It all Starts with a Spark The Global Fund for Children Annual Report and Resource Guide 2006–2007 1101 Fourteenth Street, NW Suite 420 Washington, DC 20005, USA T 202-331-9003 F 202-331-9004 E [email protected] www.globalfundforchildren.org Joy Imagination Friendship Creativity Ingenuity Confidence Courage Trust Knowledge Generosity Editorial Team Adlai J. Amor (Managing Editor), Andrew Barnes, Ananya Bhattacharya-Price, Victoria Dunning, Mitchell Fenster, Jack Gordon, Josette Haddad (Copy Editor), Solome Lemma, Katy Love, Shawn Malone, Cynthia Pon, Tamar Schiffman, Wordfirm (Index) Design Design Army This annual report was funded by a portion of the royalties from Global Fund for Children books. © The Global Fund for Children. Printed by Fannon Fine Printing, using wind power-manufactured paper stocks and vegetable-based inks. 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A world where all children are healthy, safe, and educated. It all starts with a spark: a spark of hope, a spark of creativity, a spark of ingenuity, a spark of love, a spark of joy, a spark of courage, a spark of brilliance . . . a spark of imagination. t Trus Kno wled ge it ros e n Ge C o ura ge y Joy Confidence y Crea tivity ip ndsh Frie it nu ge In tio n ina ag Im Our Vision, Our Mission At The Global Fund for Children, we envision a world where all children grow up to be productive, caring citizens of a global society. To this end, we work to advance the dignity of children worldwide. We Pursue Our Mission By: Making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with many of the world’s most vulnerable young people Harnessing the power of children’s books, films, and documentary photography to promote global understanding Contents 12 13 14 16 17 20 23 24 27 28 31 32 35 36 39 42 43 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 56 60 62 66 72 74 74 88 96 104 110 112 117 124 125 126 4 A Series of Sparks Three Sparks, One Vision Our Impact Around the World A Closer Look at Gender The Rural-Urban Divide Portfolio: Learning Education, Despite Hurricanes Portfolio: Enterprise Not Your Ordinary Bank Portfolio: Safety Reaching Belgrade’s “Invisible” Children Portfolio: Healthy Minds and Bodies Healthy Little Mouths Portfolio: Responding to Crisis Teaching Girls, Reviving an Art Sustainability Awards Blinded So She Could Help Special Partner: Johnson & Johnson “Singing Away AIDS” Special Partner: Goldman Sachs Foundation A Home By, For, and With Street Children Special Partner: Nike Foundation Communicating in Nigeria Investing in Our Grantee Partners Global Media Ventures: Celebrating Community and Diversity Fundraising: Giving for Growth From the Field: Hope for the Future Our Donors 2006–2007 Selecting Our Grantee Partners Our Grantee Partners 2006–2007 Learning Enterprise Safety Healthy Minds and Bodies Creative Opportunities Responding to Crisis Financials 2006–2007 Directors Staff Index Joy 5 Imagination 6 7 Friendship 8 Creativity 9 Ingenuity 10 Confidence 11 Message from the Board Chair A Series of Sparks It was not a single spark but a series of sparks that kindled my commitment to support grassroots groups, especially those that work with children and youth. In my travels to developing countries, I have repeatedly encountered children who do not have the luxury of enjoying the wonders of childhood. Instead, many of them are responsible for raising their siblings or work to support their families. This leaves them little time to pursue their own education. However, despite these difficult challenges, children and youth are incredibly resilient, and I have seen them act as powerful advocates for change in their communities and beyond. I joined the board of The Global Fund for Children almost six years ago, when it was still relatively small. I joined with a few others, and we worked closely with the founding board members to help the founder and president, Maya Ajmera, take GFC to the next level. Given its track record, I knew the organization had a huge potential for growth and the ability to make a significant impact. Small grants given directly to community groups or to social entrepreneurs are one of the most effective and direct ways to improve the lives of vulnerable children worldwide. Since 1997, The Global Fund for Children has made grants benefiting more than 1 million children and youth. It has given 1,416 grants valued at more than $7.6 million to 279 community-based organizations in 65 countries. GFC complements its grantmaking with its Global Media Ventures program, which has produced 22 children’s books, invested in three films, and completed three documentary photography projects. GFC’s newest book, Global Babies, is already on its second print run and is expected to become another bestseller. A portion of the royalties from the first bestseller, Children from Australia to Zimbabwe, funded GFC’s first grants, and the practice continues today. This fiscal year, GFC awarded 447 grants valued at $2,651,566, a 45 percent increase over the previous year, and revenues continued to grow at a fast pace. The organization has, once again, been given a clean audit by its auditors, a testament to its careful stewardship of the funds that you have entrusted to it. For the third consecutive year, Charity Navigator has given GFC its highest rating. growth according to the standards of excellence in management, stewardship, and creativity that have been the hallmark of the organization since its inception. The growth and success of GFC in the last few years is also a testament to the leadership of its former chair and current treasurer, Bob Stillman. As a longtime board member, and especially as chair, Bob nurtured GFC into the organization that it is now. Growth is not always easy, but Bob made sure that GFC remained focused and true to its mission. GFC is lucky to have him on its board, and I know that I will learn a great deal from him. It is with great pleasure that I take on this new role as chair of The Global Fund for Children. I would like to thank you, our donors, for all the support that you have given. Like you, I find it an honor to support children and community organizations that continually spark our imagination and kindle our creativity to find innovative ways to help them, wherever they may be in the world. Ever since I met Maya Ajmera many years ago, I have been struck by her careful stewardship of GFC. A true social entrepreneur herself, she has made significant efforts With best wishes, to build the organization and has set up a robust management structure. This year, she put into place a senior management team Juliette Gimon composed of Mitchell Fenster, vice president of finance and operations; Victoria Dunning, vice president of grantmaking; and Adlai Amor, vice president of Global Media Ventures. This senior team will help Maya manage GFC’s Message from the President Three Sparks, One Vision A recent visit with children working as waste recyclers in New Delhi, India, made me realize that there are three major sparks that keep alive our vision of a world where all children grow up to be productive, caring citizens of a global society. There is the spark of a child’s imagination. As I watched the children sorting the waste so they could sell it, I could see them imagining life beyond the slums. Waste picking is the fourth-largest occupation for street children in Delhi. But time and time again, they—and other children we have reached—express their dreams of becoming teachers, doctors, and even world leaders. countries constitute one of the largest networks of its kind. We have reached a point I had only imagined when I started GFC in 1994. To further grow our grantmaking, we refined our portfolios. The new areas are not major departures from our previous portfolios, but they give us greater flexibility in meeting the needs of young people. Our new portfolios are Learning, Enterprise, Safety, and Healthy Minds and Bodies—plus two smaller ones, Responding to Crisis and Creative Opportunities. Our Global Media Ventures work resulted in four awards from the Council on Foundations—gold awards for last year’s annual report, Then there is the spark that kindles our website, and the Global Fund our grantee partners’ determination for Children Books catalog, and to help these children. I was visiting a silver award for our newsletter, Chintan Environmental Research @work. Our newest book, Global and Action Group, which works Babies, is generating a lot of buzz. It with parents, children, and junk is a delightful book, and the reviews dealers to educate waste-picking and sales have been excellent. children and ultimately remove them from the hazards of the trade. Two of the films we invested in this As our partners help children, they fiscal year, War Child and Journey are also building institutions that of a Red Fridge, will be ready for will provide long-term solutions release next fiscal year. I have seen to such problems. the initial cut of Journey of a Red Fridge, the story of a young Nepali And then there is The Global Fund porter, and the cinematography for Children. We count ourselves leaves you breathless. privileged to be among these sparks. Our interactions with vulnerable This year, we welcomed Mitchell children and community-based Fenster, vice president of finance organizations have led us along a and operations, who comes from different path than the one followed the private equity sector and by most funding organizations. recently lived in Africa. With We are now a leading repository of Victoria Dunning, vice president knowledge and experience about of grantmaking, and Adlai Amor, community-based organizations; vice president of Global Media our 279 grantee partners in 65 Ventures, our senior management team is now in place. I would like to sincerely thank Greg Fields, our director of development from 2001 to 2006. Greg helped take us from a small organization with an annual budget of $700,000 to the multimillion-dollar enterprise we are now. I would also like to thank Bob Stillman, our past chair, for his wonderful guidance. Bob is a great mentor and very supportive, and we owe him a debt of gratitude. At the same time, I am delighted to welcome Juliette Gimon as our new chair. Juliette is a very well respected leader in the field of philanthropy, and her leadership comes at an opportune moment in our ambitions for greater growth. Finally, we would not be here right now without the support of donors like you. Your ideas, your support, your prodding, and your commitment keep alive the spark to fulfill our vision. Children. Community-based organizations. The Global Fund for Children. These three sparks cannot stand alone; we are all interdependent. Each spark feeds the other; each spark is part of the motivation and inspiration that runs through us all; each spark feeds our vision. Our sparks of imagination lead us to new ideas, open us to new possibilities, and kindle our creativity. With our deepest thanks, Maya Ajmera Grantmaking Our Impact Around the World We believe that in order to thrive in childhood and develop into contributing adults, children and youth must be engaged in the learning process wherever they may be. They must also be productive, safe, and healthy. These elements provide the basis for children’s development and productive engagement with the world around them. We gave the following grants this fiscal year in these areas: • Learning $846,500 to 74 grassroots groups • Enterprise $412,500 to 38 grassroots groups • Safety $424,000 to 42 grassroots groups Guided by this philosophy, we refined our program • Healthy Minds and Bodies portfolios this year. We have four core portfolios: $279,000 to 30 grassroots groups Learning, Enterprise, Safety, and Healthy • Creative Opportunities Minds and Bodies. We also maintain a Creative $26,000 to 2 grassroots groups Opportunities portfolio to fund innovative programs • Responding to Crisis that do not fit into these four major emphases, and $301,500 to 26 grantee partners a Responding to Crisis portfolio for emergencies • Sustainability Awards and recovery and renewal work. $200,000 to 8 grantee partners • Johnson & Johnson Health and These portfolios are not so different from what we Well-Being Grants have traditionally supported, but they give us the $197,000 to 181 grantee partners flexibility we need to meet the needs of the world’s across various portfolios vulnerable children in a more nuanced way and in a • Tracking grants variety of contexts. The core areas we work in have $7,000 to 7 grantee partners high potential for social return. They have models • Conference and travel grants and mechanisms in place to realize immense gains $12,030 to 7 grantee partners even from small investments. • Organizational development awards $100,635 to 16 grantee partners Our total grants and grantee partners continue to • Networking grants increase. Since last fiscal year, we have grown by: $10,500 to 4 institutions • 45 percent in the value of grants, for a total of $2,651,566 We estimate that, through our grantee partners, • 31 percent in the number of active grantee we have directly served well over 1 million partners, for a total of 206 children since 1997. • 43 percent in the number of grants, for a total of 447 The pages that follow show how our grants are making an impact in the communities where our Since our first three grants totaling $3,100 in 1997, grantee partners work, and illustrate the role and we have awarded 1,416 grants valued at $7,644,234 value of our grants in strengthening communityto 279 grantee partners in 65 countries. based organizations all over the world. 14 Growth in Grantmaking (in millions) Total Value of Grants to Date $7,644,234 $3.0 524,000 815,300 1,504,508 1,819,500 2,651,566 Number of Grants Total Number of Grants to Date 1,416 600 2.5 500 2.0 400 1.5 300 1.0 200 0.5 100 0 0 310 447 7 -0 06 20 6 -0 05 20 5 -0 04 20 206 4 157 266 Growth in Country Presence Total Number of Countries to Date 65 90* 250 75 200 60 150 45 100 30 50 15 0 0 35 42 56 61 7 0 6- 0 20 6 0 5- 0 20 5 0 4- *Current countries 53 0 20 4 0 3- 0 20 3 0 2- 0 20 7 0 6- 0 20 6 0 5- 0 20 5 -0 04 20 4 -0 03 20 3 -0 02 20 *Current partners 15 128 -0 103 03 82 183 20 3 -0 02 20 7 -0 06 20 6 -0 05 20 5 -0 04 20 4 -0 03 20 3 -0 02 20 Growth in Grantee Partners Total Number of Grantee Partners to Date 279 300* 141 Grantmaking A Closer Look at Gender Most of the differences between boys and girls are immediately apparent, yet some of the differences are more subtle and complex. In our grantmaking, we are increasingly cognizant of the deeper differences that gender evokes and how this interplays with the treatment and experience of young people in society. When we view this year’s core program grants through a gender lens, 168 of them serve both boys and girls, 28 serve primarily girls, and 18 serve primarily boys. We remain one of the very few organizations that provide funding to organizations working specifically with boys. Girls The gap between girls and boys in primary education continues to decline, but girls still face significant challenges. Sixty percent of the 100 million children not attending school are girls, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Girls often perform full-time unpaid work at home, which isolates them from opportunities for self-improvement. Keeping girls in school or, alternatively, providing them with livelihood skills expands girls’ options and helps delay child marriage. Early, and often forced, marriage robs girls of their childhood and 16 often exposes them to domestic violence and abandonment. Exploitation of girls may occur inside or outside the home. Out of an estimated 1.8 million children who are sexually exploited in the sex trade each year, the majority are girls. The distinct needs of vulnerable girls are particularly evident in reproductive and sexual health risks and outcomes. Early and unintended pregnancies are faced by girls alone; some 14 million girls between the ages of 15 and 19 give birth each year. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been particularly harsh on girls and women. In high-prevalence countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the infection rates of girls are five to six times higher than those of boys. schools like Pakistan’s madrassas or those run by India’s Hindu revivalists fill the vacuum left by the lack of public education. Boys are more likely than girls to begin work at an early age. In Latin America, 70 percent of working children are boys. Even when the work is not hazardous, youth employment is often cited as a precursor to violence and reckless behavior. As a result, boys are disproportionately prone to recruitment as child soldiers or to seeking a sense of belonging as gang members. Throughout the world, more boys also end up in jail than girls. The reproductive and sexual health of young men is of particular concern. Research on their sexual activity indicates Finally, girls have special needs that risky behavior, including for support tailored to the frequent and unprotected sex and discrimination they face. HIVa high number of sexual partners, positive girls are less likely to receive puts them and their partners at support and services, and when great risk of sexually transmitted family members become ill, girls diseases and HIV/AIDS. are more likely to care for them. Young men and boys also have Boys distinct psychosocial and mental Boys, like girls, face problems health needs, and yet they are that curtail their education. Poor, less likely to seek help. Work and marginalized boys often become family responsibilities may keep trapped by disillusionment and young men isolated from support anger, forcing their expulsion and health service networks, and or pushing them to drop out of pride may wrongly deter them school. In developing countries, from reaching out. Grantmaking The RuralUrban Divide Where children live can influence their destiny. Close to half the world’s children—more than 1 billion of them—now live in urban areas. This number will only continue to increase, with the United Nations projecting that three out of every five people will be living in cities by 2030. In the 61 countries we are currently active in, 120 of our core program grants go to poor sections of urban areas, 61 to rural areas, 20 to megacities, and 13 to a mix of rural and urban areas. Many think that people living in urban areas are generally better off. The reality is that millions live in extreme poverty in urban slums. In developing countries, disparities between rural and urban areas are pronounced, especially where access, opportunity, and program quality are concerned. Rural In many rural areas, children have less access to clean water and sanitation, increasing their health risks. In addition, fewer girls attend school in rural areas, and overall enrollment rates of children and youth are generally lower. In pastoral and nomadic societies, permanent school structures are few and far between, forcing children to walk many miles to attend school, even in bad weather. At times, this creates 17 an additional security hazard for children, especially for girls, who may be forbidden to travel alone or in mixed company. Rural economies primarily rely on agriculture and natural resources. Many rural communities have seen the steady migration of some of their best young people, mostly young men, to the cities for better opportunities. Few return, reinforcing the need for programs that strengthen young people’s identification with their communities and increase economic opportunities. Urban Overcrowding, temporary shelters, and a lack of public services and infrastructure characterize urban slums. Water, sanitation, electricity, paved roads, police security, and health services are rarely, if ever, available, let alone a school building or teacher for the uncounted children living there. Health systems, if accessible, are often overburdened. Psychosocial services for children, if available, are often viewed as luxuries, since families consider survival their priority. While young people may be able to find jobs in urban areas, what is available is low-skilled, exploitative, subsistence-level work. In developing countries, the unemployment rate of young people is two to three times that of adults. Statistics indicate that the world’s most unstable countries tend also to have very high youth unemployment rates. Megacities The United Nations officially lists 20 megacities in the world, cities with populations of more than 10 million people. It projects that as the world’s population flocks to cities, the number and size of the world’s megacities will continue to grow. Megacities are no ordinary urban centers, and many are organically expanding to swallow adjoining urban centers. We work with several grantee partners in 12 of the most densely populated megacities in the world—Cairo, Delhi, Dhaka, Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Our grantee partners confront the same problems here as they would in any urban area, with one difference: they are contending with larger, denser populations, and the resulting strain on systems is more acute. This alone compounds the problems children and young people face in order to survive. Eastern Europe & Central Asia North America Middle East & North Africa Africa Latin America & the Caribbean 2006-2007 Regional Distribution by Value of Grants 18 Africa 26% East Asia & the Pacific 8% South Asia 28% Eastern Europe & Central Asia 6% Latin America & the Caribbean 26% Middle East & North Africa 1% North America 5% 2006-2007 Regional Distribution by Number of Grants Africa 24% East Asia & the Pacific 9% South Asia 28% Eastern Europe & Central Asia 7% Latin America & the Caribbean 25% Middle East & North Africa 2% North America 5% a East Asia & the Pacific South Asia 19 Africa Benin 1 Burkina Faso 3 Democratic Republic of the Congo 4 Ethiopia 6 Ghana 2 Kenya 3 Liberia 1 Malawi 2 Mali 1 Mauritius 1 Nigeria 2 Rwanda 2 Senegal 4 Sierra Leone 2 Somalia 1 South Africa 5 Sudan 1 Tanzania 5 Togo 1 Uganda 4 Zambia 4 Zimbabwe 1 Number of Current Partners in Region 56 Number of Countries in Region 22 East Asia & the Pacific Cambodia 2 China 5 Indonesia 3 Mongolia 3 Philippines 3 Thailand 5 Timor-Leste 2 Vietnam 1 Number of Current Partners in Region 24 Number of Countries in Region 8 South Asia Afghanistan 1 Bangladesh 2 India 32 Nepal 2 Pakistan 7 Sri Lanka 4 Number of Current Partners in Region 48 Number of Countries in Region 6 astern Europe & E Central Asia Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 Bulgaria 2 Georgia 3 Romania 4 Serbia 2 Ukraine 3 Number of Current Partners in Region 15 Number of Countries in Region 6 Latin America & the Caribbean Bolivia 5 Brazil 6 Colombia 4 Dominican Republic 1 Ecuador 1 Guatemala 5 Haiti 4 Honduras 3 Jamaica 1 Mexico 6 Nicaragua 4 Panama 1 Paraguay 1 Peru 5 Suriname 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Number of Current Partners in Region 49 Number of Countries in Region 16 Middle East & North Africa Egypt 1 Lebanon 2 Number of Current Partners in Region 3 Number of Countries in Region 2 North America United States 11 Number of Current Partners in Region 11 Number of Countries in Region 1 Portfolio Learning * We believe that every child everywhere deserves access to a quality education. 20 Our priorities include safety-net schools, early childhood education, and providing complementary and supplementary learning. Despite overall gains in providing access to and increasing the quality of education in the last decade, the most marginalized and vulnerable children and youth remain underserved or not served at all. The desperately poor; those living in remote, conflict-torn, or marginalized communities; ethnic minorities; groups disenfranchised by gender or stigma; and the disabled continue to have little access to education. Community-based organizations are best positioned to serve these difficult-to-reach populations. Unlike large institutions, they can be nimble and responsive, tailoring programs to local needs and circumstances. Our priority areas under this portfolio are safety-net schools that catch and reintegrate those who have fallen out of the formal school system and those who never had the chance to go to school, early 21 childhood development, and providing complementary and supplemental learning through such initiatives as tutoring centers, children’s libraries, and literacy assistance. This fiscal year, we awarded grants valued at $846,500 to 74 grantee partners within the Learning portfolio: Two years ago, four Tibetans began leveraging local support to build schools and clinics for Tibetan villages in Sichuan Province, China. We are helping the Kham Kampo Association buy Tibetan, English, and Chinese books and equipment for their first library, established in a local primary school. The school donated a room; villagers are providing labor and materials to build bookshelves; and the teachers and students will manage the library. The Monduli Pastoralist Development Initiative in northern Tanzania has established 32 early childhood centers— designed like bomas, traditional Maasai homes—serving over 2,500 children living in the Sepeko community. Since there are more children who are not reached by the current network, we are helping Monduli establish more early childhood centers and train teachers in existing centers. Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas promotes literacy and a love of reading among the most disadvantaged children in Bolivian society, including children living with their parents in prison, street children, and child laborers. Our grant supports a program for 70 children of prisoners, promoting reading and writing while also providing psychosocial support to help them work through the trauma of their parents’ incarceration. In the Lake Volta region of Ghana, Challenging Heights, led by former child slave James Kofi Annan, built a community center in his small village of Sankor. The center has become a focal point of the community while helping to educate 900 children, including former child slaves like Annan. We are helping Challenging Heights provide stipends to volunteer tutors, mostly poor secondary-school or college students, whose efforts have been crucial to the program’s success. 22 In Kharkiv, Ukraine, psychologist Anna Kukuruza started the Early Intervention Institute to help disabled children get an education by providing them with strong social support in addition to their medical treatment. We are paying the salaries of doctors, therapists, and social workers and for the installation of a telephone line so that 100 disabled children and their families can consult these professionals during emergencies or when they cannot travel to the center. For women of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic, community schools are the key to helping their children achieve equality and end their isolation in the impoverished bateyes (former sugar plantation barracks) that dot the countryside. We are helping Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women) operate an independent community school to serve 240 children in the batey of Palmarejo. We believe that every child everywhere deserves access to a quality education. Not only is education every child’s right, it is also one of the keys to creating a healthier, more caring, and more productive global society. Education, Despite Hurricanes grantee partner United Houma Nation location Golden Meadow, LA United States In the Houma language, they were simply called monhele’ me’nte, meaning “hurricane.” To the rest of the world, they were known as Katrina and Rita, two of the most devastating hurricanes ever to hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. Despite the problems brought by the monhele’ me’nte, the United Houma Nation remains undaunted. The Houma clearly see education, especially for the young, as the key to their future. It was not until the 1940s that Houma children could attend public schools. In the 1960s, they had No other Native American tribe their first high-school graduates. was as badly affected by these 2005 Today, 43 percent of Houma hurricanes as the United Houma adults hold less than a high-school Nation. Scattered among the diploma or its equivalent, and 25 bayous of southeastern Louisiana, percent are unemployed. the Houma communities were directly in the hurricanes’ path. Like young people in many poverty-stricken communities, Hurricane Katrina forced 3,500 Houma youth tend to turn to Houma out of their homes and drugs and alcohol, Houma young completely destroyed 1,000 houses. women tend to become single An additional 4,000 homes were mothers, and Houma young men hit by the hurricane that followed, tend to end up in the juvenile Rita. More than 7,500 of the justice system. To help solve this United Houma Nation’s 16,000 problem, the United Houma tribal members were affected. Nation has been conducting education programs for tribal Although the Houma constitute youth throughout the year, even the largest Native American tribe before the hurricanes struck. in Louisiana, and are recognized as such by the state, the federal With the support of The Global government has refused to Fund for Children, the United recognize the tribe. Federal Houma Nation will be able to recognition would have helped the continue conducting summer tribe rapidly secure more funds enrichment programs for 50 to rebuild tribal communities, children aged 12 to 18. It is at this instead of being largely forgotten age that Houma young people are except by churches and other most vulnerable to dropping out Native American groups. of school or becoming involved in negative social behavior. 23 The enrichment program engages young Houma in productive community-service and leadership projects before negative behavioral patterns develop. The training includes lessons in tribal history, language preservation, art and culture, violence and drug prevention, and service leadership. Tribal elders and older Houma youth who have participated in similar programs in the past help conduct the program. “The program is based on the belief that these students need to be taught the importance of an education and recognize their worth as the future of the tribe,” said Brenda Dardar Robichaux, principal chief of the United Houma Nation. “It is important to give these students the opportunity to develop the much needed skills to find employment and become productive members of society.” Portfolio Enterprise * We believe that enterprise programs must meet working children where they are and acknowledge their need to work, while promoting a more supportive work environment. 24 Our priorities include youth-led enterprise, children’s banking and savings, leadership development, and comprehensive livelihood programs. We support comprehensive programs that recognize the range of educational, economic, and social skills that vulnerable children and youth require in order to develop into productive adults. Rather than opposing involvement in any type of labor, we promote opportunities for adolescents to engage in enterprise and entrepreneurial training that promote their personal growth and development and respect their fundamental dignity and rights. Our Enterprise portfolio is rooted in the concept of asset building—helping young people accumulate and protect assets that will allow them to pursue a better future. Our priorities in this portfolio include youth-led enterprise; children’s financial literacy, including banking and savings; entrepreneurship and leadership development; and comprehensive livelihood programs. 25 This fiscal year, we awarded grants valued at $412,500 to 38 grantee partners under the Enterprise portfolio: A youth-led association of 100 adolescent boys who work in a wholesale produce market just outside of Lima, Peru, Warma Tarinakuy (Assembly of the Children) works to achieve safe and fair working conditions, increase access to education and educational support, improve health, and ensure adequate nutrition. Our support for the organization’s enterprise training program has given the boys the opportunity to learn valuable skills in carpentry as well as business management and project planning. Traditionally denied the right to own land, the Fuga people of southern Ethiopia have relied on their embroidery, pottery, and carpentry skills to survive. Through a local group, Love in Action Ethiopia, we are helping provide microenterprise training based on Fuga traditional products and supplemented by creative marketing and banking. About 50 Fuga girls between 12 and 21 benefit from our support. The Kalinga Mission for Indigenous Children and Youth Development, started by former student activist Donato B. Bumacas, uses traditional techniques to solve poverty and environmental degradation to ensure a sustainable future for the indigenous Kalingas. We are helping more than 50 Kalinga adolescents in the northern Philippines by funding business workshops and training. Upon completing the training, graduates receive seed money, between $88 and $200, to start their own microenterprises in weaving, vending, or agriculture. By distributing wooden piggy banks and budgeting cards to 300 children in Kampala, Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable for Better Health, Education, and Nutrition in Uganda (SOVHEN) gives the children an early start on saving and banking. This is part of a SOVHEN program that we are supporting that provides children, mostly HIV/AIDS orphans, with practical training in saving, banking, and small business management. 26 The Alliance for Children and Youth in Sofia, Bulgaria, operates the 16+ Center, the country’s only facility that provides counseling, tutoring, vocational training, and healthcare to homeless and unemployed youth. The center serves about 225 children and youth, mostly of Roma descent. We support the center so it can continue to provide skills training in such areas as floriculture, construction, and sewing and can help participants find jobs. We believe that enterprise programs must meet working children where they are and acknowledge their need to work, while promoting a more supportive work environment. Such an environment guarantees safety and dignity, balances work with learning and recreation, provides the opportunity for growth and advancement, and gives youth a degree of control over their time and their earnings. Not Your Ordinary Bank grantee partner Desarrollo Autogestionario location Teocelo, Veracruz, Mexico In the world of high finance, 347,000 pesos ($31,718) is a pittance. But among the impoverished coffee farmers in this region, it is more than many will see in their lifetimes. And yet their children have collectively managed to save that amount, a few pesos at a time from their allowances or earnings picking coffee, through the program of one of our grantee partners. Desarrollo Autogestionario (SelfManaged Development), more commonly known as AUGE. At the heart of AUGE are 138 women’s savings groups involving 3,500 women whose total savings exceed $600,000. Each group has an average of 25 members who support each other in saving money and creating their own small businesses. Participation teaches them the values and habits of self-discipline, delayed gratification, and planning for the future. Many of the children in the groups are saving money for their education, aspiring to become teachers, athletes, artists, and doctors. Others are saving to buy a home or a piece of land. Two years ago, the children’s savings group from Ixhuatlán del Café Six years ago, the young daughter developed a 14-point statement For generations, families in the state of one of these women asked for of goals, which the children of Veracruz have been dependent help in setting up a savings group presented during the inauguration on coffee. Mexico ranks among for children like her. AUGE saw of AUGE’s training center. Among the world’s top five producers, and tremendous potential in Luz other things, they aspire to create a coffee has long been the main Esmeralda’s idea, which has since larger fund from which the poorest economic engine in Veracruz. blossomed into 14 children’s savings children can borrow money for groups involving more than 500 uniforms and school supplies. The average family farm is about children. With the support of three hectares, earning a coffee The Global Fund for Children, “We help the children do farmer only $500 to $1,000 in a AUGE plans to further increase the something practical—save money good year. Dramatic fluctuations number of children’s savings groups. and invest in their future,” said in world coffee prices mean that Gloria Agueda García García, in a bad year, farmers can end up Each group of children elects its one of AUGE’s founders and selling their coffee for less than own officers. Like the women’s the current director, “while at the cost of production. groups, they meet each week to the same time meeting their deposit money with their treasurer. emotional and spiritual needs.” The 1995 collapse in coffee prices They also use their meeting time motivated four women in the to discuss topics like leadership, town of Teocelo to help the wives human rights, environmental of coffee farmers become more conservation, domestic violence, financially stable despite the ups substance abuse, health and and downs of the coffee market. hygiene, and gender. They became the founders of 27 Portfolio Safety * We believe that children’s futures can be secured only when they are protected from threats to their safety and insulated from exploitation, violence, abuse, and neglect. 28 Our priorities include organizations that intercede on behalf of children in immediate danger or harmful circumstances, and those that create safe passage for children. Providing children with safe environments in which to learn, play, live, and grow is a fundamental tenet of our work. Our concept of safety is broadly drawn because the diversity of problems facing children is vast: temporary shelters, victimization by the criminal justice system, exposure to violence and exploitation in a multitude of contexts—armed conflicts, child trafficking, hazardous labor—and many more. Children are more vividly affected by these dangers than any other population segment, and those in economically distressed circumstances are all the more vulnerable. We remain committed to identifying and supporting grassroots groups working to ensure the safety of boys and girls, with priority on organizations that intercede on behalf of children already in immediate 29 danger or harmful circumstances, and on those that create safe passage for children at risk of becoming involved in unsafe pursuits. This fiscal year, we awarded grants valued at $424,000 to 42 grantee partners under the Safety portfolio: Forum Comunicações Juventude Oratorio Don Bosco (Don Bosco Children’s Communications Forum) is the only group working with street children in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. Our support helps the forum to serve 300 street children annually through its drop-in and mobile learning centers. Mongolia’s transition from a socialist system to an open economy has not been easy for children and youth, as employment and home economics continue to shift. The Center for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CPCAN) is proving to be a lifeline for the more than 1,000 students who participate annually in its workshops and the 200 children who call its telephone hotline annually. We are supporting CPCAN so it can prevent further abuse and rehabilitate child abuse victims in Mongolia. In Sibiu, Romania, we are supporting a program of Asociatia pentru Libertatea si Egalitatea de Gen (Association for Liberty and Gender Equality) to train 20 girls from state-run institutions to live independently and free from abuse. The program builds safety support from the ranks of the rural and Roma girls it serves instead of having them rely on the government for protection. A research study in the fishing villages of the Lake Volta region of Ghana found scores of fisherman using children, sent by their parents to seek income, for dangerous fishing missions. This study led to the establishment of the Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE) and its emergence as a leader in preventing child trafficking in Africa. With our support, APPLE ensures that rescued children remain safe with their families by educating the children and providing their families with income-generating alternatives. 30 Yanapanakusun (Let’s Help Each Other) works with girls in Peru who have been sent away from their families to work as domestics. It first establishes contact near Cusco’s neighborhood trash bins, since taking out garbage is often the only time the girls are allowed to leave the house. The organization provides them with education, temporary shelter, healthcare, and legal support. Our grant supports an educator who works with the girls. We believe that children’s futures can be secured only when they are protected from threats to their safety and insulated from exploitation, violence, abuse, and neglect. A safe environment provides the children with the opportunity to participate fully in their communities, to exercise their skills and talents, and to pursue their dreams. Reaching Belgrade’s “Invisible” Children grantee partner Centar za Integraciju Mladih location Belgrade, Serbia The street boys and girls living in an abandoned house were lucky the night the police discovered them. Two outreach volunteers, college students Jelena and Filip, happened to be with the children that night. whom are orphans themselves or come from war-torn homes, who regularly scout abandoned houses, street corners, and under bridges to make contact with orphans and street children. The police stomped and shouted through the dark house, their flashlights beaming, their weapons drawn. They ordered the youth to stand, then sit, and then produce their identity papers. The police grilled everyone, and after checking that there were no outstanding arrest warrants for the youth, they left. These trained volunteers, or youth advocates, educate the street children on their rights, help them obtain legal documents, teach them practical skills, and tell them where they can get medical services. They have repeated contact with at least 320 children, most of them of Roma descent or internally displaced youth from Kosovo. “We gather young people who want to take part in social changes, those who believe that change on a global level cannot happen without changes on the local level,” said Djordjevic. “We work with the belief that young people of Serbia are an immeasurable resource for achieving that change.” CIM organized a studentled volunteer program inside a state orphanage, and its exposure of child abuses led to changes in how the country’s 7,500 orphans are treated. The center also established a formal relationship with the University “It’s much better for the police to An additional 69 CIM volunteers of Belgrade that allowed it to come while we’re here,” Filip said, work with orphans in Belgrade’s tap the university’s students “because I can act as a liaison, talk youth homes. CIM also runs the as volunteers—an impressive to the cops. The police will not country’s first 24/7 drop-in center. achievement, since universities mistreat the youth in front of us. rarely work with NGOs. They know us.” Had the volunteers Since orphans and street children not been there, the girls could have are not recognized as at-risk Youth advocates Jelena and Filip been harassed and the boys beaten. vulnerable groups, the government have volunteered at CIM for over has no sustainable programs two years now, and as they walk Young outreach volunteers like for them. They are Belgrade’s through the streets of Belgrade, Jelena and Filip are the key “invisible children.” In 2004, you can see street children greeting to why Centar za Integraciju Milica Djordjevic, then a university them and consulting them about Mladih (CIM or Center for student, started CIM to look after their problems. To CIM, these Youth Integration) has such street these two groups of vulnerable children are anything but invisible. credence in Belgrade. There are children. No other organization in 14 other CIM volunteers, many of the country is working with them. 31 Portfolio Healthy Minds and Bodies * We recognize that healthy minds and bodies are an important path to dignity and productivity. 32 We focus on programs that complement, fill the gaps in, and strengthen conventional healthcare systems, institutions, and infrastructure. Good health is not merely the absence of illness and disease. In order to grow, learn, and be active members of their communities, children must also be well nourished and protected from harmful substances, and must have access to information, adequate social and emotional support, and a clean environment. Our grantee partners operate innovative programs that address the health and wellbeing of children and youth in various communities. Our priority areas in this portfolio are HIV/AIDS prevention and support, psychosocial health, reproductive health, and improved nutrition. We focus on programs that complement, fill the gaps in, and strengthen conventional healthcare systems, institutions, and infrastructure. 33 This fiscal year, we awarded grants valued at $279,000 to 30 grantee partners under the Healthy Minds and Bodies portfolio: In the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC, psychologist Satira Streeter started Ascensions Community Services as the only cost-free comprehensive mental health provider in DC’s poorest neighborhood. Ascensions is based on the principle that to heal a child, the entire family must be involved. We are helping 50 children and their families by supporting a therapist who can provide play therapy, behavior management, and school intervention. Along the border of China and Myanmar, we are helping the Neng Guan Performing Arts Training Center teach 25 students to use traditional ethnic dances and songs to raise public awareness on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS. The students, mostly from ethnic-minority groups, attend classes four days a week and give eight performances annually in various villages. In Mumbai, India, a group of students started Society Undertaking Poor People’s Onus for Rehabilitation (SUPPORT), which is now one of the leading groups specializing in drug rehabilitation of street children. We are supporting the operation of its first residential rehabilitation center, which houses 160 boys from ages 6 to 19. Barely half of Haiti’s children have access to primary education, and children with disabilities face even greater obstacles to learning, since shame and stigma often lead families to keep their disabled children at home, hidden from the public eye. We are working with Pazapa (Step by Step) to educate and provide therapy for 70 children with physical and mental disabilities, and to give their families practical skills and moral support in caring for a disabled child. 34 While Senegal has successfully contained the spread of HIV/ AIDS, it has hundreds of orphans and street children who have been infected or are at a high risk of being infected. Synergie pour l’Enfance (Synergy for Childhood), an all-volunteer group, reaches about 4,000 at-risk children through its prevention and treatment programs. We are helping the organization secure permanent offices to better provide these services. In Ethiopia, the owner of a beauty school established the Joy Center, the first center to help autistic children in the country. It currently serves 500 children, with 300 more on the waiting list in Addis Ababa alone. We are helping the center organize the first nationwide workshop on autism and incorporate a computer-based therapy program to help the children. We recognize that healthy minds and bodies are an important path to dignity and productivity. When children are not healthy, they are unable to meet all their basic needs, let alone pursue their dreams. Healthy Little Mouths grantee partner Fundación Simsa location Bogotá, Colombia The Ciudad Bolivar area of Bogotá is normally not a place where an outsider, especially one who works for the Policía Nacional de Colombia (National Police of Colombia), would want to be at night. But Dr. Lida Alarcón did not mind keeping her mobile dental clinic open until dusk recently. Outside was a long line of children needing dental attention. Among them were 25 children shepherded by a woman whose husband was killed in the violence that is so common in the city’s poor neighborhoods. When she first visited in May 2007, dragging her six children, she was very skeptical that the dental care offered by Dr. Alarcón was good or truly free. With her children’s dental problems now treated, she has become one of the clinic’s most passionate advocates. “It’s really working,” Dr. Alarcón said of her program, Boquitas Sanas (Healthy Little Mouths). “Their initial attitude was that if the service was free, then the quality must be no good.” A family with money to see 35 a private dentist would have to pay $40 per visit per child, plus another $50 for follow-up. Although the government has a comprehensive public health program, it does not cover oral health. “They will pay if you have heart or lung problems, but you have to pay if you have a toothache,” Dr. Alarcón said. give the clinics legitimacy in the neighborhoods and get the word out about their services. When the children arrive at the clinic, Dr. Alarcón’s husband, Francisco, records their basic information, putting them at ease by interspersing serious questions with silly ones. (“Married or single?” he asks the 5-year-olds.) A cartoon The almost complete lack of access video, Mr. Molars, usually plays to dental care among the country’s in the background, helping the poor motivated Dr. Alarcón to children relax while educating them start Fundación Simsa in 2004. Its on dental care and hygiene. aim is to reduce dental problems among poor children and improve Dr. Alarcón and up to three other their oral health. The foundation, dentists examine the children in named after her boys, Simon and the portable dental chairs that Santiago, fulfills Dr. Alarcón’s they bring along. If the children dream of offering free dental care have no problems, they are given to children whose families cannot a quick fluoride treatment, a new otherwise afford it. toothbrush, and encouragement to keep up the good work. Those who Boquitas Sanas operates in some have problems stay for treatment. of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Bogotá. With Usually, more children come after support from The Global Fund they see their friends walking for Children, it holds mobile home with their free toothbrushes. clinics every three or four By the time dusk comes, as many weeks on weekends, depending as 160 children will have been on arrangements made by its treated by Boquitas Sanas. church partners. The churches Portfolio Responding to Crisis * We believe that in times of crisis, community-based groups are always in the best position to respond immediately since they know the people and the local areas affected. 36 We supported our grantee partners’ responses to six crises brought about by war and severe weather and helped communities recover from three previous natural disasters. We offer two funding mechanisms for community-level crisis response, whether the crisis is a natural disaster, public health crisis, or violent conflict. Rapid Response Grants are given to existing grantee partners addressing an immediate crisis. Recovery and Renewal Grants are awarded to new and existing grantee partners working in areas where the crisis has been declared over, but where reconstruction is either ongoing or has failed. This fiscal year, we awarded grants valued at $301,500 to 26 grantee partners under the Responding to Crisis portfolio. We supported our grantee partners as they responded to six crises brought about by war and severe weather, and helped communities in their recovery and renewal efforts resulting from three natural disasters that occurred in 2004 and 2005. 37 Rapid Response Grants Our grantee partners in Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Lebanon responded to the crises brought about by civil unrest and war. Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de Oaxaca provided counseling and other psychosocial support to children and youth traumatized by the violence of the civil unrest in Oaxaca, Mexico. In Sri Lanka, Kinniya Vision provided emergency relief, medical care, and counseling to children and their families caught in the crossfire between government troops and rebels in the Trincomalee region. In Lebanon, Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais and Relief International provided food and medical and psychological care to families forced to flee their homes due to the attacks on southern Lebanon. We also helped our grantee partners respond to crises brought about by severe weather, including a cyclone that hit Andhra Pradesh, India; a super typhoon that hit the southern Philippines; and an unusually harsh winter in Afghanistan. Two years after Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast, we are continuing to support the recovery and renewal efforts of six of our grantee partners in New Orleans and Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and Biloxi, Mississippi. Recovery and Renewal Grants Long after international aid agencies pack up their relief efforts, community-based organizations are left to deal with the long-term recovery and renewal efforts. Our grantee partners are still helping communities recover from natural disasters that occurred up to three years ago. We believe that in times of crisis, community-based groups are always in the best position to respond immediately since they know the people and the local areas affected. In longterm recovery and renewal work, these groups play a key role in reknitting their communities and creating a safety net for children and youth affected by crisis. Ten of our grantee partners are working with the communities hardest hit by the 2004 tsunami in India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. In Pakistan, five of our grantee partners are undertaking recovery and renewal work in the NorthWest Frontier Province and the Pakistan side of Kashmir—the areas most affected by the October 2005 South Asia earthquake. 38 Teaching Girls, Reviving an Art grantee partner Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy location Nara Mughlan, Pakistan In this village about 110 miles from Pakistan’s capital, and in similar rural villages, women and girls have little access to healthcare, cannot own land, and have no voice in decision making. They have high malnutrition rates and considerably low literacy rates, even by Pakistan’s standards. In Muzaffarabad, as many as 200 small shops lined the streets, with Kashmiri artisans teaching their children to keep this ancient art alive and thriving. In 2003, Nazir convinced some master artisans to go to the Potohar region and teach the village girls. Little did she know that her project would be the key to the revival of Pakistan’s papier-mâché industry after an earthquake leveled Muzaffarabad. So when Sameena Nazir and her colleagues were looking for ways to keep village girls in school, they decided to teach them how to On October 8, 2005, the strongest make papier-mâché products. earthquake in a century struck the area, with its epicenter near “Older girls and young women Muzaffarabad. Over 73,000 people have little access to education were killed and more than 3 million beyond primary school and were left homeless. The Pakistan almost no opportunities for side of Kashmir was hardest hit, jobs in rural areas,” said Nazir, a and the shops of the papier-mâché former journalist who established artisans in Muzaffarabad were the Potohar Organization for completely destroyed. Development Advocacy (PODA) in 2003. “So in order to provide PODA joined hundreds of local additional education and income, and international organizations we taught them how to recycle that offered immediate relief to the paper into papier-mâché products.” victims. PODA focused on women and girls, helping nearly 7,000 of Although papier-mâché products them. The first of its 12 assessment were being made in many villages, trips was led by a master the center of the industry was in papier-mâché teacher who had Muzaffarabad, in the mountains on instructions to bring any surviving the Pakistan side of Kashmir. This artisans to the lowlands, where beautiful art form was first developed PODA had host families for them in Persia and later introduced in to stay with during the winter. Kashmir in the 15th century. 39 After the relief efforts, PODA opened the Artisan Support Center in Muzaffarabad to help restore livelihood activities and preserve art forms unique to the region. With the support of The Global Fund for Children, 70 young boys and girls are being given training; 25 of them are being taught the art of papiermâché by artisans who survived the earthquake. Meanwhile, in Nara Mughlan, some of the first trainees of PODA won awards as the best folk artisans in Pakistan for their papier-mâché products. Their best products are also available through GFC grantee partner Global Goods Partners. Thanks to the girls of PODA, the ancient art of papier-mâché is alive and well again in Pakistan. 40 Courage 41 Grantmaking Sustainability Awards The Sustainability Award is part of our unique grantmaking model that allows for a dignified and fair exit from our funding relationship. It rewards Global Fund for Children grantee partners for their success and growth and represents an important investment in their long-term sustainability. Eight of our most successful grantee partners were each given a $25,000 Sustainability Award this year, bringing the total to 24 since we established the award three years ago. Of this number, seven awardees were in Africa, seven in South Asia, six in Latin America, three in East and Southeast Asia, and one in the United States. Recipients of the Sustainability Award should: •Have received our funding for at least two years •Be representative of the organizations that we support due to their innovations and effectiveness • Have arrived at a critical stage in their organizational development • Have demonstrated organizational development in budget growth, program expansion, and/or diversifying funding sources over the course of their relationship with us 42 • Have increased their public profile and ability to leverage additional funds through prizes or awards, government recognition, and/or increased financial support •Have affected broader issues related to children, education, and/or development through advocacy, training, and/or replication • Have proved their management capacity to administer this large, strategic grant • Have maintained strong communication links with our program staff, leadership, and representatives Winning a Sustainability Award does not mean the end of the grantee partner’s relationship with GFC. Awardees remain active in our network as lifetime GFC grantee partners, attending our Knowledge Exchange workshops, participating in our online community (KLARA) and other knowledge-sharing initiatives, and receiving help in leveraging funds from other sources. They are also eligible to receive tracking grants, which allow us to follow their progress as they continue to grow and develop. Blinded So She Could Help grantee partner Prayas location Jaipur, India Prayas students with the former president of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Jatinder Arora was a leading newspaper editor in this city, the capital of India’s largest state, when she had an accident that left her blind. After several operations, her doctors told her to start learning Braille. While she was blind, her father would bring her to a special school for physically and mentally challenged children, where she volunteered as a counselor. The children accepted her without any questions and treated her as their didi (sister). With their blessings, she underwent another operation in May 1996 that restored her sight. “There was a time when we were called a school for mad children, but now we are known as a school for all,” Arora said. Today, Prayas is known as India’s pioneer in inclusive education, where mentally challenged and other disabled children study together with kids without disabilities. Aside from the special education center, Prayas runs three integrated schools now, providing over 450 children from 32 slums in Jaipur with special education and vocational training. Its other programs benefit 8,000 poor families in the city and are mostly conducted after school hours by “I was blind for three years and it Prayas’s teaching staff. The schools was during this period of blindness themselves have become training that my eyes were opened to help centers for adult women, teaching disabled children in any way I can,” them such skills as sewing. the soft-spoken Arora said. The students produce a variety She started Prayas (Endeavor) of handicrafts—greeting cards, in July 1996 with an assistant, candles, pouches, diaries, and working out of three rented rooms bags—which are sold at Prayas’s equipped with 12 tables and counter in the Sheraton Hotel. chairs donated by a Jesuit school. At the first school, whose students At first, there were only 5 disabled are predominantly mentally and students at the Prayas Center for physically challenged, 15 students Special Education and Vocational run a canteen and a catering service. Training, but before the year was over, there were 18. 43 One of them, Gautam, who is mentally challenged and living with his maternal aunt, regularly supplies lunch for workers in the area. He earns 1,000 rupees ($25) a month, but in Arora’s words, “his profit is his sense of dignity.” Recruiting teachers for the Prayas children has been difficult, since few in Rajasthan have the required training. In 2006, Prayas started a two-year diploma course with Manipal University and the Rehabilitation Council of India. It has also trained 240 government teachers, mostly in the remote areas of Rajasthan, in inclusive education. When The Global Fund for Children started helping Prayas in 2001, Prayas’s annual budget was $25,000. Today, it has an annual budget of $95,000. This fiscal year, we gave Prayas a Sustainability Award. Half of these funds will be invested in Prayas’s endowment, and the balance will be put aside for emergencies. Prayas now has its own building and intends to build two schools in rural Rajasthan in the next two years. Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)– Suriname Kwamalasamutu, Suriname Director Gwendolyn Emanuels Smith Grantee partner since 2004 Total support from GFC: $30,000 ACT–Suriname works with the isolated indigenous peoples of the country’s interior to defend land rights, create natural-resource management plans, preserve indigenous culture, and improve health through traditional medicinal practices. Since 2004, we have supported ACT–Suriname’s Shamans and Apprentices Program, which partners with village shamans to pass traditional knowledge of tropical medicine on to the next generation. From its start in one village, the program has expanded to three villages and has attracted the attention of National Geographic magazine and other media. Since we started supporting ACT, the organization’s budget has increased by 50 percent, reaching nearly $400,000. ACT–Suriname will use its Sustainability Award to hire a development professional to map out and implement a long-range fundraising plan and secure new funding sources, especially in Europe. Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB) (San Juan Bosco Center) Tela, Honduras Director Dylcia Enamorado Grantee partner since 2003 Total support from GFC: $47,000 CSJB’s technical and vocational training program provides dignified and better-paying alternatives to the hazardous child labor that is commonly undertaken by working children in Honduras. Workshops allow young people to develop marketable skills in areas such as computer technology, carpentry, woodworking, baking, and agriculture. Since we began supporting CSJB in 2003, its budget has more than doubled, from $243,000 to $570,290. Last year, it purchased land and prepared the blueprints for its own building. CSJB will use its Sustainability Award toward the construction of a training facility, a library, and offices. It plans to add a microcredit facility, a hospitality training facility, a bakery, a grocery, and a cafeteria in later phases of construction. Foundation for the Development of Needy Communities (FDNC) Mbale, Uganda Director Samuel Watulatsu Grantee partner since 2001 Total support from GFC: $52,000 FDNC recognizes that the arts can empower young people, but it also realizes the need to provide more 44 practical skills training that can lead to employment, especially for girls. The organization is well known for its band, which now contributes 60 percent of the school’s budget through performances at weddings, civic functions, and sporting events. Last year, FDNC’s vocational skills training center graduated over 237 students; 30 percent found jobs, while the rest started their own businesses. It has also benefited from the informal sale of furniture, agricultural products, and African clothing made by the students. Since we starting supporting FDNC in 2001, its budget has grown from $20,000 to nearly $135,000. FDNC will use its Sustainability Award to construct a commercial center in Mbale where its students can produce and sell high-quality products. Fundación La Paz (La Paz Foundation) La Paz, Bolivia Director Jorge Dominic Grantee partner since 2002 Total support from GFC: $39,000 Fundación La Paz serves more than 7,000 women and children through various education, nutrition, health, and other programs. Since 2002, we have supported its Sarantañani Technical Training Center, which provides high-quality, certified training in leather production, auto mechanics, carpentry, computer operation, metalworking, and textile design to vulnerable youth. At the end of their training, graduates are placed in private-sector apprenticeships, which often lead to permanent jobs. About 70 percent of the students arriving at the center are street children, child laborers, or juvenile offenders. Fundación La Paz will use its Sustainability Award to establish a business unit to produce goods and services for sale in the local market. The profits will eventually subsidize the center’s training programs while providing students with more hands-on experience. Horn Relief Sanaag, Somalia Director Degan Ali Grantee partner since 2002 Total support from GFC: $42,000 Horn Relief is now recognized internationally for its commitment to peace and sustainable development in war-torn Somalia. We have supported its Pastoral Youth Leadership Outreach Program, which focuses on pastoralists, the backbone of the country’s livestock-based economy, since 2002. This program has served over 400 boys and girls. One of the most innovative aspects of the program is its month-long “camel caravan,” which pairs a participant with an older pastoralist to gather indigenous knowledge they can use to improve the community. Since we started supporting Horn Relief, its staff has grown from 4 to 55 and its budget from $400,000 to over $3 million, although the bulk of its funds are for emergency response and humanitarian aid. Horn Relief will use its Sustainability Award to diversify its funding sources by hiring a full-time development officer. Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE) Phnom Penh, Cambodia Director Sao Vanna Grantee partner since 2003 Total support from GFC: $60,000 KAPE serves nearly 90,000 boys and girls studying in 190 primary schools in the southeastern province of Kampong Cham. Since 2003, we have supported its scholarship program for girls—the first of its kind in the country—which has benefited 2,000 girls. Over 85 percent of these girls successfully finish primary school and proceed to secondary school. KAPE’s budget has grown to exceed $500,000. In addition, the World Bank is now funding the scholarship program in four schools, and KAPE has entered into a partnership with USAID. KAPE will divide its Sustainability Award into three parts: a third will be used for organizational development, including English courses and program management training for the staff; a third for a reserve fund to be used in emergencies; and a third for an external communications plan that will include promotional materials and an upgraded website. Kids in Need of Direction (KIND) Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Director Karina Jardine-Scott Grantee partner since 2003 Total support from GFC: $46,000 KIND provides support to disadvantaged children and youth throughout Trinidad and Tobago in the areas of shelter, literacy, nutrition, medical assistance, computer technology, vocational training, emotional counseling, art, drama, sports, and family reintegration. It was recently accredited as a training center for Microsoft courses. Since we began supporting KIND in 2003, it has attracted additional support from local and foreign foundations and businesses. KIND will use its Sustainability Award to hire two new staff members to focus on fundraising and to create a reserve fund to help its cash flow and for use in short-term emergencies. 45 Prayas (Endeavor) Jaipur, India Director Jatinder Arora Grantee partner since 2001 Total support from GFC: $45,000 Prayas is a pioneer in providing inclusive education for mentally and physically disabled children in the state of Rajasthan. Its four schools, located in the slums of Jaipur, serve over 400 children annually. Since we began funding Prayas in 2001, its budget has grown from $25,000 to over $95,000. It has also built its own building on land donated by the government. Prayas now offers special-education training to government and primary-school teachers and offers a two-year diploma in partnership with Manipal University and the Rehabilitation Council of India. In the next two years, it will open two new schools in rural Rajasthan. Prayas will divide its Sustainability Award into two parts: half will be added to its endowment fund, of which only the interest earnings can be used, and half will be a reserve fund to be used only in times of emergency. 2006 Sustainability Award Winners • Asociación Solas y Unidas Lima, Peru • Christ School Bundibugyo, Uganda • Conquest for Life Johannesburg, South Africa • ProJOVEN Asunción, Paraguay • Rural Institute for Development Education Kanchipuram, India • Salaam Baalak Trust New Delhi, India • Ubuntu Education Fund Port Elizabeth, South Africa • Wilderness Foundation Port Elizabeth, South Africa 2005 Sustainability Award Winners • Afghan Institute of Learning Kabul, Afghanistan • Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development Phnom Penh, Cambodia • Children’s Town Malambanyama, Zambia • Life Pieces to Masterpieces Washington, DC, United States • Magic Bus Mumbai, India • Nishtha Baruipur, India • Ruchika Social Service Organization Bhubaneswar, India • Thai Youth Action Programs Chiang Mai, Thailand Special Partner: Johnson & Johnson* Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being Grants Our Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being supplemental grants enable our grantee partners to provide basic healthcare interventions and supplies to the children they serve. This additional support ensures a more holistic and integrated approach to the children’s well-being. • G iving indigenous mothers at the Ch’umei’il Mother-Child Education Center in Chiapas, Mexico, regular mental health checkups (Skolta’el Yu’un Jlumaltic) • Immunizing Maasai children in Monduli, Tanzania (Monduli Pastoralist Development Initiative) • Giving vitamins to primary-school children in the Since we started the program three years ago, with rural Tibetan communities of Sichuan Province, funding from Johnson & Johnson, nearly 100 percent China (Kham Kampo Association) of our grantee partners have availed themselves of this • Improving the nutrition of the children of supplementary grant. This fiscal year, we awarded 181 prisoners in Cochabamba, Bolivia, by giving them Health and Well-Being grants totaling $197,000. a glass of milk daily (Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas) • Educating young girls in Cotonou, Benin, who These grants range from $1,000 to $2,000, and are victims of traditional forced labor about HIV/ our grantee partners apply these funds in the most AIDS and reproductive health (SIN-DO) appropriate way to improve the health, hygiene, and •Giving disabled children in Peshawar, nutrition of children in their care. Pakistan, auditory brain stem response checkups (Doosti Pakistan) Health and Well-Being grants were used in a variety • Supporting a pilot program for psychosocial of ways this fiscal year, including: counseling for children and youth in Managua, •Providing regular HIV tests for youth attending Nicaragua (Centro Cultural Batahola Norte) the adventure camps in Jiu Valley, Romania • Providing sanitary napkins for adolescent girls (Fundatia Noi Orizonturi) in Hyderabad, India (Ankuram Woman and Child • Conducting eye examinations for residents of the Development Society) Sharanam Center for Street Girls in Mumbai, • Testing homeless and unemployed youth at the India (Community Outreach Programme) 16+ Center in Sofia, Bulgaria, for tuberculosis • Giving mosquito nets and medicines for skin (Alliance for Children and Youth) infections to children working in the gold mines • Setting up a nationwide counseling and of Tambacounda, Senegal (Association La Lumière) information telephone hotline for Nigerian • Making available basic medical services to children girls and young women (Kudirat Initiative living on the streets of Gori, Georgia (Society Biliki) for Democracy) • Giving Romanian teenagers soap so they can • Repairing and treating the fistulas of young Gumuz keep clean while looking for work (Children on mothers in Beninshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia the Edge–Romania) (Mujejego-Loka Women Development Organization) • Providing health workshops for girls working • Providing safe drinking water for child prisoners as domestic servants in Panama City, Panama and detainees in Monrovia, Liberia (Prisoners (Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Infancia) Assistance Program) 46 “Singing Away AIDS” grantee partner Nyaka Aids Orphans School location Nyakagyezi, Kambuga, Uganda Dressed in their colorful uniforms, the boys and girls of the Nyaka Anti-AIDS Choir sing not only to educate others but also to heal themselves. In their own words and voices, the children sing the stories of their lives and of their encounters with HIV/AIDS. They tell their stories differently, but some elements are common to the lives of all the students at Nyaka AIDS Orphans School. Like nearly 2 million other children in Uganda, the 186 students at Nyaka School were orphaned by AIDS. Some lost not only their parents, but also those who subsequently cared for them. “They are singing away HIV/ AIDS,” said the founder of Nyaka School, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri. “It is cathartic for them to talk about their experiences. By performing for other children, they send messages about preventing and dealing with HIV/AIDS.” One boy’s mother died because he could not find someone to transport her to the hospital; they were too busy burying their own dead. “The slow death of my mother made me an orphan before my mother died,” he said. 47 Kaguri is not an AIDS orphan himself, but two of his family members died from the disease. He and his wife, Beronda, decided to start the school in August 2001. They purchased two acres for the primary school, adding one class at a time. By December 2008, they will celebrate the graduation of the pioneer primary class of Nyaka School. There are no residential facilities for the students at Nyaka School, so they all live in the surrounding village, which has no electricity or running water. Elderly grandparents take in many of the orphans; others live alone, with Nyaka staff regularly looking in on them. The school’s management committee selects for enrollment only the poorest children and those who have no one else to help them; their siblings are also integrated so as not to split families. Nyaka students do not pay tuition and are provided with uniforms and books. Through a Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being grant from The Global Fund for Children, a nurse visits the orphans at their homes to provide basic medical care. The grant also helps pay for their expenses when they are hospitalized. With the help of The Global Fund for Children, the school started gardens to educate the community on proper nutrition. With the supplementary meals and the gardens’ produce, attendance increased dramatically. Nyaka students now score higher on government examinations than their peers in other schools. The results underscore Nyaka School’s belief that addressing the students’ and the community’s nutritional needs are vital to achieving its educational goals. Twesigye Kaguri did not anticipate working so closely with the people in his home area, but he has found that “the support for the community ends up reinforcing the education that the school tries to impart.” Special Partner: Goldman Sachs Foundation* Unleashing the Power of High-Potential Youth Despite a healthy, growing economy, India faces pronounced poverty. Its burgeoning population includes more than 400 million young people under 18, and the country accounts for a fifth of the world’s out-of-school children. It has the largest number of working children in the world, with nearly a third of children under 16 involved in some form of work. This fiscal year, the Goldman Sachs Foundation awarded us a three-year grant, valued at $1.2 million, to help young people in India participate in the country’s economic advancement. This partnership, The Global Fund for Children / Goldman Sachs Foundation Initiative, supports community-based initiatives that develop the leadership, entrepreneurial, and academic skills of marginalized young Indians, particularly in Mumbai and Bengaluru. When this initiative is complete, we will have supported 30 community-based organizations with as many as 80 grants. This fiscal year, we invested in 12 groups: • • • • • • 48 gastya International Foundation Bengaluru A Dhriiti New Delhi Door Step School Mumbai Dream a Dream Bengaluru Going to School New Delhi Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan Sikar • I nstitute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID) Bengaluru • Jeeva Jyothi Chennai • Karm Marg Faridabad • Magic Bus Connect Mumbai • Pravah New Delhi • Shaishav Trust Bhavnagar These groups use a variety of innovative methods to help marginalized youth: ILID uses computer-aided instruction to teach English so underprivileged primary-school students in Karnataka State can ultimately enroll in college, where knowledge of English is required. Shaishav Trust uses its bank, Bachat (Savings) Bank, to teach young people to save money, use their resources wisely, and manage their time efficiently. Agastya International Foundation operates mobile laboratories to teach modern science to youth in rural Andhra Pradesh. Through its Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow program, Dhriiti uses custom-tailored curricula to teach youth in six government schools in New Delhi how to start their own businesses. Outside of Chennai, 600 tribal and low-caste children are trained to run and expand Jeeva Jyothi’s three Children’s Development Banks, cooperatives managed entirely by street and working young people. A Home By, For, and With Street Children grantee partner Karm Marg location Faridabad, India The rooms at Karm Gaon (Work Village) bustle with formerly homeless young people and village women sewing bags, printing stationery, and assembling crafts from scrap metal and wood. The products are marketed under the brand Jugaad, reflecting the fact that they are ingeniously made from locally available and ecofriendly materials. This entrepreneurial spirit has always been at the heart of Karm Marg (Progress through Work), the organization that runs Karm Gaon. It gives vocational training to formerly homeless young people so they can create commercially viable products that are sold to earn money for the organization and the residents. These savings are of great help to youth like Anish, who recently left Karm Gaon to live on his own while finishing his studies in Indian classical dancing. But even more important than the savings are the life lessons he learned. “Karm Marg taught me how to live, how to succeed, and how to be a human being,” Anish said. Recently, Karm Marg’s director, Veena Lal, started the process of transferring the daily operations and decisions of the organization to five older youth, with some supervision from three staff. She moved to a Delhi apartment, which is also used as an office to market Jugaad products. The transition, expected to take five years, has not been easy for With support from The Global Veena Lal and the young people. Fund for Children, under the They still refuse to let anyone Goldman Sachs Foundation occupy the room of their didi Initiative, the vocational training (sister) at Karm Gaon, the home program continues to grow. Today, they designed together. two of the trainers at Karm Gaon are among the youth who live “Most groups which are there; 60 young people live at the dependent on one person will village while studying at nearby eventually collapse,” said Lal. “I schools. By the time they become want the youth to completely take adults and leave, the young people over Karm Marg so, in the future, will have anywhere from 10,000 I can just chill out with them.” rupees ($250) to 20,000 rupees ($500) in their savings accounts. 49 Part of the difficulty Karm Marg faces is that there is no blueprint for this kind of transition; the development landscape is littered with organizations that failed when the founder left or died. Right from the beginning, the young people were involved in making decisions at Karm Marg. The organization was started in 1997 when youth living in Delhi’s train station opened a street kitchen. Money was donated by older youth so the younger ones could eat. The program expanded with the guidance of Veena Lal. Eventually, they rented two rooms to be their home in times of crisis. Four years ago, they completed Karm Gaon, a unique complex located on 1.5 acres of land 25 miles outside of Delhi in Faridabad. The complex contains workshops for Jugaad, which today accounts for 60 percent of the group’s annual budget. Despite the young people’s nervousness about the leadership transition, such a strong financial footing bodes well for their future. Special Partner: Nike Foundation* Grassroots Girls Initiative The Global Fund for Children is part of the Grassroots Girls Initiative (GGI), funded by the Nike Foundation. GGI aims to empower adolescent girls by supporting grassroots organizations in implementing programs, conducting advocacy, strengthening their organizational and programmatic capacities, and collaborating with other partners. We, like the other organizations involved in GGI, believe that when girls receive support and recognize the many opportunities available to them, they can become a powerful force in transforming their families, their communities, and the world. The other grantmakers in GGI are American Jewish World Service, EMpower–The Emerging Markets Foundation, Firelight Foundation, Global Fund for Women, and Mama Cash. The initiative also includes two partners that provide support and input: the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and the Nike Foundation. Our grants under GGI provide both program-based and organizational support to a wide range of local groups. We are supporting 21 community-based organizations working with adolescent girls all over the world. Six groups are in India; three in Brazil; two each in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Zambia; and one each in Burkina Faso, Egypt, Guatemala, Nepal, Nigeria, and Pakistan. 50 These partners empower girls through a number of groundbreaking programs: India’s Kolkata Sanved uses dance therapy to heal children of prostitutes and female victims of abuse. Our support enables 500 children and youth to participate in its workshops and 20 of them to train to become dance therapists. The Young Mothers Program of Centro de Estudos e Ação em Atenção à Infância e as Drogas Excola in Rio de Janeiro serves 20 street girls and their 34 children. The program helps them to be healthy, to know their rights, and to prevent further pregnancies. In Zambia, the Youth Activist Organization organizes girls’ soccer clubs, involving 200 girls in 10 community schools, as a way of raising awareness about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. The Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women provides 900 adolescent girls in Cairo’s squatter communities with a safe haven where they can discuss their rights, marriage, reproductive health, and domestic violence. This fiscal year, we awarded a total of $171,500 in direct grants to 21 GFC grantee partners under the Grassroots Girls Initiative. Within two years, the six GGI partners hope to collectively make a total of 180 grants throughout the developing world. Communicating in Nigeria grantee partner Kudirat Initiative for Democracy location Lagos, Nigeria About 40 teenage girls sat in a classroom, their desks arranged in a lopsided circle, with their books and bags scattered around them. For the next three hours, they talked animatedly with five women, but not about school assignments. Instead, they discussed HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancies, and sexual harassment—topics that are rarely discussed in Nigeria. Dozens of groups like this now meet regularly in ten government schools in the poorest sections of Lagos, encouraging girls and young women to challenge existing social practices and helping them to make better decisions about their lives. “We want them to know and protect their rights so they can start living the life they want to live and to become leaders,” said Amy Oyekunle, program manager of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which runs this program. restoration of Nigeria’s democracy, was murdered. Abiola named KIND in honor of her mother, Kudirat, and continued her work to restore democracy. Once democracy was achieved, KIND changed its mission to empowering women to be Nigeria’s future leaders. Using a grant from The Global Fund for Children, KIND organized a focus group to help the organization develop a program for teenage girls. In a relaxed setting, the girls opened up about their personal experiences of abuse. Historically, many of the tribes that constitute modern-day Nigeria treated women equitably. However, under British colonial rule, and under the decades of military dictatorships that followed, equality for Nigeria’s women deteriorated rapidly. A 16-year-old said that she was once severely beaten by a teacher after she visited her boyfriend’s house. A 9-year-old revealed in an anonymous letter to the KIND staff that she had been raped but was too scared to tell anyone, even her mother. KIND hopes to reverse this decline through its signature leadership program, Kudra. The program prepares university women to pursue careers in public service. It reaches over 3,000 women in five universities in Lagos. Out of this study, KIND developed a new program, called Junior Kudra, for girls aged 13 to 17. “We aim to catch them young,” said Oyekunle. She added that as they grow, girls often make decisions based on While training the women, incorrect information. Through KIND increasingly recognized the Junior Kudra, KIND hopes vulnerability of younger girls to that they will get the accurate KIND was started in 1999 by HIV/AIDS infection, unwanted information they need to survive Hafsat Abiola-Costello, whose pregnancies, and sexual harassment their youth and develop into father was the first democratically in school. Girls in Nigeria’s schools strong, active citizens of Nigeria. elected president of Nigeria after a are routinely harassed, and even decade of military rule. The military raped, by male students, and in imprisoned him, and he eventually some cases they are sexually abused died in prison. Her mother, who by teachers, who exchange sex for became the national voice for the promises of good grades. 51 Grantmaking Investing in Our Grantee Partners Since community-based programs need more than just • New Horizon Ministries of Lusaka, Zambia, funding, The Global Fund for Children also invests for assistance in human resource development in the people and the organizations that make them and fundraising successful. This is a prime tenet of our grantmaking and •Shilpa Children’s Trust of Colombo, Sri Lanka, capacity-building model, and we address this through for developing a five-year sustainability plan our value-added services and knowledge initiatives. Leveraging Value-Added Services Our leveraging work helps grantee partners identify Value-added services are provided to grantee and pursue opportunities for additional funding partners to strengthen their organizations, make in order to promote sustainability and growth. them more sustainable, and help them optimize These efforts are crucial since our support is often the use of their grants. the first significant contact our partners have with international donors. Simply being a GFC grantee KLARA Network partner boosts their credibility. The KLARA (Knowledge, Learning and Resource Access) Network (www.gfcklara.org) went live While we do not accept government funds, we do not this year. The network was established to provide hesitate to facilitate introductions to government and our grantee partners with a space to engage in multilateral donors. We also facilitate referrals to private continuous dialogue, identify other GFC partners, donors using our networks and strong reputation for search for funding sources, and link to resources and finding great groups operating under the radar. references to strengthen their organizations. We also play an active role as advocates of our partners’ Organizational Development Support work, helping them achieve recognition and visibility. We piloted our organizational development awards in This year, two of them, Avenir de l’Enfant and Gender 2003 in South Asia, and we extended them this year Education, Research and Technologies Foundation, to Latin America and Africa. Sixteen grantee partners became fellows of the International Center for Tolerance were given organizational development support through Education in New York. Another, Shidhulai Swanirvar local nonprofit management consultants. These awards Sangstha, won the prestigious Ashden Award. were worth $100,635, more than double last year’s. We have leveraged over $2.4 million for our Our local management consultants are Mexico’s El grantee partners since 1997. Among those that Caracol, for Latin America; India’s Dasra, for South raised additional funds with our help this year are Asia; South Africa’s Goals and Performance Analysts, Asociación Solas y Unidas, Potohar Organization for for southern Africa; and Belun, for Timor-Leste. Development Advocacy, Going to School, Prayas, and Prerana. Funds came from American Jewish This year’s recipients include: World Service, Asha Urbana-Champaign, EMpower, •Door Step School of Mumbai, India, for a plan Global Fund for Women, Nike Foundation, and that will enable it to scale up its operations in Washington Area Women’s Foundation. Mumbai and Pune 52 Legal Assistance: Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation Our grantee partners can avail themselves of a variety of pro bono services from 160 independent law firms through our collaboration with the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation. Our grantee partner Centro Cultural Batahola Norte in Nicaragua was helped by Lex Mundi firm Alvarado & Associates to secure legal status as an independent nongovernmental organization. Another partner, JUCONI, briefed Lex Mundi firms at their meeting in Barbados, while the foundation sent a lawyer to brief participants at our India Knowledge Exchange. Knowledge Initiatives Our knowledge initiatives gather, distill, and disseminate our experiences and lessons among grantee partners and the wider development and philanthropic communities. Knowledge Exchange Workshops These workshops facilitate the exchange of experiences in serving the most vulnerable children at the community level. This year, we held two Knowledge Exchange workshops, one in Guatemala for partners in Central America and another in India for those doing disaster recovery and renewal work in Asia and the United States. In November 2006, 22 grantee partners from Mexico and Central America met in Antigua, Guatemala, for our first workshop in the region. Participants came from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. They discussed challenges in identifying and reaching the most vulnerable and marginalized young people and strategies for involving the family and the community in their development. The workshop closed with a session that outlined ideas for ongoing communication and collaboration and for sharing materials and methodologies. In May 2007, 22 grantee partners from India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the United States met in Mamallapuram, India. This was a unique meeting for those who experienced the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 South Asia earthquake, and the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They produced a manifesto affirming the role of community-based organizations as first responders and long-term providers in disaster response. After the workshop, the participants began collaborating in their respective countries not only in times of disaster but also in their daily work. information on their current status. This allows us to monitor their development and evaluate our record in making “good bets” on emerging organizations. Forty tracking grants have been awarded since 2003. International Fellows Program This year, we launched our International Fellows Program, which enables practitioners to spend up to four months conducting research in Washington, DC. The fellows add an international grassroots perspective to our work; their organizations benefit from what they learn during the fellowship. Sonali Ojha, founder of Dreamcatchers Foundation in Mumbai, India, was our first international fellow. She earned an economics degree from St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and a diploma in international studies from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ojha helped us define and develop an approach for comprehensive program support for the psychosocial needs and social and emotional development of vulnerable children. Her fellowship was from September 2006 to January 2007. Our second fellow, Nicholas Kaufmann, worked with Salud y Género A. C. in Querétaro, Mexico. He has a psychology degree from Switzerland’s University of Geneva and a diploma in adolescent health and development from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. Kaufmann helped us define our portfolio frameworks to better respond to the distinct needs of boys and young men while distilling our lessons and experiences as one of the few funders in this field. His fellowship was from February to July 2007. The William Ascher Summer Fellowship This year’s Ascher fellow was Sarah Ireland, a graduate of the School of Education at Harvard University. Ireland documented our response to natural disasters, examined the responses of five other organizations, and wrote a paper that will help future activities in this field. This fellowship was created in honor of our founding chairman, William Ascher, currently the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College. Research Projects This year, we undertook various research studies to better understand, apply, and share best practices in development, capacity building, and effective philanthropy. This included an analysis of our Johnson Tracking Grants & Johnson Health and Well-Being grants program, All of our past grantee partners are eligible for a $1,000 and research on various regional models of philanthropy tracking grant every two years in exchange for basic to help refine our microphilanthropy approach. 53 Trust 54 55 Global Media Ventures Celebrating Community and Diversity Through the power of books, documentary photography, films, and increasingly, online media, the Global Media Ventures program celebrates the community and diversity of children and young people all over the world. Our vibrant photo-illustrated children’s books present the many common experiences that young people around the world share. Our documentary photography illuminates the daily lives of young people served by the communitybased organizations we fund. The films we support focus on the resilience of young people and raise awareness of the issues confronting them. As we narrate their stories through our books, pictures, films, and online media, we promote the dignity of vulnerable children and youth and advance global citizenship. Global Fund for Children Books At the heart of Global Media Ventures is the children’s book program, published under the imprint Global Fund for Children Books. We have 22 children’s books in publication and more than 300,000 copies in circulation. The books have been read by over 1.5 million readers and have collectively won 27 awards. The latest addition to the collection is the children’s board book Global Babies. It provides striking photographs of babies in Guatemala, Thailand, Greenland, Mali, the United States, India, South Africa, Fiji, Peru, Afghanistan, Malawi, Spain, Iraq, Rwanda, and Bhutan. Additional books are in development with Charlesbridge Publishing, a for-profit children’s book company that has been our partner since 1997. When we published our first book, Children from Australia to Zimbabwe, a portion of the royalties went to fund our grantmaking. This practice continues today. Books for Kids Late last fiscal year, we received a $50,000 Angel Network Award from Oprah’s Angel Network to distribute about 16,000 of our children’s books to vulnerable young people around the world. The grant was given in honor of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. This fiscal year, we shipped a total of 6,508 books with a retail value of $62,128 to 20 grassroots groups in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and North America. Of these books, 5,516 were given to kids (many of whom had never owned a book) to take home, while 992 were reserved for libraries and resource centers. We thank Charlesbridge Publishing and American River Logistics, Inc., for their assistance in this humanitarian project. In implementing this project, we made special efforts to provide books to children in conflict and post-conflict areas. We distributed the books to children through organizations in Afghanistan, Colombia, Israel, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Timor-Leste. These organizations included Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a community created by Jewish and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, the Elie Wiesel Global Babies generated such interest that it is already Foundation in Israel, the Bakhita Vocational Training being reprinted. A Booklist review says: “Attuned to its Center for Women in Sudan, and the Lemon Aid audience, the book’s close-ups emphasize the children’s Fund in Sierra Leone. Other distributors included faces and create a feeling of connection between subject grantee partners like the Afghan Institute of Learning and viewer. In an era when board books often recycle in Afghanistan, Ba Futuru in Timor-Leste, and the picture book stories intended for older children, here’s Sunera Foundation in Sri Lanka. one that is just right for babies and toddlers.” Since 1996, our Books for Kids project has donated nearly 61,000 books with a retail value of over $762,000 to organizations and programs promoting children’s literacy all over the world. Documentary Photography The Global Fund for Children / International Center of Photography Fellowship uses the power of photography to highlight the hope and opportunity cultivated by our grantee partners in the children they serve. It is also designed to inspire a new generation of photographers to use photography to document social changes all over the world. The fellowship, created in 2004 in partnership with the New York– based International Center of Photography, has been awarded to three young photographers. This year’s awardee was Malin Fezehai, a Swedish photographer based in New York. After studying photography in Sweden, she attended the full-time program at the International Center of Photography. Her work consists of long-term projects in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. She previously volunteered at Mother Theresa’s orphanage for HIV-positive children in Ethiopia, and she has completed a project about family life in Ghana. Fezehai documented the work of four of our grantee partners. She traveled to Peru to photograph the work of Asociación de Defensa de la Vida, Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo (Escuelas Deporte y Vida), and Yanapanakusun. In Washington, DC, Fezehai documented Life Pieces to Masterpieces, one of our 2005 Sustainability Award winners. Several of the photographs illustrating this annual report were taken during her fellowship. Global Fund for Children Films This year, we invested in two films, War Child and Journey of a Red Fridge. Since 2005, we have invested in three films. War Child is a feature-length documentary on the life of Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese child soldier turned hiphop artist in the United Kingdom. Jal’s story mirrors his homeland: tragedy and terror, mingled with hope, and restoration. His dream of gua, or peace, for Sudan and the rest of Africa is told in his own words and music. The film is being produced by 18th Street Films, based in Washington, DC. It is scheduled for release in 2008. Journey of a Red Fridge focuses on a young Nepali student, Hari Rai, who also works as a porter so he can pay his school fees and cover his living expenses. He is asked to carry a defective refrigerator from the top of a mountain to town for repairs. During this fourday journey, we learn about his life and those of other porters. It is being produced by the award-winning production company Lunam Productions, based in Serbia. It is scheduled for release in late 2007. Blog: On the Road One of the most popular features of our redesigned website is our blog, On the Road. This online journal gives readers a flavor of the journeys our staff members undertake as they scout for innovative communitybased organizations. Readers learn about the conditions our grantee partners labor under, find out about some of the children our partners serve, and gain new knowledge about our meticulous selection process. Awards We won three gold awards and one silver award for excellence in communications from the 2007 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards program of the Council on Foundations. We won gold awards for our 2005–2006 annual report, our book catalog, and our website, www.globalfundforchildren.org. We also garnered a silver award for our online newsletter, @work. 58 Knowledge 59 Fundraising Giving for Growth As The Global Fund for Children continues to grow, and our grantmaking and other successful programs continue to broaden, we are fortunate to have an increasing number of friends and supporters. This support is critical as we work to achieve our mission and vision while expanding our programs in exciting and innovative ways. Thanks to our loyal supporters, we secured nearly $7 million in revenue this year, with several major commitments pledged over the coming years. Individual donors contributed 45 percent of our revenue. Corporate and foundation donors accounted for 29 percent and 22 percent, respectively, while the rest came from sales of our children’s books, book royalties, matching gifts, and partnerships. We value this healthy mix of funding, which ensures a stable future for us and demonstrates that our model is understood, embraced, and championed by a wide range of supporters. One highlight this year was our exciting and educational leadership visit to India with several Global Fund for Children friends. High-school student Hayley Crown joined us as we visited some of our grantee partners, learned about the difficulties that vulnerable children face in the region, and saw the positive and inspiring ways in which our partners tackle the problems in their communities. In the following pages, you will read her impressions of the visit, illustrated by Will Hunckler, another young supporter who joined the delegation. 60 Tea Collection Our partnership with Tea Collection, a manufacturer and distributor of high-quality children’s clothing, is a great way to convey our message and values to children and families in the United States. Tea Collection (www.teacollection.com) fashioned a special line of children’s T-shirts and bodysuits, imprinted with the phrase “for little citizens of the world,” to benefit our work. We are grateful for the positive response that this partnership has already generated. This year, we raised $31,262 from sales in this special collection. New Global Citizens We are excited to partner with New Global Citizens, whose mission is to mobilize young people in the United States to help solve the world’s biggest problems. It works with high-school students from all backgrounds to create and support innovative Global Action Clubs that address complex global problems like access to education, environmental damage, and HIV/AIDS. Students in these clubs support our grassroots partners in the developing world in three important ways: •Educating their local community about critical issues • Generating and giving funds • Acting as advocates New Global Citizens supports its Global Action Clubs through training workshops, comprehensive written materials, one-on-one coaching, and webbased networking for club members across the country. We connect these clubs with selected grantee partners and supply them with poignant stories that highlight the successes and growth each grantee has achieved as a result of our partnership. We also share photos of the children and provide the clubs with the background information needed to better understand the history, culture, and work of our grantee partners. In addition, we are in regular contact with the grantees, letting them know that a portion of their grant is being funded by students. Knowing that there are young people in the United States who care enough to support and advocate for children they have never met is incredibly moving and empowering for our grantees. This year, money raised by Global Action Clubs across the United States supported Children’s Town in Zambia, ProJOVEN in Paraguay, Thai Youth Action Programs in Thailand, and Nishtha in India. The clubs in Leland High School and The Harker School, both in San Jose, California, and Bret Harte Middle School and The College Preparatory School, both in Oakland, California, were particularly energetic in raising funds. 61 The Mirman School We have enjoyed a special partnership with The Mirman School of Los Angeles since 1999. The school’s annual readathon has raised $55,178 for our partners over the years. In the past, proceeds have gone to support the Train Platform Schools of the Ruchika Social Service Organization in India. These funds not only go toward meeting the Train Platform Schools’ operating needs but also help to build the organization’s endowment. This year, Mirman School students raised $8,852 and divided the proceeds between Ruchika and another grantee partner, Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la Promoción Humana, which provides education for displaced children in the shantytowns of Bogotá, Colombia. Our partnerships with Tea Collection, New Global Citizens, and The Mirman School enable us to reach new audiences and help us cultivate a new generation of philanthropists. We are continually thankful for our partners and donors and for all those who believe in and support our vision. Together, we are creating a world where all children grow up to be productive, caring citizens of a global society. From the Field Hope for the Future I describe India to people by telling them to imagine all their senses acutely heightened. From the moment you arrive in India, the sounds, the colors, the smells, the flavors, even the textures, become so vibrant. Amid all these, however, the poverty becomes undeniably apparent, and the need for help seems more and more pressing. The true wonder of these shelters was not apparent until we toured the construction site. The workers’ “homes” were no more than small spaces defined only by scrap-metal walls and roofs. It was hard to imagine young children and babies spending their days alone in exposed shacks or in the midst of heavy machinery and trucks. I was recently in India with a Global Fund for Children delegation to visit their grantee partners. The sadness of visiting the poor was overcome by meeting inspiring people doing all they could to improve things. Being with GFC made places in India look less like hopeless pockets of poverty and more like places for great philanthropic opportunity. When visiting the crèches, it was easy to see the healthy cocoon being provided for these kids. We walked into a two-room mud hut, with a single light bulb in each room and a propane stove, and were greeted by 40 curious smiling faces and three welcoming teachers. The children spent the rest of the afternoon clapping and singing loudly, drawing, or playing games. The optimism and enthusiasm of the children, along with the care and commitment of the teachers, made the crèche seem like a typical childcare center. We visited eight GFC grantee partners in Mumbai and Bengaluru: Mumbai Mobile Crèches, Aangan Trust, SUPPORT, Dream a Dream, Agastya International Foundation, Door Step School, Prerana, and the Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID). Each visit was a different experience; the goals and values of each group were unique, and so were the staff and the environment. For more than 30 years, Mobile Crèches, based in Mumbai, has been providing shelters at construction sites to protect, educate, nurture, and stimulate children of migrant construction workers. During the day, children stay at these crèches, learning and playing in a safe environment while their parents work without having to worry about them. 62 Our visit to Agastya in Bengaluru presented a contrast to Mobile Crèches. While Mobile Crèches removes children from hazardous environments in India’s largest city and focuses on early childhood education, Agastya reaches out to India’s rural youth, introducing them to the world of science. Agastya funds mobile labs—interactive science classrooms on wheels—that reach the state’s poorest districts. The mobile labs provide science experiments for children who would otherwise never understand such concepts as density or gravity. We saw dozens of children sitting wide-eyed, with dropped jaws, at the eruption of a baking-soda volcano and the sight of a hologram. Agastya’s main campus is in Kuppam, one of the poorest regions in Andhra Pradesh, about three hours from Bengaluru. Children travel there from surrounding villages to conduct their own science experiments and participate in science fairs. We observed everything from gravity experiments to the preparation of a lunar chart. It was wonderful to see these young boys’ and girls’ natural curiosity and ability being given a chance to flourish and grow. My trip to India was an extraordinary learning experience. I saw the extreme, unhealthy, and dangerous conditions that confront so many Indian children daily. Actually seeing and being among these children was far more effective than seeing a news report or a picture; being a part of it ensures that I will never forget the people, the places, or the small miracles that occur every day with a little help. The trip was amazing, not only because of the selfless and inspiring adults working in such impoverished conditions, but because of the children themselves. It is their hope, their smiles, their eagerness to learn, that make this work so fulfilling. More than anything, it is the positive attitude and enthusiasm of the children that give me hope for the future of India. 63 It is easy for us to forget that although money is an important resource, these children need much more. Money buys materials and infrastructure, but children also require care and nurturing; they require time and patience for them to heal and grow. I highly encourage everyone, especially young people, to go out into the field to witness GFC’s grantee organizations and the children they help. I shared the trip with a friend, Will Hunckler, whose photographs illustrate this section. One of the most important things we took back was the knowledge that it is our generation that will inherit the problems and successes of countries like India. Essay by Hayley Crown, grade 10 student. Photos by Will Hunckler, grade 11 student. They visited our grantee partners in India this year as part of a GFC delegation. Generosity 64 e spark of generosity drives us to advance Th the dignity of young people worldwide. We are thankful to all our donors and supporters for their contributions during the 2006–2007 fiscal year. 65 Our Donors 2006–2007 Individuals Anonymous (40) Patricia L. Abrams Nadia Adhami Maya Ajmera and David Hollander Jr. Roopa and Ramesh Ajmera Mohammad Alfalah Hayfaa Alsaqqaf Adlai J. Amor Antonella Antonini and Alan Stein Barbara and William Ascher Jeannette Austin and Richard Lazarus Lena Badalyan and Melis Paronyan Jocelyn Balaban-Lutzky and David Lutzky Stephanie Baldonado Marion Ballard Barbra Witzer Banner and Jonathan Banner Thomas C. 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Selecting Our Grantee Partners * The spark of determination keeps our grantee partners committed to uplifting the lives of vulnerable young people wherever they may be. We select our grantee partners based on their demonstrated potential to produce sustainable improvement in the lives of vulnerable children and youth and to serve as a resource or model for other organizations. Eligibility Criteria Prospective grantee partners must meet the following eligibility criteria in order to be considered for support: Appropriate size and stage of development With rare exceptions, prospective grantee partners’ annual budgets should not exceed $200,000. In most cases, new grantee partners have budgets in the $25,000 to $75,000 range. Our aim is to identify organizations at a relatively early stage in their development. Direct involvement with children and youth Prospective grantee partners must work directly with children and youth. We do not support groups engaged exclusively in advocacy or research. (We do, however, support organizations that perform both advocacy and direct service.) Capable management Prospective grantee partners must have systems and processes for ensuring responsible management of funds. At a minimum, organizations must have basic accounting and reporting systems as well as phone and email access. Local leadership Prospective grantee partners must be led by individuals who live and work in the community. We give priority to organizations whose leaders were born and raised in the community. We do not fund the local offices or affiliates of national or international organizations. Legal status Prospective grantee partners must be registered with the local or national government as not-for-profit organizations. If the political context makes legal registration unfeasible, organizations must demonstrate nonprofit equivalency. We do not provide start-up funding for the creation of new organizations. 72 All black-and-white photographs were taken by Malin Fezehai during her 2006-2007 GFC/ICP Fellowship trip to Peru and Washington, DC. Selection Guidelines Beyond the basic eligibility criteria, we use the following selection guidelines to identify organizations that are truly exceptional: A focus on the most vulnerable We give priority to organizations that reach the most vulnerable children and youth, who are economically and socially outside the reach of mainstream services and support. These may include working children, children who live on the streets, children affected by HIV and AIDS, children involved in armed conflict, children of migrants and displaced populations, children of sex workers, children with disabilities, hardto-reach rural populations, and other vulnerable or marginalized groups. Community involvement We give priority to organizations that are rooted in their communities and operate with community input, involvement, and investment, embracing the community as an integral part of their success. 73 Effectiveness We give priority to organizations that can demonstrate sustained, meaningful improvement in the lives of the children and youth they serve. Empowerment We give priority to organizations that engage children and youth as active participants in their own growth and development, rather than as passive recipients of services. Innovation and creativity We give priority to organizations that tackle old problems in new ways, demonstrating innovation and creativity in their program strategies and approaches. Strong leadership We give priority to organizations that have committed, respected, and dynamic leadership with a vision for change. Adaptability We give priority to organizations that generate models, methodologies, and practices that can be adapted and applied to similar issues and challenges in other communities. Potential for sustainability We give priority to organizations that have a strategy for ensuring the long-term sustainability of their programs through donor diversification, mobilization of government funding, community investment, income-generating activities, and other creative measures. Reputation We give priority to organizations that are recognized and trusted in their communities. The Global Fund for Children does not accept unsolicited proposals. Those interesting in applying may inquire online at our website: www.globalfundforchildren.org. Grantee Partners Learning * We believe that every child everywhere deserves access to a quality education. 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 [email protected] 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 74 Agastya International Foundation $14,000/642,180 India rupees Chittoor district, India Ramji Raghavan [email protected] www.agastya.org Anandan (Happiness) $6,000/255,600 India rupees Kolkata, India Indrani Ghosh [email protected] www.geocities.com/anandan_kolkata Director Director 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 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 [email protected] 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 children who have been forced to drop out of school because of poverty. Previous funding: $43,000 since 2002 75 Asanblé Vwazen Jakè (AVJ) ( Jakè Neighborhood Association) $7,000/266,420 Haiti gourdes Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo (Pro-Child Civil Association) $17,000/55,250 Peru nuevos soles Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reagan Lolo [email protected] Director Director 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. Lima, Peru José Luis Quiroga Becerra [email protected] www.acpni.org 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 [email protected] 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 76 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 Benito Terraza Cedillo [email protected] Director 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 Zoraida Soza [email protected] Director 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 [email protected] 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 Norma Villalta [email protected] Director 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 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 primaryschool enrollment and academic success. Previous funding: $29,500 since 2004 Asociación Poder Joven (Youth Power Association) $12,000/28,824,000 Colombia pesos Bacau, Romania Director Maria Gheorghiu [email protected] www.ovid.ro Medellín, Colombia Clared Patricia Jaramillo Duque [email protected] www.poderjoven.org Director 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 crimeridden neighborhood of Guayaquil from abandoning their homes for the streets. Our grant supports the Seeds of the Future project, which provides schoolgoing children with courses on tolerance, avoiding drug use, and sexuality, as well as intensive academic support. Previous funding: $14,000 since 2004 77 Asociatia Ovidiu Rom $19,000/47,090 Romania new lei 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 part of Ovidiu Rom’s 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 D. Devanbu [email protected] www.acds.india.org Director 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, highquality 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 Deep Lal Chaudhary [email protected] www.basenepal.org.np Director 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 [email protected] 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 Gaby Vallejo [email protected] 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 José Gabriel Zelada Ortiz [email protected] Director 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 Director 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 Jennifer F. Marshall [email protected] www.friendsofbatahola.org Director 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 78 Challenging Heights $6,000/55,470,000 Ghana cedis Sankor, Ghana James Kofi Annan [email protected] Director 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 Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group $9,000/383,400 India rupees Delhi, India Bharati Chaturvedi [email protected] www.chintan-india.org Director 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 hryvnia Kiev, Ukraine Yuliya Kondur [email protected] Director 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 Michael James Wanh [email protected] Director Lilongwe, Malawi Gladys Msonda [email protected] Director 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 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 governmentrun 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 [email protected] www.doorstepschool.org Door Step School serves working, slumdwelling, 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 communitybased, nonformal children’s education classes that operate on a flexible schedule. Previous funding: $30,500 since 2004 79 Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) $9,000/383,400 India rupees Kolkata, India Bharati Dey [email protected] www.durbar.org Director 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 Anna Kukuruza [email protected] Director EII’s work focuses on preventing the institutionalization of infants and young children who have developmental delays and disabilities and integrating 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 [email protected] www.ethiopiareads.org EBCEF works to improve the reading skills of Ethiopia’s undereducated children by establishing libraries in lowincome neighborhoods, donating highquality children’s books to community organizations, coordinating publicawareness 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 [email protected] 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 support 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. 80 Friends for Street Children (FFSC) $13,000/208,390,000 Vietnam dong Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Marie Le Thi Thao [email protected] www.olivierdumonde.com Director 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, inclusive of gifts in honor of Robert D. Stillman and Greg Fields Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la Promoción Humana (Alfonso Casas Morales Foundation for Human Advancement) $6,000/14,412,000 Colombia pesos Bogotá, Colombia Pablo Henao Mejía [email protected] www.promocionhumana.org Director 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 Sylvia Reyes [email protected] www.juconi.org.ec Director 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 Chain Singh Arya [email protected] Director 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 [email protected] 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 primaryschool 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 Yewoinshet Masresha [email protected] Director 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 81 Institute of Leadership and Institutional Development (ILID) $8,000/340,800 India rupees Bengaluru, India Director Dr. G. K. Jayaram [email protected] 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 María Elvira Sánchez Toscano [email protected] Director 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 communitybased 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 J. Carrie Oelberger [email protected] www.jifunze.org Director 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] www.kapekh.org KAPE works with 190 schools to provide 90,000 children with highquality 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 Richard K. Kariuki [email protected] Director 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 [email protected] 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. 82 Kids in Need of Direction (KIND) $11,000/68,860 Trinidad and Tobago dollars Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Karina Jardine-Scott [email protected] www.kindkids.net Director 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 Lapeng (Home) Child and Family Resource Service $6,000/42,960 South Africa rand Johannesburg, South Africa Mathibedi Nthite [email protected] Director 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 Gerry Delaquis [email protected] Director Kindle $7,000/966,910 Malawi kwachas Salima district, Malawi Director Andrew Barr [email protected] 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 education program to include primary education and skills training. Kitemu Integrated School $16,000/29,520,000 Uganda shillings Kampala, Uganda Sserwanga M. Stephen [email protected] Director 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 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 officials, educates parents on the importance of education, and helps the community to plan for long-term sustainability. Our grant provides support for 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 Ramesh Sekhar Reddy [email protected] www.mahita.org Director Focusing on vulnerable 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 the girls 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 [email protected] 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. 83 Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA) (Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women) $7,000/226,450 Dominican Republic pesos Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Sonia Pierre [email protected] www.kiskeya-alternative.org/mudha Director 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 Devika Mahadevan [email protected] www.mobilecreches.org Director 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 $10,000/2,494,600 Zimbabwe dollars Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Director David Green [email protected] Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED) $12,000/511,200 India rupees Lucknow, India Anil K. Singh [email protected] www.indianeed.org Our Children $11,000/32,230,000 Sierra Leone leones Freetown, Sierra Leone Nasserie Carew [email protected] www.ourchildreninc.com Director Director Nepal Bhotia Education Center (NBEC) $6,000/407,940 Nepal rupees 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 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 Sankhuwasabha district, Nepal Chhongduk Bhotia [email protected] New Horizon Ministries (NHM) $12,000/49,800,000 Zambia kwacha Nehemiah is a faith-based ngo 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 Director 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 84 Lusaka, Zambia Director Juliet Chilengi [email protected] 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 Prayas (Endeavor) $17,000/779,790 India rupees Jaipur, India Jatinder Arora [email protected] www.prayasjaipur.org Director 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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. 85 Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (Village Self-Reliance) $18,000/1,196,100 Bangladesh taka Pabna district, Bangladesh A. H. M. Rezwan [email protected] www.shidhulai.org Skolta’el Yu’un Jlumaltic (SYJAC) (Service to Our People) $8,000/88,160 Mexico pesos San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico Sabás Cruz García [email protected] www.syjac.org.mx Director Director 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 solar-powered boats 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 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. Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT) $8,000/819,200 Sri Lanka rupees Colombo, Sri Lanka Nita Gunesekera [email protected] www.shilpa.org Director 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 Snowland Service Group (SSG) $8,000/61,840 China yuan Yushu County, Qinghai, China Rinchen Dawa [email protected] www.snowlandsgroup.org Director 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 [email protected] 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 Dominicanborn Haitian children, recognition that will allow these children to attend school. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2005 86 Society Biliki (Path Society) $16,000/27,200 Georgia lari Gori, Georgia Mari Mgebrishvili [email protected] Director Biliki assists underprivileged, specialneeds, 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 S. Desingu [email protected] Director 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 schoolgoing 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 [email protected] 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 Nana Doliashvili [email protected] www.tyhfoundation.gol.ge Director 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 87 Teboho Trust $6,000/42,960 South Africa rand Johannesburg, South Africa Jose Bright [email protected] www.teboho.com Director 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 [email protected] 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 Indira Jena [email protected] www.vikasini.org Director 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 in changing their lives. Our grant supports the Vikasini Girls School, which offers governmentaccredited classes and extracurricular activities to girls aged 4 to 12. Vikramshila Education Resource Society $13,000/596,310 India rupees Bigha, India Shubhra Chatterji [email protected] www.vikramshila.org Director 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 Maria Mitos Urgel [email protected] www.weave-women.org Director 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 David Andrew Snider [email protected] www.yptdc.org Director 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 Grantee Partners Enterprise * We believe that enterprise programs must meet working young people where they are and acknowledge their need to work, while promoting a more supportive environment. 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 Alliance for Children and Youth $9,000/12,320 Bulgaria leva Campinas, Brazil Director Lia Ferreira [email protected] Director 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. 88 Sofia, Bulgaria Mariana Pisarska [email protected] 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 Jenny Mayorga [email protected] Director 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 Street Children of Oaxaca) $12,000/132,240 Mexico pesos Oaxaca, Mexico Director María del Carmen Espinosa [email protected] 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 betterpaying employment off the streets. Previous funding: $20,500 since 2005 89 Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB) (San Juan Bosco Center) $12,000/226,680 Honduras lempiras Tela, Honduras Dylcia de Ochoa [email protected] Director 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 betterpaying 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 Juan Martín Pérez García [email protected] www.elcaracol.org Director 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 Dhriiti (The Courage Within) $5,000/229,350 India rupees Peshawar, Pakistan Director Meraj Humayun Khan [email protected] Director 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 García [email protected] 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 90 New Delhi, India Anirban Gupta [email protected] 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 among children and youth in government schools. Dream a Dream $8,000/340,800 India rupees Bengaluru, India Vishal Talreja [email protected] www.dreamadream.org Director 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 Miguel Cap Patal [email protected] Director 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 Samuel W. Watulatsu [email protected] www.fdncuganda.org Director 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 [email protected] 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 Going to School (GTS) $15,000/688,050 India rupees New Delhi, India Lisa Heydlauff [email protected] www.goingtoschool.com Lupeni, Romania Director Dana Bates [email protected] 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 91 Sanaag region, Somalia Fatima Jibrell [email protected] www.hornrelief.org Director Director 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 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 Las Mangas, Honduras Jimmy Andino [email protected] www.guaruma.org Instituto Fazer Acontecer (IFA) (Make It Happen Institute) $10,000/20,400 Brazil reais Director Fundatia Noi Orizonturi (New Horizons Foundation) $8,000/19,840 Romania new lei Horn Relief $16,000/21,920,000 Somalia shillings 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 selfexpression, 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 Salvador da Bahia, Brazil Renato Paes de Andrade [email protected] www.fazeracontecer.org.br Director 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 Karm Marg (Progress through Work) $9,000/412,830 India rupees Thiruvallur district, India Director V. Susai Raj [email protected] www.jeevajyothi.org Faridabad, India Director Veena Lal [email protected] www.karmmarg.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 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 Kalinga Mission for Indigenous Children and Youth Development (KAMICYDI) $6,000/286,200 Philippines pesos Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) $7,000/896,280 Nigeria nairas Gapan City, Philippines Donato Bayubay Bumacas [email protected] Director KAMICYDI defends the land and environment of the indigenous Kalinga communities in the northern Philippines and promotes a culturally 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. 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. Director 92 Lagos, Nigeria Hafsat Abiola-Costello [email protected] www.kind.org Love in Action Ethiopia (LIA) $6,000/52,440 Ethiopia birr Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State, Ethiopia Director Yohannes Amado [email protected] 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 Matthew Spacie [email protected] www.magicbusindia.org Director 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 [email protected] 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 93 Mujejego-Loka (Dawn Light) Women Development Organization $7,000/61,180 Ethiopia birr Beninshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia Director Tirhas Mezgebe [email protected] 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 Suraiya Haque [email protected] www.phulki.org Director 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 [email protected] 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 94 Pravah (Flow) $6,000/275,220 India rupees New Delhi, India Meenu Venkateswaran [email protected] www.younginfluencers.com Director 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 Utealia Burrel [email protected] Director 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 [email protected] 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 Sivaji [email protected] Director 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 communitybased 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 Parul Sheth [email protected] www.shaishavchildrights.org Director 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. 95 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 [email protected] 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 Ciré Kane [email protected] www.synapsecenter.org Director 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 Ana Salas Vivanco [email protected] Director 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 Soreach Sereithida [email protected] Director 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 Astronaut Bagile [email protected] Director 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. Grantee Partners Safety * We believe that children’s futures can be secured only when they are protected from threats to their safety and insulated from exploitation, violence, abuse, and neglect. 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 [email protected] 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 96 Ankuram (Sprout) Woman and Child Development Society $6,000/275,220 India rupees Hyderabad, India M. Sumitra [email protected] Director 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 Camelia Blaga [email protected] www.alegromania.tk Director 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 [email protected] ADEP fights exploitation and violence against girls, educating girls 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 97 Association des Jeunes pour le Développement Intégré–Kakundu (AJEDI–Ka) (Youth Association for Integrated Development–Kakundu) $12,000/4,752,000 DRC francs Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Director Bukeni Tete Waruzi Beck [email protected] Since its creation, AJEDI–Ka has demobilized more than 300 child soldiers, reintegrated 52 former child soldiers into school, and produced two videos on child soldiers in the DRC for national and international advocacy. Our grant supports the Child Soldiers Project, 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: $7,000 since 2005 Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais (AFEL) (Lebanese Child Home Association) $11,000/15,080,000 Lebanon pounds Beirut, Lebanon Simone Warde [email protected] www.afelonline.org Director 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 [email protected] 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 98 Association La Lumière (The Light Association) $14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE) $7,000/64,204,000 Ghana cedis Director Tambacounda, Senegal Ibrahima Sory Diallo [email protected] Director 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 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. Accra, Ghana Jack James Dawson [email protected] Avenir de l’Enfant (ADE) (Future of the Child) $11,000/5,348,750 CFA francs Center for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CPCAN) $6,000/6,960,000 Mongolia tugriks Rufisque, Senegal Director Moussa Sow [email protected] Director 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 Brigitte Louchez [email protected] www.barracadaamizade.hpg.ig.com.br Director 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 Milica Djordjevic [email protected] www.cim.org.yu Director 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. 99 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Baigalmaa Sunren [email protected] 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 para el Desarrollo Regional (CDR) (Center for Regional Development) $10,000/79,900 Bolivia bolivianos Potosí, Bolivia Wilhelm Piérola Iturralde [email protected] Director 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 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 youthrun greenhouses producing fruits and vegetables for the local market. Previous funding: $7,500 since 2006 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Márcia Florêncio de Souza [email protected] www.excola.org.br Children on the Edge–Romania (COTE) $8,000/19,840 Romania new lei Director 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 Alicia Vargas Ayala [email protected] Director 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 Iasi, Romania Iulian Mocanu [email protected] Director 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 Rowena Legaspi [email protected] www.geocities.com/ccrd_2002/home Director 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 Colín [email protected] 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 Anna Fernandes [email protected] www.corpindia.org Director 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 Cipriano Oliveira de Freitas [email protected] Director 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. 100 Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT) $12,000/17,160 Bulgaria leva Sofia, Bulgaria Director Jivka Marinova [email protected] 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 Rachel Lloyd [email protected] Jabala Action Research Organisation $11,000/504,570 India rupees Kolkata, India Baitali Ganguly [email protected] www.jabala.org Director 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: $8,000 since 2005 Kiev Children and Youth Support Center $5,000/25,150 Ukraine hryvnia Kiev, Ukraine Bogdan Bashtovy [email protected] Director Director 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 outreach and support services to at-risk young women in juvenile detention centers and residential facilities. Previous funding: $26,500 since 2004 The Support Center, founded by orphan graduates and orphanage staff, serves young people who age out of Kiev’s orphanages, offering them legal, medical, psychological, and financial assistance. Our grant supports the Crisis Intervention Program, which supports orphans during emergencies. Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Infancia (IDEMI) (Institute for the Development of Women and Children) $6,000 Panama City, Panama Bertha Vargas [email protected] www.idemipanama.org La Conscience (Conscience) $17,000/8,266,250 CFA francs Tsévié, Togo Kodjo Djissenou [email protected] Director La Conscience works to prevent the trafficking and exploitation of Togo’s impoverished children, who are easily lured to neighboring countries to work on corn, banana, manioc, coffee, and IDEMI works with vulnerable children cocoa plantations. Our grant funds educational support for vulnerable and youth in Panama, supplementing children who are at risk of being formal education and raising awareness trafficked because of their family, on child labor, preventive healthcare, economic, or social situation. gender equity, and civic participation. Our grant supports the safety, education, Previous funding: $46,000 since 2003 and life skills support program for girls working as domestic servants. Director Laura Vicuña Foundation (LVF) $12,000/572,400 Philippines pesos Victorias City, Philippines Director Maria Victoria P. Santa Ana [email protected] www.lauravicuna.com LVF builds children’s capacities through educational and development programs, including drop-in centers, vocational and employment training, and a residential program for sexually abused and exploited girls. Our grant supports the Community Organizing and Mobilizing towards Education (COME) project, which reduces the vulnerability of children to child labor and other forms of abuse by providing educational opportunities and community empowerment initiatives. Previous funding: $17,000 since 2004 Luna Nueva (New Moon) $16,000/85,646,400 Paraguay guaranies Asunción, Paraguay Raquel Fernández [email protected] www.grupolunanueva.com.py Director 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: $43,000 since 2002 101 Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS) (Movement for International SelfDevelopment and Solidarity) $13,000/420,550 Dominican Republic pesos Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic María Josefina Paulino [email protected] Director MAIS keeps girls and young women in Puerto Plata out of the sex tourism industry by promoting school enrollment; providing academic support, vocational training, and psychosocial services; and strengthening family and community support structures. Our grant supports the supplementary academic support program, which provides instruction in core-curriculum subjects, vocational training, and workshops on human and children’s rights to youth who are at high risk of dropping out of school. Previous funding: $35,500 since 2001 New Life Community Project $5,000/35,800 South Africa rand Stellenbosch, South Africa Gerrie Smit [email protected] www.sun.ac.za/newlife Director New Life helps children who live on the streets in Cape Town’s informal settlements by providing them with educational and psychosocial support through community-based home schools, psychosocial support groups, and partnerships with the public school system. Our grant is enabling New Life to open its first satellite community resource centers for street children. Niños con una Esperanza (Children with a Hope) $6,000/194,100 Dominican Republic pesos Santiago, Dominican Republic Pablo Ureña [email protected] Director Niños con una Esperanza provides academic support, life skills training, health education, and personal development opportunities to more than 200 children previously living and working in the Santiago dump. Our grant supports the education program, which promotes school enrollment and retention and reinforces academic and life skills through after-school activities. Oram (Hope) NGO $11,000/12,837,000 Mongolia tugriks Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Ken Howard [email protected] Director Oram’s original work with boys in the federal prison system has expanded to include a shelter for homeless children, community and livelihood programs for herders, and training for local government officials. Our grant supports the Amgalan Children’s Center, a residential home that serves homeless and at-risk children, providing them with literacy classes and employment opportunities. Previous funding: $23,000 since 2003 Prei Effort for Those Who Are in Need (PEFAN) $6,500/56,810 Ethiopia birr Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere (PEACE) $14,000/1,526,420 Sri Lanka rupees Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Director Fisseha Tadesse [email protected] www.pefan.org Colombo, Sri Lanka Director Maureen Seneviratne [email protected] PEFAN works to keep children off the streets through holistic services that include access to education and healthcare, mentoring, and training in the performing arts. Our grant is for general support and is helping PEFAN strengthen its institutional presence. Prisoners Assistance Program (PAP) $10,000/490,000 Liberia dollars Monrovia, Liberia R. Jarwlee Tweh Geegbe [email protected] www.pap.kabissa.org Director PAP is a Liberia-based NGO 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 roleplaying, and peer and mentor support. Previous funding: $6,000 since 2005 102 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. Previous funding: $84,000 since 2000 Salesian Sisters of Zambia $6,000/24,900,000 Zambia kwacha Lusaka, Zambia Zofia Lapinska [email protected] Director City of Hope, run by the Salesian Sisters of Zambia, provides holistic support services to adolescent girls who are survivors of neglect and sexual abuse and runs a transitional shelter, a successful community school, and a vocational skills training program that incorporates training on banking and savings. Our grant supports the community school, which educates almost 800 children who would otherwise be unable to attend school. SIN-DO $14,000/6,807,500 CFA francs Cotonou, Benin Sètchémè Jérônime Mongbo [email protected] Director SIN-DO promotes health and hygiene awareness, supports quality education, and provides training in civic participation, economic development, and HIV/AIDS prevention to women and children living in marginalized communities in and around Cotonou. Our grant supports SIN-DO’s youth-run initiative to prevent the practice of vidomegon, in which children from poor families are sent to work in distant relatives’ or acquaintances’ homes, where they frequently experience abuse and neglect. Previous funding: $17,000 since 2005 Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN) (Friends of Children Society) $13,500/254,880 Honduras lempiras Tegucigalpa, Honduras Sister Maria Rosa Leggol [email protected] www.honduranchildren.com Director 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: $25,500 since 2003 Tasintha (Deeper Transformation) Programme $16,000/62,250,000 Zambia kwacha Lusaka, Zambia Director Clotilda Phiri [email protected] 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. Previous funding: $44,000 since 2003 103 Udruzenje “Nova Generacija” (New Generation Association) $5,000/7,150 Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible marka Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Director Bojan Arula [email protected] Nova Generacija operates a mentoring program in Bosnia’s Serb territories for vulnerable children and youth, many of whom are living with foster families, in orphanages, on the streets, in medical institutions, or in juvenile delinquent halls. Our grant supports educational, cultural, and sports activities for these at-risk children. Yanapanakusun (Let’s Help Each Other) $6,000/19,500 Peru nuevos soles Cusco, Peru Vittoria Savio [email protected] www.geocities.com/caithcusco Director 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. Grantee Partners Healthy Minds and Bodies * We recognize that healthy minds and bodies are important for young people’s dignity and productivity. In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded grants valued at $279,000 to 30 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) $14,000/7,219,520 CFA francs Dori, Burkina Faso Director Goamwaoga Kabore [email protected] 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: $19,000 since 2004 104 Amahoro Association $7,000/3,850,840 Rwanda francs (Inclusive of a gift in honor of Robert D. Stillman) Kigali, Rwanda Kayitare Wayitare Dembe [email protected] www.chabha.org Director Amahoro Association provides homebased care and support to orphaned and vulnerable children in Rwanda through education programs, posttrauma counseling, skills workshops, and microenterprise training. Our grant is for general support and is helping Amahoro to strengthen its leadership and management structures. Ascensions Community Services $6,000 Washington, DC, United States Dr. Satira S. Streeter [email protected] www.2ascend.org Director Ascensions provides disadvantaged and low-income children living east of the Anacostia River with individualized, culturally relevant assistance that helps them to improve their interpersonal relationships and make positive contributions to their communities. Our grant supports the child-centered, familydriven Ascending Families program, which uses a “therapy without walls” approach to decrease the incidence of child abuse, school failure, and substance abuse. Asociación para la Atención Integral de Niños de la Calle (AIDENICA) (Association for Comprehensive Care of Street Boys) $15,000/47,700 Peru nuevos soles Lima, Peru Director Mauro Luque [email protected] www.geocities.com/aidenica AIDENICA rehabilitates street boys, mostly former substance abusers, through various prevention and protection interventions, including a semi-open home that gives them a stable, healthy environment in which to live. Our grant supports the psychosocial support program, which provides group and individual counseling to help the boys work through their trauma and past abuse and develop a positive plan for the future. Previous funding: $43,000 since 2003 105 Associação de Apoio às Meninas e Meninos da Região Sé (AA Criança) (Association for Support of Boys and Girls of the Sé Region) $11,000/22,440 Brazil reais São Paulo, Brazil Vicente de Paulo Pereira Lima [email protected] www.aacrianca.org.br Director AA Criança defends the rights of the poorest and most marginalized children and youth of central São Paulo by providing a comprehensive range of legal, educational, psychological, social, and health-related services. Our grant supports the Ser Mulher program, which provides nonformal education and counseling on health, sexuality, gender, human rights, child development, and citizenship to adolescent mothers, many of whom are victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse, or prostitution. Previous funding: $15,000 since 2005 Association des Artistes et Artisans contre le VIH/SIDA et les Stupifiants (AARCOSIS) (Association of Artists and Artisans against HIV/AIDS and Drugs) $5,000/2,431,250 CFA francs Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Pyanne Djire [email protected] Director AARCOSIS engages musicians, artists, and artisans in the battle against HIV/ AIDS and drug abuse by helping them integrate anti-AIDS and anti-drug messages into their work. Our grant supports local community concerts and fairs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to provide direct support to infants and children with HIV-positive parents. Previous funding: $3,500 since 2006 Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW) $15,000/86,100 Egypt pounds Cairo, Egypt Director Iman Bibars [email protected] 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 is for general support of the Girls’ Dreams Program, which offers basic nonformal education, training in the arts, health and hygiene training, and psychological counseling to underprivileged and abused girls. Previous funding: $21,000 since 2004 Ba Futuru (For the Future) $7,000 Dili, Timor-Leste Joana dos Santos Camoes [email protected] www.bafuturu.org Director 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. 106 Carolina for Kibera $13,000/889,200 Kenya shillings Nairobi, Kenya Salim Mohammed [email protected] http://cfk.unc.edu/binti-pamoja Director Carolina for Kibera promotes youth leadership and ethnic and gender cooperation through sports, young women’s empowerment, and community development in the densely populated and impoverished Kibera urban slum. Our grant supports the Binti Pamoja (Daughters United) program, a reproductive health and women’s rights program for adolescent girls and young women. Previous funding: $8,000 since 2006 Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights Foundation (CPCR) $15,000/561,750 Thailand baht Bangkok, Thailand Director Sanphasit Koomphraphant [email protected] 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: $27,000 since 2003 Centro de Documentacão e Informacão Coisa de Mulher (CEDOICOM) (Center for Documentation and Information on Women’s Issues) $11,000/24,090 Brazil reais Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Neusa das Dores Periera [email protected] www.coisademulher.org.br Director 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: $14,000 since 2004 Dreamcatchers Foundation $8,000/340,800 India rupees Mumbai, India Sonali Ojha [email protected] Director Dreamcatchers uses a participatory, childcentered methodology that helps children coping with grief, destruction, and violence to see the possibilities in life and to find healing, strength, and confidence. Our grant supports the Peacemakers project, which works with children in temporary shelters to build small teams of child leaders who guide their peers in making life-changing transitions. Education as a Vaccine against AIDS Inc. (EVA) $17,000/2,113,650 Nigeria nairas Abuja, Nigeria Director Fadekemi Akinfaderin [email protected] www.evanigeria.org EVA works to empower Nigerian youth living with HIV/AIDS and to raise awareness and foster positive habits among those who are uninfected. Our grant provides support for the Window of Hope project, an HIV prevention program focusing on orphans and streetworking children in the state of Benue. Previous funding: $42,000 since 2003 Fundación Simsa (Simsa Foundation) $6,000/14,412,000 Colombia pesos Bogotá, Colombia Director Lida Alarcón [email protected] www.boquitassanas.net Incest Trauma Center (ITC) $6,000/358,380 Serbia dinars Belgrade, Serbia Dusica Popadic [email protected] www.incesttraumacentar.org.yu Director Ruili, China Zhang Yinzhong [email protected] Director Targeting the most vulnerable citizens— Roma, refugee, and orphaned children— ITC provides counseling for children and female victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and operates a 24-hour crisis hotline. Our grant supports the child and adolescent sex worker program, which provides psychological counseling services to survivors of sex trafficking. The Neng Guan Performing Arts Training Center raises awareness of the dangers of drug use and reduces stigma against HIV/AIDS among rural and ethnic communities through the use of traditional performing arts such as singing and dancing. Our grant supports training and performances that draw on traditional ethnic-minority dances and songs. Integrated Community Health Services (INCHES) $8,000/547,200 Kenya shillings Nia Foundation $6,000/52,440 Ethiopia birr Kisumu, Kenya Director Kitche Magak [email protected] INCHES provides quality integrated Through its flagship Boquitas Sanas healthcare services to vulnerable (Healthy Little Mouths) program, children and youth living on the shores Fundación Simsa operates one-day and remote islands of Lake Victoria. mobile dental clinics for children in Our grant supports the psychosocial poor neighborhoods throughout Bogotá. program, which provides in-school Our grant supports the expansion counseling services for children who of the mobile dental clinics to more are victims of violence. communities, providing an even Previous funding: $6,000 since 2006 greater number of children with dental treatment and dental health education. Kolkata Sanved (Kolkata Sensitivity) $6,000/255,600 India rupees Ikamva Labantu (The Future of Our Nation) Kolkata, India $19,000/141,550 South Africa rand Director Sohini Chakroborty [email protected] Cape Town, South Africa www.sanved.org Director Sipho Puwani [email protected] Kolkata Sanved promotes dance www.ikamva.com movement as a therapeutic tool for the most vulnerable and underprivileged segments of society, including street Ikamva Labantu works in partnership with local residents to improve the quality children, victims of trafficking or violence, children of prostitutes, youth of life in their communities by addressing living in slum areas, and other at-risk a range of issues, including education, economic empowerment, and home-based children. Our grant is enabling Kolkata Sanved to develop the leadership care. Our grant supports the Boys/Men potential of its dance therapy trainers Kindness Project, a unique effort in and to strengthen its existing programs. which a team of researchers, educators, and specialists work with young boys and fathers to create positive male role models, engage men and boys in community development activities, and build strong bonds between boys and male mentors. Previous funding: $39,000 since 2003 107 Neng Guan Performing Arts Training Center $6,000/46,380 China yuan Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Zemzem Yenus [email protected] Director 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 technologybased social integration program. Nyaka AIDS Orphans School $10,000/18,450,000 Uganda shillings Nyakagyeza, Uganda Twesigye Jackson Kaguri [email protected] www.nyakaschool.org Director Nyaka School was founded in 2001 to provide AIDS orphans with a free, highquality 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: $7,000 since 2005 Pazapa (Step by Step) $7,000/253,050 Haiti gourdes Jacmel, Haiti Director Jane MacRae [email protected] www.pazapa.org Pazapa serves children with physical and mental disabilities by providing formal schooling, physical therapy, psychosocial support, orthopedic surgery, nutritious meals, and family counseling and training. Our grant supports the Special Education School, which provides education as well as physical and psychological therapy to children with physical and mental disabilities who would otherwise have no opportunity for schooling. 108 Rozan $8,000/486,560 Pakistan rupees Islamabad, Pakistan Zehra Kamal [email protected] www.rozan.org Director Rozan’s Youth Helpline program provides a safe avenue for young people to learn about emotional, sexual, and reproductive health issues, enabling them to make informed and healthy decisions in their lives. Our grant supports Rozan’s radio program, which raises awareness among youth about sensitive sexual and reproductive health issues. Previous funding: $24,000 since 2004 Ruili Women and Children Development Center (RWCDC) $11,000/87,120 China yuan Ruili County, China Chen Guilan [email protected] www.rwcdc.org Director RWCDC works to improve the overall well-being of neglected or sexually exploited women and children living in Ruili County, bordering Myanmar, 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: $13,000 since 2004 Salus $6,000/14,412,000 Colombia pesos Urubá, Colombia Director Loren Callejas [email protected] 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. Society Undertaking Poor People’s Onus for Rehabilitation (SUPPORT) $8,000/366,960 India rupees Mumbai, India Sujata Ganega [email protected] www.supportstreetchildren.org Director SUPPORT provides treatment and rehabilitation for child drug users through residential shelters that give boys and girls shelter, 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. 109 Synergie pour l’Enfance (Synergy for Childhood) $6,000/3,092,700 CFA francs Vizyon Dwa Ayisyen (VIDWA) (Haitian Rights Vision) $6,000/216,900 Haiti gourdes Thiaroye, Senegal Ngagne Mbaye [email protected] Director Director 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. The Jinpa Project $11,000/85,030 China yuan Nangchen County, China Director Tashi Tsering [email protected] www.jinpa.org The Jinpa Project works in the most remote areas of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to relieve the poverty of nomadic and semi-nomadic communities by creating physical infrastructure and increasing access to education and healthcare. Our grant supports health education through games, skits, and workshop activities for children in 32 primary schools in six counties. Previous funding: $16,000 since 2005 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Anne Sosin [email protected] www.vidwa.org VIDWA defends the rights of Haiti’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens, mainly women and children, through education, advocacy, and community development projects on health, education, and gender-based violence. Our grant supports a new project to engage disenfranchised young men from poor neighborhoods as protagonists in preventing HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. Youth Activist Organization $5,000/20,750,000 Zambia kwacha Lusaka, Zambia Matauka Muliokela [email protected] Director Youth Activist Organization uses sports to raise awareness about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS and is starting a new initiative called Athletics Advantage to organize adolescent girls into soccer clubs that integrate HIV/ AIDS education. Our grant supports the launch of the Athletics Advantage program in the Lusaka region. Grantee Partners Creative Opportunities * We believe in exploring innovative solutions to the varied problems that young people face and in using the creative arts to raise public awareness of issues affecting children and youth. In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded grants valued at $26,000 to 2 grantee partners under this portfolio. An additional $95,000 for four special grants was given under the Presidential Innovation Fund. Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) $10,000/27,400 Suriname dollars Kwamalasamutu, Suriname Director Gwendolyn Emanuels-Smith [email protected] www.amazonteam.org ACT works in partnership with the isolated indigenous peoples of Suriname’s interior to gain land rights, produce natural-resource management plans for these territories, improve health through traditional medicinal practices, and revitalize elements of indigenous culture. Our grant supports the Shamans and Apprentices Program, which provides children with the means to learn traditional medicinal knowledge from village shamans. Previous funding: $20,000 since 2004 110 Espacio Cultural Creativo (Cultural Creative Space) $16,000/127,840 Bolivia bolivianos La Paz, Bolivia Director Maria Carmen Shulze [email protected] Espacio Cultural Creativo engages market-working children and street children through theatrical skits, music, storytelling, and other creative activities held in parks and other open spaces, ultimately striving to channel participants into basic literacy programs. Our grant funds 28 of these interactive workshops. Previous funding: $29,500 since 2002 Presidential Innovation Fund Direct Change $5,000 Washington, DC, United States Ken Deutsch [email protected] www.directchange.org Director The Sudan Project, run by Direct Change, works to educate the public on the issues facing southern Sudan and provides direct financial assistance to improve the delivery of healthcare and education in the region. Our grant funds part of the salary of John Dau, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan featured in the film God Grew Tired of Us, to enable him to complete the construction of the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in Duk Payuel, Sudan. The Global Fund for Children UK Trust $50,000 London, United Kingdom Our grant seeds our affiliate, The Global Fund for Children UK Trust, a duly registered charitable organization in the United Kingdom. Global Goods Partners (GGP) $5,000 New York, NY, United States Directors Joan Shifrin and Catherine Shimony [email protected] www.globalgoodspartners.org GGP works with community-based organizations and cooperatives worldwide that integrate their commitment to community development with socially responsible incomegenerating enterprises. Our grant supports the Global Classroom program, 111 an initiative to educate US students about the communities with which GGP works and about global issues such as fair trade, women’s and children’s rights, peace building, poverty, and ecology. Previous funding: $10,000 since 2006 Journey of a Red Fridge $15,000 Novi Sad, Serbia Lucian Muntean and Natasa Stankovic [email protected] www.lunamproductions.com Producers Our grant supports the development of Lunam Productions’ latest film, Journey of a Red Fridge, which focuses on a Nepali child porter whom the directors met while he was carrying a red Coca-Cola refrigerator to a faraway town in the Annapurna region of Nepal. This film highlights the problems and dangers faced by Nepal’s child porters, mostly boys aged 10 to 17. War Child $20,000 Washington, DC, United States Karim Chrobog [email protected] www.18thstreetfilms.com Producer Our grant supports the development of War Child, 18th Street Films’ featurelength documentary on the life of Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese child soldier turned hip-hop artist. Jal’s story mirrors his homeland: tragedy and terror, mingled with hope, and restoration. His dream of gua, or peace, for Sudan and the rest of Africa is told in his own words and music. Grantee Partners Responding to Crisis * We believe that in times of crisis, community-based groups are always in the best position to respond immediately since they know the people and the local areas affected. In fiscal year 2006–2007, we awarded grants valued at $301,500 to 26 grantee partners under this portfolio. Rapid Response Grants Crisis in Lebanon Crisis in Sri Lanka Civil Unrest in Oaxaca, Mexico Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais (AFEL) (Lebanese Child Home Association) $2,500/3,780,000 Lebanon pounds Kinniya Vision $2,500/248,324 Sri Lanka rupees Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de Oaxaca (CANICA) (Center for the Support of Street Children of Oaxaca) $2,500/27,475 Mexico pesos Oaxaca, Mexico Director María del Carmen Espinosa [email protected] www.canicadeoaxaca.org To support community relief efforts following the civil unrest in Oaxaca in October 2006. Beirut, Lebanon Simone Warde [email protected] www.afelonline.org Director To provide immediate medical and psychological care for children affected by the attacks on southern Lebanon in summer 2006. Relief International $2,500/3,780,000 Lebanon pounds Los Angeles, CA, United States Fanshad Rasteghar [email protected] www.ri.org Director To provide emergency food and supplies to displaced families following the attacks on southern Lebanon in summer 2006. 112 Kinniya, Sri Lanka A. R. M. Saifullah [email protected] www.kinniyavision.org Director To provide emergency relief, medical care, and counseling to families living in temporary camps following the August 2006 fighting in the Trincomalee region. Cyclone Ogni Sanghamitra Service Society $2,500/106,500 India rupees Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India Mr. Sivaji [email protected] Director To support community relief efforts following Cyclone Ogni, which hit Andhra Pradesh in October 2006. Harsh Winter Afghan Institute of Learning $2,000/99,860 Afghanistan afghanis Kabul, Afghanistan Director Sakena Yacoobi [email protected] www.creatinghope.org To purchase and distribute food and household items to families impacted by the harsh winter. Super Typhoon Reming Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRD) $2,000/95,400 Philippines pesos Quezon City, Philippines Rowena Legaspi [email protected] www.geocities.com/ccrd_2002/home Director To provide emergency food and potable water to 500 families in the Bicol region, which was hit by typhoons, including Super Typhoon Reming. 113 Recovery and renewal Grants 2004 Tsunami Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama NAD $14,000/127,736,000 Indonesia rupiahs Aceh Province, Indonesia Director Abriati Yusuf [email protected] www.nu.or.id Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama NAD provided immediate relief following the tsunami by distributing supplies and materials such as clothes and food to children in orphanages, and now provides educational support, including scholarships that enable separated and orphaned children to attend boarding schools. Our grant supports seven kindergartens and teacher training on interaction with traumatized children. Previous funding: $13,000 since 2006 Himpunan Psikologi Indonesia (HIMPSI) (Indonesian Psychological Association) $14,000/127,736,000 Indonesia rupiahs Aceh Province, Indonesia Director Retno Suhapti [email protected] HIMPSI, a professional association of psychologists, set up a “tsunami team” of member psychologists to offer psychosocial services to people in tsunami-affected areas. Our grant supports HIMPSI’s efforts to provide for the psychosocial and health needs of children by enhancing the quality of care provided by their parents and caregivers. Previous funding: $16,500 since 2006 Kinniya Vision (KV) $19,000/1,945,600 Sri Lanka rupees Kinniya, Sri Lanka Director A. R. M. Saifullah [email protected] www.kinniyavision.org KV promotes education, advocates for human rights, and works to reduce gender imbalances and to 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 children and youth. Previous funding: $16,000 since 2005 114 Life Home Project Foundation $10,000/327,256 Thailand baht Phuket, Thailand Pennapa Wuttimanop [email protected] www.lifehomeproject.org Mirror Foundation $19,000/711,550 Thailand baht Bangkok, Thailand Sombat Boonngamanong [email protected] www.tsunamivolunteer.net Director Director Life Home Project Foundation assists women and children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS, providing support and services such as shelter, daycare, vocational skills training, educational scholarships, and awareness campaigns in local schools against stigma and discrimination. Our grant supports residential daycare and night-care services for children and youth infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Previous funding: $10,000 since 2006 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 center’s Tsunami Children Club Network in the hard-hit Takua Pa district of Phang Nga Province, helping young people living in refugee camps and devastated villages to interact in positive ways through activities such as neighborhood cleanups, sports, and programs that build skills for adjusting to their new living environments. Previous funding: $15,000 since 2005 Muhammadiyah ’Aisyiyah $14,000/127,736,000 Indonesia rupiahs Sunera Foundation $17,500/1,792,000 Sri Lanka rupees Aceh Province, Indonesia Director Siti Chamamah Soeratno [email protected] Matara, Sri Lanka Director Sunethra Bandaranaike [email protected] www.sunerafoundation.org Muhammadiyah ’Aisyiyah is continuing to implement relief and rehabilitation programs for children affected by the tsunami, offering nutritional supplements, clothes, health services, and counseling at its children’s centers. Our grant supports vocational training in computers and silk-screening for 40 junior high school students. Previous funding: $16,500 since 2006 Sanghamitra Service Society $12,000/511,200 India rupees Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India Mr. Sivaji [email protected] Director Sanghamitra Service Society has been working with fishing communities, many of which were devastated by the tsunami, for over a decade, and developed the Tsunami Rehabilitation Program to rebuild livelihoods, initiate community savings plans, and assist individuals applying for ration cards, housing sites, and pensions. Our grant supports the provision of health services and school supplies to Yanadi children, meeting the immediate needs of the children as well as ensuring their longer-term development. Previous funding: $61,500 since 2003 Shilpa Children’s Trust $25,000/2,725,750 Sri Lanka rupees Hambantota, Sri Lanka Nita Gunesekera [email protected] www.shilpa.org Director With over 20 years of experience serving vulnerable children, Shilpa Children’s Trust began a sponsorship program as part of its tsunami rehabilitation efforts, placing children orphaned by the tsunami into foster homes and offering counseling, education, savings plans, and support. Our grant supports 50 children in the sponsorship program, providing them with after-school tutoring, life skills training, and counseling. Previous funding: $70,500 since 2002 115 Sunera Foundation facilitates the development of the performing arts among disabled people in Sri Lanka, teaching this marginalized population to harness their creative energies and demonstrate to society 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 emotionalhealth issues among children and young people living in relief camps. Previous funding: $15,000 since 2005 Women Lawyers’ Association of Thailand (WLAT) $15,000/561,750 Thailand baht Bangkok, Thailand Suthinee Meteeprapa [email protected] www.wlat.org Hurricane Katrina Awesome Girls Mentoring Program $19,000 New Orleans, LA, United States James Rogers awesomegirlsmentoringprogram @yahoo.com Director 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 familycentered program community and provides support and stability to the girls as they return to New Orleans and reestablish their lives. KID smART $18,000 New Orleans, LA, United States Echo Olander [email protected] www.kidsmart.org Director Director WLAT works for the passage of legislation that will improve the status of Thai women and children and for the legal protection of women on an equal basis with men. 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: $16,000 since 2005 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. Moore Community House (MCH) $8,500 Biloxi, MS, United States Director Carol Burnett [email protected] www.moorecommunityhouse.org A longstanding provider of early childhood education to low-income children in economically depressed Biloxi, MCH was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and is still rebuilding and renovating its buildings. Our grant supports the childcare center. Zion Travelers Cooperative Center (ZTCC) $19,000 Phoenix, LA, United States Tyronne Edwards [email protected] www.ziontcc.org Director Based in rural Louisiana, ZTCC works hand in hand with community members to help them obtain basic material goods and rebuild their lives. Our grant supports ZTCC’s nutrition, fitness, and activity resource center to enhance the health of local children and youth. Tamb-o-rine and Fan Club $8,500 Pakistan Earthquake New Orleans, LA, United States Jerome Smith [email protected] De Laas Gul (Hand-Embroidered Flower) Welfare Programme (DLG) $10,000/603,500 Pakistan rupees Director Tamb-o-rine and Fan Club, a youth development organization offering a holistic approach to education, training, and social services for low-income African American youth in the New Orleans neighborhood of Treme, reintegrates hurricane-affected youth into their communities and makes them feel welcome and embraced as they return to New Orleans. Our grant supports the Balls and Books Program, an educational program that encourages youth to be academically and physically engaged. Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training (VIET) $8,500 New Orleans, LA, United States Director Cyndi Nguyen [email protected] 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 by providing 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. 116 Peshawar, Pakistan Meraj Humayun Khan [email protected] www.pcp.org.pk Director DLG was founded in 1976 as a microenterprise organization for women and has since developed into one of the leading organizations working against child labor and for women’s empowerment. Our grant supports livelihood skills training, complemented by functional literacy courses, for earthquake-affected youth in Mansehra. Previous funding: $26,500 since 2004 Doosti Pakistan $8,000/486,560 Pakistan rupees Peshawar, Pakistan Mr. Tassawar [email protected] Director One of the few organizations in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan with staff trained in a variety of psychological methods and techniques, Doosti Pakistan has helped over 3,000 children, youth, and women move beyond the Pakistan earthquake disaster and rebuild their lives. Our grant supports psychosocial rehabilitation programs that help children and youth to heal and rebuild their lives. Interfaith Dialogue and Research Center (IDRC) $8,000/486,560 Pakistan rupees Islamabad, Pakistan Robin Daniel [email protected] Director IDRC advances the study of social, economic, and political trends in different faith traditions and initiates interfaith dialogue to promote peace. Our grant supports IDRC’s initiative to cultivate positive opportunities for youth in the earthquake-affected areas of Balakot and Muzaffarabad through participation in educational forums, trainings, and activities to help combat a lack of information and awareness that is often manipulated by religious extremists. Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA) $10,000/603,500 Pakistan rupees Nara Mughlan, Pakistan Sameena Nazir [email protected] Director PODA has worked since 2003 to build the capacity of rural communities to promote economic, social, cultural, and political rights in order to strengthen support for gender equity, diversity, and democracy. Our grant funds the Artisan Support Center, which provides skills training to local youth to restore livelihood and income generation to affected communities in Muzaffarabad. Previous funding: $32,300 since 2004 Shangla Development Society (SDS) $8,000/486,560 Pakistan rupees Alpuri, Shangla district, Pakistan Iftikhar Hussain [email protected] Director SDS works for the development and rehabilitation of the Shangla district and has played a crucial role in the aftermath of the earthquake, advocating for a greater budget allocation for education in the earthquake-affected areas. Our grant supports awareness and leadership training for youth on critical issues including education, children’s rights, and protection of the environment. Currencies were converted on September 21, 2006, for grants awarded in fall 2006 and on April 12, 2007, for grants awarded in spring 2007. Financials 2006–2007 Fiscal year 2006–2007 was another successful year for The Global Fund for Children. Net assets grew by nearly 58 percent, fueled by a total revenue figure that was $1.8 million higher than in the previous fiscal year. The largest source of revenue growth came in gifts from corporations, which at $2.5 million were 60 percent higher than in fiscal year 2005–2006. Our budget grew by 40 percent to $5.1 million. The two segments of the budget that increased the most were direct grants, which grew 57 percent to $2.7 million, and salaries and benefits, which rose by 46 percent to $1.3 million. This latter item reflects our continued investment in the necessary staff and infrastructure to support our dramatic growth. Despite such an investment, our budgetary ratio of funds directed to program services actually improved, reaching 87 percent, with only 13 percent spent on general administration and fundraising. The Global Fund for Children was awarded a four-star rating by Charity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.com) for the third consecutive year, meaning that our performance “exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in [our] Cause.” This year, we were also accredited by the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance (http://charityreports.bbb.org) for meeting all 20 Standards for Charity Accountability. These standards were developed to assist donors in making sound giving decisions and to foster public confidence in charitable organizations. In fiscal year 2006–2007, we established The Global Fund for Children UK Trust, a registered charity (charitable number 1119544) in the United Kingdom. The Global Fund for Children and The Global Fund for Children UK Trust cooperate to raise funds in the United States and across Europe to further our joint mission of advancing the dignity of children and young people throughout the world through the provision of grants and other forms of assistance. The following audited financial statements reflect the consolidated results of both organizations. Next fiscal year, we anticipate similar growth in revenues and in our budget. We head into the 2007–2008 fiscal year with $2.9 million in pledges to support our growth. In addition, to ensure that we have sufficient funding at all times, we have increased our Reserve Fund to $800,000. A full audited financial report prepared by LarsonAllen LLP is available on our website at www.globalfundforchildren.org. 117 Independent Auditors’ Report Board of Directors The Global Fund for Children Washington, D.C. We have audited the accompanying consolidated statement of financial position of The Global Fund for Children and affiliate as of June 30, 2007, and the related consolidated statements activities and cash flows for the year then ended. We have also audited the statement of financial position of The Global Fund for Children as of June 30, 2006, and the related statements activities and cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Organizations’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with U.S. generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. 118 An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the 2007 consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of The Global Fund for Children and affiliate as of June 30, 2007, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the 2006 financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Global Fund for Children as of June 30, 2006, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Arlington, Virginia September 24, 2007 LarsonAllen LLP Statements of Financial Position June 30, 2007 and 2006 Consolidated 2007 2006 Assets Current Assets Cash and Cash Equivalents $ 1,936,768 $ 1,142,964 Certificates of Deposit 200,000 600,000 Accounts Receivable: Promises to Give 2,301,663 1,254,630 Other 4,993 9,620 Total Accounts Receivable 2,306,656 1,264,250 Prepaid Expenses 29,015 23,337 Total Current Assets 4,472,439 3,030,551 Promises to Give, Net of Current Portion 612,381 105,703 Property and Equipment Office Equipment 89,806 77,557 Leasehold Improvements 39,593 39,593 Computer Software 13,750 143,149 117,150 Less: Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization (64,132) (42,681) Total Property and Equipment 79,017 74,469 Deposits 12,446 12,446 Total Assets $ 5,176,283 $ 3,223,169 Liabilities and Net Assets Current Liabilities Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses $ 196,601 $ 71,319 Accrued Vacation and Bonus 60,280 36,526 Total Current Liabilities 256,881 107,845 Commitments and Contingencies Net Assets Unrestricted 1,191,347 1,529,171 Temporarily Restricted 3,411,055 1,536,153 Permanently Restricted 317,000 50,000 Total Net Assets 4,919,402 3,115,324 Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 5,176,283 $ 3,223,169 119 Revenues 2006–2007 Individual Donors 45% Corporate 29% Foundations 22% Interest and Others 2% Matching Gifts 1% Book Revenue 1% Statements of Activities June 30, 2007 and 2006 Consolidated 2007 Temporarily Permanently Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 2006 Total Revenue Gifts and Grants $ 1,976,827 $ 4,503,089 $ 267,000 $ 6,746,916 $ 2,591,209 $ 2,156,169 $ 50,000 $ 4,797,378 Book Revenues and Royalties 43,698 - - 43,698 47,125 - - 47,125 Investment Income 128,620 - - 128,620 54,033 - - 54,033 Other 12 - - 12 4,000 - - 4,000 Net Assets Released from Restrictions 2,628,187 (2,628,187) - - 1,641,410 (1,641,410) - Total Revenue 4,777,344 1,874,902 267,000 6,919,246 4,337,777 514,759 50,000 4,902,536 Expenses Program Services: Global Media - Ventures 659,144 - 659,144 538,098 - - 538,098 Grantmaking 3,807,589 - - 3,807,589 2,564,024 - - 2,564,024 Total Program Services 4,466,733 - - 4,466,733 3,102,122 - - 3,102,122 Supporting Services: Management and General 154,087 - - 154,087 150,320 - - 150,320 Fundraising 494,348 - - 494,348 422,967 - - 422,967 Total Supporting Services 648,435 - - 648,435 573,287 - - 573,287 Total Expenses 5,115,168 - - 5,115,168 3,675,409 - - 3,675,409 Change in Net Assets (337,824) 1,874,902 267,000 1,804,078 662,368 514,759 50,000 1,227,127 Net Assets Beginning of Year 1,529,171 1,536,153 50,000 3,115,324 866,803 1,021,394 - 1,888,197 Net Assets End of Year $ 1,191,347 $ 3,411,055 $ 317,000 $ 4,919,402 $ 1,529,171 $ 1,536,153 $ 50,000 $ 3,115,324 120 Expenditures 2006–2007 Total Program Expenses 87% Fundraising 10% Total Management and Administration 3% Statements of Cash Flows June 30, 2007 and 2006 Consolidated 2007 Cash Flows from Operating Activities Change in Net Assets $ 1,804,078 Adjustments to Reconcile Change in Net Assets to Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities: Depreciation and Amortization 21,451 Permanently Restricted Contributions (267,000) Loss on Abandonment of Leasehold Improvements - Changes in Assets and Liabilities: Accounts Receivable (1,549,084) Prepaid Expenses (5,678) Deposits - Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses 125,282 Accrued Vacation 23,754 Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities 152,803 Cash from Investing Activities Investments in Certificates of Deposit - Sales/Redemptions of Certificates of Deposit 400,000 Purchases of Property and Equipment (25,999) Net Cash Provided (Used) by Investing Activities 374,001 Cash from Financing Activities Proceeds from Permanently Restricted Contributions 267,000 Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities 267,000 Net Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents 793,804 Cash and Cash Equivalents - Beginning of Year 1,142,964 Cash and Cash Equivalents - End of Year $ 1,936,768 121 2006 $ 1,227,127 17,291 (50,000) 10,318 (585,423) (7,635) (4,289) 17,903 20,882 646,174 (600,000) (67,661) (667,661) 50,000 50,000 28,513 1,114,451 $ 1,142,964 Notes to the Financial Statements Note 1 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Organization The Global Fund for Children (GFC) is an international non-profit organization that seeks to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world by investing in innovative community-based organizations working with the world’s most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that highlights issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live. Through its Grantmaking Program, GFC has awarded more than $7.6 million in grants to over 279 groups in 65 countries and reached more than one million children since 1997. Through its Global Media Ventures, it has published 22 children’s books, produced 3 films, and commissioned 3 photographers to document the lives of children and youth all over the world. The Global Fund for Children UK Trust is a charity organization that exists to improve the lives of vulnerable children and youth in our world, primarily in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and to a lesser extent, in the London community where the office is based. The Global Fund for Children UK Trust was officially incorporated as a private limited company in December 2006 and received charity registration in the UK in June 2007. Principles of Consolidation The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of The Global Fund for Children and The Global Fund for Children UK Trust. Significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Basis of Presentation Financial statement presentation follows the recommendations of the Financial Accounting Standards Board in its Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 117, Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Organizations. Under SFAS No. 117, GFC is required to report information regarding its financial position and activities according to three classes of net assets: unrestricted net assets, temporarily restricted net assets, and permanently restricted net assets. Income Tax Status GFC is exempt from Federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). The Internal Revenue Service has classified GFC as a publicly supported foundation under section 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the IRC. The Global Fund for Children UK Trust is exempt from tax in the UK under Section 505 of the Taxes Act of 1988. Use of Estimates Management used estimates and assumptions in preparing the financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Those estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, and the reported revenues and expenses. Actual results could vary from the estimates that were used. Cash Equivalents For financial statement purposes, GFC considers its money market funds and certificates of deposit purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents. Accounts Receivable Accounts receivable are recorded at their net realizable value. Accounts 90 days past due are analyzed for collectibility and when all collection efforts have been exhausted, the account is written off to bad debts. Promises to Give Unconditional promises to give are recognized as revenues or gains in the period received. Conditional promises to give are recognized only when the conditions on which they depend are substantially met and the promises become unconditional. There were no conditional promises to give at June 30, 2007 and 2006. Marketable Securities Investments in marketable equity securities with readily determinable fair values are stated at fair market value. Property and Equipment Furniture and equipment are recorded at cost and are depreciated on the straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets of five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the life of the lease. GFC capitalizes all purchases of long-lived assets in excess of $1,000, while maintenance and repairs that do not improve or extend the useful lives of the respective assets are expensed currently. Net Assets Net assets are classified for accounting and reporting purposes according to their nature and purpose and based upon the existence or absence of any restrictions thereon. A description of each net asset group is as follows: Unrestricted Net Assets Represents funds presently available for use by GFC at its discretion. Temporarily Restricted Net Assets Represents unspent contributions and grants that are restricted for use in certain GFC programs or by time. Permanently Restricted Net Assets Represents contributions that are to be held by GFC in perpetuity. Intangible Assets As of June 30, 2007 and 2006, GFC owned the intellectual property for 22 book titles that are printed as fourteen hardcover books, twelve paperback books, four resource guides and three board books. These books and curricula, which are authored and published under the brand “Global Fund for Children Books” (formerly Shakti for Children™), represent intellectual property which belongs to GFC and upon which it earns copyright royalties. The value of the intangible assets has not been determined or recorded on the Statements of Financial Position of the Organization. Contributions and Grants Contributions and grants are recorded as revenue in the year notification is received from the donor. Support that is donor restricted, either by program or by time, is reported as an increase in temporarily restricted net assets. When the restriction expires, that is, when a time restriction ends or the purpose of the restriction is accomplished, temporarily restricted net assets are reclassified to unrestricted net assets as net assets released from restrictions. Contributed Services Contributed services that meet the criteria of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 116, Accounting for Contributions Received and Contributions Made, are recorded at their fair market value. Allocation of Expenses The costs of providing various programs and other activities have been summarized on a functional basis in the Statements of Activities. Accordingly, salary and other overhead costs have been allocated among the programs and supporting services benefited based on time expended and space utilized. Note 2 Concentration of Credit Risk Financial instruments that subject GFC to concentrations of credit risk consist of deposits placed with financial institutions. Funds in excess of Federal insurance limits consist of the following at June 30: 2007 2006 On Deposit with Federally Chartered Banks $1,712,836 $1,229,450 Note 3 Promises to Give Promises to give as of June 30, 2007 and 2006 are unconditional. Amounts due after one year are discounted at the rate of 5%. Promises to give are considered fully collectible at June 30, 2007 and 2006 and are due as follows: 2007 2006 Promises to Give Due in Less Than One Year $2,301,663 $1,254,630 Promises to Give Due in One to Five Years 643,000 119,762 2,944,663 1,374,392 Less Present Value Discount (30,619) (14,059) Net Promises to Give $2,914,044 $1,360,333 Note 4 Temporarily Restricted Net Assets At June 30, 2007 and 2006, net assets were temporarily restricted as follows: 2007 2006 $3,168,669 $1,380,780 Grantmaking Global Media Ventures Future Year’s Support 42,386 70,000 200,000 85,373 $3,411,055 $1,536,153 The following is a summary of net assets released from donor restrictions that satisfied the restricted purposes specified by the donors and net assets released due to the passage of time for the years ended June 30: 2007 2006 Grantmaking $2,500,573 $1,383,410 Global Media Ventures 127,614 8,000 Lapsing of Time Restriction - 250,000 $2,628,187 $1,641,410 Note 5 Program Services Program services are segregated by type of activity within the Statements of Activities. The following indicates the specific activities that are included in each program area: borrow up to $200,000. The interest rate is the bank’s prime rate, 8.25% as of June 30, 2007, and the note is due on demand and is payable in consecutive monthly payments of accrued interest only. No amounts were borrowed during the year ended June 30, 2007. Grantmaking The Global Fund for Children identifies and invests in community-based organizations around the world that use education as a vehicle to protect and expand the rights of vulnerable or marginalized children. GFC’s grants are allocated into four major portfolios – Learning, Enterprise, Safety, and Healthy Minds and Bodies – and two smaller ones, Responding to Crisis and Creative Opportunities. Note 8 Office Lease GFC rents office space for its headquarters under a non-cancelable operating lease that expires in September 2012. Rent expense amounted to $174,960 and $136,515 for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Future minimum payments on the office lease are as follows: In addition to these program grants, grantee partners are also able to access other value-added services, such as assistance in organizational development, and access to various knowledge initiatives like the knowledge exchange workshops. For the year ended June 30, 2007, GFC awarded 447 grants valued at $2,651,566 to 206 community-based organizations, as well as approximately $90,000 to other non-profit organizations relevant to its mission. Global Media Ventures Through its Global Media Ventures, GFC harnesses the power of books, films, photography, and online communications to advance the dignity of children and youth all over the world. The Global Media Ventures program consists of children’s book publishing and distribution (GFC Books and Books for Kids project), films (GFC Films), and documentary photography (Global Fund for Children/International Center of Photography Fellowship). This fiscal year, GFC published one children’s book (Global Babies), invested in two films (War Child, Journey of a Red Fridge), awarded a GFC/ICP Fellowship to a young photographer, and distributed 6,508 children’s books to 20 groups all over the world. Note 6 Contributed Services During June 30, 2007 and 2006, GFC received services with an estimated fair value of $28,194 and $35,815, respectively, in the form of pro-bono legal services. These services were dedicated to education, research, development, lease documentation and general legal advice. Note 7 Line of Credit During June of 2007, the Organization established a line of credit with Wachovia Bank, which allows the Organization to Year Ending June 30, 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Minimum Lease Payment $ 155,931 159,837 163,842 171,342 176,753 44,459 $872,164 During August 2007, the Organization entered into a 123 month non-cancelable operating lease to expand the headquarters office space. The additional office space is expected to be available June 1, 2008. The total commitment related to the additional space is $2,305,275. Note 9 Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan GFC maintains a contributory defined contribution plan under Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code for the benefit of its employees. All employees, except for part-time employees who normally work less than 20 hours per week, may participate in the Plan. The Fund may choose to make a discretionary contribution to the Plan. In order to be eligible to receive a discretionary contribution, an eligible employee must complete two eligibility years of service. Pension expense for the Plan totaled $16,492 and $18,970 for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Note 10 Contingencies GFC receives a portion of its revenue from grants and contracts. The ultimate determinations of amounts received under these programs often are based upon allowable costs, reported to the donor. In some instances, the donor reserves the right to audit the program costs. Until the final settlement is reached with each donor, there exists a contingency to refund any amount received for costs deemed unallowable in an audit conducted by a donor. Such settlements, if any, will be recognized as revenue or expense in the period the amount is determined. Directors Board of Directors Juliette Gimon, Chair Team Member, Google.org Trustee, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation New York, New York Maya Ajmera Founder and President The Global Fund for Children Washington, DC Peter Briger Principal Fortress Investment Group LLC New York, New York Sanjiv Khattri Executive Vice President and CFO General Motors Acceptance Corporation New York, New York Directors Emeriti William Ascher Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics Claremont McKenna College Claremont, California Dena Blank Trustee, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation New York, New York Laura Luger Attorney Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice Durham, North Carolina Adele Richardson Ray Trustee, Smith Richardson Foundation Pittsboro, North Carolina the global fund for children UK Trust London, United Kingdom Mark McGoldrick, Chair Michael Daffey* Goldman Sachs and Company Dina de Angelo* Rothschild Private Wealth Management Ltd. John K. Hepburn Morgan Stanley (Europe) Ltd. Dirk Ormoneit Bluecrest Capital Management James M. Sheridan Asia Absolute Capital Partners LLC Mark McGoldrick London, United Kingdom Sandra Pinnavaia Senior Vice President Business Talent Group LLC New York, New York Patricia Rosenfield Chair, Carnegie Scholars Program Carnegie Corporation of New York New York, New York Roy Salamé Managing Director Lehman Brothers, Inc. New York, New York Robert Scully, Vice Chair Co-President Morgan Stanley New York, New York Raj Singh Co-Founder and President Telcom Ventures LLC Alexandria, Virginia Isabel Carter Stewart, Secretary Chicago, Illinois Robert D. Stillman, Treasurer President Millbridge Capital Management Chevy Chase, Maryland 124 *Upon confirmation ( June 20, 2007) Staff Maya Ajmera Founder and President Erin Hustings Legal Associate Finance and Operations Mitchell D. Fenster Vice President of Finance and Operations Andrew Barnes Grants Manager Meheret Mellese Information Technology Manager Global Media Ventures Adlai Amor Vice President of Global Media Ventures Magda Nakassis Program Assistant Cynthia Pon Director of Global Fund for Children Books International Fellows Sonali Ojha 2006 International Fellow Mumbai, India Nardos Worku Administrative Assistant Nicholas Kauffman 2007 International Fellow Mexico City, Mexico Development Ahna Machan Director of Development William Ascher Summer Fellow Sarah Ireland Harvard University Ann Corbett Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer Research Associate Craig Martinez Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins University Tamar Schiffman Investor Relations Officer Jenny Tolan Development Associate Interns Stefanie Garry George Washington University Grantmaking Program Victoria Dunning Vice President of Grantmaking Program Catherine Hendrix School of Advanced International Studies The Johns Hopkins University Ananya Bhattacharya-Price Program Officer, South Asia Irene Hu Georgetown University Elsa Fan Program Officer, East and Southeast Asia Stephen Kalin Davidson College Solome Lemma Program Officer, Africa Angie Kim Carlton College Katy Love Assistant Program Officer, Eastern Europe and the United States Sabiha Zainulbai George Washington University Shawn Malone Senior Program Officer, Latin America and the Caribbean 125 Index Aangan Trust, 96 Abiola-Costello, Hafsat, 51, 92 Ação Forte (Strong Action), 88 Achlal (Caring Kindness) Child Development Center, 74 Action pour la Promotion des Droits de l’Enfant au Burkina Faso (APRODEB) (Action for the Promotion of the Rights of the Burkinabe Child), 104 Afghan Institute of Learning, 56, 113 Agastya International Foundation, 48, 62–63, 74 Alarcón, Lida, 35, 107 Alliance for Children and Youth, 26, 46, 88 Amahoro Association, 104 Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), 44, 110 American Jewish World Service, 50, 52 American River Logistics, 56 Anandan (Happiness), 74 Ankuram (Sprout) Woman and Child Development Society, 46, 96 Ark Foundation of Africa (AFA), 75 Arora, Jatinder, 43, 45, 84 Asanblé Vwazen Jakè (AVJ) ( Jakè Neighborhood Association), 75 Ascensions Community Services, 33, 104 Asha Urbana-Champaign, 52 Asociación Civil Pro Niño Íntimo (Pro-Child Civil Association), 75 Asociación de Comunidades Eclesiales de Base (CEB) (Association of Grassroots Christian Communities), 88 Asociación de Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI) (Association for the Defense of Life), 76 Asociación de Promotores de Educación Inicial Bilingüe Maya-Ixil (APEDIBIMI) (Maya-Ixil Association of Promoters of Bilingual Early Education), 76 Asociación Mujer y Comunidad (Women and Community Association), 76 Asociación para la Atención Integral de Niños de la Calle (AIDENICA) (Association for Comprehensive Care of Street Boys), 105 Asociación para los Derechos de la Niñez “Monseñor Oscar Romero” (Monsignor Oscar Romero Association for Children’s Rights), 77 Asociación Poder Joven (Youth Power Association), 77 Asociación Promoción y Desarrollo de la Mujer Nicaragüense Acahualt (Acahualt Association for the Promotion and Development of Nicaraguan Women), 77 Asociación Solas y Unidas, 52 Asociatia Ovidiu Rom, 77 126 Asociatia pentru Libertatea si Egalitatea de Gen (ALEG) (Association for Liberty and Gender Equality), 30, 96 Associação de Apoio às Meninas e Meninos da Região Sé (AA Criança) (Association for Support of Boys and Girls of the Sé Region), 105 Association d’Appui et d’Eveil Pugsada (ADEP) (Association of Support and Coming of Age), 97 Association des Artistes et Artisans contre le VIH/SIDA et les Stupifiants (AARCOSIS) (Association of Artists and Artisans against HIV/AIDS and Drugs), 105 Association des Jeunes pour le Développement Intégré–Kakundu (AJEDI-Ka) (Youth Association for Integrated Development–Kakundu), 97 Association du Foyer de l’Enfant Libanais (AFEL) (Lebanese Child Home Association), 37, 97, 112 Association for Community Development Services (ACDS), 77 Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW), 50, 106 Association Jeunesse Actions Mali (AJA Mali) (Youth Action Association of Mali), 98 Association La Lumière (The Light Association), 46, 98 Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE), 30, 98 Avenir de l’Enfant (ADE) (Future of the Child), 52, 99 Awesome Girls Mentoring Program, 115 Ba Futuru (For the Future), 56, 108 Backward Society Education (BASE), 77 Barraca da Amizade (Shelter of Friendship), 99 Belun, 52 Benishyaka Association, 78 Biblioteca Th’uruchapitas (Th’uruchapitas Library), 22, 46, 78 Books for Kids project, 56–57 Carolina for Kibera, 106 Centar za Integraciju Mladih (CIM) (Center for Youth Integration), 31, 99 Center for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CPCAN), 30, 99 Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights Foundation (CPCR), 106 Centro Cultural Batahola Norte (CCBN) (Cultural Center of Batahola Norte), 46, 53, 78 Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de Oaxaca (CANICA) (Center for the Support of Street Children of Oaxaca), 37, 89, 112 Centro de Documentacão e Informacão Coisa de Mulher (CEDOICOM) (Center for Documentation and Information on Women’s Issues), 106 Centro de Estudios y Apoyo para el Desarrollo Local (CEADEL) (Center for Study and Support for Local Development), 78 Centro de Estudos e Ação em Atenção à Infância e as Drogas Excola (Excola Center for Research and Action on Childhood and Drug Use), 50, 99 Centro Interdisciplinario para el Desarrollo Social (CIDES) (Interdisciplinary Center for Social Development), 99 Centro para el Desarrollo Regional (CDR) (Center for Regional Development), 99 Centro San Juan Bosco (CSJB) (San Juan Bosco Center), 44, 89 Centro Transitorio de Capacitación y Educación Recreativa El Caracol (El Caracol Transitional Center for Training and Recreational Education), 52, 89 Challenging Heights, 22, 78 Charity Navigator, 12, 117 Charlesbridge Publishing, 56 Children from Australia to Zimbabwe, 12, 56 Children in the Wilderness (CITW), 78 Children on the Edge–Romania (COTE), 46, 99 Children’s Legal Rights and Development Center (CLRD), 99, 113 Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, 13, 78 Chiricli (Bird) International Roma Women Charitable Fund, 78 Colectivo de Apoyo a Niñas Callejeras (ANICA) (Collective for Support of Street Girls), 100 Community Development Center (CDC), 78 Community Outreach Programme (CORP), 46, 100 conference and travel grants, 14 Council on Foundations, 13 country presence, growth in, 15 Creative Opportunities portfolio, 14 grantee partners, 110–111 crisis response, 37–38 Dasra, 52 De Laas Gul (Hand-Embroidered Flower) Welfare Programme (DLG), 90, 116 Desarrollo Autogestionario (AUGE) (Self-Managed Development), 27, 90 Dhriiti (The Courage Within), 48, 90 Direct Change, 110 Djordjevic, Milica, 31, 99 documentary photography, 57 donors, 66–71 Door Step School, 48, 52, 79 Doosti Pakistan, 46, 116 Dream a Dream, 48, 90 Dreamcatchers Foundation, 53, 106 Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), 79 Early Intervention Institute for Children with Developmental Delays and Disabilities (EII), 22, 79 Education as a Vaccine against AIDS Inc. (EVA), 107 18th Street Films, 57, 111 El Caracol, 52, 89 EMpower—The Emerging Markets Foundation 50, 52 Enterprise portfolio, 14, 24–27 grantee partners, 88–95 Espacio Cultural Creativo (Cultural Creative Space), 110 Ethiopian Books for Children and Educational Foundation (EBCEF), 80 Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama NAD, 113 Federación de Salud Infantil y Reproductiva de Guatemala (FESIRGUA) (Guatemalan Federation for Child and Reproductive Health), 90 Fezehai, Malin, 57, 73 films, 57 financials, 117–123 Firelight Foundation, 50 Forum Comunicações Juventude Oratorio Don Bosco (FCJ) (Don Bosco Children’s Communications Forum), 29, 100 Foundation for the Development of Needy Communities (FDNC), 44, 90 Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop, 80 Friends for Street Children (FFSC), 80 Fundación Alfonso Casas Morales para la Promoción Humana (Alfonso Casas Morales Foundation for Human Advancement), 80 Fundación Junto con los Niños ( JUCONI) (Together with Children Foundation), 55, 80 Fundación La Paz (La Paz Foundation), 44, 91 Fundación Simsa (Simsa Foundation), 35, 107 127 Fundatia Noi Orizonturi (New Horizons Foundation), 46, 91 García, Gloria Agueda García, 27, 90 gender differences, 16 Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation (GERT), 52, 100 Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS), 100 Global Babies, 12, 13, 56 Global Fund for Children Books, 56 Global Fund for Children/Goldman Sachs Foundation Initiative, 48–49 Global Fund for Children/International Center of Photography Fellowship, 57 Global Fund for Children UK Trust, 111, 117 Global Fund for Women, 50, 52 Global Goods Partners (GGP), 39, 111 Global Media Ventures, 56–57 Goals and Performance Analysts, 52 Going to School (GTS), 48, 52, 91 Goldman Sachs Foundation, 48–49 Gramin Mahila Sikshan Sansthan (GMSS) (Sikar Girls Education Initiative), 48, 80 grantee partners increase in, 14–15 knowledge initiatives for, 53 selecting, 72–73 value-added services for, 52–53 grantmaking gender and, 16 growth in, 14–15 investment in grantee partners, 52–53 and the rural-urban divide, 17 grants increase in, 14–15 regional distribution by number, 18–19 regional distribution by value, 18–19 value, growth in, 14 Grassroots Girls Initiative (GGI), 50–51 Guaruma, 91 Development (ILID), 48, 81 Instituto Fazer Acontecer (IFA) (Make It Happen Institute), 91 Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Mujer y la Infancia (IDEMI) (Institute for the Development of Women and Children), 46, 100 Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana (ISMU) (Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty), 81 Integrated Community Health Services (INCHES), 107 Interfaith Dialogue and Research Center (IDRC), 116 International Center for Research on Women, 50 International Fellows Program, 53 Jabala Action Research Organisation, 100 Jeeva Jyothi (Everlasting Light), 48, 92 Jifunze (Learning) Project, 81 Jinpa Project, 109 Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being Grants, 14, 46–47 Journey of a Red Fridge, 13, 57, 111 Joy Center (Nia Foundation), 34, 107 JUCONI, 53, 80 Halley Movement, 81 healthcare interventions and supplies, 46–47 Healthy Minds and Bodies portfolio, 14, 32–35 grantee partners, 104–109 Himpunan Psikologi Indonesia (HIMPSI) (Indonesian Psychological Association), 113 Hope for Children Organization (HFC), 81 Horn Relief, 44–45, 91 Kaguri, Twesigye Jackson, 47, 107 Kalinga Mission for Indigenous Children and Youth Development (KAMICYDI), 26, 92 Kamitei Foundation, 81 Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE), 45, 82 Kamulu Rehabilitation Centre (KRC), 82 Karm Marg (Progress through Work), 48, 49, 92 Kham Kampo Association (KKA), 21, 46, 82 KID smART, 115 Kids in Need of Direction (KIND), 45, 82 Kiev Children and Youth Support Center, 100 Kindle, 82 Kinniya Vision (KV), 37, 112, 114 Kitemu Integrated School, 82 KLARA (Knowledge, Learning, and Resource Access) Network, 42, 52 Knowledge Exchange workshops, 53 Kolkata Sanved (Kolkata Sensitivity), 50, 107 Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), 46, 51, 92 Ikamva Labantu (The Future of Our Nation), 107 Incest Trauma Center (ITC), 107 Institute of Leadership and Institutional La Conscience (Conscience), 100 Lal, Veena, 49, 92 Lapeng (Home) Child and Family Resource Service, 82 Laura Vicuña Foundation (LVF), 101 Learning portfolio, 14, 20–23 grantee partners, 74–87 leveraging work, 52 Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, 53 Life Home Project Foundation, 114 Light for All (LiFA), 82 Love in Action Ethiopia (LIA), 25–26, 92 Luna Nueva (New Moon), 101 Lunam Productions, 57, 111 Magic Bus Connect, 48, 92 Mahita (Regeneration), 82 Mama Cash, 50 Men on the Side of the Road (MSR), 93 Mirman School, 61 Mirror Foundation, 114 Monduli Pastoralist Development Initiative, 22, 46, 83 Moore Community House (MCH), 116 Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA) (Movement of Dominican Haitian Women), 22, 83 Movimiento para el Auto-Desarrollo Internacional de la Solidaridad (MAIS) (Movement for International Self Development and Solidarity), 101 Muhammadiyah ’Aisyiyah, 115 Mujejego-Loka (Dawn Light) Women Development Organization, 46, 93 Mumbai Mobile Crèches, 62, 83 Nazir, Sameena, 39, 94, 116 Nehemiah AIDS Relief Project, 84 Neng Guan Performing Arts Training Center, 33–34, 107 Nepal Bhotia Education Center (NBEC), 84 Network of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (NEED), 84 networking grants, 14 New Global Citizens, 60–61 New Horizon Ministries (NHM), 52, 84 New Life Community Project, 101 newsletter, @work, 57 Nia Foundation ( Joy Center), 34, 107 Nike Foundation, 50–51, 52 Niños con una Esperanza (Children with a Hope), 101 Nyaka AIDS Orphans School, 47, 107 On the Road blog, 57 Oprah’s Angel Network, 56 Oram (Hope) NGO, 101 organizational development, 14, 52 Our Children, 84 Oyekunle, Amy, 51 128 Pazapa (Step by Step), 34, 108 Phulki (Spark), 93 portfolios, 14 Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA), 39, 52, 94, 116 Pravah (Flow), 48, 94 Prayas (Endeavor), 43, 45, 52, 84 Prei Effort for Those Who Are in Need (PEFAN), 102 Prerana (Inspiration), 52, 85 Prisoners Assistance Program (PAP), 46, 102 Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere (PEACE), 102 psychosocial health, 33 Puririsun (Let’s Journey Together), 85 Rapid Response Grants, 37–38, 112–113 Recovery and Renewal Grants, 37, 38, 113–116 Relief International, 37, 112 research projects, 53 Responding to Crisis portfolio, 14, 36–39 grantee partners, 112–116 Robichaux, Brenda Dardar, 23, 87 Rozan, 108 Ruchika Social Service Organization, 61 Ruili Women and Children Development Center (RWCDC), 108 Rural Family Support Organization (RuFamSO), 94 safe environments, 29–30 Safety portfolio, 14, 28–31 grantee partners, 96–103 Salesian Sisters of Zambia, 102 Salus, 109 Sam-Kam Institute (SKI), 95 Sanghamitra Service Society, 95, 112, 115 Shaishav (Childhood) Trust, 48, 95 Shangla Development Society (SDS), 116 Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha (Village Self-Reliance), 52, 85 Shilpa Children’s Trust (SCT), 52, 85, 115 SIN-DO, 46, 102 Skolta’el Yu’un Jlumaltic (SYJAC) (Service to Our People), 46, 85 Snowland Service Group (SSG), 85 Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN) (Friends of Children Society), 102 Sociedad Dominico-Haitiana de Apoyo Integral para el Desarrollo y la Salud (SODHAIDESA) (Dominican-Haitian Society of Comprehensive Assistance for Health and Development), 86 Society Biliki (Path Society), 46, 86 Society for Education and Action (SEA), 86 Society Undertaking Poor People’s Onus for Rehabilitation (SUPPORT), 34, 109 Sunera Foundation, 56, 115 Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable for Better Health, Education, and Nutrition in Uganda (SOVHEN), 26, 95 Sustainability Awards, 14, 42–45 Synapse Network Center, 95 Synergie pour l’Enfance (Synergy for Childhood), 34, 109 Tamb-o-rine and Fan Club, 116 Tanadgoma (Assistance) Library and Cultural Center for People with Disabilities, 87 Tasintha (Deeper Transformation) Programme, 103 Tbilisi Youth House Foundation (TYHF), 87 Tea Collection, 60 Teboho Trust, 87 tracking grants, 14, 42, 53 Udruzenje “Nova Generacija” (New Generation Association), 103 United Houma Nation, 23, 87 Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training (VIET), 116 Vikasini Girl Child Education Trust, 87 Vikramshila Education Resource Society, 87 Vizyon Dwa Ayisyen (VIDWA) (Haitian Rights Vision), 109 War Child, 13, 57, 111 Warma Tarinakuy (Assembly of the Children), 25, 95 Washington Area Women’s Foundation, 52 William Ascher Summer Fellowship, 53 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards, 57 Women Development Association (WDA), 95 Women in Social Entrepreneurship (WISE), 95 Women Lawyers’ Association of Thailand (WLAT), 115 Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE), 87 Yanapanakusun (Let’s Help Each Other), 30, 103 Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT), 87 Youth Activist Organization, 50, 109 Zion Travelers Cooperative Center (ZTCC), 116 Joy Imagination Friendship Creativity Ingenuity Confidence Courage Trust Knowledge Generosity Editorial Team Adlai J. 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