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Donating by credit card, debit card or online check is as easy as clicking here [1] : 
(Currently restricted, unfortunately, to cards with billing addresses in the United States.)
Alternatively, a check made out to "StandProud" can be mailed to:
StandProud
10250 Harrison Road
Loveland, Ohio 45140
USA
Or a bank transfer sent to:
account holder: IPVRC
account # 823-20-1744
USBank, Landen Office
3310 West US 22 and 3
Loveland, Ohio 45140 USA
(routing number: 042000013, SWIFT CODE: USBKUS44IMT)
- Your contribution is tax-deductible.
- Address any questions to info@standproud.org
- $10 can buy replacement straps for a child's leg brace
- $30 can buy replacement shoes for a child's leg brace
- $60 can pay for a child´s school fees for 3 months
- $100 can pay for one half-length leg brace
- $200 can pay for one full-length leg brace or two half-length leg braces
- With a gift of $400 and over, a donor may wish to "sponsor" a specific child. (See the Sponsorship page of this website.)
In supporting StandProud, donors can :
- Know that they are dealing with a small organization, with very low overhead costs, and that as donors they are are much closer to the beneficiaries than is possible with large charities.
Under 5% of funds contributed to StandProud goes to covering StandProud's administrative costs.
StandProud maintains only minimal staff in the U.S., and StamdProud personnel in DR Congo see beneficiaries on a daily basis. - Be confident that their donations, however small, have critical, concrete, long-lasting positive impact.
Few things are more basic to a physically disabled individual than the ability to move about with dignity and to be as independent as possible. Helping people to secure essential orthopedic equipment is thus nearly always a very high-impact activity, even for those whose disability is not extreme, and some pieces of equipment (e.g. canes, shoes adapted for braces, leather straps) cost as little as $10-$25. Donors who contribute enough ($500-$2000) to cover the expenses of enabling people to stand and walk for the first time since infancy can have the satisfaction of knowing that they've changed someone´s life dramatically, forever.
- Know that the benefits they are financing cannot easily be misused by recipients.
Since braces are personally fitted and not interchangeable, and since they are of little value to the non-disabled, such problems as theft, diversion, and resale are virtually non-existent.
- Get huge "bang for the buck".
As the orthopedic equipment is made by local craftsman using mostly locally-available materials, and as there are no intermediary expenses associated with the equipment provided, costs for adequate, good-quality orthopedic equipment can be kept to a minimum--in most cases considerably less than what similarly-functioning equipment would cost in the developed world.
[1] Please do not send in-kind donations. Because postal service in the Congo is very unreliable, and as customs duties charged for the few gifts that actually do make it through the system are often much greater than the real value of the item, StandProud cannot agree to forward any non-monetary contributions and can accept no responsibility (including returns) for any such gifts received.