One Dollar For Life

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One Dollar For Life (ODFL)
Founded	2006, Los Altos, California
Headquarters	783 Kendall Ave. Palo Alto, California
Area served	Africa, Asia
Focus	Charity
Method	Fundraisers, Awareness
Website	http://odfl.org

One Dollar For Life, or otherwise know as ODFL is an IRS Registered 501(c)3 non-profit Corporation founded to address third world poverty by collecting just one dollar from each of millions of US high school students and then channeling those funds into small-scale infrastructure projects in developing countries.

ODFL works with qualified Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the developing world to fund and implement such projects as schools, water wells, irrigation systems, sanitary waste disposal, vaccinations, and other simple, low cost projects. These projects have the potential to dramatically improve the capacity for self-sustenance for tens of millions of people.

ODFL was founded in 2006 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

1 Impact
2 Funding
- 2.1 Ranking by Schools
3 Recent Projects
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Impact

Building a schoolroom in Kenya.

ODFL works to help install small infrastructure projects, such as water wells, irrigation systems, sanitary waste disposal systems, and similar such projects that have a low cost but a high impact on small villages.

[edit] Funding

ODFL works with students at American high schools. They run a fund raiser at their school where they ask each student to give Just One Dollar. ODFL takes these funds and combines them with other schools’ funds to pay for the projects. Each school is able to follow the progress of its funds to see how they have helped improve the lives of other people.

Throughout 2007-2008, ODFL plans to complete 2-5 more projects along with completing fund raisers at 50-100 more schools.

[edit] Ranking by Schools

As of 2006

Ranking	School	Amount Raised
1	Los Altos High School	$2,400
2	Centennial High School	$2,000
3	Henry M. Gunn High School	$1,150
4	Saint Francis High School	$1,050
5	West High School (Bakersfield)	$450

[edit] Recent Projects

Naro Moru, Kenya Building a Classroom for Naro Moru Secondary School cost US$9,400 to build. This 25x25 room is furnished with 45 desks to provide facilities for some of the 320 secondary school students who are now attending classes in a horse barn.
Nanyuki, Kenya - Wheels of Wonder, a program aiming to collect bicycles from locales residing in Los Altos and Palo Alto communities, sponsored by their local Kiwanis Clubs. The bicycles will be donated to local children whose commutes take hours on foot. ^[1]
Dhulikhel, Nepal - Construction of three classrooms, toilets, and a playground for the children of eight villages in the Kavre district. This will help turn this "school" (which is on temporary room on loan from a woman's group) into a real school.^[2]
Sichuan Province, China - Collection of $1 per student to be sent in aid packages to Sichuan Province following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.