2004-2005 Annual Report - Global Fund for Children

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The Global Fund for Children
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Washington, DC 20005
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www.globalfundforchildren.org
ANNUAL REPORT and RESOURCE GUIDE 2004–2005
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR
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What do I want
for the future?
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Vision: A world where all children
grow up to be productive, caring
citizens of our global society
Mission: Advancing the education
and dignity of children and youth
around the world
pursues its mission by:
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Strengthening innovative
community-based educational
organizations that serve some
of the world’s most vulnerable
children
Developing books that teach
children to value global diversity
Inspiring global citizenship and
philanthropy through vibrant
community education and
outreach efforts
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Childhood is the season for dreams.
Every child holds within the heart a wish for the future,
a promise to strive to be someone whose life embodies
character, fulfillment, and commitment. All of us set a
course in pursuit of our dreams.
Children throughout the world are dreamers. Whether in
the favelas of Brazil, the river-crossed remote countryside
of Bangladesh, or the Tanzanian highlands, children cling to
their dreams: to farm the best land in their village, to open
a craft shop on their community’s busiest corner, to travel
the world, to be doctors or teachers or scientists, sometimes
simply to be educated and safe. And each dream impels its
young author to reach for the future with the bright eyes
of hope.
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) believes in the
power of a child’s dreams. Its grantee partners nurture those
dreams, born of children whose lives would otherwise be
quite different. In so doing, they impart the most precious
commodity for any child—the gift of hope that their
dreams, however fanciful, might one day come true.
Letter from the Board Chair
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Think of the
assumptions behind this familiar question:
The child will indeed grow up.
The child will have a chance to decide on a vocation.
The child will have an opportunity for future preparation for
whatever this vocation might be.
These expectations, which many of us take for granted, are
far from reality for millions of vulnerable children growing
up in conditions of poverty and exploitation in many parts
of the globe. The mission of the Global Fund for Children
is to change conditions in order to give as many children as
possible the chance to develop into the adults they would like to
become. This mission is financed by generous donors who made
available $3.2 million in unrestricted cash receipts this year,
an increase from $2.1 million last year. Included in this year’s
total is $511,000 received in response to the devastation of the
December 2004 tsunami.
The Global Fund for Children’s largest activity is the support
of grassroots organizations that serve the needs of vulnerable
children by providing education and training, health counseling,
and a means of escape from poverty and hardship. We have
the staff and local expertise to assess the work and capability
of prospective grant recipients, and then to work with them to
improve their operations.
Tsunami-related funding has been kept in a separate account,
from which grants are being made to our grantee partners for
relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in tsunami-devastated
areas. Through careful monitoring and stewardship, emergency
funding was made available immediately following the tsunami,
while the remaining funding is being made available over
three years for additional reconstruction and for expansion of
programs targeting communities and individuals affected by
the tsunami.
This past summer, the Global Fund for Children brought
together for the first time twenty-seven grantee partners in
South Asia to share experiences, approaches, and solutions
to common problems. During the year, we continued and
intensified our program of introducing our grantee partners to
other sources of financial support. The success of this leveraging
has enabled us to “graduate” eight grantee partners that are
now in a position to secure funding from other sources. This
milestone was commemorated with the introduction of the
GFC Sustainability Awards, presented to these eight grantee
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partners as a final contribution to support increased levels
of financial and program development. Funds previously
committed to these organizations are now available to support
new emerging organizations.
President Maya Ajmera is a visionary whose dream is now
reality, and she continues to demonstrate superior capability as
a manager and team builder. Maya and the board of
directors have insisted on the development of a strong senior
management. The recent addition of Victoria Dunning
as director of the grant-making program and the earlier
appointment of Ellen Mackenzie as director of finance and
administration, along with the experienced Greg Fields as
development director, is evidence of success in this vital and
ongoing senior-management development.
I was honored during the year to become the new chair of
the Global Fund for Children, with the two former chairs
moving to the status of directors emeriti. We are ever indebted
to Bill Asher and Laura Luger, both founding directors, who
had the combination of vision, courage, and competence to
encourage Maya and to work with her to create the current
organization, now firmly rooted and growing on the
foundation they provided.
Dena Blank and Valerie Gardner also rotated off the board this
year. Both made significant contributions to the development
of the organization, and we are grateful for their service.
We were fortunate during the year to add two extraordinary
people to the board: Isabel Carter Stewart is a distinguished
educator and nonprofit leader, and Sanjiv Khattri is executive
vice president of General Motors Acceptance Corporation.
Both new board members are thoughtful and committed, and
they bring wisdom and experience to the board.
Over the summer, a number of significant background studies
were conducted, providing the basis for board and staff to
plan the next steps in carrying forward the Global Fund for
Children’s commitment to innocent and disadvantaged children.
In a world ravaged by poverty, war, and disease, the children
deserve all the help we can give.
With our deepest thanks,
Robert D. Stillman
Letter from the President
This year’s natural disasters and ongoing regional and local
conflicts have been marked with tragedy for the most vulnerable
citizens. Children are especially affected, leaving their dreams for
the future in jeopardy.
These devastating events can sweep away years of work and
years of aspiration. In the face of such disruption, the Global
Fund for Children applauds the heroic efforts of local grassroots
groups around the world that devote so much effort and passion
to tempering the impacts of the destructive natural forces,
armed conflicts, and social injustice that plunder a child’s future.
Our grantee partners throughout the world provide a safe haven
for the most vulnerable children and youth. This year, we have
supported more groups than ever before—a total of 128, with
grants exceeding $1.5 million. From Asociación Solas y Unidas
in Peru, which offers the only shelter and school for Peru’s
HIV-positive women and their children, to Friends for Street
Children, which gives education, health counseling, and hope
to some of Vietnam’s poorest children, to Girls’ Dreams, which
teaches young women in the slums of Cairo that their futures
can be as bright as anyone else’s, our grantee partners around the
world encourage the children with whom they work to embrace
the future instead of fearing it. I invite you to read about the
innovative work of all our grassroots partners in the annual
report before you.
Several documentaries were released this year that portray the
work of our grantee partners—Born into Brothels (Kids with
Cameras), which won the 2005 Oscar for best documentary
film, Favela Rising (Grupo Cultural Afro Reggae), and New
Heroes (Children’s Town and the Train Platform Schools of
Ruchika Social Service Organisation). We are pleased that we
were able to support all four organizations during a critical time
in their evolution.
While our grant making has continued to grow, our bookpublishing program has underscored messages of hope and
celebration, with three new titles this year. Be My Neighbor is
a joyful look at neighborhoods around the world, prefaced by
wisdom from the late Fred Rogers; our popular To Be a Kid is
now available as a board book for even younger audiences; and
the colorful Going to School in India celebrates the varied and
unusual avenues of schooling available in the vibrant and diverse
country of India.
We are always striving to recruit and retain the best people in
the field to make our work effective. I am so pleased to welcome
Victoria Dunning to our team as the Global Fund for Children’s
new director of grant making. Victoria comes to us from the
UN Foundation, and her vision and energy will help shape our
entire grant-making program.
The board of directors has been critical to our continued
success. I am thrilled to be working with Bob Stillman, our new
board chair and a true partner. This year, we welcomed two
superb directors to the board, Sanjiv Khattri and Isabel Carter
Stewart. We look forward to working with them and benefiting
from their singular wisdom.
The board terms of Laura Luger and Dena Blank ended this
year. We were pleased to honor Laura’s service by dedicating our
conference room to her and by providing two special college
scholarships to girls at the Afghan Institute of Learning. Dena’s
dedication and strategic counsel were honored by a grant to
Friends for Street Children in Vietnam.
Also rotating off the board was William Ascher, our first board
chair. Bill’s role in the Global Fund for Children’s evolution is
reflective of the enormous influence the best teachers can have
on their students’ lives. Bill was my graduate advisor at Duke
University, and when I first approached him with my vision for
the Global Fund for Children, I had only a vague notion of how
this all would come together. Within fifteen minutes, Bill was
captured by my idea, and I was captured by his confidence in
it. In his honor, we have created the William Ascher Summer
Fellowship to be awarded to an upper-level university student to
pursue projects related to our programmatic work around
the world.
The Global Fund for Children could not continue without the
commitment of our friends throughout the world who enable us
to do our work. To all of you who have shared in the remarkable
growth of the Global Fund for Children, who have helped
build our vision, and who are working with us to help children
reclaim their power to dream of their own futures, thank you.
We know that, whatever challenges arise to threaten these
dreams—natural disasters, violence, or poverty—nothing can
suppress the wonder and power of a child’s hopes.
With my best wishes,
Maya Ajmera
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Overview of 2004–2005 Grant Making
From the outset, the focal point of the
Global Fund for Children’s grant-making
program has been improving the welfare
of vulnerable young people, encouraging
them to explore new possibilities and
achieve their dreams. Directed to small,
community-based organizations, GFC’s
grants help to provide services directly
to the children and youth who need
them most. Over the years, funding from
GFC has assisted thousands of young
people in acquiring the skills and support
they need to learn how to read and
write, continue their formal education,
and make informed, positive decisions
about their lives, health, and future
plans. In short, GFC has helped children
around the world gain the knowledge
and awareness to become confident,
responsible adults.
In addition to being clearly committed to
the well-being of children and youth,
GFC is also dedicated to supporting
the organizations that serve them.
Through regular grants, as well as a
range of value-added services, GFC
helps community-based organizations
to become more effective in their
work, increase their international
visibility, acquire additional funders, and,
ultimately, build a stronger global civil
society focused on the needs of children.
While these have always been the
long-term goals of GFC’s grant-making
program, 2004–2005 saw significant
growth in GFC’s efforts and capacity to
attain them.
Major achievements in the past
year include:
Over $1.5 million in grants
awarded to 128 organizations in
fifty-two countries
Sustainability Awards, in the
amount of $25,000 each, made
to eight longtime and highly
successful grantee partners
The implementation of a threephase tsunami relief strategy
awarding over $170,000 to ten
grantee partners in affected
regions of Southeast Asia and
the Indian Ocean
A South Asia Knowledge
Exchange Workshop, providing an
opportunity for grantee partners
to share experiences, discuss
organizational challenges and
methodologies, and learn about
broader issues affecting children
and communities in the region
Organizational-development grants
that focus on strategic, financial,
and operational improvements
that will enable grantee partners to
deliver more efficient and effective
programs to children, youth, and
their communities
The debut of the William Ascher
Summer Fellowship, honoring
GFC’s founding chairman and
long-term board member, which is
awarded annually to an exceptional
college student who is seeking to
make an impact on internationaldevelopment issues.
Beyond the services and funding
provided to grantee partners, GFC’s
grant-making department has itself
experienced tremendous growth in
2004–2005. In June 2005, Victoria
Dunning became GFC’s first director
of grant making. Bringing with her a
wealth of knowledge and perspective
from the UN Foundation and USAID,
she is leading the grant-making program
through a rigorous process of strategic
growth, evaluation, and planning.
At approximately $1.5 million, GFC’s
2004–2005 grant making witnessed an
increase of about 80 percent from last
year’s total of just over $815,000. Over
the coming year, GFC will continue to
expand its direct grant making as well as
identify, in collaboration with its grantee
partners, new ways to expand their
potential and maximize their outcomes.
Through this combined effort, the young
people served by GFC’s grantee partners
will gain the ability and access they need
to pursue their visions for the future.
Criteria for Choosing Grantee Partners
Through an extensive network of
locally based resources around the
world, the Global Fund for Children
actively seeks prospective grantee
partners who are working at the
community level. GFC bases its
selection of grantee partners on the
following criteria:
Service to Underserved or
Persecuted Populations of
Young People
The organization should provide services
to underserved or persecuted populations
of young people, including street
children, child laborers, AIDS orphans,
sex workers, hard-to-reach populations in
rural areas, or other vulnerable groups.
Following recognized global accords,
GFC defines the age range of young
people as zero to twenty-four years, and
describes them variously as children,
youth, and young people.
Innovation in Learning Methods
and/or Intervention Methods
The organization should demonstrate
effective innovation in teaching
basic education and life skills,
including but not limited to job skills,
the arts, multicultural awareness,
conflict resolution, human rights
awareness, health education, and
environmental education.
Leadership and Advocacy
The organization should consistently
demonstrate leadership qualities,
including good management and
communication skills, compassion
for the population served,
entrepreneurialism, and resourcefulness;
the organization should make a longerterm impact on practices and/or
priorities at the municipal, state, or
national level.
Replicable Model
Community Involvement
The organization should embrace the
community as an integral part of its
success; the community should provide
insight, financial support, evaluation,
and inspiration.
The organization’s programs should be
replicable, with certain adjustments,
to other sites, locally, nationally, and
internationally, without compromising
the cultural and social fabric of the
communities served.
Sustainability
The organization should possess
strategies and/or the means to sustain its
impact into the future through program
models, income-generating activities,
government support, and/or support
from additional funders.
Youth Participation
The organization should value and
encourage input on program and
management issues from the young
people it serves.
Fiscal Responsibility
The organization should demonstrate a
solid accounting system and the means
to manage its finances.
Social Return on Monetary
Investment
The organization should realize a
significant impact relative to GFC’s
financial award, as measured by the
number of people affected by a program
and the manner in which their lives
are changed.
The Global Fund for Children does
not accept unsolicited proposals.
“I want to serve my village and my
country as a doctor when I grow up.”
G.R., 15
Agastya
Schools and Scholarships Portfolio
Education is every child’s right—and the most promising path to a healthy,
productive future—but worldwide one in five children are not enrolled
in primary school. Around the globe, some of the most successful efforts
to address the problem are coming from within the communities that
need education most. In 2004–2005, GFC awarded $514,000 to fifty-one
grassroots organizations that are increasing children’s access to primary
and secondary schooling through nonformal education, skills training,
scholarships, and other innovative programs.
ASOCIACIÓN CIVIL PRO NIÑO INTIMO: ESCUELAS DEPORTE Y VIDA Lima, Peru
Schools That Score Big
In Villa El Salvador, a vast squatter settlement outside
Lima, Peru, it’s easy to describe kids based on what
they and their families don’t have. Most of their parents
are landless rural migrants who don’t have steady
jobs. They live in makeshift houses built on a landfill
overlooking the Pacific Ocean, without electricity or
running water. They often don’t have enough to eat.
Schools are overburdened, and most families don’t have
the means to pay for a child’s education outside the
slum. Violence in the streets and at home means that
safety, fun, and caring are also lacking from daily life.
The list of what’s missing is a long one, yet Sara
Diestro looks at the same children and sees aspirations,
talents, and potential, all waiting to be developed.
As a social worker for a professional Peruvian soccer
team, Diestro learned the allure that sports have
for children—and the positive values and healthy
environment that inclusive sports programs can
provide. Using soccer as a draw, she runs the Escuelas
Deporte y Vida (Sports and Life Schools) program
to give six- to fifteen-year-old boys and girls in Villa
El Salvador a chance to play. Through the program’s
activities, these children also develp self-esteem and life
skills that help them succeed on and off the field.
An interest in sports may bring kids to Deporte y
Vida, but once they get involved they gain much more.
Each activity meets a clear goal. Deporte y Vida’s
after-school tutoring and library offer a complement
to public schools. Classes in music, theater, and crafts
develop valuable skills and creative energies. Sustained,
loving attention from teachers and coaches strengthens
kids emotionally. And soccer games that reward
teamwork and fair play instill the message that winning
is about more than scoring goals.
Today, Deporte y Vida serves 1,400 children and runs
four community schools that follow this successful
model. In 2002, the Global Fund for Children began
supporting a school in the Jardines de Pachamac
neighborhood of Villa El Salvador, paying salaries for
teachers and a psychologist and helping to buy sports
equipment and supplies. Deporte y Vida has been an
inspiration to others, and underserved communities in
and beyond Peru are replicating its programs.
Most exciting to the kids, Deporte y Vida was chosen
to represent Peru at the 2006 World Cup as one of the
best programs worldwide working on sports and social
development. This honor proves to the children that
the list of what they have, and what they can become,
is growing longer every day.
ACHLAL ( Ca r in g K in d n e s s ) :
CHIL D DEVELO PM EN T CEN TER
$7,000/841,100 Mongolia tugriks*
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Director: Davaanyamyn Azzayaa
azzaya9@yahoo.com
Achlal provides community-based support for
poor and disabled children and their families
living in Bayankhoshuu, one of the poorest
slums of Ulaanbaatar. GFC’s grant supports
Achlal’s school for dropout children, which
provides four grades of education to students
aged nine to twenty who were never enrolled
in school or were forced to drop out due to
disability, illness, or family poverty.
ARK FOUN DATI O N O F AFRI CA
(AFA)
$13,000/14,014,000 Tanzania shillings
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Executive director: Rhoi Wangila
marla346@hotmail.com
AFA is dedicated to enhancing the well-being
of children and families in East Africa whose
lives have been devastated by war, poverty,
and HIV/AIDS. GFC’s grant supports the
programs of AFA’s One Stop Center, which
provides lessons in HIV prevention, personal
hygiene, job skills training, and academic
development to orphans and vulnerable
children living in the impoverished and
overpopulated suburb of Kirondoni.
www.arkafrica.org
Previous support: $15,000 since 2002
ASOCIACI Ó N CI VI L PRO
NIÑO INTI M O :
ESCUELA S DEPO RTE Y VI DA
A S O C I A C I Ó N D E P R O MO T O R E S
DE EDUCACIÓN INICIAL Y
P R E P R I MA R I A B I L I N G Ü E MAYA
I X I L ( A P E D I B I MI )
(Association of Promoters of Early and
Preprimary Bilingual Education in
Maya Ixil)
$10,000/76,100 Guatemala quetzales
Nebaj, Guatemala
Executive director: Benito Terraza Cedillo
apedibimi@hotmail.com
APEDIBIMI works to address the absence
of bilingual preprimary education in the Ixil
and Spanish languages by providing
educational services in twenty preprimary
centers in fourteen villages. GFC’s grant is for
general support of APEDIBIMI’s preprimaryeducation centers.
A S O C I A C I Ó N S OL A S Y UNID A S
(Alone and United Association)
$9,000/29,640 Peru nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Sonia Borja Velazco
contacto@solasyunidas.org
Solas y Unidas is the only organization in Peru
that aims to improve the quality of life for
children and women living with HIV/AIDS by
providing empowering personal and collective
endeavors in the areas of health, leadership,
and employment. GFC’s grant provides
support for Solas y Unidas’s day school for
children living with HIV/AIDS.
www.solasyunidas.org
A S O C I ATA O V I D IU ROM: GATA ,
D I S P U S S I C A PABIL ( RWA )
(Ready, Willing and Able)
A S O C I A C I Ó N MU J E R
Y C O MU N I D A D
$11,000/364,991,000 Romania lei
(Women and Community Association)
$10,000/160,600 Nicaragua gold cordobas
San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua
Executive director: Zoraida Sosa
myc@ibw.com.ni
Mujer y Comunidad promotes the health,
education, and safety of women and girls in
rural Nicaragua and is the only organization
in San Francisco Libre providing scholarships
for children to attend formal schools. GFC’s
grant supports primary- and secondaryschool scholarships for girls, as well as the
purchase of schoolbooks and materials for
scholarship students.
Bacau, Romania
Director: Maria Gheorghiu
maria@ovid.ro
RWA 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. GFC’s grant supports RWA’s
Stefanita program, which uses an adapted
national curriculum to support Roma children
enrolled in regular classes and to prepare
these children, along with children not
currently attending school, for success in
mainstream schools.
(Youth Power Association)
A S S O C I AT I O N F OR TH E
D E V E L O P ME N T AND
E N H A N C E ME N T OF WOMEN:
G I R L S ’ D R E A MS
Lima, Peru
Executive director: José Luis Quiroga Becerra
sdiestro@yahoo.com
$6,000/15,795,000 Colombia pesos
$8,000/49,920 Egypt pounds
Medellín, Colombia
Executive director: Patricia Jaramillo Duque
poderjoven@epm.net.co
Cairo, Egypt
Director: Iman Bibars
adew@link.net
Poder Joven aims to prevent children living
in the impoverished, violent, and crime-ridden
neighborhood of Guayaquil from abandoning
their homes for the streets by offering
educational opportunities that promote
life skills, critical thinking, and personal
responsibility. GFC’s grant supports Poder
Joven’s Seeds of the Future project, which
provides school-going children with courses
on tolerance, avoiding drug use, and sexuality,
as well as intensive academic support.
www.poderjoven.8k.com
Girls’ Dreams provides basic nonformal
education, training in the arts, cultural and
environmental awareness, health and hygiene
training, and psychological counseling to
underprivileged and abused adolescent
girls living in Cairo’s squatter communities.
GFC’s grant supports the expansion of the
Girls’ Dreams program to the low-income
communities of Qalubiya and Gharabia.
www.adew.org
(Pro-Child Civil Association:
Sports and Life Schools)
Deporte y Vida provides the rare opportunity
for young people living in the slum of Villa El
Salvador to play soccer, volleyball, and other
sports in order to promote their participation
and success in the organization’s educational
and life skills training programs. GFC’s grant
supports Deporte y Vida’s school located in
the neighborhood of Jardines de Pachamac.
ASOCIACIÓN PODER JOVEN
* Currencies calculated on 6 October 2004 for fall grants and on 27 April 2005 for spring grants.
(Those with Courage Association)
CHI RI C L I (Bird) : R O MA W O ME N
CHARITA B L E F U N D
C O L L È G E A MA D O U H A M PATE BÂ
(CAHB)
$9,000/4,930,560 Rwanda francs
$10,000/53,200 Ukraine hryvnia
$5,000/2,534,450 CFA francs
Kigali, Rwanda
National coordinator: Betty Gahima
benasoc@rwanda1.com
Kiev, Ukraine
President: Yuliya Kondur
ssidd@skif.com.ua
Porto Novo, Benin
Director: Alain Avoce Dossa
dossaalain@yahoo.fr
Benishyaka works for the development and
empowerment of widows, orphans, and
other vulnerable families that were affected
by Rwanda’s civil war and 1994 genocide.
GFC’s grant provides scholarships for fifty
secondary-school students who are supported
by Benishyaka. www.benishyaka.org.rw
Chiricli provides assistance to Ukraine’s
vulnerable Roma population, with an
emphasis on increasing and improving
educational opportunities and school
attendance among Roma children and youth.
GFC’s grant pays for teacher training and
supports seven of Chiricli’s Roma Education
Centers, which prepare preschool-age
children for primary school; work with young
people, parents, and teachers to facilitate the
integration of Roma children into mainstream
schools; and encourage volunteerism among
Roma young people.
CAHB is a secondary school designed to
provide a practical, skills-oriented education
to children who are unable to afford stateschool fees or who have dropped out of
school. GFC’s grant is for general support of
CAHB, including its scholarship program for
disadvantaged students.
B ENISHYAKA ASSO CI ATI O N
C AMBODIAN VOLU N TEERS FO R
C OMMUNITY DEVELO PM EN T
(C VCD)
$13,000/50,102,000 Cambodia riels
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Executive director: Doeur Sarath
cvcd@forum.org.kh
CVCD promotes community volunteerism and
offers basic education, literacy programs, and
job skills training to disadvantaged children
and youth, including those living in the slums,
land mine survivors, and child prostitutes.
GFC’s grant supports CVCD’s nonformal
education program, which aims to integrate
poor children living in urban slums into
formal schools by teaching them math, Khmer
reading and writing, geography, history, and
science. www.cvcd.org
$11,000/19,200,500 Uganda shillings
2005 Sustainability Award Recipient: $25,000
C HIL DREN’S TOW N
CHRI ST S C H O O L
Bundibugyo, Uganda
Executive director: Kevin Bartkovich
kevinandjd@yahoo.com
Christ School, a residential school, provides
secondary education for children living in
and around Bundibugyo, one of the poorest
regions in Uganda, whose residents live under
constant threat of violence from rebel groups
of the neighboring Democratic Republic of
the Congo. GFC’s grant supports the school’s
computer lab and helps pay for teachertraining college for graduates of Christ School.
$13,000/63,401,000 Zambia kwacha
CI DAD E L A D A S C R I A N Ç A S
Malambanyama Village, Zambia
Executive director: Moses Zulu
childtown@zamnet.zm
(Children’s Town)
Children’s Town is a residential school that
assists AIDS orphans and other abandoned
children with immediate needs, including
food, shelter, and medical care; nurtures them
in a secure, family-like environment; and
provides high-quality education to students
who have dropped out of or never attended
government-run schools. GFC’s grant is for
general support.
Maputo, Mozambique
Executive director: Sarmento Preço
adpp.mz@adpp.co.mz
$11,000/227,667,000 Mozambique meticais
Cidadela provides a healthy environment
in which nearly six hundred former street
children, AIDS orphans, and children from
impoverished families—nearly one hundred
of whom both study and live at Cidadela—can
attend formal academic classes, learn
professional skills, and contribute to the daily
functioning of the school. GFC’s grant is for
general support of Cidadela.
C O MMU N I T Y D E V E L O P MENT
CENTER (CDC)
$6,000/1,559,700 Sudan dinars
Khartoum, Sudan
Director: Michael James Wanh
michaelwanh@yahoo.co.uk
CDC offers remedial basic education to
out-of-school children living in Khartoum’s
urban slums, using regular school facilities, a
modified curriculum, flexible lesson hours to
suit the children’s needs, and subjects that are
relevant to their daily lives. GFC’s grant is for
general support.
CONQUEST FOR LIFE
$13,000/84,110 South Africa rand
Westbury, South Africa
Executive director: Glen Steyn
conqlife@netactive.co.za
Conquest for Life is an organization run by
young people for young people that aims to
empower youth through its day camps, afterschool programs, computer training center,
vocational training program, victim-offender
mediation, and HIV/AIDS counseling. GFC’s
grant provides support for Conquest for Life’s
Youth Enrichment Project, an after-school
program focusing on positive self-image,
conflict resolution, skills development, and
social activities. www.conquest.org.za
FOUNDATI O N FO R DEVELO PM EN T
OF NEED Y CO M M U N I TI ES ( FDN C)
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
A ME R I C A N I N D I A N F U N D
H O R N O F A F R I C A REL IEF A ND
D E V E L O P ME N T ORGA NIZATION
$5,000
$12,000/33,924,000 Somalia shillings
Mbale, Uganda
Executive director: Samuel W. Watulatsu
fdncuganda@yahoo.com
Potomac MD, United States
Executive director: Paula Mintzies
info@grinnellfund.com
Sanaag region, Somalia
Executive director: Fatima Jibrell
horn-rel@nbnet.co.ke
FDNC provides programs on youth
development and reproductive health,
counseling for street children, girl
advancement programs, farming programs,
and, very uniquely, a brass band to encourage
children to develop their creative talents.
GFC’s grant supports FDNC’s vocational
training programs in tailoring, carpentry, and
masonry. www.fdncuganda.8m.net
The Grinnell Fund works to empower
Native Americans within the US; to help
them positively impact their communities;
and to encourage them to focus on higher
education as a means to improve their
future opportunities. GFC’s grant supports
the Grinnell Fund’s college and continuingeducation scholarship program for Native
youth. This grant is funded in part by royalties
from the Global Fund for Children book
Children of Native America Today.
www.grinnellfund.org
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.
GFC’s grant supports Horn Relief’s Pastoral
Youth Leadership Outreach Program, which
focuses on responsible community leadership,
social peace and justice, holistic naturalresource management, veterinary science, and
health and well-being. www.hornrelief.org
FRIENDS FO R STREET CHI LDREN
(FF SC)
$11,000/174,185,000 Vietnam dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Thomas Tran Van Soi
ffsc-hcm@vnn.vn
FFSC is one of Vietnam’s pioneers in
developing innovative programs that address
the needs of street children and underserved
youth by training teachers and educators
in counseling, advocacy, intervention, and
other traditional areas of social work. GFC’s
grant provides general support for FFSC’s Le
Minh Xuan Development Center, which offers
literature, math, health, and natural sciences
classes, in addition to vocational training,
family-centered activities, and health care.
2005 Board Service Grant in honor of
Dena Blank: $1,500
G R A MI N MA H I L A S I K S H A N
S A N S T H A N ( G MS S )
(Sikar Girls Education Initiative)
$11,000/504,130 India rupees
Sikar, India
Executive director: Chain Singh Arya
gm_skr86@yahoo.co.in
GMSS provides quality education for girls
in rural Rajasthan who would otherwise be
unable to attend school, enabling them to lead
meaningful and prosperous lives and to make
significant contributions to the well-being of
their families and society. GFC’s grant is for
general support.
H A L L E Y MO V E ME N T
$8,000/228,560 Mauritius rupees
FUNDAC I Ó N LA PAZ: CEN TRO
DE CAPA CI TACI Ó N TÉCN I CA
SARENTEÑ AN I
Batimarais, Mauritius
Secretary-general: Mahendranath Busgopaul
halley@intnet.mu
(La Paz Foundation: Sarenteñani
Technical Training Center)
The 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. GFC’s grant supports
the Halley Movement’s Basic Education
to Adolescents program, which offers
youth who have failed the primary-school
graduation exam a career-focused nonformal
education curriculum, including interpersonal
communications, applied mathematics,
resource management, and vocational
training. www.halleymovement.org
$8,000/81,763 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Jorge Domic Ruiz
flpsocioeduca@kolla.net
The Sarenteñani Technical Training Center
provides quality, certified training in leather
production, auto mechanics, carpentry,
computer operation, metalworking, and textile
design to underprivileged youth. GFC’s grant
is for general support.
2005 Tsunami Relief funding: $2,500
I N S T I T U T O PA R A L A SUPERA CIÓN
D E L A MI S E R I A URBA NA ( ISMU)
(Institute for Overcoming
Urban Poverty)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Executive director: María Elvira
SánchezToscano
ismugua@explonet.com
ISMU is a coalition of community-based
organizations united to address the dismal
conditions in twenty-two of Guatemala City’s
worst slums. GFC’s grant supports eight ISMU
Learning Corners, which are communitybased child-care centers for poor working
families, run by community members trained
to promote physical and mental stimulation,
socialization, and psychomotor skills for
children aged one to seven.
ITHUTENG TRUST
Soweto, South Africa
Project director: Jacqueline Ithuteng
Maarohanye
tiisetso@ithuteng.org.za
The Ithuteng Trust is the only organization
working in the Orlando section of Soweto
that strives for the positive development of
at-risk and traumatized youth and focuses in
particular on preventing these young people
from engaging in criminal activities. GFC’s
grant supports the Ithuteng Trust’s Saturday
school, which utilizes a peer tutoring system
to reinforce formal-school lessons.
www.ithuteng.org.za
JI FUNZE ( L ea r n i n g ) PRO JECT:
C OMMUNITY EDU CATI O N
R ESOURCE CENT RE
Kibaya, Tanzania
Executive director: Yahaya Ndee
info@jifunze.org
The Jifunze Project aims to remedy the
problem of education for the children of
Tanzania’s impoverished and isolated Kiteto
district by working alongside community
members to help them create a sustainable
education system. GFC’s grant provides
general support for the Jifunze Project’s
academic services for kindergarten, primaryschool, and secondary-school students.
www.jifunze.org
T HE JINPA PROJECT
KAM PU C H E A N A C T I O N F O R
PRI M A RY E D U C AT I O N ( K A P E )
$12,500/50,543,750 Cambodia riels
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Executive director: Sao Vanna
kape@kapekh.org
KAPE works with 190 schools serving
ninety thousand children to promote its
mission to provide every Cambodian child
with a quality basic education. GFC’s grant
funds scholarships and tutoring costs for
148 girls participating in KAPE’s Lower
Secondary School Program, as well as
capacity building for Local Scholarship
Management Committees.
Jinpa works in the most remote areas of
Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture to
relieve the poverty of nomadic and seminomadic communities by creating physical
infrastructure and increasing access to
education and health care. GFC’s grant pays
for books, school supplies, and winter clothes
for students at four remote village schools
supported by Jinpa. www.jinpa.org
K AMITEI F OUNDATI O N
Esilalei, Kilimatembo, and Gongali
communities, Tanzania
Director: Jeroen Harderwijk
info@kamitei.org
Kamitei’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.
GFC’s grant is for general support of this
program.
www.kamitei.org
Kampala, Uganda
Executive director: Sserwanga M. Stephen
kintsch@mail.com
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.
GFC’s grant supports Kitemu’s programs
targeting children with disabilities.
L I G H T F O R A L L ( L I FA )
$11,000/422,180 Haiti gourdes
KAM U L U R E H A B I L I TAT I O N
CEN TR E ( K R C )
Lhomond, Haiti
President: Gerry Delaquis
lifaco@aol.com
$9,000/689,400 Kenya shillings
$7,000/57,960 China yuan
Nangchen County, China
Director: Tashi Tsering
jinpa@vip.sina.com
K I T E MU I N T E G R AT E D S CH OOL
Kamulu, Kenya
Director: Richard K. Kariuki
kamuluacademy@yahoo.com
KRC operates a combined day and
boarding primary school that provides
education, nutrition, and training in
sustainable agricultural practices to HIVaffected, orphaned, and other vulnerable
children living in the underdeveloped
Machakos district. GFC’s grant is for general
support of KRC’s Kamulu Education Centre,
where more than one hundred boys and
girls both live and study.
KI DS I N N E E D O F D I R E C T I O N
( KI N D)
LiFA supports rural Haitian community efforts
to strengthen schools through a long-term
school sponsorship program that provides
teacher salaries, educational materials, and
administrative and financial training as well
as seed money and strategic guidance for
eventual self-sufficiency of the schools.
GFC’s grant is for general support of LiFA’s
sponsorship of the Toussaint Louverture
Education Center in Lhomond.
www.lightforall.org
NETWORK OF
E N T R E P R E N E U R S H I P A ND
E C O N O MI C D E V E L O P ME NT
(NEED)
$9,000/393,300 India rupees
$10,000/62,800 Trinidad and Tobago dollars
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Director: Marlon Persad
kind@opus.co.tt
KIND assists disadvantaged children and
youth in the low-income area of Lavantille
in Port-of-Spain by helping them overcome
emotional or physical abuse, build selfesteem, and restructure broken family life.
GFC’s grant provides support for KIND’s
integrated literacy development program,
including the establishment of a new
computer center. www.kindkids.net
Lucknow, India
Chief executive: Anil K. Singh
need@satyam.net.in
NEED facilitates the grassroots-level
development of self-help groups in order
to create civil institutions that can respond
to the needs of undereducated women and
children in rural India. GFC’s grant supports
four nonformal education centers that provide
boys and girls aged five to fourteen with basic
education, awareness training, and health
education and that are operated by women
from local NEED-facilitated self-help groups.
www.indianeed.org
NISHTHA
P R AYA S
(Dedication)
(To Wish)
$13,000/595,790 India rupees
$11,000/504,130 India rupees
Baruipur, India
Secretary: Mina Das
minadas@vsnl.net
Jaipur, India
Executive director: Jatinder Arora
prayasjpr@yahoo.com
Nishtha’s girls’ empowerment program,
which combines nonformal education, basic
health care, and social activism, helps girls
in over sixty villages in rural West Bengal
enroll in formal schools and gain the skills
and confidence that enable them to claim
community roles equal to those of their male
counterparts. GFC’s grant supports Nishtha’s
Kishori Bahini leadership program as well as
formal-school tuition fees and supplies for two
hundred girls.
Prayas pioneered and operates one of the
first integrated nonformal schools in India
for special-needs, low-income, and neglected
children. GFC’s grant is for general support.
2005 India Delegation Award: $500
OUR CHI LDREN
$10,500/24,727,500 Sierra Leone leones
Freetown, Sierra Leone
President: Nasserie Carew
ourchildreninc@yahoo.com
Our Children provides a residential program
for war orphans, an accelerated learning
program for disadvantaged children,
and school supplies for children living in
displacement camps in and around Freetown.
GFC’s grant supports Our Children’s
accelerated learning and tutoring program
located in the neighborhood of Kissy.
www.ourchildreninc.com
PROJOVEN
(For Youth)
$13,000/81,445,000 Paraguay guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Maureen Herman
projoven@worldnet.att.net
ProJoven’s restorative-justice model uses
education, the training of community
volunteers and educators, and community
awareness raising to help young people
living in poor communities in Asunción who
have had conflict with the law. GFC’s grant
provides support for ProJoven’s Literacy and
Life Skills for Youth in Danger project, which
teaches reading and writing to adolescents
aged thirteen to sixteen who are in danger of
delinquency. www.projoven.org
R E E N C O N T R O — MO Z A MB I C A N
A S S O C I AT I O N F O R T H E S U P P O RT
A N D D E V E L O P ME N T O F O R P H A N
CHILDREN
R U C H I K A S O C I A L SERV ICE
O R G A N I S AT I O N ( RSSO) : TRA IN
P L AT F O R M S C H OOL S
$12,000/549,960 India rupees
Bhubaneswar, India
Executive director: Inderjit Khurana
rssobbs@hotmail.com
RSSO’s Train Platform Schools create informal
classroom settings through which more than
four hundred children who live, work, or beg
on or around railway platforms gain daily
access to books, worksheets, and arts and
crafts. GFC’s grant both supports the operating
costs of the Train Platform Schools and grows
the program’s endowment to ensure its future
sustainability. www.ruchika.org
2005 India Delegation Award: $1,000
S A M- K A M I N S T I TUTE ( SKI)
$11,000/28,050,000 Sierra Leone leones
Kalaba Town, Sierra Leone
President: Peter Samura
asamkam@yahoo.com
SKI, one of the few indigenous
nongovernmental organizations in Sierra
Leone, offers war victims and ex-combatants
skills training courses to provide career
alternatives. GFC’s grant supports SKI’s
People Developing Vocational Skills program,
which teaches students aged eleven to
twenty-one marketable skills in welding,
carpentry, sewing, auto mechanics, and
computer technology.
Previous funding: $6,000 since 2003
$13,000/269,061,000 Mozambique meticais
POTOHAR O RG AN I ZATI O N FO R
DEVELOP M EN T ADVO CACY
(PODA)
Maputo, Mozambique
President: Olinda Mugabe
reencontro@teledata.mz
$11,000/654,170 Pakistan rupees
Nara Mughlan, Pakistan
Executive director: Arifa Mazhar
poda_pakistan@yahoo.com
PODA offers advocacy training, mentoring,
and life skills education in order to build the
capacity of rural communities to promote
education, women’s rights, diversity, and
democracy. GFC’s grant supports PODA’s
Life-Skills Education and Arts Program, which
provides literacy classes, vocational skills
training, and life skills education classes to
girls who have graduated from primary school
but are unable to further their education.
S H I D H U L A I S WA NIRVA R
SANGSTHA (SSS)
(Village Self-Reliance)
$12,000/712,440 Bangladesh taka
Reencontro works to alleviate the plight of
AIDS orphans through home care visits;
identification of school vacancies that can
be filled by orphans; provision of school
fees, materials, and uniforms; registration of
children’s citizenship; counseling and medical
assistance; and family placement of orphans.
GFC’s grant provides support for Reencontro’s
projects serving the educational, health, and
survival needs of AIDS orphans.
Pabna district, Bangladesh
Executive director: A. H. M. Rezwan
sss@bdmail.net
SSS is one of only a handful of grassroots
organizations in Bangladesh focused on the
improvement of isolated rural communities,
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.
GFC’s grant supports SSS’s mobile boat
school program, which uses a solar-powered
boat to provide basic academics, health
awareness, human and gender rights training,
and library services to children living in
remote villages.
S HIL PA CHILDRE N ’ S TRU ST ( SCT)
$6,000/621,540 Sri Lanka rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Nita Gunesekera
shilpa@dynaweb.lk
SCT, inspired by the Montessori method,
runs a quality preschool and provides
extracurricular activities for internally
displaced and underserved children living in
Narahenpita, one of Colombo’s poorest slums,
who cannot attend formal schools due to
poverty, the need to work, or unsatisfactory
preschool options. GFC’s grant is for general
support of SCT’s free preschool.
TAN AD G O MA (A ssist a nc e ) :
LI BRARY A N D C U LT U R A L C E N T E R
FO R PE O P L E W I T H D I S A B I L I T I E S
$7,000/13,440 Georgia lari
Tbilisi, Georgia
Chairman: Nana Alexidze
acacia@ip.osgf.ge
Tanadgoma promotes integrative and
inclusive education for children with
disabilities by providing them with basic
educational and extracurricular activity
programs; facilitating their transition into
the mainstream school system; and training
teachers, parents, and government officials
on issues such as inclusive education, proper
care for those with disabilities, and legal and
policy matters related to disability. GFC’s grant
is for general support.
S OCIETY BILIKI
Gori, Georgia
Executive director: Mari Mgebrishvili
biliki@rambler.ru
Biliki assists underprivileged, special-needs,
and internally displaced children from
the conflict zones of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia through its Day Center, which
offers educational and creative programs,
psychological services, a mothers-and-children
club, and referrals to other community social
services. GFC’s grant provides general support
for Biliki’s Day Center.
TBI LI S I Y O U T H H O U S E
FO U N D AT I O N ( T Y H F )
V I K R A MS H I L A E D U C AT I ON
RESOURCE SOCIETY
$12,000/549,960 India rupees
Bigha, India
Executive director: Shubhra Chatterji
vers@cal.vsnl.net.in
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 thus to lessen the disparity of
educational standards between the wealthy
and the poor. GFC’s grant supports the
community education model program in
the rural village of Bigha. A portion of this
grant also provided emergency relief for the
rebuilding of classrooms destroyed by floods
in West Bengal in 2004. www.vikramshila.org
Tbilisi, Georgia
Director: Nana Doliashvili
ndoliashvili@gol.ge
TYHF provides a variety of programs that help
internally displaced children stay in or return
to school, attend nonformal classes, and
practice volunteerism. GFC’s grant supports
the Dropout Prevention Program, which offers
a five-month-long academic tutorial, ongoing
counseling, and extracurricular activities to
children who are at increased risk of dropping
out of school. tyhfoundation.gol.ge
“In the future, I wish to become a very respected
and very respectful person . . . I would like to
feel happy—relive a childhood that was a little
lost. I would wish to spend time engaged with
organizations that promote the rights of the
women and children.”
Solange, 12
La Conscience
Hazardous Child Labor Portfolio
Driven by poverty, cultural expectations, or a simple lack of alternatives,
one in six children around the world engage in full- or part-time work
that meets international definitions of child labor. Not all children’s work
is harmful, but when it prevents children from attending school, it greatly
limits their future prospects. In 2004–2005, GFC awarded $184,000
to twenty-one grantee partners that offer educational opportunities and
other assistance to child laborers and their families, with a special focus on
eliminating hazardous, exploitative, and inappropriate work.
LA CONSCIENCE
Lomé, Togo
Mobilizing Youth to End Child Labor
In the West African country of Togo, some of the most
powerful activists come in small packages.
Adjo lost both her parents to AIDS when she was four.
Now nine, she organizes events in her school to raise
awareness about the disease. Twelve-year-old Solange
has worked on women’s issues in her village for three
years, coming out of the shadows to denounce sexual
harassment of girls in schools. Koffi, also twelve, speaks
about children’s rights at churches and mosques with
the blessing of local religious leaders.
All three are volunteers with La Conscience, an NGO
that mobilizes youth to participate in the economic,
social, and political development of their communities
and country. Since its creation in 1994, the group has
organized kids to press for free elections in Togo and
to educate their peers about HIV/AIDS. It publishes
a national newspaper, written completely by highschool and college students, to promote human rights,
democracy, and tolerance.
Young people are at the heart of La Conscience’s latest
campaign to denounce and prevent the trafficking of
child laborers. Lured by promises of schooling and
high-paying jobs, thousands of Togolese children
from impoverished rural areas are trafficked to work
as domestics or agricultural laborers in neighboring
countries. In most cases, they become virtual slaves.
Girls—especially those who are out of school or have
lost parents to AIDS—are particularly vulnerable to
the practice. Those who return to their villages are
often sick, emotionally traumatized, and lacking the
resources they need to improve their lives.
Believing that education is the best form of
prevention, La Conscience combats the problem
in several ways. Working in communities that
are heavily targeted by traffickers, La Conscience
provides scholarships, supplies, and transportation
to keep at-risk children in school. In 2005, support
from the Global Fund for Children helped expand
these activities to include an additional two hundred
children, mostly AIDS orphans. La Conscience also
runs a rehabilitation center for returned child laborers
and has them speak publicly about their experiences
so parents and villagers understand the harm that
traffickers do to children. In addition, the group
offers tutoring services and skills training to older
kids, many of whom become volunteers.
Kodjo Djissenou, the organization’s founder, grew
up as an orphan and became an activist at age twelve.
Now twenty-eight, he still believes that empowered
children hold the key to Togo’s future. “If there is
hope for change, it lies with the nation’s youth,” he
says. Trained as leaders by La Conscience, the next
generation is ready for the challenge.
ACTION PO U R LA PRO M O TI O N
DES DRO I TS DE L’ EN FAN T AU
BURKINA FASO ( APRO DEB)
(Action for the Promotion of the Rights
of the Burkinabe Child)
$8,000/4,276,960 CFA francs
Gorgadji, Burkina Faso
Director: Boureima Ouédraogo
aprodebsahel.dori@fasonet.bf
APRODEB provides working children and
their families with skills training, literacy
programs, and health-care initiatives and
assists young people in developing their own
strategies to promote and protect children’s
rights. GFC’s grant supports APRODEB’s childto-child program, which gives school-going
youth the training and skills to design and
implement activities that address problems
affecting local children, such as the use of
child labor in gold mines.
ASOCIAC I Ó N DE DEFEN SA DE LA
VIDA (AD EVI )
A S S O C I AT I O N F O R C O MMU N I T Y
D E V E L O P ME N T S E RV I C E S ( A C D S )
C E N T R O D E A P OYO A L NIÑO D E
L A C A L L E D E O A X A CA ( CA NICA )
(Center for the Support of Street
Children in Oaxaca)
Kanchipuram, India
Director: D. Devanbu
acdsanbu@yahoo.com
ACDS seeks to end child labor in the stone
quarries of the Kanchipuram district and to
give the children of quarry workers access to
free, high-quality education and health care.
GFC’s grant supports ACDS’s comprehensive
education programs, which include quarrybased resource centers, preschools and daycare centers, mobile classrooms for working
children, and bridge schools to reintegrate
dropout children into formal schools.
A S S O C I AT I O N J E U N E S S E
A C T I O N S MA L I ( A J A MA L I )
(Youth Action Association of Mali)
$10,000/5,068,900 CFA francs
(Association for the Defense of Life)
Huachipa, Peru
Executive director: Ezequiel Robles Hurtado
adevi@terra.com.pe
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. GFC’s grant supports ADEVI’s
community school program, which provides
basic education to child laborers with the aim
of reintegrating them into formal schools.
www.geocities.com/adeviperu
ASOCIAC I Ó N PRO M O CI Ó N Y
DESARRO LLO DE LA M U JER
NICARAGÜ EN SE— ACAHU ALT
(Association for the Promotion and
Development of Nicaraguan Women)
Bamako, Mali
Executive director: Souleymane Sarr
ajamali@datatech.toolnet.org
AJA Mali provides basic education and life
skills training to out-of-school and working
youth, many of whom are serving long-term
apprenticeships in the fields of carpentry,
masonry, plumbing, metalworking, and
mechanics, during which they must support
themselves. GFC’s grant supports AJA
Mali’s Educational Accompaniment for
Apprentices program, which educates young
apprentices in the same subjects taught to
their school-going peers, provides recreational
opportunities, and monitors apprentices’
relationships with their teachers, advocating
for their rights when necessary.
www.cyberbamako.org.ml/aja
A S S O C I AT I O N L A L U MI È R E
(The Light Association)
$8,000/4,055,120 CFA francs
ACAHUALT uses education and community
capacity building to prevent children of
impoverished families living in Acahualinca,
a neighborhood of Managua, from having to
scavenge in the city dump for items to sell
or eat. GFC’s grant supports ACAHUALT’s
community preschool program, which
provides an educational foundation for
children and thus enhances their prospects
for future academic success and continued
school enrollment.
Oaxaca, Mexico
Executive director: Marlene Santiago Ramirez
canicadeoaxaca@prodigy.net.mx
CANICA works in Oaxaca’s poorest
neighborhoods, which also have the highest
concentration of migrant indigenous people,
to provide services to working children and
families who are living on the streets, who
are at risk of becoming homeless, or who
are victims of domestic violence. GFC’s
grant provides general support for CANICA’s
educational programs for market-working
children. www.canicadeoaxaca.org
C E N T R O D E E S T UD IOS Y A POYO
PA R A E L D E S A R ROL L O L OCA L
(CEADEL)
(Center for Study and Support for
Local Development)
Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Executive director: José Gabriel Zelada Ortiz
director01@intelnett.com
CEADEL seeks to eliminate the use of child
laborers and to improve conditions for
young people who work in Guatemala’s
floriculture industry. GFC’s grant supports
CEADEL’s Primary and Secondary School
Scholarship Program, which pays for school
fees, uniforms, and school supplies for girls
who are already working in or at risk of
entering the floriculture industry and provides
workshops on labor rights, reproductive
health, and gender issues for participants,
their parents, and the community.
C E N T R O S A N J UA N BOSCO
(CSJB)
(San Juan Bosco Center)
$9,000/169,470 Honduras lempiras
$9,000/146,610 Nicaragua cordobas
Managua, Nicaragua
Executive director: Norma Villalta Arellano
acahualt@ibw.com.ni
$9,000/99,900 Mexico pesos
Tambacounda, Senegal
Executive secretary: Ibrahima Sory Diallo
lumiereaspd@yahoo.fr
La Lumière works to promote the well-being
of street children, female domestic workers,
migrant families, and other marginalized
populations living in rural, underdeveloped
areas. GFC’s grant supports La Lumière’s
efforts to improve school enrollment among
children currently working in the gold mines
near Tambacounda. www.onglumiere.co.za
Tela, Honduras
Executive director: Dylcia de Ochoa
dylciaei@yahoo.com
CSJB seeks to enhance and sustain the quality
of life of working children and their families
through a nonformal education center,
scholarships, microenterprise development,
legal aid, and community-mobilizing activities.
GFC’s grant supports CSJB’s initiatives for
providing education and reducing work hours
for children working in the street markets.
Hazardous Child Labor Portfolio
D E L AAS GUL WELFARE
P ROGRAMME (DLG )
(Hand-Embroidered Flower Welfare
Program)
Peshawar, Pakistan
Director: Meraj Humayun Khan
delaasgul@hotmail.com
DLG provides education and skills training for
children working in the market and at home,
economic and social empowerment programs
for women, and advocacy for the human,
political, and economic rights of underserved
or exploited individuals and communities.
GFC’s grant provides general support for
girls-only literacy and skills training classes at
DLG’s child labor rehabilitation center in the
semi-urban area of Tehkal.
FU N DA C I Ó N J U C O N I — E C U A D O R
$7,000
Guayquil, Ecuador
Executive director: Sylvia Reyes
juconi@juconi.org.ec
JUCONI serves children who work
unsupervised on the city streets from as
young as four years old and often for very
long hours. GFC’s grant is for JUCONI’s
education program, which aims to reintegrate
child laborers into formal schools by helping
them reduce their daily working time, by
providing them with a basic education and
analytical thinking skills, and by assisting
teachers in creating the school conditions
necessary to maintain the enrollment of
working children. www.juconi.org.ec
JEEVA J Y O T H I ( J J )
$13,000/568,100 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Bina Sheth Lashkari
doorstep@vsnl.com
Door Step serves working, slum-dwelling,
and street children within their communities
through preschools, study classes for both
school-going and out-of-school children,
and mobile libraries and literacy classes.
GFC’s grant supports five community-based
nonformal education classes serving one
hundred children who work at the fishing
docks and at the market.
www.doorstepschool.org
E SPACIO CULTUR AL CREATI VO
(Cultural Creative Space)
$7,000/55,930 Bolivia bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Maria Carmen Shulze
pipoeste@entelnet.bo
Espacio Cultural Creativo engages shoeshine
boys, market-working children, and street
children through theatrical skits, music,
storytelling, and other creative activities held
in open spaces such as parks, and ultimately
strives to channel participants into basic
literacy programs. GFC’s grant funds twentyeight of these interactive workshops.
$7,000/380,590 Philippines pesos
Negros Occidental, Philippines
Executive director: Maria Victoria P. Sta. Ana
lauravicuna2004@yahoo.com
LVF serves two thousand disadvantaged
children each year through street outreach
in Manila, drop-in centers, vocational and
employment training, and a residential
program for sexually abused and exploited
girls. GFC’s grant supports LVF’s Community
Organizing and Mobilizing towards Education
Project, which operates among the sugarcane
fields of Negros Occidental to provide child
laborers, out-of-school youth, and those at risk
of leaving school for work with formal and
informal educational opportunities.
www.lauravicuna.com
(Everlasting Light)
D OOR STEP SCH O O L
L A U R A V I C U Ñ A F O U N D ATION,
I N C . ( LV F )
Thiruvallur district, India
Managing director: V. Susai Raj
jyothij@vsnl.com
JJ aims to treat both the symptoms and
underlying causes of child labor in rice mills
near Chennai through programs that include
workplace-based nonformal education for
children, adult literacy classes, income
generation training, and awareness and
advocacy campaigns. GFC’s grant provides
general support for JJ’s rice-mill-based
education and advocacy project, which aims
to integrate working children into formal
schools, maintain the enrollment of schoolgoing children, and prevent the continued
cycle of bonded labor within the rice mills.
www.jeevajyothi.org
LA CON S C I E N C E
$13,000/6,589,570 CFA francs
Tsévié, Togo
Executive director: Kodjo Djissenou
laconscience@hotmail.com
RURAL INSTITUTE FOR
D E V E L O P ME N T E D U C AT ION
(RIDE)
$13,000/595,790 India rupees
Kanchipuram, India
Executive director: S. Jeyaraj
ride@md3.vsnl.net.in
RIDE, one of the leading advocates for the
eradication of child labor in the state of
Tamil Nadu’s silk looms, educates entire
communities about the dangers of child labor,
alternative ways to earn family incomes,
and the far-reaching benefits of an educated,
healthy, and empowered population of
children and young people. GFC’s grant
supports RIDE’s village-based Child Labor
Prevention and Intervention Centers and
its Bridge School Centers, which ease the
educational, social, and emotional transition
of children from the workplace to public
schools. www.rideindia.org
S E C D O W O ME N D E V E L OPMENT
CENTRE
$5,000/517,950 Sri Lanka rupees
La Conscience’s education project to
combat child trafficking works to prevent
the exploitation of Togo’s impoverished
children, who are easily lured to neighboring
countries to work in corn, banana, manioc,
coffee, and cocoa plantations. GFC’s grant
provides educational support for one school
year for two hundred AIDS-affected and other
vulnerable children who, due to their family,
economic, and social situations, are at risk of
being trafficked.
Matale, Sri Lanka
Executive director: D. M. C. Dissanayake
aruls2000@sol.lk
SECDO focuses on the children and women
working in the tea plantations surrounding
Matale, where it is estimated that between one
hundred thousand and five hundred thousand
children are illegally employed, working up
to twelve hours a day and denied the right to
attend school. GFC’s grant provides general
support for SECDO’s computer skills training
classes, English-language courses, and
programs in literacy, health education, and
human rights awareness.
SIN-DO
$7,000/3,548,230 CFA francs
Cotonou, Benin
Director: Sètchémè Jérônime Mongbo
ongsindo@yahoo.fr
SIN-DO promotes health and hygiene
awareness, supports quality education,
and provides training in civic participation,
economic-development activities, and
HIV/AIDS prevention programs for women and
children living in marginalized communities
in and around Cotonou. GFC’s 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 the homes of
distant relatives or acquaintances, where they
frequently experience abuse and neglect.
S O C I E D A D A MI G O S D E L O S
NIÑOS (SAN)
S O C I E T Y F O R E DUCATION A ND
ACTION (SEA)
(Friends of Children Society)
$8,000/147,840 Honduras lempiras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Director: Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
saninos@yahoo.com
SAN is the only indigenous organization
working to protect the rights of young
domestic workers in Honduras and to provide
these girls and young women with other
skills and alternative means of supporting
themselves. GFC’s grant supports SAN’s
Reyes Irene Valenzuela Support Center, which
provides technical training, literacy classes,
labor and gender rights awareness, and
nonformal elementary education to female
domestic workers.
Mamallapuram, India
Director: S. Desingu
sea_org_desingu@rediffmail.com
Locally founded, directed, and supported,
SEA works to ensure the enrollment and
retention of all school-age children within
impoverished fishing communities south of
Chennai, preventing their initial or continued
work on fishing boats or docks. GFC’s
grant provides general support for SEA’s
motivation and recreation centers, which help
school-going children succeed academically
and which ease the transition to school for
dropouts and for children who have never
before attended school.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Portfolio
No greater violation of their health and dignity exists, yet approximately ten
million of the world’s children—mostly girls—are involved in some form of
the commercial sex industry. To protect children from initial and continued
exposure to prostitution, sex tourism, trafficking, and pornography,
organizations must address poverty and other root causes of the problem.
Through $155,500 in awards during 2004–2005, GFC supported seventeen
grantee partners that prevent children from entering the sex industry and
that care for and reintegrate those who have experienced exploitation
and abuse.
GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES New York, NY, United States
Letting Girls Shine
Beauty, potential, resiliency, worth. These are the rare
qualities Rachel Lloyd sees in adolescent girls who have
survived sexual exploitation and abuse, and whose lives
are showing the first gleam of hope.
A survivor of prostitution and violence in her youth,
Lloyd began working with incarcerated teens in the
late 1990s. “In these young women I saw so much
untapped potential that was hidden under layers
of abuse and pain,” she says. She founded Girls
Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) in
1999 to prevent at-risk girls in New York City from
entering the sex industry and to provide caring support
and practical alternatives for those trying to secure a
better life.
Targeting low-income adolescents of color between
the ages of thirteen and twenty-one, GEMS goes
directly to the places where girls are most vulnerable to
sexual abuse and exploitation: on the streets and in the
criminal justice and foster care systems.
The girls’ harsh experiences mirror broader realities.
According to GEMS, 90 percent of young women
involved in prostitution endured sexual abuse as
children. Some 80 to 90 percent of young women in
the criminal justice system have been physically or
sexually abused.
To overcome their trauma, girls need caring
relationships and specialized services. GEMS offers
both, focusing on young women who might slip
through the cracks of traditional agencies. Girls in
the GEMS program receive mentoring and consistent
adult support. They also have access to counseling,
health and housing referrals, and leadership and job
training—programs funded in part by the Global Fund
for Children.
The organization’s goal is to foster resiliency and
strength so girls can exit the sex industry and gain the
skills they need to begin productive, independent lives.
Prevention and advocacy are also critical. As cofounder
of the New York City Task Force Against Sexual
Exploitation of Young People, GEMS works to raise
awareness about sexual exploitation and change public
perceptions of victims. It educates at-risk girls and
service providers about the issues and the challenges
they face. The girls and young women GEMS serves
add their voices to policy efforts, meeting with
legislators and promoting laws to stop sexual abuse.
Three years ago, seventeen-year-old Shanequa was a
runaway who had been sexually exploited and abused.
“I felt,” she explained, “that all I was ever going to
be was what I was—nothing.” Her involvement with
GEMS has made her glitter and shine. “I’ve learned
that I don’t have to settle for less,” she says now. “My
worth is more than I know.”
ASOCIACI Ó N PARA LO S
DERECHO S DE LA N I Ñ EZ
“MONSE Ñ O R O SCAR RO M ERO ”
(LOS ROM ERI TO S)
(Monsignor Oscar Romero Association
for Children’s Rights)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Executive director: Elisa Esperanza
Marroquín Aroche
romeritos@intelnett.com
Los Romeritos 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. GFC’s 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.
ASSOCIACAO DE APO I O AS
MENINAS E M I N I N O S DE REG I AO
SE (AA C RI AN CA)
(Association for Support of Boys
and Girls of Se)
$7,000/17,640 Brazil reais
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Executive director: Everaldo Santos Oliveira
aacrianca@uol.com.br
AA Crianca protects the legal and human
rights of children and adolescents living
in central Sao Paolo’s poorest and most
marginalized communities, almost all of
whom are victims of some form of violence.
GFC’s grant supports AA Crianca’s Ser Mulher
program, which focuses on adolescent
mothers who suffer from domestic violence
and are highly vulnerable to initial or
continued sexual abuse and prostitution.
ASSOCIATI O N D’ APPU I ET
D’EVEIL PU G SADA ( ADEP)
(Association of Support and
Coming of Age)
$7,000/3,548,230 CFA francs
Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso
President: Marie Léa Gama Zongo
adep@fasonet.bf
ADEP’s activities focus on fighting violence
against girls; educating them about AIDS
and reproductive health; and helping society
better understand the effects on girls of early
and forced marriage, the dangers of female
circumcision, and the importance of girls’
education. GFC’s 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.
CENTER FOR THE PROTECTION
OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
F O U N D AT I O N ( C P C R )
G E N D E R E D U C AT ION,
R E S E A R C H A N D TECH NOL OGIES
F O U N D AT I O N ( GERT)
$8,000/331,360 Thailand baht
$8,000/12,080 Bulgaria leva
Bangkok, Thailand
Director: Sanphasit Koomphraphant
cpcr@internetksc.th.com
Sofia, Bulgaria
Executive director: Jivka Marinova
gert@mbox.contact.bg
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. GFC’s grant supports CPCR’s Baan
Raek Rub Assessment Center, which provides
twenty-four-hour emergency care and
counseling to children and families who have
been referred by organizations that monitor
and investigate child sexual abuse cases.
GERT raises public awareness on issues linked
to gender stereotypes, teaches young people
about reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, and
improves gender relations among youth in
order to reduce gender-based violence and
sexual exploitation. GFC’s grant provides
general support for GERT’s peer education
program to combat the trafficking of orphans
and abandoned children living in state-run
institutions. www.gert.ngo-bg.org
C O I S A D E MU L H E R : C E N T R O D E
D O C U ME N TA C Ã O E I N F O R MA C Ã O
( C E D O I C O M)
G I R L S E D U C AT I ONA L A ND
ME N T O R I N G S E RV ICES ( GEMS)
(Woman Thing: Center for Research
and Information)
$6,000/16,920 Brazil reais
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Executive director: Neusa das Dores Periera
cedoicom@terra.com.br
CEDOICOM provides programs on
reproductive health, prevention of commercial
sexual exploitation of girls and women,
problems associated with child labor, and
HIV/AIDS prevention for women and girls who
habitually face social discrimination because
of their gender, race, or low economic status.
GFC’s grant supports CEDOICOM’s 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 girls at risk of becoming involved
in prostitution.
D U R B A R MA H I L A S A MA N WAYA
C O MMI T T E E ( D MS C )
(Unstoppable Women’s Collaborative
Committee)
Kolkata, India
Program director: Mrinal Kanti Dutta
sonagachi@sify.com
DMSC, a forum of sixty-five thousand sex
workers and their children, works in red-light
districts throughout India and the world in
order to demand full civil and human rights
for its members. GFC’s grant supports DMSC’s
educational and scholarship programs for
preprimary-age, school-going, and dropout
children living in the red-light districts of
West Bengal.
$10,000
New York NY, United States
Executive director: Rachel Lloyd
info@gems-girls.org
GEMS is the only direct-service agency in
New York City working specifically to provide
educational, transitional, vocational, and
counseling services to young women who
are at risk of being or already are sexually
exploited, in order to empower them to exit
unsafe or abusive lifestyles. GFC’s grant is for
general support of GEMS’s educational and
youth development activities.
www.gems-girls.org
L U N A N U E VA
(New Moon)
$12,000/71,410,200 Paraguay guaranies
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Natalia Cerdido
lunanue@supernet.com.py
Luna Nueva, the only organization in Paraguay
that is working against the commercial sexual
exploitation of children, aims to eradicate
violence against women and children by
developing and implementing education,
health care, confidence building, human rights
awareness, and violence prevention programs.
GFC’s grant supports Luna Nueva’s outreach
and education programs, which each year
reach out to approximately 250 girls living in
exploitative situations on the streets.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Portfolio
M ONGOLIAN YOU TH
D EVELOPMENT FO U N DATI O N
(MYDF)
$9,000/10,683,000 Mongolia tugriks
Executive director: Myagmar Esunmunkh
info@mydc.org.mn
Facilitated by and for Mongolian youth,
MYDF promotes youth participation in civil
society, treatment of alcohol and drug abuse
among young people, prevention of sexual
exploitation of children, and rehabilitation
of former prostitutes. GFC’s grant provides
general support for MYDF’s counseling and
training projects for girls at risk of using
prostitution as a means of survival.
www.mydc.org.mn
M OVIMIENTO PARA EL AU TO D ESARROL LO INTERN ACI O N AL DE
LA SOL IDARIDAD ( M AI S)
(Movement for International SelfDevelopment and Solidarity)
$7,500/212,625 Dominican Republic pesos
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Executive director: María Josefina Paulino
mais_ecpat@hotmail.com
MAIS motivates children to stay in school
and strives to prevent them from entering
Puerto Plata’s sex tourism industry by offering
academic support and social services to at-risk
and exploited youth. GFC’s grant provides
general support for MAIS’s supplementary
school workshops for students who are at
risk of dropping out due to grade repetition,
absence, and low achievement.
PHU LK I
ROZAN: AANGAN
(Spark)
(Ray of Light: Courtyard)
$12,000/759,360 Bangladesh taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Executive director: Suraiya Haque
phulki@citechco.net
Islamabad, Pakistan
Executive director: Maria Rashid
aangan@mail.comsats.net.pk
Phulki’s child-to-child program trains child
leaders to spread information to other children
about sexual abuse and exploitation, child
trafficking for labor and sexual purposes, child
rights, gender equality, health and hygiene,
and social values. GFC’s grant provides
general support for Phulki’s child-to-child
program activities in the impoverished Mirpur
community. www.phulki.org
The first NGO in Pakistan to actively address
the sensitive issue of child sexual abuse,
Rozan’s Aangan program provides direct
counseling services to victims and survivors of
sexual abuse; training workshops for doctors,
teachers, parents, and related professionals
concerning the issue of child sexual abuse;
and public awareness raising and advocacy.
GFC’s grant provides support for the Aangan
program’s community-based activities to
prevent child sexual abuse. www.rozan.org
PRERA N A
(Inspiration)
$15,000/687,450 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Priti Pravin Patkar
pppatkar@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
Prerana operates 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. GFC’s grant supports
Prerana’s educational services for the children
of prostitutes, including a night-care center
that provides them with basic education,
nourishment, baths, recreation, regular
medical checkups, counseling, and a safe
place to sleep from 5:30 PM until 9:30 AM,
thus sparing them the harmful realities of the
red-light district and discouraging them from
becoming second-generation prostitutes.
NEW HORIZONS M I N I STRI ES
(NHM)
PRO TE C T I N G E N V I R O N ME N T A N D
CHI LDR E N E V E RY W H E R E ( P E A C E )
$8,000/36,900,00 Zambia kwacha
$11,000/1,139,490 Sri Lanka rupees
Lusaka, Zambia
Executive director: Juliet Chilengi
newhoriznorp@zamtel.zm
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Maureen Seneviratne
peacesl@sri.lanka.net
NHM focuses on girls who are orphaned,
impoverished, or living with HIV/AIDS and
promotes their positive involvement in the
community and participation in activities
that will reduce their vulnerability to sexual
and other forms of exploitation. GFC’s grant
provides educational support for primary-,
secondary-, and community-school students
who are orphaned or do not receive any
assistance from their families.
www.nho.kabissa.org
PEACE aims to prevent children from
entering the commercial sex trade and to
create community awareness of the scope
and social ramifications of child abuse and
sexually transmitted diseases. GFC’s grant
supports PEACE’s nonformal-education
and skills training programs, which provide
classes in drama, music, literature, leadership,
math, English, human rights, and HIV/AIDS
prevention to over two thousand boys
and girls.
TA S I N T H A P R O G R A MME
(Deeper Transformation Program)
$12,000/55,350,000 Zambia kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Director: Clotilda Phiri
tasinthaprogramme@zamtel.zm
Tasintha works to prevent women and
children from entering the sex trade by giving
them alternative income-generating skills
and raising community awareness about the
issue of prostitution, among other activities.
GFC’s grant supports Tasintha’s Child Survival
Project, which focuses on the children of sex
workers and on street-dwelling children in
order to protect them from initial or continued
exposure to sexual exploitation.
“I want to be
independent.
I want to be
comfortable in
my own skin,
love myself and
love others.”
Samantha, 16
GEMS
WOMEN DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Building Peace, One Boy at a Time
“Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger,”
says a Cambodian proverb. Yet for boys and young
men growing up in the vast slums surrounding
the city of Phnom Penh, hardship and anger are
familiar adversaries.
In response, WDA launched the Peace Building for
Youth (PBY) project in 2004. With a grant from the
Global Fund for Children, the effort targets boys and
young men between the ages of thirteen and twentyeight in fifteen villages of Kandal Province.
Cambodia is one of the world’s poorest nations. Its
economy and political life are struggling to recover
from a civil war that lasted two decades. Among the
communities of rural migrants and refugees that
populate Kandal Province, basic education and job
opportunities are very limited. Garment factories
around the capital offer some employment, but
mostly only for girls and women. Boys and young
men without schooling have few prospects. In their
frustration, many turn to gang activity, fighting,
substance abuse, gambling, crime, and gender violence.
The PBY project’s underlying assumption is that if
boys understand the consequences of their actions—
including those imposed by laws that punish violence,
drugs, and crime—they are more likely to make
constructive choices. Activities are simple but effective.
Twice a month, WDA-trained peer educators hold
group discussions to educate boys and young men
about the civil code. Sessions cover basic legal issues,
gender violence, divorce, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS
prevention, and conflict resolution. WDA works
closely with parents, village leaders, and local police
to provide follow-up to the sessions. With modest
resources, WDA created village libraries to provide
continuity for the project.
Recognizing the interrelatedness of such social
problems, a Cambodian women’s organization has
stepped forward with creative solutions. Founded
in 1994, Women Development Association (WDA)
sponsors a variety of grassroots projects aimed at
strengthening poor families. Projects include a
preschool, reproductive health education, and women’s
credit programs. But in recent years, WDA’s directors
sensed that special work with vulnerable boys was
increasingly needed.
To help design a plan for intervention, WDA
conducted a survey of nine hundred families in
fourteen area villages. The results were troubling. Onethird of the families reported problems with gambling,
drinking, and theft involving local boys and young
men. One-fourth reported domestic violence and
other conflicts.
With time, WDA hopes to expand its efforts to include
job training and cultural activities. The goal is to
provide the boys and young men of Kandal Province
with healthy alternatives to negative behavior—and to
replace anger with hope.
The Distinctive Needs of Vulnerable Boys Portfolio
Boys without education and work are often pushed to society’s margins.
Violence, intolerance, and illegal activities threaten their lives and
communities—leading a growing number of organizations to design
educational programs especially for boys. In 2004–2005, GFC awarded
$146,500 to fifteen grantee partners that provide life skills education, job
training, substance abuse prevention, and other critical support to at-risk
boys and young men.
The Distinctive Needs of Vulnerable Boys Portfolio
A ANGAN TRUST
$11,000/480,700 India rupees
Mumbai, India
Director: Suparna Gupta
aangantrust@rediffmail.com
Because overcrowded juvenile detention
centers in India usually do not provide any
emotional counseling services to detained
children, Aangan is building a replicable
model for psychological rehabilitation in
state-run detention centers, as well as working
to affect juvenile-justice policies concerning
rehabilitation in order to create sustainable
change in children’s lives. GFC’s grant
provides general support for educational,
psychological, and creative activities for eight
hundred boys, including criminal offenders,
runaways, and rescued child laborers, who are
living in Mumbai’s state-run institutions.
www.aanganindia.org
A FGHAN INSTITUTE O F
LEARNING (AIL )
$15,000/641,700 Afghanistan afghanis
Nangahar and Kabul Provinces, Afghanistan
Executive director: Sakena Yacoobi
chi@creatinghope.org
AIL, in addition to promoting continuing and
higher education as a means of empowering
Afghan adults and girls, now focuses attention
on the unique educational needs of Afghan
boys. GFC’s grant provides general support
for the Afghan boys’ education project, which
incorporates AIL’s positive teaching methods
and its specially designed peace and tolerance
curriculum. www.creatinghope.org/ail.htm
2005 Board Service Grant in honor of Laura
Luger: $3,000
A SOCIACIÓN PAR A LA ATEN CI Ó N
INTEGRAL DE NI Ñ O S DE LA
C AL LE (AIDENICA )
(Association for the Intensive Care
of Street Boys)
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Edgar Cordero Alvarado
casahogaraidenica@hotmail.com
AIDENICA operates a specialized program
that focuses on the rehabilitation of Peruvian
street boys, mostly former substance
abusers, through prevention and protection
interventions, including a semi-open home
that provides boys with a stable, healthy
environment in which to live. GFC’s grant
provides general support for AIDENICA’s
values promotion and employment
preparation program for former street boys
and adolescents. www.geocities.com/aidenica
ASSO C I AT I O N D U F O Y E R D E
L’ EN FA N T L I B A N A I S ( A F E L )
I K A MVA L A B A N T U
(Lebanese Child Home Association)
$6,000/9,084,000 Lebanon pounds
(The Future of Our Nation)
Cape Town, South Africa
Beirut, Lebanon
President: Simone Warde
afel@dm.net.lb
Managing director: Sipho Puwani
info@ikamva.co.za
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. GFC’s
grant supports AFEL’s Juvenile Delinquency
Prevention Program, which targets
children—80 percent of whom are boys—who
are at risk of resorting to criminal pursuits or
being exploited on the streets, and helps them
learn the skills necessary to resume formal
schooling and stabilize their personal lives.
www.afelonline.org
Ikamva Labantu works in partnership with
local residents to improve the quality of life
in their communities by addressing a range
of issues, including education, economic
empowerment, and home-based care. GFC’s
grant supports the Boys/Men Kindness
Project, a unique effort through which a team
of researchers, educators, and specialists are
working with young boys and their fathers to
gather data that will help break the prevalent
cycle of negative masculine behavior,
which often includes domestic abuse and
irresponsible sexual behavior.
www.ikamva.org
CHI LDR E N ’ S L E G A L R I G H T S A N D
DEVEL O P ME N T C E N T E R ( C L R D )
$6,000/326,220 Philippines pesos
Quezon City, Philippines
Director: Rowena Legaspi
ccrd_2002@yahoo.com
Working in collaboration with other NGOs
and government agencies, CLRD provides
legal assistance for juvenile offenders,
documentation for advocacy purposes,
a welfare and rehabilitation program for
released detainees, and training and education
for children concerning their rights and the
legal system. GFC’s grant supports CLRD’s
human rights program for children in
detention centers, most of whom are boys, as
well as publication of the organization’s newly
developed training and teaching curriculum.
EL CAR A C O L : C E N T R O
TRAN S I T O R I O D E C A PA C I TA C I Ó N
Y EDUC A C I Ó N R E C R E AT I VA
(Snail: Transitional Center for Training
and Recreational Education)
Mexico City, Mexico
President: Juan Martín Pérez García
info@elcaracol.org
El Caracol works in the neglected and
frequently violent Venustiano Carranza and
Merced/Sonora neighborhoods of Mexico City
to provide formal and informal education,
transitional housing, and life skills workshops
for street children and youth. GFC’s grant
supports El Caracol’s job skills training for
youth, including enhancing the job placement
and marketing activities of its innovative
bakery project for unemployed boys.
I S TA N B U L I N T E R PA R I S H
MI G R A N T S ’ P R O G R A M ( IIMP)
$6,000/9,074,259,000 Turkey liras
Istanbul, Turkey
Director: Ian Sherwood
iimpturkey@hotmail.com
IIMP serves Turkey’s large and vulnerable
population of Asian and African refugees
through adult education and literacy classes,
repatriation and resettlement services,
emergency accommodation and care,
counseling, medical services, language
interpretation, and child welfare and
education. GFC’s grant supports educational,
creative-arts, and sports activities for boys
participating in IIMP’s children’s health and
education program, which offers classes in
math, geography, English, computer skills,
music, and science.
L I F E P I E C E S T O MA S T E RPIECES
( L P T M)
$11,000
Washington DC, United States
Executive director: Larry B. Quick
lifepieces@hotmail.com
LPTM provides creative-arts opportunities for
boys aged three to twenty-one living in lowincome communities east of the Anacostia
River in Washington DC and runs a variety of
programs, including leadership development
activities, field trips, and homework assistance
and tutoring. GFC’s grant is for general
support. www.lifepieces.org
MEN ON THE SI DE O F THE RO AD
(MSR)
Woodstock, South Africa
Director: Charles Maisel
unemploymen@mweb.co.za
MSR provides employment and educational
services to the estimated two hundred
thousand men who spend their days waiting
for short-term employment opportunities
along the shoulders of major roadways in the
Western Cape region. GFC’s grant pays for
continuing education and training activities
for boys aged fifteen to twenty who dropped
out of school in order to find work to support
themselves and their families.
www.unemploymen.co.za
ORAM ( Ho pe ) : AM G ALAN LABO R
AND EDU CATI O N CEN TER ( LET)
$7,000/8,414,000 Mongolia tugriks
Executive director: Ken Howard
oram@magicnet.mn
LET is a residential home that provides
remedial education, academic tutoring,
practical skills training, personal hygiene
awareness, and recreation for 260 orphaned
and abandoned children. GFC’s grant supports
LET’s Education, Skills Training, and Athletics
for Boys program, which offers education
support classes, character development
activities, and vocational skills training in
woodworking, masonry, and leatherworking
to homeless and neglected boys, and which
seeks to increase their self-esteem by teaching
them the national sport of wrestling.
RURAL FAM I LY SU PPO RT
ORGANIZATI O N ( RU FAM SO )
$6,000/370,140 Jamaica dollars
May Pen, Jamaica
Executive director: Utealia Burrel
dashra4@hotmail.com
RuFamSO offers guidance, educational
support, life skills training, and education
in nutrition and personal health care to
adolescents in Jamaica’s rural communities.
GFC’s grant supports RuFamSO’s Male
Adolescent Programme, which provides
courses to boys aged ten to eighteen in
reproductive health, sexual responsibility,
critical decision-making skills, drug abuse
prevention, and conflict resolution skills as
a means to reduce teenage pregnancies and
ultimately build stronger, more responsible
men, families, and communities.
SALAAM BAALAK TRUST (SBT)
$13,000/568,100 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Chairperson: Praveen Nair
salaambt@vsnl.com
SBT works in and around the New Delhi
railway stations, bus stops, and congested
business areas and slums, targeting runaway
children who have no family or support
system within the city. GFC’s grant supports
SBT’s drop-in shelter, which provides boys
with a safe environment in which to sleep, eat,
and receive counseling, tutoring, and skills
training away from the police, drug dealers,
and sexual predators who routinely harass the
boys on the streets. www.salaambaalak.com
S A N G H A MI T R A S E RV I C E S O C I E T Y
W O ME N D E V E L OPMENT
A S S O C I AT I O N ( WD A )
$9,000/36,391,500 riels
Saang district, Cambodia
Executive director: Soreach Sereithida
wda@forum.org.kh
Working since 1994 to address the needs
of working, uneducated, and impoverished
women and youth, WDA has now turned
its attention to the specific problems of
boys and young men who, due to their
surroundings and peer influences, are at
risk of participating in criminal or violent
activities. GFC’s grant is for general support of
WDA’s Peace Building for Youth project, which
targets mostly males and addresses issues
such as child care, domestic violence, sexual
abuse, and human trafficking.
(Friends of Society)
Vijayawada, India
Director: Sivaji
sanmitra@nettlinx.com
Sanghamitra works in more than one hundred
rural villages 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. GFC’s
grant supports Sanghamitra’s Education and
Awareness for Adolescent Boys program,
which offers counseling, skills training,
scholarships, and workshops on male
character development in order to mitigate
social problems that disproportionately affect
low-caste boys, such as HIV/AIDS, drug abuse,
and petty crime.
SYNAPSE NETWORK CENTER
$13,500/6,843,015 CFA francs
Dakar, Senegal
Executive director: Ciré Kane
synapse@synapsecenter.org
Synapse’s Education to Fight Exclusion
Project works to empower street boys, many
of whom have been sent to study at Islamic
schools known as daaras, which often do not
have the resources to adequately provide for
the boys’ daily needs. GFC’s grant provides
general support and capacity building for
the Education to Fight Exclusion Project, a
residential school that teaches boys to stand
up for their rights, pursue their goals, and take
greater responsibility in their communities.
www.synapsecenter.org
“I’d like to become
a university
mathematics
professor, to show
that women can
also go far and
to be a model for
others. I also hope
to run for elected
office, in order to
have an influence
on laws in our
country that
affect women.”
Solange, 12
La Conscience
General Portfolio
Creativity and innovation allow organizations—and children—to thrive.
Recognizing this, GFC uses its general portfolio to support a small number
of grantee partners that apply imaginative new approaches to complex
problems. In 2004–2005, eleven organizations received $90,000 for projects
that do not easily fall within the other portfolios, but that positively impact
the lives and well-being of the children they serve and that will contribute
to GFC’s ongoing learning in environmental education, HIV prevention,
literacy, and other areas.
AGASTYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION Chittoor District, India
Sparking a Love for Learning
In rural Andhra Pradesh, India, a traveling truckload
of science experiments is proving what educators have
known for centuries: children learn best by doing.
Students and teachers in the Chittoor district, one
of the region’s poorest, face formidable obstacles.
Per capita income is about $150 a year. Child labor
is common and dropout rates are high. Illiteracy
hovers around 85 percent. Government schools are
overcrowded, and teachers are often poorly trained
and unmotivated.
But when the mobile science lab rolls up to a village
school, the children’s excitement is palpable. The lab
carries over a hundred simple, low-cost experiments—
most portable enough to be set up under a tree—and
a teacher who will involve the students directly in
discovery. They’ll step forward to help, and they’ll
be urged to ask questions. They’ll see and experience
scientific concepts in action. And whether the lesson
shows what makes rockets fly, or how sound travels, or
what makes a sunset colorful, they will remember and
use what they learn.
Launched by Agastya International Foundation in
2002, the mobile labs are at the heart of a unique
effort to transform primary education in rural India
by making it creative, practical, and responsive to
social needs. The Global Fund for Children began
supporting one of the labs in 2004, underwriting
salaries for teachers and a driver and covering
equipment and operating costs.
With their hands-on, participatory approach, the
labs spark curiosity that helps students master basic
concepts in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology.
A single lab reaches thirty thousand students in a year,
and each lab returns several times to the same school to
instill sustained interest in learning.
The mobile labs also carry science fairs to schools
throughout the countryside, enlisting fourteento sixteen-year-old student instructors to teach
experiments to thousands of younger children. Agastya
reinforces these efforts with teacher training that helps
educators shift from the traditional emphasis on rote
learning to more interactive pedagogical approaches.
So far, results are encouraging. In just three years,
public examination pass rates have shot up among high
schoolers in Kuppam, where Agastya is most active.
More kids are staying in school, and according to a
local school principal, “Agastya is helping the children
to come out of their shells and release their latent
talent and knowledge. The train of learning has started
to move.”
AGASTYA I N TERN ATI O N AL
FOUNDATI O N
E D U C AT I O N A S A VA C C I N E
A G A I N S T A I D S , I N C . ( E VA )
$12,000/1,582,560 Nigeria nairas
Chittoor district, India
Chairman: Rama P. Raghavan
agastya@vsnl.com
Abuja, Nigeria
Executive director: Fadekemi Akinfaderin
general@evanigeria.org
Agastya aims to make formal education
creative, practical, and responsive to students’
needs by operating mobile labs, science
fairs, teacher training, and communications
and information technology programs. GFC’s
grant supports one Agastya mobile lab, which
carries over one hundred low-cost science
experiments, specially designed by experts
and scientists, that provide children and
teachers with opportunities to learn in an
interactive hands-on environment.
www.agastya.org
EVA works to empower Nigerian youth living
with HIV/AIDS, as well as to raise awareness
and foster positive habits among those who
are uninfected. GFC’s grant provides support
for EVA’s new Window of Hope project, an HIV
prevention program focusing on orphans and
street-working children aged eight to thirteen,
a typically hard-to-reach population that has
one of the fastest-growing HIV infection rates
in Nigeria. www.evanigeria.org
AMAZON CO N SERVATI O N TEAM
(ACT)
ETHIOPIAN BOOKS FOR
C H I L D R E N A N D E D U C AT I O N A L
F O U N D AT I O N ( E B C E F )
$10,000/27,300 Suriname dollars
$6,000/52,200 Ethiopia birr
Kwamalasamutu, Suriname
Executive director: Neville Gunther
info@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. GFC’s grant supports
ACT’s Shamans and Novices Program, which
provides children with the means to learn
the teachings of a village shaman concerning
traditional medicinal knowledge.
www.amazonteam.org
CENTRO DE APO YO A N I Ñ AS
CALL EJ ERAS ( AN I CA)
(Support Center for Street Girls)
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Alma Rosa Colín
colectivoninas@terra.com.mx
ANICA helps girls and young women improve
their understanding of personal responsibility
and sexual health through street education
workshops on issues such as sexually
transmitted diseases, parent-infant education,
and gender violence. GFC’s grant provides
general support for ANICA’s reproductive
health and responsibility workshops on the
streets of Mexico City.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Director: Yohannes Gebregeorgis
ebcef@telecom.net.et
EBCEF aims to improve the reading
skills of Ethiopia’s undereducated youth
by establishing libraries in low-income
neighborhoods, donating high-quality
children’s books to community organizations,
coordinating public-awareness campaigns
surrounding the importance of reading, and
maintaining a mobile tent library. GFC’s grant
supports EBCEF’s free children’s library and
reading center, which offers fifteen thousand
children’s and young-adult books in the
English, Amharic, Tigrinya, and Oromifa
languages and organizes activities such as
traditional storytelling and art classes.
www.ethiopiareads.org
GOING TO SCHOOL (GTS)
$15,000/655,500 India rupees
New Delhi, India
Director: Lisa Heydlauff
lisa@goingtoschool.com
GTS is a multimedia project for children that
celebrates every child’s right to go to school
and participate in an inspiring education
that is relevant to his or her life. GFC’s grant
supports GTS’s new Girl Stars project, which
aims to promote school enrollment among
girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, as well as the
production of a film about going to school in
India. www.goingtoschool.com
MA G I C B U S
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Matthew Spacie
info@magicbusindia.org
Magic Bus brings underserved, exploited, and
working children from the streets of Mumbai
to the hills and surrounding countryside,
where they participate in outdoor exploration,
various team sports, trust-building exercises,
and drama sessions. GFC’s grant supports
the participation of forty boys and girls aged
eight to ten in the Explorer Programme, which
offers year-round day trips, weekly games,
art and theater, residential camps, and other
activities. www.magicbusindia.org
R U I L I W O ME N A ND CH IL D REN
D E V E L O P ME N T C ENTER
$6,000/49,680 China yuan
Ruili, China
Director: Chen Guilan
hujin@savethechildren.org.cn
The Ruili Center works to improve the overall
well-being of neglected or sexually exploited
women and children living in Ruili County,
with a particular focus on raising awareness
about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases. GFC’s grant is for the Ruili Center’s
Engaging Local Youth project, which raises
community awareness about HIV/AIDS and
promotes leadership and positive behavior
among children and youth.
T H A I Y O U T H A C TION PROGRA MS
( T YA P )
$9,000/355,770 Thailand baht
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Executive director: Amporn Boontan
tyap@loxinfo.co.th
TYAP aims to reduce the impact of the AIDS
epidemic in Thailand by creating opportunities
for northern Thai youth to develop their
leadership skills. GFC’s grant provides general
support for TYAP’s Leadership Training for
Social Change project, which trains local
young people to educate children and others
about HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention, and
care. www.tyap.org
General Portfolio
UBUNTU EDUCATI O N FU N D
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Executive directors: Banks Gwaxula and
Jacob Leif
info@ubuntufund.org
Ubuntu is a community-run organization
dedicated to improving literacy, health, and
technology in impoverished neighborhoods
in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province.
GFC’s grant supports Ubuntu’s counseling,
referral, and advocacy program, which offers
one-on-one weekly counseling sessions to
children, an HIV/AIDS youth support group,
and wilderness retreats for participants of the
counseling sessions. www.ubuntufund.org
WIL DERNESS FOU N DATI O N
Durban, South Africa
Executive director: Andrew Muir
info@sa.wild.org
Working in South Africa since 1984, the
Wilderness Foundation is a pioneer in using
nature-based educational programs as a
positive force for social change by bringing
historically disadvantaged youth onto nature
trails in order to further their understanding of
and cooperation with the conservation of wild
habitats. GFC’s grant supports a new project
to provide AIDS orphans with training in the
growing hospitality and ecotourism sectors.
www.wildernessfoundation.org
“I want to study
well and ensure
that both my
younger sisters
get educated and
become employed.”
Sheela, 15
Agastya
Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Fund
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, affected millions of people throughout
Southeast Asia and beyond. Ten GFC grantee partners in three countries
either were directly affected by the immediate disaster or worked to address
the tsunami’s aftermath. In the days following the tsunami, GFC devised
a three-phase strategy for meeting the needs of its partners on the ground,
many of which were overlooked by the larger international relief agencies
due to their remoteness and the overwhelming needs of the region.
Phase I: Relief—funding to provide immediate medical and
nutritional relief
Phase II: Rehabilitation—funding to restore, to the greatest extent
possible, children’s daily routines
Phase III: Reconstruction—funding to support long-term community
reconstruction and renewal focused on the needs of children and families
Within a week of the disaster, GFC succeeded in dispersing emergency relief
funding to eight community-based organizations working on the ground; in
some cases, the funding from GFC was the first international support these
groups received. As further relief and rehabilitation efforts progressed over
the following months, GFC remained attentive to the experiences and needs
of its partners, many of which were overwhelmed with the considerable
response from governments, individual volunteers, and larger international
donors. Despite the incredible outpouring of concern and funds for those
affected by the tsunami, by March 2005 many community leaders were
becoming anxious about securing support for ongoing reconstruction
activities at the grassroots level.
With their concerns in mind, GFC consciously dedicated a majority of the
Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Fund—totaling nearly $500,000—to
the long-term needs of devastated communities. As the international focus
on the tsunami wanes, it is crucial that locally driven reconstruction efforts
continue to receive the support they need to rebuild communities and lives.
SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION AND ACTION Mamallapuram, India
After the Disaster, Restoring Hope
When the December 2004 tsunami hit the coast of the
state of Tamil Nadu, India, it shattered more than lives
and homes. In villages south of Chennai, the disaster
swept away the livelihoods of traditional fishermen
who depend on boats and nets for their meager
incomes. It dashed children’s chances for an education
by damaging schools and destroying supplies and by
increasing pressure on them to work to help support
their families.
Of the 657,000 people directly affected by the disaster
in Tamil Nadu, 85 percent were fishermen and their
families. The initial shock is receding, but recovery is
slow in communities that were already living close to
the edge. Boys are needed to join their fathers at sea,
and girls are enlisted to unload, clean, and sell the fish
their fathers and brothers catch. The work is hazardous
and injuries are common. In addition, the day’s work
leaves little or no time for education.
The Society for Education and Action (SEA), a
community organization based in Mamallapuram,
has worked since 2000 to improve educational
opportunities for children from local fishing families.
Founded by a tenth-generation fisherman who was
born and raised in the area, SEA used its first grant
from the Global Fund for Children for programs to
increase children’s school attendance and success and
to prevent their initial or continued work in the
fishing industry.
SEA’s top priority is still the education of children aged
five to fourteen. But ever since the tsunami, it has led
a network of organizations channeling GFC support
toward short-term emergency relief and long-term
reconstruction. Operating in thirteen villages, SEA is
helping to get fishermen back to work and children
back to school and is distributing medical care and
supplies to more than ten thousand beneficiaries.
Recovery means that both adults and children must
get over the trauma of loss—and the fear of the sea
that the tsunami provoked. They must replace and
repair fishing nets, boats, and engines to recover
economically. Schools must be rebuilt and replenished
to give kids hope for the future.
Once these temporary problems are solved, SEA
recognizes that promoting a culture of schooling
among fishing families will be an ongoing task—one
involving parents, teachers, local leaders, and children
themselves. Rooted in the community and traditions
that gave it life, SEA expects to participate every step
of the way.
Phase I: Relief
RU RAL I N S T I T U T E F O R
DEVEL O P ME N T E D U C AT I O N
DASRA
From December 30, 2004, to January
7, 2005, GFC dispersed $37,500 to
ten current and past grantee partners
who were engaged in immediate relief
activities, including providing food,
clothing, and medicine to people whose
communities were severely affected by
the tsunami. The recipient organizations
and the uses of Phase I funding were:
$2,500
To leverage additional support for GFC’s
grantee partners located in southern India that
were engaged in emergency reconstruction
activities and to advise GFC on relief efforts,
strategies, and next steps; Dasra is also
assisting GFC in contributing to a paper about
different funding approaches to emergency
relief, to be produced by Grantmakers
Without Borders.
A SSOCIATION F O R CO M M U N I TY
D EVELOPMENT SERVI CES
$5,000
Kanchipuram, India
To help pay for food, clothing, blankets,
temporary shelter, medicine, and health
camps for over two thousand evacuees from
the area of Mamallapuram.
C HIL D REL IEF AN D YO U
$5,000
Based in Mumbai, India
To support immediate relief efforts of the
Chennai Relief Committee network, made
up of local NGOs and international agencies
serving approximately 4,300 families living in
Tamil Nadu’s coastal communities.
D ASRA
$2,500
To assist with facilitation and coordination
of relief efforts by GFC’s grantees based
in Tamil Nadu, specifically Society for
Education and Action, which is located
in Mamallapuram, a devastated coastal
community south of Chennai.
H AL LEY MOVEMEN T
$2,500
Batimarais, Mauritius
To provide food and clothing to 150 fisher
families living on Rodrigues Island and to
replace educational materials that were lost or
damaged in the floods caused by the tsunami.
JEEVA JYOTHI
$2,500
To help pay for the distribution of clothing,
blankets, cooked food, and medicine to
tsunami victims who were brought to a
government refugee camp in the town
of Kanchipuram.
SAN G H A MI T R A S E RV I C E S O C I E T Y
$5,000
To provide food and clothing to approximately
four hundred children, senior citizens,
single women, disabled people, and babies
living in six villages in the tsunami-affected
Machilipatnam area.
SHI LPA C H I L D R E N ’ S T R U S T
$2,500
Colombo, Sri Lanka
To purchase medical supplies for use by
Shilpa Children’s Trust–affiliated volunteer
doctors and to purchase shoes and school
uniforms to allow children to resume school.
SO CI ET Y F O R E D U C AT I O N
AN D A C T I O N
$5,000
Mamallapuram, India
To help pay for food, clothing, bedding, and
medicine for over ten thousand people living
in thirteen villages that were severely affected
by the tsunami.
Phase II: Rehabilitation
From January 7 to March 30, 2005, GFC
awarded $85,000 to existing grantees
whose communities were directly
affected by the tsunami and that are
helping to restore livelihoods, replace
school supplies, and provide counseling
and other productive activities for
traumatized children and youth. The
recipient organizations and the uses of
Phase II funding were:
P ROTECTING ENVI RO N M EN T AN D
C HIL DREN EVERYW HERE
Colombo, Sri Lanka
To buy food, medicine, clothing, bedding,
and school supplies for affected children
and families living in the coastal slums
of Colombo.
ASSO C I AT I O N F O R C O MMU N I T Y
DEVEL O P ME N T S E RV I C E S
$25,000
$10,000
Vijayawada, India
Chennai, India
To provide safe drinking water, medicine,
cooking utensils, clothing, and educational
materials to two remote island slums in the
Pulicot area.
$5,000
Kanchipuram, India
Kanchipuram, India
To support recreation and child-care
centers, nutritional supplements, training
in psychosocial care for community-based
workers, supplemental teachers, and seed
money for women’s enterprise cooperatives;
beneficiaries are from affected villages
around Mamallapuram.
S A N G H A MI T R A S E RV I C E SOCIETY
$25,000
Vijayawada, India
To fund the repair and replacement of
fishing nets and boats belonging to 154
fishermen and to pay for bulk purchases
of dry fish to help 153 women restore their
pre-tsunami livelihoods; beneficiaries are
from seven villages in the Machilipatnam and
Nagayalanka areas.
S O C I E T Y F O R E D U C AT I ON
AND ACTION
$25,000
Mamallapuram, India
To purchase one hundred kilograms of fishing
nets to be distributed in thirteen villages and
to repair approximately sixty-five damaged
boat engines.
Phase III: Reconstruction
GFC is committed to supporting longterm reconstruction efforts in tsunamiaffected areas. As such, GFC expects
to disperse more than $300,000 over
the next two years for support of
child-focused tsunami reconstruction
activities. Examples of such activities
include financial assistance for
families who are caring for orphans;
counseling for traumatized children;
and reconstruction of school buildings.
To date, GFC has awarded $50,000
to two organizations in Sri Lanka that
are addressing the long-term needs of
tsunami-affected children.
P R O T E C T I N G E N V I R O N M ENT A ND
C H I L D R E N E V E RY W H E R E
$25,000
Colombo, Sri Lanka
To provide child care, recreational activities,
education support programs, group therapy
sessions, and post-traumatic stress disorder
counseling for children and communities.
S H I L PA C H I L D R E N ’ S T R UST
$25,000
Colombo, Sri Lanka
To provide financial support, counseling, and
school fees for fifty orphaned children who
have been placed in foster families, as well
as administrative costs of the organization’s
sponsorship program.
GFC Sustainability Awards
This past year, the Global Fund
for Children established the GFC
Sustainability Awards and conferred
$25,000 each to eight grantee partners.
These special awards were presented
to organizations that not only succeeded
in improving the lives of underserved
children, but also achieved a stage in
their organizational development where
they were able to sustain new levels of
financial and programmatic development.
The GFC Sustainability Awards convey
honor and recognition on the recipients’
extraordinary work and focus increased
international attention on organizations
that have developed grassroots solutions
to global problems. The awards are
an integral part of GFC’s grant-making
approach and, in most cases, will
constitute GFC’s final investment in
the work of recipient grantee partners.
However, these organizations will remain
in GFC’s global network as learning
partners, receiving tracking grants
and benefiting from GFC’s continued
assistance in leveraging funds from
other sources, thereby enhancing their
future security.
GFC Sustainability Awards are given
to organizations that:
Have received GFC funding for a
minimum of two years
Are representative of organizations
that GFC strives to support due to
their innovations and effectiveness
Have arrived at a critical stage in
their organizational development
Can demonstrate organizational
development in budget growth,
program expansion, and/or
diversifying funding sources over
the course of their relationship
with GFC
Have increased their public profile
and ability to leverage additional
funds through prizes or awards,
government recognition, and/or
increased financial support
Affect broader issues related
to children, education, and/or
development through advocacy,
training, and/or replication
Have proven management
capacity to administer this large,
strategic grant
Maintain strong communication
links with GFC’s program staff,
leadership, and representatives
A FGHAN INSTITUTE O F
LEARNING
Total support from GFC: $89,000
Kabul, Afghanistan
Executive director: Sakena Yacoobi
GFC grantee partner since 1999
The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) works
to empower Afghan women and children
by expanding their educational and health
opportunities and by fostering self-reliance
and community participation. In 1999, GFC
made its first grant of $5,000 to AIL in support
of twenty secret home schools serving over
six hundred girls living in Taliban-controlled
Herat and Kabul. Following the fall of the
Taliban in 2001, GFC shifted its funding to
support AIL’s pioneering boys’ education
project, which it continued to fund for another
four years. As the sole funder of the boys’
education project, GFC helped AIL reach
vulnerable populations of boys who had
experienced a lifetime of violence, providing
them with basic education and lessons
incorporating tolerance, diversity, and
conflict resolution.
The GFC Sustainability Award, issued as a
one-to-one challenge grant, is being used to
establish a reserve fund to provide emergency
funding assistance to AIL programs offering
educational and health services to children
and youth.
C AMBODIAN VOLU N TEERS FO R
C OMMUNITY DE VELO PM EN T
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Executive director: Doeur Sarath
Cambodian Volunteers for Community
Development (CVCD) aims to give
underserved children a more hopeful future
by offering basic education, literacy programs,
and job skills training to nearly two thousand
disadvantaged children and youth living in
slum communities in Phnom Penh. With
a grant of just $3,000 from GFC in 1999,
CVCD established a new Khmer literacy
program, providing basic education in the
Khmer language, English-language classes,
computer skills training, and community
service activities for eighty impoverished
children. For six years, GFC continued to
support the Khmer literacy program, helping
to fund the expansion of the program to new
communities as well as supporting capacity
building for the organization.
The GFC Sustainability Award is being used
to improve organizational systems and
increase financial support of the Khmer
literacy program through a newly established
income-generating rice-purchasing project,
an international school-sponsorship program,
and promotional materials.
CHI LDR E N ’ S T O W N
MA G I C B U S
Malambanyama Village, Zambia
Executive director: Moses Zulu
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Matthew Spacie
Children’s Town assists area orphans and
other children with their immediate needs,
including food, shelter, and medical care;
nurtures them in a secure, family-like
environment; and provides high-quality
primary education to students who have
dropped out of or never attended governmentrun primary schools. Beginning with a grant
of $3,250 in 1999, GFC has provided Children’s
Town with six years of general support,
enabling the growing organization to purchase
educational supplies, pay for additional
building materials, maintain its structures and
grounds, initiate a new eighth grade at the
community school, and provide scholarships
for students who have reached high school.
Magic Bus brings underserved, exploited, and
working children from the streets of Mumbai
to the hills and surrounding countryside,
where they participate in outdoor exploration,
various team sports, trust-building exercises,
and drama sessions. GFC has provided
three years of targeted support to Magic
Bus, helping to fund the pilot phase of the
Explorer Programme for eight- to ten-yearolds and assisting Magic Bus in developing
and advancing its activity-based curriculum
for underserved children. By establishing
a successful model for innovative service
provision and local corporate partnerships,
Magic Bus has created a model that can be
easily adapted to and replicated in other cities
and even other countries.
The GFC Sustainability Award is being used to
expand existing food production activities in
order to meet the daily nutritional needs
of children and staff and to generate income
to support the organization’s continuing
program growth.
The GFC Sustainability Award is being used to
implement and strengthen Magic Bus’s new
fund-development strategy, including travel
costs for fund-raising in the UK and salary
support for a Mumbai-based grant writer.
LI FE P I E C E S T O MA S T E R P I E C E S
N I S H T H A ( D E D I C AT I O N )
Washington DC, United States
Executive director: Larry B. Quick
Baruipur, India
Secretary: Mina Das
Life Pieces to Masterpieces (LPTM) provides
creative-arts opportunities for boys living in
low-income communities and runs a variety of
programs, including leadership development
activities, field trips, homework assistance,
and tutoring. Recognizing that vulnerability is
not limited to children living in the developing
world, GFC has been a proud supporter of
this creative, grassroots initiative serving
vulnerable children within its own community.
With a current waiting list of over three
hundred applicants, LPTM has a proven track
record in improving participants’ academic
success, their relationships with family
members and peers, and their self-esteem
and confidence.
Nishtha, a grassroots movement that
promotes education and basic rights for
girls and women, engages communities in
more than sixty villages in West Bengal in
educational and training activities that are
geared toward eliminating gender inequality,
illiteracy, and child labor. Since 1999, GFC
has supported Nishtha’s Balika Bahini and
Kishori Bahini programs, which provide
children aged three to eighteen with access
to and support for formal and nonformal
education, recreation, and community
leadership activities. In 2001, GFC designated
$7,600 of its grant of $10,000 to seeding a
small endowment for the Balika Bahini and
Kishori Bahini programs; interest from the
endowment has successfully funded the
formal-education costs of thirty girls per year.
The GFC Sustainability Award, issued as a
one-to-one challenge grant, is being used
to build a revolving fund and to further the
development of LPTM’s microenterprise
program that produces and sells paintings,
note cards, and LPTM-logo clothing.
to increase the existing endowment for the
girls’ education program, ensuring sustained
access to education for approximately one
hundred girls as well as salary support for a
social worker.
RUCHIKA SO CI AL SERVI CE
ORGANISATI O N
Bhubaneswar, India
Director: Inderjit Khurana
Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO)
works to improve the lives of impoverished,
working, and vulnerable children through
nonformal education programs, preschools,
shelters, and health services. Dedicated to
the idea that “if the child cannot come to
the school, then the school must come to
the child,” RSSO’s Train Platform Schools
give more than four hundred children who
live, work, or beg on or around the railway
platforms daily access to books, worksheets,
and arts and crafts. For seven years, GFC
has provided general support for the Train
Platform Schools as well as for building the
program’s endowment, now totaling over
$20,000 in principal investment.
to establish a revolving fund, implement a
management information system, and support
succession planning.
T H A I Y O U T H A C T I O N P R O G R A MS
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Executive director: Amporn Boontan
Thai Youth Action Programs (TYAP) works
to reduce the impact of the AIDS epidemic
in Thailand by creating opportunities
for northern Thai youth to develop their
leadership skills. GFC’s first two grants to
TYAP were in support of its youth camp
program, which taught children and youth
the value of acceptance of all people while
helping them overcome any misconceptions,
fears, or prejudice concerning people living
with AIDS. In 2002, GFC helped TYAP initiate
its Leadership Training for Social Change
project, which recruits students aged sixteen
to twenty-one to receive training on HIV/AIDS
transmission, prevention, and care. GFC has
provided general support for this project for
four consecutive years.
to establish a reserve fund and to facilitate the
transition of new organizational leadership
through staff capacity building, salary support,
and a public-relations project.
Johnson & Johnson Health and Well-Being Grants
Health is defined generally as freedom
from physical disease or pain. Yet truly
healthy children are not merely free
of illness; rather, the well child is one
with an improved quality of life due to
enhanced physical health, adequate
emotional and economic support,
access to educational resources, and
environmentally sound surroundings.
A child without these things is rarely
ready to learn. GFC’s grantee partners
have witnessed firsthand the impact
of childhood morbidity and mortality on
community progress and the ways in
which illness thwarts children’s ability
to thrive, learn, and take advantage
of life opportunities. GFC’s partners
are calling increasingly for additional
resources to address not only the
education and welfare needs of the
children they serve, but the health needs
as well. Recognizing the promise that
an integrated and holistic approach
holds for at-risk children around the
world, GFC offers a $1,000 Johnson &
Johnson Health and Well-Being Grant
to each grantee partner within the four
priority portfolios. Each organization uses
its grant to address the most pressing
health needs of the children it serves.
Johnson & Johnson is the sole
underwriter for these innovative and
essential supplemental grants.
While the uses of the Johnson &
Johnson Health and Well-Being
Grants are varied, they include:
Paying for regular showers at the
local bathhouse in order to improve
hygiene and prevent skin infections,
and providing vitamin and calcium
supplements (Achlal, Mongolia)
Developing and training health
promoters in a new mental-health
strategy for participants
(Deporte y Vida, Peru)
Providing free medical checkups
and establishing a special fund to
be used for frequent health and
psychological emergencies
(AFEL, Lebanon)
Supporting yearly checkups for
youth and monthly doctor visits to
rural villages (Horn Relief, Somalia)
Offering counseling sessions for
participants and their families
(TYHF, Georgia)
Organizing quarry-based medical
camps, training health volunteers,
and purchasing first-aid kits for
project sites (ACDS, India)
Conducting dental hygiene
training, mental-health counseling,
and tuberculosis prevention
education (CEDOICOM, Brazil)
Funding yearly immunizations and
emergency services
(Los Romeritos, Guatemala)
Purchasing hygiene materials such
as soap, shampoo, and dental
supplies for participants, as well
as providing preventive health
education (Luna Nueva, Paraguay)
Providing food, nutrition
education, and immunizations, and
constructing indoor European-style
toilets (IIMP, Turkey)
Testing and treatment for sexually
transmitted diseases and other
infections, and conducting street
theater productions addressing
health-harming social practices
such as female infanticide and child
marriage (Sanghamitra, India)
Constructing shower rooms,
purchasing soap, and hiring a
barber to cut the children’s hair and
teach them how to keep their heads
free of lice (EBCEF, Ethiopia)
In 2004–2005, GFC provided Johnson
& Johnson Health and Well-Being
Grants to 103 grantee partners. While
the knowledge that GFC has been
able to acquire through this process is
invaluable, so too is the work on behalf
of children’s health that these grants
are facilitating. These grants not only
strengthen grantee partners’ health
efforts, but also help these organizations
make a greater impact on the children
they serve by enabling a more holistic
approach to the children’s well-being.
Supporting GFC’s Grantee Partners
Tracking Grants
After ending a funding relationship,
many grant makers lose contact with
their former grantees. As a result, these
funding agencies remain unaware of
the progress of organizations that have
benefited from their support. As a grant
recipient itself, GFC realized that many
of its former funders—even those that
had provided critical support during the
initial stages of GFC’s development—had
not formally monitored the long-lasting
impact of their grants.
In response, GFC offers tracking grants
as a means to systematically review the
developments of its former grantees
as well as to assess its grant-making
achievements. These $1,000 generalsupport grants are made available to
former grantee partners every two years,
establishing a regular and long-term
process of follow-up and reporting.
Since the inception of this program, GFC
has awarded twenty-two tracking grants
to seventeen former grantee partners.
The knowledge resulting from this
process has been instructive, providing
a snapshot of the organizational
development, programmatic growth,
challenges, and accomplishments of
grassroots organizations around the
world. For example, information acquired
from tracking grants in 2005 included
these updates:
Established in 2002 in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Aïna has since
increased its budget to nearly $3
million; attracted large funders,
including USAID and the
International Organization for
Migration; and by the end of 2005
will fund about half of its budget
from its own for-profit initiatives.
In the year that Aïna started its
work in Afghanistan, GFC provided
a grant to help the organization
develop Parvaz, an independent
magazine targeting street boys and
other underserved children, which
now has a readership of over five
hundred thousand.
A film depicting the experiences
and work of Grupo Cultural Afro
Reggae (GCAR), which offers
cultural programming to youth
living in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas,
won the Best New Documentary
Filmmaker award at the 2005
Tribeca Film Festival. When GFC
awarded GCAR a general-support
grant of $2,500 in 1999, the
organization’s budget was around
$23,000; by 2003, its budget had
grown to nearly $600,000.
“I want to be a civil engineer because
I always see my dad building houses.”
In less than three years, the
organizational budget of National
Council of Women of Kenya
(NCWK) has more than tripled,
and the organization has expanded
its donor base to include wellknown international funders such as
the United Nations Voluntary Fund
for the International Decade of
the World’s Indigenous People. In
2002, NCWK received a grant from
GFC in support of its awarenessraising work about the hazards of
female circumcision.
The National Society for
Earthquake Technology—Nepal
(NSET) received a 2004 Tech
Museum Award for its approach
to educating communities, local
craftsmen, and engineers about
the importance of earthquakeresistant construction in Nepal.
NSET has also partnered with
Room to Read, another former
GFC grantee partner, to expand its
School Earthquake Safety Program,
which received support from GFC
in 2003.
Over the next several years, these
tracking grants will provide essential
knowledge about organizational and
programmatic development at the
community level.
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Escuelas Deporte y Vida
Leveraging
Since the inception of its grant-making
program, GFC has taken seriously its
commitment to help identify and secure
additional funding sources for its
grantee partners. Regular leveraging
efforts include:
Making referrals to other funding
agencies and individuals
Organizing site visits for donors
and other parties
Exposing grantee partners and their
work to international audiences
through publications, conferences,
films, and other venues
Assisting with travel expenses to
the United States for awarenessbuilding purposes
To date, GFC has leveraged over
$1 million for its grantee partners from
funders both abroad and
within the grantee partners’ home
countries. In addition to connecting
grantee partners with new financial
support, GFC creates relationships
between individuals and organizations,
resulting in in-kind support, volunteer
services, and professional consulting.
In 2004–2005, in keeping with its
commitment to help grantee partners
obtain access to greater international
funding, GFC sent 130 copies of
Indigenous Peoples Funding and
Resource Guide to current and past
grantee partners worldwide. Published in
both English and Spanish by International
Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP),
the guide is a comprehensive resource
for community-based organizations
that have little or no experience in
writing proposals, raising funds, or
communicating with foundations
and corporations that directly fund
grassroots organizations worldwide.
The purchase of these guides—costing
a total of $6,008—also enabled IFIP
to make 260 additional guides available
free of cost to underfunded communitybased organizations serving indigenous
populations.
Because support from GFC often
represents a grantee partner’s first
significant contact with the international
funding community, leveraging efforts
remain an essential value-added
service that GFC provides to its grantee
community. However, with a growing
portfolio of grantee partners, it has
become necessary to find ways to
make this service more systematic and
strategic. As part of GFC’s leveraging
strategy going forward, GFC is in
the process of designing an online
knowledge and resource network that
will connect grantee partners to other
funders, in-kind resources, current
research, and each other.
development tools that enable the
organizations to address management
issues themselves, improving their
ability to operate, sustain, and deliver
their mission. In 2003–2004, Dasra
successfully worked with four GFC
grantee partners on monitoring and
evaluation and offered organizationaldevelopment assistance to five
grantee partners.
Organizational-Development Grants
Aangan Trust, Mumbai—for
assistance in promoting a
replicable and scalable model for
psychological rehabilitation of
children and youth in state-run
juvenile detention centers
From eight years of grant-making
experience, GFC understands that
committing resources to strengthen the
organizational capacity of its grantee
partners will not only make them more
sustainable, but will also make the
entire children’s social sector more
effective. Thus, in 2005, GFC introduced
organizational-development grants,
which focus on strategic, financial, and
operational improvements that enable
grantee partners to deliver more efficient
and effective programs to children,
youth, and their communities.
The first round of organizationaldevelopment grants, the total value of
which was $15,000, targeted GFC’s
grantee partners in India. Rather than
providing additional funding for grantee
partners’ activities, the organizationaldevelopment grants take the form of
hands-on assistance from Dasra, a
Mumbai-based consultancy that offers
technical assistance and managerial
support to nonprofit organizations to
improve organizational capacity. Dasra’s
approach involves working hand in
hand with staff, management, and
beneficiaries to properly assess the
pressing needs of the organization and
establish a realistic work plan, which
will benefit not only particular aspects
of the program, but also the organization
as a whole. As part of its work, Dasra
also implements organizational-
In 2004–2005, through a competitive
proposal process, GFC awarded four
organizational-development grants
to existing grantee partners in India.
The recipients of these grants and
the specific goals of their work with
Dasra are:
Prayas, Jaipur—for assistance
in creating documentation
systems and performance
assessment procedures for its
inclusive education programs for
special-needs, low-income, and
neglected children
Prerana, Mumbai—for
development and implementation
of a management information
system for its programs serving
children and women living in the
red-light district
Society for Education and Action,
Mamallapuram—for continued
capacity-building assistance for its
locally-driven education support
programs for children living within
impoverished fishing communities
The overarching purpose of these grants
is to assist grassroots organizations in
becoming more dynamic, responsive,
and sustainable. Each grant entails a
one-year commitment from Dasra, and
the grant may be eligible for renewal,
depending on its effectiveness.
Recipients of organizational-development
grants are required to submit formal
evaluation reports to help determine
the impact and success of the grants.
Findings from this process will assist
GFC in further refining its grantmaking approach to remain responsive
to the realities faced by grassroots
organizations around the world.
South Asia Knowledge
Exchange Workshop
In March 2005, GFC organized its
first Knowledge Exchange Workshop.
Bringing together people from six
South Asian countries—Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and
Sri Lanka—the workshop provided an
opportunity for representatives from
twenty-seven grantee partners to share
experiences, discuss organizational
challenges and methodologies, and learn
about broader issues affecting children
and communities in the region.
Specific session topics included:
Using creative teaching materials
and children’s books
Addressing sexual exploitation
and trafficking of children
Engaging youth and addressing the
unique needs of boys versus girls
Working with children in
post-crisis situations
Mobilizing community
participation and public
awareness to address the
problem of child labor
Forming coalitions and
government partnerships
Closing the three-day workshop was a
discussion regarding the unique needs
and experiences of small, grassroots
organizations. Issues raised during this
session included the need for
strategic organizational planning and
development; long-term institutional
support from funders; and better
access to international networks and
funding communities.
One of the strongest messages of the
workshop was the need for greater
networking among grantee partners and
other resource providers, allowing for
consistent exchanges of information,
tool kits, training methods, and other
forms of capacity building and support.
Driven by feedback from workshop
participants and other grantee partners,
GFC is now exploring ways of using
technology—such as electronic mailing
lists, web portals, and online forums—
to better serve community-based
organizations around the world.
Collaborations
GFC values its relationships with
other grant makers, experts, and
network groups as a means to help
further global civil society. Beyond its
ongoing networking activities, GFC
actively participates in a handful of
strategic collaborations. In addition to
strengthening GFC’s knowledge base
and program areas, these relationships
provide direct and indirect services
to GFC’s grantee partners by raising
awareness concerning children’s
issues, generating increased funding
for grassroots endeavors, and bringing
greater recognition of the work of GFCsupported organizations.
Grantmakers Without Borders: In
2005, GFC awarded a grant of $2,500
to Grantmakers Without Borders—a
philanthropic network dedicated to
increasing funding for international
social justice and environmental
sustainability—to help provide a solid
base of support for the organization
during the implementation of its new
strategic plan.
The William Ascher
Summer Fellowship
In summer 2005, Clara Schmidt was
awarded GFC’s first William Ascher
Summer Fellowship. A rising senior at
Stanford University, Clara is pursuing
a bachelor’s degree in international
relations and plans to enroll in 2006 in
Stanford’s International Comparative
Education master’s program.
Over the course of the summer, Clara
was responsible for the development
of an online knowledge and resource
network for GFC’s grantee partners.
Connecting grantee partners to other
funders, in-kind support, and each other,
this new initiative is a natural outgrowth
of GFC’s commitment to leveraging
additional resources for grantee
partners as well as to promoting and
strengthening global civil society.
The William Ascher Summer Fellowship
was created in honor of GFC’s founding
chairman. Currently the Donald C.
McKenna Professor of Government
and Economics at Claremont McKenna
College, William Ascher served on GFC’s
board for over ten years.
The Global Fund for Women: In 2004,
two individual donors jointly awarded
GFC and the Global Fund for Women
a grant to fund the exploration of
a strategic partnership to support
knowledge sharing and more systematic
grantee referral. In February 2005, Maya
Ajmera and Kavita Nandini Ramdas, the
presidents of these two organizations,
co-wrote an editorial for the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer regarding the longterm implications of the December 2004
tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Global Fund for Children Books
Children around the world dream about
extraordinary adventures. And they
dream of security and the comfort of
being loved. Global Fund for Children
books provide the substance and the
wings that help children transform their
dreams into reality.
GFC itself began with a dream—to
produce engaging children’s books
that teach children to respect cultural
differences while presenting the many
common experiences that children
around the world share. That dream
has flourished into the Global Fund for
Children collection of books, which
includes the Shakti for Children series
and the It’s a Kid’s World series.
Starting with Children from Australia
to Zimbabwe and continuing through
Going to School in India, the collection
now comprises fifteen books and four
resource guides.
The Values of Global Fund for
Children Books
This award-winning collection of books
uses culturally rich photographs of
children from around the world to
counter media stereotypes of children
as victims of poverty, violence, disease,
and natural disasters. Global Fund for
Children books encourage children
to take an active role in shaping their
destiny. All nineteen titles integrate
children’s points of view, their needs as
well as their responsibilities. The books
encourage children to express their
visions through the arts and through
social participation—to make those
dreams into reality.
The Global Fund for Children bookpublishing program contributes to GFC’s
mission of advancing the education and
dignity of children and youth around the
world by disseminating attractive books
that help children understand and value
diversity. Today, more than 150,000
books are in circulation, reaching at least
500,000 children. The book-publishing
program further supports GFC’s mission
by allocating a portion of the royalties
from the sale of books to fund GFC’s
grant-making program.
Each year, GFC, through its Books for
Kids program, donates Global Fund for
Children books to community-based
literacy groups. In the past year, GFC
donated more than 2,500 books, with
a retail value of $40,000. Recipients
included VSA Arts, Learning Leaders,
RIF (Reading Is Fundamental), and
smaller grassroots literacy groups in
the United States and abroad.
New Books
The Global Fund for Children celebrates
three new books. Be My Neighbor,
published in fall 2004, builds on Fred
Rogers’s words of wisdom. The Horn
Book Magazine praises the book’s
concept of a global neighborhood and
recommends it as an “excellent resource
for multicultural community units.”
Another new release is the board book
version of To Be a Kid, one of GFC’s
most popular books.
The Washington Post Book World calls
Going to School in India, published in
spring 2005, “eye-opening.” Across the
diverse landscapes and cultures of India,
children pursue exciting dreams. What
makes children get up in the morning
to go to school on a mountaintop, after
an earthquake, or on a railway station
platform? And what makes girls go to
night school in the dark after a long day
of work?
This colorful and inspiring book tells
the stories of real children who make
active decisions about their education
and the future they aspire to. Written
by Lisa Heydlauff, with a foreword
by renowned Indian actress and
education activist Sushmita Sen, Going
to School in India is an invaluable tool
in the exploration of social studies and
international education.
Going to School in India, along with
the entire Global Fund for Children
collection, is available at GFC’s
new online bookstore (www.
globalfundforchildren.org/books).
Awards
In addition to winning critical praise,
Be My Neighbor was selected for the
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for
Young People 2005 list. To Be an Artist
continues to win significant awards. It
was selected as a Notable Social Studies
Trade Book for Young People 2005,
as well as for the CCBC (Cooperative
Children’s Book Center) Choices 2005
list. To Be an Artist was selected as a
2004 Earlychildhood News Directors’
Choice and was one of eight books
to receive the additional honor of the
Judges’ Selection Award.
Collaborations
Global Fund for Children books are
produced by a unique social-enterprise
venture between GFC, a nonprofit
organization, and Charlesbridge
Publishing, a for-profit children’s book
publisher in Watertown, Massachusetts.
The Global Fund for Children continues
to build stronger relations with allied
groups that work in the fields of
education, early childhood development,
literacy, and advocacy. A partnership
with the Nihewan Foundation has
led to the production of an online
interactive sampler of Children of Native
America Today at the Cradleboard
Teaching Project website, introducing
more educators and students to this
groundbreaking volume. In addition,
GFC is a learning partner with the Frank
Porter Graham Child Development
Center in a study funded by the
William T. Grant Foundation to improve
multicultural curricula in culturally
diverse schools.
As part of GFC’s ongoing global
outreach, staff members were fortunate
in 2004–2005 to be able to attend the
World Congress on Reading, sponsored
by the International Reading Association,
in Manila, Philippines, and the
International Board on Books for Young
People (IBBY) Congress in Cape Town,
South Africa. Both provided important
opportunities to network with a global
audience of publishers, authors,
and educators.
The publication of Going to School
in India marks the beginning of an
innovative cooperation between GFC’s
grant-making and book-publishing
programs. A GFC grant is supporting the
development of ten Going to School in
India mini-books in Hindi, and these short
books will reach hundreds of thousands
of children in India through state
government distribution. In addition,
GFC is contributing to the production of
a feature documentary, based on stories
in the book, that will be shown at various
film festivals, including Kids First! Film
and Video Festival.
Photo by Andrea Camuto, 2004 recipient
of the GFC/ICP Fellowship
Community Education and Outreach
Education is intrinsic to shaping each
child’s future. In recognition of this,
education is at the root of all of GFC’s
programmatic activities, including
its grant making, its books, and its
outreach efforts. In the past year, GFC
has initiated a number of community
education and outreach projects to
raise awareness among young people
and adults of critical issues affecting
vulnerable children around the world.
The GFC/ICP Fellowship
The Global Fund for Children and the
International Center of Photography
(ICP) created the GFC/ICP Fellowship
in 2004. Building on the common
interests and diverse expertise of GFC
and ICP, the fellowship program uses
the power of photography to highlight
the hope and opportunity cultivated by
GFC’s grantee partners in the vulnerable
children they serve. The program is also
designed to inspire a new generation
of photographers to commit to social
documentary photography work.
In the fall of 2004, Andrea Camuto, the
recipient of the first fellowship, visited
two GFC grantee partners in South
Asia: Nishtha in West Bengal, India, and
CVCD in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. As a
photographer who is, in her own words,
“committed both to increasing social
justice for women and children and to
photographing in the developing world,”
Andrea captured the spirit, dreams, and
realities of the children she met during
her trip. A selection of her photographs
can be seen in the GFC publication
Aspire.
Delegation to India
In March 2005, GFC organized its first
board member and donor delegation,
taking nine people to India to visit
GFC grantee partners and explore the
country’s culture and heritage. During
the two-week trip, the delegation made
site visits to seven organizations: Door
Step School, Aangan Trust, Prerana,
and Magic Bus in Mumbai; Vikramshila
Education Resource Society and Nishtha
outside of Calcutta; and Ruchika Social
Service Organisation in Bhubaneswar.
Reflecting on the trip, one of the three
teenagers among the group commented
that “in the modern world we say that
we have no heroes, but what this trip
taught me is that this is not true. The
leaders of these organizations . . . are
all heroes.”
Young Philanthropists Program
All young people, regardless of where
and under what conditions they live,
have hopes and dreams for the future.
In the United States, young people are
increasingly attuned to the extreme
hardships that their peers around the
world experience on a daily basis and
are rejecting the status quo as an
acceptable future. GFC has been a
motivation behind a growing group
of elementary- and secondary-school
students who seek to shape a more
just world for their generation. GFC
engages young people by introducing
them to organizations working directly
with children in need whose lives can
be changed through their fund-raising
efforts. The substantial effect of GFC
grants relative to their modest size puts
direct-impact philanthropy within the
reach of young people.
Following the tsunami that struck
Southeast Asia in December 2004,
students from Virginia to Washington
State contributed several thousand
dollars to support GFC’s relief,
rehabilitation, and reconstruction
efforts for its grantee partners in the
affected area. For example, brothers
Samir Singh and Hersh Singh of
Alexandria, Virginia, appealed to their
friends and their schools to raise
resources for tsunami victims, which
became part of GFC’s response effort.
Students from other schools raised
funds for specific GFC grantee partners.
Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto,
California, has integrated the work
of GFC and its grantee partners into
the high school’s annual International
Festival, which is held to raise students’
awareness of their global responsibilities
and of the variety of cultures in the world
around them. During this monthlong
festival, each grade raises money for
one of GFC’s grantee partners. During
2004–2005, the students raised funds for
four groups: Nishtha and Rural Institute
for Development Education in India,
Foundation for Development of Needy
Communities in Uganda, and Synapse
Network Center in Senegal.
Other participants in the Young
Philanthropists Program include the
eighth-grade class of the Latin School
of Chicago; the Town School for Boys
in San Francisco, which raised funds
for the Afghan Institute of Learning;
and the Mirman School in Los Angeles,
which raised funds—for the sixth year
in a row—for the Train Platform Schools
(a program of Ruchika Social Service
Organisation) in Bhubaneswar, India.
While GFC provided the catalyst for
these acts of compassion and support,
the fund-raising campaigns were
initiated by the students themselves. By
engaging donors at an early age, GFC
is helping to educate a new generation
about the role of philanthropy and
service in securing the future of young
people around the globe.
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Janet Falon and Cary Mazer
Marilyn and Edward Fernberger
Barbara Freed
Friedman Family Foundation
Judith and Joel Golden
Mary Groll
Gloria Sybil Gross
Bobbie Haimline-Howrey
Harriet and Gabriel Hornstein
Adria and Stanley Katz
Ann and Henry Kelly
Catherine Lafarge
Thomas Lay
Esther and Arnold Levine
E. Ann Matter
Stephanie McDonald
Mary Patterson McPherson
Catherine Neal Parke and Thomas Quirk
Penn Book Center
Betty and Raymond Rizzo
Katherine Rosier
Harriet and Bernard Rothman
Nancy and Marc Shrier
Debbie and Ira Weiner
Karen Wong
Carolyn Lombardi from
Anonymous
Ganpat Rai Nangea from
Namrita Kapur
Alice Paul from
Bernice Kintzer
Maria Eduarda Travassos from
Anonymous
In-Kind Support
Roopa and Ramesh Ajmera
Jagdish and Guriqbal Basi
Claire Bernard
Lucy Billingsley and Family
Gretchen Burke
Elizabeth Wallace Ellers
Gallery Arts India
GoogleGrants Program
Kathy and Edward McKinley
Isa Catto Shaw and Daniel Shaw
Y! Publishing Network
Matching-Gift Programs
Alliance Capital Management LP
AMD
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Flora Family Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
General Atlantic Partners
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Yahoo!
Xilinx, Inc.
Schools, Nonprofit Partners,
and Other Institutions
Congregation Sukkat Shalom of
Wilmette, Illinois
Students of Gage-Eckington Preparatory
Enterprise School of Washington, DC
Students of Happy Medium School Inc.
of Seattle, Washington
Eighth-Grade Students of the Latin School
of Chicago, Illinois
Students of Palo Alto High School
of Palo Alto, California
Students of St. Stephen’s Episcopal School
of Houston, Texas
Students of St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School
of Alexandria, Virginia
Students of Salmon Bay Middle School PTSA
of Seattle, Washington
Students and Parents of Shuang Wen School
of New York, New York
Talaris Research Institute
Fifth-Grade Students of the Town School
for Boys of San Francisco, California
Pro Bono Legal Counsel
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Online Giving Programs
JustGive.org
A Tribute to Richard B. Fisher
—Maya Ajmera
In December 2004, the Global Fund
for Children lost a dear friend with the
passing of Richard B. Fisher, chairman
emeritus of Morgan Stanley. Dick
was a Renaissance man in the truest
sense of that often overused term. His
success in business enabled him to
pursue his deep passions—fine art, great
books, the poetry of Dylan Thomas,
music, and ideas that could change the
course of social, cultural, or scientific
development. He was, quite simply, one
of the most remarkable, distinctive, and
compassionate people I have ever met.
With a bright smile, he asked, “Tell
me about the children’s book.”
“The title is Children from Australia
to Zimbabwe.”
“Oh, like A is for Australia,”
he answered.
“Right. B is for?” I started
getting excited.
“Botswana.”
“No.”
“Brazil.”
The story of how I first met Dick has
begun to take on legendary status among
our circles of friends. It has been told
frequently as a barometer of Dick’s
ready eagerness to explore the new and
untried—new initiatives, new ideas,
new people.
“Right,” I answered, with a huge smile.
“Chance,” Louis Pasteur once remarked,
“favors the prepared mind.” It was June
6, 1994, and I kept getting bumped off
my flight from Raleigh, North Carolina,
to New York. By midday, I had managed
to get two free airplane tickets. I didn’t
give away my seat the third time. Instead,
I was upgraded to first class. I seated
myself next to a distinguished-looking
gentleman. After settling in and taking
off, I asked him, “Do you live in North
Carolina?”
“Think of a lot of oil.”
“No,” he answered. “I live in New
York City.”
“What do you do?” I asked.
Magically, we began to play a game. He
was childlike and competitive at the
same time. We got to O.
“Don’t tell me the country that starts
with O,” he said.
He thought for a few seconds.
“Oh, yes. Oman.”
I became curious about him. I asked,
“What do you do for Morgan Stanley,
anyway? Are you a trader?”
Smiling, he said, “Well, I’m the
chairman. I’m Richard B. Fisher.”
“Oh, that’s nice. What’s the country that
starts with P ?” It did not matter who he
was. All that mattered was that he was
engaged in my idea. We kept playing
and got to X.
“I work for Morgan Stanley.”
“There isn’t a country that starts with X,”
he said.
“Neat. You have these emergingmarkets funds—the India Fund
and Russia Fund.”
“Mr. Fisher, you have to be a six-yearold. Stretch your mind to the very outer
limits of imagination.”
Hesitating, he asked, “Do you have
an MBA?”
“I have to think about this one.” We
were quiet. He began to talk about his
family and his intense love for great
books. All of a sudden, he leaned over
and whispered softly, “It’s Xanadu.”
“No,” I replied, “I have a master’s in
public policy from Duke.”
“I am impressed with Duke graduates.
What do you do?”
My face went from a smile to a frown.
All of a sudden, I felt unsure of myself.
“I just started a nonprofit organization,
and I’m writing a children’s book.”
I started giggling. “And that’s why
you’re the chairman of Morgan Stanley,
Mr. Fisher!”
We talked all the way to New York. We
shared stories. When we were getting off
the plane, he said, “Maya, if I can ever
help you, please get in touch with me.”
He gave me his card.
The next three years were the most
challenging of my life. During times
of uncertainty, I kept replaying
our conversation.
I held on to his business card. In
November 1997, I wrote Dick a letter
and shared that Children from Australia to
Zimbabwe had been released nationally.
He followed up with me immediately.
On January 12, 1998, I handed him
a copy of the book—a vision realized
against many odds. I will never forget
that he gave me more than an hour of
his time. We talked about books again.
We talked about the Global Fund for
Children and my vision for it. We talked
about our families. He and his wife,
Jeanne Donovan Fisher, became angels to
the organization. I was young and rough
around the edges, with very few contacts
in a wildly competitive philanthropic
landscape, and the Fishers opened up my
world and essentially changed the destiny
of the Global Fund for Children.
Dick had the spirit of generosity. He was
kind. He took risks. He was a dreamer
and believed in other people’s dreams.
Dick was a gifted listener. He believed
that education was a human right and
that nurturing a love of reading should
be a universal goal. His greatest legacy, I
believe, was to celebrate the diversity of
life, to revel in the highest expressions of
the human character and, in the end, to
know that there can be no real success
without the joy of being fully engaged in
the world around you.
We miss Dick Fisher deeply, but we
celebrate his legacy and give thanks for
the time he shared with us.
Financial Highlights
■
Fiscal Year 2004–2005
The Global Fund for Children’s strong financial
position allows it to execute its mission and
continue its pace of remarkable growth. During
the 2004–2005 fiscal year, GFC’s operating budget
increased 50 percent to $2.8 million, with the
largest increase in direct grants, which were over
$1.5 million. This growth, coupled with GFC’s
financial resources, places GFC in the enviable
position of being able to increase its infrastructure
in support of its expanding programs while
maintaining its general administration and
fund-raising costs at 16 percent of its budget.
In addition, GFC added $200,000 to its reserve
funds, which are now at a point where they can
be invested as a safeguard against economic
fluctuations.
In recognition of GFC’s programmatic excellence
and financial stability, GFC was awarded Charity
Navigator’s highest rating of four stars, a level that
signifies that GFC “exceeds industry standards
and outperforms most charities in its cause.”
Furthermore, Charity Navigator has designated
GFC as one of “ten charities to watch” over the
coming years, due to its sound financial position
and growth trends. This special designation is
based on strong revenue growth of at least 35
percent each year, expansion of programs and
services during the same period, and the existence
of financial reserves that impart long-term stability.
GFC’s net assets remained approximately $2
million. However, GFC was able to successfully
reduce temporarily restricted net assets by
targeting growth in its grant making and other
program areas. In 2004–2005, GFC spent 84 percent
of its budget on program services and 16 percent
on fund-raising and general administration.
As noted in the accompanying charts, GFC
derives the largest component of its revenue from
individuals. GFC believes that, as it continues to
develop relationships with its investors, it is well
balanced in the nature of its support. The success
of the GFC model continues to attract new donors.
The 2004–2005 fiscal year saw a marked growth in
corporate donors because GFC’s model is efficient
and demonstrable in reaching those it seeks to
help—qualities that have proven to be attractive to
those reliant on effective business methods.
Charity Navigator is America’s premier independent charity evaluator. They help charitable givers make intelligent
giving decisions by providing in-depth, objective ratings and analysis of the financial health of America’s largest
charities. Charity Navigator awarded four out of a possible four stars. In earning Charity Navigator’s highest four star
rating, GFC has demonstrated exceptional financial health, outperforming most of its peers in its efforts to manage and
grow its finances in the most fiscally responsible way possible.
A full audited financial report prepared by Langan Associates can be found on GFC’s website: www.globalfundforchildren.org.
STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION
June 30, 2005 and 2004
Assets
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Accounts receivable
Promises to give
Other
2005
2004
$ 1,114,451
$
530,631
1,812
532,443
15,702
Prepaid expenses
Deposits
Total current assets
922,808
565,585
6,217
571,802
7,464
15,134
1,517,208
1,662,596
10,452
Marketable securities
Promises to give, net of current portion
Property and equipment
Office equipment
Leasehold improvements
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization
Total property and equipment
Deposit
Total Assets
252,087
462,801
49,488
28,140
77,628
(43,211)
34,417
8,157
44,190
28,140
72,330
(29,083)
43,247
8,157
$
1,957,257
$
2,041,865
$
53,416
15,644
69,069
$
26,008
9,759
35,767
Liabilities and net assets
Current liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Accrued vacation
Total current liabilities
Commitments and contingencies
Net assets
Unrestricted
Temporarily restricted
Total net assets
866,803
1,021,394
1,888,197
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
$
473,297
1,532,801
2,006,098
1,957,257
$
2,041,865
STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES
For the Years Ended June 30, 2005 and 2004
2005
UNRESTRICTED
2004
TEMPORARILY
RESTRICTED
TOTAL
TOTAL
$ 2,645,575
18,831
17,366
10,956
$ 3,562,139
27,234
4,984
9,455
2,692,728
3,603,812
236,544
224,667
1,888,791
2,350,002
235,544
224,667
1,888,791
2,350,002
201,863
211,934
1,146,514
1,560,311
150,794
309,833
460,627
150,794
309,833
460,627
96,902
222,426
319,328
2,810,629
2,810,629
1,879,639
Revenue
Gifts and grants
Book revenues and royalties
Investment income
Other
Net assets released from restrictions
$ 1,476,467
18,831
17,336
10,956
1,680,515
$ 1,169,108
3,204,135
(511,407)
Total revenue
(1,680,515)
Expenses
Program services
Community education and outreach
Global Fund for Children book program
Grant making
Total program services expenses
Supporting services
Management and general
Fund-raising
Total supporting services expenses
Total expenses
393,506
Change in net assets
473,297
Net assets, beginning of year
Net Assets, End of Year
(511,407)
$
866,803
(117,901)
1,532,801
$
1,021,394
$
1,724,173
2,006,098
281,925
1,888,197
$ 2,006,098
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
For the Years Ended June 30, 2005 and 2004
Cash flows from operating activities
Change in net assets
2005
$
2004
(117,901)
$ 1,724,173
Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets
to net cash provided by operating activities
656
Realized loss on sale of marketable securities
Unrealized gain on marketable securities
Depreciation and amortization
Insurance proceeds from theft of office equipment, net of gain
Changes in assets and liabilities
Accounts receivable
Prepaid expenses
Deposits
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Accrued vacation
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities
(119)
13,176
14,484
1,068
250,073
(8,238)
15,134
27,408
5,885
$
Cash flows from investing activities
Acquisitions of marketable securities
Sales/redemptions of marketable securities
Purchases of property and equipment
Net cash used in investing activities
(1,033,353)
2,720
10,500
598
188,569
$
718,235
9,796
(6,722)
(15,533)
5,200
(7,446)
3,074
(17,779)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
191,643
700,456
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year
922,808
222,352
Cash and Cash Equivalents, End of Year
$
1,114,451
$
922,808
REVENUES 2004–2005
EXPENDITURES 2004–2005
Individual Donors = 47%
Total Program Expenses = 84%
Foundations = 26%
Fund Raising = 11%
Corporate Donors = 22%
Total Management
and Administration = 5%
Matching Gifts = 2%
Other = 2%
Book Royalties = 1%
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note A. Organization
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) is an international
nonprofit organization that advances the education and
dignity of young people around the world. GFC pursues
its mission by strengthening innovative community-based
educational organizations that serve some of the world’s
most vulnerable children; developing books that teach
children to value global diversity through its publishing
venture, Shakti for Children™; and inspiring global
citizenship and philanthropy through vibrant community
education and outreach efforts.
Note B. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Accounting
GFC prepares its financial statements on the accrual
basis of accounting. Consequently, revenue is recognized
when earned, and expenses are recognized when the
obligations are incurred.
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.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity
with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America requires management to make
estimates and assumptions that affect certain reported
amounts and disclosures. Accordingly, actual results could
differ from those estimates.
Cash Equivalents
For financial statement purposes, GFC considers its
money market funds and its certificates of deposit
purchased with original maturities of three months or less
to be cash equivalents.
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, 2005 and 2004.
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.
Intangible Assets
GFC has internally developed the trademark Shakti for
ChildrenTM. Since the trademark has been internally
developed, costs associated with the trademark
have been expensed when incurred. The value of
the trademark, along with its useful life, is neither
infinite nor specifically limited, but is indeterminate.
Consequently, the trademark has not been capitalized
and no amortization has been recognized. Books and
curricula authored and published under this trademark
represent intellectual property which belongs to GFC, and
upon which it earns copyright royalties. As of June 30,
2005 and 2004, GFC owned the intellectual property for
twelve hardcover books, eight paperback books, and four
resource guides.
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 as unrestricted net assets or as net assets
released from restrictions.
Contributed Services
Contributed services that meet the criteria of 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, certain costs
have been allocated among the programs and supporting
services benefited.
Note C. 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
consisted of the following at June 30:
On deposit with
federally chartered banks
2005
2004
$985,867
$161,847
GFC also has funds on deposit with Morgan Stanley.
Securities and cash held in the Active Assets Account
are protected up to their full net equity value by a
combination of coverage provided by the Securities
Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), which is a
nonprofit organization created by an act of Congress,
and additional insurance purchased from a private insurer
by Morgan Stanley. Amounts on deposit with Morgan
Stanley were as follows at June 30:
Money market funds
Stocks
Certificates of deposit
2005
$1,862
$1,862
2004
$373,281
10,452
464,775
$848,508
Note D. Promises to Give
The promises to give as of June 30, 2005, are
unconditional. A total of $544,917 is due in the fiscal
year ended June 30, 2006, and $275,000 is due over
the following two years. Promises to give to be received
after June 30, 2005, were discounted at 5 percent. The
unamortized discount on promises to give was $37,199
as of June 30, 2005 and 2004. Uncollectible promises are
expected to be insignificant.
Note E. Marketable Securities
GFC’s marketable securities at June 30, 2004, consisted
of 441 shares of Cisco Systems Inc. common stock
recorded at market value. There were no such marketable
securities as of June 30, 2005.
Note F. Temporarily Restricted Net Assets
At June 30, 2005 and 2004, net assets were temporarily
restricted as follows:
Grant making
Shakti for Children™ program
Community education
and outreach
Future years’ support
2005
$350,593
2004
$295,000
25,000
8,000
662,801 1,212,801
$1,021,394 $1,532,801
The following is a summary of net assets released from
donor restrictions due to satisfaction of the restricted
purposes specified by the donors, and net assets
released due to the passage of time for the years ended
June 30:
Grant making
Shakti for Children™ program
Community education
and outreach
2005
$1,603,515
25,000
2004
$813,443
37,500
52,000
$1,680,515
$850,943
Note G. 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:
Grant Making
GFC identifies and invests in community-based
organizations around the world that use nonformal
education as a vehicle to protect and expand the rights of
vulnerable or disenfranchised children. GFC’s grants are
allocated into portfolios concentrating on the following
specific issue areas: schools and scholarships, hazardous
child labor, commercial sexual exploitation of children, and
the distinctive needs of vulnerable boys. Since 1997, GFC
has awarded approximately $3.1 million in grants to 165
community groups doing vital work with children around
the world.
Shakti for ChildrenTM Program
Shakti for Children™, GFC’s book-publishing venture, is
an innovative collection of books and resource guides
that presents themes of diversity and tolerance. Serving
readers from early childhood to middle school, these
books encourage children—and adults—to respect
cultural differences while presenting the many common
experiences that children around the world share.
By helping children to understand and value diversity,
Shakti for Children™ contributes to GFC’s mission of
advancing the education and dignity of children and
youth around the world. It does so by depicting positive
photographs of children, promoting multicultural frames
of reference, and integrating the child’s perspective.
Community Education and Outreach
Using the principles of social marketing—essentially the
practice of applying product-marketing techniques to
health and social issues—GFC’s community education
and outreach efforts to children and adults have been
developed around its intrinsic strengths: its grant-making
program and the Shakti for Children™ collection of books.
By developing partnerships with an expansive group
of organizations and creating targeted social-marketing
campaigns, GFC’s efforts are reaching and making an
impact on a wide range of audiences.
Among other educational endeavors, GFC staff members
regularly speak at and participate in conferences that
focus on philanthropy, education, literacy, and specific
global issues. In addition, GFC creates targeted
campaigns to promote the contents and themes of
Shakti for Children™ books. For example, GFC developed
audience-specific communications materials about
Children of Native America Today for educators, museum
directors, and leaders in Native American communities.
Similarly, GFC reached out to the South Asian community,
in addition to general audiences, through special
communications materials and media coverage about
Going to School in India.
Through its Books for Kids project, GFC donates Shakti
for Children™ books to community organizations that
serve children in need. For many children, the books
they receive through this program are the first books
they have ever owned. This year, GFC donated close to
2,500 books through its partnerships with RIF (Reading
Is Fundamental), VSA Arts, Learning Leaders, and
smaller grassroots literacy groups in the United States
and abroad. To date, GFC has donated more than 52,000
books, with a retail value of close to $750,000, to schools
and organizations in the US and around the world.
Note H. Conditional Grants
During 2005, GFC awarded to two organizations
grants that are to be paid in the future based on the
organizations’ satisfaction of certain conditions. In
conformity with SFAS No. 116, these conditional
promises to give, totaling $50,000, have not been
recorded in the accompanying 2005 financial statements.
The table below reports the total grants awarded for the
years ended June 30:
Unconditional grants and grants
for which any conditions
have been satisfied
Conditional grants to be paid
in the future upon satisfaction
of conditions
2005
2004
$1,452,401
$815,300
50,000
$1,502,401
$815,300
Note I. Contributed Services
During 2005, GFC received services with an estimated
fair value of $29,664, in the form of pro bono legal
services and the use of a gallery to host a GFC special
event. These services were dedicated to education,
research, negotiation of a new office lease, and general
legal advice. In 2004, GFC received services with an
estimated fair value of $2,983, in the form of pro bono
legal services. These services were dedicated to
research, evaluation, and general legal advice.
Note J. Office Lease
GFC rents office space for its headquarters under a
noncancelable operating lease that expires in September
2012. Rent expense amounted to $110,525 and $102,504
for the years ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
Future minimum payments on the office lease are as
follows:
Year Ending June 30
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
$136,891
152,143
155,931
159,837
163,842
171,342
176,753
44,459
$1,161,197
Note K. Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plan
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, GFC
established 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 twenty
hours per week, may participate in the plan. GFC 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 $17,105 and $18,450 for the years ended June
30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
Note L. 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.
Board of Directors
Staff
Robert D. Stillman, Chair
Maya Ajmera
President, Milbridge Capital Management
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Founder and President
Maya Ajmera
Special Assistant to the President
President, The Global Fund for Children
Washington, DC
Ellen Mackenzie
Erin Hustings
Director of Finance and Operations
Dena Blank*
Trustee, Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Rome, Italy
Development
Juliette Gimon, Vice Chair
Director
Vice President, Global Philanthropic Services
JP Morgan Private Bank
Family Council Member, Flora Family Foundation
New York, New York
Marianne Makar
Sanjiv Khattri
Victoria Dunning
Executive Vice President, GMAC
New York, New York
Director
Sandra Pinnavaia
Senior Program Officer
Greg Fields
Corporate and Foundation Relations
Grant-Making Program
Elizabeth Ruethling
New York, New York
Patricia Rosenfield, Secretary
Chair, Carnegie Scholars Program
Carnegie Corporation of New York
New York, New York
Steve Ginther
Program Officer
Julie Meyer
Program Officer
Roy Salameh
Joan Lombardi
Managing Director, Commodities
Goldman Sachs
New York, New York
Senior Fellow
Robert Scully, Treasurer
Vice Chairman, Investment Banking
Morgan Stanley
New York, New York
Isabel Carter Stewart
Chicago, Illinois
Global Fund for Children Books
Cynthia Pon
Director
Summer Associate
Catherine Greene
Yale School of Management
William Ascher Summer Fellow
Board Emeriti
Clara Schmidt
William Ascher
Stanford University
Donald C. McKenna Professor of
Government and Economics
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California
Interns
Samir Singh
St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School
Alexandria, Virginia
Laura Luger
Attorney, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Durham, North Carolina
Morissa Sobelson
Phillips Academy
Andover, Massachusetts
Adele Richardson Ray
Trustee, Smith Richardson Foundation
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Photo Credits
Front Cover: © Alison Wright (Mexico). Inside front cover: © Alison Wright (Tibet). Pg. 5: © 2005, Jon Warren (Ghana). Pg. 6: © Lindsay Hebbard/Woodfin Camp (India).
Pg. 15: © Alison Wright (Jordan). Pg. 19: © Alison Wright (South Africa). Pg. 28–29: © Alison Wright (India). Pg. 31: © Alison Wright (Sri Lanka). Pg. 33 © Alison Wright
(Sri Lanka). Pg. 34: © Alison Wright (South Africa). Pg. 37: © Greg Fields (Bangladesh). Pg. 44: © Andrea Camuto (India). Pg. 46: © Alison Wright (Ecuador). Inside back
cover: © Alison Wright (India). Back cover: © 1998, Jon Warren (Mozambique).
This annual report was funded by a portion of the royalties from Global Fund for Children books.
© 2005, The Global Fund for Children
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* Term ended as of May 2005
Vision: A world where all children
grow up to be productive, caring
citizens of our global society
Mission: Advancing the education
and dignity of children and youth
around the world
pursues its mission by:
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Strengthening innovative
community-based educational
organizations that serve some
of the world’s most vulnerable
children
Developing books that teach
children to value global diversity
Inspiring global citizenship and
philanthropy through vibrant
community education and
outreach efforts
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ANNUAL REPORT and RESOURCE GUIDE 2004–2005
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR
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