The Global Fund For Children

Funding to date: $11,000 between 2008 and 2009 YouthWorks provides microfinance loans to underprivileged youth entrepreneurs and women in the Philippines in order to promote economic self-sufficiency. Our grant is enabling YouthWorks to hire a part-time program manager, extend loans to a broader base of borrowers, and complete the development of its online marketplace and [...]

Funding to date: $42,500 beginning in 2007 SOVHEN helps orphaned and vulnerable children attain a better quality of life.

Funding to date: $127,500 between 2002 and 2008 Synapse 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 [...]

Funding to date: $34,000 between 2006 and 2010 Warma Tarinakuy is a union of 100 adolescent boys who work in the local wholesale produce market, with a focus on achieving safe and fair working conditions, increasing access to education and educational support, improving health, and ensuring adequate nutrition. The Carrying Hope program provides technical training [...]

Funding to date: $115,600 beginning in 2004 WDA addresses the development needs of impoverished women, youth, and children by working with communities to achieve long term sustainable development through capacity building. The Peace Building for Youth program addresses the problems of boys participating in criminal or violent activities by providing them with peer education, life [...]

Funding to date: $39,000 beginning in 2007 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 WISE’s youth entrepreneurship initiative, which provides young people with viable employment and leadership opportunities through skills training and advocacy.

Funding to date: $111,500 beginning in 2004 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 the Roving Caregivers program, which provides trained adults to visit teenage parents in their homes to give parenting guidance, and the vocational training program, [...]

Funding to date: $126,000 between 2003 and 2010 SKI strives to promote peace and development in Sierra Leone through its work with children and youth affected by the country’s long civil war, which ended in 2002. The People Developing Vocational Skills Program provides viable career opportunities to vulnerable children and youth through skills training courses [...]

Funding to date: $190,500 between 2003 and 2010 Sanghamitra works in more than 100 rural villages in Andhra Pradesh to help the most marginalized members of Indian society improve their well being through increased skills and greater social awareness. The Community Mobilization Project provides education, health education, and counseling to children and youth across five [...]

Funding to date: $71,000 beginning in 2007 Shaishav assists children in understanding their basic rights and plays an active role in defending them through its nonformal education programs, mobile library, and leadership and entrepreneurship program. Our grant supports the Balsena leadership and entrepreneurship program, which offers an opportunity for children to voice their needs and [...]