One of the grants to a United States organization will be carried out in Ghana to promote sanitary habits in school children. Among the others are a study on micronutrients - fortified salts to prevent anaemia and blindness and programs to improve clean water availability and prevent malaria. You will be reading the reports of these projects in future newsletters.

We are actively seeking sponsors for the other ten projects that were selected but are presently without funding. If you are interested, please contact us.
 

2007 Small Grants Awards

1. Family Health and Development, Andhra Pradesh, India
   A trial of micronutrient fortified salt
    
2. Crescent Education Society, Andhra Pradesh, India
   Teaching hygiene in a mother’s club
    
3. Mothers Union Orphan Program, Kenya
   Water purification training
    
4. Blue Veins, Pakistan
   A mother’s support group encouraging breastfeeding
    
5. Haritika, Uttar Pradesh, India
   Improve water supply, build latrines, teach hygiene
    
6. Rhythm Africa, Uganda
   Malaria prevention
    
7. Ghanaian Mother’s Hope, U.S., project in Ghana
   Sanitation in Schools
    
8. Public Health Department of Los Angeles, U. S
   Support breastfeeding among African-Americans.
    

Humanitarian Grants

Beginning in 2006, we decided to grant some funds for purely humanitarian purposes, that is, not innovative, but meeting the needs of hunger, illiteracy, and disease, especially in the time of natural disasters. These four organizations each received a grant of $1,500.

1. SEWA, West Bengal, India; for general child health
2. CARE Trust, Andhra Pradesh, India; to address malnutrition concerns
3. Poor Peoples Foundation Society, Andhra Pradesh, India; to feed orphan children
4. Precious Child Education Centre, Uganda; to help overcome HIV stigma
    

Emergency Grant