Funding to date: $85,500 beginning in 2006 Yanapanakusun helps girls working as domestic servants in Peru to access education, connect with their families and communities of origin, and build their self-esteem in order to reclaim their lives. Our grant supports programs that provide child domestic workers with temporary and longer-term shelter, formal education, healthcare, and [...]
Safety Portfolio
Providing children with safe environments in which to learn, play, live, and grow is a fundamental tenet of our work. We believe that children’s futures can be secured only when children are protected from exploitation, violence, abuse, and neglect.
Our concept of safety is broadly drawn because the diversity of problems facing children is vast: victimization by the criminal justice system; exposure to violence and exploitation in a multitude of contexts, including armed conflicts, child trafficking, and hazardous labor; insufficient shelter; and many more. We give priority to organizations that remove children from immediate danger or harmful circumstances; provide rehabilitation services for children who have been victimized; and reintegrate children into society, family, and community life.
To date, we have given more than $2.9 million to 89 grantee partners in 48 countries under this portfolio.
Yayasan Bina Potensi Masyarakat
Funding to date: $6,000 between 2003 and 2008 YAPIM’s skill education service for children working in construction, cigarette rolling, and automobile production strives to give them skills for safer alternative jobs while advocating for the rights and development of their rural communities. GFC’s grant provides general support for YAPIM’s skill education service for child laborers.
Zanzibar Female Lawyers Association
Funding to date: $7,000 in 2011 Founded by a group of female lawyers, ZAFELA is the only legal-aid organization in the region and aims to empower women and children through comprehensive legal services, policy advocacy, and awareness-raising activities. Our grant supports the Life Skills for Adolescent Girls program, which trains peer educators from school-based clubs [...]
Sustainable Development Society
Funding to date: $44,500 beginning in 2007 SDS focuses on the development and rehabilitation of the Shangla district and other needy areas and empowers community members to improve the social and economic situation in conflict-ridden areas and in areas affected by the October 2005 earthquake through its programs in disaster management, sustainable livelihoods, education, environment, [...]
Tasintha Programme
Funding to date: $128,533 beginning in 2003 Tasintha prevents women and children from entering the sex trade by giving them alternative income-generation skills and raising community awareness about sexual exploitation. Our grant supports the Child Survival Project, which provides educational support to the children of sex workers and to street-dwelling children.
Tiny Toones
Funding to date: $32,700 beginning in 2009 Focusing on vulnerable boys, Tiny Toones uses break dancing, hip-hop music, and contemporary arts as creative tools to empower street youth in Cambodia to live healthier lives free of HIV and drugs and to gain access to education. Our grant supports training in dance, arts, and language; HIV/AIDS [...]
Touching Humanity in Need of Kindness
Funding to date: $10,000 in 2011 THINK works to prevent and respond to sexual gender based violence through education, counseling, and rehabilitation programs that empower adolescent girls and young women in transforming their lives. Our grant supports THINK’s rehabilitation home, a nine-month residential program where girls and young women receive shelter; counseling; academic classes; vocational [...]
Ulybka Foundation
Funding to date: $38,870 beginning in 2008 Ulybka Public Foundation focuses on promoting leadership, tolerance, and entrepreneurship among marginalized children and youth, including orphans, street children, and working children. Our grant supports the microbusiness program, which provides enterprise training and small, interest-free loans to street youth aged 14 to 18 to help them start their [...]
Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere
Funding to date: $122,142 between 2000 and 2010 PEACE prevents children from entering the commercial sex trade and increases community awareness of child abuse and exploitation. Our grant supports nonformal-education and skills training programs that provide classes in drama, music, literature, leadership, math, English, human rights, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Rescue Alternatives Liberia
Funding to date: $71,250 between 2005 and 2010 RAL advocates against torture and for human rights and prison reform by monitoring and reporting violations of prisoners’ rights. Our grant supports the Youth Diversion Program, which diverts first-time juvenile offenders from entering prison and provides counseling and vocational training to incarcerated youth. View Website