• Children’s Center in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  
  World Link, in conjunction with the city of Ulaanbaatar, founded a center for children which we continue to manage and fund. The center provides support for 20-30 vulnerable children. This includes weekday meals, education/skills training, clothing and non-residential center.
  Monthly costs for running this center: $375.00
  (cost includes salaries for teacher and cook)
  

• Orphanage/Kindergarten in Darkhan, Mongolia
  
  For the past 3 years World Link has been providing financial support for an orphanage/residential kindergarten in Darkhan, Mongolia which serves 100-120 children.
  Monthly costs for the kindergarten: $1,200.00
  

• Housing (gers):
  
  World Link provides houses (gers) to qualified families. In Mongolian no one can afford to be homeless because of the bitter cold winters. Families who cannot afford gers are forced to live underground. They enter through the manholes to the underground tunnels where the hot water pipes carry water to the city. Entire families live underground.
  Cost for a ger: $500-$600 (furnished)
  (The government provides the land)

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• Women’s communal banks (micro-credit):
  
  World Link works through organizations to provide funding, and to establish women’s communal banks for small business loans. The “banks” consist of 10 women, who each develop their own business plan, but work together as a support unit. Business, money management and savings training are provided. Each woman may be eligible for up to 4 loans. The repayment rate for the loans is 95%. Loans range from $75.00 to $125.00.
  Costs to establish a woman’s bank: $1,000-$1,200
  

• San Nicolas Village Project (Sanitation, health and housing)
  
  World Link provides support for the San Nicolas Village Project. One hundred and nine Mayan families in the Alta Verapaz highlands of Guatemala joined together in 2002 to form this rural village formerly sustained by a coffee plantation. Immediate needs in the first year of the project are the development of a sanitary water system ($44,900) and constructing and equipping a health center ($73,000). Physician services have already been secured.
  

• Behrhorst Foundation and WINGS
  
  World Link also works on behalf of the Behrhorst Clinic and WINGS (Women’s International Network for Guatemalan Solutions). The Behrhorst Clinic primarily provides health care to Mayan Indians in rural areas. They also provide financial grants for small business development.
  WINGS works in Antigua and in rural villages it’s focus is women’s issues

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