Donation Pixel
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Donation Pixel is an internet based charity organisation founded in 2006, with headquarters in Geneva
, Switzerland
. They aim to provide support for low-profile causes, and to list the names and logos of donors on their website to give them visibility. They do not conduct the actual field-work themselves, they only contract existing NGOs to do the work, while Donation Pixel gets donors for the project. They aim to be neutral in matters of religion or politics.
The organisation is led by Pierre Schifferli.
Their current projects, as of 2007, consist of:
Their website includes ads for those who donate, as well as Amazon book links which they may receive money from.
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. They aim to provide support for low-profile causes, and to list the names and logos of donors on their website to give them visibility. They do not conduct the actual field-work themselves, they only contract existing NGOs to do the work, while Donation Pixel gets donors for the project. They aim to be neutral in matters of religion or politics.
The organisation is led by Pierre Schifferli.
Their current projects, as of 2007, consist of:
- construction of typhoon-resistant housing near VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
's Ho Gui village, in Tam Giang Dong commune, Nam Can district, Ca Mau ProvinceCa Mau ProvinceCà Mau is a province of Vietnam, named after its capital city. It is located in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, and is the southernmost of Vietnam's 58 provinces...
, which was devastated in 1997 by Typhoon Linda. The work will be done by the Vietnamese Red Cross, and the Vietnamese Government. - construction of water conveyance systems for 5 isolated villages in ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
: three in a group called Tsarang, and two in a group called Walangou, in Hualong Canton, Qinghai Province, People’s Republic of China. The work will be done by London-based Appropriate Technology Asia, and Village Committees in China. - agricultural training for young farmers in KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
, suffering as a result of the collapse of the Soviet UnionSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
, in two schools: Kochkor and Ottuk in the Naryn Oblast. The work will be done by HelvetasHelvetasHelvetas is a Swiss Association for International Cooperation. It was founded in 1955 as the first private organization for development co-operation in Switzerland...
in conjunction with the Kyrgyz government. - artificial limbs for disabled people in BangaloreBangaloreBengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
and VelloreVelloreVellore It is considered one of the oldest cities in South India and lies on the banks of the Palar river on the site of Vellore Fort. The city lies between Chennai and Bangalore and the Temple towns of Thiruvannamalai and Tirupati...
in IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, working with Mobility India, Christian Medical College, and the ICRCInternational Committee of the Red CrossThe International Committee of the Red Cross is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given the ICRC a mandate to protect the victims of international and...
Special Fund for the Disabled. - assorted small projects.
Their website includes ads for those who donate, as well as Amazon book links which they may receive money from.