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2003-2004 Grants by Portfolio
Schools and Scholarships
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
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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 to formal schools for primary- and secondary-school students.
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA)
$10,000/10,338,100 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 orphans and vulnerable
children living in the impoverished and overpopulated suburb of Kirondoni.
2002 grant: $5,000
Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial y Preprimaria Bilingüe Maya Ixil (APEDIBIMI) (Association of Promoters of Early and Preprimary Bilingual Education in Maya Ixil)
$9,000/72,270 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
1,700 children. GFC’s grant is for general support of APEDIBIMI’s
preprimary-education centers. 2003 grant: $6,000
Asociación Deporte y Vida (Sports and Life Association)
$9,000/31,176 nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: José Luis Quiroga Becerra
sdiestro@yahoo.com
Deporte y Vida provides the rare opportunity for young people living
in the slum of Villa El Salvador to play soccer, volleyball, and other
sports in order to promote their participation and success in the organization’s
educational and life skills training programs. GFC’s grant supports
the salaries of three tutors and instructors, as well as the purchase
of sports equipment. 2002 grant: $6,000
Asociación Mujer y Comunidad (Women and Community Association)
$6,000/91,020 cordobas
San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua
Executive director: Zoraida Sosa
myc@ibw.com.ni
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 school. GFC’s
grant is enabling Mujer y Comunidad to offer primary- and secondary-school
scholarships to fifty-nine girls and to continue providing critical
support services and materials to scholarship students.
Asociación Solas y Unidas (Alone and United Association)
$7,000/24,285 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 and 2003 grants: $11,000 total
Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development (CVCD)
$8,000/30,526,500 riels
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Executive director: Sothea Arun
cvcd@forum.org.kh
CVCD promotes youth and 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 of CVCD’s
literacy project. 1999 through 2002 grants: $30,000 total
Children’s Town
$15,000/69,997,500 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 is for
general support.
1999 through 2002 grants: $34,250 total
Chiricli (Bird): Roma Women Charitable Fund
$6,000/31,836 hryvnia
Izmail, Ukraine
President: Yuliya Kondur
ssidd@skif.com.ua
Chiricli provides assistance to the vulnerable Roma population living
in the Odessa region, with an emphasis on increasing and improving educational
opportunities and school attendance. GFC’s grant supports the
Roma Education Center, which prepares preschool-age children for primary
school; works with young people, parents, and teachers to facilitate
the integration of Roma children into mainstream schools; and encourages
volunteerism among Roma young people.
Christ School
$11,000/21,770,100 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, whose residents live under constant threat of violence from
rebel groups of the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. GFC’s
grant supports increased infrastructure for Christ School’s Science,
Technology, and Life Skills Education program, which provides students
with hands-on and practical educational experiences in and out of the
classroom. 1999 and 2002 grants: $9,000 total
Cidadela das Crianças (Children’s Town)
$11,000/257,675,000 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 is for general
support of Cidadela. 2003 grant: $7,000
Conquest for Life
$11,000/76,488 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 and 2002 grants: $16,000
Escuelas para Chiapas (Schools for Chiapas)
$6,000/67,932 pesos
Ocosingo, Mexico
Director: Elizabeth Saenz
esaenz@escuelasparachiapas.org.mx,
www.schoolsforchiapas.org
Escuelas para Chiapas facilitates autonomous schools for the Maya people
of Chiapas, using education to promote indigenous language and traditions
while striving for academic excellence and community empowerment. GFC’s
grant supports teacher training and the purchase of educational materials
for three schools in rural Maya communities.
Foundation for Development of Needy Communities (FDNC)
$11,000/21,770,100 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 programs,
and, very uniquely, a brass band to encourage children to develop their
creative talents. GFC’s grant provides general support for FDNC’s
vocational training programs in tailoring, carpentry, and masonry.
2001 and 2002 grants: $15,000
Friends for Street Children (FFSC)
$9,000/140,103,000 dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Thomas Tran Van Soi
ffsc-hcm@hcm.fpt.vn
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 through 2002 grants: $22,000 total
Fundación La Paz: Centro de Capacitación Técnica Sarenteñani (La Paz Foundation: Sarenteñani Technical Training Center)
$8,000/81,763 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.
2002 grant: $6,000
Fundatia de Sprijin Comunitar: Gata, Dispus si Capabil (Community Support Foundation: Ready, Willing and Able)
$6,000/196,723,680 lei
Bacau, Romania
Director: Maria Gheorghiu
gdc.fsc@mic.ro,
www.mic.ro/fsc
RWA 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. GFC’s grant supports the expansion
of Stefanita, RWA’s education program, which uses an adapted national
curriculum to support Roma children enrolled in regular classes and
to prepare these children, along with children not currently attending
school, for success in mainstream schools.
Global Deaf Connection (GDC): Cycle of Success
$9,000/3,600,666 francs
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Chief executive officer: Kevin Long
travel@deafconnection.org,
www.deafconnection.org
GDC’s Cycle of Success program provides deaf students in Kenya,
Jamaica, and DR Congo with the education and skills needed to achieve
self-sufficiency and social empowerment. GFC’s grant supports
curriculum development, teacher training, and salaries at GDC’s
new Silent Cooperative Center for the Deaf in Kinshasa.
Gyaana (Knowledge)
$4,000/175,839 rupees
Mysore, India
President: Raj K. De Datta
raj@gyaana.org,
www.gyaana.org
Gyaana, winner of the 2003 Harvard Business School Social Enterprise
Business Plan Contest, uses educational counseling for parents; short-
and long-term loans for students and their families; and linkages to
vocational-training, apprenticeship, and microfinance programs in order
to increase secondary-school attendance among underprivileged children.
GFC’s grant is for general support of Gyaana’s pilot phase,
which reaches six hundred students in southern India.
Halley Movement
$6,000/169,563 rupees
Batimarais, Mauritius
Secretary-general: Mahendranath Busgopaul
info@halleymovement.org,
www.halleymovement.org
The 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. GFC’s grant supports the Halley Movement’s
Basic Education to Adolescents program, which gives children a second
chance to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to pass the exam
required to advance to secondary school and also provides extracurricular
activities, vocational and technical training, and refresher courses.
Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization
$11,000/28,675,900 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
provides general support for Horn Relief’s Pastoral Youth Leadership
Outreach Program in six villages, including the training of additional
village-based mentors and interns.
2002 grant: $6,000
Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana (ISMU) (Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty)
$6,000/48,090 quetzales
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Executive director: María Elvira Sánchez Toscano
ismugua@explonet.com
ISMU is a coalition of community-based organizations united to address
the dismal conditions in twenty-two of Guatemala City’s worst
slums. GFC’s grant supports eight of ISMU’s Learning Corners,
which are community-based child-care centers for poor working families
that are run by community members trained to promote physical and mental
stimulation, socialization, and psychomotor skills for children aged
one to seven.
Ithuteng Trust
$11,000/71,627 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’s Saturday school, which utilizes
a peer tutoring system to reinforce formal-school lessons. 2003 grant:
$7,000
Jifunze Project: Community Education Resource Centre (Learning Project)
$9,000/10,234,658 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
education system. GFC’s grant supports the Jifunze Project’s
Early Learning Centre for children aged four to six, the only center
of its type in rural Tanzania.
2002 grant: $6,000
Kamitei Foundation
$6,000/6,204,000 shillings
Esilalei, Kilimatembo, and Gongali communities, Tanzania
Director: Jeroen Harderwijk
info@kamitei.org,
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 basics such as facilities and teaching materials
at the primary level and by providing scholarships for selected students
to pursue postprimary vocational education. GFC’s grant provides
support for the expansion of scholarships for this program.
Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE)
$11,000/43,846,000 riels
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Executive director: Sao Vanna
kape.cambodia@bigpond.com.kh
KAPE works with 190 schools serving eighty 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 125 girls
participating in KAPE’s Girls’ Lower Secondary School Program,
as well as support and capacity building for Local Scholarship Management
Committees.
2003 grant: $7,000
Kamulu Rehabilitation Centre (KRC)
$6,000/469,020 shillings
Kamulu, Kenya
Director: Richard K. Kariuki
kamuluacademy@yahoo.com
KRC operates a combined day and boarding primary school that provides
education, nutrition, and training in sustainable agricultural practices
to HIV-affected, orphaned, and other vulnerable children living in the
underdeveloped Machakos district. GFC’s grant is for general support
of KRC’s Kamulu Education Centre, which is currently ranked second
in the district in terms of academic performance of its students.
Kembatti Mentti Gezzima-Tope (KMG) (Kembatta Women’s Self-Help Center)
$8,000/71,072 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. 2003 grant: $6,000
Kids In Need of Direction (KIND)
$9,000/56,424 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. 2003 grant: $6,000
Kitemu Integrated School
$9,000/17,811,900 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. GFC’s grant is for general support. 2001 and 2002 grants:
$10,000
Light for All (LiFA)
$9,000/298,061 gourdes
Lhomond, Haiti
President: Gerry Delaquis
lifaco@aol.com,
www.lightforall.org
LiFA supports rural Haitian community efforts to strengthen schools
through a long-term school sponsorship program that provides teacher
salaries, educational materials, and administrative and financial training
as well as seed money and strategic guidance for eventual self-sufficiency
of the schools. GFC’s grant is for general support of LiFA’s
sponsorship of the Toussaint Louverture Education Center in Lhomond.
Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED)
$10,000/439,600 rupees
Lucknow, India
Executive director: Anil K. Singh
need@satyam.net.in,
www.indev.nic.in/need
NEED facilitates the grassroots-level development 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. 2003 grant: $6,000
Nishtha (Dedication)
$11,000/494,714 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 four hundred students, as well as administration costs for Nishtha
and the Kishori Bahini program.
1999 through 2002 grants: $25,800 total
Our Children
$7,000/17,964,300 leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
President: Nasserie Carew
ourchildreninc@yahoo.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 tutoring program located in the neighborhood of Kissy. www.ourchildreninc.com
2002 and 2003 grants: $10,000 total
Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)
$4,800/275,808 rupees
Nara Mughlan, Pakistan
Executive director: Nashoba Manzoor
poda_pakistan@yahoo.com
PODA offers advocacy training, mentoring, and life skills education
in order to build the capacity of rural communities to promote education,
women’s rights, diversity, and democracy. GFC’s grant supports
PODA’s Life-Skills Education and Arts Program, which provides
literacy classes, vocational skills training, and life skills education
classes to girls who have graduated from the local primary school but
are unable to further their education.
Prayas (To Wish)
$11,000/494,714 rupees
Jaipur, India
Executive director: Jatindar Arora
prayasjpr@yahoo.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 and 2002 grants: $10,000
ProJoven (For Youth)
$12,000/73,815,507 guarani
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Maureen Herman
projoven@worldnet.att.net,
www.projoven.org
ProJoven uses a restorative justice model, along with education, training
community volunteers and educators, and creating community awareness,
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 and 2003 grants: $13,000 total
Reencontro—Mozambican Association for the Support and Development of Orphan Children
$11,000/257,675,000 meticais
Maputo, Mozambique
President: Olinda Mugabe
olinda@realnet.co.sz
Reencontro works to alleviate the plight of AIDS orphans through home
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. 2003 grant: $7,000
Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO): Train Platform Schools
$12,000/539,688 rupees
Bhubaneswar, India
Executive director: Inderjit Khurana
rssobbs@hotmail.com,
www.ruchika.org
The Train Platform Schools’ informal classrooms give more than
four hundred children who live, work, or beg on or around 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 project. This grant was funded in large
part by a readathon conducted by students at the Mirman School in California.
1998 through 2002 grants: $51,275 total
Sam-Kam Institute (SKI)
$6,000/14,029,800 leones
Kalaba Town, Sierra Leone
President: Peter Samura
asamkam@yahoo.com
SKI is the only indigenous nongovernmental organization in Sierra Leone
that offers war victims and ex-combatants skills training courses to
provide career alternatives. GFC’s grant supports SKI’s
People Developing Vocational Skills program, which teaches students
aged eleven to twenty-one marketable skills in welding, carpentry, sewing,
auto mechanics, and computer technology.
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT)
$6,000/563,296 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.
2002 grant: $6,000
Society Biliki
$11,000/22,617 lari
Gori, Georgia
Executive director: Mari Mgebrishvili
sbiliki@iberiapac.ru
Biliki assists underprivileged, special-needs, and internally displaced
children from the conflict zones of Abkhazia and South Ossetia 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.
2003 grant: $6,000
Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF)
$6,000 /12,618 lari
Tbilisi, Georgia
Director: Nana Doliashvili
ndoliashvili@gol.ge,
tyhfoundation.gol.ge
TYHF provides a variety of programs that help internally displaced children
stay in or return to school, attend nonformal classes, and practice
volunteerism. GFC’s grant supports the Dropout Prevention Program,
which offers a five-month-long special class and ongoing counseling
and tutorial support to children who are at increased risk of dropping
out of school.
Vikramshila Education Resource Society
$8,000/359,792 rupees
Bigha, India
Executive director: Shubhra Chatterji
contact@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 community education model program in the rural village of Bigha,
including teacher salaries, sports activities, and cultural programs.
2002 grant: $6,000
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.
Acahualt Association for the Promotion and Development of Women
$8,000/128,423 cordobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Executive director: Norma Villalta
acahualt@ibw.com.ni
Acahualt uses education and community capacity building to prevent children
of impoverished families living in Acahualinca, a neighborhood of Managua,
from having to scavenge in the city dump for items to sell or eat. GFC’s
grant supports Acahualt’s community preschool program, which provides
an educational foundation for children and thus enhances their prospects
for future academic success and continued school enrollment.
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI) (Association for the Defense of Life)
$11,000/38,104 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 supports ADEVI’s
community school program, including the purchase of educational materials
and teacher salary support. 2002 grant: $6,000
Association for Community Development Services (ACDS)
$6,000/269,844 rupees
Kanchipuram, India
Director: D. Devanbu
acdsanbu@yahoo.com
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,
high-quality education and health care. GFC’s grant supports ACDS’s
Bridge Schools, which help students return to the formal education system,
and its Motivation and Resource Centers, which teach basic math and
literacy, offer recreational activities, and motivate children to pursue
further education.
Association Jeunesse Actions Mali (AJA Mali)
$6,000/3,363,310 francs
Bamako, Mali
Executive director: Souleymane Sarr
ajamali@datatech.toolnet.org,
www.cyberbamako.org.ml/aja
AJA Mali provides basic education and life skills training to out-of-school
youth, many of whom are serving long-term apprenticeships in the fields
of carpentry, masonry, plumbing, metal working, and mechanics, during
which they must support themselves. GFC’s grant supports AJA Mali’s
Educational Accompaniment for Apprentices program, which educates young
apprentices in the same subjects taught to their school-going peers,
provides recreational opportunities, and monitors apprentices’
relationships with their teachers, advocating for their rights when
necessary.
Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para el Desarrollo Local (CEADEL) (Center for Study and Support for Local Development)
$7,000/56,070 quetzales
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Executive director: José Gabriel Zelada Ortiz
ceadel@intelnet.net.gt
CEADEL seeks to eliminate the use of child laborers and to improve conditions
for young people who work in Guatemala’s floriculture industry.
GFC’s grant supports CEADEL’s Primary and Secondary School
Scholarship Program, which pays for school fees, uniforms, and school
supplies for child laborers and those at risk of becoming child laborers
in the floriculture industry and engages the participation of young
workers’ parents and their communities in support of their education.
Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB) (San Juan Bosco Center)
$9,000/162,182 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 through a nonformal education center, scholarships,
microenterprise development, legal aid, and community-mobilizing activities.
GFC’s grant supports CSJB in paying school fees and purchasing
school uniforms, shoes, and backpacks for children working in the street
markets.
2003 grant: $8,000
De Laas Gul Welfare Programme (DLG) (Hand-Embroidered Flower)
$7,000/402,222 rupees
Peshawar, Pakistan
Director: Meraj Humayun Khan
delaasgul@hotmail.com
DLG provides education and skills training for children working in the
market and at home, economic and social empowerment programs for women,
and advocacy for the human, political, and economic rights of underserved
or exploited individuals and communities. GFC’s grant provides
salary support and educational materials for girls-only classes at DLG’s
child labor rehabilitation center in the semi-urban area of Tehkal.
Door Step School
$8,000/351,680 rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Bina Sheth Lashkari
doorstep@vsnl.com
Door Step serves working, slum-dwelling, and street children within
their communities through preschools, study classes for both school-going
and out-of-school children, and mobile libraries and literacy classes.
GFC’s grant supports five community-based nonformal education
classes serving one hundred children who work at the fishing docks and
at the market.
Espacio Cultural Creativo (Creative Cultural Space)
$6,000/46,320 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 is for educator
stipends and the purchase of materials for twenty-eight workshops. 2002
grant: $6,000
Jeeva Jyothi (JJ) (Everlasting Light)
$13,000/571,480 rupees
Thiruvallur district, 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 rice mills near Chennai 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 and advocacy
project, which aims to integrate working children into formal schools,
maintain the enrollment of school-going children, and prevent the continued
cycle of bonded labor within the rice mills.
2002 and 2003 grants: $13,000 total
La Conscience
$9,000/4,976,813 francs
Lomé, Togo
Executive director: Kodjo Djissenou
laconscience@hotmail.com
La Conscience’s education project to combat child trafficking
works 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 150 students whose family, economic,
and geographic situations make them vulnerable to child traffickers.
2003 grant: $7,000
Rural Institute for Development Education (RIDE)
$11,000/494,670 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 Kanchipuram’s silk looms.
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 Child Labor Prevention and Information Centers.
2001 and 2002 grants: $15,000 total
SECDO Women Development Centre
$6,000/563,268 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 computer skills training classes, English-language
courses, and programs in literacy, health education, and human rights
awareness.
2001 and 2002 grants: $10,000 total
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (Friends of Children Society)
$6,000/104,892 lempiras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Director: Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
saninos@sdnhon.org.hn
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños is the only indigenous organization
working to protect the rights of young domestic workers in Honduras
and to provide these girls and young women with other skills and alternative
means of supporting themselves. GFC’s grant supports the Reyes
Irene Valenzuela Support Center, which provides technical training,
literacy classes, and nonformal elementary education to female domestic
workers; teaches them about their rights; and helps create new opportunities
for them.
Society for Education and Action (SEA)
$2,000/87,920 rupees
Mamallapuram, India
Director: S. Desingu
sea_org_desingu@rediffmail.com
Locally founded, directed, and supported, SEA works to ensure the enrollment
and retention of all school-age children within impoverished fishing
communities north of Chennai, preventing their initial or continued
work on fishing boats or docks. GFC’s grant provides general support
for two of SEA’s motivation and recreation centers, as well as
organizational-development services from the Mumbai-based organization
Dasra.
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.
Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights Foundation (CPCR)
$6,000/234,900 baht
Bangkok, Thailand
Director: Sanphasit
Koomphraphant
cpcr@internetksc.th.com
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. GFC’s grant supports the Baan
Oun Rak Rehabilitation Centers, which provide physical, mental, and
social rehabilitation services for sexually and physically abused children
and their families and include introductory and accelerated learning
opportunities to integrate children into formal schools.
ECPAT International
$7,500/295,458 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 is for general support of
ECPAT International’s networking, advocacy, and technical assistance
activities. 2003 grant: $5,000
Fundación Dar y Amar (Casa Daya) (Give and Love Foundation)
$10,000/113,418 pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Guillermina Guevara
casadaya1@hotmail.com
Casa Daya provides a structured and loving environment in which over
170 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 supports Casa Daya’s
candle-making workshop, which gives these young mothers the opportunity
to channel their energies into creative design.
2000 through 2002 grants: $18,000 total
Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT)
$7,000/11,307 leva
Sofia, Bulgaria
Executive director: Jivka Marinova
marinova@mbox.cit.bg
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. GFC’s grant is supporting GERT’s
training program for teachers and other child-responsible adults concerning
child trafficking and prostitution, including how to mobilize grassroots
action to prevent the trafficking of neglected, underprivileged, and
uneducated Bulgarian and minority children and youth for sexual and
labor exploitation.
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
$4,500
New York, United States
Executive director: Rachel Lloyd
info@gems-girls.org, www.gems-girls.org
GEMS is the only direct-service agency in New York City working specifically
to provide educational, transitional, vocational, and counseling services
to young women who are at risk of being or already are sexually exploited,
in order to empower them to exit unsafe or abusive lifestyles. GFC’s
grant is for general support of GEMS’s educational and youth development
activities.
Khmer Kampuchea Krom for Human Rights and Development Association (KKKHRDA)
$8,000/31,888,000 riels
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.
2003 grant: $6,000
Los Romeritos: Asociación para los Derechos de la Niñez
“Monseñor Oscar Romero”
Monsignor Oscar Romero Association for Children’s Rights)
$7,000/56,070 quetzales
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Executive director: Elisa Esperanza Marroquín Aroche
romeritos@intelnet.net.gt
Los Romeritos 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. GFC’s
grant supports the Educational Opportunities Program, which supplements
the formal education of these children, aids their social integration,
and serves as a preventative measure to keep them in school.
Luna Nueva (New Moon)
$11,000/67,859,000 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 provides support for three outreach
educators as well as health-related and life skills workshops reaching
250 at-risk girls.
2002 grant: $6,000
Maiti Nepal (Mother’s Home Nepal)
$6,000/431,760 rupees
Kathmandu, Nepal
Director: Bishwo Ram Khadka
info@maitinepal.org, www.maitinepal.org
Maiti Nepal, which was founded and is now run by former victims of trafficking
for prostitution, seeks to eliminate the trafficking of girls and young
women across the India-Nepal border and to rehabilitate rescued victims
of traffickers through counseling and education. GFC’s grant supports
rehabilitation homes established in three rural districts to provide
counseling, skills development, and nonformal education to girls who
have been intercepted or rescued from traffickers.
Mongolian Youth Development Centre (MYDC)
$7,000/8,190,000 tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Executive director: Myagmar Esunmunkh
info@mydc.org.mn, www.mydc.org.mn
Facilitated by and for Mongolian youth, MYDC promotes youth participation
in civil society, treatment of alcohol and drug abuse among young people,
prevention of sexual exploitation of children, and rehabilitation of
former prostitutes. GFC’s grant provides general support for MYDC’s
counseling and training projects for girls at risk of using prostitution
as a means of survival.
Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS) (Movement for International Self-Development and Solidarity)
$8,000/275,416 pesos
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Executive director: María Josefina Paulino
maispto.pta@codetel.net.do
MAIS motivates children to stay in school and strives 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 and 2002 grants: $11,000 total
Phulki (Spark)
$12,000/706,080 taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Executive director: Suraiya Haque
phulki@citechco.net
Phulki’s child-to-child program trains child leaders to spread
information to other children about sexual abuse and exploitation, child
trafficking for labor and sexual purposes, child rights, gender equality,
health and hygiene, and social values. GFC’s grant provides general
support for Phulki’s child-to-child program activities in the
Kurmitola Refugee Camp.
2002 and 2003 grants: $16,000 total
Prerana (Inspiration)
$15,000/674,610 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 of the Night Care
Centre’s education support program and for salary support for
Prerana’s executive director.
2001 and 2002 grants: $14,000 total
Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere (PEACE)
$11,000/1,032,680 rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Maureen Seneviratne
peacesl@sri.lanka.net
PEACE aims to prevent children from entering the commercial sex trade
and to create community awareness of the scope and social ramifications
of child abuse and sexually transmitted diseases. GFC’s grant
provides general support for ten nonformal-education and skills training
programs serving approximately two thousand boys and girls.
2000 through 2002 grants: $21,000 total
Rozan: Aangan (Ray of Light: Courtyard)
$7,000/402,222 rupees
Islamabad, Pakistan
Executive director: Muneeba Waseem
aangan@apollo.net.pk
The first NGO in Pakistan to actively address the sensitive issue of
child sexual abuse, Rozan’s Aangan program provides direct counseling
services to victims and survivors of sexual abuse; training workshops
for doctors, teachers, parents, and related professionals concerning
the issue of child sexual abuse; and public awareness raising and advocacy.
GFC’s grant supports the development and dissemination of child
sexual abuse prevention books for schoolchildren.
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (SSS) (Village Self-Reliance)
$6,000/348,060 taka
Gurudaspur and Singra, Bangladesh
Executive director: A. H. M. Rezwan
sss@bdmail.net
SSS is one of the few grassroots organizations in Bangladesh focused
on the improvement of isolated rural communities, with a special emphasis
on the education and empowerment of women and girls as a means to protect
them from sexual and labor exploitation. GFC’s grant supports
the Mobile Boat Education for Girls program, which travels to remote
villages to teach girls who cannot attend school basic academics and
health and hygiene; offers morning classes for victims of sexual exploitation;
and facilitates training sessions on relevant topics such as agriculture,
ecology, and waste management.
Tasintha Programme (Deeper Transformation Program)
$11,000/53,375,898 kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Director: Clotilda Phiri
tasinthaprogramme@zamtel.zm
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.
2003 grant: $7,000
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.
Aangan Trust
$7,000/307,720 rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Suparna Gupta
aanganindia@hotmail.com
Because overcrowded juvenile detention centers in India usually do not
provide any emotional counseling services to detained children, Aangan
is building a replicable model for psychological rehabilitation in state-run
detention centers, as well as working to affect juvenile-justice policies
concerning rehabilitation in order to create sustainable change in a
child’s life. GFC’s grant provides general support for educational,
psychological, and creative activities for 250 boys, who are criminal
offenders, runaways, or rescued child laborers, at the Children’s
Observation Home in Umerkhadi.
Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL)
$15,000/662,459 afghanis
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, now focuses attention on the
unique educational needs of Afghan boys. GFC’s grant provides
general support for seven boys’ education projects that incorporate
AIL’s positive teaching methods and its specially designed peace
and tolerance curriculum. 1999 through 2003 grants: $31,000 total
Asociación para la Atención Integral de Niños de la Calle (AIDENICA) (Association for the Integral Care of Street Boys)
$10,000/34,694 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.
2003 grant: $8,000
Calabar Institute for Research, Information and Development:
Conscientizing Male Adolescents (CMA)
$8,000/1,097,917 nairas
Calabar, Nigeria
Executive director: Edwin Madunagu
ciinstrid@hyperia.net
The CMA project works with adolescent boys to develop critical consciousness,
reject discriminatory and sexist prejudices and practices, and protect
their sexual and reproductive rights and health and that of their partners.
GFC’s grant is for general support of the CMA project.
Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRD)
$3,500/222,700 pesos
Quezon City, Philippines
Director: Rowena Legaspi
ccrd_2002@yahoo.com
Working in collaboration with other NGOs and government agencies, CLRD
provides legal assistance for juvenile offenders, documentation for
advocacy purposes, a welfare and rehabilitation program for released
detainees, and training and education for children concerning their
rights and the legal system. GFC’s grant supports the continuing
development of curriculum and materials for CLRD’s human rights
education program for children in detention centers, most of whom are
boys.
Ikamva Labantu (The Future of Our Nation)
$11,000/76,450 rand
Cape Town, South Africa
Managing director: Sipho Puwani
info@ikamva.co.za,
www.ikamva.org
Ikamva Labantu supports grassroots governance and works in partnership
with local residents to improve the quality of life in their communities
by addressing a range of issues, including education, economic empowerment,
and home-based care. GFC’s grant supports the Boys/Men Project,
a unique effort through which a team of researchers, educators, and
specialists are working with young boys and their fathers to gather
data that will help break the prevalent cycle of negative masculine
behavior, which often includes domestic abuse and unsafe sex. 2003 grant:
$2,000
Life Pieces to Masterpieces (LPTM)
$6,000
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, and homework assistance and tutoring. GFC’s
grant provides general support.
2000 and 2002 grants: $14,000 total
Oram (Hope): Amgalan Labor and Education Center
$8,000/8,962,960 tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Executive director: Ken Howard
oram@magicnet.mn
Oram seeks to address the rising school dropout rate for Mongolian boys
and the associated increases in petty crime, alcoholism, and suicide
by administering a variety of community development and training programs
both within and outside of the federal prison system. GFC’s grant
supports Oram’s Education, Skills Training, and Athletics for
Boys program, which teaches basic educational, life, and vocational
skills to 250 abandoned, homeless, and at-risk children, and which seeks
to increase the boys’ self-esteem by teaching them the national
sport of wrestling.
Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT)
$13,000/157,480 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, eat, and receive counseling,
tutoring, and skills training away from the police, drug dealers, and
sexual predators who routinely harass the boys on the streets.
2003 grant: $6,000
Sanghamitra Service Society (Friends of Society)
$8,000/359,760 rupees
Vijayawada, India
Director: Sivaji
sanmitra@nettlinx.com
Sanghamitra works in more than one hundred rural villages 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 societal awareness. GFC’s grant supports the Education
and Awareness for Adolescent Boys program, which mitigates the impact
of the inadequate education available to boys by offering them counseling,
skills training, scholarships, and workshops on male character development
and gender equality.
Synapse Network Center
$10,000/5,531,156 francs
Dakar, Senegal
Executive director: Ciré Kane
cire@synapsecenter.org,
www.synapsecenter.org
Synapse’s Education to Fight Exclusion Project works to empower
street boys, many of whom have been influenced by Islamic fundamentalism
taught at 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 and 2003 grants: $12,000 total
Women Development Association (WDA)
$8,000/31,888,000 riels
Saang district, Cambodia
Executive director: Soreach Sereithida
wda@forum.org.kh
Working since 1994 to address the needs of working, uneducated, and
impoverished women and youth, WDA is now turning its attention to the
specific problems of boys and young men who, due to their surroundings
and peer influences, are at risk of participating in criminal or violent
activities. GFC’s grant is for general support of WDA’s
new Peace Building for Youths project, which will target mostly males
and address issues such as child care, domestic violence, sexual abuse,
and human trafficking.
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.
Centro de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras (ANICA) (Support Center for Street Girls)
$6,000/68,028 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 on the streets of Mexico City.
2002 and 2003 grants: $10,000 total
Dr. Laura Lee Crane Scholarship Fund
$2,500
Forth Worth TX, United States
The Dr. Laura Lee Crane Scholarship Fund was established at Texas Christian
University in 1991 to benefit graduate students concentrating their
studies on special education. This gift is made in honor of GFC’s
friend and longtime colleague Lee Crane Wood, daughter of Laura Lee
Crane.
Education as a Vaccine against AIDS, Inc. (EVA)
$10,000/1,372,396 nairas
Abuja, Nigeria
Executive directors: Damilola Adebiyi and Fadekemi Akinfaderin
fadekemi@evanigeria.org,
www.evanigeria.org
EVA utilizes informal and formal education initiatives 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 AIDS Curriculum, a comprehensive reproductive-health
program designed to meet the special reproductive-health needs of Nigerian
secondary-school students. 2003 grant: $5,000
Going to School (GTS)
$6,000/263,760 rupees
Delhi, India
Director: Lisa Heydlauff
lisa@goingtoschool.com,
www.goingtoschool.com
GTS’s work began in 2003 with the development and publication
of the English-language book Going to School in India, which contains
stories of real children going to school in unique, stimulating situations
such as on a train platform, in a tent, under a mango tree, or at night.
GFC’s grant will support the translation, design, and national
dissemination of a follow-up series of ten mini-books in Hindi that
will be based on the stories in Going to School in India.
Hesperian Foundation
$10,000
Berkeley CA, United States/Global
Executive director: Sarah Shannon
info@hesperian.org, www.hesperian.org
The Hesperian Foundation produces simply written and heavily illustrated
health manuals that enable people with minimal formal education to diagnose,
treat, and prevent most common health problems and to address collectively
the social causes of poor health. GFC’s grant supports the revision
of Hesperian’s HIV, Health and Your Community, which will address
more specifically the needs of children orphaned by AIDS.
Kids With Cameras (KWC)
$5,000/219,800 rupees
Kolkata (Calcutta), India
President: Zana Briski
info@kids-with-cameras.org,
www.kids-with-cameras.org
Founded after the release of Zana Briski’s highly acclaimed film
Born into Brothels, KWC teaches the art of photography to children around
the world as a means to empower them and build their self-esteem as
well as to support their continuing education through the sale of their
photographs. GFC’s grant helps to fund exhibitions of photographs
taken by children living in the red-light district of Kolkata, proceeds
from which directly support their education.
Magic Bus
$5,000/224,850 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 for general support
of the Explorer Programme, which offers activities including day trips,
weekly games, art and theater, and residential camps for boys and girls
aged eight to ten.
2002 grant: $6,000
Nihewan Foundation: Cradleboard Teaching Project
$2,500
Kapaa HI, United States
President: Buffy Sainte-Marie
info@cradleboard.org, www.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.
2003 grant: $1,000
Thai Youth AIDS Prevention (TYAP)
$8,000/315,160 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 through 2003 grants: $12,500 total
Ubuntu Education Fund
$8,000/55,600 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 supports Ubuntu’s 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. 2002 grant: $5,000
The Wilderness Foundation
$8,000/52,202 rand
Durban, South Africa
Executive director: Andrew Muir
andrew@sa.wild.org, sa.wild.org
Working in South Africa since 1984, the Wilderness Foundation is a pioneer
in using nature-based educational programs as a positive force for social
change by bringing historically disadvantaged youth onto nature trails
in order to further their understanding of and cooperation with the
conservation of wild habitats. GFC’s grant supports the Pride
of Durban project, a one-day walking-trail program that draws black
leaders and youth participants from disadvantaged urban townships.
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 choose 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 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:
· Constructing sanitary toilets (Children’s Town, Zambia)
· Distributing medicine and hygiene aids, such as medicated lice shampoo (RWA, Romania)
· Covering transportation costs for community health-care workers to enable them to reach isolated populations (Halley Movement, Mauritius)
· Purchasing multivitamins, training staff on nutrition, and growing additional nutritious vegetables and fruits in the school’s kitchen garden (KRC, Kenya)
· Developing a curriculum that teaches basic sanitation, proper nutrition, the need for and means of obtaining clean drinking water, and preventative measures for STDs and other diseases (SKI, Sierra Leone)
· Purchasing a water storage tank with an ultraviolet purifier (DLG, Pakistan)
· Establishing first-aid centers in villages (RIDE, India)
· Providing basic medical supplies and services for residents of the girls’ home, including sanitary pads and gynecological checkups (Casa Daya, Mexico)
· Offering monthly medical clinics (PEACE, Sri Lanka)
· Developing emotional-health packets, which include training guides, brochures, games, and puppets (Aangan, Pakistan)
· Providing professional counseling regarding safe sexual behavior (LPTM, United States)
· Providing basic hygiene supplies such as toothbrushes and water purification tablets (Synapse, Senegal)
· Supporting a drop-in shelter that provides basic medical treatment, condoms, and counseling for vulnerable youth (TYAP, Thailand)
During 2003–2004, GFC provided supplemental health and well-being grants to eighty of its ninety-five 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. The health and well-being grants not only strengthen grantee partners’ health efforts but 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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