Grants 1997- 1998

Listed below are the grants we awarded in 1997 and 1998:

Camp Sanook Sanook

of the Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project
$1,000/32,000 baht
Chaing Mai, Thailand
Executive director: Amporn Boontan
www.tyap.net, contact@tyap.net
The Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project (TYAP) offers innovative, youth-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs to young people in northern Thailand. TYAP’s overall goal is to curb the impact of the AIDS epidemic by encouraging self-protective behavior and by reducing discrimination toward people living with HIV/AIDS. In 1997, TYAP was the recipient of GFC’s first grant, which funded Camp Sanook Sanook, for 30 children aged 4–11 from HIV-positive and HIV-negative families.

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Children's Center

of the Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project
$1,000/32,000 baht
Chaing Mai, Thailand
Executive director: Amporn Boontan
contact@tyap.net, www.tyap.net
An extension of Camp Sanook Sanook, the Children's Center aims to reduce discrimination, improve health education, and provide a basic education on a year-round basis for children affected and not affected by HIV/AIDS. Although the center directly serves young children, it involves all members of the community, from youth who act as camp counselors to community leaders who serve on the board of the Children's Center.
(This award was made in collaboration with the American Jewish World Service for a total grant of $2,788.)

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Global Education Partnership

$1,418/84,441 shillings
$1,467/9,286 quetzal
Werugha, Kenya
Executive director: Ed Marcum
emarcum@geponline.org
Working in partnership with communities in the developing world, the Global Education Partnership (GEP) seeks to create sustainable development by providing young people with access to educational resources. GFC's 1998 grant helped fund the purchase of textbooks for schools in Kenya and Guatemala. In each case, grants to GEP were matched dollar for dollar by members of the community.

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Ruchika Social Service Wing: The Train Platform Schools

$1,200/51125 rupees
Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
Executive director: Inderjit Khurana
rssobbs@hotmail.com
The Train Platform Schools provide nonformal education classes to thousands of child laborers who live on or around train platforms in railroad stations. Teachers set up informal classrooms on the railway platforms and give children access to books, arts and crafts, and music. GFC's 1998 grant to the Train Platform Schools helped support the organizational and programmatic costs of three Train Platform Schools.

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The World Library Partnership

$900
Durham, North Carolina
Executive director: Laura Wendell
www.rtpnet.org/wlp
The World Library Partnership (WLP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building global understanding by promoting literacy, learning, and access to information. WLP believes that libraries empower individuals and enrich communities. WLP advocates for sustainable, community-based libraries in developing areas of the world. GFC’s grant supported a partnership between a local public elementary school in Durham, North Carolina, and a school library in Malawi.

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Grants by Year

For previous years’ grants, please click on the following links.
2007 Fall
2007 Spring
2006–2007
2005–2006
2004–2005
2003–2004
2002–2003
2001–2002
2000
1999