to give away used books and clothes for...
Art in every home (and business)
Culture, Art, Beauty
Art, creativity and beauty is a natural part of everyone's life. We need to expand our concept of art, the way it is used and the way it is available to the population. Should original art be...
Change the paradigm of old age
Elderly
Put the elderly at the center of attention as protagonists as much as beneficiaries. Transform institutions of care into cultural and community centers of creative expression and growth. Find new...
Food cooperatives & Community markets
Food
We can restore local control of the industrial, corporate food system. In food cooperatives food is selected from local farmers, producers and artisans. It honors the environment, restores the local...
Clean back country land with help of homeless people
Homelessness
As a person who regularly uses Salem’s off-road trails, I envision a program that would rid Oregon’s sensitive back country land of garbage, while creating jobs that are filled in part by people who...
Art and Play at Bus Stops
Culture, Art, Beauty
Create a space for art, reflection and play at any and every Anchorage bus stop. Reach out to local artists and anyone with a creative inclination or new idea and install them at our bus stops.
 
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What is a Project?
Visionary Projects are a Meaningful Solution to a Personal or Social Challenge
– Projects are a way to create something new in the world that addresses a social problem at the root level.
– Projects work through direct action by all who Support it, use their personal resources (time, passion, skills, talent, money).
– Projects don't depend on the use of power (policy, law, or adversarial relationships), government or big business.
– Projects are community based. Anyone can start a Project and anyone can participate.
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