The 2011 Innovative Small Grants have been
awarded for the health and well being of children to organizations in
India, Uganda, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. This year we asked for
proposals related to the prevention or treatment of enteric diseases.
Five were selected from about 80 proposals submitted and reviewed by our
grant committee of health experts. The reviewers look for projects which
employ innovative methods to improve and save children's lives, and then
award them up to $5,000 which, especially in developing countries, is a
small fortune. We awarded one Humanitarian Grant--a repeat from 2009 ($3,000).
Keep in touch, for you will be reading the
reports of these projects in future newsletters and seeing them on the world projects map.
We Need Sponsors for 3 More Projects
We are actively seeking sponsors for eight other projects that were reviewed
and selected but are presently without funding. If you are interested in
sponsoring a project, please contact us.
Or if you are interested in investing in any of the ones listed here, we
would be happy to hear from you and we would keep you updated about the
progress.
2011 Innovative Small Grants Awards
BVDA, Rwanda, Providing information to the community to
sustain water related infectious disease prevention and installing clean
water wells.
Life Concern Foundation, Uganda, Improving the drinking water
quality among primary school children through the use of sunlight to
inactivate pathogens causing diarrhea.
Deeper Mission, Sierra Leone, Installing a solar composting,
environmental toilet (Eloo) project.
Ruwwo, Tamil Nadu, India, Empowering mothers with complete
knowledge of enteric diseases and skills to prevent and manage them.
Grampari, Maharashtra, India, Increasing hand washing with
soap behavior using, in part, a devise called the tippy-tap.
2011 Humanitarian Small Grants Awards
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.
Friends Orphanage School, Uganda, supplying safe water by installing a permanent water tank.
