Who We Help

International Projects
We accomplish our mission by directly providing services to children, youth and
families in need and through grants awarded for projects proposed both by
individuals and organizations in the U.S. and internationally.

Cameroon
Improving Schools in Bansoa, Cameroon

In 1999, Children's Fund began providing direct grants to a group of local residents in Bansoa to improve the
education of the children in their community. In 2001, Children's Fund provided funding for such projects as a
well so students would have drinking water at school. We have also continued to replace school roofs. About 350
children have benefited from these school improvements. Children's Fund continued to provide direct grants
through 2009. Children's Fund direct grants are presently the sole funding source for this project. An
increasedlevel of direct support is anticipated.

India
Apna Sahara: A Primary School & Home for Disadvantaged Children Hyderabad, India

"The Promise of a Better Life Through the Gift of a Quality Education"

Founded in 1996 as a government-registered youth orphanage for boys and girls, Apna Sahara is located in Talab
Katta, a semi-slum area of Hyderabad, India. By 2005, because of inadequate government assistance and limited
resources, Apna Sahara's building and facilities were in complete disrepair, its children's diet was constrained to a
daily regimen of rice and lentils, and medical care was reduced to only the essential immunizations.

That same year, Shahzad Khan started a charitable initiative with the mission of making Apna Sahara a more
sustainable and nourishing environment for its children. Over the last five years, through the help of a few
generous donors, the children's quality of life has improved and the orphanage's basic needs - from food, clothing,
and medicine to facility maintenance- have been met. Today, Apna Sahara's children are provided a more
balanced diet including meat, vegetables, and a daily cup of milk, and they receive more regular and proper
medical care.

Recently, the charitable initiative started by Shahzad has expanded its focus to include providing the children of
Apna Sahara with the quality education needed to break out of a cycle of poverty and become self-sufficient. In
the spring of 2010, Apna Sahara was transformed into a full-time primary school and home for its 40 boys and
girls. The pictures below highlight the recent renovations made to Apna Sahara's building for it to function as a
full-time school during the day and home at night.

Serve Trust

Beginning in November 1997, Children's Fund began supporting the work of Leena Lavanya and her organization,
Serve Trust, which operates a school for poor children in Narasaraopet, Guntur District, South India. The children
had been day laborers and beggars before the school opened. At the school, they are given two meals a day and
now have the chance of being the first in their families to ever get even a primary education. In 2001, Children's
Fund helped provide food for the 60 children attending the school and helped pay the salaries for the teachers.
We are also providing food and medicines for lepers and AIDs victims. In 2009, Children's Fund continued
support of a school for
indigent children in Narasarapoet.

Transition Training for Youth from an Orphanage in Calcutta

In 2000, Children's Fund began working with the Calcutta Foundation Orchestra through donor advised grants
providing training and financial aid for thirty young men from the Oxford Mission. These orphaned youth were
trained in classical western music while in the orphanage, but at age sixteen, when they had to leave the
orphanage, they were not prepared for any other type of employment and they could not find work on their own
playing the instruments they had learned. These young musicians are given financial assistance to work with the
orchestra and get further music instruction, while they also get other job skills. Without this support, the youth
would not have the chance for
employment.

Egypt
Job training for rural youth in Tanta, Egypt

In 2008, Children's Fund began working with a local mission to provide transportation to a job training program
for Egyptian youth.

U.S. Projects
We accomplish our mission by directly providing services to children, youth and families in
need and through grants awarded for projects proposed both by individuals and organizations in
the U.S. and internationally.

Mentoring Youth

Children's Fund began providing support for summer camps and after school programs in Montgomery County,
Maryland in 1997. In 2009, Children's Fund continues to be involved with mentoring programs in Maryland.

Homeless Feeding

Children's Fund supports homeless feeding in Washington, DC.

Refugee Relief

Children's Fund is supporting refugee youth with grants for school supplies in Fairfax County, Virginia.