The Global Fund for Children It all Starts with a Spark

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It all Starts with a Spark
The Global Fund for Children
Annual Report and Resource Guide 2006–2007
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Joy
Imagination
Friendship
Creativity
Ingenuity
Confidence
Courage
Trust
Knowledge
Generosity
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Imagine a world where all children and young people grow
up to be productive, caring citizens. A world where all
children are healthy, safe, and educated. It all starts with
a spark: a spark of hope, a spark of creativity, a spark of
ingenuity, a spark of love, a spark of joy, a spark of courage,
a spark of brilliance . . . a spark of imagination.
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Our Vision, Our Mission
At The Global Fund for Children,
we envision a world where all
children grow up to be productive,
caring citizens of a global society.
To this end, we work to advance
the dignity of children worldwide.
We Pursue Our Mission By:
Making small grants to innovative
community-based organizations
working with many of the world’s
most vulnerable young people
Harnessing the power of children’s
books, films, and documentary
photography to promote global
understanding
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A Series of Sparks
Three Sparks, One Vision
Our Impact Around the World
A Closer Look at Gender
The Rural-Urban Divide
Portfolio: Learning
Education, Despite Hurricanes
Portfolio: Enterprise
Not Your Ordinary Bank
Portfolio: Safety
Reaching Belgrade’s “Invisible” Children
Portfolio: Healthy Minds and Bodies
Healthy Little Mouths
Portfolio: Responding to Crisis
Teaching Girls, Reviving an Art
Sustainability Awards
Blinded So She Could Help
Special Partner: Johnson & Johnson “Singing Away AIDS”
Special Partner: Goldman Sachs Foundation
A Home By, For, and With Street Children
Special Partner: Nike Foundation
Communicating in Nigeria
Investing in Our Grantee Partners
Global Media Ventures: Celebrating Community and Diversity
Fundraising: Giving for Growth
From the Field: Hope for the Future Our Donors 2006–2007
Selecting Our Grantee Partners
Our Grantee Partners 2006–2007
Learning
Enterprise
Safety
Healthy Minds and Bodies
Creative Opportunities
Responding to Crisis
Financials 2006–2007
Directors
Staff
Index
Joy
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Imagination
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Friendship
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Creativity
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Ingenuity
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Confidence
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Message from the Board Chair
A Series
of Sparks
It was not a single spark but a
series of sparks that kindled my
commitment to support grassroots
groups, especially those that work
with children and youth. In my
travels to developing countries,
I have repeatedly encountered
children who do not have the
luxury of enjoying the wonders
of childhood. Instead, many of
them are responsible for raising
their siblings or work to support
their families. This leaves them
little time to pursue their own
education. However, despite these
difficult challenges, children and
youth are incredibly resilient, and
I have seen them act as powerful
advocates for change in their
communities and beyond.
I joined the board of The Global
Fund for Children almost six years
ago, when it was still relatively
small. I joined with a few others,
and we worked closely with the
founding board members to
help the founder and president,
Maya Ajmera, take GFC to the
next level. Given its track record,
I knew the organization had a
huge potential for growth and
the ability to make a significant
impact. Small grants given directly
to community groups or to social
entrepreneurs are one of the
most effective and direct ways to
improve the lives of vulnerable
children worldwide.
Since 1997, The Global Fund
for Children has made grants
benefiting more than 1 million
children and youth. It has
given 1,416 grants valued at
more than $7.6 million to 279
community-based organizations in
65 countries. GFC complements
its grantmaking with its Global
Media Ventures program, which
has produced 22 children’s books,
invested in three films, and
completed three documentary
photography projects. GFC’s
newest book, Global Babies, is
already on its second print run
and is expected to become another
bestseller. A portion of the royalties
from the first bestseller, Children
from Australia to Zimbabwe,
funded GFC’s first grants, and
the practice continues today.
This fiscal year, GFC awarded
447 grants valued at $2,651,566,
a 45 percent increase over the
previous year, and revenues
continued to grow at a fast pace.
The organization has, once again,
been given a clean audit by its
auditors, a testament to its careful
stewardship of the funds that you
have entrusted to it. For the third
consecutive year, Charity Navigator
has given GFC its highest rating.
growth according to the standards
of excellence in management,
stewardship, and creativity that
have been the hallmark of the
organization since its inception.
The growth and success of GFC
in the last few years is also a
testament to the leadership of its
former chair and current treasurer,
Bob Stillman. As a longtime
board member, and especially
as chair, Bob nurtured GFC
into the organization that it is
now. Growth is not always easy,
but Bob made sure that GFC
remained focused and true to its
mission. GFC is lucky to have
him on its board, and I know that
I will learn a great deal from him.
It is with great pleasure that I take
on this new role as chair of The
Global Fund for Children. I would
like to thank you, our donors, for
all the support that you have given.
Like you, I find it an honor to
support children and community
organizations that continually
spark our imagination and kindle
our creativity to find innovative
ways to help them, wherever they
may be in the world.
Ever since I met Maya Ajmera
many years ago, I have been struck
by her careful stewardship of GFC.
A true social entrepreneur herself,
she has made significant efforts
With best wishes,
to build the organization and
has set up a robust management
structure. This year, she put into
place a senior management team
Juliette Gimon
composed of Mitchell Fenster, vice
president of finance and operations;
Victoria Dunning, vice president
of grantmaking; and Adlai Amor,
vice president of Global Media
Ventures. This senior team
will help Maya manage GFC’s
Message from the President
Three Sparks,
One Vision
A recent visit with children working
as waste recyclers in New Delhi,
India, made me realize that there
are three major sparks that keep
alive our vision of a world where all
children grow up to be productive,
There is the spark of a child’s
imagination. As I watched the
children sorting the waste so they
could sell it, I could see them
imagining life beyond the slums.
Waste picking is the fourth-largest
occupation for street children in
Delhi. But time and time again,
they—and other children we have
reached—express their dreams of
becoming teachers, doctors, and
even world leaders.
countries constitute one of the
largest networks of its kind.
We have reached a point I had
only imagined when I started
GFC in 1994. To further grow
our grantmaking, we refined our
portfolios. The new areas are not
major departures from our previous
portfolios, but they give us greater
flexibility in meeting the needs of
young people. Our new portfolios
are Learning, Enterprise, Safety, and
Healthy Minds and Bodies—plus
two smaller ones, Responding to
Crisis and Creative Opportunities.
Our Global Media Ventures work
resulted in four awards from the
Council on Foundations—gold
awards for last year’s annual report,
Then there is the spark that kindles our website, and the Global Fund
our grantee partners’ determination for Children Books catalog, and
to help these children. I was visiting a silver award for our newsletter,
Chintan Environmental Research
@work. Our newest book, Global
and Action Group, which works
Babies, is generating a lot of buzz. It
with parents, children, and junk
is a delightful book, and the reviews
dealers to educate waste-picking
and sales have been excellent.
children and ultimately remove
them from the hazards of the trade. Two of the films we invested in this
As our partners help children, they fiscal year, War Child and Journey
are also building institutions that
of a Red Fridge, will be ready for
will provide long-term solutions
release next fiscal year. I have seen
to such problems.
the initial cut of Journey of a Red
Fridge, the story of a young Nepali
And then there is The Global Fund porter, and the cinematography
for Children. We count ourselves
leaves you breathless.
privileged to be among these sparks.
Our interactions with vulnerable
This year, we welcomed Mitchell
children and community-based
Fenster, vice president of finance
organizations have led us along a
and operations, who comes from
different path than the one followed the private equity sector and
by most funding organizations.
recently lived in Africa. With
We are now a leading repository of Victoria Dunning, vice president
knowledge and experience about
of grantmaking, and Adlai Amor,
community-based organizations;
vice president of Global Media
our 279 grantee partners in 65
Ventures, our senior management
team is now in place.
I would like to sincerely thank Greg
Fields, our director of development
from 2001 to 2006. Greg helped
take us from a small organization
with an annual budget of $700,000
to the multimillion-dollar
enterprise we are now.
I would also like to thank Bob
Stillman, our past chair, for his
wonderful guidance. Bob is a great
mentor and very supportive, and
we owe him a debt of gratitude.
At the same time, I am delighted
to welcome Juliette Gimon as our
new chair. Juliette is a very well
respected leader in the field of
philanthropy, and her leadership
comes at an opportune moment in
our ambitions for greater growth.
Finally, we would not be here
right now without the support of
donors like you. Your ideas, your
support, your prodding, and your
commitment keep alive the spark
to fulfill our vision.
Children. Community-based
organizations. The Global Fund
for Children. These three sparks
cannot stand alone; we are all
interdependent. Each spark feeds
the other; each spark is part of the
motivation and inspiration that runs
through us all; each spark feeds our
vision. Our sparks of imagination
lead us to new ideas, open us to new
possibilities, and kindle our creativity.
With our deepest thanks,
Maya Ajmera
Grantmaking
Our Impact
Around the World
We believe that in order to thrive in childhood and
develop into contributing adults, children and youth
must be engaged in the learning process wherever
they may be. They must also be productive, safe,
and healthy. These elements provide the basis for
children’s development and productive engagement
with the world around them.
We gave the following grants this fiscal year
in these areas:
• Learning
$846,500 to 74 grassroots groups
• Enterprise
• Safety
Guided by this philosophy, we refined our program
• Healthy Minds and Bodies
portfolios this year. We have four core portfolios:
Learning, Enterprise, Safety, and Healthy
• Creative Opportunities
Minds and Bodies. We also maintain a Creative
Opportunities portfolio to fund innovative programs • Responding to Crisis
that do not fit into these four major emphases, and
$301,500 to 26 grantee partners
a Responding to Crisis portfolio for emergencies
• Sustainability Awards
and recovery and renewal work.
• Johnson & Johnson Health and
These portfolios are not so different from what we
Well-Being Grants
have traditionally supported, but they give us the
flexibility we need to meet the needs of the world’s
across various portfolios
vulnerable children in a more nuanced way and in a • Tracking grants
variety of contexts. The core areas we work in have
high potential for social return. They have models
• Conference and travel grants
and mechanisms in place to realize immense gains
even from small investments.
• Organizational development awards
Our total grants and grantee partners continue to
• Networking grants
increase. Since last fiscal year, we have grown by:
$10,500 to 4 institutions
• 45 percent in the value of grants,
for a total of $2,651,566
We estimate that, through our grantee partners,
• 31 percent in the number of active grantee
we have directly served well over 1 million
partners, for a total of 206
children since 1997.
• 43 percent in the number of grants,
for a total of 447
The pages that follow show how our grants are
making an impact in the communities where our
Since our first three grants totaling $3,100 in 1997, grantee partners work, and illustrate the role and
we have awarded 1,416 grants valued at $7,644,234 value of our grants in strengthening communityto 279 grantee partners in 65 countries.
based organizations all over the world.
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Growth in Grantmaking (in millions)
Total Value of Grants to Date $7,644,234
$3.0
524,000
815,300
1,504,508
1,819,500
2,651,566
Number of Grants
Total Number of Grants to Date 1,416
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Growth in Country Presence
Total Number of Countries to Date 65
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Growth in Grantee Partners
Total Number of Grantee Partners to Date 279
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Grantmaking
A Closer Look
at Gender
Most of the differences between
boys and girls are immediately
apparent, yet some of the
differences are more subtle and
complex. In our grantmaking, we
are increasingly cognizant of the
deeper differences that gender
evokes and how this interplays
with the treatment and experience
of young people in society.
When we view this year’s core
program grants through a gender
lens, 168 of them serve both
boys and girls, 28 serve primarily
girls, and 18 serve primarily
boys. We remain one of the very
few organizations that provide
funding to organizations working
specifically with boys.
Girls
The gap between girls and boys
in primary education continues
to decline, but girls still face
significant challenges. Sixty
percent of the 100 million children
not attending school are girls,
mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, the
Middle East, and South Asia.
Girls often perform full-time
unpaid work at home, which
isolates them from opportunities
for self-improvement. Keeping
girls in school or, alternatively,
providing them with livelihood
skills expands girls’ options and
helps delay child marriage.
Early, and often forced, marriage
robs girls of their childhood and
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often exposes them to domestic
violence and abandonment.
Exploitation of girls may occur
inside or outside the home.
Out of an estimated 1.8 million
children who are sexually
exploited in the sex trade each
year, the majority are girls.
The distinct needs of vulnerable
girls are particularly evident in
reproductive and sexual health
risks and outcomes. Early and
unintended pregnancies are faced
by girls alone; some 14 million
girls between the ages of 15 and
19 give birth each year.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has
been particularly harsh on girls
and women. In high-prevalence
countries in sub-Saharan Africa,
the infection rates of girls are five to
six times higher than those of boys.
schools like Pakistan’s madrassas
or those run by India’s Hindu
revivalists fill the vacuum left by
the lack of public education.
Boys are more likely than girls
to begin work at an early age.
In Latin America, 70 percent
of working children are boys.
Even when the work is not
hazardous, youth employment
is often cited as a precursor to
violence and reckless behavior.
As a result, boys are
disproportionately prone to
recruitment as child soldiers or
to seeking a sense of belonging
as gang members. Throughout
the world, more boys also end
up in jail than girls.
The reproductive and sexual
health of young men is of
particular concern. Research on
their sexual activity indicates
Finally, girls have special needs
that risky behavior, including
for support tailored to the
frequent and unprotected sex and
discrimination they face. HIVa high number of sexual partners,
positive girls are less likely to receive puts them and their partners at
support and services, and when
great risk of sexually transmitted
family members become ill, girls
diseases and HIV/AIDS.
are more likely to care for them.
Young men and boys also have
Boys
distinct psychosocial and mental
Boys, like girls, face problems
health needs, and yet they are
that curtail their education. Poor, less likely to seek help. Work and
marginalized boys often become
family responsibilities may keep
trapped by disillusionment and
young men isolated from support
anger, forcing their expulsion
and health service networks, and
or pushing them to drop out of
pride may wrongly deter them
school. In developing countries,
from reaching out.
Grantmaking
The RuralUrban Divide
Where children live can influence
their destiny. Close to half the
world’s children—more than
1 billion of them—now live in
urban areas. This number will
only continue to increase, with the
United Nations projecting that
three out of every five people will
be living in cities by 2030.
In the 61 countries we are
currently active in, 120 of our
core program grants go to poor
sections of urban areas, 61 to rural
areas, 20 to megacities, and 13 to
a mix of rural and urban areas.
Many think that people living in
urban areas are generally better off.
The reality is that millions live in
extreme poverty in urban slums.
In developing countries, disparities
between rural and urban areas
are pronounced, especially where
access, opportunity, and program
quality are concerned.
Rural
In many rural areas, children have
less access to clean water and
sanitation, increasing their health
risks. In addition, fewer girls attend
school in rural areas, and overall
enrollment rates of children and
youth are generally lower.
In pastoral and nomadic societies,
permanent school structures are
few and far between, forcing
children to walk many miles
to attend school, even in bad
weather. At times, this creates
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an additional security hazard for
children, especially for girls, who
may be forbidden to travel alone
or in mixed company.
Rural economies primarily rely on
agriculture and natural resources.
Many rural communities have
seen the steady migration of
some of their best young people,
mostly young men, to the cities
for better opportunities. Few
return, reinforcing the need for
programs that strengthen young
people’s identification with
their communities and increase
economic opportunities.
Urban
Overcrowding, temporary shelters,
and a lack of public services
and infrastructure characterize
urban slums. Water, sanitation,
electricity, paved roads, police
security, and health services are
rarely, if ever, available, let alone a
school building or teacher for the
uncounted children living there.
Health systems, if accessible,
are often overburdened.
Psychosocial services for children,
if available, are often viewed as
luxuries, since families consider
survival their priority.
While young people may be
able to find jobs in urban areas,
what is available is low-skilled,
exploitative, subsistence-level
work. In developing countries,
the unemployment rate of young
people is two to three times
that of adults. Statistics indicate
that the world’s most unstable
countries tend also to have very
high youth unemployment rates.
Megacities
The United Nations officially
lists 20 megacities in the world,
cities with populations of more
than 10 million people. It projects
that as the world’s population
flocks to cities, the number and
size of the world’s megacities
will continue to grow.
Megacities are no ordinary urban
centers, and many are organically
expanding to swallow adjoining
urban centers. We work with
several grantee partners in 12 of the
most densely populated megacities
in the world—Cairo, Delhi, Dhaka,
Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Manila,
Mexico City, Mumbai, New York,
Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.
Our grantee partners confront
the same problems here as they
would in any urban area, with one
difference: they are contending
with larger, denser populations, and
the resulting strain on systems is
more acute. This alone compounds
the problems children and young
people face in order to survive.
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
North America
Middle East & North Africa
Africa
Latin America & the Caribbean
2006-2007
Regional
Distribution
by Value
of Grants
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Africa
26%
East Asia
& the Pacific
8%
South Asia
28%
Eastern Europe
& Central Asia
6%
Latin America
& the Caribbean 26%
Middle East
& North Africa
1%
North America
5%
2006-2007
Regional
Distribution
by Number
of Grants
Africa
24%
East Asia
& the Pacific
9%
South Asia
28%
Eastern Europe
& Central Asia
7%
Latin America
& the Caribbean 25%
Middle East
& North Africa
2%
North America
5%
a
East Asia & the Pacific
South Asia
19
Africa
Benin
1
Burkina Faso
3
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
4
Ethiopia
6
Ghana
2
Kenya
3
Liberia
1
Malawi
2
Mali
1
Mauritius
1
Nigeria
2
Rwanda
2
Senegal
4
Sierra Leone
2
Somalia
1
South Africa
5
Sudan
1
Tanzania
5
Togo
1
Uganda
4
Zambia
4
Zimbabwe
1
Number of Current Partners in Region 56
Number of Countries in Region
22
East Asia &
the Pacific
Cambodia
2
China
5
Indonesia
3
Mongolia
3
Philippines
3
Thailand
5
Timor-Leste
2
Vietnam
1
8
South Asia
Afghanistan
1
Bangladesh
2
India
32
Nepal
2
Pakistan
7
Sri Lanka
4
6
astern Europe &
E
Central Asia
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
1
Bulgaria
2
Georgia
3
Romania
4
Serbia
2
Ukraine
3
6
Latin America &
the Caribbean
Bolivia
5
Brazil
6
Colombia
4
Dominican Republic 1
Ecuador
1
Guatemala
5
Haiti
4
Honduras
3
Jamaica
1
Mexico
6
Nicaragua
4
Panama
1
Paraguay
1
Peru
5
Suriname
1
Trinidad and Tobago 1
16
Middle East &
North Africa
Egypt
1
Lebanon
2
Number of Current Partners in Region
3
2
North America
United States
11
Number of Countries
in Region
1
Portfolio
Learning
* We believe that every child
everywhere deserves access
to a quality education.
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Our priorities include
safety-net schools,
early childhood
education, and providing
complementary and
supplementary learning.
Despite overall gains in providing access
to and increasing the quality of education
in the last decade, the most marginalized
and vulnerable children and youth remain
underserved or not served at all. The
desperately poor; those living in remote,
conflict-torn, or marginalized communities;
ethnic minorities; groups disenfranchised
by gender or stigma; and the disabled
continue to have little access to education.
Community-based organizations are best
positioned to serve these difficult-to-reach
populations. Unlike large institutions, they
can be nimble and responsive, tailoring
programs to local needs and circumstances.
Our priority areas under this portfolio
are safety-net schools that catch and
reintegrate those who have fallen out of
the formal school system and those who
never had the chance to go to school, early
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childhood development, and providing
complementary and supplemental learning
through such initiatives as tutoring centers,
children’s libraries, and literacy assistance.
This fiscal year, we awarded grants valued
at $846,500 to 74 grantee partners within
the Learning portfolio:
Two years ago, four Tibetans began
leveraging local support to build schools
and clinics for Tibetan villages in Sichuan
Province, China. We are helping the Kham
Kampo Association buy Tibetan, English,
and Chinese books and equipment for their
first library, established in a local primary
school. The school donated a room;
villagers are providing labor and materials
to build bookshelves; and the teachers and
students will manage the library.
The Monduli Pastoralist
Development Initiative in
northern Tanzania has established
32 early childhood centers—
designed like bomas, traditional
Maasai homes—serving over
2,500 children living in the
Sepeko community. Since there
are more children who are not
reached by the current network,
we are helping Monduli establish
more early childhood centers and
train teachers in existing centers.
Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas promotes
literacy and a love of reading among
the most disadvantaged children in
Bolivian society, including children
living with their parents in prison,
street children, and child laborers.
Our grant supports a program for
70 children of prisoners, promoting
reading and writing while also
providing psychosocial support to
help them work through the trauma
of their parents’ incarceration.
In the Lake Volta region of
Ghana, Challenging Heights, led
by former child slave James Kofi
Annan, built a community center
in his small village of Sankor.
The center has become a focal
point of the community while
helping to educate 900 children,
including former child slaves
like Annan. We are helping
Challenging Heights provide
stipends to volunteer tutors, mostly
poor secondary-school or college
students, whose efforts have been
crucial to the program’s success.
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In Kharkiv, Ukraine, psychologist
Anna Kukuruza started the Early
Intervention Institute to help
disabled children get an education
by providing them with strong social
support in addition to their medical
treatment. We are paying the salaries
of doctors, therapists, and social
workers and for the installation of a
telephone line so that 100 disabled
children and their families can
consult these professionals during
emergencies or when they cannot
travel to the center.
For women of Haitian descent
living in the Dominican Republic,
community schools are the key
to helping their children achieve
equality and end their isolation in
the impoverished bateyes (former
sugar plantation barracks) that
dot the countryside. We are
helping Movimiento de Mujeres
Dominico-Haitianas (Movement
of Dominican-Haitian Women)
operate an independent
community school to serve 240
children in the batey of Palmarejo.
We believe that every child
everywhere deserves access to a
quality education. Not only is
education every child’s right, it is
also one of the keys to creating a
healthier, more caring, and more
productive global society.
Education,
Despite Hurricanes
grantee partner
United Houma Nation
location
Golden Meadow, LA
United States
In the Houma language, they
were simply called monhele’ me’nte,
meaning “hurricane.” To the rest
of the world, they were known
as Katrina and Rita, two of the
most devastating hurricanes
ever to hit the Gulf Coast of
the United States.
Despite the problems brought
by the monhele’ me’nte, the
United Houma Nation remains
undaunted. The Houma clearly see
education, especially for the young,
as the key to their future. It was
not until the 1940s that Houma
children could attend public
schools. In the 1960s, they had
No other Native American tribe
their first high-school graduates.
was as badly affected by these 2005 Today, 43 percent of Houma
hurricanes as the United Houma
adults hold less than a high-school
Nation. Scattered among the
diploma or its equivalent, and 25
bayous of southeastern Louisiana, percent are unemployed.
the Houma communities were
directly in the hurricanes’ path.
Like young people in many
poverty-stricken communities,
Hurricane Katrina forced 3,500
Houma youth tend to turn to
Houma out of their homes and
drugs and alcohol, Houma young
completely destroyed 1,000 houses. women tend to become single
An additional 4,000 homes were
mothers, and Houma young men
hit by the hurricane that followed, tend to end up in the juvenile
Rita. More than 7,500 of the
justice system. To help solve this
United Houma Nation’s 16,000
problem, the United Houma
tribal members were affected.
Nation has been conducting
education programs for tribal
Although the Houma constitute
youth throughout the year, even
the largest Native American tribe before the hurricanes struck.
in Louisiana, and are recognized
as such by the state, the federal
With the support of The Global
government has refused to
Fund for Children, the United
recognize the tribe. Federal
Houma Nation will be able to
recognition would have helped the continue conducting summer
tribe rapidly secure more funds
enrichment programs for 50
to rebuild tribal communities,
children aged 12 to 18. It is at this
instead of being largely forgotten age that Houma young people are
except by churches and other
most vulnerable to dropping out
Native American groups.
of school or becoming involved in
negative social behavior.
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The enrichment program engages
young Houma in productive
community-service and leadership
projects before negative behavioral
patterns develop. The training
includes lessons in tribal history,
language preservation, art and
culture, violence and drug
prevention, and service leadership.
Tribal elders and older Houma
youth who have participated in
similar programs in the past help
conduct the program.
“The program is based on the
belief that these students need
to be taught the importance of
an education and recognize their
worth as the future of the tribe,”
said Brenda Dardar Robichaux,
principal chief of the United
Houma Nation. “It is important to
give these students the opportunity
to develop the much needed skills
to find employment and become
productive members of society.”
Portfolio
Enterprise
* We believe that enterprise
programs must meet
working children where
they are and acknowledge
their need to work, while
promoting a more supportive
work environment.
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youth-led enterprise,
children’s banking and
savings, leadership
development, and
comprehensive
livelihood programs.
We support comprehensive programs
that recognize the range of educational,
economic, and social skills that vulnerable
children and youth require in order to
develop into productive adults. Rather than
opposing involvement in any type of labor,
we promote opportunities for adolescents
to engage in enterprise and entrepreneurial
training that promote their personal
growth and development and respect their
fundamental dignity and rights.
Our Enterprise portfolio is rooted in the
concept of asset building—helping young
people accumulate and protect assets that
will allow them to pursue a better future.
Our priorities in this portfolio include
youth-led enterprise; children’s financial
literacy, including banking and savings;
entrepreneurship and leadership development;
and comprehensive livelihood programs.
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at $412,500 to 38 grantee partners under
the Enterprise portfolio:
A youth-led association of 100 adolescent
boys who work in a wholesale produce
market just outside of Lima, Peru, Warma
Tarinakuy (Assembly of the Children)
works to achieve safe and fair working
conditions, increase access to education and
educational support, improve health, and
ensure adequate nutrition. Our support
for the organization’s enterprise training
program has given the boys the opportunity
to learn valuable skills in carpentry as well as
business management and project planning.
Traditionally denied the right to own land,
the Fuga people of southern Ethiopia have
relied on their embroidery, pottery, and
carpentry skills to survive. Through a local
group, Love in Action Ethiopia, we
are helping provide microenterprise
training based on Fuga traditional
products and supplemented by
creative marketing and banking.
About 50 Fuga girls between 12
and 21 benefit from our support.
The Kalinga Mission for
Indigenous Children and
Youth Development, started by
former student activist Donato
B. Bumacas, uses traditional
techniques to solve poverty and
environmental degradation to
ensure a sustainable future for
the indigenous Kalingas. We are
helping more than 50 Kalinga
adolescents in the northern
Philippines by funding business
workshops and training. Upon
completing the training, graduates
receive seed money, between
$88 and $200, to start their own
microenterprises in weaving,
vending, or agriculture.
By distributing wooden piggy
banks and budgeting cards to 300
children in Kampala, Supporting
Orphans and Vulnerable for Better
Health, Education, and Nutrition
in Uganda (SOVHEN) gives the
children an early start on saving
and banking. This is part of a
SOVHEN program that we are
supporting that provides children,
mostly HIV/AIDS orphans, with
practical training in saving, banking,
and small business management.
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The Alliance for Children and
Youth in Sofia, Bulgaria, operates
the 16+ Center, the country’s only
facility that provides counseling,
tutoring, vocational training,
and healthcare to homeless and
unemployed youth. The center
serves about 225 children and
youth, mostly of Roma descent.
We support the center so it can
continue to provide skills training
in such areas as floriculture,
construction, and sewing and can
help participants find jobs.
We believe that enterprise
programs must meet working
children where they are and
acknowledge their need to
work, while promoting a more
supportive work environment.
Such an environment guarantees
safety and dignity, balances work
with learning and recreation,
provides the opportunity for
growth and advancement, and
gives youth a degree of control
over their time and their earnings.
Not Your
Ordinary Bank
grantee partner
Desarrollo Autogestionario
location
Teocelo, Veracruz, Mexico
In the world of high finance,
347,000 pesos ($31,718) is
a pittance. But among the
impoverished coffee farmers in
this region, it is more than many
will see in their lifetimes. And yet
their children have collectively
managed to save that amount, a
few pesos at a time from their
allowances or earnings picking
coffee, through the program of
one of our grantee partners.
Desarrollo Autogestionario (SelfManaged Development), more
commonly known as AUGE.
At the heart of AUGE are 138
women’s savings groups involving
3,500 women whose total savings
exceed $600,000. Each group
has an average of 25 members
who support each other in saving
money and creating their own
small businesses.
Participation teaches them the
values and habits of self-discipline,
delayed gratification, and planning
for the future. Many of the
children in the groups are saving
money for their education, aspiring
to become teachers, athletes, artists,
and doctors. Others are saving to
buy a home or a piece of land.
Two years ago, the children’s savings
group from Ixhuatlán del Café
Six years ago, the young daughter developed a 14-point statement
For generations, families in the state of one of these women asked for
of goals, which the children
of Veracruz have been dependent
help in setting up a savings group presented during the inauguration
on coffee. Mexico ranks among
for children like her. AUGE saw
of AUGE’s training center. Among
the world’s top five producers, and
tremendous potential in Luz
other things, they aspire to create a
coffee has long been the main
Esmeralda’s idea, which has since larger fund from which the poorest
economic engine in Veracruz.
blossomed into 14 children’s savings children can borrow money for
groups involving more than 500
uniforms and school supplies.
The average family farm is about
children. With the support of
three hectares, earning a coffee
The Global Fund for Children,
“We help the children do
farmer only $500 to $1,000 in a
AUGE plans to further increase the something practical—save money
good year. Dramatic fluctuations
number of children’s savings groups. and invest in their future,” said
in world coffee prices mean that
Gloria Agueda García García,
in a bad year, farmers can end up
Each group of children elects its
one of AUGE’s founders and
selling their coffee for less than
own officers. Like the women’s
the current director, “while at
the cost of production.
groups, they meet each week to
the same time meeting their
deposit money with their treasurer. emotional and spiritual needs.”
The 1995 collapse in coffee prices They also use their meeting time
motivated four women in the
to discuss topics like leadership,
town of Teocelo to help the wives human rights, environmental
of coffee farmers become more
conservation, domestic violence,
financially stable despite the ups
substance abuse, health and
and downs of the coffee market.
hygiene, and gender.
They became the founders of
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Portfolio
Safety
* We believe that children’s
futures can be secured only
when they are protected
from threats to their
safety and insulated from
exploitation, violence,
abuse, and neglect.
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organizations that
intercede on behalf
of children in immediate
danger or harmful
circumstances, and those
that create safe passage
for children.
Providing children with safe environments
in which to learn, play, live, and grow is
a fundamental tenet of our work. Our
concept of safety is broadly drawn because
the diversity of problems facing children
is vast: temporary shelters, victimization
by the criminal justice system, exposure to
violence and exploitation in a multitude of
contexts—armed conflicts, child trafficking,
hazardous labor—and many more.
Children are more vividly affected by these
dangers than any other population segment,
and those in economically distressed
circumstances are all the more vulnerable.
We remain committed to identifying and
supporting grassroots groups working to
ensure the safety of boys and girls, with
priority on organizations that intercede on
behalf of children already in immediate
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danger or harmful circumstances, and on
those that create safe passage for children at
risk of becoming involved in unsafe pursuits.
the Safety portfolio:
Forum Comunicações Juventude Oratorio
Don Bosco (Don Bosco Children’s
Communications Forum) is the only group
working with street children in Dili, the capital
of Timor-Leste. Our support helps the forum
to serve 300 street children annually through
its drop-in and mobile learning centers.
Mongolia’s transition from a socialist
system to an open economy has not been
easy for children and youth, as employment
and home economics continue to shift.
The Center for Prevention
of Child Abuse and Neglect
(CPCAN) is proving to be
a lifeline for the more than
1,000 students who participate
annually in its workshops and
the 200 children who call its
telephone hotline annually.
We are supporting CPCAN
so it can prevent further abuse
and rehabilitate child abuse
victims in Mongolia.
In Sibiu, Romania, we are
supporting a program of Asociatia
pentru Libertatea si Egalitatea
de Gen (Association for Liberty
and Gender Equality) to train 20
girls from state-run institutions
to live independently and free
from abuse. The program builds
safety support from the ranks of
the rural and Roma girls it serves
instead of having them rely on
the government for protection.
A research study in the fishing
villages of the Lake Volta region
of Ghana found scores of
fisherman using children, sent by
their parents to seek income, for
dangerous fishing missions. This
study led to the establishment of
the Association of People for
Practical Life Education (APPLE)
and its emergence as a leader in
preventing child trafficking in
Africa. With our support, APPLE
ensures that rescued children
remain safe with their families
by educating the children and
providing their families with
income-generating alternatives.
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Yanapanakusun (Let’s Help Each
Other) works with girls in Peru
who have been sent away from
their families to work as domestics.
It first establishes contact near
Cusco’s neighborhood trash
bins, since taking out garbage is
often the only time the girls are
allowed to leave the house. The
organization provides them with
education, temporary shelter,
healthcare, and legal support. Our
grant supports an educator who
works with the girls.
We believe that children’s futures
can be secured only when they
are protected from threats to
their safety and insulated from
exploitation, violence, abuse,
and neglect. A safe environment
provides the children with the
opportunity to participate fully
in their communities, to exercise
their skills and talents, and to
pursue their dreams.
Reaching Belgrade’s
“Invisible” Children
grantee partner
Centar za Integraciju Mladih
location
Belgrade, Serbia
The street boys and girls living in
an abandoned house were lucky the
night the police discovered them.
Two outreach volunteers, college
students Jelena and Filip, happened
to be with the children that night.
whom are orphans themselves or
come from war-torn homes, who
regularly scout abandoned houses,
street corners, and under bridges
to make contact with orphans
and street children.
The police stomped and shouted
through the dark house, their
flashlights beaming, their weapons
drawn. They ordered the youth
to stand, then sit, and then
produce their identity papers.
The police grilled everyone, and
after checking that there were no
outstanding arrest warrants for
the youth, they left.
These trained volunteers, or youth
advocates, educate the street
children on their rights, help them
obtain legal documents, teach them
practical skills, and tell them where
they can get medical services.
They have repeated contact with
at least 320 children, most of them
of Roma descent or internally
displaced youth from Kosovo.
“We gather young people who
want to take part in social changes,
those who believe that change on a
global level cannot happen without
changes on the local level,” said
Djordjevic. “We work with the
belief that young people of Serbia
are an immeasurable resource for
achieving that change.”
CIM organized a studentled volunteer program inside
a state orphanage, and its
exposure of child abuses led to
changes in how the country’s
7,500 orphans are treated. The
center also established a formal
relationship with the University
“It’s much better for the police to
An additional 69 CIM volunteers of Belgrade that allowed it to
come while we’re here,” Filip said,
work with orphans in Belgrade’s
tap the university’s students
“because I can act as a liaison, talk youth homes. CIM also runs the
as volunteers—an impressive
to the cops. The police will not
country’s first 24/7 drop-in center. achievement, since universities
mistreat the youth in front of us.
rarely work with NGOs.
They know us.” Had the volunteers Since orphans and street children
not been there, the girls could have are not recognized as at-risk
Youth advocates Jelena and Filip
been harassed and the boys beaten. vulnerable groups, the government have volunteered at CIM for over
has no sustainable programs
two years now, and as they walk
Young outreach volunteers like
for them. They are Belgrade’s
through the streets of Belgrade,
Jelena and Filip are the key
“invisible children.” In 2004,
you can see street children greeting
to why Centar za Integraciju
Milica Djordjevic, then a university them and consulting them about
Mladih (CIM or Center for
student, started CIM to look after their problems. To CIM, these
Youth Integration) has such street these two groups of vulnerable
children are anything but invisible.
credence in Belgrade. There are
children. No other organization in
14 other CIM volunteers, many of the country is working with them.
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Portfolio
Healthy Minds
and Bodies
* We recognize that healthy
minds and bodies are an
important path to dignity
and productivity.
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We focus on programs
that complement, fill the
gaps in, and strengthen
conventional healthcare
systems, institutions,
and infrastructure.
Good health is not merely the absence
of illness and disease. In order to grow,
learn, and be active members of their
communities, children must also be well
nourished and protected from harmful
substances, and must have access to
information, adequate social and emotional
support, and a clean environment.
Our grantee partners operate innovative
programs that address the health and wellbeing of children and youth in various
communities. Our priority areas in this
portfolio are HIV/AIDS prevention and
support, psychosocial health, reproductive
health, and improved nutrition. We focus
on programs that complement, fill the gaps
in, and strengthen conventional healthcare
systems, institutions, and infrastructure.
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the Healthy Minds and Bodies portfolio:
In the Anacostia neighborhood of
Washington, DC, psychologist Satira
Streeter started Ascensions Community
Services as the only cost-free comprehensive
mental health provider in DC’s poorest
neighborhood. Ascensions is based on the
principle that to heal a child, the entire family
must be involved. We are helping 50 children
and their families by supporting a therapist
who can provide play therapy, behavior
management, and school intervention.
Along the border of China and Myanmar,
we are helping the Neng Guan Performing
Arts Training Center teach 25 students to use
traditional ethnic dances and songs
to raise public awareness on drug
abuse and HIV/AIDS. The students,
mostly from ethnic-minority groups,
attend classes four days a week
and give eight performances
annually in various villages.
In Mumbai, India, a group
of students started Society
Undertaking Poor People’s Onus
for Rehabilitation (SUPPORT),
which is now one of the leading
groups specializing in drug
rehabilitation of street children.
We are supporting the operation
of its first residential rehabilitation
center, which houses 160 boys
from ages 6 to 19.
Barely half of Haiti’s children
have access to primary education,
and children with disabilities face
even greater obstacles to learning,
since shame and stigma often lead
families to keep their disabled
children at home, hidden from
the public eye. We are working
with Pazapa (Step by Step) to
educate and provide therapy for 70
children with physical and mental
disabilities, and to give their families
practical skills and moral support in
caring for a disabled child.
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While Senegal has successfully
contained the spread of HIV/
AIDS, it has hundreds of orphans
and street children who have
been infected or are at a high
risk of being infected. Synergie
pour l’Enfance (Synergy for
Childhood), an all-volunteer
group, reaches about 4,000 at-risk
children through its prevention
and treatment programs. We are
helping the organization secure
permanent offices to better
provide these services.
In Ethiopia, the owner of a
beauty school established the Joy
Center, the first center to help
autistic children in the country.
It currently serves 500 children,
with 300 more on the waiting
list in Addis Ababa alone. We
are helping the center organize
the first nationwide workshop
on autism and incorporate a
computer-based therapy program
to help the children.
We recognize that healthy minds
and bodies are an important path
to dignity and productivity. When
children are not healthy, they are
unable to meet all their basic needs,
let alone pursue their dreams.
Healthy Little Mouths
grantee partner
Fundación Simsa
location
Bogotá, Colombia
The Ciudad Bolivar area of Bogotá
is normally not a place where
an outsider, especially one who
works for the Policía Nacional
de Colombia (National Police of
Colombia), would want to be at
night. But Dr. Lida Alarcón did not
mind keeping her mobile dental
clinic open until dusk recently.
Outside was a long line of
children needing dental attention.
Among them were 25 children
shepherded by a woman whose
husband was killed in the violence
that is so common in the city’s
poor neighborhoods. When
she first visited in May 2007,
dragging her six children, she was
very skeptical that the dental care
offered by Dr. Alarcón was good
or truly free. With her children’s
dental problems now treated, she
has become one of the clinic’s
most passionate advocates.
“It’s really working,” Dr. Alarcón
said of her program, Boquitas
Sanas (Healthy Little Mouths).
“Their initial attitude was that
if the service was free, then the
quality must be no good.”
A family with money to see
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a private dentist would have
to pay $40 per visit per child,
plus another $50 for follow-up.
Although the government has
a comprehensive public health
program, it does not cover oral
health. “They will pay if you
have heart or lung problems, but
you have to pay if you have a
toothache,” Dr. Alarcón said.
give the clinics legitimacy in the
neighborhoods and get the word
out about their services.
When the children arrive at the
clinic, Dr. Alarcón’s husband,
Francisco, records their basic
information, putting them at ease
by interspersing serious questions
with silly ones. (“Married or single?”
he asks the 5-year-olds.) A cartoon
The almost complete lack of access video, Mr. Molars, usually plays
to dental care among the country’s in the background, helping the
poor motivated Dr. Alarcón to
children relax while educating them
start Fundación Simsa in 2004. Its on dental care and hygiene.
aim is to reduce dental problems
among poor children and improve Dr. Alarcón and up to three other
their oral health. The foundation,
dentists examine the children in
named after her boys, Simon and
the portable dental chairs that
Santiago, fulfills Dr. Alarcón’s
they bring along. If the children
dream of offering free dental care
have no problems, they are given
to children whose families cannot
a quick fluoride treatment, a new
otherwise afford it.
toothbrush, and encouragement to
keep up the good work. Those who
Boquitas Sanas operates in some
have problems stay for treatment.
of the poorest and most violent
neighborhoods in Bogotá. With
Usually, more children come after
support from The Global Fund
they see their friends walking
for Children, it holds mobile
home with their free toothbrushes.
clinics every three or four
By the time dusk comes, as many
weeks on weekends, depending
as 160 children will have been
on arrangements made by its
treated by Boquitas Sanas.
church partners. The churches
Portfolio
Responding
to Crisis
* We believe that in times
of crisis, community-based
groups are always in the
best position to respond
immediately since they
know the people and the
local areas affected.
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We supported our
grantee partners’
responses to six
crises brought about
by war and severe
weather and helped
communities recover
from three previous
natural disasters.
We offer two funding mechanisms for
community-level crisis response, whether
the crisis is a natural disaster, public health
crisis, or violent conflict. Rapid Response
Grants are given to existing grantee
partners addressing an immediate crisis.
Recovery and Renewal Grants are awarded
to new and existing grantee partners
working in areas where the crisis has been
declared over, but where reconstruction is
either ongoing or has failed.
the Responding to Crisis portfolio. We
supported our grantee partners as they
responded to six crises brought about
by war and severe weather, and helped
communities in their recovery and renewal
efforts resulting from three natural
disasters that occurred in 2004 and 2005.
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Rapid Response Grants
Our grantee partners in Mexico, Sri
Lanka, and Lebanon responded to the
crises brought about by civil unrest and
war. Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle
de Oaxaca provided counseling and other
psychosocial support to children and youth
traumatized by the violence of the civil
unrest in Oaxaca, Mexico.
In Sri Lanka, Kinniya Vision provided
emergency relief, medical care, and
counseling to children and their families
caught in the crossfire between government
troops and rebels in the Trincomalee
region. In Lebanon, Association du
Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais and Relief
International provided food and medical
and psychological care to families forced
to flee their homes due to the attacks
on southern Lebanon.
We also helped our grantee partners
respond to crises brought about by
severe weather, including a cyclone
that hit Andhra Pradesh, India; a
super typhoon that hit the southern
Philippines; and an unusually harsh
winter in Afghanistan.
Two years after Hurricane
Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast,
we are continuing to support the
recovery and renewal efforts of six
of our grantee partners in New
Orleans and Plaquemines Parish,
Louisiana, and Biloxi, Mississippi.
Recovery and Renewal Grants
Long after international aid
agencies pack up their relief
efforts, community-based
organizations are left to deal
with the long-term recovery
and renewal efforts. Our
grantee partners are still
helping communities recover
from natural disasters that
occurred up to three years ago.
We believe that in times of
crisis, community-based groups
are always in the best position
to respond immediately since
they know the people and the
local areas affected. In longterm recovery and renewal work,
these groups play a key role in
reknitting their communities and
creating a safety net for children
and youth affected by crisis.
Ten of our grantee partners are
working with the communities
hardest hit by the 2004 tsunami
in India, Indonesia, Thailand,
and Sri Lanka.
In Pakistan, five of our grantee
partners are undertaking recovery
and renewal work in the NorthWest Frontier Province and the
Pakistan side of Kashmir—the
areas most affected by the October
2005 South Asia earthquake.
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Teaching Girls,
Reviving an Art
grantee partner
Potohar Organization for
Development Advocacy
location
Nara Mughlan, Pakistan
In this village about 110 miles
from Pakistan’s capital, and in
similar rural villages, women
and girls have little access to
healthcare, cannot own land, and
have no voice in decision making.
They have high malnutrition
rates and considerably low literacy
rates, even by Pakistan’s standards.
In Muzaffarabad, as many as 200
small shops lined the streets, with
Kashmiri artisans teaching their
children to keep this ancient art
alive and thriving. In 2003, Nazir
convinced some master artisans
to go to the Potohar region and
teach the village girls. Little did
she know that her project would be
the key to the revival of Pakistan’s
papier-mâché industry after an
earthquake leveled Muzaffarabad.
So when Sameena Nazir and her
colleagues were looking for ways
to keep village girls in school, they
decided to teach them how to
On October 8, 2005, the strongest
make papier-mâché products.
earthquake in a century struck
the area, with its epicenter near
“Older girls and young women
Muzaffarabad. Over 73,000 people
have little access to education
were killed and more than 3 million
beyond primary school and
were left homeless. The Pakistan
almost no opportunities for
side of Kashmir was hardest hit,
jobs in rural areas,” said Nazir, a
and the shops of the papier-mâché
former journalist who established
artisans in Muzaffarabad were
the Potohar Organization for
completely destroyed.
Development Advocacy (PODA)
in 2003. “So in order to provide
PODA joined hundreds of local
additional education and income,
and international organizations
we taught them how to recycle
that offered immediate relief to the
paper into papier-mâché products.” victims. PODA focused on women
and girls, helping nearly 7,000 of
Although papier-mâché products them. The first of its 12 assessment
were being made in many villages, trips was led by a master
the center of the industry was in
papier-mâché teacher who had
Muzaffarabad, in the mountains on instructions to bring any surviving
the Pakistan side of Kashmir. This
artisans to the lowlands, where
beautiful art form was first developed PODA had host families for them
in Persia and later introduced in
to stay with during the winter.
Kashmir in the 15th century.
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After the relief efforts, PODA
opened the Artisan Support
Center in Muzaffarabad to help
restore livelihood activities and
preserve art forms unique to the
region. With the support of The
Global Fund for Children, 70
young boys and girls are being
given training; 25 of them are
being taught the art of papiermâché by artisans who survived
the earthquake.
Meanwhile, in Nara Mughlan,
some of the first trainees of
PODA won awards as the best
folk artisans in Pakistan for their
papier-mâché products. Their
best products are also available
through GFC grantee partner
Global Goods Partners. Thanks
to the girls of PODA, the ancient
art of papier-mâché is alive and
well again in Pakistan.
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Courage
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Grantmaking
Sustainability
Awards
The Sustainability Award is part of our unique
grantmaking model that allows for a dignified and
fair exit from our funding relationship. It rewards
Global Fund for Children grantee partners for their
success and growth and represents an important
investment in their long-term sustainability.
Eight of our most successful grantee partners were
each given a $25,000 Sustainability Award this
year, bringing the total to 24 since we established
the award three years ago. Of this number, seven
awardees were in Africa, seven in South Asia, six in
Latin America, three in East and Southeast Asia,
and one in the United States.
Recipients of the Sustainability Award should:
•Have received our funding for at least two years
•Be representative of the organizations that we
support due to their innovations and effectiveness
• Have arrived at a critical stage in their
organizational development
• Have demonstrated organizational development
in budget growth, program expansion, and/or
diversifying funding sources over the course of
their relationship with us
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• Have increased their public profile and ability
to leverage additional funds through prizes or
awards, government recognition, and/or increased
financial support
•Have affected broader issues related to children,
education, and/or development through advocacy,
training, and/or replication
• Have proved their management capacity to
administer this large, strategic grant
• Have maintained strong communication links with
our program staff, leadership, and representatives
Winning a Sustainability Award does not mean the
end of the grantee partner’s relationship with GFC.
Awardees remain active in our network as lifetime
GFC grantee partners, attending our Knowledge
Exchange workshops, participating in our online
community (KLARA) and other knowledge-sharing
initiatives, and receiving help in leveraging funds from
other sources. They are also eligible to receive tracking
grants, which allow us to follow their progress as they
continue to grow and develop.
Blinded So She
Could Help
grantee partner
Prayas
location
Jaipur, India
Prayas students with the former president of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
Jatinder Arora was a leading
newspaper editor in this city,
the capital of India’s largest state,
when she had an accident that
left her blind. After several
operations, her doctors told
her to start learning Braille.
While she was blind, her father
would bring her to a special
school for physically and mentally
challenged children, where she
volunteered as a counselor. The
children accepted her without any
questions and treated her as their
didi (sister). With their blessings,
she underwent another operation in
May 1996 that restored her sight.
“There was a time when we were
called a school for mad children,
but now we are known as a
school for all,” Arora said. Today,
Prayas is known as India’s pioneer
in inclusive education, where
mentally challenged and other
disabled children study together
with kids without disabilities.
Aside from the special education
center, Prayas runs three integrated
schools now, providing over
450 children from 32 slums in
Jaipur with special education
and vocational training. Its other
programs benefit 8,000 poor
families in the city and are mostly
conducted after school hours by
“I was blind for three years and it
Prayas’s teaching staff. The schools
was during this period of blindness themselves have become training
that my eyes were opened to help
centers for adult women, teaching
disabled children in any way I can,” them such skills as sewing.
the soft-spoken Arora said.
The students produce a variety
She started Prayas (Endeavor)
of handicrafts—greeting cards,
in July 1996 with an assistant,
candles, pouches, diaries, and
working out of three rented rooms bags—which are sold at Prayas’s
equipped with 12 tables and
counter in the Sheraton Hotel.
chairs donated by a Jesuit school. At the first school, whose students
At first, there were only 5 disabled are predominantly mentally and
students at the Prayas Center for
physically challenged, 15 students
Special Education and Vocational run a canteen and a catering service.
Training, but before the year was
over, there were 18.
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One of them, Gautam, who is
mentally challenged and living
with his maternal aunt, regularly
supplies lunch for workers in the
area. He earns 1,000 rupees ($25)
a month, but in Arora’s words,
“his profit is his sense of dignity.”
Recruiting teachers for the
Prayas children has been difficult,
since few in Rajasthan have the
required training. In 2006, Prayas
started a two-year diploma course
with Manipal University and the
Rehabilitation Council of India.
It has also trained 240 government
teachers, mostly in the remote areas
of Rajasthan, in inclusive education.
When The Global Fund for
Children started helping Prayas in
2001, Prayas’s annual budget was
$25,000. Today, it has an annual
budget of $95,000. This fiscal year,
we gave Prayas a Sustainability
Award. Half of these funds will be
invested in Prayas’s endowment,
and the balance will be put aside
for emergencies. Prayas now has its
own building and intends to build
two schools in rural Rajasthan in
the next two years.
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)–
Suriname
Kwamalasamutu, Suriname
Director Gwendolyn Emanuels Smith
Grantee partner since 2004
Total support from GFC: $30,000
ACT–Suriname works with the isolated indigenous
peoples of the country’s interior to defend land
rights, create natural-resource management plans,
preserve indigenous culture, and improve health
through traditional medicinal practices. Since 2004,
we have supported ACT–Suriname’s Shamans
and Apprentices Program, which partners with
village shamans to pass traditional knowledge of
tropical medicine on to the next generation. From
its start in one village, the program has expanded
to three villages and has attracted the attention of
National Geographic magazine and other media.
Since we started supporting ACT, the organization’s
budget has increased by 50 percent, reaching nearly
$400,000. ACT–Suriname will use its Sustainability
Award to hire a development professional to map out
and implement a long-range fundraising plan and
secure new funding sources, especially in Europe.
Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB)
(San Juan Bosco Center)
Tela, Honduras
Director Dylcia Enamorado
CSJB’s technical and vocational training program
provides dignified and better-paying alternatives to the
hazardous child labor that is commonly undertaken
by working children in Honduras. Workshops allow
young people to develop marketable skills in areas
such as computer technology, carpentry, woodworking,
baking, and agriculture. Since we began supporting
CSJB in 2003, its budget has more than doubled, from
$243,000 to $570,290. Last year, it purchased land and
prepared the blueprints for its own building. CSJB will
use its Sustainability Award toward the construction of
a training facility, a library, and offices. It plans to add a
microcredit facility, a hospitality training facility, a bakery,
a grocery, and a cafeteria in later phases of construction.
Foundation for the Development of Needy
Communities (FDNC)
Mbale, Uganda
Director Samuel Watulatsu
FDNC recognizes that the arts can empower young
people, but it also realizes the need to provide more
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practical skills training that can lead to employment,
especially for girls. The organization is well known
for its band, which now contributes 60 percent of the
school’s budget through performances at weddings,
civic functions, and sporting events. Last year,
FDNC’s vocational skills training center graduated
over 237 students; 30 percent found jobs, while the
rest started their own businesses. It has also benefited
from the informal sale of furniture, agricultural
products, and African clothing made by the students.
Since we starting supporting FDNC in 2001, its
budget has grown from $20,000 to nearly $135,000.
FDNC will use its Sustainability Award to construct
a commercial center in Mbale where its students can
produce and sell high-quality products.
Fundación La Paz
(La Paz Foundation)
La Paz, Bolivia
Director Jorge Dominic
Fundación La Paz serves more than 7,000 women
and children through various education, nutrition,
health, and other programs. Since 2002, we have
supported its Sarantañani Technical Training
Center, which provides high-quality, certified
training in leather production, auto mechanics,
carpentry, computer operation, metalworking, and
textile design to vulnerable youth. At the end of
their training, graduates are placed in private-sector
apprenticeships, which often lead to permanent
jobs. About 70 percent of the students arriving
at the center are street children, child laborers, or
juvenile offenders. Fundación La Paz will use its
Sustainability Award to establish a business unit
to produce goods and services for sale in the local
market. The profits will eventually subsidize the
center’s training programs while providing students
with more hands-on experience.
Horn Relief
Sanaag, Somalia
Director Degan Ali
Horn Relief is now recognized internationally for its
commitment to peace and sustainable development
in war-torn Somalia. We have supported its Pastoral
Youth Leadership Outreach Program, which
focuses on pastoralists, the backbone of the country’s
livestock-based economy, since 2002. This program
has served over 400 boys and girls. One of the most
innovative aspects of the program is its month-long
“camel caravan,” which pairs a participant with an
older pastoralist to gather indigenous knowledge they
can use to improve the community. Since we started
supporting Horn Relief, its staff has grown from 4 to
55 and its budget from $400,000 to over $3 million,
although the bulk of its funds are for emergency
response and humanitarian aid. Horn Relief will
use its Sustainability Award to diversify its funding
sources by hiring a full-time development officer.
Kampuchean Action for Primary
Education (KAPE)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Director Sao Vanna
KAPE serves nearly 90,000 boys and girls studying in
190 primary schools in the southeastern province of
Kampong Cham. Since 2003, we have supported its
scholarship program for girls—the first of its kind in
the country—which has benefited 2,000 girls. Over 85
percent of these girls successfully finish primary school
and proceed to secondary school. KAPE’s budget has
grown to exceed $500,000. In addition, the World
Bank is now funding the scholarship program in four
schools, and KAPE has entered into a partnership with
USAID. KAPE will divide its Sustainability Award
into three parts: a third will be used for organizational
development, including English courses and program
management training for the staff; a third for a
reserve fund to be used in emergencies; and a third
for an external communications plan that will include
promotional materials and an upgraded website.
Kids in Need of Direction (KIND)
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Director Karina Jardine-Scott
KIND provides support to disadvantaged children and
youth throughout Trinidad and Tobago in the areas of
shelter, literacy, nutrition, medical assistance, computer
technology, vocational training, emotional counseling,
art, drama, sports, and family reintegration. It was
recently accredited as a training center for Microsoft
courses. Since we began supporting KIND in 2003,
it has attracted additional support from local and
foreign foundations and businesses. KIND will use its
Sustainability Award to hire two new staff members to
focus on fundraising and to create a reserve fund to help
its cash flow and for use in short-term emergencies.
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Prayas (Endeavor)
Jaipur, India
Director Jatinder Arora
Prayas is a pioneer in providing inclusive education
for mentally and physically disabled children in the
state of Rajasthan. Its four schools, located in the
slums of Jaipur, serve over 400 children annually.
Since we began funding Prayas in 2001, its budget
has grown from $25,000 to over $95,000. It has
also built its own building on land donated by the
government. Prayas now offers special-education
training to government and primary-school teachers
and offers a two-year diploma in partnership with
Manipal University and the Rehabilitation Council
of India. In the next two years, it will open two
new schools in rural Rajasthan. Prayas will divide
its Sustainability Award into two parts: half will
be added to its endowment fund, of which only
the interest earnings can be used, and half will be a
reserve fund to be used only in times of emergency.
2006 Sustainability Award Winners
• Asociación Solas y Unidas Lima, Peru
• Christ School Bundibugyo, Uganda
• Conquest for Life Johannesburg, South Africa
• ProJOVEN Asunción, Paraguay
• Rural Institute for Development Education
Kanchipuram, India
• Salaam Baalak Trust New Delhi, India
• Ubuntu Education Fund
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
• Wilderness Foundation
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
2005 Sustainability Award Winners
• Afghan Institute of Learning Kabul, Afghanistan
• Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Children’s Town Malambanyama, Zambia
• Life Pieces to Masterpieces
Washington, DC, United States
• Magic Bus Mumbai, India
• Nishtha Baruipur, India
• Ruchika Social Service Organization
Bhubaneswar, India
• Thai Youth Action Programs
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Special Partner: Johnson & Johnson*
Johnson & Johnson
Health and Well-Being Grants
Our Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being
supplemental grants enable our grantee partners to
provide basic healthcare interventions and supplies
to the children they serve. This additional support
ensures a more holistic and integrated approach to
the children’s well-being.
• G
iving indigenous mothers at the Ch’umei’il
Mother-Child Education Center in Chiapas,
Mexico, regular mental health checkups
(Skolta’el Yu’un Jlumaltic)
• Immunizing Maasai children in Monduli, Tanzania
(Monduli Pastoralist Development Initiative)
• Giving vitamins to primary-school children in the
Since we started the program three years ago, with
rural Tibetan communities of Sichuan Province,
funding from Johnson & Johnson, nearly 100 percent
China (Kham Kampo Association)
of our grantee partners have availed themselves of this • Improving the nutrition of the children of
supplementary grant. This fiscal year, we awarded 181
prisoners in Cochabamba, Bolivia, by giving them
Health and Well-Being grants totaling $197,000.
a glass of milk daily (Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas)
• Educating young girls in Cotonou, Benin, who
These grants range from $1,000 to $2,000, and
are victims of traditional forced labor about HIV/
our grantee partners apply these funds in the most
AIDS and reproductive health (SIN-DO)
appropriate way to improve the health, hygiene, and •Giving disabled children in Peshawar,
nutrition of children in their care.
Pakistan, auditory brain stem response
checkups (Doosti Pakistan)
Health and Well-Being grants were used in a variety • Supporting a pilot program for psychosocial
of ways this fiscal year, including:
counseling for children and youth in Managua,
•Providing regular HIV tests for youth attending
Nicaragua (Centro Cultural Batahola Norte)
the adventure camps in Jiu Valley, Romania
• Providing sanitary napkins for adolescent girls
(Fundatia Noi Orizonturi)
in Hyderabad, India (Ankuram Woman and Child
• Conducting eye examinations for residents of the
Development Society)
Sharanam Center for Street Girls in Mumbai,
• Testing homeless and unemployed youth at the
India (Community Outreach Programme)
16+ Center in Sofia, Bulgaria, for tuberculosis
• Giving mosquito nets and medicines for skin
(Alliance for Children and Youth)
infections to children working in the gold mines
• Setting up a nationwide counseling and
of Tambacounda, Senegal (Association La Lumière)
information telephone hotline for Nigerian
• Making available basic medical services to children
girls and young women (Kudirat Initiative
living on the streets of Gori, Georgia (Society Biliki)
for Democracy)
• Giving Romanian teenagers soap so they can
• Repairing and treating the fistulas of young Gumuz
keep clean while looking for work (Children on
mothers in Beninshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia
the Edge–Romania)
(Mujejego-Loka Women Development Organization)
• Providing health workshops for girls working
• Providing safe drinking water for child prisoners
as domestic servants in Panama City, Panama
and detainees in Monrovia, Liberia (Prisoners
(Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Infancia)
Assistance Program)
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“Singing Away AIDS”
grantee partner
Nyaka Aids Orphans School
location
Nyakagyezi, Kambuga,
Uganda
Dressed in their colorful uniforms,
the boys and girls of the Nyaka
Anti-AIDS Choir sing not only
to educate others but also to heal
themselves. In their own words
and voices, the children sing the
stories of their lives and of their
encounters with HIV/AIDS.
They tell their stories differently,
but some elements are common
to the lives of all the students at
Nyaka AIDS Orphans School.
Like nearly 2 million other
children in Uganda, the 186
students at Nyaka School were
orphaned by AIDS. Some lost not
only their parents, but also those
who subsequently cared for them.
“They are singing away HIV/
AIDS,” said the founder of
Nyaka School, Twesigye Jackson
Kaguri. “It is cathartic for them
to talk about their experiences. By
performing for other children, they
send messages about preventing
and dealing with HIV/AIDS.”
One boy’s mother died because
he could not find someone to
transport her to the hospital;
they were too busy burying their
own dead. “The slow death of
my mother made me an orphan
before my mother died,” he said.
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Kaguri is not an AIDS orphan
himself, but two of his family
members died from the disease.
He and his wife, Beronda, decided
to start the school in August
2001. They purchased two acres
for the primary school, adding
one class at a time. By December
2008, they will celebrate the
graduation of the pioneer primary
class of Nyaka School.
There are no residential facilities
for the students at Nyaka
School, so they all live in the
surrounding village, which has
no electricity or running water.
Elderly grandparents take in
many of the orphans; others live
alone, with Nyaka staff regularly
looking in on them. The school’s
management committee selects
for enrollment only the poorest
children and those who have
no one else to help them; their
siblings are also integrated so as
not to split families.
Nyaka students do not pay tuition
and are provided with uniforms
and books. Through a Johnson &
Johnson Health and Well-Being
grant from The Global Fund
for Children, a nurse visits the
orphans at their homes to provide
basic medical care. The grant also
helps pay for their expenses when
they are hospitalized.
With the help of The Global
Fund for Children, the school
started gardens to educate the
community on proper nutrition.
With the supplementary meals
and the gardens’ produce,
attendance increased dramatically.
Nyaka students now score higher
on government examinations than
their peers in other schools. The
results underscore Nyaka School’s
belief that addressing the students’
and the community’s nutritional
needs are vital to achieving its
educational goals.
Twesigye Kaguri did not
anticipate working so closely
with the people in his home area,
but he has found that “the support
for the community ends up
reinforcing the education that
the school tries to impart.”
Special Partner: Goldman Sachs Foundation*
Unleashing the Power
of High-Potential Youth
Despite a healthy, growing economy, India faces
pronounced poverty. Its burgeoning population
includes more than 400 million young people under
18, and the country accounts for a fifth of the
world’s out-of-school children.
It has the largest number of working children in
the world, with nearly a third of children under 16
involved in some form of work.
This fiscal year, the Goldman Sachs Foundation
awarded us a three-year grant, valued at $1.2 million,
to help young people in India participate in the
country’s economic advancement. This partnership,
The Global Fund for Children / Goldman Sachs
Foundation Initiative, supports community-based
initiatives that develop the leadership, entrepreneurial,
and academic skills of marginalized young Indians,
particularly in Mumbai and Bengaluru.
When this initiative is complete, we will have
supported 30 community-based organizations
with as many as 80 grants. This fiscal year, we
invested in 12 groups:
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•
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gastya International Foundation Bengaluru
A
Dhriiti New Delhi
Door Step School Mumbai
Dream a Dream Bengaluru
Going to School New Delhi
Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan Sikar
• I nstitute of Leadership and Institutional
Development (ILID) Bengaluru
• Jeeva Jyothi Chennai
• Karm Marg Faridabad
• Magic Bus Connect Mumbai
• Pravah New Delhi
• Shaishav Trust Bhavnagar
These groups use a variety of innovative methods to
help marginalized youth:
ILID uses computer-aided instruction to teach
English so underprivileged primary-school students
in Karnataka State can ultimately enroll in college,
where knowledge of English is required.
Shaishav Trust uses its bank, Bachat (Savings) Bank,
to teach young people to save money, use their
resources wisely, and manage their time efficiently.
Agastya International Foundation operates mobile
laboratories to teach modern science to youth in
rural Andhra Pradesh.
Through its Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow program,
Dhriiti uses custom-tailored curricula to teach youth
in six government schools in New Delhi how to
start their own businesses.
Outside of Chennai, 600 tribal and low-caste
children are trained to run and expand Jeeva Jyothi’s
three Children’s Development Banks, cooperatives
managed entirely by street and working young people.
A Home By, For, and
With Street Children
grantee partner
Karm Marg
location
Faridabad, India
The rooms at Karm Gaon (Work
Village) bustle with formerly
homeless young people and village
women sewing bags, printing
stationery, and assembling crafts
from scrap metal and wood. The
products are marketed under the
brand Jugaad, reflecting the fact
that they are ingeniously made
from locally available and ecofriendly materials.
This entrepreneurial spirit has
always been at the heart of
Karm Marg (Progress through
Work), the organization that runs
Karm Gaon. It gives vocational
training to formerly homeless
young people so they can create
commercially viable products that
are sold to earn money for the
organization and the residents.
These savings are of great help
to youth like Anish, who recently
left Karm Gaon to live on his
own while finishing his studies in
Indian classical dancing. But even
more important than the savings
are the life lessons he learned.
“Karm Marg taught me how to
live, how to succeed, and how to
be a human being,” Anish said.
Recently, Karm Marg’s director,
Veena Lal, started the process of
transferring the daily operations
and decisions of the organization
to five older youth, with some
supervision from three staff. She
moved to a Delhi apartment,
which is also used as an office to
market Jugaad products.
The transition, expected to take
five years, has not been easy for
With support from The Global
Veena Lal and the young people.
Fund for Children, under the
They still refuse to let anyone
Goldman Sachs Foundation
occupy the room of their didi
Initiative, the vocational training
(sister) at Karm Gaon, the home
program continues to grow. Today, they designed together.
two of the trainers at Karm Gaon
are among the youth who live
“Most groups which are
there; 60 young people live at the dependent on one person will
village while studying at nearby
eventually collapse,” said Lal. “I
schools. By the time they become want the youth to completely take
adults and leave, the young people over Karm Marg so, in the future,
will have anywhere from 10,000
I can just chill out with them.”
rupees ($250) to 20,000 rupees
($500) in their savings accounts.
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Part of the difficulty Karm Marg
faces is that there is no blueprint
for this kind of transition; the
development landscape is littered
with organizations that failed
when the founder left or died.
Right from the beginning, the
young people were involved in
making decisions at Karm Marg.
The organization was started in
1997 when youth living in Delhi’s
train station opened a street
kitchen. Money was donated by
older youth so the younger ones
could eat. The program expanded
with the guidance of Veena Lal.
Eventually, they rented two rooms
to be their home in times of crisis.
Four years ago, they completed
Karm Gaon, a unique complex
located on 1.5 acres of land
25 miles outside of Delhi in
Faridabad. The complex contains
workshops for Jugaad, which
today accounts for 60 percent of
the group’s annual budget. Despite
the young people’s nervousness
about the leadership transition,
such a strong financial footing
bodes well for their future.
Special Partner: Nike Foundation*
Grassroots
Girls Initiative
The Global Fund for Children is part of the
Grassroots Girls Initiative (GGI), funded by the
Nike Foundation. GGI aims to empower adolescent
girls by supporting grassroots organizations in
implementing programs, conducting advocacy,
strengthening their organizational and programmatic
capacities, and collaborating with other partners.
We, like the other organizations involved in GGI,
believe that when girls receive support and recognize
the many opportunities available to them, they
can become a powerful force in transforming their
families, their communities, and the world.
The other grantmakers in GGI are American
Jewish World Service, EMpower–The Emerging
Markets Foundation, Firelight Foundation, Global
Fund for Women, and Mama Cash. The initiative
also includes two partners that provide support and
input: the International Center for Research on
Women (ICRW) and the Nike Foundation.
Our grants under GGI provide both program-based
and organizational support to a wide range of local
groups. We are supporting 21 community-based
organizations working with adolescent girls all over
the world. Six groups are in India; three in Brazil;
two each in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Zambia; and
one each in Burkina Faso, Egypt, Guatemala, Nepal,
Nigeria, and Pakistan.
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These partners empower girls through a number
of groundbreaking programs:
India’s Kolkata Sanved uses dance therapy to heal
children of prostitutes and female victims of abuse.
Our support enables 500 children and youth to
participate in its workshops and 20 of them to
train to become dance therapists.
The Young Mothers Program of Centro de Estudos
e Ação em Atenção à Infância e as Drogas Excola
in Rio de Janeiro serves 20 street girls and their 34
children. The program helps them to be healthy, to
know their rights, and to prevent further pregnancies.
In Zambia, the Youth Activist Organization
organizes girls’ soccer clubs, involving 200 girls in
10 community schools, as a way of raising awareness
about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.
The Association for the Development and
Enhancement of Women provides 900 adolescent
girls in Cairo’s squatter communities with a safe
haven where they can discuss their rights, marriage,
reproductive health, and domestic violence.
This fiscal year, we awarded a total of $171,500 in
direct grants to 21 GFC grantee partners under the
Grassroots Girls Initiative. Within two years, the six
GGI partners hope to collectively make a total of
180 grants throughout the developing world.
Communicating
in Nigeria
grantee partner
Kudirat Initiative
for Democracy
location
Lagos, Nigeria
About 40 teenage girls sat in a
classroom, their desks arranged
in a lopsided circle, with their
books and bags scattered around
them. For the next three hours,
they talked animatedly with
five women, but not about
school assignments. Instead,
they discussed HIV/AIDS,
teen pregnancies, and sexual
harassment—topics that are
rarely discussed in Nigeria.
Dozens of groups like this now
meet regularly in ten government
schools in the poorest sections
of Lagos, encouraging girls and
young women to challenge existing
social practices and helping them
to make better decisions about
their lives. “We want them to
know and protect their rights
so they can start living the life
they want to live and to become
leaders,” said Amy Oyekunle,
program manager of the Kudirat
Initiative for Democracy (KIND),
which runs this program.
restoration of Nigeria’s democracy,
was murdered. Abiola named
KIND in honor of her mother,
Kudirat, and continued her work to
restore democracy. Once democracy
was achieved, KIND changed its
mission to empowering women to
be Nigeria’s future leaders.
Using a grant from The Global
Fund for Children, KIND
organized a focus group to
help the organization develop
a program for teenage girls.
In a relaxed setting, the girls
opened up about their personal
experiences of abuse.
Historically, many of the tribes
that constitute modern-day
Nigeria treated women equitably.
However, under British colonial
rule, and under the decades
of military dictatorships that
followed, equality for Nigeria’s
women deteriorated rapidly.
A 16-year-old said that she was
once severely beaten by a teacher
after she visited her boyfriend’s
house. A 9-year-old revealed
in an anonymous letter to the
KIND staff that she had been
raped but was too scared to tell
anyone, even her mother.
KIND hopes to reverse this decline
through its signature leadership
program, Kudra. The program
prepares university women to
pursue careers in public service.
It reaches over 3,000 women in
five universities in Lagos.
Out of this study, KIND
developed a new program, called
Junior Kudra, for girls aged 13
to 17. “We aim to catch them
young,” said Oyekunle.
She added that as they grow, girls
often make decisions based on
While training the women,
incorrect information. Through
KIND increasingly recognized the Junior Kudra, KIND hopes
vulnerability of younger girls to
that they will get the accurate
KIND was started in 1999 by
HIV/AIDS infection, unwanted
information they need to survive
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, whose
pregnancies, and sexual harassment their youth and develop into
father was the first democratically
in school. Girls in Nigeria’s schools strong, active citizens of Nigeria.
elected president of Nigeria after a
are routinely harassed, and even
decade of military rule. The military raped, by male students, and in
imprisoned him, and he eventually
some cases they are sexually abused
died in prison. Her mother, who
by teachers, who exchange sex for
became the national voice for the
promises of good grades.
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Grantmaking
Investing in Our
Grantee Partners
Since community-based programs need more than just • New Horizon Ministries of Lusaka, Zambia,
funding, The Global Fund for Children also invests
for assistance in human resource development
in the people and the organizations that make them
and fundraising
successful. This is a prime tenet of our grantmaking and •Shilpa Children’s Trust of Colombo, Sri Lanka,
capacity-building model, and we address this through
for developing a five-year sustainability plan
our value-added services and knowledge initiatives.
Leveraging
Value-Added Services
Our leveraging work helps grantee partners identify
Value-added services are provided to grantee
and pursue opportunities for additional funding
partners to strengthen their organizations, make
in order to promote sustainability and growth.
them more sustainable, and help them optimize
These efforts are crucial since our support is often
the use of their grants.
the first significant contact our partners have with
international donors. Simply being a GFC grantee
KLARA Network
partner boosts their credibility.
The KLARA (Knowledge, Learning and Resource
Access) Network (www.gfcklara.org) went live
While we do not accept government funds, we do not
this year. The network was established to provide
hesitate to facilitate introductions to government and
our grantee partners with a space to engage in
multilateral donors. We also facilitate referrals to private
continuous dialogue, identify other GFC partners,
donors using our networks and strong reputation for
search for funding sources, and link to resources and finding great groups operating under the radar.
references to strengthen their organizations.
We also play an active role as advocates of our partners’
Organizational Development Support
work, helping them achieve recognition and visibility.
We piloted our organizational development awards in
This year, two of them, Avenir de l’Enfant and Gender
2003 in South Asia, and we extended them this year
Education, Research and Technologies Foundation,
to Latin America and Africa. Sixteen grantee partners
became fellows of the International Center for Tolerance
were given organizational development support through Education in New York. Another, Shidhulai Swanirvar
local nonprofit management consultants. These awards Sangstha, won the prestigious Ashden Award.
were worth $100,635, more than double last year’s.
We have leveraged over $2.4 million for our
Our local management consultants are Mexico’s El
grantee partners since 1997. Among those that
Caracol, for Latin America; India’s Dasra, for South
raised additional funds with our help this year are
Asia; South Africa’s Goals and Performance Analysts, Asociación Solas y Unidas, Potohar Organization for
for southern Africa; and Belun, for Timor-Leste.
Development Advocacy, Going to School, Prayas,
and Prerana. Funds came from American Jewish
This year’s recipients include:
World Service, Asha Urbana-Champaign, EMpower,
•Door Step School of Mumbai, India, for a plan
Global Fund for Women, Nike Foundation, and
that will enable it to scale up its operations in
Washington Area Women’s Foundation.
Mumbai and Pune
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Legal Assistance: Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation
Our grantee partners can avail themselves of a
variety of pro bono services from 160 independent
law firms through our collaboration with the Lex
Mundi Pro Bono Foundation.
Our grantee partner Centro Cultural Batahola Norte
in Nicaragua was helped by Lex Mundi firm Alvarado
& Associates to secure legal status as an independent
nongovernmental organization. Another partner,
JUCONI, briefed Lex Mundi firms at their meeting in
Barbados, while the foundation sent a lawyer to brief
participants at our India Knowledge Exchange.
Knowledge Initiatives
Our knowledge initiatives gather, distill, and
disseminate our experiences and lessons among
grantee partners and the wider development and
philanthropic communities.
Knowledge Exchange Workshops
These workshops facilitate the exchange of
experiences in serving the most vulnerable children
at the community level. This year, we held two
Knowledge Exchange workshops, one in Guatemala
for partners in Central America and another in
India for those doing disaster recovery and renewal
work in Asia and the United States.
In November 2006, 22 grantee partners from Mexico
and Central America met in Antigua, Guatemala,
for our first workshop in the region. Participants
came from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala,
Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
They discussed challenges in identifying and
reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized
young people and strategies for involving the family
and the community in their development. The
workshop closed with a session that outlined ideas
for ongoing communication and collaboration and
for sharing materials and methodologies.
In May 2007, 22 grantee partners from India,
Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the
United States met in Mamallapuram, India. This
was a unique meeting for those who experienced the
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 South Asia
earthquake, and the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
They produced a manifesto affirming the role of
community-based organizations as first responders
and long-term providers in disaster response. After
the workshop, the participants began collaborating
in their respective countries not only in times of
disaster but also in their daily work.
information on their current status. This allows us to
monitor their development and evaluate our record in
making “good bets” on emerging organizations. Forty
tracking grants have been awarded since 2003.
International Fellows Program
This year, we launched our International Fellows
Program, which enables practitioners to spend up
to four months conducting research in Washington,
DC. The fellows add an international grassroots
perspective to our work; their organizations benefit
from what they learn during the fellowship.
Sonali Ojha, founder of Dreamcatchers Foundation
in Mumbai, India, was our first international fellow.
She earned an economics degree from St. Xavier’s
College in Mumbai and a diploma in international
studies from the Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Ojha helped us define and develop an approach for
comprehensive program support for the psychosocial
needs and social and emotional development of
vulnerable children. Her fellowship was from
September 2006 to January 2007.
Our second fellow, Nicholas Kaufmann, worked
with Salud y Género A. C. in Querétaro, Mexico.
He has a psychology degree from Switzerland’s
University of Geneva and a diploma in adolescent
health and development from the Pontifical
Catholic University of Chile in Santiago.
Kaufmann helped us define our portfolio
frameworks to better respond to the distinct needs
of boys and young men while distilling our lessons
and experiences as one of the few funders in this
field. His fellowship was from February to July 2007.
The William Ascher Summer Fellowship
This year’s Ascher fellow was Sarah Ireland, a
graduate of the School of Education at Harvard
University. Ireland documented our response to
natural disasters, examined the responses of five
other organizations, and wrote a paper that will help
future activities in this field.
This fellowship was created in honor of our
founding chairman, William Ascher, currently the
Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and
Economics at Claremont McKenna College.
Research Projects
This year, we undertook various research studies to
better understand, apply, and share best practices
in development, capacity building, and effective
philanthropy. This included an analysis of our Johnson
Tracking Grants
& Johnson Health and Well-Being grants program,
All of our past grantee partners are eligible for a $1,000 and research on various regional models of philanthropy
tracking grant every two years in exchange for basic
to help refine our microphilanthropy approach.
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Global Media Ventures
Celebrating Community
and Diversity
Through the power of books, documentary photography,
films, and increasingly, online media, the Global Media
Ventures program celebrates the community and
diversity of children and young people all over the world.
Our vibrant photo-illustrated children’s books
present the many common experiences that
young people around the world share. Our
documentary photography illuminates the daily
lives of young people served by the communitybased organizations we fund. The films we support
focus on the resilience of young people and raise
awareness of the issues confronting them.
As we narrate their stories through our books,
pictures, films, and online media, we promote
the dignity of vulnerable children and youth and
advance global citizenship.
Global Fund for Children Books
At the heart of Global Media Ventures is the children’s
book program, published under the imprint Global
Fund for Children Books. We have 22 children’s
books in publication and more than 300,000 copies
in circulation. The books have been read by over 1.5
million readers and have collectively won 27 awards.
The latest addition to the collection is the children’s
board book Global Babies. It provides striking
photographs of babies in Guatemala, Thailand,
Greenland, Mali, the United States, India, South
Africa, Fiji, Peru, Afghanistan, Malawi, Spain, Iraq,
Rwanda, and Bhutan.
Additional books are in development with
Charlesbridge Publishing, a for-profit children’s book
company that has been our partner since 1997. When
we published our first book, Children from Australia to
Zimbabwe, a portion of the royalties went to fund our
grantmaking. This practice continues today.
Books for Kids
Late last fiscal year, we received a $50,000 Angel
Network Award from Oprah’s Angel Network to
distribute about 16,000 of our children’s books to
vulnerable young people around the world. The grant
was given in honor of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
This fiscal year, we shipped a total of 6,508 books
with a retail value of $62,128 to 20 grassroots groups
in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and
North America. Of these books, 5,516 were given
to kids (many of whom had never owned a book)
to take home, while 992 were reserved for libraries
and resource centers. We thank Charlesbridge
Publishing and American River Logistics, Inc., for
their assistance in this humanitarian project.
In implementing this project, we made special
efforts to provide books to children in conflict and
post-conflict areas. We distributed the books to
children through organizations in Afghanistan,
Colombia, Israel, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Timor-Leste.
These organizations included Neve Shalom/Wahat
al-Salam, a community created by Jewish and
Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, the Elie Wiesel
Global Babies generated such interest that it is already
Foundation in Israel, the Bakhita Vocational Training
being reprinted. A Booklist review says: “Attuned to its
Center for Women in Sudan, and the Lemon Aid
audience, the book’s close-ups emphasize the children’s Fund in Sierra Leone. Other distributors included
faces and create a feeling of connection between subject grantee partners like the Afghan Institute of Learning
and viewer. In an era when board books often recycle
in Afghanistan, Ba Futuru in Timor-Leste, and the
picture book stories intended for older children, here’s
Sunera Foundation in Sri Lanka.
one that is just right for babies and toddlers.”
Since 1996, our Books for Kids project has donated
nearly 61,000 books with a retail value of over
$762,000 to organizations and programs promoting
children’s literacy all over the world.
Documentary Photography
The Global Fund for Children / International
Center of Photography Fellowship uses the power of
photography to highlight the hope and opportunity
cultivated by our grantee partners in the children they
serve. It is also designed to inspire a new generation
of photographers to use photography to document
social changes all over the world. The fellowship,
created in 2004 in partnership with the New York–
based International Center of Photography, has been
awarded to three young photographers.
This year’s awardee was Malin Fezehai, a Swedish
photographer based in New York. After studying
photography in Sweden, she attended the full-time
program at the International Center of Photography.
Her work consists of long-term projects in
Europe, the Americas, and Africa. She previously
volunteered at Mother Theresa’s orphanage for
HIV-positive children in Ethiopia, and she has
completed a project about family life in Ghana.
Fezehai documented the work of four of our grantee
partners. She traveled to Peru to photograph the work
of Asociación de Defensa de la Vida, Asociación
Civil Pro Niño Íntimo (Escuelas Deporte y Vida),
and Yanapanakusun. In Washington, DC, Fezehai
documented Life Pieces to Masterpieces, one of our
2005 Sustainability Award winners. Several of the
photographs illustrating this annual report were
taken during her fellowship.
Global Fund for Children Films
This year, we invested in two films, War Child
and Journey of a Red Fridge. Since 2005, we have
invested in three films.
War Child is a feature-length documentary on the life
of Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese child soldier turned hiphop artist in the United Kingdom. Jal’s story mirrors his
homeland: tragedy and terror, mingled with hope, and
restoration. His dream of gua, or peace, for Sudan and
the rest of Africa is told in his own words and music.
The film is being produced by 18th Street Films, based
in Washington, DC. It is scheduled for release in 2008.
Journey of a Red Fridge focuses on a young Nepali
student, Hari Rai, who also works as a porter so he can
pay his school fees and cover his living expenses. He
is asked to carry a defective refrigerator from the top
of a mountain to town for repairs. During this fourday journey, we learn about his life and those of other
porters. It is being produced by the award-winning
production company Lunam Productions, based in
Serbia. It is scheduled for release in late 2007.
Blog: On the Road
One of the most popular features of our redesigned
website is our blog, On the Road. This online journal
gives readers a flavor of the journeys our staff members
undertake as they scout for innovative communitybased organizations. Readers learn about the conditions
our grantee partners labor under, find out about some
of the children our partners serve, and gain new
knowledge about our meticulous selection process.
Awards
We won three gold awards and one silver award for
excellence in communications from the 2007 Wilmer
Shields Rich Awards program of the Council on
Foundations. We won gold awards for our 2005–2006
annual report, our book catalog, and our website,
www.globalfundforchildren.org. We also garnered a
silver award for our online newsletter, @work.
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Knowledge
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Fundraising
Giving for
Growth
As The Global Fund for Children continues to grow,
and our grantmaking and other successful programs
continue to broaden, we are fortunate to have an
increasing number of friends and supporters. This
support is critical as we work to achieve our mission
and vision while expanding our programs in exciting
and innovative ways.
Thanks to our loyal supporters, we secured nearly
$7 million in revenue this year, with several major
commitments pledged over the coming years.
Individual donors contributed 45 percent of our
revenue. Corporate and foundation donors accounted
for 29 percent and 22 percent, respectively, while the
rest came from sales of our children’s books, book
royalties, matching gifts, and partnerships. We value
this healthy mix of funding, which ensures a stable
future for us and demonstrates that our model is
understood, embraced, and championed by a wide
range of supporters.
One highlight this year was our exciting and
educational leadership visit to India with several
Global Fund for Children friends. High-school
student Hayley Crown joined us as we visited some
of our grantee partners, learned about the difficulties
that vulnerable children face in the region, and
saw the positive and inspiring ways in which our
partners tackle the problems in their communities.
In the following pages, you will read her impressions
of the visit, illustrated by Will Hunckler, another
young supporter who joined the delegation.
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Tea Collection
Our partnership with Tea Collection, a manufacturer
and distributor of high-quality children’s clothing,
is a great way to convey our message and values
to children and families in the United States. Tea
Collection (www.teacollection.com) fashioned a
special line of children’s T-shirts and bodysuits,
imprinted with the phrase “for little citizens of the
world,” to benefit our work.
We are grateful for the positive response that this
partnership has already generated. This year, we
raised $31,262 from sales in this special collection.
New Global Citizens
We are excited to partner with New Global Citizens,
whose mission is to mobilize young people in the
United States to help solve the world’s biggest
problems. It works with high-school students from
all backgrounds to create and support innovative
Global Action Clubs that address complex global
problems like access to education, environmental
damage, and HIV/AIDS.
Students in these clubs support our grassroots
partners in the developing world in three important
ways:
•Educating their local community about critical issues
• Generating and giving funds
• Acting as advocates
New Global Citizens supports its Global Action
Clubs through training workshops, comprehensive
written materials, one-on-one coaching, and webbased networking for club members across the
country. We connect these clubs with selected
grantee partners and supply them with poignant
stories that highlight the successes and growth each
grantee has achieved as a result of our partnership.
We also share photos of the children and provide
the clubs with the background information needed
to better understand the history, culture, and work
of our grantee partners.
In addition, we are in regular contact with the
grantees, letting them know that a portion of their
grant is being funded by students. Knowing that
there are young people in the United States who
care enough to support and advocate for children
they have never met is incredibly moving and
empowering for our grantees.
This year, money raised by Global Action Clubs
across the United States supported Children’s Town
in Zambia, ProJOVEN in Paraguay, Thai Youth
Action Programs in Thailand, and Nishtha in India.
The clubs in Leland High School and The Harker
School, both in San Jose, California, and Bret Harte
Middle School and The College Preparatory School,
both in Oakland, California, were particularly
energetic in raising funds.
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The Mirman School
We have enjoyed a special partnership with The
Mirman School of Los Angeles since 1999. The
school’s annual readathon has raised $55,178 for
our partners over the years. In the past, proceeds
have gone to support the Train Platform Schools of
the Ruchika Social Service Organization in India.
These funds not only go toward meeting the Train
Platform Schools’ operating needs but also help to
build the organization’s endowment.
This year, Mirman School students raised $8,852
and divided the proceeds between Ruchika and
another grantee partner, Fundación Alfonso Casas
Morales para la Promoción Humana, which provides
education for displaced children in the shantytowns
of Bogotá, Colombia.
Our partnerships with Tea Collection, New Global
Citizens, and The Mirman School enable us to reach
new audiences and help us cultivate a new generation
of philanthropists. We are continually thankful for
our partners and donors and for all those who believe
in and support our vision. Together, we are creating
a world where all children grow up to be productive,
From the Field
Hope for
the Future
I describe India to people by telling them to imagine
all their senses acutely heightened. From the
moment you arrive in India, the sounds, the colors,
the smells, the flavors, even the textures, become
so vibrant. Amid all these, however, the poverty
becomes undeniably apparent, and the need for help
seems more and more pressing.
The true wonder of these shelters was not apparent
until we toured the construction site. The workers’
“homes” were no more than small spaces defined
only by scrap-metal walls and roofs. It was hard to
imagine young children and babies spending their
days alone in exposed shacks or in the midst of
heavy machinery and trucks.
I was recently in India with a Global Fund for
Children delegation to visit their grantee partners.
The sadness of visiting the poor was overcome by
meeting inspiring people doing all they could to
improve things. Being with GFC made places in
India look less like hopeless pockets of poverty and
more like places for great philanthropic opportunity.
When visiting the crèches, it was easy to see the
healthy cocoon being provided for these kids.
We walked into a two-room mud hut, with a single
light bulb in each room and a propane stove, and
were greeted by 40 curious smiling faces and three
welcoming teachers. The children spent the rest of
the afternoon clapping and singing loudly, drawing,
or playing games. The optimism and enthusiasm
of the children, along with the care and commitment
of the teachers, made the crèche seem like a
typical childcare center.
We visited eight GFC grantee partners in Mumbai
and Bengaluru: Mumbai Mobile Crèches, Aangan
Trust, SUPPORT, Dream a Dream, Agastya
International Foundation, Door Step School, Prerana,
and the Institute of Leadership and Institutional
Development (ILID). Each visit was a different
experience; the goals and values of each group were
unique, and so were the staff and the environment.
For more than 30 years, Mobile Crèches, based in
Mumbai, has been providing shelters at construction
sites to protect, educate, nurture, and stimulate
children of migrant construction workers. During
the day, children stay at these crèches, learning and
playing in a safe environment while their parents
work without having to worry about them.
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Our visit to Agastya in Bengaluru presented a
contrast to Mobile Crèches. While Mobile Crèches
removes children from hazardous environments in
India’s largest city and focuses on early childhood
education, Agastya reaches out to India’s rural youth,
introducing them to the world of science.
Agastya funds mobile labs—interactive science
classrooms on wheels—that reach the state’s
poorest districts. The mobile labs provide science
experiments for children who would otherwise never
understand such concepts as density or gravity.
We saw dozens of children sitting wide-eyed, with
dropped jaws, at the eruption of a baking-soda
volcano and the sight of a hologram.
Agastya’s main campus is in Kuppam, one of the
poorest regions in Andhra Pradesh, about three
hours from Bengaluru. Children travel there from
surrounding villages to conduct their own science
experiments and participate in science fairs. We
observed everything from gravity experiments to
the preparation of a lunar chart. It was wonderful to
see these young boys’ and girls’ natural curiosity and
ability being given a chance to flourish and grow.
My trip to India was an extraordinary learning
experience. I saw the extreme, unhealthy, and
dangerous conditions that confront so many Indian
children daily. Actually seeing and being among
these children was far more effective than seeing a
news report or a picture; being a part of it ensures
that I will never forget the people, the places, or the
small miracles that occur every day with a little help.
The trip was amazing, not only because of the selfless
and inspiring adults working in such impoverished
conditions, but because of the children themselves. It
is their hope, their smiles, their eagerness to learn, that
make this work so fulfilling. More than anything, it is
the positive attitude and enthusiasm of the children
that give me hope for the future of India.
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It is easy for us to forget that although money is
an important resource, these children need much
more. Money buys materials and infrastructure, but
children also require care and nurturing; they require
time and patience for them to heal and grow.
I highly encourage everyone, especially young
people, to go out into the field to witness GFC’s
grantee organizations and the children they help.
I shared the trip with a friend, Will Hunckler,
whose photographs illustrate this section. One of
the most important things we took back was the
knowledge that it is our generation that will inherit
the problems and successes of countries like India.
Essay by Hayley Crown, grade 10 student. Photos by Will Hunckler,
grade 11 student. They visited our grantee partners in India this
year as part of a GFC delegation.
Generosity
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the dignity of young people worldwide.
We are thankful to all our donors and
supporters for their contributions during
the 2006–2007 fiscal year.
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Our Donors
2006–2007
Individuals
Anonymous (40)
Patricia L. Abrams
Nadia Adhami
Maya Ajmera and David Hollander Jr.
Roopa and Ramesh Ajmera
Mohammad Alfalah
Hayfaa Alsaqqaf
Adlai J. Amor
Antonella Antonini and Alan Stein
Barbara and William Ascher
Jeannette Austin and Richard Lazarus
Lena Badalyan and Melis Paronyan
Jocelyn Balaban-Lutzky and
David Lutzky
Stephanie Baldonado
Marion Ballard
Barbra Witzer Banner and
Jonathan Banner
Thomas C. Barry
Allison Bates
Shakita Bazemore
Theodore Beaudry
Esther Benjamin
Jay Benson
Marianne Bentley
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Linda and Stephen Bergman
Pamela and Alan Bergman
Dara and Gregg Bernstein Ttee
Marisa Arango Berry
Tracie and Steve Berson
Irina and Oleg Bess
Ananya Bhattacharya-Price and
Kevin Price
Jewelle and Nathaniel Bickford
Diane and Richard Birnholz
Rachel Blagg
Carolien Blansjaar
Tiffany Blanton
Ryan, Aidan, and Hayley Boddington
Sreechand Boppudi
Nandi Bowe and Robin Melhuish
Roberta Bowman and
Steven A. Denning
Rob Bralower
Gretchen Brandenburg
Darcy and Brady Brewer
Devon and Peter Briger
Kathryn Briger
Camille and Craig Broderick
Richard Bronks
Evelyn Brooks
Marisa Noel Brown
Martha and Henry Bryans
Peter Budd
Ellen Bull
Cheryl Burgess
Michael Burkes
Mary and Brad Burnham
Amy and Charles Carter
Jessica H. Catto and Henry E. Catto Jr.
Katherine Alice Chang and
Thomas Einstein
Yuchiao Chang
Randy Chauss
Alisa and Jonathan Chodos
Nina Chong
Mona and Amit Chopra
The H. Travis Christ Family
Suzie Sujin Chung
Rebecca Clark
Carol Cleveland
Ann Corbett and Simon Billenness
Julia Candace Corliss
Victoria Cortessis
Blake and Michael Daffey
Darsha Davidoff and
Donald Drumright
Sebastian and Benjamin Davis
Rita Desai
Jodi Ecker Detjen and Michael Detjen
Nicholas Deutsch
Liane DeYoung
Cheryl and James Dodwell
Bonita Dorland
Constance and Arthur Driver
Karen and Brian Drygas
Suzanne Duryea and Tim Waidmann
Sarah C. Epstein and Joe Pat Junkin
Sean Erickson
Susan and Joubin Eshaghian
Suzanne Farver
Drs. Kate and Henry Faulkner
Evelina Feinberg
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Shelly and Jonathan Flicker
Charlotte and Bill Ford
Albert G. French
Mary Jo Freshley
Nella and Paul Fulton
Joseph I. Gaines
Debby and John Galenski
Dorothy Garcia and Andrew Barnes
Meg Garlinghouse
Lisa and Bruce Gellman
Paola Gianturco
Eleanor Hewlett Gimon
Juliette Gimon
Mattis Goldman
Julie Clayton Goldsmith and
Bruce Goldsmith
Anita Goldstein and Eric Mizrahi
Saraswathi Devi Gowda and
C. K. Hiranya
Leonna Graf
Bruno Grandsard
Kate Greene
Gary Groves
Susan Gutchess
Josette Haddad and Roderick Ventura
Jonathan Haile
Susan Carter Harrington and
Tom Harrington
Susan K. Harris and Charles T. Harris III
Yifat Hassid
Christie and John Hastings
Helene Silverstone Held and
David Held
Catherine K. Hendrix
Barbara Henley
John Hepburn
Esther Hewlett
Mary Hewlett
Sally M. Hewlett and
Dr. William Hewlett
Mary Ellen Hogan and Robert S. Lavey
Shirley Hollander
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Cedric Houston
Samuel Huber
Jackie, Stewart, Wyatt, and
Olivia Hudson
Keith Huizinga
Erin Hustings
Elaine Huston
Farieda and Behram Irani
Sarah Ireland
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Irwin III
Maxine Isaacs
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Selecting Our
Grantee Partners
* The spark of determination keeps our grantee partners committed to
uplifting the lives of vulnerable young people wherever they may be.
We select our grantee partners based on their demonstrated potential
to produce sustainable improvement in the lives of vulnerable children
and youth and to serve as a resource or model for other organizations.
Eligibility Criteria
Prospective grantee partners must meet
the following eligibility criteria in order
to be considered for support:
Appropriate size and stage
of development
With rare exceptions, prospective
grantee partners’ annual budgets should
not exceed $200,000. In most cases, new
grantee partners have budgets in the
$25,000 to $75,000 range. Our aim is
to identify organizations at a relatively
early stage in their development.
Direct involvement with
children and youth
Prospective grantee partners must work
directly with children and youth. We do
not support groups engaged exclusively
in advocacy or research. (We do, however,
support organizations that perform both
advocacy and direct service.)
Capable management
Prospective grantee partners must have
systems and processes for ensuring
responsible management of funds. At
a minimum, organizations must have
basic accounting and reporting systems
as well as phone and email access.
Local leadership
Prospective grantee partners must be
led by individuals who live and work
in the community. We give priority to
organizations whose leaders were born
and raised in the community. We do
not fund the local offices or affiliates of
national or international organizations.
Legal status
Prospective grantee partners must
be registered with the local or
national government as not-for-profit
organizations. If the political context
makes legal registration unfeasible,
organizations must demonstrate
nonprofit equivalency.
We do not provide start-up funding for
the creation of new organizations.
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All black-and-white photographs were taken by Malin Fezehai during her 2006-2007 GFC/ICP Fellowship trip to Peru and Washington, DC.
Selection Guidelines
Beyond the basic eligibility criteria,
we use the following selection
guidelines to identify organizations
that are truly exceptional:
A focus on the most vulnerable
We give priority to organizations that
reach the most vulnerable children
and youth, who are economically and
socially outside the reach of mainstream
services and support. These may include
working children, children who live on
the streets, children affected by HIV
and AIDS, children involved in armed
conflict, children of migrants and
displaced populations, children of sex
workers, children with disabilities, hardto-reach rural populations, and other
vulnerable or marginalized groups.
Community involvement
We give priority to organizations that are
rooted in their communities and operate
with community input, involvement, and
investment, embracing the community as
an integral part of their success.
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Effectiveness
can demonstrate sustained, meaningful
improvement in the lives of the children
and youth they serve.
Empowerment
engage children and youth as active
participants in their own growth and
development, rather than as passive
recipients of services.
Innovation and creativity
We give priority to organizations
that tackle old problems in new ways,
demonstrating innovation and creativity in
their program strategies and approaches.
Strong leadership
have committed, respected, and dynamic
leadership with a vision for change.
Adaptability
generate models, methodologies, and
practices that can be adapted and
applied to similar issues and challenges
in other communities.
Potential for sustainability
have a strategy for ensuring the long-term
sustainability of their programs through
donor diversification, mobilization
of government funding, community
investment, income-generating
activities, and other creative measures.
Reputation
We give priority to organizations
that are recognized and trusted in
their communities.
The Global Fund for Children does
not accept unsolicited proposals.
Those interesting in applying may
inquire online at our website:
www.globalfundforchildren.org.
Grantee Partners
Learning
* We believe that every child everywhere deserves access to a
quality education. In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded grants
valued at $846,500 to 74 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Achlal (Caring Kindness)
Child Development Center
$11,000/12,837,000 Mongolia tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director Davaanyam Azzayaa
[email protected]
Achlal provides community-based support
for poor and disabled children and their
families living in Bayankhoshuu, one of
the poorest slums of Ulaanbaatar. Our
grant supports Achlal’s school for dropout
children, which provides four grades of
education to students aged 9 to 20 who
were never enrolled in school or were
forced to drop out due to disability, illness,
or family poverty.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2004
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Agastya International Foundation
$14,000/642,180 India rupees
Chittoor district, India
Ramji Raghavan
[email protected]
www.agastya.org
Anandan (Happiness)
$6,000/255,600 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Indrani Ghosh
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/anandan_kolkata
Director
Director
Agastya makes education creative,
practical, and responsive to students’ needs
through mobile science labs, science fairs,
teacher training, and communications
and information technology programs.
Our grant supports the operation of
one mobile lab, which carries over 150
low-cost science experiments that are
specially designed by experts and scientists
to provide children and teachers with
opportunities to learn in an interactive
hands-on environment.
Anandan provides functional, remedial,
and holistic education to slum-dwelling
children and directs their individual
talents and dispositions toward suitable
earning opportunities. Our grant
supports the education of adolescent
girls, strengthening their critical-thinking
skills and helping them identify and
reach their full potential.
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA)
$18,000/23,184,000 Tanzania shillings
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Director Rhoi Wangila
[email protected]
www.arkafrica.org
AFA is dedicated to enhancing the
well-being of East African children
and families whose lives have been
devastated by war, poverty, and HIV/
AIDS. Our grant supports the One
Stop Center, which provides cost-free
secondary schooling to children who
have been forced to drop out of
school because of poverty.
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Asanblé Vwazen Jakè (AVJ)
( Jakè Neighborhood Association)
$7,000/266,420 Haiti gourdes
Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo
(Pro-Child Civil Association)
$17,000/55,250 Peru nuevos soles
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Reagan Lolo
[email protected]
Director
Director
AVJ is a grassroots community
association that provides formal
education and promotes civic
participation among children and youth
in the very poor Jakè neighborhood of
Port-au-Prince. Our grant supports
AVJ’s primary school, which began in
January 2006 and is already serving over
100 children who previously were not
attending school for lack of money to
cover tuition and other costs.
Lima, Peru
José Luis Quiroga Becerra
[email protected]
www.acpni.org
Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo,
popularly known as Escuelas Deporte y
Vida (Sports and Life Schools), provides
young people living in the slum of Villa
El Salvador with the opportunity to play
soccer, volleyball, and other sports in
order to promote their participation in
the organization’s formal education and
life skills programs. Our grant supports
the Deporte y Vida school located in the
neighborhood of Jardines de Pachamac.
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida
(ADEVI)
(Association for the Defense of Life)
Huachipa, Peru
Director Ezequiel Robles Hurtado
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/adeviperu
ADEVI works to eradicate child labor
in the brick-making kilns of Huachipa
by providing nonformal schooling,
preventive health education, skills
training, microenterprise development,
and Andean cultural awareness
programs. Our grant supports ADEVI’s
community school program, which
provides basic education to child
laborers with the eventual aim of
reintegrating them into public schools.
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Asociación de Promotores de Educación
Inicial Bilingüe Maya-Ixil (APEDIBIMI)
(Maya-Ixil Association of Promoters of
Bilingual Early Education)
$14,000/107,100 Guatemala quetzales
Nebaj, Guatemala
Benito Terraza Cedillo
[email protected]
Director
APEDIBIMI provides bilingual early
childhood education in the Ixil and
Spanish languages to more than 1,300
indigenous Ixil Maya children in 14
remote villages. Our grant provides
general support for the early childhood
education centers, which prepare
children for entrance into the formal
school system by developing their social
and motor skills, musical and artistic
expression, language and communication
ability, and pre-math and reasoning skills.
Asociación Mujer y Comunidad
(Women and Community Association)
$13,500/238,410 Nicaragua córdobas
San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua
Zoraida Soza
[email protected]
Director
Mujer y Comunidad promotes the
health, education, and safety of women
and girls in rural Nicaragua and is the
only organization in San Francisco Libre
providing scholarships for children
to attend formal schools. Our grant
supports primary- and secondary-school
scholarships for girls, as well as the
purchase of schoolbooks and supplies
for scholarship students.
Asociación para los Derechos de la
Niñez “Monseñor Oscar Romero”
(Monsignor Oscar Romero Association
for Children’s Rights)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Director Elisa Esperanza
Marroquín Aroche
[email protected]
Asociación Promoción y Desarrollo
de la Mujer Nicaragüense Acahualt
(Acahualt Association for the
Promotion and Development of
Nicaraguan Women)
Managua, Nicaragua
Norma Villalta
[email protected]
Director
Los Romeritos, as this organization
is popularly called, works with the
children of sex workers, street vendors,
and underemployed single mothers to
prevent second-generation prostitution
by providing basic academic and health
education, life skills training, arts
and recreation programs, and other
supportive services. Our grant supports
the Educational Opportunities Program,
which supplements the formal education
of these children, aids their social
integration, and serves as a preventive
measure to keep them in school.
Acahualt uses education and community
capacity building to prevent children
of impoverished families living in the
neighborhood of Acahualinca from
having to scavenge in the nearby
dump for items to sell or eat. Our
grant supports Acahualt’s community
preschool, which provides an educational
foundation for vulnerable children and
enhances their prospects for primaryschool enrollment and academic success.
Asociación Poder Joven
(Youth Power Association)
$12,000/28,824,000 Colombia pesos
Bacau, Romania
Director Maria Gheorghiu
[email protected]
www.ovid.ro
Medellín, Colombia
Clared Patricia Jaramillo Duque
[email protected]
www.poderjoven.org
Director
Poder Joven offers programs that
promote literacy, life skills, critical
thinking, and personal responsibility, with
the aim of preventing children living in
the impoverished, violent, and crimeridden neighborhood of Guayaquil from
abandoning their homes for the streets.
Our grant supports the Seeds of the
Future project, which provides schoolgoing children with courses on tolerance,
avoiding drug use, and sexuality, as well
as intensive academic support.
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Asociatia Ovidiu Rom
$19,000/47,090 Romania new lei
Ovidiu Rom provides work for
impoverished Roma women and access
to education for their children and works
closely with the Romanian government
to provide critical social services. Our
grant supports the expansion of the
Every Child in School Campaign, which
is part of Ovidiu Rom’s transition from
a service provider to a policy-driven
organization focused on ensuring every
child’s fundamental right to education.
Association for Community
Development Services (ACDS)
$17,000/779,790 India rupees
Kanchipuram, India
D. Devanbu
[email protected]
www.acds.india.org
Director
ACDS seeks to end child labor in the
stone quarries of the Kanchipuram
district and to give the children of
quarry workers access to free, highquality education and healthcare. Our
grant supports the comprehensive
education program, which includes
quarry-based resource centers,
preschools and daycare centers, mobile
classrooms for working children, and
bridge schools to reintegrate dropout
children into formal schools.
Backward Society Education (BASE)
$10,000/736,500 Nepal rupees
Kailali district, Nepal
Deep Lal Chaudhary
[email protected]
www.basenepal.org.np
Director
BASE provides education, healthcare,
income generation assistance, legal rights
awareness, and other services to former
bonded laborers in Nepal, particularly to
members of the ethnic Tharu community
and to women. Our grant supports the
expansion of educational and child labor
eradication programs to working children
in the isolated Kailali district.
Benishyaka Association
$13,000/7,387,250 Rwanda francs
Kigali, Rwanda
Director Betty Gahima
[email protected]
www.benishyaka.org.rw
Benishyaka promotes the development
and empowerment of widows, orphans,
and vulnerable families affected by
Rwanda’s civil war, the 1994 genocide,
and the ongoing AIDS epidemic. Our
grant provides academic scholarships
that cover school fees, uniforms, and
school materials for orphaned and
vulnerable children.
Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas
(Th’uruchapitas Library)
$6,000/47,940 Bolivia bolivianos
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Gaby Vallejo
[email protected]
Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para
el Desarrollo Local (CEADEL)
(Center for Study and Support
for Local Development)
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
José Gabriel Zelada Ortiz
[email protected]
Director
CEADEL works to eliminate the
use of child laborers and to improve
conditions for young people who work
in Guatemala’s agribusiness industry.
Our grant supports the Primary and
Secondary School Scholarship Program,
which pays for school fees, uniforms, and
school supplies for girls who are working
in or at risk of entering the agribusiness
industry and provides workshops on
labor rights, reproductive health, and
gender issues for participants, their
parents, and the community.
Director
Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas provides a safe,
supportive, educational space for the most
disadvantaged children in Bolivian society,
namely street children, child laborers,
and children living in prison with their
incarcerated parents. Our grant supports
the Not to Be Alone program, which
provides academic and psychosocial
support to 70 children of prisoners.
Centro Cultural Batahola Norte
(CCBN)
(Cultural Center of Batahola Norte)
Managua, Nicaragua
Jennifer F. Marshall
[email protected]
www.friendsofbatahola.org
Director
CCBN offers 20 courses in basic
education and domestic and technical
skills to more than 500 women and
children annually. Our grant supports 60
CCBN student scholarships as well as a
library project, which includes tutoring,
study circles, and health workshops for
over 200 students.
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Challenging Heights
$6,000/55,470,000 Ghana cedis
Sankor, Ghana
James Kofi Annan
[email protected]
Director
Challenging Heights addresses the
needs and aspirations of children and
youth in Sankor and Winneba through
educational support, awareness-raising
activities on child labor and trafficking,
and policy advocacy. Our grant supports
the education program, which provides
school sponsorships, after-school
programs, and mentoring for children
in primary and secondary school.
Children in the Wilderness (CITW)
$12,000/16,708,080 Malawi kwacha
Chintan Environmental Research
and Action Group
Delhi, India
Bharati Chaturvedi
[email protected]
www.chintan-india.org
Director
Chintan promotes social and
environmental justice for waste-picking
communities, particularly for women
and children, by helping them gain
access to better education and livelihood
opportunities. Our grant supports the
flexible education program, which
provides waste-picking children with
the necessary assets and opportunities
to exit this hazardous sector.
Chiricli (Bird) International Roma
Women Charitable Fund
$11,000/55,330 Ukraine hryvnia
Kiev, Ukraine
Yuliya Kondur
[email protected]
Director
Chiricli provides assistance to Ukraine’s
vulnerable Roma population, with an
emphasis on increasing educational
opportunities and school attendance
among Roma children and youth.
Our grant supports Chiricli’s National
Network of Roma Education, which
works with young people, parents, and
teachers, and the organization’s Roma
Education Centers, which prepare
preschool-age children for primary school.
Community Development Center
(CDC)
$15,000/3,177,900 Sudan dinars
Khartoum, Sudan
Michael James Wanh
[email protected]
Director
Lilongwe, Malawi
Gladys Msonda
[email protected]
Director
Through a unique partnership with a
private safari company, CITW offers
life skills and alternative educational
opportunities through experiential
learning camps held at safari sites during
the commercial off-season. Our grant
supports the education program, which
offers educational opportunities to
orphaned and vulnerable children.
CDC’s Abu-Adam Remedial Education
Project conducts a one-year academic term
reaching more than 150 children, including
school dropouts, students of nontraditional
age, children excluded from governmentrun schooling because of ethnicity or
religion, and other vulnerable children.
Our grant is for general support of the
Abu-Adam Remedial Education Project.
Door Step School
$13,000/553,800 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director Bina Sheth Lashkari
[email protected]
www.doorstepschool.org
Door Step School serves working, slumdwelling, and street children through
community preschools, classes for both
school-going and out-of-school children,
and mobile libraries and literacy classes.
Our grant supports five communitybased, nonformal children’s education
classes that operate on a flexible schedule.
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Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee
(DMSC)
Kolkata, India
Bharati Dey
[email protected]
www.durbar.org
Director
DMSC, a forum of approximately
65,000 sex workers and their children,
works in red-light districts throughout
Kolkata to promote and protect the
civil and human rights of its members.
Our grant supports the education of sex
workers’ children, enabling them to break
the cycle of poverty and exploitation.
Early Intervention Institute for
Children with Developmental
Delays and Disabilities (EII)
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Anna Kukuruza
[email protected]
Director
EII’s work focuses on preventing the
institutionalization of infants and young
children who have developmental delays
and disabilities and integrating them into
their families, schools, and communities
through therapeutic and educational
services. Our grant supports the early
intervention program, which provides
medical and psychosocial support to
these children and their families.
Ethiopian Books for Children and
Educational Foundation (EBCEF)
$14,000/122,360 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director Yohannes Gebregeorgis
[email protected]
www.ethiopiareads.org
EBCEF works to improve the reading
skills of Ethiopia’s undereducated
children by establishing libraries in lowincome neighborhoods, donating highquality children’s books to community
organizations, coordinating publicawareness campaigns surrounding the
importance of reading, and maintaining
a mobile tent library. Our grant supports
EBCEF’s free children’s library and
reading center, which offers 15,000
children’s and young-adult books in the
English, Amharic, Tigrinya, and Oromifa
languages and organizes activities such as
traditional storytelling and art classes.
Free Minds Book Club and
Writing Workshop
$10,000
Director Kelli Taylor
[email protected]
www.freemindsbookclub.org
Free Minds introduces young
male inmates at the DC Jail to the
transformative power of books and
creative writing by mentoring them
and connecting them to support services
throughout their incarceration and
after their reentry into the community.
Our grant supports the education and
reentry programs, which inspire youth
to see their potential and to achieve
new educational and career goals.
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Friends for Street Children (FFSC)
$13,000/208,390,000 Vietnam dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Marie Le Thi Thao
[email protected]
www.olivierdumonde.com
Director
FFSC’s seven development centers
provide street children with nonformal
education, vocational training, shelter, and
healthcare, as well as additional training
in life skills, child rights awareness,
and HIV/AIDS. Our grant supports
the nonformal education program for
primary-school students and scholarships
for secondary-school students at the Binh
Trieu Development Center.
Previous funding: $54,500 since 2000,
inclusive of gifts in honor of Robert D.
Stillman and Greg Fields
Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales
para la Promoción Humana
(Alfonso Casas Morales Foundation
for Human Advancement)
$6,000/14,412,000 Colombia pesos
Bogotá, Colombia
Pablo Henao Mejía
[email protected]
www.promocionhumana.org
Director
Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para
la Promoción Humana helps children in
the Usaquén neighborhood of Bogotá to
succeed in school through an accelerated
learning program for primary-school
children behind grade level, a tutoring
program for primary-school children
at risk of failing or dropping out, a
free cafeteria, a computer center, and a
community library. Our grant supports
the accelerated learning program and
the after-school tutoring program.
Fundación Junto con los Niños
( JUCONI)
(Together with Children Foundation)
$12,000
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Sylvia Reyes
[email protected]
www.juconi.org.ec
Director
JUCONI serves children who work
unsupervised on the city streets from
as young as 4 years old and often for
very long hours. Our grant supports the
education program, which reintegrates
child laborers into formal schools by
helping them reduce their daily working
time, providing them with a basic
education and analytical thinking skills,
and assisting teachers in creating the
school conditions necessary to maintain
the enrollment of working children.
Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan
(GMSS)
(Sikar Girls Education Initiative)
$13,000/553,800 India rupees
Sikar, India
Chain Singh Arya
[email protected]
Director
GMSS provides quality education for girls
in rural Rajasthan who would otherwise
be unable to attend school. Our grant
supports the expansion of GMSS’s science
education program for girls, empowering
them to find employment as professors,
teachers, scientists, and researchers.
Halley Movement
$14,000/458,780 Mauritius rupees
Batimarais, Mauritius
Director Mahendranath Busgopaul
[email protected]
www.halleymovement.org
Halley Movement offers a variety of
educational, counseling, and supportive
services to help the children of Mauritius
stay in or return to the formal school
system and keep pace with the demands
of a rapidly industrializing society. Our
grant supports the Basic Education
to Adolescents program, which offers
youth who have failed the primaryschool graduation exam a career-focused
nonformal education curriculum that
includes interpersonal communications,
applied mathematics, resource
management, and vocational training.
Hope for Children Organization
(HFC)
Yewoinshet Masresha
[email protected]
Director
HFC provides psychosocial support,
livelihood promotion, community resource
mobilization, health education, life skills
training, school fees, and material support
to orphans and other vulnerable children
in Addis Ababa. Our grant supports
the kindergarten and early childhood
development center, which provides
innovative early childhood education to
orphaned and vulnerable children.
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Institute of Leadership and Institutional
Development (ILID)
Bengaluru, India
Director Dr. G. K. Jayaram
[email protected]
www.ilid.org
ILID’s Project Pygmalion uses
computer-aided instruction, role-playing,
and interactive games to teach English
and computer technology to children
and youth from poor communities in
Bengaluru, as a means of increasing their
readiness for the global economy. Our
grant supports the expansion of this
program to eight additional schools in
the poor areas of Karnataka.
Instituto para la Superación
de la Miseria Urbana (ISMU)
(Institute for Overcoming
Urban Poverty)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
María Elvira Sánchez Toscano
[email protected]
Director
ISMU is a coalition of community-based
organizations united to address dismal
conditions in 22 of Guatemala City’s
worst slums. Our grant supports eight
ISMU Learning Corners, which provide
poor working families with communitybased childcare run by community
members trained to promote physical
and mental stimulation, socialization, and
psychomotor skills in children aged 1 to 7.
Jifunze (Learning) Project
Kibaya, Tanzania
J. Carrie Oelberger
[email protected]
www.jifunze.org
Director
The Jifunze Project works with
community members in the impoverished
and isolated Kiteto district to build a
sustainable educational system for the
community’s children. Our grant provides
support for the Community Education
Resource Center, which creates
sustainable educational opportunities
through programs for teachers, parents,
children, and youth in Kibaya.
Kamitei Foundation
Esilalei, Kilimatembo, and Gongali
communities, Tanzania
Director Jeroen Harderwijk
[email protected]
www.kamitei.org
The Kamitei Foundation’s Community
Education Improvement Program works
closely with small rural communities
in western Tanzania to improve
education by investing in facilities
and teaching materials at the primary
level and by providing scholarships for
selected students to pursue postprimary
vocational education. Our grant is for
general support of this program.
Kampuchean Action for Primary
Education (KAPE)
$16,000/63,789,600 Cambodia riel
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Director Sao Vanna
[email protected]
www.kapekh.org
KAPE works with 190 schools to
provide 90,000 children with highquality basic education. Our grant
funds scholarships and tutoring costs
for 150 girls participating in the Lower
Secondary School Scholarship Program,
as well as capacity building for Local
Scholarship Management Committees.
Kamulu Rehabilitation Centre (KRC)
$11,000/820,800 Kenya shillings
Kamulu, Kenya
Richard K. Kariuki
[email protected]
Director
KRC operates a combined day and
boarding primary school that provides
education, nutritious meals, and training
in sustainable agricultural practices
to HIV-affected, orphaned, and other
vulnerable children living in the
underdeveloped Machakos district.
Our grant supports the Kamulu
Education Centre, where 150 boys
and girls live and study.
Kham Kampo Association (KKA)
$6,000/46,380 China yuan
Sichuan Province, China
Director Tobkey
[email protected]
www.zhaxika.com/kka
Working in one of the poorest regions
of the country, KKA operates programs
in education, livelihood development,
healthcare, environmental conservation,
and cultural preservation. Our grant
supports the school library project,
which works with community members
to build primary-school libraries that
create greater educational opportunities
for children in rural Tibetan villages.
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Kids in Need of Direction (KIND)
$11,000/68,860 Trinidad and Tobago
dollars
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Karina Jardine-Scott
[email protected]
www.kindkids.net
Director
KIND provides assistance to
disadvantaged children and youth
throughout Trinidad and Tobago in
the areas of literacy, nutrition,
healthcare, computer technology,
vocational training, counseling, art,
drama, sports, and family reintegration.
Our grant supports the integrated
literacy program, which reintegrates
children who have dropped out of school
back into the public school system.
Lapeng (Home) Child and
Family Resource Service
$6,000/42,960 South Africa rand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Mathibedi Nthite
[email protected]
Director
Lapeng serves one of the most violent
neighborhoods in Johannesburg by
running a model preschool, providing
capacity-building support for community
crèches, and holding weekly drop-in arts
workshops for children and youth in the
community. Our grant provides general
support for Lapeng’s educational activities.
Light for All (LiFA)
Lhomond, Haiti
Gerry Delaquis
[email protected]
Director
Kindle
$7,000/966,910 Malawi kwachas
Salima district, Malawi
Director Andrew Barr
[email protected]
www.kindleorphanoutreach.org
Kindle offers comprehensive
educational, counseling, healthcare, and
spiritual support services to empower
orphaned and vulnerable children in
the Salima district. Our grant supports
the expansion of the secondary-school
education program to include primary
education and skills training.
Kitemu Integrated School
$16,000/29,520,000 Uganda shillings
Kampala, Uganda
Sserwanga M. Stephen
[email protected]
Director
Kitemu Integrated School is dedicated
to providing quality education
and enhanced life opportunities to
children with special needs, orphans,
and low-income students living in
the shantytowns on the outskirts of
Kampala. Our grant supports programs
targeting children with disabilities.
LiFA helps rural Haitian communities
to strengthen their schools through a
school sponsorship program that covers
basic costs, provides administrative and
financial training for school officials,
educates parents on the importance of
education, and helps the community to
plan for long-term sustainability. Our
grant provides support for the Toussaint
Louverture Education Center in the
village of Lhomond.
Mahita (Regeneration)
Hyderabad, India
Ramesh Sekhar Reddy
[email protected]
www.mahita.org
Director
Focusing on vulnerable children in the
slums, and working in particular with
girls and Muslim communities, Mahita
creates opportunities through education,
income generation programs, and
skills training. Our grant supports the
adolescent girls’ program, which provides
the girls with nonformal education,
skills training, and group discussions in
community learning centers.
Monduli Pastoralist Development
Initiative
Monduli, Tanzania
Director Erasto Ole Sanare
[email protected]
Monduli helps Maasai pastoralist
communities maintain their traditional
beliefs and systems while also ensuring
that their children receive a modern
education. Our grant supports the
Early Childhood Development (ECD)
program, which helps Maasai villages
establish culturally appropriate ECD
centers and supports teachers in
existing centers.
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Movimiento de Mujeres
Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA)
(Movement of Dominican-Haitian
Women)
$7,000/226,450 Dominican Republic
pesos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Sonia Pierre
[email protected]
www.kiskeya-alternative.org/mudha
Director
MUDHA promotes the advancement of
Dominicans of Haitian descent through
programs on education, health, human
rights, gender, domestic violence, and
identity. Our grant supports MUDHA’s
community school in Palmarejo, which
currently serves 240 children who would
otherwise have no access to education.
Mumbai Mobile Crèches
Mumbai, India
Devika Mahadevan
[email protected]
www.mobilecreches.org
Director
To ensure that the children of migrant
construction workers are protected
from the dangers of construction
sites, Mumbai Mobile Crèches sets up
mobile daycare centers at construction
sites, providing a supervised place for
children to learn and play while their
parents work. Our grant supports the
mobile daycare centers, which offer
an integrated education program and
health and nutrition programs to meet
the needs of these children.
Nehemiah AIDS Relief Project
$10,000/2,494,600 Zimbabwe dollars
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Director David Green
[email protected]
Network of Entrepreneurship and
Economic Development (NEED)
$12,000/511,200 India rupees
Lucknow, India
Anil K. Singh
[email protected]
www.indianeed.org
Our Children
$11,000/32,230,000 Sierra Leone
leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Nasserie Carew
[email protected]
www.ourchildreninc.com
Director
Director
Nepal Bhotia Education Center
(NBEC)
$6,000/407,940 Nepal rupees
NEED facilitates the development
of grassroots self-help groups that
respond to the needs of undereducated
women in villages throughout Uttar
Pradesh. Our grant supports four
nonformal education centers, which
provide children with basic education
and training on children’s rights, gender
equality, personal health, hygiene, and
nutrition, in the Sitapur district.
Our Children provides an accelerated
learning program and academic tutoring
for children living in displacement camps
in and around Freetown. Our grant
supports the Windows on the World
Computer and Learning Center, which
offers free tutoring and accelerated
learning activities to children at two
community primary schools in Freetown.
Sankhuwasabha district, Nepal
Chhongduk Bhotia
[email protected]
New Horizon Ministries (NHM)
$12,000/49,800,000 Zambia kwacha
Nehemiah is a faith-based ngo that
facilitates the church and community
response to HIV/AIDS, providing a
variety of educational, material, and social
support services to 200 child beneficiaries
annually. Our grant supports Nehemiah’s
work with children of sex workers.
Director
NBEC runs an integrated education
program to increase the quality and
accessibility of formal schooling
for disadvantaged children in the
Sankhuwasabha district. Our grant
supports the Residential Schooling
Program, which provides basic education
and teacher training to girls who then
return to teach in their own communities.
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Lusaka, Zambia
Director Juliet Chilengi
[email protected]
www.nho.kabissa.org
NHM works with girls who are
orphaned, impoverished, or living with
HIV/AIDS to promote their positive
involvement in the community and in
activities that reduce their vulnerability
to sexual and other forms of exploitation.
Our grant funds educational support
for primary, secondary, and community
school students who are orphaned or do
not receive assistance from their families.
Prayas (Endeavor)
$17,000/779,790 India rupees
Jaipur, India
Jatinder Arora
[email protected]
www.prayasjaipur.org
Director
Prayas pioneered and operates one of
the first integrated nonformal schools in
India for special-needs, low-income, and
neglected children. Our grant provides
general support for the integrated
schools, which, through education and
skills training, enable mentally and
physically disabled children to become
contributing members of society.
Prerana (Inspiration)
$19,000/871,530 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director Priti Patkar
[email protected]
Prerana offers a range of educational
activities, anti-trafficking initiatives, and
support programs in order to protect
the human rights of sexually exploited
women and their children. Our grant
supports educational services for the
children of sex workers, including a
night-care center that provides them
with basic education, nourishment,
recreation, regular medical checkups,
counseling, and a safe place to sleep.
Puririsun (Let’s Journey Together)
La Paz, Bolivia
Director Juan José Obando
[email protected]
Initially founded in Cusco, Peru,
and recently established as a sister
organization in Bolivia, Puririsun
provides educational support, enterprise
training, health education, nutrition, and
a variety of life skills workshops to poor
children and youth living in La Paz.
Our grant supports the early childhood
development program, which focuses
on stimulating children’s physical,
intellectual, and emotional development.
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Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha
(Village Self-Reliance)
$18,000/1,196,100 Bangladesh taka
Pabna district, Bangladesh
A. H. M. Rezwan
[email protected]
www.shidhulai.org
Skolta’el Yu’un Jlumaltic (SYJAC)
(Service to Our People)
$8,000/88,160 Mexico pesos
San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico
Sabás Cruz García
[email protected]
www.syjac.org.mx
Director
Director
Shidhulai is focused on the
improvement of isolated rural
communities in Bangladesh, with an
emphasis on bringing environmental
training, human rights awareness, and
basic education to children, especially
girls, who would otherwise be unable
to attend school. Our grant supports
the mobile boat school program, which
uses solar-powered boats to provide
basic academics, Internet access, health
awareness, human and gender rights
training, and library services to children
living in remote villages.
SYJAC works to improve living
conditions and opportunities in the
indigenous slums around San Cristóbal
through programs in early childhood
development, basic education, health,
nutrition, housing, sanitation, vocational
training, and values. Our grant
supports the Ch’umei’il Mother-Child
Educational Center, which provides early
childhood education for children from
birth to age 6 as well as parenting and
life skills workshops for their mothers.
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT)
$8,000/819,200 Sri Lanka rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nita Gunesekera
[email protected]
www.shilpa.org
Director
SCT provides shelter and education
to children made destitute by war and
terrorism. Our grant supports SCT’s
free preschool, which engages children
in academic and structured activities at
a young age, making the transition to
formal primary school easier for them
and their parents.
Snowland Service Group (SSG)
$8,000/61,840 China yuan
Yushu County, Qinghai, China
Rinchen Dawa
[email protected]
www.snowlandsgroup.org
Director
SSG empowers Tibetan communities
through sustainable community
development projects in education,
renewable energy, and basic
infrastructure. Our grant provides
scholarship support for junior and
senior high school students to enable
them to continue their education.
Sociedad Dominico-Haitiana de Apoyo
Integral para el Desarrollo y la Salud
(SODHAIDESA)
(Dominican-Haitian Society of
Comprehensive Assistance for
Health and Development)
$11,000/363,550 Dominican
Republic pesos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Director Frantz Compere
[email protected]
SODHAIDESA works to improve
the living conditions for immigrant
Haitians and their descendants living in
the Dominican Republic by focusing on
the community’s health and educational
needs, especially those of children. Our
grant supports the Right to a Name and
Nationality program, which campaigns
for the legal recognition of the
Dominican nationality of Dominicanborn Haitian children, recognition that
will allow these children to attend school.
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Society Biliki (Path Society)
$16,000/27,200 Georgia lari
Gori, Georgia
Mari Mgebrishvili
[email protected]
Director
Biliki assists underprivileged, specialneeds, and internally displaced children
from the conflict zones of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia. Our grant supports the
Day Center, which offers educational
and creative programs, psychological
services, a mothers-and-children club,
and referrals to other community social
services for children who are living
on the streets or who are internally
displaced or mentally challenged.
Society for Education and Action
(SEA)
$11,000/468,600 India rupees
Mamallapuram, India
S. Desingu
[email protected]
Director
SEA promotes school enrollment
and retention for children in the
impoverished fishing communities
south of Chennai, preventing their
initial or continued work on fishing
boats or docks. Our grant supports
SEA’s motivation and recreation centers,
which reduce child labor practices in the
fishing communities, ease the transition
to school for dropouts, and help schoolgoing children to succeed in school.
Tanadgoma (Assistance) Library
and Cultural Center for People
with Disabilities
Tbilisi, Georgia
Director Nana Alexidze
[email protected]
Tanadgoma promotes integrative and
inclusive education for children with
disabilities by providing them with basic
educational and extracurricular activity
programs; facilitating their transition
into the mainstream school system; and
training teachers, parents, and government
officials on issues such as inclusive
education, proper care for those with
disabilities, and legal and policy matters
related to disability. Our grant supports
educational programs and workplace
training for disabled youth aged 14 to 17.
Tbilisi Youth House Foundation
(TYHF)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Nana Doliashvili
[email protected]
www.tyhfoundation.gol.ge
Director
TYHF provides a variety of programs
that help internally displaced children stay
in or return to school, attend nonformal
classes, and practice volunteerism. Our
grant supports the New Opportunities
through Active Learning program,
which complements the formal schools
by offering academic tutorials, ongoing
counseling, and extracurricular activities
to children who are at increased risk of
dropping out of school.
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Teboho Trust
Johannesburg, South Africa
Jose Bright
[email protected]
www.teboho.com
Director
The Teboho Trust provides academic
and psychosocial support to orphaned
and vulnerable children in Soweto
and nearby townships through a
Saturday School program, life skills and
leadership development camps, and
provision of school uniforms, textbooks,
and other supplies. Our grant is for
general support of the Teboho Trust.
United Houma Nation
$6,000
Golden Meadow, LA, United States
Director Brenda Dardar Robichaux
[email protected]
www.unitedhoumanation.org
The United Houma Nation operates
youth programs, cultural classes, and
community events, as well as employment
training courses and heritage preservation
programs. Our grant supports the
leadership training and cultural awareness
program for youth in grades 6 to 12.
Vikasini Girl Child Education Trust
Secunderabad, India
Indira Jena
[email protected]
www.vikasini.org
Director
Vikasini, through its multidimensional
curriculum and extracurricular activities,
promotes self-confidence among girls
by providing them with the chance to
become self-sustaining individuals and
informed participants in changing their
lives. Our grant supports the Vikasini
Girls School, which offers governmentaccredited classes and extracurricular
activities to girls aged 4 to 12.
Vikramshila Education Resource
Society
$13,000/596,310 India rupees
Bigha, India
Shubhra Chatterji
[email protected]
www.vikramshila.org
Director
Vikramshila establishes model education
programs and trains government-school
teachers in its effort to make quality
education accessible to marginalized sectors
of Indian society, and thereby to lessen the
disparity in educational standards between
the wealthy and the poor. Our grant
supports the community education model
program in the rural village of Bigha.
Women’s Education for Advancement
and Empowerment (WEAVE)
$13,000/486,850 Thailand baht
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Maria Mitos Urgel
[email protected]
www.weave-women.org
Director
WEAVE works to ensure that displaced
Burmese women and children living in
Thailand possess sufficient education for
them to participate fully in community life
and influence the future development of
their communities. Our grant supports the
child development project, which helps
community-based preschools teach proper
school habits to children aged 2 to 6.
Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT)
$9,000
David Andrew Snider
[email protected]
www.yptdc.org
Director
YPT fosters literacy, facilitates dialogue
on tolerance and respect, and teaches arts
education and conflict resolution to youth
in low-income schools. Our grant supports
the In-School Playwriting Program, which
improves students’ speaking and listening
skills and self-expression by having students
write their own plays, several of which are
then professionally produced by YPT.
Grantee Partners
Enterprise
* We believe that enterprise programs must meet working young people
where they are and acknowledge their need to work, while promoting a
more supportive environment. In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded
grants valued at $412,500 to 38 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Ação Forte (Strong Action)
$6,000/13,140 Brazil reais
Alliance for Children and Youth
$9,000/12,320 Bulgaria leva
Campinas, Brazil
Director Lia Ferreira
[email protected]
Director
Ação Forte helps young people
between the ages of 12 and 17 from
the low-income neighborhoods of
Vila Boa Vista and Vila Parque Norte
to complete their formal education
and to transition successfully into the
work world. Our grant supports the
Young Entrepreneurs Program, which
focuses on skills that have concrete
value in the labor market, such as
business management, entrepreneurship,
information technology, and English,
as well as values such as personal
responsibility and active citizenship.
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Sofia, Bulgaria
Mariana Pisarska
[email protected]
www.acybg.org
Recognized as one of the authorities
in Bulgaria on vulnerable children’s
issues, the Alliance for Children and
Youth’s 16+ Center offers comprehensive
services, including healthcare, counseling,
and educational and vocational training,
to vulnerable, marginalized, unemployed,
and homeless youth, 95 percent of whom
are of Roma descent. Our grant supports
the 16+ Center’s vocational training
program in the capital city of Sofia.
Asociación de Comunidades Eclesiales
de Base (CEB)
(Association of Grassroots
Christian Communities)
Managua, Nicaragua
Jenny Mayorga
[email protected]
Director
CEB helps working children in the
shantytowns of Managua reach their
full potential by providing scholarships,
tutoring, vocational training, and
workshops on leadership, initiative,
responsibility, and community service.
Our grant supports the youth enterprise
project, which gives young people
hands-on experience in managing a small
enterprise focused on the production and
sale of ice cream, jams, fruit juices, teas,
and other natural products.
Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la
Calle de Oaxaca (CANICA)
(Center for the Support of
Street Children of Oaxaca)
$12,000/132,240 Mexico pesos
Oaxaca, Mexico
Director María del Carmen Espinosa
[email protected]
www.canicadeoaxaca.org
CANICA works with children living
and working on the streets of Oaxaca,
primarily from migrant indigenous
families, to promote school enrollment,
skills development, health and nutrition,
and emotional well-being, and to
ultimately transition these children
off the streets. Our grant supports the
education program for market-working
children, which helps the children
develop marketable skills for betterpaying employment off the streets.
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(San Juan Bosco Center)
$12,000/226,680 Honduras lempiras
Tela, Honduras
Dylcia de Ochoa
[email protected]
Director
CSJB helps child workers and their
families improve their quality of life and
future prospects through scholarships,
nonformal education, microenterprise
development, legal aid, and community
mobilization. Our grant supports
the technical and vocational training
program, which reduces the number
of hours children work in the street
markets and helps them to develop
marketable skills for engaging betterpaying alternative livelihoods.
Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y
Educación Recreativa El Caracol
(El Caracol Transitional Center for
Training and Recreational Education)
$13,000/143,260 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Juan Martín Pérez García
[email protected]
www.elcaracol.org
Director
El Caracol uses a combination of street
outreach and education, transitional
housing, life skills workshops, computer
training, enterprise and vocational
training, a youth-run bakery and
restaurant, a youth-led radio program, and
graphic design and print media initiatives
to help street children and youth acquire
the skills, attitudes, and assets to allow
them to leave the streets and transform
their lives. Our grant supports the
Produciendo Juntos (Producing Together)
enterprise training program, which helps
young people develop the skills and
values of entrepreneurship.
De Laas Gul (Hand-Embroidered
Flower) Welfare Programme (DLG)
$11,500/912,300 Pakistan rupees
Dhriiti
(The Courage Within)
Peshawar, Pakistan
Director Meraj Humayun Khan
[email protected]
Director
DLG, through 14 rehabilitation centers
in the slums and industrial areas of
Peshawar, provides education and
skills training to street and working
children, conducts economic and social
empowerment programs for women,
and advocates for the human, political,
and economic rights of underserved
or exploited individuals. Our grant
supports the Tehkal Rehabilitation
Center, which provides girls with
nonformal education and skills training
in alternative livelihoods and increases
awareness of their rights.
Desarrollo Autogestionario (AUGE)
(Self-Managed Development)
Veracruz, Mexico
Director Gloria Agueda García García
[email protected]
AUGE promotes women’s economic
empowerment and income generation
through self-managed savings groups,
technical training and leadership
workshops, and a weekly community
radio program. Our grant supports the
Children’s Solidarity Savings program,
which works with more than 500
working children to promote asset
building, financial literacy, and life
planning, and provides education on
issues such as family relations, domestic
violence, drug addiction, gender, sexuality,
the environment, and human rights.
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New Delhi, India
Anirban Gupta
[email protected]
www.dhriiti.org
Through a multipronged approach
to developing entrepreneurship in
India, Dhriiti focuses on reaching out
to children and youth as well as on
creating support mechanisms that enable
microenterprises to flourish. Our grant
supports the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
program, which offers a tailored
curriculum to promote innovation and
entrepreneurship among children and
youth in government schools.
Dream a Dream
Bengaluru, India
Vishal Talreja
[email protected]
www.dreamadream.org
Director
Dream a Dream empowers children
from vulnerable backgrounds to become
productive members of society. Our
grant supports the Dream Mentoring
Program, which trains volunteers and
staff to mentor adolescents and to assist
their transition into adulthood and
mainstream society.
Federación de Salud Infantil
y Reproductiva de Guatemala
(FESIRGUA)
(Guatemalan Federation for Child
and Reproductive Health)
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Miguel Cap Patal
[email protected]
Director
FESIRGUA works with poor
indigenous communities in the rural
highlands of Guatemala to improve
health, education, and overall quality
of life. Our grant supports the
Empowerment of Indigenous Girls
program, which helps indigenous girls
transition into adulthood through
training, mentoring, and internships
in life skills such as leadership,
entrepreneurship, financial literacy,
negotiation, communication, decision
making, teamwork, self-esteem, and
formation of life goals and plans.
Foundation for Development of Needy
Communities (FDNC)
Mbale, Uganda
Samuel W. Watulatsu
[email protected]
www.fdncuganda.org
Director
FDNC provides youth development
programs, counseling for street children,
girl advancement programs, farming
programs, and very uniquely, a brass
band to encourage children to develop
their creative talents. Our grant supports
the vocational skills training program,
which teaches computer skills, tailoring,
carpentry, and masonry, with special
attention to the participation and
retention of girls.
Fundación La Paz
(La Paz Foundation)
La Paz, Bolivia
Director Jorge Domic Ruiz
[email protected]
Fundación La Paz empowers more
than 7,000 vulnerable women
and children through programs in
education, vocational training, small
business creation, health, nutrition,
and protection from domestic violence
and abuse. Our grant supports the
Centro de Capacitación Técnica
Sarantañani (Sarantañani Technical
Training Center), which provides
certified training in leather production,
auto mechanics, carpentry, computer
operation, metalworking, and textile
design to underprivileged youth.
Going to School (GTS)
$15,000/688,050 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Lisa Heydlauff
[email protected]
www.goingtoschool.com
Lupeni, Romania
Director Dana Bates
[email protected]
www.new-horizons.ro
Noi Orizonturi provides youth with
adventure education and service learning
to address the lack of interpersonal
trust and the deep culture of corruption
in Romania. Our grant supports five
IMPACT Clubs, which empower youth
to become agents of change by creating
service learning projects that engage
with local government and that build
confidence and trust.
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Sanaag region, Somalia
Fatima Jibrell
[email protected]
www.hornrelief.org
Director
Director
GTS is a multimedia project for children
that celebrates every child’s right to go
to school and participate in an inspiring
education that is relevant to the child’s
life. Our grant supports the BE!
program, an innovative project that uses
storybooks, radio, and film to inspire
leadership and social entrepreneurship
in underprivileged children in India.
Guaruma
Horn Relief is working to build an
indigenous movement for peace and
sustainable development through
educating and training young people in
leadership skills that value democratic
governance, human rights, social justice,
and protection of the environment.
Our grant supports the Pastoral Youth
Leadership Outreach Program, which
focuses on responsible community
leadership, social peace and justice, holistic
natural-resource management, veterinary
science, and health and well-being.
Las Mangas, Honduras
Jimmy Andino
[email protected]
www.guaruma.org
Instituto Fazer Acontecer (IFA)
(Make It Happen Institute)
Director
Fundatia Noi Orizonturi
(New Horizons Foundation)
Horn Relief
$16,000/21,920,000 Somalia shillings
Guaruma uses photography, digital
imaging, graphic design, website design,
creative writing, and media technology
to help children develop marketable
skills and to provide a medium for selfexpression, creativity, critical thinking,
leadership, and reflection on their lives.
Our grant supports the Technology and
Environment Program, which combines
media technology training with
environmental conservation, ecotourism,
and medicinal biology training for
children living in the endangered
Rio Cangregal watershed.
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Renato Paes de Andrade
[email protected]
www.fazeracontecer.org.br
Director
IFA offers a combination of sports
and citizenship training to promote
teamwork, discipline, and physical
well-being among youth in some of the
poorest areas of Salvador and works
to increase their awareness of the
rights and responsibilities of citizens
as protagonists in their communities.
Our grant supports the expansion of the
sports and citizenship program to 60
students in the underserved community
of Paz, on the outskirts of Salvador.
Jeeva Jyothi
(Everlasting Light)
$16,000/681,600 India rupees
Karm Marg
(Progress through Work)
Thiruvallur district, India
Director V. Susai Raj
[email protected]
www.jeevajyothi.org
Faridabad, India
Director Veena Lal
[email protected]
www.karmmarg.org
Jeeva Jyothi treats both the consequences
and the underlying causes of child labor
in rice mills near Chennai through
workplace-based nonformal education for
children, adult literacy classes, and income
generation training. Our grant supports
programs that help children become
productive members of the community
and that empower them economically.
Karm Gaon, an architecturally
unique home built by Karm Marg for
former street children, is a model for
child-friendly institutions and a place
where boys and girls live and learn
to cook, work or study, play, and take
responsibility for their own daily lives.
Our grant supports vocational training
activities at the children’s home and in
the surrounding village.
Kalinga Mission for Indigenous
Children and Youth Development
(KAMICYDI)
$6,000/286,200 Philippines pesos
Kudirat Initiative for Democracy
(KIND)
$7,000/896,280 Nigeria nairas
Gapan City, Philippines
Donato Bayubay Bumacas
[email protected]
Director
KAMICYDI defends the land and
environment of the indigenous
Kalinga communities in the northern
Philippines and promotes a culturally
and ecologically sustainable future
by using traditional techniques to
address the impacts of poverty and
environmental degradation. Our grant
supports the Youth Entrepreneurship
Skills program, which provides
enterprise and business development
opportunities to out-of-school youth
through skills training and small
microenterprise loans.
KIND works to ensure that women
have an active role in building Nigeria’s
budding democracy by offering a
leadership training program that prepares
young women in university for careers
in public service. Our grant supports
the development of a leadership training
program for adolescent girls that
will address entrepreneurship and
financial management skills, sexuality
and reproductive heath rights, and
career planning.
Director
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Lagos, Nigeria
Hafsat Abiola-Costello
[email protected]
www.kind.org
Love in Action Ethiopia (LIA)
Southern Nations, Nationalities and
Peoples’ Regional State, Ethiopia
Director Yohannes Amado
[email protected]
LIA works to bring about sustainable
change in the Hadiya region of Ethiopia
through a comprehensive community
development model that focuses on
education, entrepreneurship, and health.
Our grant is supporting the launch of
an entrepreneurial program for 50 girls
between the ages of 12 and 21 that will
provide microenterprise and education
training specific to culturally relevant
products like ceramics and embroidery.
Magic Bus Connect
$12,500/532,500 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Matthew Spacie
[email protected]
www.magicbusindia.org
Director
Magic Bus empowers young people
growing up in the slums and streets of
India to discover their innate potential
through sports. Our grant supports the
new Connect program, which provides
targeted mentoring, career guidance,
vocational training, and leadership
development to marginalized at-risk youth.
Men on the Side of the Road (MSR)
Woodstock, South Africa
Director Robin Gilfilan
[email protected]
www.unemploymen.co.za
MSR provides employment and
educational services to men who spend
their days waiting for short-term
employment opportunities along the
shoulders of major roadways in the
Western Cape region. Our grant supports
continuing education and training
activities for boys and young men.
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Mujejego-Loka (Dawn Light)
Women Development Organization
Beninshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia
Director Tirhas Mezgebe
[email protected]
Mujejego-Loka aims to empower
the Gumuz people and to end the
marginalization of women and children by
providing nonformal education programs
and training sessions on gender equality,
HIV/AIDS prevention, and effective
farming and marketing techniques for
agricultural goods. Our grant supports
the enterprise training program for young
mothers, which includes a community
health education component.
Phulki (Spark)
$15,000/1,031,250 Bangladesh taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Suraiya Haque
[email protected]
www.phulki.org
Director
Phulki’s child-to-child program trains
child leaders to spread information to
other children about sexual abuse and
exploitation, trafficking, child labor,
child rights, gender equality, health and
hygiene, and social values, and provides
computer training and other educational
support. Our grant supports the
child-to-child program for girls in the
impoverished Mirpur community.
Potohar Organization for Development
Advocacy (PODA)
$16,500/1,003,530 Pakistan rupees
Director Sameena Nazir
[email protected]
PODA offers advocacy training,
mentoring, and life skills education to
rural communities on topics such as
education, women’s rights, diversity,
and democracy. Our grant supports
the Entrepreneurial and Leadership
Training program, which helps rural
youth to maximize resources, increase
their incomes, and create new ventures.
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Pravah (Flow)
New Delhi, India
Meenu Venkateswaran
[email protected]
www.younginfluencers.com
Director
Started by young professionals, Pravah
encourages young people to become
social entrepreneurs and agents of change
and facilitate positive change in society.
Our grant supports the Change Looms
program, an innovative new initiative
that recognizes and awards young social
entrepreneurs and supports them in their
endeavors toward social change.
Rural Family Support Organization
(RuFamSO)
$11,000/725,560 Jamaica dollars
May Pen, Jamaica
Utealia Burrel
[email protected]
Director
RuFamSO offers guidance, educational
support, life skills training, and
workshops on nutrition and personal
health to adolescents in Jamaica’s rural
communities. Our grant supports
RuFamSO’s vocational training program
for adolescent parents, which combines
basic literacy classes, parenting skills
workshops, and vocational training in
commercial food preparation, garment
making, and masonry.
Sam-Kam Institute (SKI)
$16,000/46,800,000 Sierra Leone
leones
Kalaba Town, Sierra Leone
Director Peter Samura
[email protected]
SKI, one of the few indigenous
nongovernmental organizations in
Sierra Leone, offers war victims and
ex-combatants skills training courses
to provide career alternatives. Our
grant provides general support to SKI’s
People Developing Vocational Skills
program, which trains students aged 11
to 22 in welding, carpentry, sewing, auto
mechanics, and computer technology.
Sanghamitra Service Society
$15,000/688,050 India rupees
Vijayawada, India
Sivaji
[email protected]
Director
Sanghamitra works in more than 100
rural villages in Andhra Pradesh to
help the most marginalized members
of Indian society, generally members of
the lowest caste and women, improve
their well-being through increased skills
and greater social awareness. Our grant
supports the creation of a communitybased organization, to be run by village
youth, that will provide education, peer
training, health education, and counseling
to children and youth in five villages.
Shaishav (Childhood) Trust
Bhavnagar, India
Parul Sheth
[email protected]
www.shaishavchildrights.org
Director
Shaishav helps children understand
their basic rights and play an active
role in defending them, through
nonformal education programs, a
mobile library, a children’s collective,
and a financial education program.
Our grant supports the Balsena
children’s collective, which fosters unity
and collaboration, and the Balsena
Bachat Bank initiative, which promotes
savings and provides financial education.
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Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable for
Better Health, Education, and Nutrition
in Uganda (SOVHEN)
Kampala, Uganda
Director Richard Bbaale
[email protected]
SOVHEN helps orphaned and
vulnerable children attain a better
quality of life and an increased life
expectancy through programs in
financial literacy, income generation,
education, health, nutrition, and
environmental preservation. Our
grant supports the SEED (Savings for
Education, Entrepreneurship, and
Down Payment) program for orphaned
children who live in residential care.
Synapse Network Center
$17,000/8,266,250 CFA francs
Dakar, Senegal
Ciré Kane
[email protected]
www.synapsecenter.org
Director
The Synapse Network Center unleashes
the entrepreneurial leadership potential
of youth by encouraging them to start
and grow their own initiatives and
to take greater responsibility in their
communities. Our grant provides
general support and capacity building
for the Education to Fight Exclusion
Project, which promotes community
investment in the fight against the
marginalization of street children.
Warma Tarinakuy
(Assembly of the Children)
Cusco, Peru
Ana Salas Vivanco
[email protected]
Director
Warma Tarinakuy is a self-empowerment
initiative managed largely by 100
adolescent boys who work in the local
wholesale produce market. Our grant
is for general support of Warma, whose
four youth-led commissions focus
on achieving safe and fair working
conditions, increasing access to education
and educational support, improving
health, and ensuring adequate nutrition.
Women Development Association
(WDA)
$13,000/51,829,050 Cambodia riel
Saang district, Cambodia
Soreach Sereithida
[email protected]
Director
WDA addresses the development needs
of impoverished women, youth, and
children by working with communities
to achieve long-term sustainable
development through capacity building.
Our grant supports the Peace Building
for Youths project, which addresses
the problems of boys participating in
criminal or violent activities through
peer education, life and skills training,
conflict resolution, and counseling.
Women in Social Entrepreneurship
(WISE)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Astronaut Bagile
[email protected]
Director
WISE inspires, empowers, and
equips Tanzanian youth and women
leaders through entrepreneurship and
leadership training in the economic,
governmental, and social sectors.
Our grant supports entrepreneurship
training for 60 out-of-school youth.
Grantee Partners
Safety
* We believe that children’s futures can be secured only
when they are protected from threats to their safety and
insulated from exploitation, violence, abuse, and neglect.
In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded grants valued at
$424,000 to 42 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Aangan Trust
$16,000/681,600 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director Suparna Gupta
[email protected]
www.aanganindia.com
Aangan Trust provides psychological
rehabilitation to juvenile offenders and
neglected children in juvenile detention
centers, helping them to deal with
past trauma, resolve their emotional
and behavioral problems, and create
sustainable change in their lives. Our
grant supports rehabilitation work with
more than 350 boys in the Bhiwandi
Observation Home.
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Ankuram (Sprout) Woman and
Child Development Society
Hyderabad, India
M. Sumitra
[email protected]
Director
Using a rights-based approach,
Ankuram creates a safe and empowering
space for women and children to
strengthen their knowledge base, skills,
and capacity through education, shelter,
and livelihood opportunities. Our grant
supports Sankalpam, a home for girls
who were victims of trafficking, sexual
exploitation, gender-based violence, or
child marriages.
Asociatia pentru Libertatea si
Egalitatea de Gen (ALEG)
(Association for Liberty and
Gender Equality)
Sibiu, Romania
Camelia Blaga
[email protected]
www.alegromania.tk
Director
ALEG promotes gender equality
and fights gender-based violence and
discrimination in Romania through
inclusive, empowering, and supportive
programs for young people. Our grant
supports a new project to educate girls
in rural areas about trafficking and
gender-based violence through regular
informational and therapeutic sessions.
Association d’Appui et d’Eveil
Pugsada (ADEP)
(Association of Support and
Coming of Age)
$14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs
Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso
Director Marie Léa Gama Zongo
[email protected]
ADEP fights exploitation and violence
against girls, educating girls about
AIDS and reproductive health and
helping society better understand the
effects on girls of early and forced
marriages, the dangers of female
circumcision, and the importance of
girls’ education. Our grant supports
ADEP’s community and school-based
activities to break the silence that
surrounds the common practice of
sexual harassment and abuse in schools.
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Association des Jeunes pour le
Développement Intégré–Kakundu
(AJEDI–Ka)
(Youth Association for Integrated
Development–Kakundu)
$12,000/4,752,000 DRC francs
Uvira, Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC)
Director Bukeni Tete Waruzi Beck
[email protected]
Since its creation, AJEDI–Ka has
demobilized more than 300 child
soldiers, reintegrated 52 former child
soldiers into school, and produced two
videos on child soldiers in the DRC
for national and international advocacy.
Our grant supports the Child Soldiers
Project, which includes a 30-day
transitional shelter for demobilized
child soldiers as they prepare to reenter
civil society and subsequent social
and material support once they are
reintegrated into the community.
Association du Foyer de l’Enfant
Libanais (AFEL)
(Lebanese Child Home Association)
$11,000/15,080,000 Lebanon pounds
Beirut, Lebanon
Simone Warde
[email protected]
www.afelonline.org
Director
AFEL serves orphaned children and
broken families through a combination
of literacy classes, youth clubs, summer
camps, workshops, and a public-education
program aimed at strengthening family
ties. Our grant supports the Juvenile
Delinquency Prevention Program,
which targets children who are at risk of
resorting to criminal activities or being
exploited on the streets and helps them
learn the skills necessary to resume formal
schooling and stabilize their personal lives.
Association Jeunesse Actions Mali
(AJA Mali)
(Youth Action Association of Mali)
$14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs
Bamako, Mali
Director Souleymane Sarr
[email protected]
www.ajamali.org
AJA Mali provides basic education
and life skills training, including
long-term apprenticeships in the
fields of carpentry, masonry, plumbing,
metalworking, and mechanics, to
out-of-school and working youth.
Our grant supports the Educational
Accompaniment for Apprentices
program, which educates young
apprentices in the same subjects taught
to their school-going peers, provides
recreational opportunities, monitors
apprentices’ relationships with their
teachers, and advocates for their rights.
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Association La Lumière
(The Light Association)
$14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs
Association of People for Practical Life
Education (APPLE)
$7,000/64,204,000 Ghana cedis
Director
Tambacounda, Senegal
Ibrahima Sory Diallo
[email protected]
Director
La Lumière promotes the well-being
of street children, female domestic
workers, migrant families, and other
marginalized populations living in
rural and underdeveloped areas. Our
grant supports La Lumière’s efforts
to improve school enrollment among
children working in the gold mines
near Tambacounda.
APPLE offers community outreach,
health, and education programs designed
to end child labor in fishing villages in
Ghana’s Lake Volta region. Our grant
supports APPLE’s comprehensive social
integration program to prevent child
trafficking and protect children who have
been reintegrated into their communities.
Accra, Ghana
Jack James Dawson
[email protected]
Avenir de l’Enfant (ADE)
(Future of the Child)
$11,000/5,348,750 CFA francs
Center for Prevention of Child Abuse
and Neglect (CPCAN)
Rufisque, Senegal
Director Moussa Sow
[email protected]
Director
ADE works in the secondary city of
Rufisque to safeguard street children
and other at-risk children from sexual
abuse and other forms of exploitation.
Our grant supports ADE’s educational
campaign against sex tourism in two
beach communities.
Barraca da Amizade
(Shelter of Friendship)
Fortaleza, Brazil
Brigitte Louchez
[email protected]
www.barracadaamizade.hpg.ig.com.br
Director
Barraca da Amizade provides
transitional housing, psychosocial
counseling, academic tutoring, and
vocational training to boys who are
living on the streets and are often
engaged in high-risk behaviors such
as gang activity, substance abuse, and
petty crime. Our grant supports the
organization’s street educators, who
meet the children on their own terms,
gradually build trust, discuss positive
alternatives to life on the streets, and
eventually bring the boys into the
Barraca da Amizade program.
Centar za Integraciju Mladih (CIM)
(Center for Youth Integration)
$7,000/447,580 Serbia dinars
Belgrade, Serbia
Milica Djordjevic
[email protected]
www.cim.org.yu
Director
CIM works to empower and fully
integrate orphans and street children
into their communities by building
long-term relationships between staff and
beneficiaries. Our grant supports outreach
and intervention work to provide shelter,
medical care, and advocacy within the
juvenile justice system for children and
youth living on the streets.
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Baigalmaa Sunren
[email protected]
www.stopchildabuse.org.mn
CPCAN provides legal, rehabilitative,
and psychosocial support for children
who have been victims of violence and
abuse. Our grant supports prevention and
rehabilitation services, including a 24-hour
telephone hotline, training workshops,
counseling, and advocacy campaigns.
Centro para el Desarrollo Regional
(CDR)
(Center for Regional Development)
Potosí, Bolivia
Wilhelm Piérola Iturralde
[email protected]
Director
Centro de Estudos e Ação em Atenção
à Infância e as Drogas Excola
(Excola Center for Research and
Action on Childhood and Drug Use)
CDR promotes local development,
economic opportunity, and improved
quality of life for vulnerable women and
children in the mining region of Potosí.
Our grant supports the Child Miners
project, which prevents or reduces
child labor in the mines by providing
viable economic and educational
alternatives through scholarships,
tutoring support, vocational training,
and youth enterprise, including youthrun greenhouses producing fruits and
vegetables for the local market.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Márcia Florêncio de Souza
[email protected]
www.excola.org.br
Children on the Edge–Romania
(COTE)
Director
Excola helps children living on the streets
of Rio de Janeiro to change their course
in life through basic education, technical
and vocational training, counseling,
transitional housing, and a youth-run
community radio program. Our grant
supports the Young Mothers project,
which helps adolescent mothers care for
their health and that of their children, gain
income generation skills, prevent further
pregnancies, and return to the support
structures of family and community.
Centro Interdisciplinario para el
Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
(Interdisciplinary Center for
Social Development)
$12,000/131,880 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Alicia Vargas Ayala
[email protected]
Director
CIDES supports indigenous children
in Mexico City through community
mobilization and social intervention
programs. Our grant supports the
domestic-violence project, which
conducts discussion groups for children
and youth, trains adolescents to become
educators, works to strengthen school
attendance, and offers skills training.
Iasi, Romania
Iulian Mocanu
[email protected]
Director
COTE offers social assistance,
counseling, and support to children
and teenagers who are in or who have
recently left state-run orphanages in
the impoverished region of Moldavia.
Our grant supports the Graduate
Program, which provides young
orphanage graduates with housing and
comprehensive training in personal,
communication, and vocational skills.
Children’s Legal Rights and
Development Center (CLRD)
Quezon City, Philippines
Rowena Legaspi
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/ccrd_2002/home
Director
CLRD provides legal assistance to
juvenile offenders, documentation for
advocacy purposes, rehabilitation and
welfare support for released juvenile
detainees, and training and education.
Our grant supports the program for
children in detention centers, which
provides training, education, and counseling
through a child-to-child approach.
Colectivo de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras
(ANICA)
(Collective for Support of Street Girls)
$10,000/110,200 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Director Alma Rosa Colín
[email protected]
ANICA provides alternative educational
opportunities to poor, at-risk, and
incarcerated young people through access
to museums, galleries, and other cultural
and educational institutions. Our grant
supports the cultural and educational
access program, which includes guided
museum visits, scientific demonstrations,
exhibitions, workshops, and concerts.
Community Outreach Programme
(CORP)
Mumbai, India
Anna Fernandes
[email protected]
www.corpindia.org
Director
CORP provides support to children
living in the slums of Mumbai. Our
grant supports the Sharanam Center,
which rescues street girls from a life
of poverty, ill health, abuse, and sexual
exploitation and provides a positive
environment for their rehabilitation
and reintegration into the community.
Forum Comunicações Juventude
Oratorio Don Bosco (FCJ)
(Don Bosco Children’s
Communication Forum)
$6,000
Dili, Timor-Leste
Cipriano Oliveira de Freitas
[email protected]
Director
As the only organization working with
street children in Dili, FCJ offers a
variety of services, including a drop-in
shelter that provides food and shelter for
street children, psychosocial counseling
and support, literacy and nonformal
education classes for at-risk children,
and a mobile learning center. Our grant
provides general support for FCJ.
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Gender Education, Research and
Technologies Foundation (GERT)
$12,000/17,160 Bulgaria leva
Sofia, Bulgaria
Director Jivka Marinova
[email protected]
GERT raises public awareness on
issues linked to gender stereotypes,
teaches young people about reproductive
rights and HIV/AIDS, and improves
gender relations among youth in order
to reduce gender-based violence and
sexual exploitation. Our grant supports
the expansion of the peer education
program, which combats the trafficking
of orphans and abandoned children
living in state-run institutions.
Girls Educational and Mentoring
Services (GEMS)
$15,000
New York, NY, United States
Rachel Lloyd
[email protected]
Jabala Action Research Organisation
$11,000/504,570 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Baitali Ganguly
[email protected]
www.jabala.org
Director
Jabala helps children in the red-light
districts of Kolkata and in surrounding
areas integrate into mainstream society
by providing education and rights
awareness programs that facilitate
formal-school enrollment and retention
and by offering creative activities to
help children cope with situations of
abuse and resist sexual exploitation and
trafficking. Our grant supports education
and rights awareness programs in the
Bowbazar and Barrackpur slums.
Kiev Children and Youth Support Center
Kiev, Ukraine
Bogdan Bashtovy
[email protected]
Director
Director
GEMS provides educational, transitional,
vocational, and counseling services to
sexually exploited young women in
order to empower them to exit unsafe or
abusive situations. Our grant supports
outreach and support services to at-risk
young women in juvenile detention
centers and residential facilities.
The Support Center, founded by
orphan graduates and orphanage staff,
serves young people who age out of
Kiev’s orphanages, offering them legal,
medical, psychological, and financial
assistance. Our grant supports the Crisis
Intervention Program, which supports
orphans during emergencies.
Instituto para el Desarrollo de la
Mujer y la Infancia (IDEMI)
(Institute for the Development
of Women and Children)
$6,000
Panama City, Panama
Bertha Vargas
[email protected]
www.idemipanama.org
La Conscience (Conscience)
$17,000/8,266,250 CFA francs
Tsévié, Togo
Kodjo Djissenou
[email protected]
Director
La Conscience works to prevent the
trafficking and exploitation of Togo’s
impoverished children, who are easily
lured to neighboring countries to work
on corn, banana, manioc, coffee, and
IDEMI works with vulnerable children cocoa plantations. Our grant funds
educational support for vulnerable
and youth in Panama, supplementing
children who are at risk of being
formal education and raising awareness
trafficked because of their family,
on child labor, preventive healthcare,
economic, or social situation.
gender equity, and civic participation.
Our grant supports the safety, education, Previous funding: $46,000 since 2003
and life skills support program for girls
working as domestic servants.
Director
Laura Vicuña Foundation (LVF)
Victorias City, Philippines
Director Maria Victoria P. Santa Ana
[email protected]
www.lauravicuna.com
LVF builds children’s capacities through
educational and development programs,
including drop-in centers, vocational and
employment training, and a residential
program for sexually abused and exploited
girls. Our grant supports the Community
Organizing and Mobilizing towards
Education (COME) project, which
reduces the vulnerability of children to
child labor and other forms of abuse by
providing educational opportunities and
community empowerment initiatives.
Luna Nueva (New Moon)
$16,000/85,646,400 Paraguay guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Raquel Fernández
[email protected]
www.grupolunanueva.com.py
Director
Luna Nueva works to eradicate
violence against women and children by
developing and implementing programs
in education, healthcare, self-esteem,
human rights awareness, and violence
prevention. Our grant supports the
outreach and education programs,
which each year reach approximately
250 girls living in exploitative
situations on the streets.
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Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo
Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS)
(Movement for International SelfDevelopment and Solidarity)
pesos
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
María Josefina Paulino
[email protected]
Director
MAIS keeps girls and young women
in Puerto Plata out of the sex tourism
industry by promoting school enrollment;
providing academic support, vocational
training, and psychosocial services; and
strengthening family and community
support structures. Our grant supports
the supplementary academic support
program, which provides instruction
in core-curriculum subjects, vocational
training, and workshops on human and
children’s rights to youth who are at high
risk of dropping out of school.
New Life Community Project
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Gerrie Smit
[email protected]
www.sun.ac.za/newlife
Director
New Life helps children who live on
the streets in Cape Town’s informal
settlements by providing them with
educational and psychosocial support
through community-based home
schools, psychosocial support groups,
and partnerships with the public school
system. Our grant is enabling New Life
to open its first satellite community
resource centers for street children.
Niños con una Esperanza
(Children with a Hope)
pesos
Santiago, Dominican Republic
Pablo Ureña
[email protected]
Director
Niños con una Esperanza provides
academic support, life skills training,
health education, and personal
development opportunities to more
than 200 children previously living and
working in the Santiago dump. Our
grant supports the education program,
which promotes school enrollment and
retention and reinforces academic and
life skills through after-school activities.
Oram (Hope) NGO
Ken Howard
[email protected]
Director
Oram’s original work with boys in the
federal prison system has expanded to
include a shelter for homeless children,
community and livelihood programs for
herders, and training for local government
officials. Our grant supports the Amgalan
Children’s Center, a residential home
that serves homeless and at-risk children,
providing them with literacy classes and
employment opportunities.
Prei Effort for Those Who Are in Need
(PEFAN)
Protecting Environment and Children
Everywhere (PEACE)
$14,000/1,526,420 Sri Lanka rupees
Director Fisseha Tadesse
[email protected]
www.pefan.org
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Director Maureen Seneviratne
[email protected]
PEFAN works to keep children off
the streets through holistic services
that include access to education and
healthcare, mentoring, and training in
the performing arts. Our grant is for
general support and is helping PEFAN
strengthen its institutional presence.
Prisoners Assistance Program (PAP)
$10,000/490,000 Liberia dollars
Monrovia, Liberia
R. Jarwlee Tweh Geegbe
[email protected]
www.pap.kabissa.org
Director
PAP is a Liberia-based NGO that
advocates against torture and for human
rights and prison reform. Our grant
supports the Youth Diversion Program,
which works with judicial and law
enforcement systems to divert first-time
offenders from entering prison and to
prepare juveniles in prison for adult
male life by educating them about
personal responsibility and decision
making through sports, guided roleplaying, and peer and mentor support.
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PEACE prevents children from entering
the commercial sex trade and increases
community awareness of child abuse
and exploitation. Our grant supports
nonformal-education and skills training
programs that provide classes in drama,
music, literature, leadership, math, English,
human rights, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Salesian Sisters of Zambia
$6,000/24,900,000 Zambia kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Zofia Lapinska
[email protected]
Director
City of Hope, run by the Salesian
Sisters of Zambia, provides holistic
support services to adolescent girls
who are survivors of neglect and sexual
abuse and runs a transitional shelter,
a successful community school, and
a vocational skills training program
that incorporates training on banking
and savings. Our grant supports the
community school, which educates
almost 800 children who would
otherwise be unable to attend school.
SIN-DO
$14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs
Cotonou, Benin
Sètchémè Jérônime Mongbo
[email protected]
Director
SIN-DO promotes health and hygiene
awareness, supports quality education, and
provides training in civic participation,
economic development, and HIV/AIDS
prevention to women and children living
in marginalized communities in and
around Cotonou. Our grant supports
SIN-DO’s youth-run initiative to prevent
the practice of vidomegon, in which
children from poor families are sent to
work in distant relatives’ or acquaintances’
homes, where they frequently experience
abuse and neglect.
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN)
(Friends of Children Society)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
[email protected]
www.honduranchildren.com
Director
SAN protects the rights of young
domestic workers in Honduras and
provides these girls and young women
with other skills and alternative means
of supporting themselves. Our grant
supports the Reyes Irene Valenzuela
Support Center, which offers technical
training, literacy classes, labor and
gender rights awareness, and nonformal
elementary education to female
domestic workers.
Tasintha (Deeper Transformation)
Programme
$16,000/62,250,000 Zambia kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Director Clotilda Phiri
[email protected]
Tasintha prevents women and children
from entering the sex trade by giving
them alternative income-generation
skills and raising community awareness
about sexual exploitation. Our grant
supports the Child Survival Project,
which provides educational support
to the children of sex workers and to
street-dwelling children.
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Udruzenje “Nova Generacija”
(New Generation Association)
$5,000/7,150 Bosnia and Herzegovina
convertible marka
Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director Bojan Arula
[email protected]
Nova Generacija operates a mentoring
program in Bosnia’s Serb territories for
vulnerable children and youth, many of
whom are living with foster families, in
orphanages, on the streets, in medical
institutions, or in juvenile delinquent
halls. Our grant supports educational,
cultural, and sports activities for these
at-risk children.
Yanapanakusun (Let’s Help Each Other)
Cusco, Peru
Vittoria Savio
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/caithcusco
Director
Yanapanakusun helps girls working as
domestic servants in Peru to reclaim
their lives by providing temporary and
longer-term shelter, formal education,
healthcare, legal identification,
and programs that reinforce their
self-esteem, cultural identity, and
understanding of their rights. Our grant
supports a new program that helps
each girl to develop a life plan, which
includes evaluation of her strengths,
interests, and abilities and her goals for
personal and professional development.
Grantee Partners
Healthy Minds
and Bodies
* We recognize that healthy minds and bodies are
important for young people’s dignity and productivity.
Action pour la Promotion des Droits de
l’Enfant au Burkina Faso (APRODEB)
(Action for the Promotion of the Rights
of the Burkinabe Child)
$14,000/7,219,520 CFA francs
Dori, Burkina Faso
Director Goamwaoga Kabore
[email protected]
APRODEB provides working children
and their families with skills training,
literacy programs, and healthcare
initiatives and assists young people
in developing their own strategies to
promote and protect children’s rights. Our
grant supports the child-to-child program,
which trains school-going youth to reach
younger or out-of-school children with
peer education on the importance of
education, nutrition, and vaccination.
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Amahoro Association
$7,000/3,850,840 Rwanda francs
(Inclusive of a gift in honor of
Robert D. Stillman)
Kigali, Rwanda
Kayitare Wayitare Dembe
[email protected]
www.chabha.org
Director
Amahoro Association provides homebased care and support to orphaned
and vulnerable children in Rwanda
through education programs, posttrauma counseling, skills workshops,
and microenterprise training. Our grant
is for general support and is helping
Amahoro to strengthen its leadership
and management structures.
Ascensions Community Services
$6,000
Dr. Satira S. Streeter
[email protected]
www.2ascend.org
Director
Ascensions provides disadvantaged and
low-income children living east of the
Anacostia River with individualized,
culturally relevant assistance that helps
them to improve their interpersonal
relationships and make positive
contributions to their communities. Our
grant supports the child-centered, familydriven Ascending Families program, which
uses a “therapy without walls” approach
to decrease the incidence of child abuse,
school failure, and substance abuse.
Asociación para la Atención Integral de
Niños de la Calle (AIDENICA)
(Association for Comprehensive Care
of Street Boys)
Lima, Peru
Director Mauro Luque
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/aidenica
AIDENICA rehabilitates street boys,
mostly former substance abusers, through
various prevention and protection
interventions, including a semi-open
home that gives them a stable, healthy
environment in which to live. Our
grant supports the psychosocial support
program, which provides group and
individual counseling to help the boys
work through their trauma and past abuse
and develop a positive plan for the future.
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Associação de Apoio às Meninas e
Meninos da Região Sé (AA Criança)
(Association for Support of Boys and
Girls of the Sé Region)
São Paulo, Brazil
Vicente de Paulo Pereira Lima
[email protected]
www.aacrianca.org.br
Director
AA Criança defends the rights of the
poorest and most marginalized children
and youth of central São Paulo by
providing a comprehensive range of
legal, educational, psychological, social,
and health-related services. Our grant
supports the Ser Mulher program,
which provides nonformal education
and counseling on health, sexuality,
gender, human rights, child development,
and citizenship to adolescent mothers,
many of whom are victims of domestic
violence, sexual abuse, or prostitution.
Association des Artistes et Artisans
contre le VIH/SIDA et les Stupifiants
(AARCOSIS)
(Association of Artists and Artisans
against HIV/AIDS and Drugs)
$5,000/2,431,250 CFA francs
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Pyanne Djire
[email protected]
Director
AARCOSIS engages musicians, artists,
and artisans in the battle against HIV/
AIDS and drug abuse by helping them
integrate anti-AIDS and anti-drug
messages into their work. Our grant
supports local community concerts
and fairs to prevent mother-to-child
transmission of HIV and to provide
direct support to infants and children
with HIV-positive parents.
Association for the Development and
Enhancement of Women (ADEW)
$15,000/86,100 Egypt pounds
Cairo, Egypt
Director Iman Bibars
[email protected]
www.adew.org
ADEW’s Girls’ Dreams Program
provides a safe haven for adolescent
girls in Cairo’s squatter communities
to openly discuss their problems, fears,
and questions regarding women’s and
children’s rights, marriage, reproductive
health, and domestic violence. Our
grant is for general support of the
Girls’ Dreams Program, which offers
basic nonformal education, training in
the arts, health and hygiene training,
and psychological counseling to
underprivileged and abused girls.
Ba Futuru (For the Future)
$7,000
Dili, Timor-Leste
Joana dos Santos Camoes
[email protected]
www.bafuturu.org
Director
Ba Futuru works to create a positive
future for children in orphanages
through creative arts, using role-playing,
trust exercises, art, and drama for the
psychological and emotional rehabilitation
of the children. Our grant supports
the Transformative Arts and Human
Rights Education program, which offers
psychosocial workshops on conflict
resolution for children in internally
displaced persons camps in Timor-Leste.
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Carolina for Kibera
Nairobi, Kenya
Salim Mohammed
[email protected]
http://cfk.unc.edu/binti-pamoja
Director
Carolina for Kibera promotes youth
leadership and ethnic and gender
cooperation through sports, young
women’s empowerment, and community
development in the densely populated
and impoverished Kibera urban slum.
Our grant supports the Binti Pamoja
(Daughters United) program, a
reproductive health and women’s
rights program for adolescent girls
and young women.
Center for the Protection of Children’s
Rights Foundation (CPCR)
Bangkok, Thailand
Director Sanphasit Koomphraphant
[email protected]
www.thaichildrights.org
CPCR works to prevent and confront
the physical abuse, sexual exploitation,
and neglect of children throughout
Southeast Asia and to reintegrate
affected children into society. Our
grant supports the Baan Raek
Rub Assessment Center and other
rehabilitation programs, which provide
24-hour emergency care and counseling
to children and families who have been
referred by organizations that monitor
and investigate child sexual abuse cases.
Centro de Documentacão e Informacão
Coisa de Mulher (CEDOICOM)
(Center for Documentation and
Information on Women’s Issues)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Neusa das Dores Periera
[email protected]
www.coisademulher.org.br
Director
CEDOICOM provides education
on reproductive health, commercial
sexual exploitation, child labor, and
HIV/AIDS for women and girls who
face discrimination due to gender, race, or
economic status. Our grant supports the
Girls Thinking the Future project, which
offers basic education, courses in theater
and dance, leadership-building activities,
and an introduction to community
volunteerism and activism to at-risk girls.
Dreamcatchers Foundation
Mumbai, India
Sonali Ojha
[email protected]
Director
Dreamcatchers uses a participatory, childcentered methodology that helps children
coping with grief, destruction, and
violence to see the possibilities in life and
to find healing, strength, and confidence.
Our grant supports the Peacemakers
project, which works with children in
temporary shelters to build small teams
of child leaders who guide their peers in
making life-changing transitions.
Education as a Vaccine against
AIDS Inc. (EVA)
$17,000/2,113,650 Nigeria nairas
Abuja, Nigeria
Director Fadekemi Akinfaderin
[email protected]
www.evanigeria.org
EVA works to empower Nigerian youth
living with HIV/AIDS and to raise
awareness and foster positive habits
among those who are uninfected. Our
grant provides support for the Window
of Hope project, an HIV prevention
program focusing on orphans and streetworking children in the state of Benue.
Fundación Simsa (Simsa Foundation)
Bogotá, Colombia
Director Lida Alarcón
[email protected]
www.boquitassanas.net
Incest Trauma Center (ITC)
$6,000/358,380 Serbia dinars
Belgrade, Serbia
Dusica Popadic
[email protected]
www.incesttraumacentar.org.yu
Director
Ruili, China
Zhang Yinzhong
[email protected]
Director
Targeting the most vulnerable citizens—
Roma, refugee, and orphaned children—
ITC provides counseling for children
and female victims of domestic violence
and sexual assault and operates a 24-hour
crisis hotline. Our grant supports the
child and adolescent sex worker program,
which provides psychological counseling
services to survivors of sex trafficking.
The Neng Guan Performing Arts
Training Center raises awareness of the
dangers of drug use and reduces stigma
against HIV/AIDS among rural and
ethnic communities through the use of
traditional performing arts such as singing
and dancing. Our grant supports training
and performances that draw on traditional
ethnic-minority dances and songs.
Integrated Community Health Services
(INCHES)
Nia Foundation
Kisumu, Kenya
Director Kitche Magak
[email protected]
INCHES provides quality integrated
Through its flagship Boquitas Sanas
healthcare services to vulnerable
(Healthy Little Mouths) program,
children and youth living on the shores
Fundación Simsa operates one-day
and remote islands of Lake Victoria.
mobile dental clinics for children in
Our grant supports the psychosocial
poor neighborhoods throughout Bogotá. program, which provides in-school
Our grant supports the expansion
counseling services for children who
of the mobile dental clinics to more
are victims of violence.
communities, providing an even
greater number of children with dental
treatment and dental health education.
Kolkata Sanved (Kolkata Sensitivity)
Ikamva Labantu
(The Future of Our Nation)
Kolkata, India
Director Sohini Chakroborty
[email protected]
Cape Town, South Africa
www.sanved.org
Director Sipho Puwani
[email protected]
Kolkata Sanved promotes dance
www.ikamva.com
movement as a therapeutic tool for the
most vulnerable and underprivileged
segments of society, including street
Ikamva Labantu works in partnership
with local residents to improve the quality children, victims of trafficking or
violence, children of prostitutes, youth
of life in their communities by addressing
living in slum areas, and other at-risk
a range of issues, including education,
economic empowerment, and home-based children. Our grant is enabling Kolkata
Sanved to develop the leadership
care. Our grant supports the Boys/Men
potential of its dance therapy trainers
Kindness Project, a unique effort in
and to strengthen its existing programs.
which a team of researchers, educators,
and specialists work with young boys and
fathers to create positive male role models,
engage men and boys in community
development activities, and build strong
bonds between boys and male mentors.
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Neng Guan Performing Arts
Training Center
$6,000/46,380 China yuan
Zemzem Yenus
[email protected]
Director
The Joy Center, a project of Nia
Foundation, provides comprehensive
services, including education,
psychosocial care, physical therapy, and
advocacy, for children with autism and
related mental health issues. Our grant
supports the Joy Center’s technologybased social integration program.
Nyaka AIDS Orphans School
Nyakagyeza, Uganda
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
[email protected]
www.nyakaschool.org
Director
Nyaka School was founded in 2001 to
provide AIDS orphans with a free, highquality education and extracurricular
activities as a way to combat pervasive
hunger, poverty, and systemic deprivation.
Our grant supports the nutrition and
community gardens program, which
teaches students and community
members how to cultivate the school
gardens; ensures that students get daily
nutritious meals from the gardens’
produce; and provides local families with
seeds for sustainable gardening.
Pazapa (Step by Step)
Jacmel, Haiti
Director Jane MacRae
[email protected]
www.pazapa.org
Pazapa serves children with physical and
mental disabilities by providing formal
schooling, physical therapy, psychosocial
support, orthopedic surgery, nutritious
meals, and family counseling and training.
Our grant supports the Special Education
School, which provides education as well
as physical and psychological therapy
to children with physical and mental
disabilities who would otherwise have
no opportunity for schooling.
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Rozan $8,000/486,560 Pakistan rupees
Islamabad, Pakistan
Zehra Kamal
[email protected]
www.rozan.org
Director
Rozan’s Youth Helpline program
provides a safe avenue for young people
to learn about emotional, sexual, and
reproductive health issues, enabling them
to make informed and healthy decisions
in their lives. Our grant supports Rozan’s
radio program, which raises awareness
among youth about sensitive sexual and
reproductive health issues.
Ruili Women and Children
Development Center (RWCDC)
$11,000/87,120 China yuan
Ruili County, China
Chen Guilan
[email protected]
www.rwcdc.org
Director
RWCDC works to improve the overall
well-being of neglected or sexually
exploited women and children living in
Ruili County, bordering Myanmar, with
a particular focus on raising awareness
about HIV/AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases. Our grant supports
the Engaging Local Youth project,
which raises community awareness
about HIV/AIDS and promotes
leadership and positive behavior among
youth who are not in school and are at
risk of working in the sex industry.
Salus
Urubá, Colombia
Director Loren Callejas
[email protected]
Salus provides psychosocial support
to children and youth displaced by
Colombia’s armed conflict, many of
whom were either victims or witnesses
of unspeakable violence and destruction.
Our grant supports the Creating Stories,
Creating Well-Being program, which
encourages children to write, illustrate, and
share short stories as a means of reflecting
on, expressing, discussing, and ultimately
coming to peace with their experiences
and adapting to their new circumstances.
Society Undertaking Poor People’s
Onus for Rehabilitation (SUPPORT)
Mumbai, India
Sujata Ganega
[email protected]
www.supportstreetchildren.org
Director
SUPPORT provides treatment and
rehabilitation for child drug users
through residential shelters that give
boys and girls shelter, food, healthcare,
vocational training, and education as
part of their rehabilitation. Our grant
supports the boys’ rehabilitation home,
which offers detoxification, education,
counseling, and rehabilitation.
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Synergie pour l’Enfance
(Synergy for Childhood)
$6,000/3,092,700 CFA francs
Vizyon Dwa Ayisyen (VIDWA)
(Haitian Rights Vision)
Thiaroye, Senegal
Ngagne Mbaye
[email protected]
Director
Director
Synergie pour l’Enfance provides
comprehensive prevention and
treatment services to children who have
been affected or infected by HIV/AIDS,
with targeted services to children in
rural regions as well as to street children.
Our grant is for general support and
facilitates the provision of prevention
services, treatment, and advocacy for
HIV-affected children.
The Jinpa Project
$11,000/85,030 China yuan
Nangchen County, China
Director Tashi Tsering
[email protected]
www.jinpa.org
The Jinpa Project works in the most
remote areas of Yushu Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture to relieve the
poverty of nomadic and semi-nomadic
communities by creating physical
infrastructure and increasing access to
education and healthcare. Our grant
supports health education through games,
skits, and workshop activities for children
in 32 primary schools in six counties.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Anne Sosin
[email protected]
www.vidwa.org
VIDWA defends the rights of Haiti’s
poorest and most vulnerable citizens,
mainly women and children, through
education, advocacy, and community
development projects on health,
education, and gender-based violence.
Our grant supports a new project
to engage disenfranchised young
men from poor neighborhoods as
protagonists in preventing HIV/AIDS
and gender-based violence.
Youth Activist Organization
$5,000/20,750,000 Zambia kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Matauka Muliokela
[email protected]
Director
Youth Activist Organization uses sports
to raise awareness about reproductive
health and HIV/AIDS and is starting
a new initiative called Athletics
Advantage to organize adolescent girls
into soccer clubs that integrate HIV/
AIDS education. Our grant supports
the launch of the Athletics Advantage
program in the Lusaka region.
Grantee Partners
Creative
Opportunities
* We believe in exploring innovative solutions to the varied problems
that young people face and in using the creative arts to raise public
awareness of issues affecting children and youth. In fiscal year
2006–2007, we awarded grants valued at $26,000 to 2 grantee
partners under this portfolio. An additional $95,000 for four
special grants was given under the Presidential Innovation Fund.
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)
$10,000/27,400 Suriname dollars
Kwamalasamutu, Suriname
Director Gwendolyn Emanuels-Smith
[email protected]
www.amazonteam.org
ACT works in partnership with
the isolated indigenous peoples of
Suriname’s interior to gain land rights,
produce natural-resource management
plans for these territories, improve
health through traditional medicinal
practices, and revitalize elements of
indigenous culture. Our grant supports
the Shamans and Apprentices Program,
which provides children with the means
to learn traditional medicinal knowledge
from village shamans.
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Espacio Cultural Creativo
(Cultural Creative Space)
La Paz, Bolivia
Director Maria Carmen Shulze
[email protected]
Espacio Cultural Creativo engages
market-working children and street
children through theatrical skits, music,
storytelling, and other creative activities
held in parks and other open spaces,
ultimately striving to channel participants
into basic literacy programs. Our grant
funds 28 of these interactive workshops.
Presidential
Innovation Fund
Direct Change
$5,000
Ken Deutsch
[email protected]
www.directchange.org
Director
The Sudan Project, run by Direct
Change, works to educate the public on
the issues facing southern Sudan and
provides direct financial assistance to
improve the delivery of healthcare and
education in the region. Our grant funds
part of the salary of John Dau, one of
the Lost Boys of Sudan featured in the
film God Grew Tired of Us, to enable him
to complete the construction of the Duk
Lost Boys Clinic in Duk Payuel, Sudan.
UK Trust
$50,000
London, United Kingdom
Our grant seeds our affiliate,
The Global Fund for Children UK
Trust, a duly registered charitable
organization in the United Kingdom.
Global Goods Partners (GGP)
$5,000
New York, NY, United States
Directors Joan Shifrin and
Catherine Shimony
[email protected]
www.globalgoodspartners.org
GGP works with community-based
organizations and cooperatives
worldwide that integrate their
commitment to community development
with socially responsible incomegenerating enterprises. Our grant
supports the Global Classroom program,
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an initiative to educate US students
about the communities with which GGP
works and about global issues such as
fair trade, women’s and children’s rights,
peace building, poverty, and ecology.
Journey of a Red Fridge
$15,000
Novi Sad, Serbia
Lucian Muntean and
Natasa Stankovic
[email protected]
www.lunamproductions.com
Producers
Our grant supports the development
of Lunam Productions’ latest film,
Journey of a Red Fridge, which focuses
on a Nepali child porter whom the
directors met while he was carrying a
red Coca-Cola refrigerator to a faraway
town in the Annapurna region of Nepal.
This film highlights the problems and
dangers faced by Nepal’s child porters,
mostly boys aged 10 to 17.
War Child
$20,000
Karim Chrobog
[email protected]
www.18thstreetfilms.com
Producer
Our grant supports the development
of War Child, 18th Street Films’ featurelength documentary on the life of
Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese child soldier
turned hip-hop artist. Jal’s story mirrors
his homeland: tragedy and terror,
mingled with hope, and restoration.
His dream of gua, or peace, for Sudan
and the rest of Africa is told in his
own words and music.
Grantee Partners
Responding
to Crisis
* We believe that in times of crisis, community-based groups
are always in the best position to respond immediately
since they know the people and the local areas affected.
Rapid Response Grants
Crisis in Lebanon
Crisis in Sri Lanka
Civil Unrest in Oaxaca, Mexico
Libanais (AFEL)
(Lebanese Child Home Association)
$2,500/3,780,000 Lebanon pounds
Kinniya Vision
$2,500/248,324 Sri Lanka rupees
Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la
Calle de Oaxaca (CANICA)
(Center for the Support of Street
Children of Oaxaca)
Oaxaca, Mexico
Director María del Carmen Espinosa
[email protected]
www.canicadeoaxaca.org
To support community relief efforts
following the civil unrest in Oaxaca
in October 2006.
Beirut, Lebanon
Simone Warde
[email protected]
www.afelonline.org
Director
To provide immediate medical and
psychological care for children affected
by the attacks on southern Lebanon
in summer 2006.
Relief International
$2,500/3,780,000 Lebanon pounds
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Fanshad Rasteghar
[email protected]
www.ri.org
Director
To provide emergency food and supplies
to displaced families following the attacks
on southern Lebanon in summer 2006.
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Kinniya, Sri Lanka
A. R. M. Saifullah
[email protected]
www.kinniyavision.org
Director
To provide emergency relief, medical
care, and counseling to families living in
temporary camps following the August
2006 fighting in the Trincomalee region.
Cyclone Ogni
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Mr. Sivaji
[email protected]
Director
To support community relief efforts
following Cyclone Ogni, which hit
Andhra Pradesh in October 2006.
Harsh Winter
Afghan Institute of Learning
$2,000/99,860 Afghanistan afghanis
Kabul, Afghanistan
Director Sakena Yacoobi
[email protected]
www.creatinghope.org
To purchase and distribute food and
household items to families impacted
by the harsh winter.
Super Typhoon Reming
Children’s Legal Rights and
Development Center (CLRD)
Quezon City, Philippines
Rowena Legaspi
[email protected]
www.geocities.com/ccrd_2002/home
Director
To provide emergency food and potable
water to 500 families in the Bicol
region, which was hit by typhoons,
including Super Typhoon Reming.
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Recovery and
renewal Grants
2004 Tsunami
Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama NAD
$14,000/127,736,000 Indonesia rupiahs
Aceh Province, Indonesia
Director Abriati Yusuf
[email protected]
www.nu.or.id
Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama NAD
provided immediate relief following
the tsunami by distributing supplies
and materials such as clothes and food
to children in orphanages, and now
provides educational support, including
scholarships that enable separated and
orphaned children to attend boarding
schools. Our grant supports seven
kindergartens and teacher training on
interaction with traumatized children.
Himpunan Psikologi Indonesia
(HIMPSI)
(Indonesian Psychological Association)
Director Retno Suhapti
[email protected]
HIMPSI, a professional association
of psychologists, set up a “tsunami
team” of member psychologists to
offer psychosocial services to people
in tsunami-affected areas. Our grant
supports HIMPSI’s efforts to provide
for the psychosocial and health needs of
children by enhancing the quality of care
provided by their parents and caregivers.
Kinniya Vision (KV)
Kinniya, Sri Lanka
Director A. R. M. Saifullah
[email protected]
www.kinniyavision.org
KV promotes education, advocates for
human rights, and works to reduce
gender imbalances and to conserve the
environment in the Trincomalee district
of northeastern Sri Lanka, an area
heavily affected by both the country’s
decades-long civil war and the December
2004 tsunami. Our grant supports KV’s
educational and vocational training
programs for children and youth.
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Life Home Project Foundation
Phuket, Thailand
Pennapa Wuttimanop
[email protected]
www.lifehomeproject.org
Mirror Foundation
Bangkok, Thailand
Sombat Boonngamanong
[email protected]
www.tsunamivolunteer.net
Director
Director
Life Home Project Foundation assists
women and children infected or affected
by HIV/AIDS, providing support and
services such as shelter, daycare, vocational
skills training, educational scholarships,
and awareness campaigns in local schools
against stigma and discrimination. Our
grant supports residential daycare and
night-care services for children and youth
infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.
The Mirror Foundation launched the
Tsunami Volunteer Center in January
2005 as a means of channeling the
volunteer services and resources assembled
after the tsunami to directly help affected
communities rebuild their lives. Our grant
funds the center’s Tsunami Children
Club Network in the hard-hit Takua Pa
district of Phang Nga Province, helping
young people living in refugee camps
and devastated villages to interact in
positive ways through activities such
as neighborhood cleanups, sports, and
programs that build skills for adjusting to
their new living environments.
Muhammadiyah ’Aisyiyah
Sunera Foundation
Director Siti Chamamah Soeratno
[email protected]
Matara, Sri Lanka
Director Sunethra Bandaranaike
[email protected]
www.sunerafoundation.org
Muhammadiyah ’Aisyiyah is continuing
to implement relief and rehabilitation
programs for children affected by
the tsunami, offering nutritional
supplements, clothes, health services,
and counseling at its children’s centers.
Our grant supports vocational training
in computers and silk-screening for 40
junior high school students.
$12,000/511,200 India rupees
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Mr. Sivaji
[email protected]
Director
Sanghamitra Service Society has been
working with fishing communities,
many of which were devastated by the
tsunami, for over a decade, and developed
the Tsunami Rehabilitation Program to
rebuild livelihoods, initiate community
savings plans, and assist individuals
applying for ration cards, housing sites,
and pensions. Our grant supports the
provision of health services and school
supplies to Yanadi children, meeting the
immediate needs of the children as well as
ensuring their longer-term development.
Shilpa Children’s Trust
Hambantota, Sri Lanka
Nita Gunesekera
[email protected]
www.shilpa.org
Director
With over 20 years of experience serving
vulnerable children, Shilpa Children’s
Trust began a sponsorship program
as part of its tsunami rehabilitation
efforts, placing children orphaned by the
tsunami into foster homes and offering
counseling, education, savings plans, and
support. Our grant supports 50 children
in the sponsorship program, providing
them with after-school tutoring, life
skills training, and counseling.
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Sunera Foundation facilitates the
development of the performing arts
among disabled people in Sri Lanka,
teaching this marginalized population
to harness their creative energies
and demonstrate to society that they
are capable of contributing to the
well-being of their communities.
Our grant funds the Tsunami Theatre
Outreach Project, which uses drama
and performance-art therapy to address
post-tsunami trauma and emotionalhealth issues among children and young
people living in relief camps.
Women Lawyers’ Association
of Thailand (WLAT)
Bangkok, Thailand
Suthinee Meteeprapa
[email protected]
www.wlat.org
Hurricane Katrina
Awesome Girls Mentoring Program
$19,000
New Orleans, LA, United States
James Rogers
awesomegirlsmentoringprogram
@yahoo.com
Director
Awesome Girls provides a safe space
in the Treme neighborhood of New
Orleans for African American girls to
learn and practice leadership, conflict
management, and decision-making
skills that will help them become
self-sufficient and self-confident adults.
Our grant supports the Post-Katrina
Empowerment Program, which
strengthens and rebuilds the familycentered program community and
provides support and stability to the
girls as they return to New Orleans
and reestablish their lives.
KID smART
$18,000
Echo Olander
[email protected]
www.kidsmart.org
Director
Director
WLAT works for the passage of
legislation that will improve the status
of Thai women and children and for the
legal protection of women on an equal
basis with men. Our grant supports
WLAT’s efforts to protect the rights of
tsunami victims by addressing legal issues
such as adoption, property rights for
orphans, and commercial sex trafficking.
Through artists in residence, after-school
programs, and summer camps, KID
smART offers students in New Orleans’s
failing public schools a robust arts
program that includes visual arts, poetry,
dance, circus arts, and acting components.
Our grant supports the Arts as Healing
Program, which has hired an arts
therapist to run community arts projects
and to train KID smART artists who are
teaching in the public schools.
Moore Community House (MCH)
$8,500
Biloxi, MS, United States
Director Carol Burnett
[email protected]
www.moorecommunityhouse.org
A longstanding provider of early
childhood education to low-income
children in economically depressed
Biloxi, MCH was devastated by
Hurricane Katrina and is still rebuilding
and renovating its buildings. Our
grant supports the childcare center.
Zion Travelers Cooperative Center
(ZTCC)
$19,000
Phoenix, LA, United States
Tyronne Edwards
[email protected]
www.ziontcc.org
Director
Based in rural Louisiana, ZTCC works
hand in hand with community members
to help them obtain basic material
goods and rebuild their lives. Our grant
supports ZTCC’s nutrition, fitness, and
activity resource center to enhance the
health of local children and youth.
Tamb-o-rine and Fan Club
$8,500
Pakistan Earthquake
Jerome Smith
[email protected]
De Laas Gul (Hand-Embroidered
Flower) Welfare Programme (DLG)
Director
Tamb-o-rine and Fan Club, a youth
development organization offering a
holistic approach to education, training,
and social services for low-income
African American youth in the New
Orleans neighborhood of Treme,
reintegrates hurricane-affected youth into
their communities and makes them feel
welcome and embraced as they return
to New Orleans. Our grant supports the
Balls and Books Program, an educational
program that encourages youth to be
academically and physically engaged.
Vietnamese Initiatives
in Economic Training (VIET)
$8,500
Director Cyndi Nguyen
[email protected]
www.vietno.org
VIET, a community and youth
development organization, serves the
predominantly Vietnamese American
community in New Orleans East
through education and job-training
programs and by providing disaster
recovery assistance to neighborhood
residents. Our grant supports the
after-school program, which provides
low-income students with academic
tutoring and mentoring, community
service projects, and field trips and
offers counseling to youth as they
return to this hard-hit area.
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Peshawar, Pakistan
Meraj Humayun Khan
[email protected]
www.pcp.org.pk
Director
DLG was founded in 1976 as a
microenterprise organization for women
and has since developed into one of
the leading organizations working
against child labor and for women’s
empowerment. Our grant supports
livelihood skills training, complemented
by functional literacy courses, for
earthquake-affected youth in Mansehra.
Doosti Pakistan
Peshawar, Pakistan
Mr. Tassawar
[email protected]
Director
One of the few organizations in the
North-West Frontier Province of
Pakistan with staff trained in a variety of
psychological methods and techniques,
Doosti Pakistan has helped over 3,000
children, youth, and women move
beyond the Pakistan earthquake disaster
and rebuild their lives. Our grant
supports psychosocial rehabilitation
programs that help children and youth
to heal and rebuild their lives.
Interfaith Dialogue and Research
Center (IDRC)
Islamabad, Pakistan
Robin Daniel
[email protected]
Director
IDRC advances the study of social,
economic, and political trends in
different faith traditions and initiates
interfaith dialogue to promote peace.
Our grant supports IDRC’s initiative
to cultivate positive opportunities for
youth in the earthquake-affected areas
of Balakot and Muzaffarabad through
participation in educational forums,
trainings, and activities to help combat a
lack of information and awareness that is
often manipulated by religious extremists.
Advocacy (PODA)
Sameena Nazir
[email protected]
Director
PODA has worked since 2003 to build
the capacity of rural communities to
promote economic, social, cultural, and
political rights in order to strengthen
support for gender equity, diversity,
and democracy. Our grant funds the
Artisan Support Center, which provides
skills training to local youth to restore
livelihood and income generation to
affected communities in Muzaffarabad.
Shangla Development Society (SDS)
Alpuri, Shangla district, Pakistan
Iftikhar Hussain
[email protected]
Director
SDS works for the development and
rehabilitation of the Shangla district and
has played a crucial role in the aftermath
of the earthquake, advocating for a
greater budget allocation for education
in the earthquake-affected areas. Our
grant supports awareness and leadership
training for youth on critical issues
including education, children’s rights,
and protection of the environment.
Currencies were converted on September
21, 2006, for grants awarded in fall 2006
and on April 12, 2007, for grants awarded
in spring 2007.
Financials
2006–2007
Fiscal year 2006–2007 was another
successful year for The Global Fund
for Children.
Net assets grew by nearly 58 percent,
fueled by a total revenue figure that was
$1.8 million higher than in the previous
fiscal year. The largest source of revenue
growth came in gifts from corporations,
which at $2.5 million were 60 percent
higher than in fiscal year 2005–2006.
Our budget grew by 40 percent to $5.1
million. The two segments of the budget
that increased the most were direct grants,
which grew 57 percent to $2.7 million,
and salaries and benefits, which rose by
46 percent to $1.3 million. This latter
item reflects our continued investment in
the necessary staff and infrastructure to
support our dramatic growth.
Despite such an investment, our budgetary
ratio of funds directed to program
services actually improved, reaching 87
percent, with only 13 percent spent on
general administration and fundraising.
The Global Fund for Children was
awarded a four-star rating by Charity
Navigator (www.charitynavigator.com)
for the third consecutive year, meaning
that our performance “exceeds industry
standards and outperforms most
charities in [our] Cause.”
This year, we were also accredited by the
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving
Alliance (http://charityreports.bbb.org)
for meeting all 20 Standards for Charity
Accountability. These standards were
developed to assist donors in making
sound giving decisions and to foster public
confidence in charitable organizations.
In fiscal year 2006–2007, we established
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust,
a registered charity (charitable number
1119544) in the United Kingdom. The
Global Fund for Children and The Global
Fund for Children UK Trust cooperate
to raise funds in the United States and
across Europe to further our joint mission
of advancing the dignity of children
and young people throughout the world
through the provision of grants and
other forms of assistance. The following
audited financial statements reflect the
consolidated results of both organizations.
Next fiscal year, we anticipate similar
growth in revenues and in our budget.
We head into the 2007–2008 fiscal year
with $2.9 million in pledges to support
our growth. In addition, to ensure that we
have sufficient funding at all times, we have
increased our Reserve Fund to $800,000.
A full audited financial report prepared
by LarsonAllen LLP is available on our
website at www.globalfundforchildren.org.
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Independent Auditors’ Report
Board of Directors
Washington, D.C.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated statement
of financial position of The Global Fund for Children and
affiliate as of June 30, 2007, and the related consolidated
statements activities and cash flows for the year then ended.
We have also audited the statement of financial position of
The Global Fund for Children as of June 30, 2006, and the
related statements activities and cash flows for the year then
ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Organizations’ management. Our responsibility is to express
an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with U.S. generally
accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we
plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance
about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the
financial statements.
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An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles
used and significant estimates made by management, as well
as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We
believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the 2007 consolidated financial statements
referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
consolidated financial position of The Global Fund for
Children and affiliate as of June 30, 2007, and the results of
their operations and their cash flows for the year then ended in
conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Also, in our opinion, the 2006 financial statements present
fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The
Global Fund for Children as of June 30, 2006, and the results
of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended in
conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Arlington, Virginia
September 24, 2007
LarsonAllen LLP
Statements of Financial Position
June 30, 2007 and 2006
Consolidated
2007
2006
Assets
Current Assets
Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 1,936,768 $ 1,142,964
Certificates of Deposit 200,000 600,000
Accounts Receivable: Promises to Give 2,301,663 1,254,630
Other 4,993 9,620
Total Accounts Receivable 2,306,656 1,264,250
Prepaid Expenses 29,015 23,337
Total Current Assets 4,472,439 3,030,551
Promises to Give, Net of Current Portion 612,381 105,703
Property and Equipment Office Equipment 89,806 77,557
Leasehold Improvements 39,593 39,593
Computer Software 13,750 143,149 117,150
Less: Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization (64,132)
(42,681)
Total Property and Equipment 79,017 74,469
Deposits 12,446 12,446
Total Assets $ 5,176,283 $ 3,223,169
Liabilities and Net Assets Current Liabilities Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses $ 196,601 $ 71,319
Accrued Vacation and Bonus 60,280 36,526
Total Current Liabilities 256,881 107,845
Commitments and Contingencies Net Assets Unrestricted 1,191,347 1,529,171
Temporarily Restricted 3,411,055 1,536,153
Permanently Restricted 317,000 50,000
Total Net Assets 4,919,402 3,115,324
Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 5,176,283 $ 3,223,169
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Revenues 2006–2007
Individual Donors 45%
Corporate
29%
Foundations
22%
Interest and Others 2%
Matching Gifts
1%
Book Revenue
1%
Statements of Activities
June 30, 2007 and 2006
Consolidated
2007
Temporarily Permanently Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 2006
Total
Revenue Gifts and Grants $ 1,976,827 $ 4,503,089 $ 267,000 $ 6,746,916 $ 2,591,209 $ 2,156,169 $
50,000 $ 4,797,378
Book Revenues
and Royalties 43,698 - - 43,698 47,125 - - 47,125
Investment Income 128,620 - - 128,620 54,033 - - 54,033
Other 12 - - 12 4,000 - - 4,000
Net Assets Released
from Restrictions 2,628,187 (2,628,187)
- - 1,641,410 (1,641,410)
- Total Revenue 4,777,344 1,874,902 267,000 6,919,246 4,337,777 514,759 50,000 4,902,536
Expenses Program Services: Global Media
- Ventures 659,144 - 659,144 538,098 - - 538,098
Grantmaking 3,807,589 - - 3,807,589 2,564,024 - - 2,564,024
Total Program
Services 4,466,733 - - 4,466,733 3,102,122 - - 3,102,122
Supporting Services: Management and
General 154,087 - - 154,087 150,320 - - 150,320
Fundraising 494,348 - - 494,348 422,967 - - 422,967
Total Supporting
Services 648,435 - - 648,435 573,287 - - 573,287
Total Expenses 5,115,168 - - 5,115,168 3,675,409 - - 3,675,409
Change in Net Assets (337,824) 1,874,902 267,000 1,804,078 662,368 514,759 50,000 1,227,127
Net Assets
Beginning of Year 1,529,171 1,536,153 50,000 3,115,324 866,803 1,021,394 - 1,888,197
Net Assets
End of Year $ 1,191,347 $ 3,411,055 $ 317,000 $ 4,919,402 $ 1,529,171 $ 1,536,153 $
50,000 $ 3,115,324
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Expenditures 2006–2007
Total Program
Expenses
87%
Fundraising
10%
Total Management and Administration
3%
Statements of Cash Flows
June 30, 2007 and 2006
Consolidated
2007
Cash Flows from Operating Activities Change in Net Assets $ 1,804,078 Adjustments to Reconcile Change in Net Assets to Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities: Depreciation and Amortization 21,451 Permanently Restricted Contributions (267,000)
Loss on Abandonment of Leasehold Improvements - Changes in Assets and Liabilities: Accounts Receivable (1,549,084)
Prepaid Expenses (5,678)
Deposits - Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses 125,282 Accrued Vacation 23,754 Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities 152,803 Cash from Investing Activities Investments in Certificates of Deposit - Sales/Redemptions of Certificates of Deposit 400,000 Purchases of Property and Equipment (25,999)
Net Cash Provided (Used) by Investing Activities 374,001 Cash from Financing Activities Proceeds from Permanently Restricted Contributions 267,000 Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities 267,000 Net Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents 793,804 Cash and Cash Equivalents - Beginning of Year 1,142,964 Cash and Cash Equivalents - End of Year $ 1,936,768 121
2006
$ 1,227,127
17,291
(50,000)
10,318
(585,423)
(7,635)
(4,289)
17,903
20,882
646,174
(600,000)
(67,661)
(667,661)
50,000
50,000
28,513
1,114,451
$ 1,142,964
Notes to the Financial Statements
Note 1
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Organization
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) is an
international non-profit organization that seeks
to advance the dignity of children and youth
around the world by investing in innovative
community-based organizations working with
the world’s most vulnerable children and youth,
complemented by a dynamic media program
that highlights issues affecting children and
celebrates the global society in which we
all live. Through its Grantmaking Program,
GFC has awarded more than $7.6 million in
grants to over 279 groups in 65 countries and
reached more than one million children since
1997. Through its Global Media Ventures, it
has published 22 children’s books, produced
3 films, and commissioned 3 photographers
to document the lives of children and
youth all over the world.
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust is
a charity organization that exists to improve
the lives of vulnerable children and youth
in our world, primarily in Asia, Africa,
Latin America, and to a lesser extent, in the
London community where the office is based.
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust was
officially incorporated as a private limited
company in December 2006 and received
charity registration in the UK in June 2007.
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements
include the accounts of The Global Fund
for Children and The Global Fund for
Children UK Trust. Significant intercompany accounts and transactions have
been eliminated in consolidation.
Basis of Presentation
Financial statement presentation follows
the recommendations of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board in its Statement
of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS)
No. 117, Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit
Organizations. Under SFAS No. 117, GFC
is required to report information regarding
its financial position and activities according
to three classes of net assets: unrestricted net
assets, temporarily restricted net assets, and
permanently restricted net assets.
Income Tax Status
GFC is exempt from Federal income taxes
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code (IRC). The Internal Revenue
Service has classified GFC as a publicly
supported foundation under section 509(a)(1)
and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the IRC. The Global
Fund for Children UK Trust is exempt from
tax in the UK under Section 505 of the
Taxes Act of 1988.
Use of Estimates
Management used estimates and assumptions
in preparing the financial statements in
accordance with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America. Those
estimates and assumptions affect the reported
amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure
of contingent assets and liabilities, and the
reported revenues and expenses. Actual results
could vary from the estimates that were used.
Cash Equivalents
For financial statement purposes, GFC considers
its money market funds and certificates of
deposit purchased with original maturities of
three months or less to be cash equivalents.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable are recorded at their net
realizable value. Accounts 90 days past due
are analyzed for collectibility and when all
collection efforts have been exhausted, the
account is written off to bad debts.
Promises to Give
Unconditional promises to give are
recognized as revenues or gains in the period
received. Conditional promises to give are
recognized only when the conditions on
which they depend are substantially met and
the promises become unconditional. There
were no conditional promises to give at June
30, 2007 and 2006.
Marketable Securities
Investments in marketable equity securities
with readily determinable fair values are
stated at fair market value.
Property and Equipment
Furniture and equipment are recorded at
cost and are depreciated on the straight-line
basis over the estimated useful lives of the
assets of five years. Leasehold improvements
are amortized over the life of the lease. GFC
capitalizes all purchases of long-lived assets in
excess of $1,000, while maintenance and repairs
that do not improve or extend the useful lives of
the respective assets are expensed currently.
Net Assets
Net assets are classified for accounting and
reporting purposes according to their nature
and purpose and based upon the existence
or absence of any restrictions thereon. A
description of each net asset group is as follows:
Unrestricted Net Assets
Represents funds presently available for
use by GFC at its discretion.
Temporarily Restricted Net Assets
Represents unspent contributions and
grants that are restricted for use in certain
GFC programs or by time.
Permanently Restricted Net Assets
Represents contributions that are to be
held by GFC in perpetuity.
Intangible Assets
As of June 30, 2007 and 2006, GFC owned
the intellectual property for 22 book titles that
are printed as fourteen hardcover books, twelve
paperback books, four resource guides and
three board books. These books and curricula,
which are authored and published under the
brand “Global Fund for Children Books”
(formerly Shakti for Children™), represent
intellectual property which belongs to GFC
and upon which it earns copyright royalties.
The value of the intangible assets has not been
determined or recorded on the Statements of
Financial Position of the Organization.
Contributions and Grants
Contributions and grants are recorded as
revenue in the year notification is received
from the donor. Support that is donor restricted,
either by program or by time, is reported as an
increase in temporarily restricted net assets.
When the restriction expires, that is, when
a time restriction ends or the purpose of the
restriction is accomplished, temporarily restricted
net assets are reclassified to unrestricted net
assets as net assets released from restrictions.
Contributed Services
Contributed services that meet the criteria of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
(SFAS) No. 116, Accounting for Contributions
Received and Contributions Made, are recorded
at their fair market value.
Allocation of Expenses
The costs of providing various programs
and other activities have been summarized
on a functional basis in the Statements of
Activities. Accordingly, salary and other
overhead costs have been allocated among the
programs and supporting services benefited
based on time expended and space utilized.
Note 2
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that subject GFC
to concentrations of credit risk consist of
deposits placed with financial institutions.
Funds in excess of Federal insurance limits
consist of the following at June 30:
2007 2006
On Deposit
with Federally
Chartered Banks $1,712,836 $1,229,450
Note 3
Promises to Give
Promises to give as of June 30, 2007 and 2006
are unconditional. Amounts due after one year
are discounted at the rate of 5%. Promises to
give are considered fully collectible at June 30,
2007 and 2006 and are due as follows:
2007 2006
Promises to Give
Due in Less
Than One Year $2,301,663 $1,254,630
Promises to Give
Due in One to
Five Years
643,000 119,762
2,944,663 1,374,392
Less Present
Value Discount (30,619) (14,059)
Net Promises
to Give
$2,914,044 $1,360,333
Note 4
Temporarily Restricted Net Assets
At June 30, 2007 and 2006, net assets were
temporarily restricted as follows:
2007 2006
$3,168,669 $1,380,780
Grantmaking
Global Media
Ventures
Future Year’s
Support
42,386 70,000
200,000 85,373
$3,411,055 $1,536,153
The following is a summary of net assets
released from donor restrictions that satisfied
the restricted purposes specified by the donors
and net assets released due to the passage of
time for the years ended June 30:
2007 2006
Grantmaking
$2,500,573 $1,383,410
Global Media
Ventures
127,614 8,000
Lapsing of
Time Restriction - 250,000
$2,628,187 $1,641,410
Note 5
Program Services
Program services are segregated by type of
activity within the Statements of Activities.
The following indicates the specific activities
that are included in each program area:
borrow up to $200,000. The interest rate is the
bank’s prime rate, 8.25% as of June 30, 2007,
and the note is due on demand and is payable
in consecutive monthly payments of accrued
interest only. No amounts were borrowed
during the year ended June 30, 2007.
Grantmaking
The Global Fund for Children identifies and
invests in community-based organizations
around the world that use education as a vehicle
to protect and expand the rights of vulnerable
or marginalized children. GFC’s grants are
allocated into four major portfolios – Learning,
Enterprise, Safety, and Healthy Minds and
Bodies – and two smaller ones, Responding to
Crisis and Creative Opportunities.
Note 8
Office Lease
GFC rents office space for its headquarters under
a non-cancelable operating lease that expires in
September 2012. Rent expense amounted to
$174,960 and $136,515 for the years ended June
30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Future minimum
payments on the office lease are as follows:
In addition to these program grants, grantee
partners are also able to access other value-added
services, such as assistance in organizational
development, and access to various knowledge
initiatives like the knowledge exchange
workshops. For the year ended June 30, 2007,
GFC awarded 447 grants valued at $2,651,566
to 206 community-based organizations, as well
as approximately $90,000 to other non-profit
organizations relevant to its mission.
Through its Global Media Ventures, GFC
harnesses the power of books, films, photography,
and online communications to advance the
dignity of children and youth all over the world.
The Global Media Ventures program consists
of children’s book publishing and distribution
(GFC Books and Books for Kids project), films
(GFC Films), and documentary photography
(Global Fund for Children/International Center
of Photography Fellowship).
This fiscal year, GFC published one children’s
book (Global Babies), invested in two
films (War Child, Journey of a Red Fridge),
awarded a GFC/ICP Fellowship to a young
photographer, and distributed 6,508 children’s
books to 20 groups all over the world.
Note 6
Contributed Services
During June 30, 2007 and 2006, GFC received
services with an estimated fair value of $28,194
and $35,815, respectively, in the form of
pro-bono legal services. These services were
dedicated to education, research, development,
lease documentation and general legal advice.
Note 7
Line of Credit
During June of 2007, the Organization
established a line of credit with Wachovia
Bank, which allows the Organization to
Year Ending June 30,
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Total
Minimum Lease Payment
$ 155,931
159,837
163,842
171,342
176,753
44,459
$872,164
During August 2007, the Organization entered
into a 123 month non-cancelable operating
lease to expand the headquarters office space.
The additional office space is expected to be
available June 1, 2008. The total commitment
related to the additional space is $2,305,275.
Note 9
Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan
GFC maintains a contributory defined
contribution plan under Section 403(b) of the
Internal Revenue Code for the benefit of its
employees. All employees, except for part-time
employees who normally work less than 20
hours per week, may participate in the Plan.
The Fund may choose to make a discretionary
contribution to the Plan. In order to be eligible
to receive a discretionary contribution, an
eligible employee must complete two eligibility
years of service. Pension expense for the Plan
totaled $16,492 and $18,970 for the years
ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively.
Note 10
Contingencies
GFC receives a portion of its revenue from
grants and contracts. The ultimate determinations
of amounts received under these programs often
are based upon allowable costs, reported to the
donor. In some instances, the donor reserves the
right to audit the program costs. Until the
final settlement is reached with each donor,
there exists a contingency to refund any amount
received for costs deemed unallowable in an audit
conducted by a donor. Such settlements, if any,
will be recognized as revenue or expense in the
period the amount is determined.
Directors
Board of Directors
Juliette Gimon, Chair
Team Member, Google.org
Trustee, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
New York, New York
Maya Ajmera
Founder and President
Washington, DC
Peter Briger
Principal
Fortress Investment Group LLC
New York, New York
Sanjiv Khattri
Executive Vice President and CFO
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
New York, New York
Directors Emeriti
William Ascher
Donald C. McKenna Professor of
Government and Economics
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California
Dena Blank
Trustee, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
New York, New York
Laura Luger
Attorney
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Durham, North Carolina
Adele Richardson Ray
Trustee, Smith Richardson Foundation
Pittsboro, North Carolina
the global fund for children
UK Trust
Mark McGoldrick, Chair
Michael Daffey*
Goldman Sachs and Company
Dina de Angelo*
Rothschild Private Wealth Management Ltd.
John K. Hepburn
Morgan Stanley (Europe) Ltd.
Dirk Ormoneit
Bluecrest Capital Management
James M. Sheridan
Asia Absolute Capital Partners LLC
Mark McGoldrick
Sandra Pinnavaia
Senior Vice President
Business Talent Group LLC
New York, New York
Patricia Rosenfield
Chair, Carnegie Scholars Program
Carnegie Corporation of New York
New York, New York
Roy Salamé
Managing Director
Lehman Brothers, Inc.
New York, New York
Robert Scully, Vice Chair
Co-President
Morgan Stanley
New York, New York
Raj Singh
Co-Founder and President
Telcom Ventures LLC
Alexandria, Virginia
Isabel Carter Stewart, Secretary
Chicago, Illinois
Robert D. Stillman, Treasurer
President
Millbridge Capital Management
Chevy Chase, Maryland
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*Upon confirmation ( June 20, 2007)
Staff
Maya Ajmera
Founder and President
Erin Hustings
Legal Associate
Finance and Operations
Mitchell D. Fenster
Vice President of Finance and Operations
Andrew Barnes
Grants Manager
Meheret Mellese
Information Technology Manager
Adlai Amor
Vice President of Global Media Ventures
Magda Nakassis
Program Assistant
Cynthia Pon
Director of Global Fund for Children Books
International Fellows
Sonali Ojha
2006 International Fellow
Mumbai, India
Nardos Worku
Administrative Assistant
Nicholas Kauffman
2007 International Fellow
Mexico City, Mexico
Development
Ahna Machan
Director of Development
William Ascher Summer Fellow
Sarah Ireland
Harvard University
Ann Corbett
Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer
Research Associate
Craig Martinez
Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University
Tamar Schiffman
Investor Relations Officer
Jenny Tolan
Development Associate
Interns
Stefanie Garry
George Washington University
Grantmaking Program
Victoria Dunning
Vice President of Grantmaking Program
Catherine Hendrix
School of Advanced International Studies
The Johns Hopkins University
Ananya Bhattacharya-Price
Program Officer, South Asia
Irene Hu
Georgetown University
Elsa Fan
Program Officer, East and Southeast Asia
Stephen Kalin
Davidson College
Solome Lemma
Program Officer, Africa
Angie Kim
Carlton College
Katy Love
Assistant Program Officer, Eastern Europe
and the United States
Sabiha Zainulbai
George Washington University
Shawn Malone
Senior Program Officer, Latin America
and the Caribbean
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Index
Aangan Trust, 96
Abiola-Costello, Hafsat, 51, 92
Ação Forte (Strong Action), 88
Achlal (Caring Kindness) Child Development Center, 74
Action pour la Promotion des Droits de l’Enfant au Burkina Faso (APRODEB) (Action for the Promotion of the Rights of the Burkinabe Child), 104
Afghan Institute of Learning, 56, 113
Agastya International Foundation, 48, 62–63, 74
Alarcón, Lida, 35, 107
Alliance for Children and Youth, 26, 46, 88
Amahoro Association, 104
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), 44, 110
American Jewish World Service, 50, 52
American River Logistics, 56
Anandan (Happiness), 74
Ankuram (Sprout) Woman and Child Development Society, 46, 96
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA), 75
Arora, Jatinder, 43, 45, 84
Asanblé Vwazen Jakè (AVJ)
( Jakè Neighborhood Association), 75
Ascensions Community Services, 33, 104
Asha Urbana-Champaign, 52
Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo
(Pro-Child Civil Association), 75
Asociación de Comunidades Eclesiales
de Base (CEB) (Association of
Grassroots Christian Communities), 88
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI) (Association for the Defense of Life), 76
Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial Bilingüe Maya-Ixil (APEDIBIMI)
(Maya-Ixil Association of Promoters of Bilingual Early Education), 76
Asociación Mujer y Comunidad
(Women and Community Association), 76
Asociación para la Atención Integral de Niños de la Calle (AIDENICA)
(Association for Comprehensive Care of Street Boys), 105
Asociación para los Derechos de la
Niñez “Monseñor Oscar Romero” (Monsignor Oscar Romero Association for Children’s Rights), 77
Asociación Poder Joven
(Youth Power Association), 77
Asociación Promoción y Desarrollo de la Mujer Nicaragüense Acahualt
(Acahualt Association for the Promotion and Development of Nicaraguan Women), 77
Asociación Solas y Unidas, 52
Asociatia Ovidiu Rom, 77
126
Asociatia pentru Libertatea si Egalitatea de Gen (ALEG) (Association for Liberty
and Gender Equality), 30, 96
Associação de Apoio às Meninas e Meninos da Região Sé (AA Criança) (Association for Support of Boys and Girls of the
Sé Region), 105
Association d’Appui et d’Eveil Pugsada (ADEP) (Association of Support and Coming of Age), 97
Association des Artistes et Artisans contre le
VIH/SIDA et les Stupifiants (AARCOSIS)
(Association of Artists and Artisans against HIV/AIDS and Drugs), 105
Association des Jeunes pour le Développement Intégré–Kakundu
(AJEDI-Ka) (Youth Association for
Integrated Development–Kakundu), 97
Libanais (AFEL) (Lebanese Child Home
Association), 37, 97, 112
Association for Community Development
Services (ACDS), 77
Association for the Development and
Enhancement of Women (ADEW), 50, 106
Association Jeunesse Actions Mali (AJA
Mali) (Youth Action Association of Mali), 98
Association La Lumière
(The Light Association), 46, 98
Association of People for Practical Life
Education (APPLE), 30, 98
Avenir de l’Enfant (ADE)
(Future of the Child), 52, 99
Awesome Girls Mentoring Program, 115
Ba Futuru (For the Future), 56, 108
Backward Society Education (BASE), 77
Barraca da Amizade (Shelter of Friendship), 99
Belun, 52
Benishyaka Association, 78
Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas
(Th’uruchapitas Library), 22, 46, 78
Books for Kids project, 56–57
Carolina for Kibera, 106
Centar za Integraciju Mladih (CIM)
(Center for Youth Integration), 31, 99
Center for Prevention of Child Abuse and
Neglect (CPCAN), 30, 99
Center for the Protection of Children’s
Rights Foundation (CPCR), 106
Centro Cultural Batahola Norte (CCBN)
(Cultural Center of Batahola Norte),
46, 53, 78
Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de
Oaxaca (CANICA) (Center for the
Support of Street Children of Oaxaca),
37, 89, 112
Centro de Documentacão e Informacão
Coisa de Mulher (CEDOICOM) (Center
for Documentation and Information on Women’s Issues), 106
Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para el
Desarrollo Local (CEADEL) (Center for
Study and Support for Local
Development), 78
Centro de Estudos e Ação em Atenção à
Infância e as Drogas Excola (Excola
Center for Research and Action on
Childhood and Drug Use), 50, 99
Centro Interdisciplinario para el Desarrollo
Social (CIDES) (Interdisciplinary Center
for Social Development), 99
Centro para el Desarrollo Regional (CDR) (Center for Regional Development), 99
(San Juan Bosco Center), 44, 89
Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y
Educación Recreativa El Caracol
(El Caracol Transitional Center for Training and Recreational Education), 52, 89
Challenging Heights, 22, 78
Charity Navigator, 12, 117
Charlesbridge Publishing, 56
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe, 12, 56
Children in the Wilderness (CITW), 78
Children on the Edge–Romania (COTE),
46, 99
Children’s Legal Rights and Development
Center (CLRD), 99, 113
Chintan Environmental Research and Action
Group, 13, 78
Chiricli (Bird) International Roma Women
Charitable Fund, 78
Colectivo de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras
(ANICA) (Collective for Support of Street Girls), 100
Community Development Center (CDC), 78
Community Outreach Programme (CORP),
46, 100
conference and travel grants, 14
Council on Foundations, 13
country presence, growth in, 15
Creative Opportunities portfolio, 14
grantee partners, 110–111
crisis response, 37–38
Dasra, 52
De Laas Gul (Hand-Embroidered Flower) Welfare Programme (DLG), 90, 116
Desarrollo Autogestionario (AUGE)
(Self-Managed Development), 27, 90
Dhriiti (The Courage Within), 48, 90
Direct Change, 110
Djordjevic, Milica, 31, 99
documentary photography, 57
donors, 66–71
Door Step School, 48, 52, 79
Doosti Pakistan, 46, 116
Dream a Dream, 48, 90
Dreamcatchers Foundation, 53, 106
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee
(DMSC), 79
Early Intervention Institute for Children
with Developmental Delays and
Disabilities (EII), 22, 79
Education as a Vaccine against AIDS Inc.
(EVA), 107
18th Street Films, 57, 111
El Caracol, 52, 89
EMpower—The Emerging Markets
Foundation 50, 52
Enterprise portfolio, 14, 24–27
Espacio Cultural Creativo
(Cultural Creative Space), 110
Ethiopian Books for Children and
Educational Foundation (EBCEF), 80
Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama NAD, 113
Federación de Salud Infantil y Reproductiva
de Guatemala (FESIRGUA)
(Guatemalan Federation for Child and Reproductive Health), 90
Fezehai, Malin, 57, 73
films, 57
financials, 117–123
Firelight Foundation, 50
Forum Comunicações Juventude Oratorio Don Bosco (FCJ) (Don Bosco Children’s
Communications Forum), 29, 100
Foundation for the Development of Needy
Communities (FDNC), 44, 90
Free Minds Book Club and Writing
Workshop, 80
Friends for Street Children (FFSC), 80
Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la
Promoción Humana (Alfonso
Casas Morales Foundation for Human
Advancement), 80
Fundación Junto con los Niños ( JUCONI)
(Together with Children Foundation), 55, 80
Fundación La Paz (La Paz Foundation), 44, 91
Fundación Simsa (Simsa Foundation), 35, 107
127
Fundatia Noi Orizonturi (New
Horizons Foundation), 46, 91
García, Gloria Agueda García, 27, 90
gender differences, 16
Gender Education, Research and
Technologies Foundation (GERT), 52, 100
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS), 100
Global Babies, 12, 13, 56
Global Fund for Children Books, 56
Global Fund for Children/Goldman Sachs
Foundation Initiative, 48–49
Global Fund for Children/International Center of Photography Fellowship, 57
Global Fund for Children UK Trust, 111, 117
Global Fund for Women, 50, 52
Global Goods Partners (GGP), 39, 111
Global Media Ventures, 56–57
Goals and Performance Analysts, 52
Going to School (GTS), 48, 52, 91
Goldman Sachs Foundation, 48–49
Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan (GMSS)
(Sikar Girls Education Initiative), 48, 80
grantee partners
increase in, 14–15
knowledge initiatives for, 53
selecting, 72–73
value-added services for, 52–53
grantmaking
gender and, 16
growth in, 14–15
investment in grantee partners, 52–53
and the rural-urban divide, 17
grants
increase in, 14–15
regional distribution by number, 18–19
regional distribution by value, 18–19
value, growth in, 14
Grassroots Girls Initiative (GGI), 50–51
Guaruma, 91
Development (ILID), 48, 81
Instituto Fazer Acontecer (IFA)
(Make It Happen Institute), 91
Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Mujer
y la Infancia (IDEMI) (Institute for the
Development of Women and Children),
46, 100
Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria
Urbana (ISMU) (Institute for Overcoming
Urban Poverty), 81
Integrated Community Health Services
(INCHES), 107
Interfaith Dialogue and Research Center
(IDRC), 116
International Center for Research on
Women, 50
International Fellows Program, 53
Jabala Action Research Organisation, 100
Jeeva Jyothi (Everlasting Light), 48, 92
Jifunze (Learning) Project, 81
Jinpa Project, 109
Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being Grants, 14, 46–47
Journey of a Red Fridge, 13, 57, 111
Joy Center (Nia Foundation), 34, 107
JUCONI, 53, 80
Halley Movement, 81
healthcare interventions and supplies, 46–47
Healthy Minds and Bodies portfolio, 14, 32–35
Himpunan Psikologi Indonesia (HIMPSI)
(Indonesian Psychological Association), 113
Hope for Children Organization (HFC), 81
Horn Relief, 44–45, 91
Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson, 47, 107
Kalinga Mission for Indigenous Children and
Youth Development (KAMICYDI), 26, 92
Kamitei Foundation, 81
Kampuchean Action for Primary Education
(KAPE), 45, 82
Kamulu Rehabilitation Centre (KRC), 82
Karm Marg (Progress through Work),
48, 49, 92
Kham Kampo Association (KKA), 21, 46, 82
KID smART, 115
Kids in Need of Direction (KIND), 45, 82
Kiev Children and Youth Support Center, 100
Kindle, 82
Kinniya Vision (KV), 37, 112, 114
Kitemu Integrated School, 82
KLARA (Knowledge, Learning, and Resource Access) Network, 42, 52
Knowledge Exchange workshops, 53
Kolkata Sanved (Kolkata Sensitivity), 50, 107
Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND),
46, 51, 92
Ikamva Labantu (The Future of Our Nation),
107
Incest Trauma Center (ITC), 107
Institute of Leadership and Institutional La Conscience (Conscience), 100
Lal, Veena, 49, 92
Lapeng (Home) Child and Family
Resource Service, 82
Laura Vicuña Foundation (LVF), 101
Learning portfolio, 14, 20–23
leveraging work, 52
Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, 53
Life Home Project Foundation, 114
Light for All (LiFA), 82
Love in Action Ethiopia (LIA), 25–26, 92
Luna Nueva (New Moon), 101
Lunam Productions, 57, 111
Magic Bus Connect, 48, 92
Mahita (Regeneration), 82
Mama Cash, 50
Men on the Side of the Road (MSR), 93
Mirman School, 61
Mirror Foundation, 114
Monduli Pastoralist Development Initiative,
22, 46, 83
Moore Community House (MCH), 116
Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas
(MUDHA) (Movement of Dominican Haitian Women), 22, 83
Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo
Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS)
(Movement for International Self Development and Solidarity), 101
Muhammadiyah ’Aisyiyah, 115
Mujejego-Loka (Dawn Light) Women
Development Organization, 46, 93
Mumbai Mobile Crèches, 62, 83
Nazir, Sameena, 39, 94, 116
Nehemiah AIDS Relief Project, 84
Neng Guan Performing Arts Training
Center, 33–34, 107
Nepal Bhotia Education Center (NBEC), 84
Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development (NEED), 84
networking grants, 14
New Global Citizens, 60–61
New Horizon Ministries (NHM), 52, 84
New Life Community Project, 101
newsletter, @work, 57
Nia Foundation ( Joy Center), 34, 107
Nike Foundation, 50–51, 52
Niños con una Esperanza
(Children with a Hope), 101
Nyaka AIDS Orphans School, 47, 107
On the Road blog, 57
Oprah’s Angel Network, 56
Oram (Hope) NGO, 101
organizational development, 14, 52
Our Children, 84
Oyekunle, Amy, 51
128
Pazapa (Step by Step), 34, 108
Phulki (Spark), 93
portfolios, 14
Advocacy (PODA), 39, 52, 94, 116
Pravah (Flow), 48, 94
Prayas (Endeavor), 43, 45, 52, 84
Prei Effort for Those Who Are in Need
(PEFAN), 102
Prerana (Inspiration), 52, 85
Prisoners Assistance Program (PAP), 46, 102
Protecting Environment and Children
Everywhere (PEACE), 102
psychosocial health, 33
Puririsun (Let’s Journey Together), 85
Rapid Response Grants, 37–38, 112–113
Recovery and Renewal Grants, 37, 38,
113–116
Relief International, 37, 112
research projects, 53
Responding to Crisis portfolio, 14, 36–39
Robichaux, Brenda Dardar, 23, 87
Rozan, 108
Ruchika Social Service Organization, 61
Ruili Women and Children Development
Center (RWCDC), 108
Rural Family Support Organization
(RuFamSO), 94
safe environments, 29–30
Safety portfolio, 14, 28–31
Salesian Sisters of Zambia, 102
Salus, 109
Sam-Kam Institute (SKI), 95
Sanghamitra Service Society, 95, 112, 115
Shaishav (Childhood) Trust, 48, 95
Shangla Development Society (SDS), 116
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha
(Village Self-Reliance), 52, 85
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT), 52, 85, 115
SIN-DO, 46, 102
Skolta’el Yu’un Jlumaltic (SYJAC)
(Service to Our People), 46, 85
Snowland Service Group (SSG), 85
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN)
(Friends of Children Society), 102
Sociedad Dominico-Haitiana de Apoyo
Integral para el Desarrollo y la Salud
(SODHAIDESA) (Dominican-Haitian
Society of Comprehensive Assistance for
Health and Development), 86
Society Biliki (Path Society), 46, 86
Society for Education and Action (SEA), 86
Society Undertaking Poor People’s Onus for
Rehabilitation (SUPPORT), 34, 109
Sunera Foundation, 56, 115
Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable for
Better Health, Education, and Nutrition
in Uganda (SOVHEN), 26, 95
Sustainability Awards, 14, 42–45
Synapse Network Center, 95
Synergie pour l’Enfance
(Synergy for Childhood), 34, 109
Tamb-o-rine and Fan Club, 116
Tanadgoma (Assistance) Library and Cultural
Center for People with Disabilities, 87
Tasintha (Deeper Transformation) Programme, 103
Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF), 87
Tea Collection, 60
Teboho Trust, 87
tracking grants, 14, 42, 53
Udruzenje “Nova Generacija” (New Generation Association), 103
United Houma Nation, 23, 87
Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training
(VIET), 116
Vikasini Girl Child Education Trust, 87
Vikramshila Education Resource Society, 87
Vizyon Dwa Ayisyen (VIDWA)
(Haitian Rights Vision), 109
War Child, 13, 57, 111
Warma Tarinakuy (Assembly of the
Children), 25, 95
Washington Area Women’s Foundation, 52
William Ascher Summer Fellowship, 53
Wilmer Shields Rich Awards, 57
Women Development Association (WDA), 95
Women in Social Entrepreneurship (WISE), 95
Women Lawyers’ Association of Thailand
(WLAT), 115
Women’s Education for Advancement and
Empowerment (WEAVE), 87
Yanapanakusun (Let’s Help Each Other),
30, 103
Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT), 87
Youth Activist Organization, 50, 109
Zion Travelers Cooperative Center (ZTCC), 116
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Confidence
Courage
Trust
Knowledge
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