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Today’s children face many challenges.
Here in the United States, and elsewhere
in the industrialized world, young
people must learn to thrive in rapidly
changing and diverse societies. In the
developing world, severe poverty and a
lack of education limit many children’s
lives. As our world becomes increasingly
interdependent, the problems that cloud
so many children’s futures, from lack of
basic education to ethnic conflict, require
global solutions. The Global Fund for
Children believes that all of the world’s
children must be empowered to reach
their full potential in order to meet the
challenges that the future will bring.
W H AT D O E S EDUCATION MEAN TO ME?
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Vision:
A world where children grow up to be
productive, caring citizens of our global society.
Mission:
Advancing the education and
dignity of young people around the world.
The Global Fund for Children pursues its mission by:
• strengthening innovative community-based
educational organizations that serve some of the
world’s most vulnerable children; and
• educating the public through a vibrant community
education and outreach program, including a
children’s-book-publishing venture, that helps children
and adults value their place in the global community.
“Education is a lifetime inheritance. It is a lifetime insurance.
Education is the key to success, a bus to a brighter future for
all our people. Without education, there is little that a person
can do—actually there is nothing a person can do without an
education. A person is never too old for knowledge; as my people,
the Xhosa, always say, ‘Imfundo ayigugelwa’ (Every day is an
education; you learn something new). We must be knowledge
seekers and we must strive for a better life through education.”
ZUKISWA, AGE 16 (Ubuntu Education Fund) Kwa Magxaki Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Letter from
THE BOARD CHAIR
At the end of each year, we look back and
evaluate our progress, challenges, and
achievements. This year we adopted and
began to implement a strategic plan that
captures the vision and mission of the
Global Fund for Children while preserving its
entrepreneurial spirit. We expanded our board
of directors, most recently with the addition
of Roy Salameh and Bob Scully. Both of these
new members bring great energy to the board.
We also honored founding board member
Adele Richardson Ray by creating a special grant to recognize
her invaluable contribution to the Global Fund for Children. Adele
is an amazing woman who embodies the heart and soul of this
organization, and we are all extremely fortunate to have benefited
from her generosity and intelligence during her many years on the
board.
The Global Fund for Children’s founder and president, Maya
Ajmera, continues to bring her extraordinary vision and creativity
to the organization. We are grateful for her commitment and for
that of a passionate, talented, and accomplished staff. Their hard
work has made a difference in the lives of thousands of vulnerable
children around the world.
This year, in anticipation of the Global Fund for Children’s tenth
anniversary, we’ve been asking ourselves, “What does education
mean to me?” As I reflected on this, I was initially uncomfortable
applying the question to myself, with all of the opportunities that I
have had for educational enrichment in comparison to the children
our grantee partners serve. Yet this is a fundamental question for
all of us and focuses us on why we do this work.
As the daughter of educators, I was taught early in life that
academic achievement and the pursuit of excellence were
paramount, and these values later became measures of my
individual self-worth. Achieving a high level of intellectual curiosity
and depth was valued above all things in my family. The serious
pursuit of education was also viewed as the best route to selfsufficiency and financial independence. My parents believed that
girls and boys alike needed to be able to support themselves and
to contribute to their communities.
My brother, my two sisters, and I were, therefore, exposed early
to philosophy, politics, literature, music, and art, and encouraged to
engage in vigorous discourse and debate with each other, as well
as with the frequent visitors who gathered around our dinner table.
My parents then sacrificed their own financial well-being to ensure
our college studies. My family was not one of economic means,
but we were rich in education.
My story is common to the grandchildren of immigrants to the
United States in the early twentieth century who believed that
education was the way to succeed in America. We were fortunate
to have access to excellent public schools that required all
children of a certain age to enroll and become educated. Most of
all, we were not hungry and our medical needs were met. This
educational ethic that we sometimes take for granted is part of the
fabric of this country. By law, education for all is a basic right in our
country, not a privilege.
Where children are less fortunate and where they are deprived
of formal or informal educational opportunities because of class,
gender, race, sect, or economic conditions, there is darkness
instead of light, restraint instead of freedom, servitude without the
potential for independence. Where education is withheld or denied,
repression and exploitation thrive, physical conditions can be
degrading and dangerous, and the human spirit cannot soar.
I read recently about the ongoing sabotage of some Afghan
schools for girls, schools that were able to emerge from hiding
only after the Taliban fell. Unfortunately, even where progress has
been made, difficult challenges remain. Our work is far from over.
It requires passion, diligence, resources, and adherence to the
fundamental belief that all children are entitled to be educated in
ways that allow them to have dreams and to reach their potential
as human beings and global citizens. This is an achievable goal, and
if we pursue it, the world will be a better place for us all.
Thank you to all of our friends, donors, colleagues, and grantee
partners for another extraordinary year. With your help and support,
we look forward to continuing to learn, grow, and carry out our
mission.
Laura B. Luger
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Letter from
THE PRESIDENT
Enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
education is every child’s right. Unfortunately, it is a right denied
to millions of young people around the world. At the Global Fund
for Children we strive to eliminate this inequity, and we are making
education a reality for more children than ever before.
countless things that children around the world
have in common, Shakti for Children books help
give young readers a global perspective that can
influence their outlook and actions for the rest
of their lives.
As I look outward to consider the impact our work is having around
the world, I also look inward to consider what education meant
to me as a young person. I grew up in eastern North Carolina,
where I attended public schools with limited resources but some
exceptional, dedicated teachers. These teachers found ways to
inspire and excite me without the benefit of the latest tools or
materials. They gave me a solid academic education and, more
importantly, ignited in me a passion for learning.
The Global Fund for Children continues to be a
thought leader, and we are growing comfortable
with our role as an increasingly visible player in
the global community. Our work is mentioned
and discussed in a growing number of arenas,
from book reviews to articles to conferences to
academic publications. We are also sharing our message with a
wider range of audiences while bringing attention to the work of
our grantee partners, extending our networks, and expanding our
own knowledge base.
I learned many things at school, but I learned just as much from
my family and my community. I was fortunate to live near a large
public library, and the books within those walls opened new
doors for me on every visit. Extracurricular activities expanded my
horizons, introduced me to people from a variety of backgrounds,
and taught me important lessons about interacting with others
and being true to myself.
Frequent visits to my extended family in India also helped give
me a global perspective at an early age. On each visit I saw
street children who lacked the basic necessities of life and were
deprived of an education that could change their circumstances.
Many of the children our grantee partners serve have severely
limited access to education, an unstable home life or no home at
all, and no semblance of a healthy, supportive community. Our
grantee partners seek to meet both the academic and personal
needs of these children through creative, holistic programs that are
grounded in, but often move well beyond, basic education.
Time and again I am impressed by the thirst with which children
and young people seek education, despite extraordinary obstacles.
Our grantee partners are tearing down these impediments and
creating environments where some of the world’s most vulnerable,
overlooked youth have a chance to fulfill their inherent potential.
The pages that follow include snapshots of the work some of
these extraordinary groups are doing to advance the education
and dignity of young people around the world.
With a focus on instructing and entertaining children and adults,
our Shakti for Children book program is at the heart of our own
innovative community education and outreach initiative. To date,
we have produced fifteen top-quality children’s books and resource
guides. This year we added A Kid’s Best Friend and Children of
Native America Today, along with an accompanying resource guide,
to our list of titles. By celebrating diversity and highlighting the
Our work is accomplished by a superb team, each member of which
has had an incredible impact on our growth and our expanding
influence. Our team continued to grow this year with the addition of
Erin Hustings, Ellen Mackenzie, and Elizabeth Ruethling, who bring
with them an impressive breadth of knowledge and experience. The
Global Fund for Children is guided by a dedicated board of directors
whose commitment and passion are invaluable. I am honored to
have Roy Salameh and Robert Scully join our board of directors.
Finally, I want to recognize founding board member Adele Richardson
Ray. Adele is a passionate child advocate, social scientist, and
philanthropist. She has been a strong leader and a generous supporter
of the Global Fund for Children from the beginning, as well as
being a true friend to the staff and a mentor and friend to me both
professionally and personally. Adele rotated off our board this year,
and she will be sorely missed. I am proud to announce that our first
Board Emeritus Grant was made in recognition of the tremendous
impact Adele has had on the Global Fund for Children. This grant
was made to Ruchika Social Service Organisation and will enable
four graduates of the Train Platform Schools to complete their next
level of schooling in India’s formal education system.
As ever, I am humbled by your generous support. As testament to
the commitment of our donors, we have continued to grow during
a prolonged economic downturn. You are making a tremendous
impact in the lives of vulnerable children and young people around
the world every day. I thank you for your commitment.
Maya Ajmera
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GOING FORWARD
“Education is the right we children have to learn,
read, and write. It is also an inheritance from
our parents.” MARÍA, AGE 9 (Fundación Apoyar) Cartegena, Colombia
(Translated from Spanish)
Education is a basic human right of all children, regardless of their individual circumstances. As Zukiswa
Pukwana, a sixteen-year-old high-school student from South Africa’s Kwa Magxaki Township, writes, “Education
. . . is a lifetime insurance . . . a bus to a brighter future for all our people.” Since its founding in 1994, the Global
Fund for Children (GFC) has been committed to securing this right for the world’s most vulnerable children.
GFC is a grant-making organization
designed specifically to target and
strengthen small grassroots organizations
that improve education for children who
would otherwise be left behind. These
organizations help to build the foundations
of civil society by shaping local, regional,
national, and even international policy
and practices. During the past year, GFC
introduced a portfolio-based approach to
its grant making. By focusing on specific
issue areas, GFC is able to direct its
expertise and resources more effectively
to the innovative organizations around
the world that are addressing a common
set of issues. As a central tenet of its
mission, each GFC grantee partner
offers nonformal education programs to
the young people it serves. GFC’s four
portfolios are:
• Schools and Scholarships
• Hazardous Child Labor
• Child Prostitution and Exploitation
• The Distinctive Needs of
Vulnerable Boys
Underscoring GFC’s grant making is
a dynamic community education and
outreach program, the core of which
is a book-publishing venture, Shakti
for Children. This innovative collection
of children’s books and resource
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guides presents themes of diversity
and tolerance that encourage children
to respect the environment, different
cultures, and their peers around
the world.
GFC’s vision of a world where children
grow up to be productive, caring citizens
of our global society remains just as
vital today, after eight years of dynamic
growth, as it did when GFC was founded.
Now, with its operating budget doubling
on an annual basis and with broad
interest and support from a wide range
of individual donors and foundations,
GFC has the opportunity to expand
dramatically and to encompass a broader
spectrum of community groups
and issues.
Three years ago, GFC’s board of directors,
in conjunction with the staff and an
organizational-development consultant,
began the process of evaluating
the organization’s future needs and
potential outcomes. This organizationaldevelopment process led to expanding
the board of directors, hiring additional
staff, building organizational systems,
and developing concrete plans to extend
and deepen GFC’s reach in both grant
making and community education and
outreach. This year, the planning process
culminated in the development of a
strategic plan that will guide GFC over
the next several years. The plan’s three
overarching goals are:
Expanding networks—going to scale
and serving more children: GFC seeks
to take its work to a larger scale to
influence positively the lives of more
children by strengthening grassroots
nongovernmental organizations that
serve vulnerable young people around
the world.
Generating knowledge: GFC seeks to
acquire new knowledge about the work
of its grantee partners, assemble existing
knowledge in new ways through its
children’s-book-publishing venture, and
disseminate the knowledge it collects in
innovative ways.
Building sustainability: GFC seeks
to make its work sustainable by
strengthening the institution through the
acquisition and retention of quality staff,
engaged board members, and diverse
financial resources.
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“I started coming to school because I
wanted to learn how to write my name.”
TRAIN PLATFORM SCHOOL STUDENT, AGE 15
GRANT MAKING
(Ruchika Social Service Organisation) Bhubaneswar, India (Translated from Oriya)
From the beginning, the Global Fund for Children has been committed to forging open, productive collaborations
with each of the organizations that it supports. GFC strives to balance the professionalism of an international
funder with the accessibility of a small and community-oriented grant maker, continually exchanging experiences,
practices, and ideas with its grantee partners. GFC’s grants support nonformal education programs that integrate
basic subjects, such as literacy, numeracy, and language skills, with awareness building and training in vocational
skills, reproductive health, hygiene, environmental issues, technological literacy, human rights issues, conflict
resolution, and artistic expression.
GFC maintains a strong commitment
to supporting grassroots organizations
whose missions focus on making
nonformal education programs available
to young people. Yet, after five years
of funding small, indigenously led
organizations, GFC concluded that the
community of grassroots organizations
working with vulnerable children would
benefit from a grant-making approach that
focuses on a defined set of issues. As
mentioned in the previous section, GFC
currently is concentrating its energies
on the following four global areas:
Schools and Scholarships—programs
that afford children the opportunity to
go to school where no such opportunity
otherwise exists
Hazardous Child Labor—programs
that target individual children caught
in harmful work situations
Child Prostitution and Exploitation—
programs that protect children from
initial and continued exposure to
the commercial sex trade and sexual
exploitation
The Distinctive Needs of Vulnerable
Boys—programs that confront the special
challenges of marginalized, at-risk boys
GFC’s grant-making team actively seeks
out and approaches potential grantee
partners. These organizations are
identified through a number of avenues,
including referrals by like-minded grant
makers, nonprofit groups, and GFC
funders; exploratory site visits made five
to six times a year by GFC’s program
officers to countries around the world;
and articles and newsletters about
children, education, human rights,
international development, and other
pertinent topics. As GFC generally
initiates contact with potential grantee
partners, the ensuing dynamic is one of
genuine interest, mutual learning, and
cooperation.
budget. In response to the needs of
grassroots organizations and the health
and well-being of the children and youth
they serve, GFC also provides a $1,000
supplemental health and well-being
grant to those grantee partners falling
within GFC’s four priority portfolios.
Beyond providing financial support, GFC
works diligently to leverage additional
resources on behalf of its grantee
partners, offers tracking grants to former
grantee partners, and works cooperatively
with indigenous consultants to provide
organizational-development assistance.
GFC’s partnerships with grantee partners
extend beyond traditional funding
relationships. In almost all cases, GFC
makes an initial grant award with the
expectation that it will renew its funding
for three to five years. First-year grants
from GFC range from $5,000 to $8,000.
Depending on the annual organizational
budget of the grantee partner, subsequent
grants range between $5,000 and $15,000.
In an effort to encourage partners to
continually diversify their funding
bases, GFC will not fund more than 25
percent of a grantee partner’s annual
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GRANT MAKING
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 election 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.
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.
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.
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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 longer-term impact
on policy at the municipal, state, or
national level.
Replicable Model
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.
Sustainability
The organization should possess plans
and/or the means to sustain its programs
into the future through 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.
“My mother often said, ‘Come, Chayna, tell me what
you have learned today from your group work,’ and I
think it is also education for my mother.”
CHAYNA, AGE 12 (Phulki) Dhaka, Bangladesh (Translated from Bangla)
SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARSHIPS PORTFOLIO
Enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is every child’s
right. Unfortunately, one in five school-age children around the world—120 to 125
million children worldwide—are not enrolled in primary school. Even where government
schools exist, teachers are often unable to teach class on a regular schedule; books and
learning materials are scarce; classes are crowded; schools are unsafe; and communities
have little say in what schools teach. In addition, in many countries where schools are
nominally free, supplemental fees and other costs, such as those for books and uniforms,
are higher than many families can afford.
For millions of children, the choice appears to be either work and eat or study and starve.
Despite the growing global awareness and concern surrounding the issue of universal
education, effort and innovation must come from within the communities that are in
need of education. GFC has identified the following grantee partners as highly effective
and successful agents of change within their own societies, all of them profoundly
changing the lives of thousands of children through nonformal education, skills training,
youth empowerment programs, and scholarships for both primary- and secondary-school
children to attend formal school.
For more information about this issue, visit www.globalfundforchildren.org/news/whitepapers.htm.
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SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARSHIPS PORTFOLIO
ASOCIAC I Ó N D E P R O M O T O R E S
DE EDUC A C I Ó N I N I C I A L Y
PREPRIM A R I A B I L I N G Ü E M AYA
IXIL (AP E D I B I M I ) (Association of
P r o m o t e r s of Early and Preprimary
B i l i n g u a l Education in Maya Ixil)
$6,000/47,280 quetzales*
Nebaj, Guatemala
Executive director: Benito Terraza Cedillo
[email protected]
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, serving more than 1,300
children. GFC’s grant pays for APEDIBIMI’s
preprimary-education centers and workshops
for parents.
CAMBODIAN VOLUNTEERS FOR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
(CVCD)
$11,000/42,185,000 riel
( S p o r t s a nd Life Association)
$6,000/20,970 nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: José Luis Quiroga Becerra
[email protected]
Deporte y Vida encourages young people
living in the sprawling slum of Villa El
Salvador to become involved in education
and life skills training by offering them the
rare opportunity to play soccer, volleyball,
and other sports they love. GFC’s grant is
helping Deporte y Vida expand its work to the
Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Jardines
de Pachamac, serving an additional three
hundred children.
ASOCIAC I Ó N S O L A S Y U N I D A S
Executive director: Sothea Arun
[email protected]
C O N Q U E S T F O R LIFE
CVCD promotes community volunteerism
and offers nonformal education programs
to nearly two thousand disadvantaged
children and youths, including those living
in the slums, land mine survivors, and child
prostitutes. GFC’s grant is for general support.
www.cvcd.org
Westbury, South Africa
Executive director: Moses Zulu
[email protected]
2001 grant: $5,000
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 provides
general support to Children’s Town, including
high-school scholarships.
1999 through 2001 grants: $23,250 total
CHRIST SCHOOL
$6,000/10,380,000 shillings
Bundibugyo, Uganda
Executive director: Kevin Bartkovich
[email protected]
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.
Christ School, a residential school, provides
secondary education for children living in
and around Bundibugyo, one of the poorest
regions in Uganda, where residents live under
constant threat of violence from rebel groups
of the neighboring Democratic Republic of the
Congo. GFC’s grant pays for a new Science,
Technology, and Life Skills Education program
that provides students with hands-on and
practical educational experiences in and out of
the classroom.
2002 grant: $5,000
1999 grant: $3,000
CIDADELA DAS CRIANÇAS
(Children’s Town)
$7,000/160,090,000 meticais
Maputo, Mozambique
Executive director: Sarmento Preço
[email protected]
Cidadela provides a healthy environment
in which over five hundred former street
children, AIDS orphans, and children from
impoverished families—nearly one hundred
of whom both study and live at Cidadela—can
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Executive director: Glen Steyn
[email protected]
Malambanyama Village, Zambia
1999 through 2001 grants: $19,000 total
$6,000/20,970 nuevos soles
Executive director: Sonia Borja Velazco
[email protected]
$11,000/92,873 rand
Conquest for Life is an organization run by
young people for young people that aims
to empower youth through its day camps,
after-school programs, computer training
center, vocational training program, victimoffender mediation, and HIV/AIDS counseling.
GFC’s grant provides support for Conquest
for Life’s Youth Enrichment Project, including
a Just For Kids peace games celebration.
www.conquest.org.za
( A l o n e a nd United Association)
Lima, Peru
academic and skills training programs.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
$11,000/46,750,000 kwacha
ASOCIAC I Ó N D E P O RT E Y V I D A
attend formal academic classes, learn
professional skills, and contribute to the
daily functioning of the school. GFC’s grant
provides general support for Cidadela’s
F R I E N D S F O R S TREET CHILDREN
(FFSC)
$11,000/163,378,000 dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Thomas Tran Van Soi
[email protected]
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 and
capacity building for FFSC’s Le Minh Xuan
Development Center, which offers classes on
literature, math, health, and natural sciences,
in addition to vocational training, familycentered activities, and health care.
2000 and 2001 grants: $11,000 total
F U N D A C I Ó N A P OYAR
(Support Foundatio n )
$6,000/17,082,000 pesos
Cartagena, Colombia
Executive director: Luz Dary Bueno
[email protected]
Fundación Apoyar provides early-childhooddevelopment activities, a rarity in developing
economies, through special toy libraries,
supplemented by nonformal education for
youth throughout Colombia. GFC’s grant pays
for a new toy library in the urban slum area
of San José de los Campanos in the city of
Cartagena.
FUNDACIÓN LA PA Z : C E N T R O
DE CAPACITACIÓ N T É C N I C A
SARENTEÑANI ( La Paz Foundation:
JIFUNZE PROJECT
K I T E M U I N T E G R AT E D S CHOOL
(Learning Project)
$6,000/10,380,000 shillings
S ar e n t e ñ a n i Te c h n ical Training Center)
Kibaya, Tanzania
$6,000/45,024 bolivianos
Executive director: Yahaya Ndee
[email protected]
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Jorge Domic Ruiz
[email protected]
The Sarenteñani Technical Training Center
of the community-based Fundación La Paz
provides quality, certified training in leather
production, auto mechanics, carpentry,
computer operation, metal working, and
textile design to underprivileged youth.
GFC’s grant provides general support for the
Sarenteñani Technical Training Center.
GRAMIN MAHILA S I K S H A N
SANSTHAN (GMS S )
( S i k a r G i r l s E d u c a tion Initiative)
$11,000/527,230 rupees
Sikar, India
Executive director: Chain Singh Ayra
[email protected]
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
provides general support for GMSS.
2001 grant: $10,000
HORN OF AFRICA R E L I E F A N D
DEVELOPMENT O R G A N I Z AT I O N
$6,000/15,720,000 shillings
Sanaag Region, Somalia
Executive director: Fatima Jibrell
[email protected]
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 is supporting the implementation
and monitoring of youth-led community
development projects in six villages, part
of Horn Relief’s Pastoral Youth Leadership
Outreach Program. www.hornrelief.org
ITHUTENG TRUS T
$7,000/50,160 rand
Soweto, South Africa
Executive director: Jacqueline Maarohanye
[email protected]
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 provides general support for the
Ithuteng Trust.
$6,000/5,338,000 shillings
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
educational system. GFC’s grant supports the
Jifunze Project’s new Early Learning Center,
the only center of its type in rural Tanzania.
www.jifunze.org
Kampala, Uganda
Executive director: Sserwanga M. Stephen
[email protected]
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.
This grant is for general support.
2001 grant: $4,000
N E PA L I - B H O T I A E D U C ATION
CENTER (NTEC)
KAMPUCHEAN ACTION FOR
P R I M A RY E D U C AT I O N ( K A P E )
$6,000/451,320 rupees
$7,000/26,710,600 riel
Project coordinator: Chhongduk Bhote
[email protected]
Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia
Executive director: Sao Vanna
[email protected]
KAPE works with 172 schools serving seventy
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 forty-nine
girls participating in KAPE’s Girls’ Lower
Secondary School Program, as well as support
and capacity building for Local Scholarship
Management Committees.
K E M B AT T I M E N T T I
GEZZIMA-TOPE (KMG)
(Kembatta Women’s Self-Help Center)
$6,000/50,700 birr
Kembatta Alaba and Tembaro Zone, Ethiopia
Executive director: Bogaletch Gebre
[email protected]
KMG focuses on improving reproductivehealth awareness and practices, providing
vocational and entrepreneurial skills
training, and protecting and restoring the
environment in rural areas, with improving
and increasing access to basic education
as the cornerstone of all its activities. GFC’s
grant provides support for KMG’s nonformallearning center in rural Zato Shodera village.
Singsa area, Nepal
NTEC is an integrated education project
that includes families and schools in its
effort to increase the quality, relevance,
and accessibility of formal and nonformal
schooling for the isolated ethnic Tibetan
Bhotia minority. GFC’s grant provides support
for NTEC’s Nonformal Education/Out of
School Children Program.
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 M I C D E V E L O P M E NT
(NEED)
$6,000/284,100 rupees
Lucknow, India
Executive director: Anil K. Singh
[email protected]
NEED mobilizes and facilitates the grassrootslevel formation 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.indev.nic.in/need
www.kmgselfhelp.org
N I S H T H A (Dedication)
KIDS IN NEED OF DIRECTION
(KIND)
$11,000/527,230 rupees
$6,000/36,720 dollars
Executive director: A. Raha
[email protected]
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Director: Marlon Persad
[email protected]
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 self-esteem, and restructure broken
family life. GFC’s grant provides support
for KIND’s nonformal education program.
www.kindkids.net
Baruipur, India
Nishtha’s Balika Bahini and Kishori Bahini
programs, which combine nonformal
education, basic health care, and social
activism, help girls in over sixty villages
in rural West Bengal gain the skills and
confidence that enable them to claim
community roles equal to those of their male
counterparts. GFC’s grant funds school- and
activity-related fees for three hundred
students.
1999 through 2001 grants: $14,800 total
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Project Profile
PROJOVEN
(FOR YOUTH)
Asunción, Paraguay
Some days, sixteen-year-old Felipe Zarza
have younger siblings who follow their
thinks he would like to be a farmer. On
examples, whether positive or negative.
other days, he leans more toward becoming
Felipe’s new attitude has already had an
a mechanic, or perhaps an electrical
impact on his younger brother, fourteen-
repairman. His goals change from day to
year-old Jorge, who has resisted peer
day, but Felipe knows that by studying
pressure to join a gang. Jorge sees Felipe
hard and staying off the streets, he is
working hard and acquiring new skills
building the foundation to pursue any of
through his classes and through his work
his dreams. Two years ago, Felipe was a
at ProJOVEN’s community garden project.
member of a gang and spent little time at
As a general assistant in this project, Felipe
home. But for the past two years, he has
earns a small income and is learning
been a student in ProJOVEN’s Literacy
valuable agricultural skills and lessons
and Life Skills for Youth in Danger course.
about responsibility and teamwork. The
Participants study health, nutrition,
work also keeps him close to home and
and personal hygiene, and learn ways to
off the dangerous streets of Asunción.
prevent drug and alcohol abuse and the
spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
The program helps young people learn to
communicate, to build self-esteem, and to
make healthy decisions for their futures. It
also teaches professional skills to give them
greater opportunities for employment,
thus lowering their likelihood of future
delinquency.
ProJOVEN prepares students to enter
the formal education system or to take
professional courses at a technical school,
and it provides scholarships for students
who complete the program and matriculate
into formal schools. Most importantly,
ProJOVEN helps young people think
beyond their daily existence. Felipe says,
“Thanks to ProJOVEN’s Literacy and Life
ProJOVEN works in the poor
Skills course, I have learned to read and
communities of Asunción to combat
write. I have also learned to communicate
the effects of prevalent alcohol and drug
better with others and to choose my
abuse, single-parent homes, domestic
friends more carefully. I never thought
and community violence, and high
about the future before, but now I know it
levels of unemployment. ProJOVEN
is important to plan certain things and be
recognizes that children like Felipe often
more prepared to do them.”
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Maureen Herman, founder and executive
director of ProJOVEN, spent two years in
Paraguay as an urban youth development
specialist with the Peace Corps. While
growing up in inner-city Detroit, Michigan,
she observed firsthand the stark contrast
between the haves and the have-nots.
Her commitment to closing this gap
on a global level led her to return to
Paraguay to fight for restorative juvenile
justice. Ms. Herman was selected as an
Artemisia Foundation fellow in 2003.
SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARSHIPS PORTFOLIO
NORTHNET FOUN D AT I O N :
AIDS ORPHANS F U N D
R E E N C O N T R O (Mozambican
S H I L PA C H I L D R E N ’ S T R UST (SCT)
Association for the Support and
$6,000/578,700 rupees
$6,000/257,580 baht
Development of Orphan Children)
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Director: Suchada Suwannathes
[email protected]
The AIDS Orphans Fund, a program of the
NorthNet Foundation, works to provide
educational, social, and employment support
to AIDS orphans and their caregivers so that
they can continue to live healthy lives in
their own communities. GFC’s grant provides
general support for the AIDS Orphans Fund,
which furnishes school fees, uniforms, and
$7,000/160,090,000 meticais
Maputo, Mozambique
President: Olinda Mugabe
[email protected]
OUR CHILDREN, I N C .
Reencontro works to alleviate the plight of
AIDS orphans through home-based 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 over six hundred AIDS
$6,000/13,372,800 leones
orphans.
school supplies.
Freetown, Sierra Leone
President: Nasserie Carew
[email protected]
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 provides support for Our
Children’s accelerated learning and tuition
program located in the neighborhood of Kissy.
www.ourchildreninc.com
2002 grant: $4,000
PRAYAS ( To W i s h)
$6,000/287,580 rupees
Jaipur, India
Executive director: Jatindar Arora
[email protected]
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.
ROOM TO READ
$5,000/76,990,000 dong
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Executive director: Erin Keown
[email protected]
Room to Read partners with communities
in underdeveloped rural areas of Vietnam
and Nepal to build schools; to enhance
educational facilities within schools by
establishing libraries, computer labs, and
language training centers; and to provide
scholarships to underprivileged girls who, due
to poverty and cultural bias, were previously
unable to attend school. GFC’s grant is
funding one-year scholarships for fifty girls
living in rural Vietnam and providing support
for the organization’s projects in Vietnam.
www.roomtoread.org
R U C H I K A S O C I A L S E RV I C E
O R G A N I S AT I O N ( R S S O ) :
T R A I N P L AT F O R M S C H O O L S
$13,000/523,090 rupees
2001 grant: $4,000
Bhubaneswar, India
PROJOVEN ( F o r Youth)
Executive director: Inderjit Khurana
[email protected]
$8,000/54,208,000 guarani
Asunción, Paraguay
Executive director: Maureen Herman
[email protected]
ProJOVEN uses a restorative justice model,
along with education and youth guidance,
training community volunteers and educators,
and networking and creating awareness
within the community, 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
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Nita Gunesekera
[email protected]
SCT, inspired by the Montessori method,
provides quality preschool and 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 provides support for
SCT’s free preschool.
SOCIETY BILIKI
$6,000/12,960 lari
Gori, Georgia
Executive director: Mari Mgebrishvili
[email protected]
Biliki assists internally displaced,
underprivileged, and special-needs
children 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 support to
Biliki’s Day Center.
V I K R A M S H I L A E D U C AT I ON
RESOURCE SOCIETY
$6,000/287,580 rupees
Bigha, India
Executive director: Shubhra Chatterji
[email protected]
Vikramshila establishes model community
schools 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 school’s operational costs, including
sports activities and cultural programs.
www.vikramshila.org
The Train Platform Schools’ informal
classrooms 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. GFC’s grant
is being used both for operating the Train
Platform Schools, a project of RSSO, and for
growing RSSO’s endowment to ensure the
future sustainability of the organization. This
grant was funded in large part by a readathon
conducted by students at the Mirman School
in Los Angeles, California.
1998 through 2001 grants: $38,275 total
2002 grant: $5,000
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“I want to be educated very much, as education lasts
through the whole life and it will help me in the future.”
MAIAM, AGE 8 (Society Biliki) Gori, Georgia (Translated from Georgian)
HAZARDOUS CHILD LABOR PORTFOLIO
Around the world, 246 million young people—one in every six children aged five to
seventeen—are engaged either part-time or full-time in work that falls under international
definitions of child labor. Laws and standards, while necessary, are increasingly recognized
as only one part of the answer to the complex problems that lead children into harmful,
hazardous, exploitative, and inappropriate work. The roots of child labor lie in poverty,
discrimination, traditional expectations, and lack of other opportunities. Exploitation
and harsh working conditions occur both outside and inside the home, and even children
working in less extreme conditions to help support their families suffer slower growth and
diminished learning potential.
GFC believes that not all children’s work is harmful, and in some cases it may well help
families survive in developing economies. However, long hours of work in factories, at
home, on the streets, or in the fields keep millions of children out of school and leave
those who do attend school too exhausted to study and learn. Recognizing the special
needs of child laborers, the following organizations have tailored their educational, skills
training, and youth empowerment programs in ways that best engage those children who
are otherwise excluded from the formal school system due to the demands of their work.
By showing child laborers and their communities the positive and rewarding alternatives
to menial employment, these educational organizations are making a real impact on the
futures of communities throughout the world.
For more information about this issue, visit www.globalfundforchildren.org/news/whitepapers.htm.
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HAZARDOUS CHILD LABOR PORTFOLIO
ASOCIACIÓN DE D E F E N S A D E
LA VIDA (ADEVI) (Association for
t h e D e f e n s e o f L i f e)
$6,000/20,970 nuevos soles
Huachipa, Peru
Executive director: Ezequiel Robles Hurtado
[email protected]
ADEVI operates a school for children who are
employed in the brickyards of the community
of Huachipa, with the aim of reintegrating
them into the regular school system. GFC’s
grant is helping ADEVI extend its nonformal
educational services to eighty additional
children. www.geocities.com/adeviperu
CENTRO SAN JU A N B O S C O
(CSJB) ( S a n J u a n Bosco Center)
$8,000/102,660 lempiras
Tela, Honduras
Executive director: Dylcia de Ochoa
[email protected]
CSJB seeks to enhance and sustain the quality
of life of working children and their families
by promoting the values of responsibility,
solidarity, innovation, and participation and
by providing children with opportunities to
continue their education. GFC’s grant supports
CSJB in paying school fees and purchasing
school uniforms, shoes, and backpacks for
children working in the street markets.
ESPACIO CULTUR A L C R E AT I V O
( C u l t u r a l C r e a t i v e Space)
$6,000/45,024 bolivianos
La Paz, Bolivia
Executive director: Washington Estellano
[email protected]
Espacio Cultural Creativo invites shoeshine
boys, market-working children, and street
children to interactive workshops held in
open spaces such as parks, encouraging
them to take part in theatrical skits, music,
storytelling, and other creative activities, and
ultimately striving to channel participants into
its basic literacy programs as well as those of
other educational organizations. GFC’s grant
provides general support for twenty-eight
workshops.
FUNDACIÓN JUN T O C O N L O S
NIÑOS DE PUEBL A ( J U C O N I )
( To g e t h e r w i t h t h e Children
F o u n d a t i o n o f P u e bla)
$8,000/83,440 pesos
Puebla, Mexico
Director general: Alison Lane
[email protected]
JUCONI works with schoolteachers, parents,
probation officers, employers, and other
significant figures within a market-working
child’s life, striving to empower family
members to create permanent, positive
relationships within their existing and future
families and to break the cycle of abuse and
violence prevalent in the homes of working
children. GFC’s grant provides general support
for JUCONI’s project to prevent and reduce
violence in the families of market-working
RURAL INSTITUTE FOR
D E V E L O P M E N T E D U C AT ION
(RIDE)
children. www.juconi.org.mx
Kanchipuram, India
GLOBAL MARCH AGAINST
CHILD LABOUR
$5,000/236,750 rupees
Worldwide (based in New Delhi, India)
Chairperson: Kailash Satyarthi
[email protected]
Global March is the largest worldwide network
focused on protecting and promoting the
rights of child laborers, especially the rights
to receive a free, meaningful education and to
be free from performing any work that is likely
to be damaging to a child’s physical, mental,
spiritual, moral, or social development. GFC’s
grant recognizes the capacity of Global March
as a networking partner who identifies and
recommends grassroots groups working
in the area of child labor for GFC and other
international grant makers and organizations.
www.globalmarch.org
J E E VA J Y O T H I ( J J )
(Everlasting Light)
$8,000/378,800 rupees
Chennai, India
Managing director: V. Susai Raj
[email protected]
JJ aims to treat both the symptoms and
underlying causes of child labor in Chennai’s
rice mills through programs that include
workplace-based nonformal education for
children, adult literacy classes, incomegeneration training, and awareness and
advocacy campaigns. GFC’s grant provides
general support for JJ’s rice-mill-based
education project, which provides preschool
and nursery programs for children of mill
workers. www.jeevajyothi.org
2002 grant: $5,000
LA CONSCIENCE
$7,000/4,179,700 francs
Lomé, Togo
Executive director: Kodjo Djissenou
[email protected]
$11,000/527,230 rupees
Executive director: S. Jeyaraj
[email protected]
RIDE’s goal is to ease the educational, social,
and emotional transition for child laborers
working in the silk looms of Kanchipuram.
GFC’s grant provides support for three Bridge
School Centers, which offer nonformal
education as a means to integrate children
into regular schools, and three new Child
Labor Prevention and Information Centers.
www.rideindia.org
2001 grant: $4,000
SECDO WOMEN
DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
$6,000/578,700 rupees
Matale, Sri Lanka
Executive director: D. M. C. Dissanayake
[email protected]
SECDO focuses on the children and women
working in the tea plantations surrounding
Matale, where it is estimated that between
100,000 and 500,000 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
programs in literacy, health education, human
rights awareness, English-language courses,
and computer skills training.
YAYA S A N B I N A P O T E N S I
M A S YA R A K AT ( YA P I M ) (I n s t i t u t e o f
Community Potency Motivat o r )
$6,000/52,457,520 rupiahs
Sidorahayu, Indonesia
Director: Muh. Iswanto
[email protected]
YAPIM’s skill education service for children
working in construction, cigarette rolling,
and automobile production strives to give
them skills for safer alternative jobs while
advocating for the rights and development of
their rural communities. GFC’s grant provides
general support for YAPIM’s skill education
service for child laborers.
La Conscience’s education project to combat
child trafficking endeavors 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
monetary support for one school year for
eighty-nine formal-school students whose
family, economic, and geographic situations
make them vulnerable to child traffickers.
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Project Profile
RURAL INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION
Kanchipuram, India
At thirteen, Shanthi is learning to read
Shanthi is a student in one of RIDE’s ten
and write, has established friendships, and
Bridge School Centers, which provide
is preparing to enter public school and
children with an educational, social, and
pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.
emotional transition from the silk looms
But less than a year ago, she was facing
and other types of child labor to public
a narrow and dismal future. Like many
schools. They offer remedial education to
school-age children in Kanchipuram,
help children like Shanthi catch up with
Shanthi worked full-time in one of the
other students and acquire productive
city’s silk looms. She had no chance to
learning habits. In addition, they provide
attend school, to socialize with other
health care, vocational skills training,
children, or to learn other skills.
recreation, rehabilitation, and counseling.
The owners of the silk looms readily loan
Bridge School Centers also offer services
impoverished families large sums of money
to the parents of child laborers. RIDE
in exchange for enlisting their children as
seeks to eradicate one of the basic causes
low-wage laborers. Parents are rarely able
of child labor by encouraging alternative
to repay the original loans and often seek
sources of income. In exchange for
to borrow additional money from the loom
releasing their children from the looms,
owners, effectively bonding their children
parents may participate in RIDE’s Rural
into labor far into the future. Since 1984,
Entrepreneurship Development Program,
the Rural Institute for Development
which trains mothers of former child
Education (RIDE) has been a leading
laborers to start and run their own
advocate for the eradication of child labor
businesses. Shanthi’s mother completed
in Kanchipuram and other cities in the
this program and both of Shanthi’s
state of Tamil Nadu. RIDE has directly
parents are now involved in one of RIDE’s
secured the release of more than two
Self-Help Groups, in which participants
thousand children from the looms and has
learn how to pool their savings and obtain
assisted in the release of many more.
low-interest bank loans. By working
with children, their parents, and their
communities, RIDE hopes to achieve its
goal of declaring the Kanchipuram district
free of child labor.
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S. Jeyaraj has been a teacher, journalist,
program evaluator, community organizer,
trainer, and social worker. He founded
RIDE in 1984 with the goal of improving
the lives of the rural poor by increasing
education and awareness. Because of
his commitment to rural development, he
was chosen as a 2003 fellow by the Ford
Motor Company International Fellowship
Program of the 92nd Street Y.
“Education is an innate human right. It enables the
development of our personal and individual potential.
I believe that one never finishes one’s education. . . . ”
JEANNE, AGE 12 (La Conscience) Lomé, Togo (Translated from French)
CHILD PROSTITUTION AND
E X P L O I TAT I O N P O R T F O L I O
Worldwide, approximately ten million children are engaged in some form of
the sex industry, and each year at least one million additional children, mostly
girls, become prostitutes. Major forms of commercial sexual exploitation of
children include prostitution, trafficking for sexual purposes, pornography,
and sex tourism. Children remain vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation
for many reasons, most notably poverty. In addition, discrimination against
certain racial and ethnic groups, domestic abuse in families, and the rising
numbers of street children and AIDS orphans are other major causes of child
exploitation.
Eliminating the commercial sexual exploitation of children around the world
is a daunting task, but one that is achievable if programs that address not
only the effects but also the roots of the problem receive adequate funding
and recognition. GFC supports the following organizations—all of which
provide a comprehensive range of nonformal educational instruction—in their
innovative and successful approaches to protecting children from initial and
continued exposure to the commercial sex industry.
For more information about this issue, visit www.globalfundforchildren.org/news/whitepapers.htm.
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C H I L D P R O S T I T U T I O N A N D E X P L O I TAT I O N P O R T F O L I O
ECPAT IN T E R N AT I O N A L
L U N A N U E VA (New Moon)
$5,000/214,650 baht
$6,000/43,080,000 guarani
Worldwide (based in Bangkok, Thailand)
Asunción, Paraguay
spread information to other children about
health and hygiene, child rights, gender
equality, sexual abuse and exploitation, and
social values.
Executive director: Carmen Madrinan
[email protected]
Executive director: Natalia Cerdido
[email protected]
2002 grant: $5,000
ECPAT International is a network of groups
and organizations around the world that are
working for the elimination of commercial
sexual exploitation of children. GFC’s grant
provides institutional support in order
for ECPAT International to continue and
strengthen its collaboration with GFC in
providing referrals and other services.
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 is helping
to expand Luna Nueva’s outreach program to
www.ecpat.net
an additional two hundred at-risk girls.
FUNDAC I Ó N D A R Y A M A R
(CASA D AYA )
MO L O S O N G O L O L O
( To G i v e and To Love Foundation)
(Hello Millipede)
$11,000/114,213 pesos
$5,000/35,850 rand
Mexico City, Mexico
Cape Town, South Africa
Executive director: Guillermina Guevara
[email protected]
Directors: Zurayah Abass and Patric Solomons
[email protected]
Casa Daya provides a structured and loving
environment in which over 150 adolescent
street mothers, whose new maternal
responsibilities place them at high risk of
using prostitution as a means to support
themselves and their children, receive
counseling, vocational training, and day care
for their children. GFC’s grant is helping to
expand Casa Daya’s candle-making workshop,
which gives these young mothers the
opportunity to channel their energies into
creative design.
Molo Songololo focuses on the survival,
development, and protection of children
and their rights in South Africa. GFC’s grant
provides support for Molo Songololo’s
trafficking and prostitution prevention
campaign, which, in partnership with local,
national, and international organizations,
promotes awareness of and action against
2000 and 2001 grants: $8,000 total
KHMER K A M P U C H E A K R O M
FOR HUM A N R I G H T S A N D
DEVELO P M E N T A S S O C I AT I O N
(KKKHRD A )
$6,000/22,894,800 riel
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Director: Son Yoeung
[email protected]
Amid girls lured to the red-light villages on
the outskirts of Phnom Penh and elsewhere in
Cambodia, KKKHRDA promotes and protects
basic human rights through nonformal
schooling, monitoring of human rights
abuses, and community and professional
development. GFC’s grant provides general
support for KKKHRDA’s nonformal-education
and vocational skills training program for girls
who are at risk of entering the sex trade.
child trafficking and prostitution.
Annual Report 2002–2003
$11,000/527,230 rupees
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Priti Pravin Patkar
[email protected]
Prerana’s Night Care Centre, one of the first
in the world, provides children of prostitutes
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 secondgeneration prostitutes. GFC’s grant is for
general support.
2001 grant: $3,000
P R O T E C T I N G E NVIRONMENT AND
C H I L D R E N E V E RYWHERE (PEACE)
$11,000/1,060,950 rupees
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Executive director: Maureen Seneviratne
[email protected]
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
PEACE conducts a wide range of projects
aimed at preventing children from entering
the commercial sex trade and at creating
community awareness of the scope and social
ramifications of child abuse and sexually
transmitted diseases. GFC’s grant provides
general support for the organization, including
the operation of ten nonformal-education
centers and a vocational training program for
350 boys and girls.
Executive director: María Josefina Paulino
[email protected]
2000 and 2001 grants: $10,000 total
M O V I M I E N T O PA R A E L A U T O DESARROLLO INTERNACIONAL
DE LA SOLIDARIDAD (MAIS)
(Movement for International SelfDevelopment and Solidarity)
$6,000/120,000 pesos
MAIS strives to motivate children to stay in
school and to prevent them from entering
Puerto Plata’s lucrative sex tourism industry
by offering academic support and social
services to at-risk and exploited youth. GFC’s
grant provides general support.
TA S I N T H A P R O GRAMME
2001 grant: $5,000
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 provides general support for Tasintha’s
education, health-care, and professionaldevelopment activities for children and youth.
P H U L K I (Spark)
$11,000/634,260 taka
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Executive director: Suraiya Haque
[email protected]
Phulki is dedicated to creating a world where
working women will not have to sacrifice
their children’s well-being in order to achieve
economic emancipation, and the organization
is now beginning to direct more attention
to the dangers of trafficking and sexual
exploitation of children. GFC’s grant provides
support for Phulki’s Bow Bazar slum child-tochild program, which trains child leaders to
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PR E R A N A (Inspira t i o n )
$6,000/28,536,600 kwacha
Lusaka, Zambia
Director: Clotilda Phiri
[email protected]
“It’s very important to have education, because without
it you can’t go far in life. You will also not be able
to achieve your goals in life. It’s your future, so make
the best of it.” JOSHUA, AGE 12 (Conquest for Life) Westbury, South Africa
THE DISTINCTIVE NEEDS OF
VULNERABLE BOYS PORTFOLIO
While the cultural, social, and economic challenges facing girls have been
well documented, much less attention has been focused on the world’s one
hundred million boys who are deprived of educational opportunities. At the
very least, these boys and young men, trapped by dire circumstances, become
disillusioned, hopeless, and angry, making them vulnerable to negative forces
such as extremism, sexism, and intolerance. In the worst cases, these young
men turn their frustrations and despair violently outward. With few life
choices and little to lose, this pool of males provides an endless supply of foot
soldiers for the world’s local, national, and international conflicts.
While GFC in no way wishes to detract from the important work that is being
done on behalf of girls and women—indeed, nearly half of its grants have
funded and continue to fund educational initiatives specifically for girls—it
cannot fail to recognize the social, economic, and even security implications
of neglecting this combustible population of marginalized young males. In
order to respond to the needs of these boys and to make every community
safer and stronger, GFC is committed to supporting the following educational
organizations that confront the special challenges of at-risk boys.
For more information about this issue, visit www.globalfundforchildren.org/news/whitepapers.htm.
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THE DISTINCTIVE NEEDS OF VULNERABLE BOYS PORTFOLIO
AFGHAN I N S T I T U T E O F
LEARNIN G ( A I L )
$11,000/470,690 afghani
Nangahar and Kabul Provinces, Afghanistan
Executive director: Sakena Yacoobi
[email protected]
AIL, in addition to promoting continuing
and higher education as a means of
empowering Afghan adults and girls, has
begun to focus some of its attention on the
unique educational needs of Afghan boys.
GFC’s grant provides general support for
two boys’ schools that incorporate AIL’s
positive teaching methods and its specially
designed peace and tolerance curriculum.
www.creatinghope.org
1999 through 2002 grants: $20,000 total
AÏNA: AF G H A N M E D I A A N D
CULTURE C E N T E R
$6,000/258,000 afghani
Kabul, Afghanistan
Executive director: Reza
[email protected]
In an effort to motivate Afghan boys to
stay in school and to prevent them from
adopting many of the violent tendencies that
are prevalent in Afghanistan’s troubled and
vulnerable society, AÏNA is collaborating
with Afghan Street Working Children and
New Approach (ASCHIANA) to expand a
literacy program bringing education to
alienated and displaced boys living on the
streets of Kabul. GFC’s grant is funding the
purchase of school supplies for participants
of ASCHIANA’s literacy and basic-education
programs, and AÏNA’s printing costs of Parvaz,
an independent magazine that helps boys
understand the value of literacy and learning.
www.ainaworld.org
AMY BIE H L F O U N D AT I O N T R U S T
(ABFT)
$6,000/43,020 rand
Cape Town, South Africa
Director: Linda Biehl
[email protected]
ABFT works to provide both boys and girls
with access to education, health care, gender
awareness training, recreation, arts and music,
and employment training—positive options
that make young people less likely to commit
violent crimes and more likely to lead healthy
and productive lives. GFC’s grant supports
four of ABFT’s Mural Exchange Projects, which
provide disadvantaged boys aged thirteen
to twenty-one with training by local artists
to create murals focusing on the themes of
peace and safety. www.amybiehl.org
A S O C I A C I Ó N PA R A L A AT E N C I Ó N
INTEGRAL DE NIÑOS DE LA
C A L L E ( A I D E N I C A ) (Association for
the Intensive Care of Street Boys)
$8,000/27,600 nuevos soles
Lima, Peru
Executive director: Arturo Flores Paz-Soldan
[email protected]
AIDENICA operates a specialized program
that focuses on the rehabilitation of Peruvian
street boys, mostly former substance abusers,
through prevention, promotion, 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.
www.geocities.com/aidenica
L I F E P I E C E S T O MASTERPIECES
(LPTM)
$9,000
Washington DC, United States
Executive director: Larry B. Quick
[email protected]
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, homework assistance,
and tutoring. GFC’s grant provides general
support. www.lifepieces.org
2000 grant: $5,000
L O S T B O Y S F O UNDATION
I K A M VA L A B A N T U
$6,000
(The Future of Our Nation)
$2,000/15,502 rand
Atlanta GA, United States
Cape Town, South Africa
Managing director: Sipho Puwani
[email protected]
Ikamva Labantu’s Boys/Men Project works
with boys aged three to six in order to shape
how they develop as boys and men and
how they conceptualize masculinity in terms
of respect and gentler approaches to daily
interactions. GFC’s grant provides general
funding for the pilot phase of this project, with
the intent to use the results to expand to new
areas and to help guide the development of a
project for GFC’s vulnerable-boys issue area
and to strengthen the body of knowledge on
the impact on men’s gender issues in social
development.
INSTITUTO DEL MAÑANA
(Institute of Tomorrow)
$7,000/47,432,000 guarani
Itagua, Paraguay
Director: Carlos Noguera
[email protected]
Instituto del Mañana operates the only
residential program in Paraguay for boys
aged seven to fourteen, many of whom
have had some contact with the Paraguayan
juvenile justice system, and provides them
with basic education, occupational training,
and other support while they live in a family
setting with foster parents and other children.
GFC’s grant provides general support.
Executive director: Barbara Obrentz
[email protected]
The Lost Boys Foundation empowers the
Lost Boys of Sudan, a group of approximately
3,800 young refugees from Sudan now
living in the United States, with educational
opportunities, cultural experiences, and the
social skills necessary to become productive,
self-sufficient members of the global
community. GFC’s grant provides general
support for the Lost Boys Foundation’s
math tutoring program.
www.lostboysfoundation.org
S A L A A M B A A L A K TRUST (SBT)
$6,000/284,100 rupees
New Delhi, India
Chairperson: Praveen Nair
[email protected]
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 provides
general support for SBT’s drop-in shelter,
which provides boys with a safe environment
in which to sleep and eat, away from the
police, drug dealers, and sexual predators
who routinely harass the boys on the streets.
www.salaambaalak.com
S Y N A P S E N E T W ORK CENTER
$8,000/4,776,800 francs
Dakar, Senegal
Executive director: Ciré Kane
[email protected]
Synapse’s Education to Fight Exclusion Project
works to empower street boys, who are easily
influenced by negative and harmful teachings
of fundamentalist Islamic daaras, to stand up
for their rights, pursue their goals, and take
greater responsibility in their communities.
GFC’s grant provides general support for
the Education to Fight Exclusion Project.
www.synapsecenter.org
2002 grant: $4,000
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Project Profile
SYNAPSE NETWORK CENTER
Dakar, Senegal
Abdul Ba is a talented painter and
receive the education they are promised
musician who dreams of becoming a
and instead spend much of each day on
professional artist. The eighteen-year-old
the street, working, begging, or stealing
Wolof speaker is learning French and
money to support their teachers.
English, studying math, developing his
artistic skills, and learning how to run
Synapse Network Center, which is
his own business. He is already selling
based in Dakar and the surrounding
some of his paintings and saving the
neighborhoods, targets boys in the
money to invest in his own studio. Just
daaras and boys like Abdul who have few
fourteen months ago, life for Abdul was
opportunities or are at risk of becoming
very different. His parents could no
involved in negative activities. Through
longer afford to send him to school, so he
its Education to Fight Exclusion Project,
dropped out and spent most of his time
Synapse provides basic education,
hanging out on the streets with a group
health and hygiene training, and lessons
of directionless and sometimes violent
on personal responsibility to Dakar’s
young men.
vulnerable boys and young men. By
Ciré Kane, founder and executive director
of Synapse Network Center, has studied
education psychology and professional
counseling and holds an undergraduate
degree in sociology. He was honored by
the Berkana Institute, a global foundation
supporting nonprofit leaders around
the world, as a Pioneer of Change. Mr.
Kane also was selected as an Artemisia
Foundation fellow in 2003.
addressing larger social and personal
Many of Senegal’s young people, with
welfare issues as well as the three Rs,
scarce opportunities for employment, have
Synapse strives to prepare these young
few positive options available to them. Like
people for adulthood and entry into the
Abdul, an increasing number of young
labor force. Synapse has certainly made a
people turn to life on the streets. These
difference for Abdul. He says, “I feel more
youth, most of them boys, grow up in the
responsible for my future. I have come
shadow of drugs, diseases, delinquency,
to believe that my future depends mostly
violence, and street gangs. They often
on me, on the way I behave and on my
resort to begging and working at an early
willingness to succeed. I have gained much
age and thus expose themselves to various
self-confidence, and I now have learned to
forms of exploitation. More and more of
trust others.”
these boys are entering daaras, schools that
generally offer a narrow education based
on extreme religious teachings. In many
cases these boys, known as talibes, do not
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“Education will determine and shape my future and
fulfill my goal of becoming a teacher.” SANDRA, AGE 13
(Foundation for Development of Needy Communities) Mbale, Uganda (Translated from Lugisu)
GENERAL PORTFOLIO
GFC’s grantee partners characteristically take
creative new approaches to complex social issues.
GFC values the imagination of those it funds,
and continues to encourage innovative solutions.
Therefore, GFC has created a general portfolio
through which it is able to direct grants to a
handful of organizations that do not fall within the
other four portfolios. The general portfolio area
will contribute to GFC’s ongoing learning and may
well lead to the creation of new approaches within
its grant-making program.
ARK FOUNDATION OF AFRICA (AFA)
$5,000/4,865,000 shillings
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Executive director: Rhoi Wangila
[email protected]
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 low-income orphans and
vulnerable children living in the impoverished
and overpopulated suburb of Kirondoni.
www.arkafrica.org
C E N T R O D E A P OYO A NIÑAS
C A L L E J E R A S ( A NICA)
(Support Center fo r S t r e e t G i r l s )
$5,000/52,150 pesos
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive director: Alma Rosa Colín
[email protected]
ANICA helps girls and young women improve
their understanding of personal responsibility
and sexual health through street education
workshops on issues such as sexuality, sexually
transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies,
parent-infant education, and gender violence.
GFC’s grant provides general support for
ANICA’s reproductive health and responsibility
workshops.
2002 grant: $5,000
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GENERAL PORTFOLIO
CHILD RELIEF AN D Y O U ( C RY )
$5,000/236,750 rupees
N AT I ON A L C O U N C I L O F W O M E N
O F K E N YA ( N C W K )
T H A I Y O U T H A I D S P R E V ENTION
P R O J E C T ( T YA P )
New Delhi, India
$5,000/387,250 shillings
$6,000/257,580 baht
Chief executive officer: Pervin Varma
[email protected]
Laikipia District, Kenya
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Executive director: Jane Kiano
[email protected]
Executive director: Amporn Boontan
[email protected]
NCWK works to educate community leaders,
parents, teachers, and children about the
dangers of female genital mutilation and the
alternatives to this traditional rite of passage.
GFC’s grant helps to support a training center,
awareness education for circumcisers, and
a drama and arts competition for program
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
CRY is an intermediary grant-making
organization that supports grassroots
children’s organizations throughout India.
GFC’s grant supports CRY’s policy and
research center, which works with central
and state governments to influence childrelated policies and actions. www.cry.org
2002 grant: $5,000
participants.
EDUCATION AS A VA C C I N E
AGAINST AIDS, I N C . ( E VA )
$5,000/642,950 nairas
Abuja, Nigeria
Executive directors: Damilola Adebiyi and
Fadekemi Akinfaderin
[email protected]
EVA utilizes informal and formal education
initiatives that aim 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 Youth Health Curriculum, a
comprehensive reproductive-health program
designed to meet the special reproductivehealth needs of Nigerian secondary-school
students. www.evanigeria.org
N AT I ON A L S O C I E T Y F O R
E A RT H Q U A K E T E C H N O L O G Y
(NSET)
1997, 1998, 2001, and 2002 grants: $6,500 total
$5,000/376,100 rupees
$5,000/42,050 rand
Kathmandu, Nepal
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
General secretary: Amod Mani Dixit
[email protected]
NSET is dedicated to ensuring that all
communities in Nepal will be earthquake
safe by 2020, and its School Earthquake
Safety Program works to train masons
to build earthquake-safe schools; to train
teachers, parents, and students on earthquake
preparedness; and to assist in earthquakeresistant reconstruction of schools. GFC’s
grant supports the construction of three
public schools. www.nset.org.np
FOUNDATION FO R D E V E L O P M E N T
OF NEEDY COMM U N I T I E S ( F D N C )
$10,000/18,300,000 shillings
Mbale, Uganda
Executive director: Samuel W. Watulatsu
[email protected]
FDNC provides programs on youth development
and reproductive health, counseling for street
children, girl advancement programs, farming,
and, very uniquely, a brass band to help
children discover their inherent talents. GFC’s
grant pays for general support of FDNC’s
health-care center. www.fdncuganda.8m.net
2001 grant: $5,000
MAGIC BUS
$6,000/287,580 rupees
N I H E WA N F O U N D AT I O N :
CRADLEBOARD TEACHING
PROJECT
$1,000
Kapaa HI, United States
President: Buffy Sainte-Marie
[email protected]
The Cradleboard Teaching Project partners
classrooms of Native American and
non–Native American children in order to
create understanding and increase learning
about Native American culture, utilizing a
core-enriching curriculum that addresses
geography, history, social studies, music,
and science with cultural sensitivity and
awareness. GFC’s grant provides general
support for the project.
U B U N T U E D U C AT I O N F UND
Executive directors: Banks Gwaxula
and Jacob Leif
[email protected]
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 provides project support for a new 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
WA R C H I L D C A N A D A :
I R A Q R E L I E F A N D R E C O VERY
$3,000
Karbala and Baghdad, Iraq
Executive director: Samantha Nutt
[email protected]
War Child Canada is dedicated to providing
urgently needed humanitarian assistance to
war-affected children around the world to
help them overcome the trauma of war. GFC’s
grant supports War Child Canada’s initiatives
to provide clothing, blankets, books, health
and hygiene items, medical supplies, trauma
counseling, and other much-needed support
to children and families in Karbala and
Baghdad, Iraq. www.warchild.ca
Mumbai, India
Executive director: Matthew Spacie
[email protected]
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
is funding fifty camping trips serving fifty
children each, along with general support.
www.magicbusindia.org
PUEBLO DE COCHITI: COCHITI
L A N G U A G E R E V I TA L I Z AT I O N
PROGRAM
$1,000
Cochiti Pueblo NM, United States
Program coordinator: Richard Pecos
The Cochiti Language Revitalization Program
teaches Cochiti youth their native Keres,
a language that was almost extinct thirty
years ago, in an attempt to revive the
native traditions through an innovative
immersion program that includes recreational,
cultural, and ceremonial linkages between
the language and the culture. GFC’s grant
provides general support for the project.
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“For me, education is the best means of opening
myself up to the world and discovering other realities.
Education trains and prepares us to confront the
future with much more courage and peace of mind.”
GLORIA, AGE 9 (La Conscience) Lomé, Togo (Translated from French)
GRANT MAKING
Supporting GFC’s Grantee Partners
Supplemental 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.
• Developing sanitary pit toilets for
A child who is ready to learn is a child
who is healthy, well nourished, and has
had his or her basic needs met. 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.
• Distributing hygiene packets containing
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 supplemental health and
well-being grant to each of its grantee
partners within the four priority portfolios.
Each organization uses its grant to
address the most pressing health
needs of the children it serves.
While the uses of GFC’s supplemental
health and well-being grants are varied,
they include:
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increased hygiene, including a model
hand-washing station outside of the pit
toilets (Jifunze Project, Tanzania)
• Providing hepatitis A and B
vaccinations, iron supplements, and
oral rehydration supplements (NEED,
India)
• Hiring a physical therapist for treatment
of scoliosis (Biliki, Georgia)
soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes,
detergent, hair oil, and undergarments
(Nishtha, India)
• Hiring a counselor for sexually abused
children (JUCONI, Mexico)
• Providing delousing treatment,
mosquito repellant, and nets to protect
against malaria (SCT, Sri Lanka)
• Facilitating anti-parasite campaigns,
including stool samples and educational
materials and workshops (Deporte y
Vida, Peru)
During the 2002–2003 fiscal year, GFC
provided supplemental health and
well-being grants to fifty-eight of its
seventy-two 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 supporting.
These grants not only strengthen grantee
partners’ health efforts, they also are
helping these organizations make a
greater impact on the children they serve
by facilitating a more holistic approach to
the children’s well-being. To learn more
about this issue, visit www.globalfundfor
children.org/news/whitepapers.htm.
Leveraging on Behalf of
Grantee Partners
GFC takes every opportunity to connect
its grantee partners with other potential
donors. Over the course of the year,
GFC leverages additional funds for
its grantee partners by initiating
relationships, making referrals, and
publicizing its grantee partners’ work.
To date, GFC has leveraged more
than $560,000 on behalf of its grantee
partners from other funding organizations,
including the Emerging Markets
Foundation, American Jewish World
Service, the Global Catalyst Foundation,
and the Firelight Foundation. Yet GFC’s
leveraging efforts extend beyond the
foundation community. In Vietnam, for
example, GFC initiated a partnership
between one of its grantee partners
in Ho Chi Minh City, Friends for Street
Children (FFSC), and the local Citibank
management team. As a result, Citibank
employees have become active FFSC
volunteers, serving as tutors and mentors
to children in the program. Through this
relationship, FFSC has gained an engaged
partner whose expertise and resources
will help strengthen the organization into
the future.
Tracking Grants
In contrast to many other grant-making
institutions, GFC maintains relationships
with former grantee partners, many
of whom have grown beyond GFC’s
funding criteria. Within the past year, GFC
initiated a new set of grants to recognize
the benefits that both GFC and its past
partners derive from their continued
relationship. These $1,000 tracking
grants allow GFC to monitor its former
partners’ progress and to collect data that
will strengthen GFC’s knowledge base.
While no longer serving in a traditional
funding capacity, GFC remains involved
through its tracking grants in each
organization’s present and future—a
relationship that benefits both parties.
In 2002–2003, GFC provided tracking
grants to seven organizations, including
Grupo Cultural Afro Reggae in Brazil, the
Global Education Partnership in Kenya and
Guatemala, and the Children First Agency
in Jamaica.
Organizational Development
GFC works with indigenous groups to
provide technical assistance and project
evaluation services to its grantee partners.
Presently, two evaluation partners are
working with GFC-funded organizations
in different parts of the world. Dasra, in
India, and THAIS, in Mexico, are staffed
with well-trained local professionals who
are knowledgeable about the operations
of nongovernmental organizations, cultural
practices, the political climate, and social
issues facing children in their countries.
Among other services, Dasra and THAIS
offer capacity-building and fund-raising
expertise to GFC’s grantee partners in
India and Mexico. They also monitor
the operations of these organizations,
gathering qualitative and quantitative data
from which metrics are established. This
past year, THAIS provided evaluation
services and technical assistance to four
GFC grantee partners in Mexico under a
contract valued at $4,000. GFC contracted
with Dasra to perform a similar set of
services for five grantee partners in India
for $5,450.
Building Community among Donors
and Grantee Partners
Throughout the year, GFC hosts the
executive directors of its grantee partners
and invites them to tell their stories to
audiences in the United States. In the
past year, GFC hosted the executive
directors of several of its grantee
partners, including Priti Patkar of Prerana
in India and Moses Zulu of Children’s
Town in Zambia, both of whom spoke at
the Global Philanthropy Forum at Stanford
University. Friends of GFC have hosted
awareness-building events, in which
GFC’s grantee partners have participated,
to inspire and engage individuals on
innovative grassroots education programs.
More than fifteen grantee partners
visited the United States last year to
participate in knowledge exchanges. GFC
also represents its grantee partners and
their interests in a variety of forums. For
example, GFC’s president spoke at the
Hilton Humanitarian Prize Conference,
the Global Philanthropy Forum, and other
global conferences during the year.
For many of its donors, GFC serves as a
conduit through which they can exercise
greater personal impact internationally.
In support of its grant-making portfolios,
GFC has released a series of white
papers that summarize its four issue
portfolios (www.globalfundforchildren.
org/news/whitepapers.htm). With its
innovative grant-making model, GFC is
helping to create distinctive communities
that link grantee partners with donors
who have a strong interest in a specific
portfolio area. For example, the child
prostitution and exploitation portfolio
has a strong community of donors:
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
the Teresa and Bill Unger Fund, the
Keare/Hodge Family Foundation, the
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the
Overbrook Foundation, the Virginia
Wellington Cabot Foundation, and the
Flora Family Foundation. GFC is hopeful
that in the near future it will bring
grantee partners from this portfolio
together with this community of donors
in a knowledge exchange. GFC continues
to develop similar communities around
other portfolios.
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“To me, education is something that brings you or
leads you to good things.” DEGELO, AGE 9 (Kembatti Mentti
Gezzima-Tope) Kembatta Alaba and Tembaro Zone, Ethiopia (Translated from Kembatta)
COMMUNITY EDUC AT I O N
AND OUTREACH
Education is critical to the future of every child in every community
around the world. While definitions of education may vary, educating
the world’s young people is fundamental to creating a more responsible,
peaceful, and safe global society. Grounded in the principles of social
marketing, the Global Fund for Children’s community education and
outreach program is directed toward affecting the attitudes and actions
of young readers, parents, educators, and donors. By developing
children’s books that promote multicultural understanding, GFC
is engaging new audiences in its efforts to advance educational
opportunities for young people around the world.
Shakti for Children
At the core of GFC’s community
education and outreach program is
its book-publishing venture, Shakti for
Children. Evoking the Hindi word for
empowerment, Shakti for Children’s
innovative collection of books presents
themes of diversity and tolerance.
These books encourage children—and
adults—to respect cultural differences
while presenting the many common
experiences that children around the
world share. In addition to producing
beautiful books and resource guides
that make compelling teaching tools,
Shakti for Children supports GFC’s overall
mission of promoting young people’s
access to education by allocating a
portion of the royalties from the sale of
its books to GFC’s grant-making program.
By presenting photographic images of
young people with hope, resilience, and
dignity, Shakti for Children captures GFC’s
organizational vision of a world where
children grow up to be productive, caring
citizens contributing to their communities.
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The recently redesigned Shakti for
Children Web site (www.shakti.org)
reinforces the educational value of the
books by heightening awareness of
diversity and highlighting things children
around the world have in common. This
colorful online resource also features
descriptions and pictures of all the
books, profiles of the books’ authors and
photographers, and games that build on
and enhance children’s experiences with
the books.
Shakti for Children represents a unique
social-enterprise venture between the
Global Fund for Children, a nonprofit
organization, and Charlesbridge
Publishing, a for-profit children’s-book
publisher in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Foundations also play a vital role in
the growing success of Shakti for
Children books. In particular, the W. K.
Kellogg Foundation and the Flora Family
Foundation have generously funded the
research and development of most of the
Shakti for Children books.
S H A K T I F O R C H ILDREN BOOKS
Animal Friends
Winner of the 2002 Oppenheim Toy
Portfolio Gold Award
Children from Australia to
Zimbabwe, with a foreword by
Marian Wright Edelman
Winner of the 1998 Early Childhood News
Directors’ Choice Award and the 1998
Read, America! Collection Award
Children of Native America Today,
with a foreword by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Extraordinary Girls, with a foreword
by Isabel Carter Stewart
Selected as a 2000 Notable Social Studies
Trade Book for Young People
Let the Games Begin, with a
foreword by Bill Bradley
Winner of the 2001 Early Childhood
News Directors’ Choice Award
To Be a Kid/Ser Niño, with a foreword
by Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt
Winner of the 2000 Early Childhood News
Directors’ Choice Award and selected as
a 2000 Notable Social Studies Trade Book
for Young People
Xanadu: The Imaginary Place,
with a foreword by John Hope Franklin
Book Series: It’s a Kid’s World
• Back to School, with a foreword by
Dr. Marilyn Jachetti Whirry
• Come Out and Play, with a foreword
by Kermit the Frog™
• A Kid’s Best Friend, with a foreword
by Super Gus of Planet Dog
Winner of the 2002 ASPCA Henry Bergh
Children’s Book Award
SHAKTI FOR CHILDREN
RESOURCE GUIDES
Children of Native America Today:
An Activity and Resource Guide
Creating Xanadu: A Resource Guide
for Creating the Ideal World
Extraordinary Activities for
Extraordinary Girls
Raising Children to Become Caring
Contributors to the World
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New Books
Since the publication of its first book,
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe, in
1997, the Shakti for Children collection
has grown to include fifteen titles. This
past year, Shakti for Children had the
honor of developing the landmark book
Children of Native America Today, written
by the distinguished children’s-book
authors Arlene Hirschfelder and Yvonne
Wakim Dennis, with a foreword by Buffy
Sainte-Marie. Children of Native America
Today highlights twenty-five of the more
than five hundred Native nations and
cultural groups living in the United States
and celebrates the diversity, traditions,
and everyday lives of today’s Native
American children. Kirkus Reviews
praised the book as a “well thought-out,
neatly executed, and extremely attractive
volume.” And the School Library Journal
wrote, “this special book belongs in all
libraries.” In conjunction with the book,
Shakti for Children published Children of
Native America Today: An Activity and
Resource Guide, a companion resource
for educators and parents.
To honor Native American children, GFC
is directing 100 percent of the royalties it
earns from the sale of Children of Native
America Today to organizations working
with Native children. This past year,
GFC awarded grants to the Cradleboard
Teaching Project, which facilitates
exchanges and dialogue between Native
American and non-Native schoolchildren,
and the Cochiti Language Revitalization
Program, which is working to revitalize
the native language and traditions of the
Cochiti people of New Mexico.
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Another new Shakti for Children book, A
Kid’s Best Friend, represents a joint effort
between GFC and Planet Dog Philanthropy
(www.planetdogphilanthropy.org), the
nonprofit grant-making arm of Planet Dog,
a manufacturer and retailer of innovative,
earth-friendly products for animals. A
Kid’s Best Friend, the third book in the
It’s a Kid’s World series, looks at the very
special bond that children and dogs share
around the world. The American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(ASPCA) awarded A Kid’s Best Friend
its prestigious Henry Bergh Children’s
Book Award, which “honor[s] books that
promote the humane ethic of compassion
and respect for all living things.”
Books for Kids
Around the world, the ability to read—
more than any other single skill—is seen
as a sign of education. Books have the
power to open new doors and spark new
ideas, but for most of the world’s schoolage children, books are a scarce resource.
The situation is dire in developing
countries and in many communities in the
United States as well. GFC’s Books for
Kids program donates Shakti for Children
books and materials to community-based
literacy groups worldwide.
Complementing GFC’s grant-making
program and its education and outreach
mission, Books for Kids assists
community organizations in expanding
their educational resources as well as
facilitating dialogue about diversity
and multiculturalism. Books for Kids
specifically targets local groups that focus
on literacy issues for children and families
and that demonstrate a pressing need
for educational materials. By identifying
nonprofit and grassroots projects that
typically do not receive government
funding, GFC reaches children who may
not otherwise have access to new and
quality books.
In this past year, Books for Kids donated
more than 3,500 books, with a retail
value of more than $45,000, to groups
promoting children’s literacy. Among
the groups that received donations of
Shakti for Children books is Reading Is
Fundamental (RIF), the national literacy
organization that serves more than five
million children annually. Through RIF,
GFC donated 1,350 copies of Children of
Native America Today and close to 1,300
copies of A Kid’s Best Friend to schools
throughout the United States with a
predominantly Native American student
population. GFC also donated Shakti for
Children books to Books for America,
the Cradleboard Teaching Project, and
Teachers for a Better Belize. To date, the
Books for Kids project has donated close
to 50,000 books, with a retail value of
$650,000, to organizations and programs
promoting children’s literacy.
“Education means everything to me. . . . My education
is key to my future, and the key to success in today’s
world.” MAURICE, AGE 17 (Life Pieces to Masterpieces) Washington DC, USA
Generating Knowledge
Several Shakti for Children books were
the subject of an academic study
conducted by the Frank Porter Graham
Child Development Institute (FPG)
between 1999 and 2001. The study was
completed in 2002 and is now available
online (www.globalfundforchildren.org/
shakti_for_children/overview.htm). The
study pointed out that exploring the local
human diversity that children experience
on a daily basis is just as important as
learning about global diversity. Shakti for
Children is now developing books that
explore diversity in the United States,
with Children of Native America Today
being the first of several such projects.
Based on the findings of the first study,
the W. T. Grant Foundation awarded a
$300,000 grant to FPG to fund a related,
longitudinal study that examines how
elementary-school children of different
cultural and economic backgrounds
understand and negotiate human
differences. GFC is a learning partner of
this long-term study to inspire new book
ideas and projects.
Social Marketing Efforts
Social marketing was first introduced
as an academic and business discipline
in the 1970s by Kellogg School of
Management professors Philip Kotler and
Gerald Zaltman. In contrast to product
marketing, social marketing seeks to
benefit a specific target audience or
society in general. Social-marketing
techniques, applied effectively, have
the power to motivate people and
affect their behavior. GFC’s efforts
are directed toward inspiring distinct
audiences—young people, who are the
next generation of philanthropists, and
current and prospective donors—to
give globally and raise awareness of
international children’s issues generally.
Shakti for Children books are an effective
tool to engage potential donors about
children’s lives globally. The books are
a graphic, stimulating, and tangible
demonstration of GFC’s ideals. In many
instances, a person’s first connection to
GFC comes not through its grant-making
model but through its books. The value
of the Shakti for Children collection is
reinforced again and again as donors
report that they were first captured by
the books, which opened the door to the
organization and its work as a whole. By
reaching a wide variety of audiences, the
books extend GFC’s awareness-building
efforts and impart valuable messages to
people everywhere.
Providing philanthropic education for
young people is another social-marketing
effort that GFC has identified as a
growing interest for the organization.
Five years ago, fourth-grade teacher
Candace Corliss of the Mirman School in
Los Angeles became inspired by Shakti
for Children books. Her appreciation for
the books and their message led her to
GFC’s grant-making program. Ms. Corliss
in turn inspired her fourth-grade students
to partner with one of GFC’s grantee
partners, the Train Platform Schools of
the Ruchika Social Service Organisation.
Through an annual readathon program
held during each of the last five years, the
Mirman School’s fourth-grade students
have raised more than $50,000 to
support the Train Platform Schools and
its endowment. GFC is now testing the
replicability of the Mirman School model.
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“Education means always listening, thinking
about your future and the thing you are going
to do to let your dreams come through.”
DONOR LIST
July 1, 2002–June 30, 2003
RAMON, AGE 10 (Conquest for Life) Westbury, South Africa
The Global Fund for Children receives support from a wide range of donors, including individuals, family
foundations, national foundations, and corporations. We recognize all of our donors for their generosity and
for affirming our mission to expand opportunities for children around the world.
Individuals
Anonymous (3)
Victoria and Jack Aberbook
Maya Ajmera
Ravi and Richa Ajmera
Roopa and Ramesh Ajmera
Arlyn Alonzo and Carlos Cuevas
Bruce Altschuld
Barbara and Bill Ascher
Clare O’Donnell-Bailhé and Jacques Bailhé
Jocelyn Balaban-Lutzky
and David Lutzky
Thomas C. Barry
Milton Becker
Lois Becker and Mark Stratton
Katherine Bell
Judy Bennington
Julia Blanchard
Dena Blank
Roberta Denning Bowman and
Steven Denning
Ellen and Steven Bresky
Eli Bresky
Ezabel Broukhim
Anne and Wren Brown
Jennifer and W. Michael Brown
Brenda Buckner
Rachel Burnett and Evan McDonnell
Karen Krysher Carrey
Amy and Charles Carter
Janna and Steven Cesinger
Katherine Alice Chang and Thomas Einstein
Cheryl and Andrew Charles
Cesar Chavarria
Minam and Sam Chin
Alisa Witlin Chodos and
Jonathan Chodos
Michael Chodos
Lisa and Mitchell Chupack
Jean Clem
Steven Cohen
Julia Candace Corliss
Toni Cupal and Michelangelo Volpi
Stacy Dalgleish and Piero Selvaggio
Linda Bona-D’Angelo and Mark D’Angelo
Darsha Davidoff and Donald Drumright
Afroditi Davos
Angelle Dayan and Jonathan Weber
Margaret and Victor Dayan
Jodi and Mike Detjen
Ulrike Christine Dieter
Cheryl and James Dodwell
Jeanne Donovan and Richard B. Fisher
Valerie and David Dorfman
Cheryl Dorsey
Gina Dowden and Jerry Durante
John Driscoll
Constance and Arthur Driver
Suzanne Duryea and Timothy Waidmann
Danica Ebner
Jo Anne and Warren Ebner
Richard Ehrlich
Gloria and Charles Ellman
Suzie El-Saden
David Epstein
Sarah Epstein
Jana and George Eshaghian
Anna Faber
Nora Faber
Danielle and Brian Fairlee
Art Fasbender
Tina Fasbender and Marvin Goodfriend
Lynn and Greg Fields
Jeffrey Fiskin
Glen Forman
Nella and Paul Fulton
Valerie Gardner and Jonathan Tiemann
Ani and George Garikian
Randi Geffner
Amilcare Gentili and Ziao-Yi Xie
Jonah Gerard-Grossman
Noah Gerard-Grossman
Sandy and Daniel Geschwind
Eleanor Hewlett Gimon
Juliette Gimon
Barbara and Benjamin Ginther
Steve Ginther
Jill Norwood Gobel
Juan Gobel
Harriet Goldstein
Sonia and Jay Goldstein
Beth and Jeffrey Green
Renee and Lloyd Greif
Maria Fe and Alvin Guerrero
Meenakshi and Ashok Gupta
Robert Haile
Rozina and Pratyush Harit
Susan Carter Harrington and Tom Harrington
Jeanie Hayes Hatch and Timothy Hatch
Alicia and Matthew Hawk
Barbara Henley
Lillian and Carlos Hernandez
Esther Hewlett
Mary Hewlett
Sally Hewlett
Pamela Hilpert and Philip Kellman
Adam Hirschfelder
Jennifer Hodges and Alexander Fisher
Judy and Jameel Hourani
Amanda Howell
Lori and Gregg Ireland
Maxine Isaacs
Milinda Jaffe-Bork
Victoria and Robert Jarvis
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DONOR LIST continued
Bridget Jorgensen
Namrita Kapur
Karen and Martin Katz
Susan and Michael Kaufman
Sylvia Kaufman
Leslie Kautz and Jack Weiss
Mizin and Arnold Kawasaki
Alexia Kelley
Martin King
Robin Kirk and Orin Starn
Sylvia Klapow
Tovah Klein and Kenneth Boockvar
Stanley Kohn
Barbara Kohnen and James Adriance
Richard Kraft
Sonja Nelson Kraft
Lata Krishnan and Ajay Shah
Paula Kuhn
Anjalie Kumar
Lois Kwasigroch and George Alexander
Madeline Lacovara
Shana Landsburg and Bradley Scott Putman
Patricia and Daniel Lavigna
Jussara Lee
Mimie Lee
Tracy and Stephen Lee
Valeria Lee
Joni and Fred Lerner
Kara LeRose
Darla and Scott Lesh
Rhoda and Morton Lesh
Alice Lewis
Sarah and Frank Lewis
Maria and Marty Licker
Kristin Olson Lieberman
Frank Lopez
Marcena W. Love
Frances Lubin
Laura and Michael Luger
Kimberle and Ronald Lynch
Geraldine Lynyak
Elizabeth and Joseph Mandato
Jimena Martinez and Michael Hirschhorn
Sima and Kamyar Mateen
Mary Patterson McPherson
Laila Merali
Constance Meyer and Stuart Spottiswoode
Leonore Meyer
Stephanie and Nicholas Meyer
Mary E. Moebius
Mary M. Moebius
Robert Moebius
Zindaine and John Mooney
Anne and Alan Morrison
Florabel and Umesh Mullick
John Murdock
Yvette Nan
Susan Nash and Andrew Lundberg
Dale Nelson and Paul Meier
Toy Nickol
Maureen and Lee Norwood
Fariba and Farhad Nourafshan
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Navnit Padival
Mavis Pakier
Pamela Palmer
Marcia Paonessa
Miriam and Chris Parel
Deeptika and Bharat Patel
Audrey Pauly
Susan and Andrew Pauly
Nancy Peretsman and Robert Scully
Angela Pierce
Sandra Pinnavaia and Guy Moszkowski
Winnie Poon-Pak
Mary Phillips Quinn and Michael Quinn
Isabel and Julio Ramos
Adele Richardson Ray
Kristin D. Rechberger
Linda Netzer Richman and
Steven Richman
Gay A. Roane
Jennifer and Manley Roberts
David Rockefeller
Stan Rogow
Natasha Roit
Patricia Rosenfield
Nadine and Edward Rosenthal
Jennifer and Mark Rubin
Elizabeth Ruethling
Melissa Cleveland Salameh
and Roy Salameh
Elyse Sauber
Jessica Sauber
Pamela and Richard Sauber
Max Schwartz
George McCall Secrest, Jr.
Fredi and Paul Seraydarian
Shefali and Uresh Shah
Karen Share
Gloria Sherwood
Joan Shifrin and Michael Faber
Catherine and Rony Shimony
Stanley Shuman
Rona Silkiss
Carol and Thomas Snyder
Jennifer and David Snyder
Carmela and Charles Speroni
Kim Spile
Steven Spile
Margaret Clover Stillman
Donna Stone and Anderson Evans
Susan Jane Stone and Chris Secrest
Donna and Henry Strunk
Sarah Strunk and Kent Lewis
Linda and Charles Swerdlow
Arlene Sylvers
Jodi Zucker Taksar and Alan Taksar
Yap Ling Tan
Rosalie Tenenbaum
Roseanne and Andrew Tenenbaum
Elaine and Philip Thielstrom
Pamela and Patrick Thomason
Sally Tilton
Eduardo Torres, Jr.
Kelly Swanson Turner and Mark Turner
Sylvia Vein
Kimberly West Vogt and Scott Vogt
Mal Warwick
Angela Paura Wechsler
Edward Weiss
Alison Whalen and Steven Marenberg
Frederick B. Whittemore
Jann and Kenneth Williams
Judith and Bayard Wilson
Sandra W. and John H. T. Wilson
Frank Wolf
Susan and David Wolf
Lee and Sam Wood
Jeffrey Work
Randi and Julius Woythaler
Francke Wurzelbacher
Laura Shapiro Young and David Young
Nan Zhang and William Shaw
Corporations
Charlesbridge Publishing
Chinaberry, Inc.
Condor Ventures, Inc.
Danya International, Inc.
Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc.
R & M Enterprise, Inc.
Rampart Investment Management
Silver Lake Partners
Telcom Ventures
Wild Planet Toys, Inc.
Foundations
Bank of America Foundation
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Bridgemill Foundation
The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation
Emanuel and Anna Cohen Foundation
The Draper Foundation
The Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller Fund
Flora Family Foundation
Frees Foundation
Frank and Brenda Gallagher Family Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Goldman Sachs Foundation
Helen Hotze Haas Foundation
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Journey Charitable Foundation
JustGive.org
Keare/Hodge Family Foundation
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
Mariposa Foundation
The McKnight Foundation
The Omidyar Foundation
The Overbrook Foundation
Grace Jones Richardson Trust
Skoll Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc.
Robert K. Steel Family Foundation
Tosa Foundation
The John Whitehead Foundation
Gift Funds
Blumenthal Family Philanthropic Fund
of the Jewish Community
Endowment Fund
Friday Night Shoebox Fund of the
East Bay Community Foundation
Ethan Grossman Family Fund of the
Fidelity Investments Charitable
Gift Fund
David and Laurie Hodgson Fund of the
New York Community Trust
Laura and Gary Lauder Philanthropic
Fund of the Jewish Community
Endowment Fund
Gib and Susan Myers Fund of the
Peninsula Community Foundation
Robert D. Stillman Charitable Fund of
the Fidelity Investments Charitable
Gift Fund
Tisch Family Fund of the
Community Foundation
Silicon Valley
Teresa and Bill Unger Fund of
the Community Foundation
Silicon Valley
Gifts In Honor Of
Sara Arshad from
Alison and Shergul Arshad
Alexa Harley Boltax from
Arlene and Dennis Hirschfelder
Ellie Clelland from Michael Chertok
Mary Jane De Shon from
Lauren Madden and Family
Nora Faber and Anna Faber from
Catherine Hirsch
Jeffrey Hoffman and Danya
International from Sheri Singer
Pearl Lumberry from
the Joseph Madden Family
Prajna Parasher from Cynthia Pon
Julia Marcela Perloe from
Arlene and Dennis Hirschfelder
Sander Zebedee Stein from
Mary Ann Stein
Harriet and Donald Welna from
Elizabeth Station and
Christopher Welna and Family
Kristin Zagorski from
Emily Madden and Family
In-Kind Support
Jagdish and Guriq Basi
Andy Singh
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC
Matching-Gift Programs
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Flora Family Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Schools
Stevens Creek Elementary School
Esther Hewlett, Mary Hewlett, and Inderjit Khurana, executive director of the Ruchika Social
Service Organisation, with students from the Train Platform School in Bhubaneswar, India
A Travel Note from GFC Friends
It is amazing how much one’s perspective can be changed by a visit to a developing country.
Our trip to India last March has opened our eyes to many new things. On our journey we
spent several days with Inderjit Khurana in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the state of Orissa.
Inderjit runs the Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO), which has programs for
children, including the Train Platform Schools, where teachers create classroom settings
for children who live in and around train platforms; schools in the slums; shelters; and
a vocational training center. We feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to see
firsthand Inderjit’s heartening work, and we hope this brief report will help to share our
wonderful experience with other Global Fund for Children friends.
New sights and sounds were all around us during our ten-day trip. We spent our first night
in Calcutta. A frequent sight on the streets was that of cows ambling along the sidewalks,
accompanied by shouts and horns from taxis and rickshaw drivers. There were people
everywhere, many of them homeless children. One little boy came up to our taxi and
tapped a coin at my window. I felt so bad because I had to just sit there, without being able
to do anything for him.
The next day we left Calcutta in the early-morning darkness to take the 6:00 am train to
Bhubaneswar, accompanied by Mr. Dwivedy from RSSO. Here we had our first glimpse of
the lives of the platform children. Over the next four days we visited various RSSO sites.
It was incredible to see the children’s dedication to their schoolwork. Even when the trains
came screeching into the station, the kids kept their heads buried in their books! Seeing the
effect of RSSO’s programs on the children’s lives gives me hope for the future.
—Mary Hewlett, age 14
And from a mother’s perspective—
It was especially significant for me to share this visit with my teenage daughter. It is so
important for our American young people to relate to the problems of children in other
parts of the world, and to recognize and value the interconnectedness of people in the
global community. The need to build an informed and compassionate international civil
society, beginning with our children, has never been clearer.
Leaving for India on the very night that war was declared on Iraq, we set out feeling acutely
aware of the unstable state of our world. In troubled times like these, a focus on the positive
things that Global Fund for Children grantees are doing to make the world a better place
is tremendously effective. Relatively small amounts of money can make a huge difference
when placed in the hands of local partners like the Ruchika Social Service Organisation,
led by Inderjit.
—Esther Hewlett
Global Fund for Children’s
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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Fiscal Year 2002–2003
The Global Fund for Children’s
is distinguished by its success
For fiscal year 2002–2003,
success is based on its
in forming close, engaged
GFC’s operating budget totaled
commitment to four principles:
relationships with its funders.
$1,466,269, almost double from
building close relationships
The benefits derived from these
the previous year. GFC’s program
with its funders; committing
partnerships provide not only
costs totaled $1,181,170, or 81
long-term support to its grantee
financial capital but a long-term
percent of the operating budget.
partners; focusing strategically
commitment by many of its
GFC continued to manage its
on organizational capacity and
funders to GFC’s success.
growth strategically with an
infrastructure building; and
directing its work to achieve
specific outcomes.
With support from the Omidyar
Foundation, the Goldman
Sachs Foundation, and the
With these guiding principles,
W. K. Kellogg Foundation,
the Global Fund for Children
among others, GFC continued
experienced another year of
to strengthen its operational
remarkable growth and set a
infrastructure. GFC used these
record in the area of fund-raising.
grants to support staff positions,
The Global Fund for Children
conduct a strategic-planning
raised $1.5 million for fiscal
process, build its strategic
year 2002–2003. Of these gifts,
communications capacity, and
approximately 62 percent were
strengthen its technological
from individual donors and family
capacity. In addition, GFC also
foundations, reflecting a 15
moved to larger office space to
percent increase from last year.
accommodate increased staff.
emphasis on maximizing the
funds available for programs.
Total fund-raising and general
management costs were 19
percent of GFC’s total budget,
remaining below the industry
standard of 25 percent and 2
percent lower than in fiscal year
2001–2002. GFC established
a reserve fund to ensure the
stability of its programs in times
of economic downturn.
GFC’s fund-raising approach
A full audited financial report prepared by Strack & Associates can be found on GFC’s Web site: www.globalfundforchildren.org.
S TAT E M E N T O F FINANCIAL POSITION
June 30, 2003 and 2002
Assets
Current Assets
Cash and cash equivalents (Note 3)
Accounts receivable
Prepaid expenses
Total current assets
$
2003
222,352
1,250
10,184
233,786
Property and equipment, net (Note 4)
49,517
Rental deposit
23,291
Total Assets
2002
204,267
5,000
16,016
225,283
$
10,127
$
306,594
$
235,410
$
15,508
9,161
24,669
$
5,251
8,952
14,203
Liabilities and net assets
Liabilities
Accounts payable
Accrued vacation
Total Liabilities
Net Assets
Unrestricted net assets
Temporarily restricted net assets (Note 5)
Total net assets
281,925
135,647
85,560
221,207
281,925
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
$
306,594
$
235,410
S TAT E M E N T O F ACTIVITIES
For the Year Ended June 30, 2003
With Comparative Totals as of June 30, 2002
2003
UNRESTRICTED
2002
TEMPORARILY
RESTRICTED
TOTAL
TOTAL
Revenues and other support
Gifts and grants
Book revenues and royalties
Interest income
Other
Total revenues and other support
Net assets released from restrictions (Note 5)
Total revenues, support, and reclassifications
$
789,637
22,225
6,720
$
818,582
793,965
1,612,547
708,405
$ 1,498,042
22,225
6,720
$
708,405
(793,965)
(85,560)
1,526,987
819,982
17,756
7,455
1,535
846,728
1,526,987
846,728
Expenses
Program services (Note 6)
Community education and outreach
Grant making
Total program services
Management and general
Fund-raising (Note 8)
381,565
806,605
1,188,170
95,518
182,581
381,565
806,605
1,188,170
95,518
182,581
229,647
381,118
610,765
76,942
86,808
Total expenses
1,466,269
1,466,269
774,515
Change in net assets
146,278
(85,560)
60,718
72,213
135,647
85,560
221,207
148,994
Net assets
Beginning of year
End of year
$
281,925
$
$
281,925
$
221,207
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S TAT E M ENT OF CASH FLOWS
For the Years Ended June 30, 2003 and 2002
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash received from contributors, grants, and book royalties
Interest received
Cash paid to employees, suppliers, and grantee partners
Net cash provided by operating activities
$
2003
1,519,050
6,720
(1,457,097)
68,673
$
2002
839,273
7,455
(781,521)
65,207
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchase of equipment
Net cash used for investing activities
(50,588)
(50,588)
(2,612)
(2,612)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents
18,085
62,595
204,267
141,672
Cash
Beginning of period
End of period
$
222,352
$
204,267
$
60,718
$
72,213
Reconciliation of change in net assets to net cash
provided by operating activities
Change in net assets
Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash
provided by operating activities
Depreciation
Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable
Decrease (increase) in prepaid expenses
(Increase) in deposits
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable
Increase in accrued vacation
11,198
3,750
5,832
(23,291)
10,257
209
Net cash provided by operating activities
$
REVENUES 2002–2003
Corporate Donors = 15%
Individual Donors = 30%
Total Foundations = 54%
Family Foundations = 32%
Institutional Foundations = 22%
Revenue (Shakti for Children book sales) = 1%
EXPENDITURES 2002–2003
Management and Administration = 7%
Fund-Raising = 12%
Community Education and Outreach = 26%
Direct Grants = 35%
Program Services = 20%
Interest income is less than 1% of total revenue.
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68,673
2,424
(5,000)
(13,063)
(319)
8,952
$
65,207
N O T E S T O T H E FINANCIAL
S TAT E M E N T S
June 30, 2003 and 2002
1. Organization and purpose
The Global Fund for Children (“the Organization” or
“GFC”) is a national nonprofit organization that helps
young people develop the knowledge and skills they
need to become productive, caring members of our
global society. The Organization identifies and invests
in community-based programs around the world to
enhance the lives of children. The Organization is
particularly sensitive to the needs of street children,
child laborers, AIDS orphans, girls, and other
vulnerable groups of children.
The Global Fund for Children recognizes that
promoting global understanding is essential to
helping children become responsible and caring
citizens of the world. The Organization’s children’sbook-publishing venture, Shakti for Children™, offers
children insight into cultural, social, and environmental
diversity. These award-winning books are powerful
educational and advocacy tools to inform children
and adults everywhere about the lives of young
people. By combining thoughtful grant making and
an innovative communications strategy, the Global
Fund for Children is helping to expand opportunities
for children around the world.
2. Summary of significant accounting policies
Basis of Accounting
The Organization’s financial statements are prepared
on the accrual basis of accounting. Therefore,
revenue and related assets are recognized when
earned, and expenses and related liabilities are
recognized as 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, the Organization 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.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect certain reported amounts
of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent
assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and reported amounts of revenues and
expenses during the reporting period. Actual results
could differ from those estimates.
Contributions
Contributions received are recorded as unrestricted,
temporarily restricted, or permanently restricted
support, depending on the existence and/or nature
of any donor restrictions. All other donor-restricted
support is reported as an increase in temporarily or
permanently restricted net assets, depending on the
nature of the restriction. When a restriction expires,
that is, when a stipulated time restriction ends
or the purpose of the restriction is accomplished,
temporarily restricted net assets are reclassified to
unrestricted net assets and reported in the Statement
of Activities as net assets released from restrictions.
Contributed Services
Donated services of pro-bono legal counsel are
recorded at their fair market value. The total amount
of these donated services for the years ended
June 30, 2003 and 2002 was $4,967 and $6,335,
respectively. In 2003, pro bono legal services were
dedicated to research, evaluation, and redesign of
GFC’s grant-making procedures to be compliant with
the new Treasury/IRS guidelines formed under the
Patriot Act and Executive Order 132224.
Income Taxes
The Organization is exempt from federal income
taxes on related income under Section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code. Accordingly, no provision
for income taxes has been made in the
accompanying financial statements. All donations
received by the Organization qualify as charitable
contributions.
Intangible Assets
The Organization has internally developed the
trademark Shakti for Children™. 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, which are
authored and published under this trademark,
represent intellectual property which belongs to
the Organization, and upon which it earns copyright
royalties. As of June 30, 2003 and 2002 the
Organization owned the intellectual property for 22
and 18 of these books and curricula, respectively.
3. Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents for the statement of cash
flows includes cash on hand, cash held in checking
accounts and cash held in money market funds, and
mutual funds.
Pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board
Statement No. 105, the following summarizes the
Organization’s cash as of years ended June 30, 2003
and 2002 that was not covered by insurance provided
by the federal government.
Cash in federally chartered banks
Morgan Stanley Reserve Fund
2003
2002
$ 161,847
50,000
$ 208,788
The funds in the Reserve Fund are protected through
alternative coverage.
4. Property and equipment
Property, plant, and equipment are stated at cost
at the date of acquisition or, in the case of gifts,
fair market value at the date of the donation.
Depreciation is recorded over the estimated useful
lives of the respective assets (5 years) using the
straight-line method.
A summary of property, plant, and equipment follows:
2003
2002
Office equipment
$ 36,744
$ 14,296
Leasehold improvements
28,140
64,884
14,296
Less accumulated depreciation
(15,367)
(4,169)
Property, plant, and equipment, net $ 49,517
$ 10,127
5. Temporarily restricted net assets
New
Available Temporarily
Beginning Restricted
of Year
Income
Income
Released
from
Restrictions
$ 14,854
53,763
$ 518,259
208,763
Purpose
Grant Making
Capacity Building
Community Education
and Outreach
Strategic Planning
Totals
16,943
$ 85,560
$ 503,405
155,000
50,000
$ 708,405
16,943
50,000
$ 793,965
6. Program services
Program services are segregated by type of activity
within the Statement of Activities. The following
indicates the specific activities, which are included
in each program area:
Grant Making
The Global Fund for Children makes grants
to innovative community-based educational
organizations around the world that help young
people develop the knowledge and skills they need
to become productive, caring members of our global
society. GFC’s grants are allocated into portfolios
concentrating on the following specific issue areas:
schools and scholarships; hazardous child labor; child
prostitution and exploitation; and educating neglected
boys. Since 1997, GFC has awarded approximately
$1 million in grants to community groups doing vital
work with children in thirty-eight countries.
Community Education and Outreach
The Global Fund for Children’s community education
and outreach program is grounded in the discipline of
social marketing, which uses traditional marketing
techniques to “sell” ideas, attitudes, and behaviors
with the goal of benefiting society in general. GFC
creates materials, programs, partnerships, and other
opportunities to raise awareness of global children’s
issues.
At the core of GFC’s community education and
outreach program is its book-publishing venture,
Shakti for Children™. This innovative series presents
themes of diversity and tolerance, which encourage
children to regard the environment, individual
cultures, and their peers around the world with
respect. Of the fourteen books and resource guides
published since 1996, three were added this year: A
Kid’s Best Friend; Children of Native America Today;
and Children of Native America Today: An Activity
and Resource Guide.
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,
leaders in Native American communities, book
retailers, and general audiences.
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 more than 3,500 books through its
partnerships with RIF (Reading Is Fundamental), the
Cradleboard Teaching Project, and other educational
groups. To date, GFC has donated close to 50,000
books, with a retail value of $650,000, to schools and
organizations in the U.S. and around the world.
7. Minimum future lease payments
Real Property Lease
The Organization is obligated under a new lease
agreement for larger office space. This lease expires
in July 2007. Future minimum rental payments under
this operating lease are as follows:
Year ending June 30: 2004
2005
2006
2007
Thereafter
$
$
$
$
$
$
95,298
97,681
100,123
102,626
8,570
404,298
Rent expense for the years ended June 30, 2003 and 2002
was $89,005 and $23,352 respectively.
8. Capacity building
In August 2001, the Organization was awarded a
three-year grant in the amount of $400,000 from
the Omidyar Foundation for the specific charitable
purpose of building organizational capacity. Payment
is conditional upon the Organization meeting several
reporting and other requirements. During the years
ended June 30, 2003 and 2002 the Organization
received $130,000 and $160,000 respectively to
cover the salaries of several key staff members,
including the Director of Community Education
and Outreach, Director of Development, and
Administrative Officer. In addition, the Omidyar grant,
along with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, funded the
strategic-planning process to assist the Organization
with visioning and planning for its evolution and
growth within the first decade of the 21st century.
9. Promises to give
Unconditional promises to give are recognized as
receivables and as revenues in the period in which
the Organization is notified by the donor of his or
her commitment to make a contribution. Conditional
promises to give are recognized when the conditions
on which they depend are substantially met. At June
30, 2003 and 2002 the Organization had $530,000
and $435,000 in promises to give contingent upon
certain grant-making and reporting activities, and
had $250,000 and $240,000 in promises to give
contingent upon the achievement of building
organizational capacity and participating in the
grantor’s communication management system
(See Note 8). The Organization expects to fulfill
these conditions over the next two years.
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“Education is everything good that our parents teach us at home,
our teachers teach us in school, and also what you learn in the
neighborhood. For example, how to respect one another.”
JAIME, AGE 13 (Asociación De Defensa De La Vida) Huachipa, Peru (Translated from Spanish)
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN
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Board of Directors
Staff
Laura Luger, Chair
Maya Ajmera
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
President and Founder
Durham, North Carolina
Greg Fields
Maya Ajmera
Director of Development
President, Global Fund for Children
Steve Ginther
Washington, DC
William Ascher
Vice President and Dean of the Faculty
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California
Dena Blank
Program Officer
Erin Hustings
Development and Social Marketing Associate
Ellen Mackenzie
Director of Finance and Operations
Executive Director, Bay Area Girls Center
Elizabeth Ruethling
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
Assistant Program Officer
San Francisco, California
Valerie Gardner, Treasurer
Atherton, California
Juliette Gimon
Flora Family Foundation
San Francisco, California
Sandra Pinnavaia, Secretary
New York, New York
Adele Richardson Ray*
Trustee, Smith Richardson Foundation
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Joan Shifrin
Director of Community Education
and Outreach
Contact Information
The Global Fund for Children
1101 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-331-9003
Fax: 202-331-9004
www.globalfundforchildren.org
[email protected]
Roy Salameh
Managing Director, Commodities
Goldman Sachs
New York, New York
Robert Scully
Vice-Chairman, Investment Banking
Morgan Stanley
New York, New York
Robert D. Stillman, Vice-Chair
President, Milbridge Capital Management
Chevy Chase, Maryland
*Rotated off the board on October 1, 2002
Photo Credits
Front cover: © 1999, Jon Warren (Pakistan). Inside front cover: © 2000, Jon Warren (Bhutan). Pgs. 2–3:
© Stephanie Maze/Woodfin Camp (China); © Anne B. Keiser (Mexico). Pgs. 4–5: © Annie Griffiths Belt
(Guatemala); © 2002, Jon Warren (Pakistan). Pgs. 6–7: © 2000, Jon Warren (Pakistan); © Steve Ginther
(Cambodia). Pg. 8: © 1999, Jon Warren (Honduras). Pg. 12: © Sharon Neale (Guatemala). Pg. 16:
© Moorani/Woodfin Camp (Bangladesh). Pg. 21: © 2000, Jon Warren (Niger). Pg. 25: © Monkmeyer/
Press (Tanzania). Pg. 29: © Katrina Thomas/Aramco World (Saudi Arabia); © Elaine Little (South Africa).
Hewlett (India). Pgs. 38–39: © Betty Press/Woodfin Camp (Rwanda). Inside back cover: © 2000, Jon
Warren (Nepal). Back cover: © 1998, Jon Warren (Mozambique).
This annual report was funded by a portion of the royalties from Shakti for Children,
a children’s-book-publishing venture of the Global Fund for Children.
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Design: Catalone Design Co.
Pgs. 30–31: © Jon Warren (India); © Press/Woodfin Camp (Nigeria). Pg. 33: © Esther Hewlett and Mary
Vision:
A world where children grow up to be
productive, caring citizens of our global society.
Mission:
Advancing the education and
dignity of young people around the world.
The Global Fund for Children pursues its mission by:
• strengthening innovative community-based
educational organizations that serve some of the
world’s most vulnerable children; and
• educating the public through a vibrant community
education and outreach program, including a
children’s-book-publishing venture, that helps children
and adults value their place in the global community.
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR
1101 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005
tel: 202-331-9003
www.globalfundforchildren.org
Today’s children face many challenges.
Here in the United States, and elsewhere
in the industrialized world, young
people must learn to thrive in rapidly
changing and diverse societies. In the
developing world, severe poverty and a
lack of education limit many children’s
lives. As our world becomes increasingly
interdependent, the problems that cloud
so many children’s futures, from lack of
basic education to ethnic conflict, require
global solutions. The Global Fund for
Children believes that all of the world’s
children must be empowered to reach
their full potential in order to meet the
challenges that the future will bring.
W H AT D O E S EDUCATION MEAN TO ME?
THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN Annual Report 2002–2003