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world.
Thank
You...
The
greatest good you can do for another is not just share your
riches, but
reveal to them their own.
–Benjamin Disraeli
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International
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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.
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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 increased
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Costa
Rica
Educating Children with Disabilities in Costa Rica
In
2002, Children's Fund began supporting programs for
children with
disabilities and youth mentoring in Costa Rica through
donor-designated
grants to the Fundacion Roberta Felix. In 2003, donor-designated
grants
provided for the purchase of property for a school with
a clinic for
children with disabilities. Support for this
program continues in 2010.
Children's
Fund is the US agent representing this Costa Rican charity.
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India
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
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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.
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The day will come
when the progress of nations will be judged not
by their military or economic strength, not by
the splendor of their capital cities and public
buildings, but by the well being of their peoples:
by their levels of health, nutrition and education
and by the protection that is afforded to the growing
minds and bodies of their children."
From The
Progress of Nations United Nations Children's
Fund
1996 |
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