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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 both primary- and secondary-school children.
Achlal (Caring Kindness): Child Development Center
$7,000/841,100 Mongolia tugriks*
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director: Davaanyamyn Azzayaa
azzaya9@yahoo.com
Achlal provides community-based support for poor and disabled children
and their families living in Bayankhoshuu, one of the poorest slums
of Ulaanbaatar. GFC’s grant supports Achlal’s school for
dropout children, which provides four grades of education to students
aged nine to twenty years old who were never enrolled in school or were
forced to drop out due to disability, illness, or family poverty.
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA)
$13,000/14,014,000 Tanzania shillings
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Executive director: Rhoi Wangila
marla346@hotmail.com, 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.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2002
Asociación Deporte y Vida (Sports and Life Association)
$12,000/40,200 Peru 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
Deporte y Vida’s school located in the neighborhood of Jardines
de Pachamac.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2002
Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial y Preprimaria
Bilingüe Maya Ixil (APEDIBIMI)
(Association of Promoters of Early and Preprimary Bilingual Education
in Maya Ixil)
$10,000/76,100 Guatemala 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. GFC’s grant
is for general support of APEDIBIMI’s preprimary-education centers.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2003
Asociación Mujer y Comunidad (Women and Community Association)
$10,000/160,600 Nicaragua gold 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 schools.
GFC’s grant supports primary- and secondary-school scholarships
for girls, as well as the purchase of schoolbooks and materials for
scholarship students. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Asociación Poder Joven (Youth Power Association)
$6,000/15,795,000 Colombia pesos
Medellín, Colombia
Executive director: Patricia Jaramillo Duque
poderjoven@epm.net.co, www.poderjoven.org
Poder Joven aims to prevent children living in the impoverished, violent,
and crime-ridden neighborhood of Guayaquil from abandoning their homes
for the streets by offering educational opportunities that promote life
skills, critical thinking, and personal responsibility. GFC’s
grant supports Poder Joven’s Seeds of the Future project, which
provides school-going children with courses on tolerance, avoiding drug
use, and sexuality, as well as intensive academic support.
Asociación Solas y Unidas (Alone and United Association)
$9,000/29,640 Peru nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Sonia Borja Velazco
contacto@solasyunidas@org,
www.solasyunidas.org
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.
Previous funding: $18,000 since 2002
Asociata Ovidiu Rom: Gata, Dispus si Capabil (RWA) (Ready, Willing and Able)
$11,000/364,991,000 Romania
lei Bacau, Romania
Director: Maria Gheorghiu
maria@ovid.ro
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 RWA’s
Stefanita 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women: Girls’ Dreams
$8,000/49,920 Egypt pounds
Cairo, Egypt
Director: Iman Bibars
adew@link.net, www.adew.org
Girls’ Dreams provides basic nonformal education, training in
the arts, cultural and environmental awareness, health and hygiene training,
and psychological counseling to underprivileged and abused adolescent
girls living in Cairo’s squatter communities. GFC’s grant
supports the expansion of the Girls’ Dreams program to the low-income
communities of Qalubiya and Gharabia.
Benishyaka Association (Those with Courage Association)
$9,000/4,930,560 Rwanda francs
Kigali, Rwanda
National coordinator: Betty Gahima
benasoc@rwanda1.com, www.benishyaka.org.rw
Benishyaka works for the development and empowerment of widows, orphans,
and other vulnerable families that were affected by Rwanda’s civil
war and 1994 genocide. GFC’s grant provides scholarships for fifty
secondary-school students who are supported by Benishyaka.
Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development (CVCD)
$13,000/50,102,000 Cambodia riels
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Executive director: Doeur Sarath
cvcd@forum.org.kh, www.cvcd.org
CVCD promotes community volunteerism and offers basic education, literacy
programs, and job skills training to disadvantaged children and youth,
including those living in the slums, land mine survivors, and child
prostitutes. GFC’s grant supports CVCD’s nonformal education
program, which aims to integrate poor children living in urban slums
into formal schools by teaching them math, Khmer reading and writing,
geography, history, and science.
Previous funding: $38,000 since 1999. 2005 Sustainability Award: $25,000
Children’s Town
$13,000/63,401,000 Zambia kwacha
Malambanyama Village, Zambia
Executive director: Moses Zulu
childtown@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.
Previous funding: $49,250 since 1999. 2005 Sustainability Award: $25,000
Chiricli (Bird): Roma Women Charitable Fund
$10,000/53,200 Ukraine hryvnia
Kiev, Ukraine
President: Yuliya Kondur
ssidd@skif.com.ua
Chiricli provides assistance to Ukraine’s vulnerable Roma population,
with an emphasis on increasing and improving educational opportunities
and school attendance among Roma children and youth. GFC’s grant
pays for teacher training and supports seven of Chiricli’s Roma
Education Centers, which prepare preschool-age children for primary
school; work with young people, parents, and teachers to facilitate
the integration of Roma children into mainstream schools; and encourage
volunteerism among Roma young people.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Community Development Center (CDC)
$6,000/1,559,700 Sudan dinars
Khartoum, Sudan
Director: Michael James Wanh
michaelwanh@yahoo.co.uk
CDC offers remedial basic education to out-of-school children living
in Khartoum’s urban slums, using regular school facilities, a
modified curriculum, flexible lesson hours to suit the children’s
needs, and subjects that are relevant to their daily lives. GFC’s
grant is for general support.
Christ School
$11,000/19,200,500 Uganda 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 the school’s computer lab and helps pay for teacher-training
college for graduates of Christ School. Previous funding: $20,000 since
1999
Cidadela das Crianças (Children’s Town)
$11,000/227,667,000 Mozambique meticais
Maputo, Mozambique
Executive director: Sarmento Preço
adpp.mz@adpp.co.mz
Cidadela provides a healthy environment in which nearly six 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. Previous funding: $18,000 since 2003
Collège Amadou Hampate Bâ (CAHB)
$5,000/2,534,450 CFA francs
Porto Novo, Benin
Director: Alain Avoce Dossa
dossaalain@yahoo.fr
CAHB is a secondary school designed to provide a practical, skills-oriented
education to children who are unable to afford state-school fees or
who have dropped out of school. GFC’s grant is for general support
of CAHB, including its scholarship program for disadvantaged students.
Conquest for Life
$13,000/84,110 South Africa rand
Westbury, South Africa
Executive director: Glen Steyn
conqlife@netactive.co.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, an after-school
program focusing on positive self-image, conflict resolution, skills
development, and social activities.
Previous funding: $27,000 since 2001
Foundation for Development of Needy Communities (FDNC)
$12,000/20,880,000 Uganda shillings
Mbale, Uganda
Executive director: Samuel W. Watulatsu
fdncuganda@yahoo.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 supports FDNC’s vocational
training programs in tailoring, carpentry, and masonry. Previous funding:
$26,000 since 2001
Friends for Street Children (FFSC)
$11,000/174,185,000 Vietnam dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Thomas Tran Van Soi
ffsc-hcm@vnn.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 for FFSC’s Le Minh Xuan Development Center, which offers
literature, math, health, and natural sciences classes, in addition
to vocational training, family-centered activities, and health care.
Previous funding: $31,000 since 2000. 2005 Board Service Grant in honor
of Dena Blank: $1,500
Fundación La Paz: Centro de Capacitación Técnica Sarenteñani (La Paz Foundation: Sarenteñani Technical Training Center)
$8,000/81,763 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Jorge Domic Ruiz
flpsocioeduca@kolla.net
The Sarenteñani Technical Training Center provides quality, certified
training in leather production, auto mechanics, carpentry, computer
operation, metalworking, and textile design to underprivileged youth.
GFC’s grant is for general support. Previous funding: $14,000
since 2002
George Bird Grinnell American Indian Fund
$5,000
Potomac MD, United States
Executive director: Paula Mintzies
info@grinnellfund.com, www.grinnellfund.org
The Grinnell Fund works to empower Native Americans within the US; to
help them create positive differences within their communities; and
to focus on higher education as a means to improve their future opportunities.
GFC’s grant supports the Grinnell Fund’s college and continuing-education
scholarship program for Native youth. This grant is funded in part by
royalties from the Shakti for Children book Children of Native America
Today.
Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan (GMSS) (Sikar Girls Education Initiative)
$11,000/504,130 India rupees
Sikar, India
Executive director: Chain Singh Arya
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 is for general support.
Previous funding: $21,000 since 2001
Halley Movement
$8,000/228,560 Mauritius rupees
Batimarais, Mauritius
Secretary-general: Mahendranath Busgopaul
halley@intnet.mu, 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 offers youth who have
failed the primary-school graduation exam a career-focused nonformal
education curriculum, including interpersonal communications, applied
mathematics, resource management, and vocational training. Previous
funding: $6,000 since 2003
Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization
$12,000/33,924,000 Somalia 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
supports Horn Relief’s Pastoral Youth Leadership Outreach Program,
which focuses on responsible community leadership, social peace and
justice, holistic natural resource management, veterinary science, and
health and well-being.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2002
Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana (ISMU) (Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty)
$11,000/86,460 Guatemala quetzals
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 ISMU 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. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Ithuteng Trust
$8,000/48,560 South Africa rand
Soweto, South Africa
Project director: Jacqueline Ithuteng Maarohanye
tiisetso@ithuteng.org.za,
www.ithuteng.org.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 supports the Ithuteng
Trust’s Saturday school, which utilizes a peer tutoring system
to reinforce formal-school lessons. Previous funding: $18,000 since
2003
Jifunze (Learning) Project: Community Education Resource Centre
$10,000/10,967,500 Tanzania 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 provides general support for the
Jifunze Project’s academic services for kindergarten, primary-school,
and secondary-school students. Previous funding: $15,000 since 2002
The Jinpa Project
$7,000/57,960 China yuan
Nangchen County, China
Director: Tashi Tsering
jinpa@vip.sina.com, www.jinpa.org
Jinpa works in the most remote areas of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
to relieve the poverty of nomadic and semi-nomadic communities by creating
physical infrastructure and increasing access to education and health
care. GFC’s grant pays for books, school supplies, and winter
clothes for students at four remote village schools supported by Jinpa.
Kamitei Foundation
$9,000/9,702,000 Tanzania 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 facilities and teaching materials at the primary
level and by providing scholarships for selected students to pursue
postprimary vocational education. GFC’s grant is for general support
of this program. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE)
$12,500/50,543,750 Cambodia riels
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Executive director: Sao Vanna
kape@kapekh.org
KAPE works with 190 schools serving ninety 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 148 girls
participating in KAPE’s Lower Secondary School Program, as well
as capacity building for Local Scholarship Management Committees. Previous
funding: $18,000 since 2003
Kamulu Rehabilitation Centre (KRC)
$9,000/689,400 Kenya 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, where more than one hundred
boys and girls both live and study. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Kids In Need of Direction (KIND)
$10,000/62,800 Trinidad and Tobago dollars
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Director: Marlon Persad
kind@opus.co.tt, 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 integrated literacy
development program, including the establishment of a new computer center.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2003
Kitemu Integrated School
$10,000/17,400,000 Uganda 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 supports Kitemu’s programs targeting
children with disabilities. Previous funding: $19,000 since 2001
Light for All (LiFA)
$11,000/422,180 Haiti 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.
Previous funding: $9,000 since 2004
Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED)
$9,000/393,300 India rupees
Lucknow, India
Chief executive: Anil K. Singh
need@satyam.net.in, www.indianeed.org
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.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2003
Nishtha (Dedication)
$13,000/595,790 India rupees
Baruipur, India
Secretary: Mina Das
minadas@vsnl.net
Nishtha’s girls’ empowerment program, which combines nonformal
education, basic health care, and social activism, helps girls in over
sixty villages in rural West Bengal enroll in formal schools and gain
the skills and confidence that enable them to claim community roles
equal to those of their male counterparts. GFC’s grant supports
Nishtha’s Kishori Bahini leadership program as well as formal-school
tuition fees and supplies for two hundred girls.
Previous funding: $36,800 since 1999. 2005 Sustainability Award: $25,000.
2005 India Delegation Award: $500
Our Children
$10,500/24,727,500 Sierra Leone 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 supports Our Children’s accelerated learning and tutoring
program located in the neighborhood of Kissy. Previous funding: $17,000
since 2002
Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)
$11,000/654,170 Pakistan rupees
Nara Mughlan, Pakistan
Executive director: Arifa Mazhar
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 primary school but are unable
to further their education.
Previous funding: $4,800 since 2004
Prayas (To Wish)
$11,000/504,130 India rupees
Jaipur, India
Executive director: Jatinder 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.
Previous funding: $32,000 since 2001
ProJoven (For Youth)
$13,000/81,445,000 Paraguay guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Maureen Herman
projoven@worldnet.att.net,
www.projoven.org
ProJoven’s restorative-justice model uses education, the training
of community volunteers and educators, and community awareness raising
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.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2002
Reencontro—Mozambican Association for the Support and Development of Orphan Children
$13,000/269,061,000 Mozambique meticais
Maputo, Mozambique
President: Olinda Mugabe
reencontro@teledata.mz
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 AIDS orphans.
Previous funding: $18,000 since 2003
Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO): Train Platform Schools
$12,000/549,960 India rupees
Bhubaneswar, India
Executive director: Inderjit Khurana
rssobbs@hotmail.com, www.ruchika.org
RSSO’s Train Platform Schools create informal classroom settings
through which more than four hundred children who live, work, or beg
on or around railway platforms gain daily access to books, worksheets,
and arts and crafts. GFC’s grant both supports the operating costs
of the Train Platform Schools and grows the program’s endowment
to ensure its future sustainability. Previous funding: $66,275 since
1997. 2005 Sustainability Award: $25,000. 2005 India Delegation Award:
$1,000
Sam-Kam Institute (SKI)
$11,000/28,050,000 Sierra Leone leones
Kalaba Town, Sierra Leone
President: Peter Samura
asamkam@yahoo.com
SKI, one of the few indigenous nongovernmental organizations in Sierra
Leone, 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. Previous funding: $6,000 since
2003
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (SSS) (Village Self-Reliance)
$12,000/712,440 Bangladesh taka
Pabna district, 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 an emphasis on
bringing environmental training, human rights awareness, and basic education
to children, especially girls, who would otherwise be unable to attend
school. GFC’s grant supports SSS’s mobile boat school program,
which uses a solar-powered boat to provide basic academics, health awareness,
human and gender rights training, and library services to children living
in remote villages.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT)
$6,000/621,540 Sri Lanka rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Nita Gunesekera
shilpa@dynaweb.lk
SCT, inspired by the Montessori method, runs a quality preschool and
provides 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 is for general support
of SCT’s free preschool. Previous funding: $12,000 since 2002
Society Biliki
$13,000/23,660 Georgia lari
Gori, Georgia
Executive director: Mari Mgebrishvili
biliki@rambler.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 general support for Biliki’s
Day Center.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2003
Tanadgoma (Assistance): Library and Cultural Center for People with Disabilities
$7,000 /13,440 Georgia lari
Tbilisi, Georgia
Chairman: Nana Alexidze
acacia@ip.osgf.ge
Tanadgoma promotes integrative and inclusive education for children
with disabilities by providing them with basic educational and extracurricular
activity programs; facilitating their transition into the mainstream
school system; and training teachers, parents, and government officials
on issues such as inclusive education, proper care for those with disabilities,
and legal and policy matters related to disability. GFC’s grant
is for general support.
Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF)
$9,000 /17,280 Georgia 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 academic tutorial, ongoing counseling,
and extracurricular activities to children who are at increased risk
of dropping out of school. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Vikramshila Education Resource Society
$12,000/549,960 India rupees
Bigha, India
Executive director: Shubhra Chatterji
vers@cal.vsnl.net.in, www.vikramshila.org
Vikramshila establishes model education programs and trains government-school
teachers in its effort to make quality education accessible to marginalized
sectors of Indian society, and 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.
A portion of this grant also provided emergency relief for the rebuilding
of classrooms destroyed by floods in West Bengal in 2004. Previous funding:
$14,000 since 2002. 2005 India Delegation Award: $500
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 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.
Action pour la Promotion des Droits de l’Enfant au Burkina Faso (APRODEB) (Action for the Promotion of the Rights of the Burkinabe Child)
$8,000/4,276,960 CFA francs
Gorgadji, Burkina Faso
Director: Boureima Ouédraogo
aprodebsahel.dori@fasonet.bf
APRODEB provides working children and their families with skills training,
literacy programs, and health-care initiatives and assists young people
in developing their own strategies to promote and protect children’s
rights. GFC’s grant supports APRODEB’s child-to-child program,
which gives school-going youth the training and skills to design and
implement activities that address problems affecting local children,
such as the use of child labor in gold mines.
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI) (Association for the Defense of Life)
$11,000/36,850 Peru nuevos soles
Huachipa, Peru
Executive director: Ezequiel Robles Hurtado
adevi@terra.com.pe, www.geocities.com/adeviperu
ADEVI works to eradicate child labor in the brick-making kilns of Huachipa
by providing nonformal schooling, preventive health education, skills
training, microenterprise development, and Andean cultural awareness
programs. GFC’s grant supports ADEVI’s community school
program, which provides basic education to child laborers with the aim
of reintegrating them into formal schools.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2002
Asociación Promoción y Desarrollo de la Mujer Nicaragüense—ACAHUALT (Association for the Promotion and Development of Women)
$9,000/146,610 Nicaragua cordobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Executive director: Norma Villalta Arellano
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.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2004
Association for Community Development Services (ACDS)
$9,000/412,470 India 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
comprehensive education programs, which include quarry-based resource
centers, preschools and day-care centers, mobile classrooms for working
children, and bridge schools to reintegrate dropout children into formal
schools.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Association Jeunesse Actions Mali (AJA Mali) (Youth Action Association of Mali)
$10,000/5,068,900 CFA 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
and working youth, many of whom are serving long-term apprenticeships
in the fields of carpentry, masonry, plumbing, metalworking, 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. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Association La Lumière (The Light Association)
$8,000/4,055,120 CFA francs
Tambacounda, Senegal
Executive secretary: Ibrahima Sory Diallo
lumiereaspd@yahoo.fr
La Lumière works to promote the well-being of street children,
female domestic workers, migrant families, and other marginalized populations
living in rural, underdeveloped areas. GFC’s grant supports La
Lumière’s efforts to improve school enrollment among children
currently working in the gold mines near Tambacounda. www.onglumiere.co.za
Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de Oaxaca (CANICA) (Center for the Support of Street Children in Oaxaca)
$9,000/99,900 Mexico pesos
Oaxaca, Mexico
Executive director: Marlene Santiago Ramirez
canicadeoaxaca@prodigy.net.mx,
www.canicadeoaxaca.org
CANICA works in Oaxaca’s poorest neighborhoods, which also have
the highest concentration of migrant indigenous people, to provide services
to working children and families who are living on the streets, who
are at risk of becoming homeless, or who are victims of domestic violence.
GFC’s grant provides general support for CANICA’s educational
programs for market-working children.
Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para el Desarrollo Local (CEADEL) (Center for Study and Support for Local Development)
$7,000/55,020 Guatemala quetzales
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Executive director: José Gabriel Zelada Ortiz
director01@intelnett.com
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 girls who are already working in or at risk of entering
the floriculture industry and provides workshops on labor rights, reproductive
health, and gender issues for participants, their parents, and the community.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2003
Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB) (San Juan Bosco Center)
$9,000/169,470 Honduras lempiras
Tela, Honduras
Executive director: Dylcia de Ochoa
dylciaei@yahoo.com
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’s initiatives for providing education
and reducing work hours for children working in the street markets.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2003
De Laas Gul Welfare Programme (DLG) (Hand-Embroidered Flower Welfare Program)
$8,000/475,760 Pakistan 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
general support for girls-only literacy and skills training classes
at DLG’s child labor rehabilitation center in the semi-urban area
of Tehkal. Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004
Door Step School
$9,000/393,300 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Bina Sheth Lashkari
doorstep@vsnl.com, www.doorstepschool.org
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. Previous funding: $8,000 since 2004
2005 India Delegation Award: $500
Espacio Cultural Creativo (Cultural Creative Space)
$7,000/55,930 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Maria Carmen Shulze
pipoeste@entelnet.bo
Espacio Cultural Creativo engages shoeshine boys, market-working children,
and street children through theatrical skits, music, storytelling, and
other creative activities held in open spaces such as parks, and ultimately
strives to channel participants into basic literacy programs. GFC’s
grant funds twenty-eight of these interactive workshops. Previous funding:
$12,000 since 2002
Fundación JUCONI—Ecuador
$7,000
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Executive director: Sylvia Reyes
juconi@juconi.org.ec, www.juconi.org.ec
JUCONI serves children who work unsupervised on the city streets from
as young as four years old and often for very long hours. GFC’s
grant is for JUCONI’s education program, which aims to reintegrate
child laborers into formal schools by helping them reduce their daily
working time, providing them with a basic education and analytical thinking
skills, and assisting teachers in creating the school conditions necessary
to maintain the enrollment of working children.
Jeeva Jyothi (JJ) (Everlasting Light)
$13,000/568,100 India 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.
Previous funding: $26,000 since 2002
La Conscience
$13,000/6,589,570 CFA francs
Tsévié, 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 educational
support for one school year for two hundred AIDS-affected and other
vulnerable children who, due to their family, economic, and social situations,
are at risk of being trafficked.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2003
Laura Vicuña Foundation, Inc. (LVF)
$7,000/380,590 Philippines pesos
Negros Occidental, Philippines
Executive director: Maria Victoria P. Sta. Ana
lauravicuna2004@yahoo.com,
www.lauravicuna.com
LVF serves two thousand disadvantaged children each year through street
outreach in Manila, drop-in centers, vocational and employment training,
and a residential program for sexually abused and exploited girls. GFC’s
grant supports LVF’s Community Organizing and Mobilizing towards
Education Project, which operates among the sugarcane fields of Negros
Occidental to provide child laborers, out-of-school youth, and those
at risk of leaving school for work with formal and informal educational
opportunities.
Rural Institute for Development Education (RIDE)
$13,000/595,790 India rupees
Kanchipuram, India
Executive director: S. Jeyaraj
ride@md3.vsnl.net.in, www.rideindia.org
RIDE, one of the leading advocates for the eradication of child labor
in the state of Tamil Nadu’s silk looms, educates entire communities
about the dangers of child labor, alternative ways to earn family incomes,
and the far-reaching benefits of an educated, healthy, and empowered
population of children and young people. GFC’s grant supports
RIDE’s village-based Child Labor Prevention and Intervention Centers
and its Bridge School Centers, which ease the educational, social, and
emotional transition of children from the workplace to public schools.
Previous funding: $26,000 since 2001
SECDO Women Development Centre
$5,000/517,950 Sri Lanka rupees
Matale, Sri Lanka
Executive director: D. M. C. Dissanayake
aruls2000@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.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2001
SIN-DO
$7,000/3,548,230 CFA francs
Cotonou, Benin
Director: Sètchémè Jérônime Mongbo
ongsindo@yahoo.fr
SIN-DO promotes health and hygiene awareness, supports quality education,
and provides, training in civic participation, economic development
activities, and HIV/AIDS prevention programs for women and children
living in marginalized communities in and around Cotonou. GFC’s
grant supports SIN-DO’s youth-run initiative to prevent the practice
of vidomegon, in which children from poor families are sent to work
in the homes of distant relatives or acquaintances where they frequently
experience abuse and neglect.
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN) (Friends of Children Society)
$8,000/147,840 Honduras lempiras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Director: Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
saninos@yahoo.com
SAN 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 SAN’s Reyes Irene Valenzuela Support
Center, which provides technical training, literacy classes, labor and
gender rights awareness, and nonformal elementary education to female
domestic workers.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Society for Education and Action (SEA)
$7,000/305,900 India 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
of SEA’s motivation and recreation centers, which help school-going
children succeed academically and which ease the transition to school
for dropouts and children who have never attended school. Previous funding:
$2,000 since 2004
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, and the rising numbers of street children and AIDS orphans are 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.
Asociación para los Derechos de la Niñez “Monseñor
Oscar Romero” (Los Romeritos)
(Monsignor Oscar Romero Association for Children’s Rights)
$8,000/62,880 Guatemala quetzales
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Executive director: Elisa Esperanza Marroquín Aroche
romeritos@intelnett.com
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 preventive measure to keep them in school. Previous
funding: $7,000 since 2003
Associacao de Apoio as Meninas e Mininos de Regiao Se (AA Crianca) (Association for Support of Boys and Girls of Se)
$7,000/17,640 Brazil reais
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Executive director: Everaldo Santos Oliveira
aacrianca@uol.com.br
AA Crianca protects the legal and human rights of children and adolescents
living in central Sao Paolo’s poorest and most marginalized communities,
almost all of whom are victims of some form of violence. GFC’s
grant supports AA Crianca’s Ser Mulher program, which focuses
on adolescent mothers who suffer from domestic violence and are highly
vulnerable to initial or continued sexual abuse and prostitution.
Association d’Appui et d’Eveil Pugsada (ADEP) (Association of Support and Coming of Age)
$7,000/3,548,230 CFA francs
Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso
President: Marie Léa Gama Zongo
adep@fasonet.bf
ADEP’s activities focus on fighting violence against girls; educating
them about AIDS and reproductive health; and helping society better
understand the effects on girls of early and forced marriage, the dangers
of female circumcision, and the importance of girls’ education.
GFC’s grant supports ADEP’s community- and school-based
activities to break the silence that surrounds the common practice of
sexual harassment and abuse in schools.
Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights Foundation (CPCR)
$8,000/331,360 Thailand 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 CPCR’s
Baan Raek Rub Assessment Center, which provides twenty-four-hour emergency
care and counseling to children and families who have been referred
by other organizations that monitor and investigate child sexual abuse
cases.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
Coisa de Mulher: Centro de Documentacão e Informacão (CEDOICOM) (Woman Thing: Center for Research and Information)
$6,000/16,920 Brazil reais
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Executive director: Neusa das Dores Periera
cedoicom@terra.com.br
CEDOICOM provides programs on reproductive health, prevention of commercial
sexual exploitation of girls and women, problems associated with child
labor, and HIV/AIDS prevention for women and girls who habitually face
social discrimination because of their gender, race, or low economic
status. GFC’s grant supports CEDOICOM’s Girls Thinking the
Future project, which offers basic education, courses in theater and
dance, leadership-building activities, and an introduction to community
volunteerism and activism to girls at risk of becoming involved in prostitution.
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) (Unstoppable Women’s Collaborative Committee)
$5,000/218,500 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Program director: Mrinal Kanti Dutta
sonagachi@sify.com
DMSC, a forum of sixty-five thousand sex workers and their children,
works in red-light districts throughout India and the world in order
to demand full civil and human rights for its members. GFC’s grant
supports DMSC’s educational and scholarship programs for preprimary-age,
school-going, and dropout children living in the red-light districts
of West Bengal.
Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT)
$8,000/12,080 Bulgaria leva
Sofia, Bulgaria
Executive director: Jivka Marinova
gert@mbox.contact.bg, www.gert.ngo-bg.org
GERT raises public awareness on issues linked to gender stereotypes,
teaches young people about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, and improves
gender relations among youth in order to reduce gender-based violence
and sexual exploitation. GFC’s grant provides general support
for GERT’s peer education program to combat the trafficking of
orphans and abandoned children living in state-run institutions.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
$10,000
New York NY, 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. Previous funding: $4,500 since 2004
Luna Nueva (New Moon)
$12,000/71,410,200 Paraguay guaranies
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 supports Luna Nueva’s outreach
and education programs, which each year reach out to approximately 250
girls living in exploitative situations on the streets. Previous funding:
$17,000 since 2002
Mongolian Youth Development Foundation (MYDF)
$9,000/10,683,000 Mongolia tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Executive director: Myagmar Esunmunkh
info@mydc.org.mn, www.mydc.org.mn
Facilitated by and for Mongolian youth, MYDF 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 MYDF’s
counseling and training projects for girls at risk of using prostitution
as a means of survival. Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004
Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS) (Movement for International Self-Development and Solidarity)
$7,500/212,625 Dominican Republic pesos
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Executive director: María Josefina Paulino
mais_ecpat@hotmail.com
MAIS motivates children to stay in school and strives to prevent them
from entering Puerto Plata’s sex tourism industry by offering
academic support and social services to at-risk and exploited youth.
GFC’s grant provides general support for MAIS’s supplementary
school workshops for students who are at risk of dropping out due to
grade repetition, absence, and low achievement. Previous funding: $18,000
since 2001
New Horizons Ministries (NHM)
$8,000/36,900,00 Zambia kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Executive director: Juliet Chilengi
newhoriznorp@zamtel.zm,
www.nho.kabissa.org
NHM focuses on girls who are orphaned, impoverished, or living with
HIV/AIDS and promotes their positive involvement in the community and
participation in activities that will reduce their vulnerability to
sexual and other forms of exploitation. GFC’s grant provides educational
support for primary-, secondary-, and community-school students who
are orphaned or do not receive any assistance from their families.
Phulki (Spark)
$12,000/759,360 Bangladesh taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Executive director: Suraiya Haque
phulki@citechco.net, www.phulki.org
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
impoverished Mirpur community.
Previous funding: $28,000 since 2002
Prerana (Inspiration)
$15,000/687,450 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Priti Pravin Patkar
pppatkar@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
Prerana operates a range of educational activities, anti-trafficking
initiatives, and support programs in order to protect the human rights
of sexually exploited women and their children. GFC’s grant supports
Prerana’s educational services for the children of prostitutes,
including a night-care center that provides them 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. Previous funding: $29,000
since 2001. 2005 India Delegation Award: $500
Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere (PEACE)
$11,000/1,139,490 Sri Lanka 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
supports PEACE’s nonformal-education and skills training programs,
which provide classes in drama, music, literature, leadership, math,
English, human rights, and HIV/AIDS prevention to over two thousand
boys and girls. Previous funding: $32,000 since 2000
Rozan: Aangan (Ray of Light: Courtyard)
$10,000/594,700 Pakistan rupees
Islamabad, Pakistan
Executive director: Maria Rashid
aangan@mail.comsats.net.pk,
www.rozan.org
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 provides support for the Aangan program’s community-based
activities to prevent child sexual abuse.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004
Tasintha Programme (Deeper Transformation Program)
$12,000/55,350,000 Zambia 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 supports Tasintha’s Child Survival Project, which focuses
on the children of sex workers and on street-dwelling children in order
to protect them from initial or continued exposure to sexual exploitation.
Previous funding: $18,000 since 2003
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 specifically 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
$11,000/480,700 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Suparna Gupta
aangantrust@rediffmail.com,
www.aanganindia.org
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 children’s
lives. GFC’s grant provides general support for educational, psychological,
and creative activities for eight hundred boys, including criminal offenders,
runaways, and rescued child laborers, who are living in Mumbai’s
state-run institutions. Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004. 2005 India
Delegation Award: $500
Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL)
$15,000/641,700 Afghanistan afghanis
Nangahar and Kabul Provinces, Afghanistan
Executive director: Sakena Yacoobi
chi@creatinghope.org, www.creatinghope.org/ail.htm
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 the Afghan boys’ education project, which
incorporates AIL’s positive teaching methods and its specially
designed peace and tolerance curriculum. Previous funding: $46,000 since
1999. 2005 Sustainability Award: $25,000. 2005 Board Service Grant in
honor of Laura Luger: $3,000
Asociación para la Atención Integral de Niños de la Calle (AIDENICA) (Association for the Intensive Care of Street Boys)
$12,000/39,120 Peru nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Edgar Cordero Alvarado
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
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’s values promotion
and employment preparation program for former street boys and adolescents.
Previous funding: $18,000 since 2003
Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais (AFEL) (Lebanese Child Home Association)
$6,000/9,084,000 Lebanon pounds
Beirut, Lebanon
President: Simone Warde
afel@dm.net.lb, www.afelonline.org
AFEL serves orphaned children and broken families through a combination
of literacy classes, youth clubs, summer camps, workshops, and a public
education program aimed at strengthening family ties. GFC’s grant
supports AFEL’s Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Program, which
targets children—80 percent of whom are boys—who are at
risk of resorting to criminal pursuits or being exploited on the streets,
helping them to learn the skills necessary to resume formal schooling
and stabilize their personal lives.
Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRD)
$6,000/326,220 Philippines 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 CLRD’s
human rights program for children in detention centers, most of whom
are boys, as well as publication of the organization’s newly developed
training and teaching curriculum.
Previous funding: $3,500 since 2004
El Caracol: Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y Educación Recreativa (Snail: Transitional Center for Training and Recreational Education)
$9,000/99,900 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
President: Juan Martín Pérez García
info@elcaracol.org
El Caracol works in the neglected and frequently violent Venustiano
Carranza and Merced/Sonora neighborhoods of Mexico City to provide formal
and informal education, transitional housing, and life skills workshops
for street children and youth. GFC’s grant supports El Caracol’s
job skills training for youth, including enhancing the job placement
and marketing activities of its innovative bakery project for unemployed
boys.
Ikamva Labantu (The Future of Our Nation)
$12,000/77,640 South Africa rand
Cape Town, South Africa
Managing director: Sipho Puwani
info@ikamva.co.za, www.ikamva.org
Ikamva Labantu 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 Kindness 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 irresponsible sexual behavior.
Previous funding: $13,000 since 2003
Istanbul Interparish Migrants’ Program (IIMP)
$6,000/9,074,259,000 Turkey liras
Istanbul, Turkey
Director: Ian Sherwood
iimpturkey@hotmail.com
IIMP serves Turkey’s large and vulnerable population of Asian
and African refugees through adult education and literacy classes, repatriation
and resettlement services, emergency accommodation and care, counseling,
medical services, language interpretation, and child welfare and education.
GFC’s grant supports educational, creative-arts, and sports activities
for boys participating in IIMP’s children’s health and education
program, which offers classes in math, geography, English, computer
skills, music, and science.
Life Pieces to Masterpieces (LPTM)
$11,000
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 is for general support.
Previous funding: $20,000 since 2000
2005 Sustainability Award: $25,000
Men on the Side of the Road (MSR)
$7,000/42,490 South Africa rand
Woodstock, South Africa
Director: Charles Maisel
unemploymen@mweb.co.za,
www.unemploymen.co.za
MSR provides employment and educational services to the estimated 200,000
men who spend their days waiting for short-term employment opportunities
along the shoulders of major roadways in the Western Cape region. GFC’s
grant pays for continuing education and training activities for boys
aged fifteen to twenty who dropped out of school in order to find work
to support themselves and their families.
Oram (Hope): Amgalan Labor and Education Center (LET)
$7,000/8,414,000 Mongolia tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Executive director: Ken Howard
oram@magicnet.mn
LET is a residential home that provides remedial education, academic
tutoring, practical skills training, personal hygiene awareness, and
recreation for 260 orphaned and abandoned children. GFC’s grant
supports LET’s Education, Skills Training, and Athletics for Boys
program, which offers educational support classes, character development
activities, and vocational skills training in woodworking, masonry,
and leatherworking to homeless and neglected boys, and which seeks to
increase their self-esteem by teaching them the national sport of wrestling.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2003
Rural Family Support Organization (RuFamSO)
$6,000/370,140 Jamaica dollars
May Pen, Jamaica
Executive director: Utealia Burrel
dashra4@hotmail.com
RuFamSO offers guidance, educational support, life skills training,
and education in nutrition and personal health care to adolescents in
Jamaica’s rural communities. GFC’s grant supports RuFamSO’s
Male Adolescent Programme, which provides courses to boys aged ten to
eighteen in reproductive health, sexual responsibility, critical decision-making
skills, drug abuse prevention, and conflict resolution skills as a means
to reduce teenage pregnancies and ultimately build stronger, more responsible
men, families, and communities.
Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT)
$13,000/568,100 India 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 supports
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.
Previous funding: $19,000 since 2003
Sanghamitra Service Society (Friends of Society)
$9,000/412,470 India 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 social awareness. GFC’s grant supports Sanghamitra’s
Education and Awareness for Adolescent Boys program, which offers counseling,
skills training, scholarships, and workshops on male character development
in order to mitigate social problems that disproportionately affect
low-caste boys, such as HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, and petty crime.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2003
Synapse Network Center
$13,500/6,843,015 CFA francs
Dakar, Senegal
Executive director: Ciré Kane
synapse@synapsecenter.org,
www.synapsecenter.org
Synapse’s Education to Fight Exclusion Project works to empower
street boys, many of whom have been sent to study at Islamic schools
known as daaras, which often do not have the resources to adequately
provide for the boys’ daily needs. GFC’s grant provides
general support and capacity building for the Education to Fight Exclusion
Project, a residential school that teaches boys to stand up for their
rights, pursue their goals, and take greater responsibility in their
communities.
Previous funding: $22,000 since 2002
Women Development Association (WDA)
$9,000/36,391,500 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 has now turned 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
Peace Building for Youths project, which targets mostly males and addresses
issues such as child care, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and human
trafficking. Previous funding: $8,000 since 2004
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 within 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.
Agastya International Foundation
$6,000/274,980 India rupees
Chittoor District, India
Chairman: Rama P. Raghavan
agastya@vsnl.com, www.agastya.org
Agastya aims to make formal education creative, practical, and responsive
to students’ needs by operating mobile labs, science fairs, teacher
training, and communications and information technology programs. GFC’s
grant supports one Agastya mobile lab, which carries over one hundred
low-cost science experiments, specially designed by experts and scientists,
that provide children and teachers with opportunities to learn in an
interactive hands-on environment.
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)
$10,000/27,300 Suriname dollars
Kwamalasamutu, Suriname
Executive director: Neville Gunther
info@amazonteam.org, www.amazonteam.org
ACT works in partnership with the isolated indigenous peoples of Suriname’s
interior to gain land rights, produce natural resource management plans
for these territories, improve health through traditional medicinal
practices, and revitalize elements of indigenous culture. GFC’s
grant supports ACT’s Shamans and Novices Program, which provides
children with the means to learn the teachings of a village shaman concerning
traditional medicinal knowledge.
Centro de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras (ANICA) (Support Center for Street Girls)
$6,000/66,600 Mexico 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 sexually transmitted diseases, 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.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2002
Education as a Vaccine against AIDS, Inc. (EVA)
$12,000/1,582,560 Nigeria nairas
Abuja, Nigeria
Executive director: Fadekemi Akinfaderin
general@evanigeria.org,
www.evanigeria.org
EVA works 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 new Window of Hope
project, an HIV-prevention program focusing on orphans and street-working
children aged eight to thirteen, a typically hard-to-reach population
that has one of the fastest-growing HIV infection rates in Nigeria.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2003
Ethiopian Books for Children and Educational Foundation (EBCEF)
$6,000/52,200 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Yohannes Gebregeorgis
ebcef@telecom.net.et, www.ethiopiareads.org
EBCEF aims to improve the reading skills of Ethiopia’s undereducated
youth by establishing libraries in low-income neighborhoods, donating
high-quality children’s books to community organizations, coordinating
public-awareness campaigns surrounding the importance of reading, and
maintaining a mobile tent library. GFC’s grant supports EBCEF’s
free children’s library and reading center, which offers fifteen
thousand children’s and young-adult books in the English, Amharic,
Tigraygna, and Oromifa languages and organizes activities such as traditional
storytelling and art classes.
Going to School (GTS)
$15,000/655,500 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Director: Lisa Heydlauff
lisa@goingtoschool.com,
www.goingtoschool.com
GTS is a multimedia project for children that celebrates every child’s
right to go to school and participate in an inspiring education that
is relevant to his or her life. GFC’s grant supports GTS’s
new Girl Stars project, which aims to promote school enrollment among
girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, as well as the production of a film
about going to school in India.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Magic Bus
$6,000/274,980 India 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 supports one Explorer
group, which offers activities including year-round day trips, weekly
games, art and theater, and residential camps for forty boys and girls
aged eight to ten. Previous funding: $11,000 since 2002. 2005 Sustainability
Award: $25,000. 2005 India Delegation Award: $500
Ruili Women and Children Development Center
$6,000/49,680 China yuan
Ruili, China
Director: Chen Guilan
hujin@savethechildren.org.cn
The Ruili Center works to improve the overall well-being of neglected
or sexually exploited women and children living in Ruili County, with
a particular focus on raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases. GFC’s grant is for the Ruili Center’s
Engaging Local Youth project, which raises community awareness about
HIV/AIDS and promotes leadership and positive behavior among children
and youth.
Thai Youth Action Programs (TYAP)
$9,000/355,770 Thailand 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.
Previous funding: $20,500 since 1997. 2005 Sustainability Award: $25,000
Ubuntu Education Fund
$8,000/55,600 South Africa 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 tech