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In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded grants valued at $846,500 to 74 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Achlal (Caring Kindness) Child Development Center
$11,000/12,837,000 Mongolia tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director: Davaanyam Azzayaa
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. Our grant supports Achlal’s school for dropout children, which provides four grades of education to students aged 9 to 20 who were never enrolled in school or were forced to drop out due to disability, illness, or family poverty.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2004
Agastya International Foundation
$14,000/642,180 India rupees
Chittoor district, India
Director: Ramji Raghavan
agastya@vsnl.com; www.agastya.org
Agastya makes education creative, practical, and responsive to students’ needs through mobile science labs, science fairs, teacher training, and communications and information technology programs. Our grant supports the operation of one mobile lab, which carries over 150 low-cost science experiments that are specially designed by experts and scientists to provide children and teachers with opportunities to learn in an interactive hands-on environment.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2004
Anandan (Happiness)
$6,000/255,600 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Director: Indrani Ghosh
anandan_kol@tataone.in; www.geocities.com/anandan_kolkata
Anandan provides functional, remedial, and holistic education to slum-dwelling children and directs their individual talents and dispositions toward suitable earning opportunities. Our grant supports the education of adolescent girls, strengthening their critical-thinking skills and helping them identify and reach their full potential.
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA)
$18,000/23,184,000 Tanzania shillings
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Director: Rhoi Wangila
info@arkafrica.org; www.arkafrica.org
AFA is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of East African children and families whose lives have been devastated by war, poverty, and HIV/AIDS. Our grant supports the One Stop Center, which provides cost-free secondary schooling to impoverished children who have been forced to drop out of school because of poverty.
Previous funding: $43,000 since 2002
Asanble Vwazen Jakè (AVJ)
(Jakè Neighborhood Association)
$7,000/266,420 Haiti gourdes
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Director: Reagan Lolo
asanblevwazenjake@yahoo.fr
AVJ is a grassroots community association that provides formal education and promotes civic participation among children and youth in the very poor Jakè neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Our grant supports AVJ’s primary school, which began in January 2006 and is already serving over 100 children who previously were not attending school for lack of money to cover tuition and other costs.
Asociación Civil pro Niño Íntimo
(Pro-Child Civil Association)
$17,000/55,250 Peru nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Director: José Luis Quiroga Becerra
deporteyvida@gmail.com
Asociación Civil pro Niño Íntimo, popularly known as Escuelas Deporte y Vida (Sports and Life Schools), provides young people living in the slum of Villa El Salvador with the opportunity to play soccer, volleyball, and other sports in order to promote their participation in the organization’s formal education and life skills programs. Our grant supports the Deporte y Vida school located in the neighborhood of Jardines de Pachamac.
Previous funding: $41,000 since 2002
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI)
(Association for the Defense of Life)
$16,000/52,000 Peru nuevos soles
Huachipa, Peru
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. Our grant supports ADEVI’s community school program, which provides basic education to child laborers with the eventual aim of reintegrating them into public schools.
Previous funding: $40,000 since 2002
Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial Bilingüe Maya-Ixil (APEDIBIMI)
(Maya-Ixil Association of Promoters of Bilingual Early Education)
$14,000/107,100 Guatemala quetzales
Nebaj, Guatemala
Director: Benito Terraza Cedillo
apedibimi@hotmail.com
APEDIBIMI provides bilingual early childhood education in the Ixil and Spanish languages to more than 1,300 indigenous Ixil Maya children in 14 remote villages. Our grant provides general support for the early childhood education centers, which prepare children for entrance into the formal school system by developing their social and motor skills, musical and artistic expression, language and communication ability, and pre-math and reasoning skills.
Previous funding: $36,000 since 2003
Asociación Mujer y Comunidad
(Women and Community Association)
$13,500/238,410 Nicaragua córdobas
San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua
Director: Zoraida Soza
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. Our grant supports primary- and secondary-school scholarships for girls, as well as the purchase of schoolbooks and supplies for scholarship students.
Previous funding: $27,500 since 2003
Asociación para los Derechos de la Niñez “Monseñor Oscar Romero”
(Monsignor Oscar Romero Association for Children’s Rights)
$13,000/98,670 Guatemala quetzales
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Director: Elisa Esperanza Marroquín Aroche
romeritos@intelnett.com
Los Romeritos, as this organization is popularly called, works with the children of sex workers, street vendors, and underemployed single mothers to prevent second-generation prostitution by providing basic academic and health education, life skills training, arts and recreation programs, and other supportive services. Our grant supports the Educational Opportunities Program, which supplements the formal education of these children, aids their social integration, and serves as a preventive measure to keep them in school.
Previous funding: $23,000 since 2003
Asociación Poder Joven
(Youth Power Association)
$12,000/28,824,000 Colombia pesos
Medellín, Colombia
Director: Clared Patricia Jaramillo Duque
poderjoven@epm.net.co; www.poderjoven.org
Poder Joven offers programs that promote literacy, life skills, critical thinking, and personal responsibility, with the aim of preventing children living in the impoverished, violent, and crime-ridden neighborhood of Guayaquil from abandoning their homes for the streets. Our grant supports the 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: $14,000 since 2004
Asociación Promoción y Desarrollo de la Mujer Nicaragüense Acahualt
(Acahualt Association for the Promotion and Development of Nicaraguan Women)
$13,000/237,250 Nicaragua córdobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Director: Norma Villalta
acahualt@ibw.com.ni
Acahualt uses education and community capacity building to prevent children of impoverished families living in the neighborhood of Acahualinca from having to scavenge in the nearby dump for items to sell or eat. Our grant supports Acahualt’s community preschool, which provides an educational foundation for vulnerable children and enhances their prospects for primary-school enrollment and academic success.
Previous funding: $29,500 since 2004
Asociatia Ovidiu Rom
$19,000/47,090 Romania new lei
Bacau, Romania
Director: Maria Gheorghiu
office@ovid.ro; www.ovid.ro
Ovidiu Rom provides work for impoverished Roma women and access to education for their children and works closely with the Romanian government to provide critical social services. Our grant supports the expansion of the Every Child in School Campaign, which is helping Ovidiu Rom transition from a service provider to a policy-driven organization focused on ensuring every child’s fundamental right to education.
Previous funding: $31,000 since 2003
Association for Community Development Services (ACDS)
$17,000/779,790 India rupees
Kanchipuram, India
Director: D. Devanbu
acdsanbu@yahoo.com; www.acds.india.org
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. Our grant supports the comprehensive education program, which includes quarry-based resource centers, preschools and daycare centers, mobile classrooms for working children, and bridge schools to reintegrate dropout children into formal schools.
Previous funding: $57,000 since 2003
Backward Society Education (BASE)
$10,000/736,500 Nepal rupees
Kailali district, Nepal
Director: Deep Lal Chaudhary
basedang@mail.com.np; www.basenepal.org.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. Our grant supports the expansion of educational and child labor eradication programs to working children in the isolated Kailali district.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2005
Benishyaka Association
$13,000/7,387,250 Rwanda francs
Kigali, Rwanda
Director: Betty Gahima
benasoc@rwanda1.com; www.benishyaka.org.rw
Benishyaka promotes the development and empowerment of widows, orphans, and vulnerable families affected by Rwanda’s civil war, the 1994 genocide, and the ongoing AIDS epidemic. Our grant provides academic scholarships that cover school fees, uniforms, and school materials for orphaned and vulnerable children.
Previous funding: $19,000 since 2005
Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas
(Th’uruchapitas Library)
$6,000/47,940 Bolivia bolivianos
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Director: Gaby Vallejo
gabyvall@supernet.com.bo
Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas provides a safe, supportive, educational space for the most disadvantaged children in Bolivian society, namely street children, child laborers, and children living in prison with their incarcerated parents. Our grant supports the Not to Be Alone program, which provides academic and psychosocial support to 70 children of prisoners.
Centro Cultural Batahola Norte (CCBN)>
(Cultural Center of Batahola Norte)
$11,000/194,260 Nicaragua córdobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Director: Jennifer F. Marshall
batahola@ibw.com.ni; www.friendsofbatahola.org
CCBN offers 20 courses in basic education and domestic and technical skills to more than 500 women and children annually. Our grant supports 60 CCBN student scholarships as well as a library project, which includes tutoring, study circles, and health workshops for over 200 students.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2005
Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para el Desarrollo Local (CEADEL)
(Center for Study and Support for Local Development)
$15,000/113,850 Guatemala quetzales
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Director: José Gabriel Zelada Ortiz
ceadel@intelnet.net.gt
CEADEL works to eliminate the use of child laborers and to improve conditions for young people who work in Guatemala’s agribusiness industry. Our grant supports the Primary and Secondary School Scholarship Program, which pays for school fees, uniforms, and school supplies for girls who are working in or at risk of entering the agribusiness industry and provides workshops on labor rights, reproductive health, and gender issues for participants, their parents, and the community.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2003
Challenging Heights
$6,000/55,470,000 Ghana cedis
Sankor, Ghana
Director: James Kofi Annan
challheights@yahoo.com
Challenging Heights addresses the needs and aspirations of children and youth in Sankor and Winneba through educational support, awareness-raising activities on child labor and trafficking, and policy advocacy. Our grant supports the education program, which provides school sponsorships, after-school programs, and mentoring for children in primary and secondary school.
Children in the Wilderness (CITW)
$12,000/16,708,080 Malawi kwacha
Lilongwe, Malawi
Director: Gladys Msonda
citw@malawi.net
Through a unique partnership with a private safari company, CITW offers life skills and alternative educational opportunities through experiential learning camps held at safari sites during the commercial off-season. Our grant supports the education program, which offers educational opportunities to orphaned and vulnerable children.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2006
Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
$9,000/383,400 India rupees
Delhi, India
Director: Bharati Chaturvedi
bharati@chintan-india.org; www.chintan-india.org
Chintan promotes social and environmental justice for waste-picking communities, particularly for women and children, by helping them gain access to better education and livelihood opportunities. Our grant supports the flexible education program, which provides waste-picking children with the necessary assets and opportunities to exit this hazardous sector.
Previous funding: $6,500 since 2006
Chiricli (Bird) International Roma Women Charitable Fund
$11,000/55,330 Ukraine hryvniaKiev, Ukraine
Director: Yuliya Kondur
ssidd@skif.com.ua
Chiricli provides assistance to Ukraine’s vulnerable Roma population, with an emphasis on increasing educational opportunities and school attendance among Roma children and youth. Our grant supports Chiricli’s National Network of Roma Education, which works with young people, parents, and teachers, and the organization’s Roma Education Centers, which prepare preschool-age children for primary school.
Previous funding: $27,000 since 2003
Community Development Center (CDC)
$15,000/3,177,900 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. Our grant is for general support of the Abu-Adam Remedial Education Project.
Previous funding: $18,000 since 2004
Door Step School
$13,000/553,800 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Bina Sheth Lashkari
doorstep@vsnl.com; www.doorstepschool.org
Door Step School serves working, slum-dwelling, and street children through community preschools, classes for both school-going and out-of-school children, and mobile libraries and literacy classes. Our grant supports five community-based, nonformal children’s education classes that operate on a flexible schedule.
Previous funding: $30,500 since 2004
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC)
$9,000/383,400 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Director: Bharati Dey
ship@cal.vsnl.net.in; www.durbar.org
DMSC, a forum of approximately 65,000 sex workers and their children, works in red-light districts throughout Kolkata to promote and protect the civil and human rights of its members. Our grant supports the education of sex workers’ children, enabling them to break the cycle of poverty and exploitation.
Previous funding: $12,000 since 2005
Early Intervention Institute for Children with
Developmental Delays and Disabilities (EII)
$6,000/30,180 Ukraine hryvnia
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Director: Anna Kukuruza
itl535@online.kharkov.ua
EII works to prevent the institutionalization of infants and young children who have developmental delays and disabilities and to integrate them into their families, schools, and communities through therapeutic and educational services. Our grant supports the early intervention program, which provides medical and psychosocial support to these children and their families.
Ethiopian Books for Children and Educational Foundation (EBCEF)
$14,000/122,360 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Yohannes Gebregeorgis
ebcef@ethionet.et; www.ethiopiareads.org
EBCEF works to improve the reading skills of Ethiopia’s undereducated children 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. Our grant supports EBCEF’s free children’s library and reading center, which offers 15,000 children’s and young-adult books in the English, Amharic, Tigrinya, and Oromifa languages and organizes activities such as traditional storytelling and art classes.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2003
Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop
$10,000
Washington, DC, United States
Director: Kelli Taylor
mail@freemindsbookclub.org; www.freemindsbookclub.org
Free Minds introduces young male inmates at the DC Jail to the transformative power of books and creative writing by mentoring them and connecting them to supportive services throughout their incarceration and after their reentry into the community. Our grant supports the education and reentry programs, which inspire youth to see their potential and to achieve new educational and career goals.
Friends for Street Children (FFSC)
$13,000/208,390,000 Vietnam dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Director: Marie Le Thi Thao
ffsc-hcm@vnn.vn; www.olivierdumonde.com
FFSC’s seven development centers provide street children with nonformal education, vocational training, shelter, and healthcare, as well as additional training in life skills, child rights awareness, and HIV/AIDS. Our grant supports the nonformal education program for primary-school students and scholarships for secondary-school students at the Binh Trieu Development Center.
Previous funding: $54,500 since 2000
Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la Promoción Humana
(Alfonso Casas Morales Foundation for Human Advancement)
$6,000/14,412,000 Colombia pesos
Bogotá, Colombia
Director: Pablo Henao Mejía
direccion@promocionhumana.org; www.promocionhumana.org
Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la Promoción Humana helps children in the Usaquén neighborhood of Bogotá to succeed in school through an accelerated learning program for primary-school children behind grade level, a tutoring program for primary-school children at risk of failing or dropping out, a free cafeteria, a computer center, and a community library. Our grant supports the accelerated learning program and the after-school tutoring program.
Fundación Junto con los Niños (JUCONI)
(Together with Children Foundation)
$12,000
Guayaquil, Ecuador
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 4 years old and often for very long hours. Our grant supports the education program, which reintegrates child laborers into formal schools by helping them reduce their daily working time, providing them with a basic education and analytical thinking skills, and assisting teachers in creating the school conditions necessary to maintain the enrollment of working children.
Previous funding: $15,500 since 2004
Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan (GMSS)
(Sikar Girls Education Initiative)
$13,000/553,800 India rupees
Sikar, India
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. Our grant supports the expansion of GMSS’s science education program for girls, empowering them to find employment as professors, teachers, scientists, and researchers.
Previous funding: $32,000 since 2001
Halley Movement
$14,000/458,780 Mauritius rupees
Batimarais, Mauritius
Director: Mahendranath Busgopaul
halley@intnet.mu; www.halleymovement.org
Halley Movement offers a variety of educational, counseling, and supportive services to help the children of Mauritius stay in or return to the formal school system and keep pace with the demands of a rapidly industrializing society. Our grant supports the Basic Education to Adolescents program, which offers youth who have failed the primary-school graduation exam a career-focused nonformal education curriculum that includes interpersonal communications, applied mathematics, resource management, and vocational training.
Previous funding: $29,000 since 2003
Hope for Children Organization (HFC)
$11,000/95,700 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Yewoinshet Masresha
hopeforchildren2001@yahoo.com
HFC provides psychosocial support, livelihood promotion, community resource mobilization, health education, life skills training, school fees, and material support to orphans and other vulnerable children in Addis Ababa. Our grant supports the kindergarten and early childhood development center, which provides innovative early childhood education to orphaned and vulnerable children.
Previous funding: $9,000 since 2005
Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID)
$8,000/340,800 India rupees
Bengaluru, India
Director: Dr. G. K. Jayaram
ilidteamindia@yahoo.co.in; www.ilid.org
ILID’s Project Pygmalion uses computer-aided instruction, role playing, and interactive games to teach English and computer technology to children and youth from poor communities in Bengaluru, as a means of increasing their readiness for the global economy. Our grant supports the expansion of this program to eight additional schools in the poor areas of Karnataka.
Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana (ISMU)
(Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty)
$17,000/129,030 Guatemala quetzales
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Director: María Elvira Sánchez Toscano
ismugua@explonet.com
ISMU is a coalition of community-based organizations united to address dismal conditions in 22 of Guatemala City’s worst slums. Our grant supports eight ISMU Learning Corners, which provide poor working families with community-based childcare run by community members trained to promote physical and mental stimulation, socialization, and psychomotor skills in children aged 1 to 7.
Previous funding: $30,500 since 2003
Jifunze (Learning) Project
$16,000/20,000,000 Tanzania shillings
Kibaya, Tanzania
Director: J. Carrie Oelberger
jifunze@habari.co.tz; www.jifunze.org
The Jifunze Project works with community members in the impoverished and isolated Kiteto district to build a sustainable educational system for the community’s children. Our grant provides support for the Community Education Resource Center, which creates sustainable educational opportunities through programs for teachers, parents, children, and youth in Kibaya.
Previous funding: $38,000 since 2002
Kamitei Foundation
$16,000/20,608,000 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. Our grant is for general support of this program.
Previous funding: $28,000 since 2003
Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE)
$16,000/63,789,600 Cambodia riel
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Director: Sao Vanna
kape@kapekh.org; www.kapekh.org
KAPE works with 190 schools to provide 90,000 children with high-quality basic education. Our grant funds scholarships and tutoring costs for 150 girls participating in the Lower Secondary School Scholarship Program, as well as capacity building for Local Scholarship Management Committees.
Previous funding: $44,000 since 2003
Kamulu Rehabilitation Centre (KRC)
$11,000/820,800 Kenya shillings
Kamulu, Kenya
Director: Richard K. Kariuki
kamuluacademy@yahoo.com
KRC operates a combined day and boarding primary school that provides education, nutritious meals, and training in sustainable agricultural practices to HIV-affected, orphaned, and other vulnerable children living in the underdeveloped Machakos district. Our grant supports the Kamulu Education Centre, where 150 boys and girls live and study.
Previous funding: $24,000 since 2004
Kham Kampo Association (KKA)
$6,000/46,380 China yuan
Sichuan Province, China
Director: Tobkey
namjle@gmail.com; www.zhaxika.com/kka
Working in one of the poorest regions of the country, KKA operates programs in education, livelihood development, healthcare, environmental conservation, and cultural preservation. Our grant supports the school library project, which works with community members to build primary-school libraries that create greater educational opportunities for children in rural Tibetan villages.
Kids in Need of Direction (KIND)
$11,000/68,860 Trinidad and Tobago dollars
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Director: Karina Jardine-Scott
kind@kindkids.net; 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. Our grant supports the integrated literacy program, which reintegrates children who have dropped out of school back into the public school system.
Previous funding: $33,000 since 2003
Kindle
$7,000/966,910 Malawi kwachas
Salima district, Malawi
Director: Andrew Barr
kindle@malawi.net; www.kindleorphanoutreach.org
Kindle offers comprehensive educational, counseling, healthcare, and spiritual support services to empower orphaned and vulnerable children in the Salima district. Our grant supports the expansion of the secondary-school educationprogram to include primary education and skills training.
Kitemu Integrated School
$16,000/29,520,000 Uganda shillings
Kampala, Uganda
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. Our grant supports programs targeting children with disabilities.
Previous funding: $42,000 since 1999
Lapeng (Home) Child and Family Resource Service
$6,000/42,960 South Africa rand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Director: Mathibedi Nthite
lapeng@corpdial.co.za
Lapeng serves one of the most violent neighborhoods in Johannesburg by running a model preschool, providing capacity-building support for community crèches, and holding weekly drop-in arts workshops for children and youth in the community. Our grant provides general support for Lapeng’s educational activities.
Light for All (LiFA)
$11,000/397,650 Haiti gourdes
Lhomond, Haiti
Director: Gerry Delaquis
lifaco@aol.com
LiFA helps rural Haitian communities to strengthen their schools through a school sponsorship program that covers basic costs, provides administrative and financial training for school administrators, educates parents on the importance of education, and helps the community to plan for long-term self-sufficiency and sustainability. Our grant provides support for the sponsorship of the Toussaint Louverture Education Center in the village of Lhomond.
Previous funding: $28,000 since 2004
Mahita (Regeneration)
$7,000/321,090 India rupees
Hyderabad, India
Director: Ramesh Sekhar Reddy
mahitahyd2002@yahoo.com; www.mahita.org
Focusing on vulnerable and marginalized children in the slums, and working in particular with girls and Muslim communities, Mahita creates opportunities through education, income generation programs, and skills training. Our grant supports the adolescent girls’ program, which provides girls in slum areas with nonformal education, skills training, and group discussions in community learning centers.
Monduli Pastoralist Development Initiative
$6,000/7,500,000 Tanzania shillings
Monduli, Tanzania
Director: Erasto Ole Sanare
sanareole@yahoo.com
Monduli helps Maasai pastoralist communities maintain their traditional beliefs and systems while also ensuring that their children receive a modern education. Our grant supports the Early Childhood Development (ECD) program, which helps Maasai villages establish culturally appropriate ECD centers and supports teachers in existing centers.
Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA)
(Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women)
$7,000/226,450 Dominican Republic pesos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Director: Sonia Pierre
mudhaong@hotmail.com; www.kiskeya-alternative.org/mudha
MUDHA promotes the advancement of Dominicans of Haitian descent through programs on education, health, human rights, gender, domestic violence, and identity. Our grant supports MUDHA’s community school in Palmarejo, which currently serves 240 children who would otherwise have no access to education.
Mumbai Mobile Crèches
$8,000/366,960 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Devika Mahadevan
mcreches@vsnl.net; www.mobilecreches.org
To ensure that the children of migrant construction workers are protected from the dangers of construction sites, Mumbai Mobile Crèches sets up mobile daycare centers at construction sites, providing a supervised place for children to learn and play while their parents work. Our grant supports the mobile daycare centers, which offer an integrated education program and health and nutrition programs to meet the needs of these children.
Nepal Bhotia Education Center (NBEC)
$6,000/407,940 Nepal rupees
Sankhuwasabha district, Nepal
Director: Chhongduk Bhotia
chhongduk@hotmail.com
NBEC runs an integrated education program to increase the quality and accessibility of formal schooling for disadvantaged children in the Sankhuwasabha district. Our grant supports the Residential Schooling Program, which provides basic education and teacher training to girls who then return to teach in their own communities.
Previous funding: $4,000 since 2006
Nehemiah AIDS Relief Project
$10,000/2,494,600 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 200 child beneficiaries annually. Our grant supports Nehemiah’s work with children of sex workers.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2005
Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED)
$12,000/511,200 India rupees
Lucknow, India
Director: Anil K. Singh
info@indianeed.org; www.indianeed.org
NEED facilitates the development of grassroots self-help groups that respond to the needs of undereducated women in villages throughout Uttar Pradesh.. Our grant supports four nonformal education centers, which provide children with basic education and training on children’s rights, gender equality, personal health, hygiene, and nutrition, in the Sitapur district.
Previous funding: $34,000 since 2003
New Horizon Ministries (NHM)
$12,000/49,800,000 Zambia kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Director: Juliet Chilengi
newhoriznorp@zamtel.zm; www.nho.kabissa.org
NHM works with girls who are orphaned, impoverished, or living with HIV/AIDS to promote their positive involvement in the community and in activities that reduce their vulnerability to sexual and other forms of exploitation. Our grant funds educational support for primary, secondary, and community school students who are orphaned or do not receive assistance from their families.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2005
Our Children
$11,000/32,230,000 Sierra Leone leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Director: Nasserie Carew
ourchildreninc@yahoo.com; www.ourchildreninc.com
Our Children provides an accelerated learning program and academic tutoring for children living in displacement camps in and around Freetown. Our grant supports the Windows on the World Computer and Learning Center, which offers free tutoring and accelerated learning activities to children at two community primary schools in Freetown.
Previous funding: $37,500 since 2002
Prayas (To Wish)
$17,000/779,790 India rupees
Jaipur, India
Director: Jatinder Arora
prayasjpr@hotmail.com; www.prayasindia.org
Prayas pioneered and operates one of the first integrated nonformal schools in India for special-needs, low-income, and neglected children. Our grant provides general support for the integrated schools, which, through education and skills training, enable mentally and physically disabled children to become contributing members of society.
Previous funding: $45,000 since 2001
Prerana (Inspiration)
$19,000/871,530 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Priti Patkar
preranaatc@gmail.com
Prerana offers a range of educational activities, anti-trafficking initiatives, and support programs in order to protect the human rights of sexually exploited women and their children. Our grant supports educational services for the children of sex workers, including a night-care center that provides them with basic education, nourishment, recreation, regular medical checkups, counseling, and a safe place to sleep.
Previous funding: $59,000 since 2001
Puririsun (Let’s Journey Together)
$8,000/63,920 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Director: Juan José Obando
puririsun.bolivia@samerica.com
Initially founded in Cusco, Peru, and recently established as a sister organization in Bolivia, Puririsun provides educational support, enterprise training, health education, nutrition, and a variety of life skills workshops to poor children and youth living in La Paz. Our grant supports the early childhood development program, which focuses on stimulating children’s physical, intellectual, and emotional development.
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha
(Village Self-Reliance)
$18,000/1,196,100 Bangladesh taka
Pabna district, Bangladesh
Director: A. H. M. Rezwan
shidhulai@gmail.com; www.shidhulai.org
Shidhulai is focused on the improvement of isolated rural communities in Bangladesh, with an emphasis on bringing environmental training, human rights awareness, and basic education to children, especially girls, who would otherwise be unable to attend school. Our grant supports the mobile boat school program, which uses 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: $34,000 since 2003
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT)
$8,000/819,200 Sri Lanka rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Director: Nita Gunesekera
shilpatr@sltnet.lk; www.shilpa.org
SCT provides shelter and education to children made destitute by war and terrorism. Our grant supports SCT’s free preschool, which engages children in academic and structured activities at a young age, making the transition to formal primary school easier for them and their parents.
Previous funding: $76,500 since 2002
Skolta'el Yu'un Jlumaltic (SYJAC)
(Service to Our People)
$8,000/88,160 Mexico pesos
San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico
Director: Sabás Cruz García
syjac@prodigy.net.mx; www.syjac.org.mx
SYJAC works to improve living conditions and opportunities in the indigenous slums around San Cristóbal through programs in early childhood development, basic education, health, nutrition, housing, sanitation, vocational training, and values. Our grant supports the Ch’umei’il Mother-Child Educational Center, which provides early childhood education for children from birth to age 6 as well as parenting and life skills workshops for their mothers.
Snowland Service Group (SSG)
$8,000/61,840 China yuan
Yushu County, Qinghai, China
Director: Rinchen Dawa
ssgroup@vip.sina.com; www.snowlandsgroup.org
SSG empowers Tibetan communities through sustainable community development projects in education, renewable energy, and basic infrastructure. Our grant provides scholarship support for junior and senior high school students to enable them to continue their education.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Sociedad Dominico-Haitiana de Apoyo Integral para el Desarrollo y la Salud (SODHAIDESA)
(Dominican-Haitian Society of Comprehensive Assistance for Health and Development)
$11,000/363,550 Dominican Republic pesos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Director: Frantz Compere
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. Our grant supports the Right to a Name and Nationality program, which campaigns for the legal recognition of the Dominican nationality of Dominican-born Haitian children, recognition that will allow these children to attend school.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2005
Society Biliki
(Path Society)
$16,000/27,200 Georgia lari
Gori, Georgia
Director: Mari Mgebrishvili
biliki@rambler.ru
Biliki assists underprivileged, special-needs, and internally displaced children from the conflict zones of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Our grant supports the Day Center, which offers educational and creative programs, psychological services, a mothers-and-children club, and referrals to other community social services for children who are living on the streets or who are internally displaced or mentally challenged.
Previous funding: $45,500 since 2003
Society for Education and Action (SEA)
$11,000/468,600 India rupees
Mamallapuram, India
Director: S. Desingu
sea_org_desingu@rediffmail.com
SEA promotes school enrollment and retention for children in the impoverished fishing communities south of Chennai, preventing their initial or continued work on fishing boats or docks. Our grant supports SEA’s motivation and recreation centers, which reduce child labor practices in the fishing communities, ease the transition to school for dropouts, and help school-going children to succeed in school.
Previous funding: $48,000 since 2004
Tanadgoma (Assistance) Library and Cultural Center for People with Disabilities
$13,000/22,620 Georgia lari
Tbilisi, Georgia
Director: 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. Our grant supports educational programs and workplace training for disabled youth aged 14 to 17.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2004
Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF)
$17,000/29,580 Georgia lari
Tbilisi, Georgia
Director: Nana Doliashvili
ndoliashvili@gol.ge; www.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. Our grant supports the New Opportunities through Active Learning program, which complements the formal schools by offering academic tutorials, ongoing counseling, and extracurricular activities to children who are at increased risk of dropping out of school.
Previous funding: $26,000 since 2003
Teboho Trust
$6,000/42,960 South Africa rand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Director: Jose Bright
jose@teboho.com; www.teboho.com
The Teboho Trust provides academic and psychosocial support to orphaned and vulnerable children in Soweto and nearby townships through a Saturday School program, life skills and leadership development camps, and provision of school uniforms, textbooks, and other supplies. Our grant is for general support of the Teboho Trust.
United Houma Nation
$6,000
Golden Meadow, LA, United States
Director: Brenda Dardar Robichaux
bdr@unitedhoumanation.org; www.unitedhoumanation.org
The United Houma Nation operates youth programs, cultural classes, and community events, as well as employment training courses and heritage preservation programs. Our grant supports the leadership training and cultural awareness program for youth in grades 6 to 12.
Vikasini Girl Child Education Trust
$6,000/275,220 India rupees
Secunderabad, India
Director: Indira Jena
vikasini2006@yahoo.com; www.vikasini.org
Vikasini, through its multidimensional curriculum and extracurricular activities, promotes self-confidence among girls by providing them with the chance to become self-sustaining individuals and informed participants of change. Our grant supports the Vikasini Girls School, which offers government-accredited classes and extracurricular activities to girls aged 4 to 12.
Vikramshila Education Resource Society
$13,000/596,310 India rupees
Bigha, India
Director: Shubhra Chatterji
Vikramshila@vikramshila.org; 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 thereby to lessen the disparity in educational standards between the wealthy and the poor. Our grant supports the community education model program in the rural village of Bigha.
Previous funding: $39,000 since 2002
Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)
$13,000/486,850 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 for them to participate fully in community life and influence the future development of their communities. Our grant supports the child development project, which helps community-based preschools teach proper school habits to children aged 2 to 6.
Previous funding: $9,000 since 2005
Young Playwrights' Theater (YPT)
$9,000
Washington, DC, United States
Director: David Andrew Snider
info@yptdc.org; www.yptdc.org
YPT fosters literacy, facilitates dialogue on tolerance and respect, and teaches arts education and conflict resolution to youth in low-income schools. Our grant supports the In-School Playwriting Program, which improves students' speaking and listening skills and self-expression by having students write their own plays, several of which are then professionally produced by YPT.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Enterprise
In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded grants valued at $412,500 to 38 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Ação Forte
(Strong Action)
$6,000/13,140 Brazil reais
Campinas, Brazil
Director: Lia Ferreira
ferreil@fdah.com
Ação Forte helps young people between the ages of 12 and 17 from the low-income neighborhoods of Vila Boa Vista and Vila Parque Norte to complete their formal education and to transition successfully into the work world. Our grant supports the Young Entrepreneurs Program, which focuses on skills that have concrete value in the labor market, such as business management, entrepreneurship, information technology, and English, as well as values such as personal responsibility and active citizenship.
Alliance for Children and Youth
$9,000/12,320 Bulgaria leva
Sofia, Bulgaria
Director: Mariana Pisarska
children_youth@abv.bg; www.acybg.org
Recognized as one of the authorities in Bulgaria on vulnerable children’s issues, the Alliance for Children and Youth’s 16+ Center offers comprehensive services, including healthcare, counseling, and educational and vocational training, to vulnerable, marginalized, unemployed, and homeless youth, 95 percent of whom are of Roma descent. Our grant supports the 16+ Center’s vocational training program in the capital city of Sofia.
Asociación de Comunidades Eclesiales de Base (CEB)
(Association of Grassroots Christian Communities)
$8,000/146,000 Nicaragua córdobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Director: Jenny Mayorga
cnp@ibw.com.ni
CEB helps working children in the shantytowns of Managua reach their full potential by providing scholarships, tutoring, vocational training, and workshops on leadership, initiative, responsibility, and community service. Our grant supports the youth enterprise project, which gives young people hands-on experience in managing a small enterprise focused on the production and sale of ice cream, jams, fruit juices, teas, and other natural products.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de Oaxaca (CANICA)
(Center for the Support of the Street Child in Oaxaca)
$12,000/132,240 Mexico pesos
Oaxaca, Mexico
Director: María del Carmen Espinosa
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, and emotional well-being, and to ultimately transition these children off the streets. Our grant supports the education program for market-working children, which helps the children develop marketable skills for better-paying employment off the streets.
Previous funding: $20,500 since 2005
Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB)
(San Juan Bosco Center)
$12,000/226,680 Honduras lempiras
Tela, Honduras
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. Our grant supports the technical and vocational training program, which reduces the number of hours children work in the street markets and helps them to develop marketable skills for engaging better-paying alternative livelihoods.
Previous funding: $35,000 since 2003
Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y Educación Recreativa El Caracol
(El Caracol Transitional Center for Training and Recreational Education)
$13,000/143,260 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Director: Juan Martín Pérez García
info@elcaracol.org; www.elcaracol.org
El Caracol uses a combination of street outreach and education, transitional housing, life skills workshops, computer training, enterprise and vocational training, a youth-run bakery and restaurant, a youth-led radio program, and graphic design and print media initiatives to help street children and youth acquire the skills, attitudes, and assets to allow them to leave the streets and transform their lives. Our grant supports the Produciendo Juntos (Producing Together) enterprise training program, which helps young people develop the skills and values of entrepreneurship.
Previous funding: $20,800 since 2005
De Laas Gul
(Hand-Embroidered Flower) Welfare Programme (DLG)
$11,500/912,300 Pakistan rupees
Peshawar, Pakistan
Director: Meraj Humayun Khan
dlg@brain.net.pk
DLG, through 14 rehabilitation centers in the slums and industrial areas of Peshawar, provides education and skills training to street and working children, conducts economic and social empowerment programs for women, and advocates for the human, political, and economic rights of underserved or exploited individuals. Our grant supports the Tehkal Rehabilitation Center, which provides girls with nonformal education and skills training in alternative livelihoods and increases awareness of their rights.
Previous funding: $36,500 since 2004
Desarrollo Autogestionario (AUGE)
(Self-Managed Development)
$9,000/99,180 Mexico pesos
Veracruz, Mexico
Director: Gloria Agueda García
auge@laneta.apc.org
AUGE promotes women’s economic empowerment and income generation through self-managed savings groups, technical training and leadership workshops, and a weekly community radio program. Our grant supports the Children’s Solidarity Savings program, which works with more than 500 working children to promote asset building, financial literacy, and life planning, and provides education on issues such as family relations, domestic violence, drug addiction, gender, sexuality, the environment, and human rights.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Dhriiti
(The Courage Within)
$5,000/229,350 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Director: Anirban Gupta
info@dhriiti.org; www.dhriiti.org
Through a multipronged approach to developing entrepreneurship in India, Dhriiti focuses on reaching out to children and youth as well as on creating support mechanisms that enable microenterprises to flourish. Our grant supports the Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow program, which offers a tailored curriculum to promote innovation and entrepreneurship to children and youth in government schools.
Dream a Dream
$8,000/340,800 India rupees
Bengaluru, India
Director: Vishal Talreja
info@dreamadream.org; www.dreamadream.org
Dream a Dream empowers children from vulnerable backgrounds to become productive members of society. Our grant supports the Dream Mentoring Program, which trains volunteers and staff to mentor adolescents and to assist their transition into adulthood and mainstream society.
Federación de Salud Infantil y Reproductiva de Guatemala (FESIRGUA)
(Guatemalan Federation for Child and Reproductive Health)
$9,000/68,850 Guatemala quetzales
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Director: Miguel Cap Patal
fesirgua@intelnet.net.gt
FESIRGUA works with poor indigenous communities in the rural highlands of Guatemala to improve health, education, and overall quality of life. Our grant supports the Empowerment of Indigenous Girls program, which helps indigenous girls transition into adulthood through training, mentoring, and internships in life skills such as leadership, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, negotiation, communication, decision making, teamwork, self-esteem, and formation of life goals and plans.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Foundation for Development of Needy Communities (FDNC)
$17,000/31,365,000 Uganda shillings
Mbale, Uganda
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. Our grant supports the vocational skills training program, which teaches computer skills, tailoring, carpentry, and masonry, with special attention to the participation and retention of girls.
Previous funding: $52,000 since 2001
Fundación La Paz
(La Paz Foundation)
$15,000/119,850 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Director: Jorge Domic Ruiz
flpsocioeduca@redcotel.bo
Fundación La Paz empowers more than 7,000 vulnerable women and children through programs in education, vocational training, small business creation, health, nutrition, and protection from domestic violence and abuse. Our grant supports the Centro de Capacitación Técnica Sarantañani (Sarantañani Technical Training Center), which provides certified training in leather production, auto mechanics, carpentry, computer operation, metalworking, and textile design to underprivileged youth.
Previous funding: $39,000 since 2002
Fundatia Noi Orizonturi
(New Horizons Foundation)
$8,000/19,840 Romania lei
Lupeni, Romania
Director: Dana Bates
office@noi-orizonturi.ro; www.new-horizons.ro
Noi Orizonturi provides youth with adventure education and service learning to address the lack of interpersonal trust and the deep culture of corruption in Romania. Our grant supports five IMPACT Clubs, which empower youth to become agents of change by creating service learning projects that engage with local government and that build confidence and trust.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Going to School (GTS)
$15,000/688,050 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 the child’s life. Our grant supports the BE! program, an innovative project that uses storybooks, radio, and film to inspire leadership and social entrepreneurship in underprivileged children in India.
Previous funding: $33,500 since 2004
Guaruma
$9,000/171,010 Honduras lempiras
Las Mangas, Honduras
Director: Jimmy Andino
info@guaruma.org; www.guaruma.org
Guaruma uses photography, digital imaging, graphic design, website design, creative writing, and media technology to help children develop marketable skills and to provide a medium for self-expression, creativity, critical thinking, leadership, and reflection on their lives. Our grant supports the Technology and Environment Program, which combines media technology training with environmental conservation, ecotourism, and medicinal biology training for children living in the endangered Rio Cangregal watershed.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Horn Relief
$16,000/21,920,000 Somalia shillings
Sanaag region, Somalia
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. Our grant supports the Pastoral Youth Leadership Outreach Program, which focuses on responsible community leadership, social peace and justice, holistic natural-resource management, veterinary science, and health and well-being.
Previous funding: $33,000 since 2002
Instituto Fazer Acontecer (IFA)
(Make It Happen Institute)
$10,000/20,400 Brazil reais
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Director: Renato Paes de Andrade
rpa@fazeracontecer.org.br; www.fazeracontecer.org.br
IFA offers a combination of sports and citizenship training to promote teamwork, discipline, and physical well-being among youth in some of the poorest areas of Salvador and works to increase their awareness of the rights and responsibilities of citizens as protagonists in their communities. Our grant supports the expansion of the sports and citizenship program to 60 students in the underserved community of Paz, on the outskirts of Salvador.
Previous funding: $9,500 since 2006
Jeeva Jyothi
(Everlasting Light)
$16,000/681,600 India rupees
Thiruvallur district, India
Director: V. Susai Raj
jyothij@vsnl.com; www.jeevajyothi.org
Jeeva Jyothi treats both the consequences and the underlying causes of child labor in rice mills near Chennai through workplace-based nonformal education for children, adult literacy classes, and income generation training. Our grant supports programs that help children become productive members of the community and that empower them economically.
Previous funding: $55,500 since 2002
Kalinga Mission for Indigenous Children and Youth Development (KAMICYDI)
$6,000/286,200 Philippines pesos
Gapan City, Philippines
Director: Donato Bayubay Bumacas
kmcydkalinga@yahoo.com
KAMICYDI defends the land and environment of the indigenous Kalinga communities in the northern Philippines and promotes a cultural and ecologically sustainable future by using traditional techniques to address the impacts of poverty and environmental degradation. Our grant supports the Youth Entrepreneurship Skills program, which provides enterprise and business development opportunities to out-of-school youth through skills training and small microenterprise loans.
Karm Marg
(Progress through Work)
$9,000/412,830 India rupees
Faridabad, IndiaDirector: Veena Lal
info@karmmarg.com; www.karmmarg.org
Karm Gaon, an architecturally unique home built by Karm Marg for former street children, is a model for child-friendly institutions and a place where boys and girls live and learn to cook, work or study, play, and take responsibility for their own daily lives. Our grant supports vocational training activities at the children’s home and in the surrounding village.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2005
Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND)
$7,000/896,280 Nigeria nairas
Lagos, Nigeria
Director: Hafsat Abiola-Costello
kindnigeria@yahoo.com; www.kind.org
KIND works to ensure that women have an active role in building Nigeria's budding democracy by offering a leadership training program that prepares young women in university for careers in public service. Our grant supports the development of a leadership training program for adolescent girls that will address entrepreneurship and financial management skills, sexuality and reproductive heath rights, and career planning.
Love in Action (LIA)
$6,000/52,440 Ethiopia birr
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Regional State, Ethiopia
Director: Yohannes Amado
lia_ethiopia@yahoo.com
LIA works to bring about sustainable change in the Hadiya region of Ethiopia through a comprehensive community development model that focuses on education, entrepreneurship, and health. Our grant is supporting the launch of an entrepreneurial program for 50 girls between the ages of 12 and 21 that will provide microenterprise and education training specific to culturally relevant products like ceramics and embroidery.
Magic Bus Connect
$12,500/532,500 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Matthew Spacie
matthew@magicbusindia.org; www.magicbusindia.org
Magic Bus empowers young people growing up in the slums and streets of India to discover their innate potential through sports. Our grant supports the new Connect program, which provides targeted mentoring, career guidance, vocational training, and leadership development to marginalized at-risk youth.
Men on the Side of the Road (MSR)
$20,000/143,200 South Africa rand
Woodstock, South Africa
Director: Robin Gilfilan
unemploymen@mweb.co.za; www.unemploymen.co.za
MSR provides employment and educational services to men who spend their days waiting for short-term employment opportunities along the shoulders of major roadways in the Western Cape region. Our grant supports continuing education and training activities for boys and young men.
Previous funding: $22,000 since 2005
Mujejego-Loka (Dawn Light) Women Development Organization
$7,000/61,180 Ethiopia birr
Beninshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia
Director: Tirhas Mezgebe
Mujejego-Loka aims to empower the Gumuz people and to end the marginalization of women and children by providing nonformal education programs and training sessions on gender equality, HIV/AIDS prevention, and effective farming and marketing techniques for agricultural goods. Our grant supports the enterprise training program for young mothers, which includes a community health education component.
Phulki
(Spark)
$15,000/1,031,250 Bangladesh taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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, trafficking, child labor, child rights, gender equality, health and hygiene, and social values, and provides computer training and other educational support. Our grant supports the child-to-child program for girls in the impoverished Mirpur community.
Previous funding: $53,000 since 2002
Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA)
$16,500/1,003,530 Pakistan rupees
Nara Mughlan, Pakistan
Director: Sameena Nazir
poda_pakistan@yahoo.com
PODA offers advocacy training, mentoring, and life skills education to rural communities on topics such as education, women’s rights, diversity, and democracy. Our grant supports the Entrepreneurial and Leadership Training program, which helps rural youth to maximize resources, increase their incomes, and create new ventures.
Previous funding: $42,300 since 2004
Pravah
(Flow)
$6,000/275,220 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Director: Meenu Venkateswaran
mail@pravah.org; www.younginfluencers.com
Started by young professionals, Pravah encourages young people to become social entrepreneurs and agents of change and facilitate positive change in society. Our grant supports the Change Looms program, an innovative new initiative that recognizes and awards young social entrepreneurs and supports them in their endeavors toward social change.
Rural Family Support Organization (RuFamSO)
$11,000/725,560 Jamaica dollars
May Pen, Jamaica
Director: Utealia Burrel
dashra4@hotmail.com
RuFamSO offers guidance, educational support, life skills training, and workshops on nutrition and personal health to adolescents in Jamaica’s rural communities. Our grant supports RuFamSO’s vocational training program for adolescent parents, which combines basic literacy classes, parenting skills workshops, and vocational training in commercial food preparation, garment making, and masonry.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2004
Sam-Kam Institute (SKI)
$16,000/46,800,000 Sierra Leone leones
Kalaba Town, Sierra Leone
Director: 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. Our grant provides general support to SKI’s People Developing Vocational Skills program, which trains students aged 11 to 22 in welding, carpentry, sewing, auto mechanics, and computer technology.
Previous funding: $30,000 since 2003
Sanghamitra Service Society
$15,000/688,050 India rupees
Vijayawada, India
Director: Sivaji
sanghamitra.org@gmail.com
Sanghamitra works in more than 100 rural villages in Andhra Pradesh to help the most marginalized members of Indian society, generally members of the lowest caste and women, improve their well-being through increased skills and greater social awareness. Our grant supports the creation of a community-based organization, to be run by village youth, that will provide education, peer training, health education, and counseling to children and youth in five villages.
Previous funding: $71,000 since 2003
Shaishav (Childhood) Trust
$8,000/340,800 India rupees
Bhavnagar, India
Director: Parul Sheth
parulfsheth@rediffmail.com; www.shaishavchildrights.org
Shaishav helps children understand their basic rights and play an active role in defending them, through nonformal education programs, a mobile library, a children’s collective, and a financial education program. Our grant supports the Balsena children’s collective, which fosters unity and collaboration, and the Balsena Bachat Bank initiative, which promotes savings and provides financial education.
Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable for Better Health, Education, and Nutrition in Uganda (SOVHEN)
$6,000/10,350,000 Uganda shillings
Kampala, Uganda
Director: Richard Bbaale
sovhenu@yahoo.com
SOVHEN helps orphaned and vulnerable children attain a better quality of life and an increased life expectancy through programs in financial literacy, income generation, education, health, nutrition, and environmental preservation. Our grant supports the SEED (Savings for Education, Entrepreneurship, and Down Payment) program for orphaned children who live in residential care.
Synapse Network Center
$17,000/8,266,250 CFA francs
Dakar, Senegal
Director: Ciré Kane
synapse@synapsecenter.org; www.synapsecenter.org
The Synapse Network Center unleashes the entrepreneurial leadership potential of youth by encouraging them to start and grow their own initiatives and to take greater responsibility in their communities. Our grant provides general support and capacity building for the Education to Fight Exclusion Project, which promotes community investment in the fight against the marginalization of street children.
Previous funding: $35,500 since 2002
Warma Tarinakuy
(Assembly of the Children)
$7,000/22,750 Peru nuevos soles
Cusco, Peru
Director: Ana Salas Vivanco
warmatarinakuy@hotmail.com
Warma Tarinakuy is a self-empowerment initiative managed largely by 100 adolescent boys who work in the local wholesale produce market. Our grant is for general support of Warma, whose four youth-led commissions focus on achieving safe and fair working conditions, increasing access to education and educational support, improving health, and ensuring adequate nutrition.
Women Development Association (WDA)
$13,000/51,829,050 Cambodia riel
Saang district, Cambodia
Director: Soreach Sereithida
wda05@online.com.kh
WDA addresses the development needs of impoverished women, youth, and children by working with communities to achieve long-term sustainable development through capacity building. Our grant supports the Peace Building for Youths project, which addresses the problems of boys participating in criminal or violent activities through peer education, life and skills training, conflict resolution, and counseling.
Previous funding: $28,000 since 2004
Women in Social Entrepreneurship (WISE)
$6,000/7,500,000 Tanzania shillings
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Director: Astronaut Bagile
instigatingsocialentrepreneur@yahoo.com
WISE inspires, empowers, and equips Tanzanian youth and women leaders through entrepreneurship and leadership training in the economic, governmental, and social sectors. Our grant supports entrepreneurship training for 60 out-of-school youth.
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In fiscal year 2006-2007, we awarded grants valued at $424,000 to 42 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Aangan Trust
$16,000/681,600 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Suparna Gupta
aangantrust@rediffmail.com; www.aanganindia.com
Aangan Trust provides psychological rehabilitation to juvenile offenders and neglected children in juvenile detention centers, helping them to deal with past trauma, resolve their emotional and behavioral problems, and create sustainable change in their lives. Our grant supports rehabilitation work with more than 350 boys in the Bhiwandi Observation Home.
Previous funding: $32,000 since 2004
Ankuram (Sprout) Woman and Child Development Society
$6,000/275,220 India rupees
Hyderabad, India
Director: M. Sumitra
ankuram@yahoo.com
Using a rights-based approach, Ankuram creates a safe and empowering space for women and children to strengthen their knowledge base, skills, and capacity through education, shelter, and livelihood opportunities. Our grant supports Sankalpam, a home for girls who were victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation, gender-based violence, or child marriages.
Asociatia pentru Libertatea si Egalitatea de Gen (ALEG)
(Association for Liberty and Gender Equality)
$7,000/19,390 Romania new lei
Sibiu, Romania
Director: Camelia Blaga
aleg_romania@yahoo.com; www.alegromania.tk
ALEG promotes gender equality and fights gender-based violence and discrimination in Romania through inclusive, empowering, and supportive programs for young people. Our grant supports a new project to educate girls in rural areas about trafficking and gender-based violence through regular informational and therapeutic sessions.
Association d'Appui et d'Eveil Pugsada (ADEP)
(Association of Support and Coming of Age)
$14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs
Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso
Director: Marie Léa Gama Zongo
adep@fasonet.bf
ADEP fights exploitation and violence against girls, educating them about AIDS and reproductive health and helping society better understand the effects on girls of early and forced marriages, the dangers of female circumcision, and the importance of girls’ education. Our grant supports ADEP’s community and school-based activities to break the silence that surrounds the common practice of sexual harassment and abuse in schools.
Previous funding: $18,000 since 2006
Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais (AFEL)
(Lebanese Child Home Association)
$11,000/15,080,000 Lebanon pounds
Beirut, Lebanon
Director: 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. Our grant supports the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Program, which targets children who are at risk of resorting to criminal activities or being exploited on the streets, and helps them learn the skills necessary to resume formal schooling and stabilize their personal lives.
Previous funding: $17,500 since 2004
Association Jeunesse Actions Mali (AJA Mali)
(Youth Action Association of Mali)
$14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs
Bamako, Mali
Director: Souleymane Sarr
ajamali@datatech.toolnet.org; www.ajamali.org
AJA Mali provides basic education and life skills training, including long-term apprenticeships in the fields of carpentry, masonry, plumbing, metalworking, and mechanics, to out-of-school and working youth. Our grant supports the Educational Accompaniment for Apprentices program, which educates young apprentices in the same subjects taught to their school-going peers, provides recreational opportunities, monitors apprentices’ relationships with their teachers, and advocates for their rights.
Previous funding: $27,000 since 2003
Association La Lumière
(The Light Association)
$14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs
Tambacounda, Senegal
Director: Ibrahima Sory Diallo
lumiereaspd@yahoo.fr
La Lumière promotes the well-being of street children, female domestic workers, migrant families, and other marginalized populations living in rural and underdeveloped areas. Our grant supports La Lumière’s efforts to improve school enrollment among children working in the gold mines near Tambacounda.
Previous funding: $19,000 since 2005
Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE)
$7,000/64,204,000 Ghana cedis
Accra, Ghana
Director: Jack James Dawson
applegh21@yahoo.com
APPLE offers community outreach, health, and education programs designed to end child labor in fishing villages in Ghana’s Lake Volta region. Our grant supports APPLE’s comprehensive social integration program to prevent child trafficking and protect children who have been reintegrated into their communities.
Avenir de l’Enfant (ADE)
(Future of the Child)
$11,000/5,348,750 CFA francs
Rufisque, Senegal
Director: Moussa Sow
avenirenfant@sentoo.sn
ADE works in the secondary city of Rufisque to safeguard street children and other at-risk children from sexual abuse and other forms of exploitation. Our grant supports ADE’s educational campaign against sex tourism in two beach communities.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Barraca da Amizade
(Shelter of Friendship)
$9,000/18,360 Brazil reais
Fortaleza, Brazil
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 are often engaged in high-risk behaviors such as gang activity, substance abuse, and petty crime. Our grant supports the organization’s street educators, who meet the children on their own terms, gradually build trust, discuss positive alternatives to life on the streets, and eventually bring the boys into the Barraca da Amizade program.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Centar za Integraciju Mladih (CIM)
(Center for Youth Integration)
$7,000/447,580 Serbia dinars
Belgrade, Serbia
Director: Milica Djordjevic
cim@verat.net; www.cim.org.yu
CIM works to empower and fully integrate orphans and street children into their communities by building long-term relationships between staff and beneficiaries. Our grant supports outreach and intervention work to provide shelter, medical care, and advocacy within the juvenile justice system for children and youth living on the streets.
Center for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CPCAN)
$6,000/6,960,000 Mongolia tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director: Baigalmaa Sunren
director@stopchildabuse.org.mn; www.stopchildabuse.org.mn
CPCAN provides legal, rehabilitative, and psychosocial support for children who have been victims of violence and abuse. Our grant supports prevention and rehabilitation services, including a 24-hour telephone hotline, training workshops, counseling, and advocacy campaigns.
Centro de Estudos e Ação em Atenção à Infância e as Drogas Excola
(Excola Center for Research and Action on Childhood and Drug Use)
$9,000/18,360 Brazil reais
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Director: Márcia Florêncio de Souza
excola@excola.org.br; www.excola.org.br
Excola helps children living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro to change their course in life through basic education, technical and vocational training, counseling, transitional housing, and a youth-run community radio program. Our grant supports the Young Mothers project, which helps adolescent mothers care for their health and that of their children, gain income generation skills, prevent further pregnancies, and return to the support structures of family and community.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Centro Interdisciplinario para el Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
(Interdisciplinary Center for Social Development)
$12,000/131,880 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Director: Alicia Vargas Ayala
cides_direcciongeneral@mx.inter.net
CIDES supports indigenous children in Mexico City through community mobilization and social intervention programs. Our grant supports the domestic-violence project, which conducts discussion groups for children and youth, trains adolescents to become educators, works to strengthen school attendance, and offers skills training.
Previous funding: $9,000 since 2005
Centro para el Desarrollo Regional (CDR)
(Center for Regional Development)
$10,000/79,900 Bolivia bolivianos
Potosí, Bolivia
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 of Potosí. Our grant supports the Child Miners project, which prevents or reduces child labor in the mines by providing viable economic and educational alternatives through scholarships, tutoring support, vocational training, and youth enterprise, including youth-run greenhouses producing fruits and vegetables for the local market.
Previous funding: $7,500 since 2006
Children on the Edge–Romania (COTE)
$8,000/19,840 Romania lei
Iasi, Romania
Director: 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. Our grant supports the Graduate Program, which provides young orphanage graduates with housing and comprehensive training in personal, communication, and vocational skills.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRD)
$9,000/429,300 Philippines pesos
Quezon City, Philippines
Director: Rowena Legaspi
ccrd_2002@yahoo.com; www.geocities.com/ccrd_2002/home
CLRD provides legal assistance to juvenile offenders, documentation for advocacy purposes, rehabilitation and welfare support for released juvenile detainees, and training and education. Our grant supports the program for children in detention centers, which provides training, education, and counseling through a child-to-child approach.
Previous funding: $18,500 since 2004
Colectivo de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras (ANICA)
(Collective for Support of Street Girls)
$10,000/110,200 Mexico pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Director: Alma Rosa Colin
colectivoninas@terra.com.mx
ANICA provides alternative educational opportunities to poor, at-risk, and incarcerated young people through access to museums, galleries, and other cultural and educational institutions. Our grant supports the cultural and educational access program, which includes guided museum visits, scientific demonstrations, exhibitions, workshops, and concerts.
Previous funding: $30,000 since 2002
Community Outreach Programme (CORP)
$6,000/255,600 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Anna Fernandes
corp_india@yahoo.co.in; www.corpindia.org
CORP provides support to children living in the slums of Mumbai. Our grant supports the Sharanam Center, which rescues street girls from a life of poverty, ill health, abuse, and sexual exploitation and provides a positive environment for their rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.
Forum Comunicações Juventude Oratorio Don Bosco (FCJ)
(Don Bosco Children’s Communication Forum)
$6,000
Dili, Timor-Leste
Director: Cipriano Oliveira de Freitas
olivechipi@yahoo.com
As the only organization working with street children in Dili, FCJ offers a variety of services, including a drop-in shelter that provides food and shelter for street children, psychosocial counseling and support, literacy and nonformal education classes for at-risk children, and a mobile learning center. Our grant provides general support for FCJ.
Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT)
$12,000/17,160 Bulgaria leva
Sofia, Bulgaria
Director: Jivka Marinova
gert@mbox.contact.bg
GERT raises public awareness on issues linked to gender stereotypes, teaches young people about reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS, and improves gender relations among youth in order to reduce gender-based violence and sexual exploitation. Our grant supports the expansion of the peer education program, which combats the trafficking of orphans and abandoned children living in state-run institutions.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2004
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
$15,000
New York, NY, United States
Director: Rachel Lloyd
info@gems-girls.org
GEMS provides educational, transitional, vocational, and counseling services to sexually exploited young women in order to empower them to exit unsafe or abusive situations. Our grant supports o