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Grants 2002-2003
Schools and Scholarships
Hazardous Child Labor
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Education for Boys
General
Supplemental Health and Well-Being Grants
Schools and Scholarships
Enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is every child’s right. Unfortunately, one in five school-age children around the world—120 to 125 million children worldwide—are not enrolled in primary school. Even where government schools exist, teachers are often unable to teach class on a regular schedule; books and learning materials are scarce; classes are crowded; schools are unsafe; and communities have little say in what schools teach. In addition, in many countries where schools are nominally free, supplemental fees and other costs, such as those for books and uniforms, are higher than many families can afford. For millions of children, the choice appears to be either work and eat or study and starve. Despite the growing global awareness and concern surrounding the issue of universal education, effort and innovation must come from within the communities that are in need of education. GFC has identified the following grantee partners as highly effective and successful agents of change within their own societies, all of them profoundly changing the lives of thousands of children through nonformal education, skills training, youth empowerment programs, and scholarships for both primary- and secondary-school children to attend formal school.
Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial y Preprimaria
Bilingüe Maya Ixil (APEDIBIMI)
(Maya Ixil Association of Promoters of Early and Preprimary Bilingual
Education)
$6,000/47,280 quetzales
Nebaj, Guatemala
Executive director: Benito Terraza Cedillo
apedibimi@hotmail.com
APEDIBIMI works to address the absence of bilingual preprimary education
in the Ixil and Spanish languages by providing educational services
in twenty preprimary centers in fourteen villages, serving more than
1,300 children. GFC’s grant pays for APEDIBIMI’s preprimary-education
centers and workshops for parents.
Asociación Deporte y Vida (Sports and Life Association)
$6,000/20,970 nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: José Luis Quiroga Becerra
sdiestro@yahoo.com
Deporte y Vida encourages young people living in the sprawling slum
of Villa El Salvador to become involved in education and life skills
training by offering them the rare opportunity to play soccer, volleyball,
and other sports they love. GFC’s grant is helping Deporte y Vida
expand its work to the Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Jardines de
Pachamac, serving an additional three hundred children.
Asociación Solas y Unidas (Alone and United Association)
$6,000/20,970 nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Sonia Borja Velazco
solasunidas@hotmail.com
Solas y Unidas is the only organization in Peru that aims to improve
the quality of life for children and women living with HIV/AIDS by providing
empowering personal and collective endeavors in the areas of health,
leadership, and employment. GFC’s grant provides support for Solas
y Unidas’s day school for children living with HIV/AIDS. 2002
grant: $5,000
Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development (CVCD)
$11,000/42,185,000 riel
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Executive director: Sothea Arun
info@cvcd.org, www.cvcd.org
CVCD promotes community volunteerism and offers nonformal education
programs to nearly two thousand disadvantaged children and youths, including
those living in the slums, land mine survivors, and child prostitutes.
GFC’s grant is for general support.
1999 through 2001 grants: $19,000 total
Children’s Town
$11,000/46,750,000 kwacha
Malambanyama Village, Zambia
Executive director: Moses Zulu
childaid@zamnet.zm
Children’s Town is a residential school that assists AIDS orphans
and other abandoned children with immediate needs, including food, shelter,
and medical care; nurtures them in a secure, family-like environment;
and provides high-quality education to students who have dropped out
of or never attended government-run schools. GFC’s grant provides
general support to Children’s Town, including high-school scholarships.
1999 through 2001 grants: $23,250 total
Christ School
$6,000/10,380,000 shillings
Bundibugyo, Uganda
Executive director: Kevin Bartkovich
kevinandjd@yahoo.com
Christ School, a residential school, provides secondary education for
children living in and around Bundibugyo, one of the poorest regions
in Uganda, where residents live under constant threat of violence from
rebel groups of the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. GFC’s
grant pays for a new Science, Technology, and Life Skills Education
program that provides students with hands-on and practical educational
experiences in and out of the classroom. 1999 grant: $3,000
Cidadela das Crianças (Children’s Town)
$7,000/160,090,000 meticais
Maputo, Mozambique
Executive director: Sarmento Preço
cidadelamap@teledata.mz
Cidadela provides a healthy environment in which over five hundred former
street children, AIDS orphans, and children from impoverished families—nearly
one hundred of whom both study and live at Cidadela—can attend
formal academic classes, learn professional skills, and contribute to
the daily functioning of the school. GFC’s grant provides general
support for Cidadela’s academic and skills training programs.
Conquest for Life
$11,000/92,873 rand
Westbury, South Africa
Executive director: Glen Steyn
info@conquest.org.za,
www.conquest.org.za
Conquest for Life is an organization run by young people for young people
that aims to empower youth through its day camps, after-school programs,
computer training center, vocational training program, victim-offender
mediation, and HIV/AIDS counseling. GFC’s grant provides support
for Conquest for Life’s Youth Enrichment Project, including a
Just for Kids peace games celebration.
2001 grant: $5,000
Friends for Street Children (FFSC)
$11,000/163,378,000 dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Thomas Tran Van Soi
hsc-hsma@cinet.vnnews.com
FFSC is one of Vietnam’s pioneers in developing innovative programs
that address the needs of street children and underserved youth by training
teachers and educators in counseling, advocacy, intervention, and other
traditional areas of social work. GFC’s grant provides general
support and capacity building for FFSC’s Le Minh Xuan Development
Center, which offers classes on literature, math, health, and natural
sciences, in addition to vocational training, family-centered activities,
and health care.
2000 and 2001 grants: $11,000 total
Fundación Apoyar (Support Foundation)
$6,000/17,082,000 pesos
Cartagena, Colombia
Executive director: Luz Dary Bueno
albaricardo2000@yahoo.com
Fundación Apoyar provides early-childhood-development activities,
a rarity in developing economies, through special toy libraries, supplemented
by nonformal education for youth throughout Colombia. GFC’s grant
pays for a new toy library in the urban slum area of San José
de los Campanos in the city of Cartagena.
Fundación La Paz: Centro de Capacitación Técnica Sarenteñani (La Paz Foundation: Sarenteñani Technical Training Center)
$6,000/45,024 bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Jorge Domic Ruiz
flpsocioeduca@kolla.net
The Sarenteñani Technical Training Center of the community-based
Fundación La Paz provides quality, certified training in leather
production, auto mechanics, carpentry, computer operation, metal working,
and textile design to underprivileged youth. GFC’s grant provides
general support for the Sarenteñani Technical Training Center.
Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan (GMSS) (Sikar Girls Education Initiative)
$11,000/527,230 rupees
Sikar, India
Executive director: Chain Singh Ayra
gm_skr86@yahoo.co.in
GMSS provides quality education for girls in rural Rajasthan who would
otherwise be unable to attend school, enabling them to lead meaningful
and prosperous lives and to make significant contributions to the well-being
of their families and society. GFC’s grant provides general support
for GMSS.
2001 grant: $10,000
Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization
$6,000/15,720,000 shillings
Sanaag Region, Somalia
Executive director: Fatima Jibrell
horn-rel@nbnet.co.ke,
www.hornrelief.org
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. GFC’s grant
is supporting the implementation and monitoring of youth-led community
development projects in six villages, part of Horn Relief’s Pastoral
Youth Leadership Outreach Program.
Ithuteng Trust
$7,000/50,160 rand
Soweto, South Africa
Executive director: Jacqueline Maarohanye
ithuteng@mweb.co.za
The Ithuteng Trust is the only organization working in the Orlando section
of Soweto that strives for the positive development of at-risk and traumatized
youth and focuses in particular on preventing these young people from
engaging in criminal activities. GFC’s grant provides general
support for the Ithuteng Trust.
Jifunze Project (Learning Project)
$6,000/5,338,000 shillings
Kibaya, Tanzania
Executive director: Yahaya Ndee
info@jifunze.org,
www.jifunze.org
The Jifunze Project aims to remedy the problem of education for the
children of Tanzania’s impoverished and isolated Kiteto District
by working alongside community members to help them create a sustainable
educational system. GFC’s grant supports the Jifunze Project’s
new Early Learning Center, the only center of its type in rural Tanzania.
Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE)
$7,000/26,710,600 riel
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Executive director: Sao Vanna
kape.cambodia@bigpond.com.kh
KAPE works with 172 schools serving seventy thousand children to promote
its mission to provide every Cambodian child with a quality basic education.
GFC’s grant funds scholarships and tutoring costs for forty-nine
girls participating in KAPE’s Girls’ Lower Secondary School
Program, as well as support and capacity building for Local Scholarship
Management Committees.
Kembatti Mentti Gezzima-Tope (KMG) (Kembatta Women’s Self-Help Center)
$6,000/50,700 birr
Kembatta Alaba and Tembaro Zone, Ethiopia
Executive director: Bogaletch Gebre
kmg.selfhelp@telecom.net.et,
www.kmgselfhelp.org
KMG focuses on improving reproductive-health awareness and practices,
providing vocational and entrepreneurial skills training, and protecting
and restoring the environment in rural areas, with improving and increasing
access to basic education as the cornerstone of all its activities.
GFC’s grant provides support for KMG’s nonformal-learning
center in rural Zato Shodera village.
Kids In Need of Direction (KIND)
$6,000/36,720 dollars
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Director: Marlon Persad
kind@kindkids.net,
www.kindkids.net
KIND assists disadvantaged children and youth in the low-income area
of Lavantille in Port-of-Spain by helping them overcome emotional or
physical abuse, build self-esteem, and restructure broken family life.
GFC’s grant provides support for KIND’s nonformal education
program.
Kitemu Integrated School
$6,000/10,380,000 shillings
Kampala, Uganda
Executive director: Sserwanga M. Stephen
kintsch@mail.com
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. This grant is for general support.
2001 grant: $4,000
Nepali-Bhotia Education Center (NTEC)
$6,000/451,320 rupees
Singsa area, Nepal
Project coordinator: Chhongduk Bhote
ntecnepal@mos.com.np
NTEC is an integrated education project that includes families and schools
in its effort to increase the quality, relevance, and accessibility
of formal and nonformal schooling for the isolated ethnic Tibetan Bhotia
minority. GFC’s grant provides support for NTEC’s Nonformal
Education/Out of School Children Program.
Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED)
$6,000/284,100 rupees
Lucknow, India
Executive director: Anil K. Singh
need@satyam.net.in,
www.indev.nic.in/need
NEED mobilizes and facilitates the grassroots-level formation of self-help
groups in order to create civil institutions that can respond to the
needs of undereducated women and children in rural India. GFC’s
grant supports four nonformal education centers that provide boys and
girls aged five to fourteen with basic education, awareness training,
and health education and that are operated by women from local NEED-facilitated
self-help groups.
Nishtha (Dedication)
$11,000/527,230 rupees
Baruipur, India
Executive director: A. Raha
minadas@vsnl.net
Nishtha’s Balika Bahini and Kishori Bahini programs, which combine
nonformal education, basic health care, and social activism, help girls
in over sixty villages in rural West Bengal gain the skills and confidence
that enable them to claim community roles equal to those of their male
counterparts. GFC’s grant funds school- and activity-related fees
for three hundred students. 1999 through 2001 grants: $14,800 total
NorthNet Foundation: AIDS Orphans Fund
$6,000/257,580 baht
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Director: Suchada Suwannathes
nnp8@chmai2.loxinfo.co.th
The AIDS Orphans Fund, a program of the NorthNet Foundation, works to
provide educational, social, and employment support to AIDS orphans
and their caregivers so that they can continue to live healthy lives
in their own communities. GFC’s grant provides general support
for the AIDS Orphans Fund, which furnishes school fees, uniforms, and
school supplies.
Our Children, Inc.
$6,000/13,372,800 leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
President: Nasserie Carew
ourchildreninc@yahoo.com,
www.ourchildreninc.com
Our Children provides a residential program for war orphans, an accelerated
learning program for disadvantaged children, and school supplies for
children living in displacement camps in and around Freetown. GFC’s
grant provides support for Our Children’s accelerated learning
and tuition program located in the neighborhood of Kissy.
2002 grant: $4,000
Prayas (To Wish)
$6,000/287,580 rupees
Jaipur, India
Executive director: Jatindar Arora
prayasjpr@hotmail.com
Prayas pioneered and operates one of the first integrated nonformal
schools in India for special-needs, low-income, and neglected children.
GFC’s grant is for general support.
2001 grant: $4,000
ProJoven (For Youth)
$8,000/54,208,000 guarani
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Maureen Herman
projoven@worldnet.att.net,
www.projoven.org
ProJOVEN uses a restorative justice model, along with education and
youth guidance, training community volunteers and educators, and networking
and creating awareness within the community, to help young people living
in poor communities in Asunción who have had conflict with the
law. GFC’s grant provides support for ProJOVEN’s Literacy
and Life Skills for Youth in Danger project, which teaches reading and
writing to adolescents aged thirteen to sixteen who are in danger of
delinquency.
2002 grant: $5,000
Reencontro (Mozambican Association for the Support and Development of Orphan Children)
$7,000/160,090,000 meticais
Maputo, Mozambique
President: Olinda Mugabe
olinda@realnet.co.sz
Reencontro works to alleviate the plight of AIDS orphans through home-based
care visits; identification of school vacancies that can be filled by
orphans; provision of school fees, materials, and uniforms; registration
of children’s citizenship; counseling and medical assistance;
and family placement of orphans. GFC’s grant provides support
for Reencontro’s projects serving the educational, health, and
survival needs of over six hundred AIDS orphans.
Room to Read
$5,000/76,990,000 dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Erin Keown
info@roomtoread.org,
www.roomtoread.org
Room to Read partners with communities in underdeveloped rural areas
of Vietnam and Nepal to build schools; to enhance educational facilities
within schools by establishing libraries, computer labs, and language
training centers; and to provide scholarships to underprivileged girls
who, due to poverty and cultural bias, were previously unable to attend
school. GFC’s grant is funding one-year scholarships for fifty
girls living in rural Vietnam and providing support for the organization’s
projects in Vietnam.
Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO): Train Platform Schools
$13,000/523,090 rupees
Bhubaneswar, India
Executive director: Inderjit Khurana
rssobbs@hotmail.com
The Train Platform Schools’ informal classrooms give more than
four hundred children who live, work, or beg on or around the railway
platforms daily access to books, worksheets, and arts and crafts. GFC’s
grant is being used both for operating the Train Platform Schools, a
project of RSSO, and for growing RSSO’s endowment to ensure the
future sustainability of the organization. This grant was funded in
large part by a readathon conducted by students at the Mirman School
in Los Angeles, California.
1998 through 2001 grants: $38,275 total
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT)
$6,000/578,700 rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Nita Gunesekera
shilpa@dynaweb.lk
SCT, inspired by the Montessori method, provides quality preschool and
extracurricular activities for internally displaced and underserved
children living in Narahenpita, one of Colombo’s poorest slums,
who cannot attend formal schools due to poverty, the need to work, or
unsatisfactory preschool options. GFC’s grant provides support
for SCT’s free preschool.
Society Biliki
$6,000/12,960 lari
Gori, Georgia
Executive director: Mari Mgebrishvili
biliki@iberiapac.ge
Biliki assists internally displaced, underprivileged, and special-needs
children through its Day Center, which offers educational and creative
programs, psychological services, a mothers-and-children club, and referrals
to other community social services. GFC’s grant provides support
to Biliki’s Day Center.
Vikramshila Education Resource Society
$6,000/287,580 rupees
Bigha, India
Executive director: Shubhra Chatterji
vikramshila@vikramshila.org,
www.vikramshila.org
Vikramshila establishes model community schools and trains government-school
teachers in its effort to make quality education accessible to marginalized
sectors of Indian society, and thus to lessen the disparity of educational
standards between the wealthy and the poor. GFC’s grant supports
the school’s operational costs, including sports activities and
cultural programs.
Hazardous Child Labor
Around the world, 246 million young people—one in every six children aged five to seventeen—are engaged either part-time or full-time in work that falls under international definitions of child labor. Laws and standards, while necessary, are increasingly recognized as only one part of the answer to the complex problems that lead children into harmful, hazardous, exploitative, and inappropriate work. The roots of child labor lie in poverty, discrimination, traditional expectations, and lack of other opportunities. Exploitation and harsh working conditions occur both outside and inside the home, and even children working in less extreme conditions to help support their families suffer slower growth and diminished learning potential. GFC believes that not all children’s work is harmful, and in some cases it may well help families survive in developing economies. However, long hours of work in factories, at home, on the streets, or in the fields keep millions of children out of school and leave those who do attend school too exhausted to study and learn. Recognizing the special needs of child laborers, the following organizations have tailored their educational, skills training, and youth empowerment programs in ways that best engage those children who are otherwise excluded from the formal school system due to the demands of their work. By showing child laborers and their communities the positive and rewarding alternatives to menial employment, these educational organizations are making a real impact on the futures of communities throughout the world.
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI) (Association for the Defense of Life)
$6,000/20,970 nuevos soles
Huachipa, Peru
Executive director: Ezequiel Robles Hurtado
adevi@terra.com.pe,
www.geocities.com/adeviperu
ADEVI operates a school for children who are employed in the brickyards
of the community of Huachipa, with the aim of reintegrating them into
the regular school system. GFC’s grant is helping ADEVI extend
its nonformal educational services to eighty additional children.
Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB) (San Juan Bosco Center)
$8,000/102,660 lempiras
Tela, Honduras
Executive director: Dylcia de Ochoa
sanjuan@hondutel.hn
CSJB seeks to enhance and sustain the quality of life of working children
and their families by promoting the values of responsibility, solidarity,
innovation, and participation and by providing children with opportunities
to continue their education. GFC’s grant supports CSJB in paying
school fees and purchasing school uniforms, shoes, and backpacks for
children working in the street markets.
Espacio Cultural Creativo (Creative Cultural Space)
$6,000/45,024 bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Washington Estellano
pipoeste@ceibo.entelnet.bo
Espacio Cultural Creativo invites shoeshine boys, market-working children,
and street children to interactive workshops held in open spaces such
as parks, encouraging them to take part in theatrical skits, music,
storytelling, and other creative activities, and ultimately striving
to channel participants into its basic literacy programs as well as
those of other educational organizations. GFC’s grant provides
general support for twenty-eight workshops.
Fundación Junto Con Los Niños de Puebla (JUCONI) (Together with the Children Foundation of Puebla)
$8,000/83,440 pesos
Puebla, Mexico
Director general: Alison Lane
alison@juconi.org.mx,
www.juconi.org.mx
JUCONI works with schoolteachers, parents, probation officers, employers,
and other significant figures within a market-working child’s
life, striving to empower family members to create permanent, positive
relationships within their existing and future families and to break
the cycle of abuse and violence prevalent in the homes of working children.
GFC’s grant provides general support for JUCONI’s project
to prevent and reduce violence in the families of market-working children.
Global March Against Child Labour
$5,000/236,750 rupees
Worldwide (based in New Delhi, India)
Chairperson: Kailash Satyarthi
yatra@del2.vsnl.net.in,
www.globalmarch.org
Global March is the largest worldwide network focused on protecting
and promoting the rights of child laborers, especially the rights to
receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from performing
any work that is likely to be damaging to a child’s physical,
mental, spiritual, moral, or social development. GFC’s grant recognizes
the capacity of Global March as a networking partner who identifies
and recommends grassroots groups working in the area of child labor
for GFC and other international grant makers and organizations.
Jeeva Jyothi (JJ)
$8,000/378,800 rupees
(Everlasting Light)
Chennai, India
Managing director: V. Susai Raj
jyothij@vsnl.com,
www.jeevajyothi.org
JJ aims to treat both the symptoms and underlying causes of child labor
in Chennai’s rice mills through programs that include workplace-based
nonformal education for children, adult literacy classes, income-generation
training, and awareness and advocacy campaigns. GFC’s grant provides
general support for JJ’s rice-mill-based education project, which
provides preschool and nursery programs for children of mill workers.
2002 grant: $5,000
La Conscience
$7,000/4,179,700 francs
Lomé, Togo
Executive director: Kodjo Djissenou
laconscience@hotmail.com
La Conscience’s education project to combat child trafficking
endeavors to prevent the exploitation of Togo’s impoverished children,
who are easily lured to neighboring countries to work in corn, banana,
manioc, coffee, and cocoa plantations. GFC’s grant provides monetary
support for one school year for eighty-nine formal-school students whose
family, economic, and geographic situations make them vulnerable to
child traffickers.
Rural Institute for Development Education (RIDE)
$11,000/527,230 rupees
Kanchipuram, India
Executive director: S. Jeyaraj
ride@md3.vsnl.net.in, www.rideindia.org
RIDE’s goal is to ease the educational, social, and emotional
transition for child laborers working in the silk looms of Kanchipuram.
GFC’s grant provides support for three Bridge School Centers,
which offer nonformal education as a means to integrate children into
regular schools, and three new Child Labor Prevention and Information
Centers.
2001 grant: $4,000
SECDO Women Development Centre
$6,000/578,700 rupees
Matale, Sri Lanka
Executive director: D. M. C. Dissanayake
arda2000@sol.lk
SECDO focuses on the children and women working in the tea plantations
surrounding Matale, where it is estimated that between 100,000 and 500,000
children are illegally employed, working up to twelve hours a day and
denied the right to attend school. GFC’s grant provides general
support for SECDO’s programs in literacy, health education, human
rights awareness, English-language courses, and computer skills training.
Yayasan Bina Potensi Masyarakat (YAPIM) (Institute of Community Potency Motivator)
$6,000/52,457,520 rupiahs
Sidorahayu, Indonesia
Director: Muh. Iswanto
yapim_ngo_mlg@yahoo.com
YAPIM’s skill education service for children working in construction,
cigarette rolling, and automobile production strives to give them skills
for safer alternative jobs while advocating for the rights and development
of their rural communities. GFC’s grant provides general support
for YAPIM’s skill education service for child laborers.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Worldwide, approximately ten million children are engaged in some form of the sex industry, and each year at least one million additional children, mostly girls, become prostitutes. Major forms of commercial sexual exploitation of children include prostitution, trafficking for sexual purposes, pornography, and sex tourism. Children remain vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation for many reasons, most notably poverty. In addition, discrimination against certain racial and ethnic groups, domestic abuse in families, and the rising numbers of street children and AIDS orphans are other major causes of child exploitation. Eliminating the commercial sexual exploitation of children around the world is a daunting task, but one that is achievable if programs that address not only the effects but also the roots of the problem receive adequate funding and recognition. GFC supports the following organizations—all of which provide a comprehensive range of nonformal educational instruction—in their innovative and successful approaches to protecting children from initial and continued exposure to the commercial sex industry.
ECPAT International
$5,000/214,650 baht
Worldwide (based in Bangkok, Thailand)
Executive director: Carmen Madrinan
info@ecpat.net,
www.ecpat.net
ECPAT International is a network of groups and organizations around
the world that are working for the elimination of commercial sexual
exploitation of children. GFC’s grant provides institutional support
in order for ECPAT International to continue and strengthen its collaboration
with GFC in providing referrals and other services.
Fundación Dar y Amar (Casa Daya) (Give and Love Foundation)
$11,000/114,213 pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Guillermina Guevara
casadaya1@hotmail.com
Casa Daya provides a structured and loving environment in which over
150 adolescent street mothers, whose new maternal responsibilities place
them at high risk of using prostitution as a means to support themselves
and their children, receive counseling, vocational training, and day
care for their children. GFC’s grant is helping to expand Casa
Daya’s candle-making workshop, which gives these young mothers
the opportunity to channel their energies into creative design. 2000
and 2001 grants: $8,000 total
Khmer Kampuchea Krom for Human Rights and Development Association (KKKHRDA)
$6,000/22,894,800 riel
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Director: Son Yoeung
kkkhrda@hotmail.com
Amid girls lured to the red-light villages on the outskirts of Phnom
Penh and elsewhere in Cambodia, KKKHRDA promotes and protects basic
human rights through nonformal schooling, monitoring of human rights
abuses, and community and professional development. GFC’s grant
provides general support for KKKHRDA’s nonformal-education and
vocational skills training program for girls who are at risk of entering
the sex trade.
Luna Nueva (New Moon)
$6,000/43,080,000 guarani
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Natalia Cerdido
lunanue@supernet.com.py
Luna Nueva, the only organization in Paraguay that is working against
the commercial sexual exploitation of children, aims to eradicate violence
against women and children by developing and implementing education,
health care, confidence building, human rights awareness, and violence
prevention programs. GFC’s grant is helping to expand Luna Nueva’s
outreach program to an additional two hundred at-risk girls.
Molo Songololo (Hello Millipede)
$5,000/35,850 rand
Cape Town, South Africa
Directors: Zurayah Abass and Patric Solomons
info@molo.org.za
Molo Songololo focuses on the survival, development, and protection
of children and their rights in South Africa. GFC’s grant provides
support for Molo Songololo’s trafficking and prostitution prevention
campaign, which, in partnership with local, national, and international
organizations, promotes awareness of and action against child trafficking
and prostitution.
Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS) (Movement for International Self-Development and Solidarity)
$6,000/120,000 pesos
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Executive director: María Josefina Paulino
maispto.pta@codetel.net.do
MAIS strives to motivate children to stay in school and to prevent them
from entering Puerto Plata’s lucrative sex tourism industry by
offering academic support and social services to at-risk and exploited
youth. GFC’s grant provides general support.
2001 grant: $5,000
Phulki (Spark)
$11,000/634,260 taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Executive director: Suraiya Haque
phulki@citechco.net
Phulki is dedicated to creating a world where working women will not
have to sacrifice their children’s well-being in order to achieve
economic emancipation, and the organization is now beginning to direct
more attention to the dangers of trafficking and sexual exploitation
of children. GFC’s grant provides support for Phulki’s Bow
Bazar slum child-to-child program, which trains child leaders to spread
information to other children about health and hygiene, child rights,
gender equality, sexual abuse and exploitation, and social values.
2002 grant: $5,000
Prerana (Inspiration)
$11,000/527,230 rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Priti Pravin Patkar
preranaworks@vsnl.net
Prerana’s Night Care Centre, one of the first in the world, provides
children of prostitutes with basic education, nourishment, baths, recreation,
regular medical checkups, counseling, and a safe place to sleep from
5:30 pm until 9:30 am, thus sparing them the harmful realities of the
red-light district and discouraging them from becoming second-generation
prostitutes. GFC’s grant is for general support. 2001 grant: $3,000
Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere (PEACE)
$11,000/1,060,950 rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Maureen Seneviratne
peacesl@sri.lanka.net
PEACE conducts a wide range of projects aimed at preventing children
from entering the commercial sex trade and at creating community awareness
of the scope and social ramifications of child abuse and sexually transmitted
diseases. GFC’s grant provides general support for the organization,
including the operation of ten nonformal-education centers and a vocational
training program for 350 boys and girls.
2000 and 2001 grants: $10,000 total
Tasintha Programme
$6,000/28,536,600 kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Director: Clotilda Phiri
tasinthaprog_zm@yahoo.co.uk
Tasintha works to prevent women and children from entering the sex trade
by giving them alternative income-generating skills and raising community
awareness about the issue of prostitution, among other activities. GFC’s
grant provides general support for Tasintha’s education, health-care,
and professional-development activities for children and youth.
The Distinctive Needs of Vulnerable Boys
While the cultural, social, and economic challenges facing girls have been well documented, much less attention has been focused on the world’s one hundred million boys who are deprived of educational opportunities. At the very least, these boys and young men, trapped by dire circumstances, become disillusioned, hopeless, and angry, making them vulnerable to negative forces such as extremism, sexism, and intolerance. In the worst cases, these young men turn their frustrations and despair violently outward. With few life choices and little to lose, this pool of males provides an endless supply of foot soldiers for the world’s local, national, and international conflicts. While GFC in no way wishes to detract from the important work that is being done on behalf of girls and women—indeed, nearly half of its grants have funded and continue to fund educational initiatives for girls—it cannot fail to recognize the social, economic, and even security implications of neglecting this combustible population of marginalized young males. In order to respond to the needs of these boys and to make every community safer and stronger, GFC is committed to supporting the following educational organizations that confront the special challenges of at-risk boys.
Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL)
$11,000/470,690 afghani
Nangahar and Kabul Provinces, Afghanistan
Executive director: Sakena Yacoobi
sakenay@aol.com,
www.creatinghope.org
AIL, in addition to promoting continuing and higher education as a means
of empowering Afghan adults and girls, has begun to focus some of its
attention on the unique educational needs of Afghan boys. GFC’s
grant provides general support for two boys’ schools that incorporate
AIL’s positive teaching methods and its specially designed peace
and tolerance curriculum. 1999 through 2002 grants: $20,000 total
AÏNA: Afghan Media and Culture Center
$6,000/258,000 afghani
Kabul, Afghanistan
Executive director: Reza
info@ainaworld.org,
www.ainaworld.org
In an effort to motivate Afghan boys to stay in school and to prevent
them from adopting many of the violent tendencies that are prevalent
in Afghanistan’s troubled and vulnerable society, AÏNA is
collaborating with Afghan Street Working Children and New Approach (ASCHIANA)
to expand a literacy program bringing education to alienated and displaced
boys living on the streets of Kabul. GFC’s grant is funding the
purchase of school supplies for participants of ASCHIANA’s literacy
and basic-education programs, and AÏNA’s printing costs of
Parvaz, an independent magazine that helps boys understand the value
of literacy and learning.
Amy Biehl Foundation Trust (ABFT)
$6,000/43,020 rand
Cape Town, South Africa
Director: Linda Biehl
info@amybiehl.co.za,
www.amybiehl.org
ABFT works to provide both boys and girls with access to education,
health care, gender awareness training, recreation, arts and music,
and employment training—positive options that make young people
less likely to commit violent crimes and more likely to lead healthy
and productive lives. GFC’s grant supports four of ABFT’s
Mural Exchange Projects, which provide disadvantaged boys aged thirteen
to twenty-one with training by local artists to create murals focusing
on the themes of peace and safety.
Asociación para la Atención Integral de Niños de la Calle (AIDENICA) (Association for the Intensive Care of Street Boys)
$8,000/27,600 nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Arturo Flores Paz-Soldan
casahogaraidenica@hotmail.com,
www.geocities.com/aidenica
AIDENICA operates a specialized program that focuses on the rehabilitation
of Peruvian street boys, mostly former substance abusers, through prevention,
promotion, and protection interventions, including a semi-open home
that provides boys with a stable, healthy environment in which to live.
GFC’s grant provides general support for AIDENICA.
Ikamva Labantu (The Future of Our Nation)
$2,000/15,502 rand
Cape Town, South Africa
Managing director: Sipho Puwani
info@ikamva.co.za
Ikamva Labantu’s Boys/Men Project works with boys aged three to
six in order to shape how they develop as boys and men and how they
conceptualize masculinity in terms of respect and gentler approaches
to daily interactions. GFC’s grant provides general funding for
the pilot phase of this project, with the intent to use the results
to expand to new areas and to help guide the development of a project
for GFC’s vulnerable-boys issue area and to strengthen the body
of knowledge on the impact on men’s gender issues in social development.
Instituto del Mañana (Institute of Tomorrow)
$7,000/47,432,000 guarani
Itagua, Paraguay
Director: Carlos Noguera
cnoguera@telesurf.com.py
Instituto del Mañana operates the only residential program in
Paraguay for boys aged seven to fourteen, many of whom have had some
contact with the Paraguayan juvenile justice system, and provides them
with basic education, occupational training, and other support while
they live in a family setting with foster parents and other children.
GFC’s grant provides general support.
Life Pieces to Masterpieces (LPTM)
$9,000
Washington DC, United States
Executive director: Larry B. Quick
lifepieces@hotmail.com,
www.lifepieces.org
LPTM provides creative-arts opportunities for boys aged three to twenty-one
living in low-income communities east of the Anacostia River in Washington
DC and runs a variety of programs, including leadership development
activities, field trips, homework assistance, and tutoring. GFC’s
grant provides general support.
2000 grant: $5,000
Lost Boys Foundation
$6,000
Atlanta GA, United States
Executive director: Barbara Obrentz
info@thelbf.org,
www.lostboysfoundation.org
The Lost Boys Foundation empowers the Lost Boys of Sudan, a group of
approximately 3,800 young refugees from Sudan now living in the United
States, with educational opportunities, cultural experiences, and the
social skills necessary to become productive, self-sufficient members
of the global community. GFC’s grant provides general support
for the Lost Boys Foundation’s math tutoring program.
Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT)
$6,000/284,100 rupees
New Delhi, India
Chairperson: Praveen Nair
salaambt@vsnl.com, www.salaambaalak.com
SBT works in and around the New Delhi railway stations, bus stops, and
congested business areas and slums, targeting runaway children who have
no family or support system within the city. GFC’s grant provides
general support for SBT’s drop-in shelter, which provides boys
with a safe environment in which to sleep and eat, away from the police,
drug dealers, and sexual predators who routinely harass the boys on
the streets.
Synapse Network Center
$8,000/4,776,800 francs
Dakar, Senegal
Executive director: Ciré Kane
synapse@refer.sn,
www.synapsecenter.org
Synapse’s Education to Fight Exclusion Project works to empower
street boys, who are easily influenced by negative and harmful teachings
of fundamentalist Islamic daaras, to stand up for their rights, pursue
their goals, and take greater responsibility in their communities. GFC’s
grant provides general support for the Education to Fight Exclusion
Project. 2002 grant: $4,000
General
GFC’s grantee partners characteristically take creative new approaches to complex social issues. GFC values the imagination of those it funds and continues to encourage innovative solutions. Therefore, GFC has created a general portfolio through which it is able to direct grants to a handful of organizations that do not fall under the other four portfolios. The general portfolio will contribute to GFC’s ongoing learning and may well lead to the creation of new approaches within its grant-making program.
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA)
$5,000/4,865,000 shillings
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Executive director: Rhoi Wangila
info@arkafrica.org,
www.arkafrica.org
AFA is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of children and families
in East Africa whose lives have been devastated by war, poverty, and
HIV/AIDS. GFC’s grant supports the programs of AFA’s One
Stop Center, which provides lessons in HIV prevention, personal hygiene,
job skills training, and academic development to low-income orphans
and vulnerable children living in the impoverished and overpopulated
suburb of Kirondoni.
Centro de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras (ANICA) (Support Center for Street Girls)
$5,000/52,150 pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Alma Rosa Colín
colectivoninas@terra.com.mx
ANICA helps girls and young women improve their understanding of personal
responsibility and sexual health through street education workshops
on issues such as sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned
pregnancies, parent-infant education, and gender violence. GFC’s
grant provides general support for ANICA’s reproductive health
and responsibility workshops. 2002 grant: $5,000
Child Relief and You (CRY)
$5,000/236,750 rupees
New Delhi, India
Chief executive officer: Pervin Varma
ic.del@crymail.org,
www.cry.org
CRY is an intermediary grant-making organization that supports grassroots
children’s organizations throughout India. GFC’s grant supports
CRY’s policy and research center, which works with central and
state governments to influence child-related policies and actions.
2002 grant: $5,000
Education as a Vaccine against AIDS, Inc. (EVA)
$5,000/642,950 nairas
Abuja, Nigeria
Executive directors: Damilola Adebiyi and
Fadekemi Akinfaderin
fadekemi@evanigeria.org,
www.evanigeria.org
EVA utilizes informal and formal education initiatives that aim to empower
Nigerian youth living with HIV/AIDS as well as to raise awareness and
foster positive habits among those who are uninfected. GFC’s grant
provides support for EVA’s Youth Health Curriculum, a comprehensive
reproductive-health program designed to meet the special reproductive-health
needs of Nigerian secondary-school students.
Foundation for Development of Needy Communities (FDNC)
$10,000/18,300,000 shillings
Mbale, Uganda
Executive director: Samuel W. Watulatsu
fdncuganda@hotmail.com,
www.fdncuganda.8m.net
FDNC provides programs on youth development and reproductive health,
counseling for street children, girl advancement programs, farming,
and, very uniquely, a brass band to help children discover their inherent
talents. GFC’s grant pays for general support of FDNC’s
health-care center. 2001 grant: $5,000
Magic Bus
$6,000/287,580 rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Matthew Spacie
info@magicbusindia.org,
www.magicbusindia.org
Magic Bus brings underserved, exploited, and working children from the
streets of Mumbai to the hills and surrounding countryside, where they
participate in outdoor exploration, various team sports, trust-building
exercises, and drama sessions. GFC’s grant is funding fifty camping
trips serving fifty children each, along with general support.
National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK)
$5,000/387,250 shillings
Laikipia District, Kenya
Executive director: Jane Kiano
ncwk@insightkenya.com
NCWK works to educate community leaders, parents, teachers, and children
about the dangers of female genital mutilation and the alternatives
to this traditional rite of passage. GFC’s grant helps to support
a training center, awareness education for circumcisers, and a drama
and arts competition for program participants.
National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET)
$5,000/376,100 rupees
Kathmandu, Nepal
General secretary: Amod Mani Dixit
nset@nset.org.np,
www.nset.org.np
NSET is dedicated to ensuring that all communities in Nepal will be
earthquake safe by 2020, and its School Earthquake Safety Program works
to train masons to build earthquake-safe schools; to train teachers,
parents, and students on earthquake preparedness; and to assist in earthquake-resistant
reconstruction of schools. GFC’s grant supports the construction
of three
public schools.
Nihewan Foundation: Cradleboard Teaching Project
$1,000
Kapaa HI, United States
President: Buffy Sainte-Marie
info@cradleboard.org
The Cradleboard Teaching Project partners classrooms of Native American
and non–Native American children in order to create understanding
and increase learning about Native American culture, utilizing a core-enriching
curriculum that addresses geography, history, social studies, music,
and science with cultural sensitivity and awareness. GFC’s grant
provides general support for the project.
Pueblo de Cochiti: Cochiti Language Revitalization Program
$1,000
Cochiti Pueblo, NM, United States
Program coordinator: Richard Pecos
The Cochiti Language Revitalization Program teaches Cochiti youth their
native Keres, a language that was almost extinct thirty years ago, in
an attempt to revive the native traditions through an innovative immersion
program that includes recreational, cultural, and ceremonial linkages
between the language and the culture. GFC’s grant provides general
support for the project.
Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project (TYAP)
$6,000/257,580 baht
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Executive director: Amporn Boontan
tyap@loxinfo.co.th,
www.tyap.org
TYAP aims to reduce the impact of the AIDS epidemic in Thailand by creating
opportunities for northern Thai youth to develop their leadership skills.
GFC’s grant provides general support for TYAP’s Leadership
Training for Social Change project, which trains local young people
to educate children and others about HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention,
and care.
1997, 1998, 2001, and 2002 grants: $6,500 total
Ubuntu Education Fund
$5,000/42,050 rand
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Executive directors: Banks Gwaxula and Jacob Leif
info@ubuntufund.org,
www.ubuntufund.org
Ubuntu is a community-run organization dedicated to improving literacy,
health, and technology in impoverished neighborhoods in South Africa’s
Eastern Cape Province. GFC’s grant provides project support for
a new counseling, referral, and advocacy program, which offers one-on-one
weekly counseling sessions to children, an HIV/AIDS youth support group,
and wilderness retreats for participants of the counseling sessions.
War Child Canada: Iraq Relief and Recovery
$3,000
Karbala and Baghdad, Iraq
Executive director: Samantha Nutt
info@warchild.ca,
www.warchild.ca
War Child Canada is dedicated to providing urgently needed humanitarian
assistance to war-affected children around the world to help them overcome
the trauma of war. GFC’s grant supports War Child Canada’s
initiatives to provide clothing, blankets, books, health and hygiene
items, medical supplies, trauma counseling, and other much-needed support
to children and families in Karbala and Baghdad, Iraq.
Supplemental Health and Well-Being Grants
Health is defined generally as freedom from physical disease or pain. Yet truly healthy children are not merely free of illness; rather, the well child is one with an improved quality of life due to enhanced physical health, adequate emotional and economic support, access to educational resources, and environmentally sound surroundings. A child who is ready to learn is a child who is healthy, well nourished, and has had his or her basic needs met. GFC’s grantee partners have witnessed firsthand the impact of childhood morbidity and mortality on community progress and the ways in which illness thwarts children’s ability to thrive, learn, and take advantage of life opportunities. GFC’s partners are calling increasingly for additional resources to address not only the education and welfare needs of the children they serve, but the health needs as well. Recognizing the promise that an integrated and holistic approach holds for at-risk children around the world, GFC offers a $1,000 supplemental health and well-being grant to each of its grantee partners within the four priority portfolios. Each organization uses its grant to address the most pressing health needs of the children it serves. The knowledge GFC gathers from this grant program is eye-opening in terms of both the health needs of children around the world and the innovative ways in which its grantee partners chose to use the supplemental grants.
Nearly every grantee partner, including those in the US, cites child malnutrition as one of the most pressing health concerns, pointing out that hungry children have trouble concentrating in class or even attending school at all. Parasites and other intestinal diseases, mainly due to unclean water, food, and eating utensils, are another major problem, as are skin infections and irritations, including scabies, lice, ringworm, skin ulcers, foot infections from lack of shoes, and skin problems caused by chemicals used in children’s workplaces. Respiratory infections are a common problem, and are often caused by inhalation of smoke from indoor cooking fires, inhalation of harmful chemicals at children’s workplaces, and, especially for boys, smoking cigarettes at an early age. HIV/AIDS is a widespread issue, especially in southern Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and is of particular concern to GFC’s grantee partners working to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Grantee partners attribute the rise of HIV infection among children to exposure to sex at an early age, multiple sexual partners, needle sharing for intravenous drug use (primarily among boys), and HIV-positive mothers who pass along the virus to their children at birth.
Lack of sanitation and personal hygiene habits, lice, lack of toothbrushes and toothpaste, and unsanitary toilets, are issues frequently cited by GFC’s grantee partners. Lack of clean water contributes to the poor health of many children: not only is plumbing often unavailable, but water from wells and streams can be unsafe to drink, since these water sources are also used for washing laundry, bathing, and dishwashing. Compromised mental and emotional health, including depression and trauma, is a common problem as well. The supplemental health and well-being grant program has also already provided GFC with information about the distinct health problems of girls and boys, immunizations commonly not received, cultural or social practices that endanger children’s health, and existing efforts worldwide to improve children’s health and raise awareness about the health needs of children.
While the uses of GFC’s supplemental health and well-being grants are varied, grantee partners’ innovations include:
· Developing sanitary pit toilets for increased hygiene, including a model hand-washing station outside of the pit toilets (Jifunze Project, Tanzania)
· Providing hepatitis A and B vaccinations, iron supplements, and oral rehydration supplements (NEED, India)
· Hiring a physical therapist for treatment of scoliosis (Biliki, Georgia)
· Distributing hygiene packets containing soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, detergent, hair oil, and undergarments (Nishtha, India)
· Hiring a counselor for sexually abused children (JUCONI, Mexico)
· Purchasing lice shampoo and mosquito repellant and nets to prevent against malaria (SCT, Sri Lanka)
· Facilitating parasite campaigns, including stool samples and educational materials and workshops (Deporte y Vida, Peru)
· Providing delousing treatment (Fundación Apoyar, Colombia)
During the 2002–2003 fiscal year, GFC provided supplemental health and well-being grants to fifty-eight of its seventy-two grantee partners. While the knowledge that GFC has been able to acquire through this process is invaluable, so too is the work on behalf of children’s health that these grants are facilitating. These grants will not only strengthen grantee partners’ health efforts, but they will also help these organizations have a greater impact on the children they serve by facilitating a more holistic approach to the children’s well-being.
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