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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
$10,000/11,930,000 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 who were never enrolled in school or were forced
to drop out due to disability, illness, or family poverty. Previous
funding: $7,000 since 2004
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA)
$15,000/17,100,000 Tanzania 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 cost-free secondary schooling to impoverished
children who wish to continue their education but have been forced to
drop out due to poverty.
Previous funding: $28,000 since 2002
Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo: Escuelas Deporte
y Vida
(Pro-Child Civil Association: Sports and Life Schools)
$15,000/50,400 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: $27,000 since 2002
Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial Bilingüe
Maya Ixil (APEDIBIMI)
(Maya Ixil Association of Promoters of Bilingual Early Education)
$11,000/83,380 Guatemala quetzales
Nebaj, Guatemala
Executive director: Benito Terraza Cedillo
apedibimi@hotmail.com
APEDIBIMI provides bilingual early childhood education in the Ixil and
Spanish languages to more than thirteen hundred indigenous Ixil Maya
children in fourteen remote villages. GFC’s grant provides general
support for APEDIBIMI’s early childhood education centers.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2003
Asociación Mujer y Comunidad (Women and Community Association)
$11,500/194,925 Nicaragua córdobas
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: $16,000 since 2003
Asociación Poder Joven (Youth Power Association)
$8,000/18,296,000 Colombia pesos
Medellín, Colombia
Executive director: Clared Patricia Jaramillo Duque
poderjoven@epm.net.co; www.poderjoven.org
Poder Joven offers educational opportunities that promote life skills,
critical thinking, and personal responsibility, with the aim of preventing
children living in the impoverished, violent, and crime-ridden neighborhood
of Guayaquil from abandoning their homes for the streets. 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Asociación Solas y Unidas (Alone and United Association)
$9,000/29,790 Peru nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Sonia Borja Velazco
contacto@solasyunidas.org;
www.solasyunidas.org
Solas y Unidas improves the quality of life for HIV-positive women and
their children through programs in leadership, enterprise, human rights,
counseling, medical care, and nutrition. GFC’s grant supports
the Solas y Unidas day school for children of HIV-positive mothers.
Previous funding: $52,000 since 2002
Asociata Ovidiu Rom: Gata, Dispus si Capabil (GDC)
(Ready, Willing and Able)
$14,000/41,580 Romania lei
Bacau, Romania
Director: Maria Gheorghiu
office@ovid.ro; www.ovid.ro
GDC 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 GDC’s
Primele Sanse 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: $17,000 since 2003
Benishyaka Association
$11,000/5,943,300 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.
Previous funding: $9,000 since 2005
Centro Cultural Batahola Norte (CCBN) (Cultural Center of Batahola Norte)
$8,000/135,600 Nicaragua Córdobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Director: Jennifer F. Marshall
batahola@ibw.com.ni; www.friendsofbatahola.org
CCBN offers twenty courses in basic education and domestic and technical
skills to more than five hundred women and children annually. GFC’s
grant supports sixty CCBN student scholarships as well as a library
project, which includes tutoring, study circles, and health workshops
for over two hundred students.
Children in the Wilderness
$8,000/1,082,800 Malawi kwachas
Lilongwe, Malawi
Executive director: Amanda Joynt
citw@malawi.net
Through a unique partnership with a private safari company, Children
in the Wilderness offers life skills, education, and opportunities to
orphans and vulnerable children through experiential learning camps
at the safari sites during the commercial off-season. GFC’s grant
supports secondary-school scholarships, uniforms, and school supplies
for selected camp participants.
Chiricli (Bird): Roma Women Charitable Fund
$11,000/55,770 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
supports Chiricli’s national Network of Roma Education and six
of the organization’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:
$16,000 since 2003
Christ School
$16,000/35,744,000 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 LEAD (leadership and academic development)
camps, which focus on science and mathematics for promising students
seeking secondary-school acceptance. Previous funding: $56,000 since
1999
Community Development Center (CDC)
$12,000 USD/2,846,280 Sudan dinars
Khartoum, Sudan
Director: Michael James Wanh
michaelwanh@yahoo.co.uk
CDC’s Abu-Adam Remedial Education Project conducts a one-year
academic term reaching more than 150 children, including school dropouts,
students of nontraditional age, children excluded from government-run
schooling because of ethnicity or religion, and other vulnerable children.
GFC’s grant is for general support of the Abu-Adam Remedial Education
Project. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Conquest for Life
$14,000 USD/91,280 South Africa 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 empowers 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: $40,000 since 2001
Foundation for Development of Needy Communities (FDNC)
$14,000/26,110,000 Uganda shillings
Mbale, Uganda
Executive director: Samuel W. Watulatsu
info@fdncuganda.org; www.fdncuganda.org
FDNC provides youth development programs, counseling for street children,
girl advancement programs, farming programs, and very uniquely, a brass
band to encourage children to develop their creative talents. GFC’s
grant supports the vocational skills training program, which includes
computer skills, tailoring, carpentry, and masonry, with special attention
to the participation and retention of girls.
Previous funding: $38,000 since 2001
Friends for Street Children (FFSC)
11,000/183,185,200 Vietnam dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Director: Le Thi Thao
ffsc-hcm@vnn.vn; www.olivierdumonde.com
FFSC supports street children’s efforts to build productive lives
through its seven development centers, offering services such as nonformal
education, vocational training, shelter, and healthcare, as well as
additional training in life skills, child rights awareness, and HIV/AIDS.
GFC's grant supports the nonformal education programs for primary-school
students and scholarships for secondary-school students at the Binh
Trieu Development Center.
Previous funding: $43,500 since 2000
Fundación La Paz: Centro de Capacitación Técnica
Sarenteñani
(La Paz Foundation: Sarenteñani Technical Training Center)
$14,500/116,870 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Jorge Domic Ruiz
flpsocioeduca@redcotel.bo
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: $26,000 since 2002
George Bird Grinnell American Indian Fund
$5,000
Potomac, MD, United States
Executive director: Paula Mintzies
info@grinnellfund.com; www.grinnellfund.com
The Grinnell Fund empowers Native Americans within the US to 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 scholarship program
for Native youth. This grant is funded in part by royalties from the
Global Fund for Children book Children of Native America Today. Previous
funding: $5,000 since 2005
Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan (GMSS) (Sikar Girls Education Initiative)
$11,000/485,650 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
of GMSS’s senior high school and dormitories for girls.
Previous funding: $32,000 since 2001
Halley Movement
$11,000 USD/332,750 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: $16,500 since 2003
Hope for Children Organization (HFC)
$9,000/78,480 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Yewoinshet Masresha
hopeforchildren2001@yahoo.com;
www.hopeforchildrenorganization.org
HFC offers community-based care and support for the growing number of
orphans and other vulnerable children in Addis Ababa, providing psychosocial
support, livelihood promotions, community resource mobilization, health
education, life skills training, and direct support to children for
clothing, food, and school fees and materials. GFC’s grant supports
HFC’s kindergarten and early childhood development center.
Horn of Africa Relief and Development Organization
$14,000/29,260,000 Somalia shillings
Sanaag region, Somalia
Executive director: Fatima Jibrell
dali@hornrelief.org; 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: $29,000 since 2002
Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana (ISMU)
(Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty)
$13,500/104,625 Guatemala 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 ISMU Learning Corners, which
are community-based childcare centers for poor working families, run
by community members trained to promote physical and mental stimulation,
socialization, and psychomotor skills for children aged one to seven.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2003
Jifunze (Learning) Project: Community Education Resource Centre
$13,000/16,494,400 Tanzania shillings
Kibaya, Tanzania
Executive director: Yahaya Ndee
jifunze@habari.co.tz; 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: $25,000 since 2002
Jinpa Project
$9,000/72,180 China yuan
Nanchen County, China
Director: Tashi Tsering
give_jinpa@hotmail.com;
www.jinpa.org
The Jinpa Project works in the most remote areas of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous
Prefecture to relieve the poverty of nomadic and semi-nomadic communities
by creating physical infrastructure and increasing access to education
and healthcare. GFC’s grant pays for books, school supplies, and
winter clothes for students at three remote village schools supported
by the Jinpa Project. Previous funding: $7,000 since 2005
Kamitei Foundation
$13,000/14,820,000 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: $15,000 since 2003
Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE)
$13,500/56,196,450 Cambodia riel
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Director: Sao Vanna
kape@kapekh.org; www.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 166 girls
participating in KAPE’s Lower Secondary School Program, as well
as capacity building for Local Scholarship Management Committees. Previous
funding: $30,500 since 2003
Kamulu Rehabilitation Centre (KRC)
$10,000/710,200 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: $15,000 since
2004
Kids In Need of Direction (KIND)
$8,000/50,320 Trinidad and Tobago dollars
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Director: Karina Jardine-Scott
kind@opus.co.tt;
www.kindkids.net
KIND provides assistance to disadvantaged children and youth throughout
Trinidad and Tobago in the areas of literacy, nutrition, healthcare,
computer technology, vocational training, counseling, art, drama, sports,
and family reintegration. GFC’s grant supports KIND’s integrated
literacy program, which integrates children who have dropped out of
school back into the public school system.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2003
Kitemu Integrated School
$13,000/24,245,000 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: $29,000 since 2001
Light for All (LiFA)
$8,000/327,200 Haiti gourdes
Lhomond, Haiti
President: Gerry Delaquis
lifaco@aol.com
LiFA supports rural Haitian community efforts to strengthen schools
through a school sponsorship program that covers basic costs, provides
administrative and financial training for school administrators, educates
parents on the importance of education, and provides seed funding and
guidance to the community for the eventual establishment of self-sufficient
local schools. GFC’s grant provides general support for LiFA’s
sponsorship of the Toussaint Louverture Education Center in the village
of Lhomond.
Previous funding: $20,000 since 2004.
Nepal Bhotia Education Center (NBEC)
$4,000/298,040 Nepal rupees
Sankhuwasabha district, Nepal
Director: Chhongduk Bhotia
chhongduk@hotmail.com, info@etc-nepal.org
NBEC is a development organization based in the Sankhuwasabha district
that provides integrated education programs inclusive of communities
and schools to increase the quality and accessibility of formal schooling.
GFC's grant supports the Residential School Program, which provides
for girls to attend school and train as teachers, then places them within
their communities to improve the accessibility and quality of education.
Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED)
$9,000/406,710 India rupees
Lucknow, India
Director: Anil K. Singh
info@indianeed.org; 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
three nonformal education centers providing basic education, healthcare,
and awareness training, and one school offering remedial classes for
girls in English and science.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2003
New Horizons Ministries (NHM)
$9,000/28,395,000 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
their 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.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2005
Nyaka School
$7,000/13,055,000 Uganda shillings
Nyakagyeza, Uganda
Director: Twesigye “Jackson” Kaguri
stsad@hotmail.com; www.nyakaschool.org
Nyaka School was founded in 2001 to provide free, high-quality education
and extracurricular activities, both formal and informal, to children
who have been orphaned due to AIDS, as a means to combat pervasive hunger,
poverty, and systemic deprivation. GFC’s grant supports the nutrition
and community gardens program, which ensures that students get a hot,
nutritious meal daily from produce harvested in the school gardens,
which are tended by students and community members, and that local families
receive seeds for sustainable gardening.
Our Children
$11,000/2,832,000 Sierra Leone leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
President: Nasserie Carew
ourchildreninc@yahoo.com
Our Children provides an accelerated learning program and academic tutoring
for disadvantaged children, and school supplies for children living
in displacement camps in and around Freetown. GFC’s grant supports
Our Children’s Windows on the World Computer and Learning Center
at the community primary school in the Kissy neighborhood of Freetown.
Previous funding: $27,500 since 2002.
Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)
$14,000/838,460 Pakistan rupees
Nara Mughlan, Pakistan
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 formal education.
Previous funding: $15,800 since 2004
Prayas (To Wish)
$13,000/573,950 India rupees
Jaipur, India
Executive director: Jatinder Arora
prayasjpr@hotmail.com
Prayas pioneered and operates one of the first integrated nonformal
schools in India for special-needs, low-income, and neglected children.
GFC’s grant is for general support.
Previous funding: $32,000 since 2001
ProJoven (For Youth)
$13,000/73,780,850 Paraguay guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Maureen Herman
projoven@worldnet.att.net;
www.projoven.org
ProJoven’s restorative-justice model empowers youth in conflict
with the law and other at-risk youth to make positive decisions about
their future by providing education and counseling, training local educators
and volunteers as mentors and counselors, and promoting community awareness
and action. GFC’s grant supports ProJoven’s Literacy and
Life Skills for Youth in Danger project, which teaches the basics of
reading and writing, as well as life skills such as critical thinking,
communication, and decision making, to adolescents aged twelve to eighteen
who are in danger of delinquency.
Previous funding: $63,000 since 2002
Sam-Kam Institute (SKI)
$13,000/30,615 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: $17,000 since 2003
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (SSS)
(Village Self-Reliance)
$16,000/1,051,680 Bangladesh taka
Pabna district, Bangladesh
Executive director: A. H. M. Rezwan
sss@bdmail.net, sss.interconnection.org
SSS is focused on the improvement of isolated rural communities in Bangladesh,
with an emphasis on bringing environmental training, human rights awareness,
and basic education to children, especially girls, who would otherwise
be unable to attend school. GFC’s grant supports SSS’s mobile
boat school program, which uses a solar-powered boat to provide basic
academics, internet access, health awareness, human and gender rights
training, and library services to children living in remote villages.
Previous funding: $18,000 since 2003
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT)
$6,000/609,900 Sri Lanka rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Nita Gunesekera
shilpatr@sltnet.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: $45,500 since 2002
Snowland Service Group (SSG)
$6,000/48,120 China yuan
Yushu County, China
Director: Rinchen Dawa
ssgroup@vip.sina.com; www.snowlandsgroup.org
SSG empowers Tibetan communities to shape their own development through
sustainable community development projects such as education, school
construction, renewable energy, and infrastructure. GFC's grant provides
support for junior and senior high school students to continue their
education in order to increase their future opportunities.
Sociedad Dominico-Haitiana de Apoyo Integral para el Desarrollo y
la Salud (SODHAIDESA)
(Dominican-Haitian Society of Integrated Assistance for Health and Development)
$6,000/190,500 Dominican Republic pesos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Executive director: Franz Compere
sodhaidesa_org@yahoo.es
SODHAIDESA works to improve the living conditions for immigrant Haitians
and their descendants living in the Dominican Republic by focusing on
the community’s health and educational needs, especially those
of children. GFC’s grant supports the Right to a Name and Nationality
program, which is SODHAIDESA’s campaign for the legal recognition
of the Dominican nationality of Dominican-born Haitian children, recognition
that will allow these children to attend school.
Society Biliki
$14,000/23,660 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: $30,000 since 2003
Tanadgoma (Assistance): Library and Cultural Center for People with Disabilities
$8,000/14,400 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
supports educational programs and workplace training for disabled youth
aged fourteen to seventeen.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004
Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF)
$11,000/19,800 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: $15,000 since 2003
Vikramshila Education Resource Society
$13,000/573,950 India rupees
Bigha, India
Executive director: Shubhra Chatterji
vers@vsnl.com; 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.
Previous funding: $26,500 since 2002
Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)
$9,000/369,270 Thailand baht
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Director: Maria Mitos Urgel
weave@weave-women.org;
www.weave-women.org
WEAVE works to ensure that displaced Burmese women and children living
in Thailand possess sufficient education levels for them to participate
fully in and influence the future development of their communities.
GFC’s grant is for general support of WEAVE’s child development
project, which facilitates community-based preschools that assist children
aged two to six in building proper school habits.
Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT)
$6,000
Washington, DC, United States
Director: David Andrew Snider
info@yptdc.org; www.yptdc.org
YPT fosters literacy, initiates dialogue on tolerance and respect, and
teaches arts education and conflict resolution to youth in low-income
schools. GFC’s grant supports the In-School Playwriting Program,
which improves students’ speaking and listening skills, vocabulary,
grammar, and self-expression and which culminates in having the students
write their own plays, several of which go on to be professionally produced
by YPT.
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)
$11,000/6,037,350 CFA francs
Dori, Burkina Faso
Executive director: Goamwaoga Kabore
aprodebsahel@fasonet.bf
APRODEB provides working children and their families with skills training,
literacy programs, and healthcare initiatives and assists young people
in developing their own strategies to promote and protect children’s
rights. GFC’s grant supports APRODEB’s child-to-child program,
which trains school-going youth to reach younger or out-of-school children
with peer education on the importance of education, nutrition, and vaccination.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2004
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI)
(Association for the Defense of Life)
$13,000/43,680 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: $28,000 since 2002
Asociación Promoción y Desarrollo de la Mujer Nicaragüense
Acahualt
(Acahualt Association for the Promotion and Development of Nicaraguan
Women)
$10,000/173,900 Nicaragua córdobas
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 vulnerable children and thus enhances
their prospects for continued school enrollment and academic success.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2004
Association for Community Development Services (ACDS)
$13,000/573,950 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 healthcare. GFC’s grant supports ACDS’s
comprehensive education program, which includes quarry-based resource
centers, preschools and daycare centers, mobile classrooms for working
children, and bridge schools to reintegrate dropout children into formal
schools.
Previous funding: $45,000 since 2003
Association Jeunesse Actions Mali (AJA Mali)
(Youth Action Association of Mali)
$11,000/5,860,690 CFA francs
Bamako, Mali
Executive director: Souleymane Sarr
ajamali@datatech.toolnet.org;
www.ajamali.org
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: $16,000 since 2003
Association La Lumière
(The Light Association)
$11,000/5,860,690 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.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2005
Backward Society Education (BASE)
$8,000/573,520 Nepal rupees
Kailali district, Nepal
Director: Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary
basedang@mail.com.np
BASE provides education, healthcare, income generation assistance, legal
rights awareness, and other services to former bonded laborers in Nepal,
particularly to members of the ethnic Tharu community and to women.
GFC’s grant supports the expansion of educational and child labor
eradication programs to sixty additional working children in the isolated
Kailali district.
Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de Oaxaca (CANICA)
(Center for the Support of Street Children in Oaxaca)
$9,000/98,460 Mexico pesos
Oaxaca, Mexico
Executive director: Marlene Santiago Ramirez
canicadeoaxaca@prodigy.net.mx;
www.canicadeoaxaca.org
CANICA works with children living and working on the streets of Oaxaca,
primarily from migrant indigenous families, to promote school enrollment,
skills development, health and nutrition, affective/emotional well-being,
and ultimately transition away from the streets. GFC’s grant provides
general support for CANICA’s education program for market-working
children.
Previous funding: $9,000 since 2005
Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para el Desarrollo Local (CEADEL)
(Center for Study and Support for Local Development)
$11,000/85,250 Guatemala 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 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: $14,000 since 2003
Centro Interdisciplinario para el Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
(Interdisciplinary Center for Social Development)
$9,000/96,390 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Carlos Avila Romero
cidesiap@mx.inter.net
CIDES strives to improve the quality of life for indigenous children
in Mexico City by designing and operating community mobilization and
social-intervention programs. GFC’s grant supports CIDES’s
project on domestic violence, which runs discussion groups for children
and youth, trains adolescents to become educators, works to strengthen
school attendance, and offers skills training.
Centro para el Desarrollo Regional (CDR)
(Center for Regional Development)
$7,500/52,000 Bolivia bolivianos
Potosí, Bolivia
Executive director: Wilhelm Piérola Iturralde
cdrpts@cotapnet.com.bo
CDR promotes local development, economic opportunity, and improved quality
of life for vulnerable women and children in the mining region around
Potosí. GFC’s grant supports CDR’s Child Miners project,
focused on preventing and reducing child labor in the mines by providing
viable economic and educational alternatives through scholarships, tutoring
support, vocational training, and youth enterprise, including youth-run
greenhouses producing fruits and vegetables for the local market.
Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB)
(San Juan Bosco Center)
$9,000/170,100 Honduras lempiras
Tela, Honduras
Executive director: Dylcia de Ochoa
dylciaei@yahoo.com
CSJB helps child workers and their families improve their quality of
life and future prospects through scholarships, nonformal education,
microenterprise development, legal aid, and community mobilization.
GFC’s grant supports CSJB’s technical and vocational training
program, which aims to reduce the number of hours children work in the
street markets and to provide dignified and better-paying alternative
livelihoods.
Previous funding: $26,000 since 2003
Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
$6,000/271,140 India rupees
Takiya Kale Khan, India
Director: Bharati Chaturvedi
bharati@chintan-india.org;
www.chintan-india.org
Chintan works toward social and environmental justice for waste-picker
communities, particularly for women and children, to help them gain
access to better education and livelihood opportunities and a more dignified
existence. GFC’s grant supports Chintan’s accessible and
flexible education for waste-picking children, which offers convenient
evening classes to gradually remove them from working in this sector.
De Laas Gul (Hand-Embroidered Flower) Welfare Programme (DLG)
$9,000/539,010 Pakistan rupees
Peshawar, Pakistan
Director: Meraj Humayun Khan
dlg@brain.net.pk; www.pcp.org.pk
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. 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: $15,000 since 2004
Door Step School
$10,500/474,495 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 140 children who work at the fishing docks and at the
market.
Previous funding: $17,500 since 2004
Espacio Cultural Creativo
(Cultural Creative Space)
$10,500/84,420 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Maria Carmen Shulze
macamensm@yahoo.com
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: $19,000 since 2002
Fundación Junto con los Niños (JUCONI)
(Together with Children Foundation)
$9,500
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Executive director: Sylvia Reyes
sreyes@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, by providing them with a basic education and analytical
thinking skills, and by assisting teachers in creating the school conditions
necessary to maintain the enrollment of working children.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004
Jeeva Jyothi (Everlasting Light)
$14,000/632,660 India rupees
Thiruvallur district, India
Director: V. Susai Raj
jyothij@vsnl.com; www.jeevajyothi.org
Jeeva Jyothi 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,
and income generation training. GFC’s grant provides general support
for Jeeva Jyothi’s rice-mill-based education and advocacy project,
which aims to integrate working children into formal schools, and for
its Child Rights Protection Committee, which monitors child labor activities.
Previous funding: $41,500 since 2002
La Conscience
$14,000/7,549,060 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 to vulnerable children who are at risk of being trafficked due
to their family, economic, or social situation.
Previous funding: $29,000 since 2003
Laura Vicuna Foundation, Inc. (LVF)
$10,000/514,700 Philippines pesos
Negros Occidental, Philippines
Director: Maria Victoria P. Sta. Ana
lauravicuna2004@yahoo.com;
www.lauravicuna.com
LVF works to build the capacities of children through education and
development, offering drop-in centers, vocational and employment training,
and a residential program for sexually abused and exploited girls. GFC's
grant supports the Community Organizing and Mobilizing towards Education
(COME) project to reduce the vulnerability of children to child labor
and other forms of abuse by providing educational opportunities and
community empowerment initiatives.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2004
Rural Institute for Development Education (RIDE)
$13,000/573,950 India rupees
Kanchipuram, India
Executive director: S. Jeyaraj
kcm_ride@sancharnet.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 children’s educational,
social, and emotional transition from the workplace to public schools.
Previous funding: $41,500 since 2001
SIN-DO
$11,000/5,860,690 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,
and HIV/AIDS prevention 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 distant relatives’
or acquaintances’ homes, where they frequently experience abuse
and neglect.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2005
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN)
(Friends of Children Society)
$11,500/216,890 Honduras lempiras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Director: Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
saninoshn@yahoo.com; www.honduranchildren.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: $14,000 since 2003
Society for Education and Action (SEA)
$9,000/406,710 India rupees
Mamallapuram, India
Director: S. Desingu
sea_org_desingu@rediffmail.com;
www.seaorg.in
Locally founded, directed, and supported, SEA works to ensure the enrollment
and retention of all school-age children within impoverished fishing
communities south 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: $39,000 since 2004
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Worldwide, approximately 10 million children are engaged in some form of the sex industry, and each year at least 1 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: $15,000 since 2003
Associação de Apoio às Meninas e Meninos da Região
Sé (AA Criança)
(Association for Support of Boys and Girls of the Sé Region)
$8,000/17,040 Brazil reais
São Paulo, Brazil
Executive director: Everaldo Santos Oliveira
aacrianca@uol.com.br; www.aacrianca.org.br
AA Criança defends the rights of the poorest and most marginalized
children and youth of central São Paulo by providing a comprehensive
range of legal, educational, psychological, social, and health-related
services. GFC’s grant supports AA Criança’s Ser Mulher
program, which provides nonformal education and counseling on health,
sexuality, gender, human rights, child development, and citizenship
to adolescent mothers suffering from domestic violence, sexual abuse,
or prostitution.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2005
Association d’Appui et d’Eveil Pugsada (ADEP)
(Association of Support and Coming of Age)
$11,000/5,860,690 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.
Previous funding $7,000 since 2005
Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women: Girls’ Dreams
$13,000/74,880 Egypt pounds
Cairo, Egypt
Director: Iman Bibars
adew@adew.org.eg; www.adew.org
Girls’ Dreams provides a safe haven for adolescent girls in Cairo’s
squatter communities to openly discuss their problems, fears, and questions
regarding women’s and children’s rights, marriage, reproductive
health, and domestic violence. GFC’s grant is for general support
of the Girls’ Dreams program, offering basic nonformal education,
training in the arts, health and hygiene training, and psychological
counseling to underprivileged and abused girls.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2004
Avenir de l’Enfant (ADE)
(Future of the Child)
$7,000/3,729,530 CFA francs
Rufisque, Senegal
Executive director: Moussa Sow
avenirenfant@sentoo.sn
ADE works in the secondary city of Rufisque to safeguard street children
and protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. GFC’s
grant helps support ADE’s education campaign against sex tourism
in two beach communities, as well as its direct-support and referral
center for sexually exploited children.
Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights Foundation (CPCR)
$13,000/533,390 Thailand baht
Bangkok, Thailand
Director: Sanphasit Koomphraphant
cpcrheadoffice@yahoo.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 and other rehabilitation programs, which
provide twenty-four-hour emergency care and counseling to children and
families who have been referred by organizations that monitor and investigate
child sexual abuse cases.
Previous funding: $14,000 since 2003
Children on the Edge–Romania (COTE)
$6,000/17,100 Romania lei
Iasi, Romania
Manager: Iulian Mocanu
cote.ro@mail.dntis.ro
COTE offers social assistance, counseling, and support to children and
teenagers who are in or who have recently left state-run orphanages
in the impoverished region of Moldavia. GFC’s grant supports the
Graduate Program, which provides young graduates from orphanages with
supportive housing and comprehensive training in personal, communication,
and vocational skills.
Coisa de Mulher: Centro de Documentacão e Informacão
(CEDOICOM)
(Woman Thing: Center for Research and Information)
$8,000/18,160 Brazil reais
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Executive director: Neusa das Dores Periera
cedoicom@terra.com.br;
www.coisademulher.org.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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC)
$7,000/316,330 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Director: Bharati Dey
ship@cal.vsnl.net.in; www.durbar.org
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 the education program for children of sex workers, which offers
basic education, vocational training, and cultural workshops through
dance and theater.
Previous funding: $5,000 since 2005
Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT)
$10,000/16,000 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 rights 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: $15,000 since 2004
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
$12,000
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 sexually exploited young women in order to empower them to exit unsafe
or abusive lifestyles. GFC’s grant is for general support of GEM’s
educational and youth development activities.
Previous funding: $14,500 since 2004
Jabala Action Research Organisation
$8,000/353,200 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Director: Baitali Ganguly
jabala@vsnl.net; www.jabala.org
Jabala helps children in the red-light districts of Kolkata and surrounding
areas better integrate into mainstream society by providing education
and rights awareness programs that facilitate formal-school enrollment
and retention and offer creative activities to help children cope with
situations of abuse and resist sexual exploitation and trafficking.
GFC’s grant supports education and rights awareness programs in
the Bowbazar and Barrackpur slums.
Luna Nueva (New Moon)
$14,000/85,300,000 Paraguay guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Laia Concernau
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 programs in
education, healthcare, confidence building, human rights awareness,
and violence prevention. GFC’s grant supports Luna Nueva’s
outreach and education programs, which each year reach approximately
250 girls living in exploitative situations on the streets.
Previous funding: $29,000 since 2002
Mongolian Youth Development Foundation (MYDF)
$9,000/10,083,330 Mongolia tugrik
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director: Esunmunkh Myagmar
info@mydf.org.mn; www.mydf.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 literacy
classes, skills training through vocational programs, and counseling
services to girls at risk of prostitution.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2004
Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad
(MAIS)
(Movement for International Self-Development and Solidarity)
$9,000/290,070 Dominican Republic pesos
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Executive director: María Josefina Paulino
mais_ecpat@hotmail.com
MAIS works to keep the girls and young women of Puerto Plata out of
the sex tourism industry by promoting school enrollment; providing academic
support, vocational training, and psychosocial services; and strengthening
family and community support structures. GFC’s grant supports
MAIS’s supplementary academic support program, which provides
instruction in core curriculum subjects, vocational training, and workshops
in human and children’s rights to youth aged nine to sixteen who
are at high risk of dropping out of school.
Previous funding: $26,500 since 2001
Nehemiah AIDS Relief Project
$6,000/150,006,000 Zimbabwe dollars
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Director: David Green
nehemiah@netconnect.co.zw
Nehemiah is a faith-based nongovernmental organization that facilitates
the church and community response to HIV/AIDS, providing a variety of
educational, material, and social support services to two hundred child
beneficiaries annually. GFC’s grant will help Nehemiah to establish
a night-care center for children of sex workers and to provide outreach
to sex workers, including support, counseling, and assistance in leaving
the sex trade for less exploitative livelihoods.
Phulki (Spark)
$13,000/930,150 Bangladesh taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Director: Suraiya Haque
phulki@phulki.org; 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: $40,000 since 2002
Prerana (Inspiration)
$15,000/662,250 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Priti Pravin Patkar
preranaatc@gmail.com; www.preranaatc.org
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: $44,500 since 2001
Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere (PEACE)
$11,000/1,127,610 Sri Lanka rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Director: Maureen Seneviratne
peacesl@sri.lanka.net; www.lanka.net.charity/peace
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.
Previous funding: $73,000 since 2000
The Ruili Women and Children Development Center
$7,000/56,630 China yuan
Ruili, China
Director: Chen Guilan
dwcdc2000@yahoo.com.cn;
www.rwcdc.org
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 youth who
are not in school and are at risk of working in the sex industry.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Tasintha Programme (Deeper Transformation Program)
$13,000/41,015,000 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: $29,000 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 100 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 organizations that confront the special challenges of at-risk boys.
Aangan Trust
$13,500/610,065 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Suparna Gupta
aangantrust@rediffmail.com;
www.aanganindia.org
Aangan institutes psychological rehabilitation in state-run observation
homes to address the emotional and behavioral problems of juveniles
and to create sustainable change in their lives. GFC's grant provides
general support for the rehabilitation of boys in two observation homes,
and the replication of this model in a new home to reach out to more
children.
Previous funding: $18,500 since 2002
Asociación para la Atención Integral de Niños
de la Calle (AIDENICA)
(Association for the Intensive Care of Street Boys)
$13,000/43,030 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: $30,000 since 2003
Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais (AFEL)
(Lebanese Child Home Association)
$8,000/12,032,000 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—more than half of whom are boys—who are at risk
of resorting to criminal activities or being exploited on the streets,
and helps them learn the skills necessary to resume formal schooling
and stabilize their personal lives.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Barraca da Amizade (Shelter of Friendship)
$6,000/12,780 Brazil reais
Fortaleza, Brazil
Executive director: Brigitte Louchez
barracadaamizade@hotmail.com;
www.barracadaamizade.hpg.ig.com.br
Barraca da Amizade provides transitional housing, psychosocial counseling,
academic tutoring, and vocational training to boys who are living on
the streets and often engaged in high-risk behaviors such as gang activity,
substance abuse, and petty crime. GFC’s grant supports Barraca
da Amizade’s team of street educators, who meet the children in
their own space and on their own terms, gradually build trust, discuss
positive alternatives to life on the streets, and eventually bring the
boys into the Barraca da Amizade program.
Calabar Institute for Research, Information and Documentation
$8,000/1,028,080 Nigeria nairas
Calabar, Nigeria
Executive director: Edwin Madunagu
ciinstrid@hyperia.net
The Calabar Institute’s Conscientizing Male Adolescents (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.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2004
Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y Educación Recreativa
“El Caracol”
(El Caracol Transitional Center for Training and Recreational Education)
$10,000/109,400 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
President: Juan Martín Pérez García
info@elcaracol.org; www.elcaracol.org
El Caracol helps street children and youth acquire the skills, attitudes,
and assets to allow them to leave the streets and transform their lives,
through a combination of street outreach and education, transitional
housing, life skills workshops, computer training, enterprise and vocational
training, a youth-run bakery and restaurant, a youth-led radio program,
and graphic design and print media initiatives. GFC’s grant supports
the Produciendo Juntos enterprise training program, which helps young
people develop the skills and values needed to become entrepreneurs.
Previous funding: 9,000 USD since 2005
Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRDC)
$7,000/360,290 Philippines pesos
Quezon City, Philippines
Director: Rowena Legaspi
ccrd_2002@yahoo.com; www.geocities.com/ccrd_2002/home.html
Working in collaboration with other NGOs and government agencies, CLRDC
provides legal assistance to juvenile offenders, documentation for advocacy
purposes, a welfare and rehabilitation program for released detainees,
and training and education. GFC’s grant supports CLRDC’s
program for children in detention centers, most of whom are boys, by
providing training, education, and counseling through the child-to-child
approach for peer interaction.
Previous funding: $9,500 since 2004
Empower Program
$8,000
Washington, DC, United States
Director: Betsy Pursell
bpursell@empowered.org;
www.empowered.org
Empower aims to help youth create safe schools and communities by providing
prevention strategies to address bullying, harassment, victimization,
and other forms of peer aggression. GFC’s grant funds a ten-week
violence prevention program for boys at H. D. Woodson High School in
Washington DC, using Empower’s curriculum, Owning Up, to interactively
teach boys to develop healthy decision-making and conflict resolution
skills.
Homies Unidos (Homies United)
$8,000
San Salvador, El Salvador
Director: Silvia Beltran
ciguanaba@yahoo.com; www.homiesunidos.org
Homies, founded by former gang members, strives to reach out to disaffected
gang members and at-risk youth to help them construct positive, peaceful
futures. GFC’s grant funds a comprehensive, ten-week program on
violence prevention and intervention that includes social and personal
awareness, health risks, and personal coping skills.
Ikamva Labantu
(The Future of Our Nation)
$14,000/91,280 South Africa rand
Cape Town, South Africa
Managing director: Sipho Puwani
info@ikamva.co.za; www.ikamva.com
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 in which
a team of researchers, educators, and specialists work with young boys
and fathers to create positive male role models, engage men and boys
in community development activities, and build strong bonds between
boys and male mentors.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2003
Men on the Side of the Road (MSR)
$15,000/89,850 South Africa rand
Woodstock, South Africa
Director: Charles Maisel
jocelynf@unemploymen.co.za;
www.unemploymen.co.za
MSR provides employment and educational services to some of the estimated
two hundred thousand 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 and young men aged fifteen to twenty
who dropped out of school in order to find work to support themselves
and their families.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2005
Oram (Hope): Amgalan Labor and Education Center (LET)
$8,000/9,544,000 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 orphaned and abandoned children. GFC’s grant supports
LET’s Education, Skills Training, and Athletics for Boys program,
which offers boys educational support, English classes, and vocational
skills training in carpentry, tailoring, and shoemaking, and which seeks
to increase their self-esteem by teaching them the national sport of
wrestling.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2003
Prisoners Assistance Program (PAP)
$6,000/294,000 Liberia dollars
Monrovia, Liberia
Executive director: R. Jarwlee Tweh Geegbe
papliberia@yahoo.com; www.pap.kabissa.org
PAP is a Liberian-based nongovernmental organization that advocates
against torture and for human rights and prison reform. GFC’s
grant supports the Youth Diversion Program, which works with judicial
and law enforcement systems to divert first-time offenders from entering
prison and to prepare juveniles in prison for adult male life by educating
them about personal responsibility and decision making through sports,
guided role plays, and peer and mentor support.
Rozan: Youth Helpline
$7,000/419,230 Pakistan rupees
Islamabad, Pakistan
Director: Zehra Kamal
rozan@mail.comsats.net.pk;
www.rozan.org
YHI provides a safe avenue for young people to learn about emotional,
sexual, and reproductive health issues, enabling them to make informed
and healthy decisions in their lives. GFC's grant supports a pilot initiative
addressing the sexual and reproductive needs of young boys, helping
them to understand themselves and their roles in society through group
workshops.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2004
Rural Family Support Organization (RuFamSO)
$9,000/562,770 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 healthcare 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2004
Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT)
$13,000/587,470 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Director: Praveen Nair
salaambt@vsnl.com; www.salaambaalaktrust.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.
Previous funding: $57,000 since 2003
Sanghamitra Service Society
(Friends of Society)
$12,000/529,800 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 Adolescents program, which offers counseling,
skills training, and scholarships to underserved adolescents and addresses
social problems that disproportionately affect low-caste boys, such
as HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, and petty crime.
Previous funding: $47,000 since 2003
Synapse Network Center
$16,000/8,524,640 CFA francs
Dakar, Senegal
Executive director: Ciré Kane
synapse@synapsecenter.org;
www.synapsecenter.org
The Synapse Network Center aims to unleash the entrepreneurial leadership
potential of youth by encouraging young people to take the lead, to
start and grow their own initiatives, and through their work to take
greater responsibility in their communities. GFC’s grant provides
general support and capacity building for the Education to Fight Exclusion
Project, which promotes community investment in the fight against the
marginalization of street children.
Previous funding: $35,500 since 2002
Women’s Development Association (WDA)
$11,000/45,789,700 Cambodia riel
Saang district, Cambodia
Director: Soreach Sereithida