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Achlal (Caring Kindness) Child Development Center
$14,000/16,646,000 Mongolia tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director: Azzayaa Davaanyam
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: $28,000 since 2004
Agastya International Foundation
$16,000/636,800 India rupees
Chittoor district, India
Director: Rama P. 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: $30,000 since 2004
Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA)
$21,000/26,145,000 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: $61,000 since 2002
Asanble Vwazen Jakè (AVJ)
(Jakè Neighborhood Association)
$8,000/385,200 Haiti gourdes
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Director: Reagan Lolo
asanblevwazenjake@yahoo.fr
AVJ provides basic education to children and youth in the very poor Jakè neighborhood of Port-au-Prince and promotes their participation in improving the community as a whole. Our grant supports AVJ’s primary school, which serves 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)
$19,000/59,090 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: $61,500 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 Mujer y Comunidad
(Women and Community Association)
$15,000/278,700 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: $40,000 since 2003
Asociación para los Derechos de la Niñez “Monseñor Oscar Romero”
(Monsignor Oscar Romero Association for Children’s Rights)
$14,000/107,940 Guatemala quetzales
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Director: Elisa Esperanza Marroquín Aroche
romeritos@intelnett.com
Los Romeritos, as this organization is locally known, works with the children of sex workers, street vendors, and underemployed single mothers to prevent second-generation prostitution by providing access to education and other support services. Our grant supports the Educational Opportunities Program, which promotes learning and development through a comprehensive program of educational support, preventive health, nutrition, arts and recreation, and various life skills.
Previous funding: $35,000 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
Asociatia Ovidiu Rom
$21,000/50,400 Romania new lei
Bacau, Romania
Director: Leslie Hawke and Maria Gheorghiu
office@ovid.ro; www.ovid.ro
Ovidiu Rom provides Roma children with access to education 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: $50,000 since 2003
Association for Community Development Services (ACDS)
$18,000/716,400 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: $74,000 since 2003
Backward Society Education (BASE)
$11,000/707,300 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: $19,500 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)
$13,000/241,540 Nicaragua córdobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Director: Jennifer F. Marshall
batahola@ibw.com.ni; www.friendsofbatahola.org
CCBN promotes opportunity for vulnerable women and children through more than 20 courses in basic education and domestic and technical skills. Our grant supports student scholarships as well as a library project, which includes tutoring, study circles, and health workshops for over 200 students.
Previous funding: $19,000 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
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
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
Ethiopian Books for Children and Educational Foundation (EBCEF)
$18,000/162,000 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Yohannes Gebregeorgis
ebcef@ethionet.et; www.ethiopiareads.org
EBCEF promotes children’s literacy in Ethiopia through in-school, community, and mobile libraries; awareness-raising campaigns; and children’s book publishing programs. 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: $30,000 since 2003
Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop
$12,000
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.
Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la Promoción Humana
(Alfonso Casas Morales Foundation for Human Advancement)
$9,000/18,279,000 Colombia pesos
Bogotá, Colombia
Director: Pablo Henao Mejía
direccion@promocionhumana.org; www.promocionhumana.org
Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la Promoción Humana helps children on the northern outskirts 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)
$16,000
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Director: Sylvia Reyes
sreyes@juconi.org.ec; www.juconi.org.ec
JUCONI provides support to children working on the streets, with the aim of reducing or eliminating their street work, reintegrating them into school, and rebuilding the family environment, which is often plagued by violence and dysfunction. Our grant supports the education program, which reintegrates child workers into formal schools while engaging them in various nonformal educational activities designed to teach critical thinking, personal expression, and individual initiative.
Previous funding: $26,500 since 2004
Halley Movement
$16,000/488,000 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: $43,000 since 2003
Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana (ISMU)
(Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty)
$19,000/146,490 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: $47,500 since 2003
Kamitei Foundation
$18,000/22,410,000 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: $44,000 since 2003
Kindle
$8,000/1,120,000 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 orphaned and vulnerable children in the Salima district. Our grant is for general support of the education program.
Mahita (Regeneration)
$8,000/318,400 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.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Muktangan
$7,000/278,600 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Elizabeth Mehta
partnership@muktanganedu.org; www.muktanganedu.org
Muktangan addresses the learning needs of underprivileged children and their families by offering low-cost, high-quality, child-centered education. Our grant supports Muktangan’s teacher training program, which trains young women from low-income communities to offer low-cost, inclusive education to underprivileged children and their families.
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.
Nehemiah AIDS Relief Project
$12,000/360,000,000 Zimbabwe dollars
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Director: Daisy Mutimba
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: $16,000 since 2005
Nyaka AIDS Orphans School
$14,000/24,472,000 Uganda shillings
Nyakagyeza, Uganda
Director: Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
stsad@hotmail.com; www.nyakaschool.org
Nyaka School provides AIDS orphans with a free, high-quality education and extracurricular activities as a way to combat pervasive hunger, poverty, and systemic deprivation. Our grant supports the nutrition and community gardens program, which teaches students and community members how to cultivate the school gardens; ensures that students get daily nutritious meals from the gardens’ produce; and provides local families with seeds for sustainable gardening.
Previous funding: $17,000 since 2005
Oruj Learning Center
$6,000/297,600 Afghanistan afghanis
Kabul, Afghanistan
Director: Sadiqa Basiri
orujlearningcenter@yahoo.com;
Oruj Learning Center was founded to confront the educational challenges facing girls in Afghanistan. Our grant supports two of Oruj’s schools in Wardak Province, thereby enabling girls in this remote province to become educated.
Previous funding: $37,500 since 2002
Poder Joven (Youth Power)
$14,000/28,434,000 Colombia pesos
Medellín, Colombia
Director: Clared 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 violent and impoverished neighborhoods of downtown Medellín 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: $24,000 since 2004
Prei Effort for Those Who Are in Need (PEFAN)
$8,000/27,000 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Fisseha Tadesse
pefan@pefan.org; www.pefan.org
PEFAN works to keep vulnerable children off the streets through holistic services that include educational support, access to health care, counseling, mentoring, and training in the performing arts. Our grant is for general support.
Previous funding: $6,500 since 2006
Prerana (Inspiration)
$20,000/796,000 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: $78,000 since 2001
Puririsun (Let’s Journey Together)
$9,000/69,840 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.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2006
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha
(Village Self-Reliance)
$20,000/1,376,000 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: $54,000 since 2003
Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT)
$9,000/1,021,500 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: $84,500 since 2002
Sociedad Dominico-Haitiana de Apoyo Integral para el Desarrollo y la Salud (SODHAIDESA)
(Dominican-Haitian Society of Comprehensive Assistance for Health and Development)
$12,000/394,920 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 to enable these children to attend school and gain access to other social services.
Previous funding: $15,000 since 2005
Sujaya Foundation
$6,000/238,800 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Neelambari Rao
info@sujayafoundation.org; www.sujayafoundation.org
Sujaya Foundation strives to bridge the digital and linguistic divide through education and employment for underprivileged children and youth. Our grant supports the digitization and dissemination of Sujaya’s English-language and computer curricula.
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Talented Young People Everywhere (TYPE)
$6,000/17,610,000 Sierre Leone leones
Port Loko, Sierra Leone
Director: Ibrahim H. K. Shaid
t.youngpeople@yahoo.co.uk
TYPE promotes education and academic excellence in the Port Loko region through mentoring, tutoring, and material support. Our grant enables TYPE to provide educational materials and tutoring to the primary- and secondary-school children in its after-school program.
Tanadgoma (Assistance) Library and Cultural Center for People with Disabilities
$14,000/24,540 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: $28,000 since 2004
Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF)
$19,000/33,440 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: $44,000 since 2003
Ubumi Children’s Project
$7,000/27,090 Zambia kwacha
Kitwe, Zambia
Director: Richard Phiri
admin@ubumi.org; www.ubumi.org
Ubumi provides educational access and nutritional support to orphaned and vulnerable children in Kitwe. Our grant supports Ubumi’s community school, which provides free primary-level education to orphaned and vulnerable children.
Uganda Integrated Child and Youth Care Foundation
$21,000/36,708,000 Uganda shillings
Kitemu, Uganda
Director: Sserwanga M. Stephen
ugicycfo@yahoo.co.uk
Uganda Integrated Child and Youth Care Foundation, formerly known as 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 is for general support.
Previous funding: $58,000 since 2001
Vikasini Girl Child Education Trust
$8,000/318,400 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Vikramshila Education Resource Society
$15,000/597,000 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: $52,000 since 2002
Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)
$17,000/542,300 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: $22,000 since 2005
Enterprise
In fall 2007, we awarded grants valued at $412,500 to 38 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Ação Forte
(Strong Action)
$8,000/14,880 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Alliance for Children and Youth
$9,000/12,600 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.
Previous funding: $9,000 since 2006
Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI)
(Association for the Defense of Life)
$18,000/55,980 Peru nuevos soles
Huachipa, Peru
Director: Ezequiel Robles Hurtado
adevi@terra.com.pe; www. 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 academic support program, which provides basic education to child laborers with the eventual aim of reintegrating them into public schools.
Previous funding: $56,000 since 2002
Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW)
$19,000/106,400 Egypt pounds
Cairo, Egypt
Director: Iman Bibars
adew@adew.org.eg; www.adew.org
ADEW’s Girls’ Dreams Program 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. Our grant supports the My Right to Dream Initiative, which provides education and economic support to graduates of the Girls’ Dreams Program to ensure that they are able to attain the skills they need to become self-reliant.
Previous funding: $36,000 since 2004
Center for Women and Children Empowerment (CEWCE)
$6,000/750,000 Liberia dollars
Monrovia, Liberia
Director: Patience Blay-Attoh
cewce_lib@yahoo.com; www.cwcevision.org
CEWCE supports vulnerable children and women through education, skills training, and leadership development activities. Our grant supports CEWCE’s children’s resource centers, which use video, drama, song, and poetry to engage children and youth in meaningful and educational after-school activities.
Going to School (GTS)
$20,000/796,000 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, which uses storybooks, radio, and film to inspire leadership and social entrepreneurship in underprivileged children and youth in India.
Previous funding: $48,500 since 2004
Karm Marg
(Progress through Work)
$11,000/437,800 India rupees
Faridabad, India
Director: 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: $15,000 since 2005
Kherwadi Social Welfare Association (KSWA)
$7,000/278,600 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Kishore Kher
info@yuvaparivartan.org; www.yuvaparivartan.org
KSWA provides educational, health, and vocational training programs to underprivileged youth living in Mumbai and the surrounding suburbs. Our grant supports the Yuva Parivartan (Youth Change) program, which creates opportunities for slum dwellers and school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 25 to lead productive lives.
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.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Love in Action (LIA)
$9,000/81,000 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Magic Bus Connect
$13,500/537,300 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.
Previous funding: $12,500 since 2006
Makkala Jagriti
$6,000/238,800 India rupees
Bengaluru, India
Director: Joy Srinivasan
makkalajagriti@dataone.in; www.makkalajagriti.org
Makkala Jagriti focuses on educational and developmental issues and seeks to build a holistic learning environment for emotionally and economically deprived children. Our grant supports the youth leadership training program, which teaches youth to develop a positive attitude; to learn from their peers; and to enhance their self-confidence, motivation, communication, and leadership qualities.
Previous funding: $22,000 since 2005
Mujejego-Loka (Dawn Light) Women Development Organization
$8,000/27,000 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.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Pravah
(Flow)
$9,000/358,220 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Director: Meenu Venkateswaran
mail@pravah.org; www.younginfluencers.com
Pravah, which was started by young professionals, encourages young people to become social entrepreneurs and agents of change and to facilitate positive change in society. Our grant supports the Change Looms program, an innovative initiative that recognizes and supports young social entrepreneurs in their endeavors toward social change.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Rural Family Support Organization (RuFamSO)
$12,000/836,040 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: $25,000 since 2004
Sam-Kam Foundation (SKF)
$18,000/52,830,000 Sierra Leone leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Director: Peter Samura
asamkam@yahoo.com
SKF, 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: $46,000 since 2003
Sanghamitra Service Society
$17,000/676,600 India rupeess
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: $86,000 since 2003
Sree Guruvayurappan Bhajan Samaj Trust (SGBS)
$6,000/238,800 India rupees
Bengaluru, India
Director: Ramesh Swamy
unnatiblr@eth.net; www.unnatiblr.org
SGBS delivers far-reaching benefits to the economically underprivileged by providing them with education, employment, cultural enhancement, and vocational skills. Our grant supports the Unnati (Improvement) program, which through vocational training enables bright and hardworking youth from below the poverty line to learn the necessary skills to gain employment.
Warma Tarinakuy
(Assembly of the Children)
$8,000/24,880 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.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Safety
In fall 2007, we awarded grants valued at $217,500 to 20 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Ankuram (Sprout) Woman and Child Development Society
$8,000/318,400 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Asociatia pentru Libertatea si Egalitatea de Gen (ALEG)
(Association for Liberty and Gender Equality)
$9,000/21,600 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.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Association des Jeunes pour le Développement Intégré-Kakundu (AJEDI-Ka)
(Youth Association for Integrated Development–Kakundu)
$13,000/7,280,000 DRC francs
Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Director: Bukeni Tete Waruzi Beck
ajedikainfo@yahoo.com
AJEDI–Ka protects children affected by conflict through its demobilization, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs. Our grant supports the reintegration program, which includes a 30-day transitional shelter for demobilized child soldiers as they prepare to reenter civil society and subsequent social and material support once they are reintegrated into the community.
Previous funding: $19,000 since 2005
Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais (AFEL)
(Lebanese Child Home Association)
$14,000/21,182,000 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: $28,500 since 2004
Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE)
$10,000/94,550,000 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.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Atina
$6,000/358,200 Serbia dinars
Belgrade, Serbia
Director: Ksenija Burzan Mandic
avenirenfant@sentoo.sn;
www. www.atina.org.yu
Atina provides long-term, direct assistance to women and children who are victims of trafficking and sexual or labor exploitation, with the aim of helping them overcome their trauma and regain confidence for sustainable reintegration. Our grant supports all components of Atina’s reintegration program, which consists of psychological, legal, medical, and educational services for those who cannot return home to their families.
Centar za Integraciju Mladih (CIM)
(Center for Youth Integration)
$10,000/597,000 Serbia dinars
Belgrade, Serbia
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: $7,000 since 2006
Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para el Desarrollo Local (CEADEL)
(Center for Study and Support for Local Development)
$18,000/138,780 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: $40,000 since 2003Centro Interdisciplinario para el Desarrollo Social (CIDES)
(Interdisciplinary Center for Social Development)
Previous funding: $40,000 since 2003
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: $21,000 since 2005
Equal Step Centre (ESC)
$7,500/8,917,500 Mongolia tugriks
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director: T. S. Battuya
ESC offers a range of integrated programs for vulnerable children and focuses on child safety, child education, and child rights and health training. Our grant supports programs to prevent the sexual exploitation and abuse of girls aged 11 to 18 through activities such as dance and aerobic classes and through workshops on topics such as life skills, child rights, and child labor.
Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Infancia (IDEMI)
(Institute for the Development of Women and Children)
$8,000
Panama City, Panama
Director: Bertha Vargas
idemipanama@hotmail.com; www.idemipanama.org
IDEMI works with vulnerable children and youth in Panama, supplementing formal education and raising awareness on child labor, preventive healthcare, gender equity, and civic participation. Our grant supports the safety, education, and life skills support program for girls working as domestic servants.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Jabala Action Research Organisation
$13,000/517,400 India rupees
Kolkata, India
Director: Baitali Ganguly
jabala@vsnl.net; www.jabala.org
Jabala helps children in the red-light districts of Kolkata and in surrounding areas integrate into mainstream society by providing education and rights awareness programs that facilitate formal-school enrollment and retention and by offering creative activities to help children cope with situations of abuse and resist sexual exploitation and trafficking. Our grant supports education and rights awareness programs in the Bowbazar and Barrackpur slums.
Previous funding: $19,000 since 2005
Luna Nueva
(New Moon)
$18,000/89,550,000 Paraguay guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Director: Raquel Fernández
secretaria@grupolunanueva.com.py; www.grupolunanueva.com.py
Luna Nueva works to eradicate violence against women and children by developing and implementing programs in education, healthcare, self esteem, human rights awareness, and violence prevention. Our grant supports the outreach and education programs, which each year reach approximately 250 girls living in exploitative situations on the streets.
Previous funding: $59,000 since 2002
Media Concern Initiative
$7,000/877,800 Nigeria nairas
Lagos, Nigeria
Director: Princess Olufemi-Kayode
info@mediaconcern.kabissa.org; www.mediaconcern.kabissa.org
Media Concern Initiative works to prevent and respond to the sexual abuse of children and youth through education, direct services, and advocacy initiatives. Our grant supports the creation of video-based educational materials for children in elementary school.
Prisoners Assistance Nepal (PA Nepal)
$6,000/385,800 Nepal rupees
Kathmandu, Nepal
Director: Indira Ranamagar
info@panepal.org; www.panepal.org
By introducing the concept of community parenting and by working with prisoners and their children, PA Nepal works to implement reform, rehabilitation, and welfare programs in Nepal’s prisons. Our grant supports literacy classes, vocational education, employment counseling sessions, and psychosocial support for 40 adolescent prisoners at the Kathmandu Central Female Jail to help them prepare for life after prison and to facilitate their reentry into society.
Prisoners Assistance Program (PAP)
$12,000/750,000 Liberia dollars
Monrovia, Liberia
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. Our 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-playing, and peer and mentor support.
Previous funding: $16,000 since 2005
Ser Paz
(Being Peace)
$8,000
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Director: Nelsa Curbelo
info@serpaz.org; www.serpaz.org/web
Ser Paz works with boys and young men in Guayaquil’s gangs to promote a culture of peace and to provide constructive alternatives to gang violence and crime through training in leadership, citizenship, conflict resolution, mediation, information technology, and microenterprise management. Our grant supports the Breakdancing for Peace program, which builds self-discipline and self-esteem through the mastery of new skills and abilities and creates a positive venue for the competitiveness that otherwise expresses itself in inter-gang violence.
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN)
(Friends of Children Society)
$17,000/320,280 Honduras lempiras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Director: Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
saninoshn@yahoo.com; www.honduranchildren.com
SAN protects the rights of young domestic workers in Honduras and provides these girls and young women with other skills and alternative means of supporting themselves. Our grant supports the Reyes Irene Valenzuela Support Center, which offers technical training, literacy classes, labor and gender rights awareness, and nonformal elementary education to female domestic workers.
Previous funding: $39,000 since 2003
Society Undertaking Poor People’s Onus for Rehabilitation (SUPPORT)
$10,000/398,000 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Sujata Ganega
www.supportstreetchildren.org; www.supportstreetchildren.org
SUPPORT provides treatment and rehabilitation for child drug users through residences that shelter boys and girls, food, healthcare, vocational training, and education as part of their rehabilitation. Our grant supports the boys’ rehabilitation home, which offers detoxification, education, counseling, and rehabilitation.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2006
Yanapanakusun (Let’s Help Each Other)
$9,000/27,990 Peru nuevos soles
Cusco, Peru
Director: Vittoria Savio
caith@speedy.com.pe; www.geocities.com/caithcusco
Yanapanakusun helps girls working as domestic servants in Peru to reclaim their lives by providing temporary and longer-term shelter, formal education, healthcare, legal identification, and programs that reinforce their self-esteem, cultural identity, and understanding of their rights. Our grant supports a new program that helps each girl to develop a life plan, which includes evaluation of her strengths, interests, and abilities and her goals for personal and professional development.
Previous funding: $8,000 since 2006
Healthy Minds and Bodies
In fall 2007, we awarded grants valued at $133,500 to 13 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Action pour la Promotion des Droits de l’Enfant au Burkina Faso (APRODEB)
(Action for the Promotion of the Rights of the Burkinabe Child)
$16,000/7,520,000 CFA francs
Gorgadji, Burkina Faso
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. Our grant supports the 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: $33,000 since 2004
Amahoro Association
$9,000/4,896,000 Rwanda francs
Kigali, Rwanda
Director: Kayitare Wayitare Dember
info@chabha.org; www.chabha.org
Amahoro Association provides home-based care and support to orphaned and vulnerable children in Rwanda through education programs, post-trauma counseling, skills workshops, and microenterprise training. Our grant is for general support and is helping Amahoro to strengthen its leadership and management structures.
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Ba Futuru
(For the Future)
$12,000
Dili, Timor-Leste
Director: Joana dos Santos Camoes
bafuturu@bafuturu.org; www.bafuturu.org
Ba Futuru works to create a positive future for children in orphanages through creative arts, using role-playing, trust exercises, art, and drama for the psychological and emotional rehabilitation of the children. Our grant supports the Transformative Arts and Human Rights Education program, which offers psychosocial workshops on conflict resolution for children in internally displaced persons camps in Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor).
Previous funding: $7,000 since 2006
Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights Foundation (CPCR)
$19,000/606,100 Thailand baht
Bangkok, Thailand
Director: Sanphasit Koomphraphant
cpcrheadoffice@yahoo.com; www.thaichildrights.org
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. Our grant supports the Baan Raek Rub Assessment Center and other rehabilitation programs, which provide 24-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: $42,000 since 2003
Centro de Documentacão e Informacão Coisa de Mulher (CEDOICOM)
(Center for Documentation and Information on Women’s Issues)
$12,000/22,320 Brazil reais
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Director: Neusa das Dores Periera
cedoicom@terra.com.br; www.coisademulher.org.br
CEDOICOM provides education on reproductive health, commercial sexual exploitation, child labor, and HIV/AIDS for women and girls who face discrimination due to gender, race, or economic status. Our grant supports the 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 at-risk girls.
Previous funding: $25,000 since 2004
Club 21–Udruženja za Pozitivnu Komunikaciju
(Association for Positive Communication)
$5,000/298,500 Serbia dinars
Subotica, Serbia
Director: Deze Kis
savezsd@tippnet.co.yu; www.mesecina.subotica.net
Club 21 strengthens the communication skills of young people from diverse backgrounds, including out-of-school children, impoverished and minority children, and minority children, and empowers them to express their thoughts, personality, and creativity. Our grant supports the Moonlight Sports Clubs, which operate on weekend nights and offer activities such as chess and table tennis for children aged 7 to 19 as a means of encouraging them to stay off the streets.
Fundación Chocó Joven
(Young Chocó Foundation)
$6,000/12,186,000 Colombia pesos
Quibdó, Colombia
Director: José Murillo
chocojoven@msn.com
Fundación Chocó Joven employs a combination of educational, vocational, cultural, health, and human rights programs to promote leadership and empowerment among youth, most of whom have been displaced by Colombia’s armed conflict, in the slum communities around Quibdó. Our grant supports Chocó Joven’s program on sexual and reproductive health and rights, which uses small group workshops, peer education, media campaigns, health festivals, and community murals to promote positive and responsible attitudes and behaviors in this area.
Fundación Simsa
(Simsa Foundation)
$7,000/14,217,000 Colombia pesos
Bogotá, Colombia
Director: Lida Alarcón
fundacionsimsa@yahoo.com; www.boquitassanas.net
Through its flagship Boquitas Sanas (Healthy Little Mouths) program, Fundación Simsa operates one-day mobile dental clinics for children in poor neighborhoods throughout Bogotá. Our grant supports the expansion of the mobile dental clinics to more communities, providing an even greater number of children with dental treatment and dental health education.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Nia Foundation
$8,000/27,000 Ethiopia birr
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Zemzem Yenus
joy4autism@yahoo.com
The Joy Center, a project of Nia Foundation, provides comprehensive services, including education, psychosocial care, physical therapy, and advocacy, for children with autism and related mental health issues. Our grant supports the Joy Center’s technology-based social integration program.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Reginald Orsmond Counselling Services (ROCS)
$7,500/52,500 South Africa rand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Director: Johanna Kistner
rocs@mweb.co.zq
ROCS provides community-based psychosocial support to vulnerable populations in Johannesburg, including children and families affected by HIV/AIDS, women who are victims of domestic violence, and displaced populations. Our grant supports the Suitcase Project, an arts-based therapy program for refugee and migrant children and youth.
Ruili Women and Children Development Center (RWCDC)
$14,000/105,000 China yuan
Ruili County, China
Director: Chen Guilan
dwcdc2000@yahoo.com.cn; www.rwcdc.org
RWCDC works to improve the overall well-being of neglected or sexually exploited women and children living in Ruili County, bordering Burma, with a particular focus on raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Our grant supports the 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: $24,000 since 2004
Salus
$8,000/16,248,000 Colombia pesos
Urubá, Colombia
Director: Loren Callejas
corporacionsalus@yahoo.es
Salus provides psychosocial support to children and youth displaced by Colombia’s armed conflict, many of whom were either victims or witnesses of unspeakable violence and destruction. Our grant supports the Creating Stories, Creating Well-Being program, which encourages children to write, illustrate, and share short stories as a means of reflecting on, expressing, discussing, and ultimately coming to peace with their experiences and adapting to their new circumstances.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Synergie pour l’Enfance
(Synergy for Childhood)
$10,000/4,700,000 CFA francs
Thiaroye, Senegal
Director: Ngagne Mbaye
cdvaapg@sentoo.sn
Synergie pour l’Enfance provides comprehensive prevention and treatment services to children who have been affected or infected by HIV/AIDS, with targeted services to children in rural regions as well as to street children. Our grant is for general support and facilitates the provision of prevention services, treatment, and advocacy for HIV-affected children.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006
Creative Opportunities
In fall 2007, we awarded grants valued at $31,500 to 4 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Çocuklar Ayni Çati Altinda Dernegi (ÇAÇA)
(Children Under the Same Roof Association)
$8,000/9,600 Turkey new lira
Diyarbakir, Turkey
Director: Azize Leygara
cacader@mynet.com
ÇAÇA seeks to reduce the number of children working on the streets in the conflict-torn areas of southeastern Turkey by operating a mentoring and creative-arts program that incorporates role-playing, dance, visual arts, and theater. Our grant supports the Ben U Sen Center, which offers creative-arts classes for children aged 4 to 15.
Rural Human Rights Activists Program (RHRAP)
$6,000/375,000 Liberia dollars
Monrovia, Liberia
Director: Lorma Baysah
rhrapliberia@yahoo.com
RHRAP promotes ethnic tolerance, human rights, and democracy in Liberia through advocacy and peace education programs. Our grant supports the implementation of a peace education training program for children that promotes human rights, diversity, and tolerance.
Sanggar Anak Akar
(Workshop, Child, Root)
$7,500/68,370,000 Indonesia rupiahs
Jakarta, Indonesia
Director: Ivone Terri
Sanggar Anak Akar teaches children to respect one another and strives to create a safe space for the physical and emotional well-being of marginalized children, specifically those living in slums, near garbage dumps, and on the streets. Our grant supports the media education program, which utilizes media and audiovisual components to allow youth to tell their stories in their own words.
Words, Beats & Life (WBL)
$10,000
Washington, DC, United States
Director: Mazi Mutafa
mazi@wblinc.org; www.wblinc.org
WBL aims to transform communities through hip-hop culture and provides job training and enterprise support in order to prepare youth for employment. Our grant supports the Urban Arts Academy, which offers arts-based educational activities, such as break dancing and DJing, and field trips and discussion groups for children and youth aged 7 to 18.
Responding to Crisis
In fall 2007, we awarded grants valued at $111,500 to 7 grantee partners under this portfolio.
Kinniya Vision (KV)
$19,000/2,158,210 Sri Lanka rupees
Kinniya, Sri Lanka
Director: A. R. M. Saifullah
kivision@sltnet.lk; www.kinniyavision.org
KV promotes education, advocates for human rights, and works to reduce gender imbalances and conserve the environment in the Trincomalee district of northeastern Sri Lanka, an area heavily affected by both the country’s decades-long civil war and the December 2004 tsunami. Our grant supports KV’s educational and vocational training programs for tsunami-affected children and youth.
Previous funding: $35,000 since 2005
Mirror Foundation
$19,000/606,290 Thailand baht
Bangkok, Thailand
Director: Sombat Boonngamanong
sombat@bannok.com; www.tsunamivolunteer.net
The Mirror Foundation launched the Tsunami Volunteer Center in January 2005 as a means of channeling the volunteer services and resources assembled after the tsunami to directly help affected communities rebuild their lives. Our grant funds the Phang Nga area’s Youth Volunteer Club, which through trainings, workshops, camps, and volunteer trips makes children and youth aware of their crucial role in society.
Previous funding: $34,000 since 2005
Sunera Foundation
$17,500/1,987,825 Sri Lanka rupees
Matara district, Sri Lanka
Director: Sunethra Bandaranaike
sunera@sltnet.lk; www.sunerafoundation.org
Sunera Foundation trains disabled children and young people in the performing arts, harnessing their creative energies to demonstrate that they are capable of contributing to the well-being of their communities. Our grant funds the Tsunami Theatre Outreach Project, which uses drama and performance-art therapy to address post-tsunami trauma and emotional-health issues among children and young people living in relief camps.
Previous funding: $32,500 since 2005
Women Lawyers’ Association of Thailand (WLAT)
$15,000/478,650 Thailand baht
Bangkok, Thailand
Director: Suthinee Meteeprapa
wlat.org@hotmail.com; www.wlat.org
WLAT increases the public’s legal knowledge, gives legal advice and aid, and provides community legal services. Our grant supports WLAT’s efforts to protect the rights of tsunami victims by addressing legal issues such as adoption, property rights for orphans, and commercial sex trafficking.
Previous funding: $31,000 since 2005
Awesome Girls Mentoring Program
$19,000
New Orleans, LA, United States
Director: James Rogers
awesomegirlsmentoringprogram@yahoo.com
Awesome Girls provides a safe space in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans for African American girls to learn and practice leadership, conflict management, and decision-making skills that will help them become self-sufficient and self-confident adults. Our grant supports the Post-Katrina Empowerment Program, which strengthens and rebuilds the family-centered program community and provides support and stability to the girls as they return to New Orleans and reestablish their lives.
Previous funding: $19,000 since 2006
KID smART
$12,000
New Orleans, LA, United States
Director: Echo Olander
echo@kidsmart.org; www.kidsmart.org
Through artists in residence, after-school programs, and summer camps, KID smART offers students in New Orleans’s failing public schools a robust arts program that includes visual arts, poetry, dance, circus arts, and acting components. Our grant supports the Arts as Healing Program, which has hired an arts therapist to run community arts projects and to train KID smART artists who are teaching in the public schools.
Previous funding: $19,000 since 2006
Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training (VIET)
$10,000
New Orleans, LA, United States
Director: Cyndi Nguyen
vietno@cox.net; www.vietno.org
VIET, a community and youth development organization, serves the predominantly Vietnamese American community in New Orleans East through education and job-training programs and through disaster recovery assistance to neighborhood residents. Our grant supports the after-school program, which provides low-income students with academic tutoring and mentoring, community service projects, and field trips, and offers counseling to youth as they return to this hard-hit area.
Previous funding: $8,500 since 2006
Currencies were converted on November 21, 2007, for grants awarded in fall 2007.
Grants by Year
For previous years’ grants, please click on the following links.
2006–2007
2005–2006
2004–2005
2003–2004
2002–2003
2001–2002
2000
1999
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