ANNUAL REPORT 2002
"No Child is out of REACH"
To Love Children Educational
Foundation International Inc.
1550 California Street Suite 6L/#330
San Francisco Ca 94109
USA
GLOBALLY THROUGH
EDUCATION LOCALLY
THROUGH EDUCATION
We are Building …a New International Non Governmental Organization for the education of girl children in the Global South
Message from the FounderBuilding a Global Educational Foundation
The Global Child Journal
Five Integrated Programs
Scholarship Program
Child Ambassador International Pen Pal Program
Partners, Sponsors and Alliances
Building Global Relations in today’s Global Forum
Building a Foundation for the Future of sustainable Education for girls in the developing world
Building new Connections to the Future
David Kenneth Waldman
Founder/CEO/President
Message from the founder
Educational Development for the Global Child
W
e are proud to say that this is the first Annual Report for our newly formed foundation incorporated July 25, 2002. To Love Children Education Foundation International Inc. was created out my work for children over the last twenty-five years culminating in the obtaining of a Masters in International Relations from Golden Gate University, San Francisco in May, 2001. My focus on the development of educational programs for girl children in the global south comes from the extensive research from literature that was written on this topic that then became the core of the programs of To Love Children Educational Foundation.After September 11th 2001 the world’s collective attention turned to the plight of girl’s children education after the collapse of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The New York Times Magazine (September 29, 2002) on its front cover declares "Afghanistan’s Found Generation, Their first semester in the new world." Yet the state of affairs for the education of girl children in the developing world is bleaker than ever as 90 million girls in the world still have no access to basic education. This is an immense and complex problem to solve. The enormity of the dilemma calls for our non profit organization to argue for an education development based approach. The solution will include a building up of a local community based approach to eradicate the lack of adequate access to education for girls.
We are building towards sustainable education development while also seeing that basic needs are met. We will strive always to work to adapt cultural attitudes to be more inclusive of girl education in communities in the global south. To Love Children Educational Foundation seeks to position itself in the long term to be a world wide Non Governmental Organization with resources for girl children in the global south as well as for the disenfranchised children of the developed world. We have started this endeavor with a strategic plan that includes taking the first steps with creating
Sustainable Educational Development in a few different areas of the world where we have expertise and contacts to make a difference. There is urgency in this work as there are many other forces beyond culture that are preventing equal and quality education for the local village girl children such as health and poverty.Our Foundation in its first five months of life created new partnerships with the Junior Organization for Youth founded by a 16 year old High School student, Gary Fox in Southern California, consulting with AGWIN Action Group for Women and Children in Need in Sri Lanka, to find ways to help 260 children with their educational needs after years of war, working in collaboration to lay the groundwork with 6 young women in their work in Kenya to help sustain a school in a rural village, strengthened our partnership and friendship with Care Bags Foundation and Shantidhara Social Service Society, established new friends with the St. Johnsbury Academy a 9-12 high school in Vermont, received our first sponsor with the International Child Art Foundation, opened a new dialogue with AFEE President Mrs. Seynabou Tall to work in partnership to provide for girl education and basic health needs in rural Senegal, joined the Global Youth Action Network, the Global Movement for Children, Bay Area International Development Organization, Idealist.org, preparing to become an official NGO/DPI with the United Nations in the fall of 2003, all to encourage and extend our resources and expertise to reach our mission of the education of the girl child to break the cycle of poverty in the developing world.
In Short, we have been building our Foundation for the long term to foster lasting change through education. Working together we are stronger to create on the global stage, and this requires our commitment, advocacy, volunteer building, and understanding of the complex issues we face. We are confident we will succeed by working together. In that light we align our goals and core values with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the individuals, NGO’s and organizations that support that support the principals of the most widely accepted international convention in history. As we wait to be approved for our 501(c) (3) status, we devote 2003 to securing General Support funds and strengthening our programs while building a strong volunteer community dedicated in helping to give children a voice and opportunity in life through education.
I invite you to read our first annual report and think of the contributions and possibilities of volunteering to make a difference in the lives of children. We need your skills, time, experience, leadership ability, contacts, expertise and money in order to extend education to children in the global south.
Together we can make a difference, if only we work together.
Sincerely yours,
David Kenneth WaldmanFounder/President/Chair of Board
Building a Global Educational Foundation
The Global Child Journal
The future cover of our first edition of The Global Child Journal
[Copyright International Child Art Foundation (www.icaf.org)]
"The World Mural 16x24 feet original was collaboratively created by child artists from 50 counties on the National Mall in Washington DC. Mural creation is a peace educational component of the international children’s celebration organized every four years by the International Child Art Foundation. The mural, symbolic of collaborative creativity of the world’s children, depicts their visions of the world in the new millennium.
Five Integrated Programs
To Love Children Educational Foundation has five integrated programs designed to establish sustainable educational development for girl children in the developing world. We do this with cooperation from the public, education, business, private, and non profit sectors which allows us to address the complex related issues girls face in the global south.
These programs are:
Human Services, Societal Benefit Program, Public Benefit Program, Girl International Resource Learning Educational Program (GIRL), Rebecca House Publishing Program.
We have identified three (3) short terms, and three (3) medium to long-term objectives in order to accomplish the implementation of our programs. The short-term objective is meant also to initiate educational resource centers, through collaboration with the teachers in the villages for suggested curriculum and the actual catalogue of needed books.
Short Term Projects now under way
Medium to Long Term ongoing Projects
Scholarship Program
The scholarship fund will provide the means for children to obtain higher education and will require awardees to donate a specific amount of time back to their community using the acquired expertise. We have initiated the planning of this program, with the execution to take place in 2003. We intend to offer a substantial number of scholarships a year to girl children in the developing world that want to continue their education to an approved undergraduate institution.
There will be no distinction as to the field of study or discipline a student chooses as their course of study. There is one class of benefit and that is a yearly scholarship gift. Students achieving passing grades can re apply for an additional year or until they finish their degree. All decisions are final will be made by the Scholarship Committee and endorsed by the Board of Directors of To Love Children Educational Foundation. Candidates are encouraged to reapply as many times as needed and failing to gain a scholarship in one year may be a result of funding and not the suitability of the applicant.
There are no limitations or restrictions for any individual who are eligible. There will be no restrictions now or in the future or limitations in the selection procedures based on race or the employment status of the prospective recipient or any relative of the prospective recipient. There will be no limit to the approximate number of eligible individuals as our pool of applicants will reside in all the developing countries of the world according to guidelines set by the United Nations.
As an educational Foundation our procedures and programs will be in place to offer additional tutoring and support for all of our scholarship recipients to offer them the best chances to succeed. Yearly visits to the local will be conducted to make sure programs are in place to support the student.
Child Ambassador International Pen Pal Program
To Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc., is pleased to announce the start of a new, "Child Ambassador Pen Pal Program". The program is to be run by youth in the United States, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other English speaking countries as part of To Love Children's Educational Foundation's new Literacy Program. This program will give English speaking children the opportunity to write letters and build friendships by learning the different cultures of children from other countries, and be a tool and motivating avenue for international children to practice and learn the English language in written form. An added benefit is that children in English speaking countries will have the opportunity to learn another language from a native speaker.
We are in the initial phase of this new program and are looking for Child Ambassador Leaders in each state or local region that can organize youth groups, schools, civic organizations, local businesses and communities to lend their support to this pen pal program. As a Child Ambassador leader you would be a member of our Youth Advisory Board and encourage others to conduct letter writing campaigns, help raise funds to pay for postage so children in the developing world can participate, and work closely with To Love Children to make this program meaningful and successful for all participants.
We will begin this international effort in India and then expand to other parts of the developing world. We strongly encourage the exchange of art, letters, postcards, photos, and reading material between children of the world. To Love Children will help find college students and appropriate volunteers in the host countries to translate and share these letters so children around the world can communicate with each other effectively.
Partners, Sponsors and Alliances
Building Global Relations in today’s Global Forum
AFFEE, Senegal
Association Femme Enfant EnvironmentThe AFEE mission is to create sustainable education development as well as creating a sustainable health, economic and environment plan that meets the needs of 1000 children in rural Senegal. To Love Children Educational Foundation has started a dialogue in order to meet the basic medical and educational needs of these children. We will expand into our other programs as we grow as an organization and strengthen our partnership with AFEE. In order to be successful we are now researching and learning the specific needs of the rural communities in Senegal.
AGWIN, Sri Lanka
Action Group for Women and Children in NeedAGWIN will assist 260 school children to restart and continue their education without the problem of dropouts and interruption of schooling due to war. We have to provide them school uniforms, bags, books, pens & pencils and other schooling material. Soon after this stage of the program is completed we will assist these families to start their agricultural and livestock activities. This will help them to continue these children’s education. Ultimately we will develop this project as a long term social and educational development program.
TLC in collaboration with AGWIN will secure assistance for school materials for 260 children TLC will send some needed educational school materials such as books, pen and calculators etc .on an ongoing basis to fill the need for supplying 260 children with educational resources. To Love Children will also work with AGWIN to develop and implement the curriculum necessary to teach child human rights to the teachers, children and community, based on the principals of the Convention in the Rights of the Child.
Shantidhara Social Service Society, India
One problem for Shantidhara that first needs to be identified and corrected is the lack of sustainable economic development that contributes to the lack of health resources and educational resources for the education of girl children in these villages. The argument is not to suspend or ignore macro economic solutions but to include a micro economic solution of including girls in the education process. This project will allow these ten villages in India a larger educated workforce to help sustain economic growth along with the skills, knowledge and new experience to transform the present conditions.
JOY, southern California
Junior Organization for YouthGary Fox Sixteen years old and the co-founder of this High School Philanthropy club they are working with To Love Children in order to meet specific educational needs for children in different parts of the world starting with India and El Salvador. JOY will form the backbone of our Youth Advisory Board as we work together to extend a voice to youth everywhere in the world.
Care Bags Foundations, Iowa
www.carebags4kids.org(pictured here with President Bush the summer of 2002)
Annie Wignall Honorary Youth Liaison is 14 years old is the founder and Director of Care Bags Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing Care Bags filled with essential, safe, fun and age appropriate items to displaced, abused and disadvantaged children worldwide. In the summer of 2002, the White House asked Annie to meet with President Bush for her volunteer work for children. She is the youngest member of the Board of Directors for To Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc.
BUILDING a Foundation for the Future of sustainable Education for girls in the developing world
Accomplishments
In a brief five months since we incorporated we are beginning the process of building a strong and vibrant volunteer based organization.
Chief Financial Officer
Ronald T. Chang
A message from our CFO
Have you put your charitable intentions on hold because you are unsure if your income is adequate enough to make a substantial gift without adversely affecting your lifestyle? Is the thought of paying substantial capital gains tax so painful that you have held highly appreciated investment assets even though proceeds from the assets could be put to a more productive use? If either of these scenarios is familiar; you may want to consider creating a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT).
A CRT is a irrevocable trust into which you can transfer assets—such as cash or highly appreciated investment property—that have appreciated in value well beyond their original cost. If established during your lifetime, the CRT can provide you and your spouse with a lifetime income stream, or payments for a term of years that you choose. A CRT may also be established upon your death, providing an income stream for a designated beneficiary. When the income interest terminates, a charity (or charities) that you have selected receives the assets remaining in the CRT.
In some cases, you may want to fund a private foundation with the remaining assets. When properly established, the CRT can provide income, estate and capital gains tax benefits and a lasting gift to a favorite charity.
Ronald T. Chang
For more information: To Love Children Educational Foundation recommends that you consult your financial advisor to see if a CRT is right for your situation. As a service we provide this financial information so you are better informed when you make your contributions to a charity
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Financial Development
Our anticipated sources of financial support for 2003 in the order of their magnitude are listed below. These sources of support are related to our exempt purposes of being a charitable, educational and literary California Public Benefit Organization.
Anticipated 2003 Funding Breakdown
5%
100% Total
Sponsors 20% We will have a active campaign using word of mouth, our web site at www.tolovechildren.org, press releases, and press concerning our activities and missions, links to multiple NGO’s to establish partnerships and collaborations, workshops to the public to inform, teach and disseminate literature ( see attached brochure) to gain new non voting members. We have contacted a media consultant that will write press release pro bono and to guide us in approaching the public with a focused message.
Individual donors 15% Our Board of Directors has formed a fundraising committee targeting individuals from their extensive rolodexes along with the organizations growing contact list to start a campaign to fundraise. In this regard we have contacted a development consultant
Government Grants 15% San Francisco California is home to one of the country’s Foundation libraries with extensive information, and databases on obtaining government grants which is at disposal as we write our plan to obtain grants. We have subscribed to the Board Café an internet site that dispenses free information to the Board as well as receiving the Grantmanship Center Magazine as well as books and other resources to obtain the information that is needed to secure a grant. Our Vice President of the Board is the Head Information Librarian at Golden Gate University with a master in International Relations and Library Science and qualified to do the research necessary to guide us in this process. This is true for obtaining Private agency funding as well that constitutes 15% of our projected income.
Fundraising events 10% The Executive Director of To Love Children is working with numerous groups such as the Kiwanis Club International to secure joint fundraising opportunities. We are also now officially sponsored by the International Child Art Foundation and we are planning fundraising events with the Indian Consulate in New York as well as the Hudson River Museum.
Sale of educational related items ( related business sales) 5% The founder of To Love Children is a children book author and with experience in educational sales for 20 years will head our effort to create programs that will produce, art, video, music, books, teacher materials, pen pal program to promote literacy all related to our purpose to promote education. The sale of these items will enhance our budget and will allow each program to obtain self sufficiency in the future.
Annual Campaign 5% To Love Children is in the early planning stages in identifying prospects and events that will allow us to target a specific amount of money and to obtain. At this stage, this year will be devoted to gathering and training volunteers that will be a crucial component of our annual campaign.
Links to online sponsorship sites ( www.ussponsorship.com) 5% We are listed at the US Sponsorship web site target to volunteers to contribute to numerous worthy public causes. A per cent of the funding will go to programs and to operation costs for our organization. This program has just initiated operations in October and to date we have no indication of the future success of this link.
Corporation Grants 5% Using the same resources as listed in the response to obtaining government grants we will again avail the resources of the Foundation Library in San Francisco as well as the expertise of our Vice President in order to start in this first year of operation the research needed to pursue this line of funding. We anticipate that it will take three years of operation before we are able to secure funding of any size. We are planning to go to European as well as other countries corporations as we are establishing partnerships in El Salvador, India, and Sri Lanka to date.
Workshops and educational Lectures 3% To Love Children in the first year is using its growing contact list with educators as well as educational companies to establish an ongoing program to give informational lectures and workshops for the public good. No one will be turned away because of an inability to pay.
Estate Planning 2% Our Chief Financial Officer will take the lead in heading up a plan in this first year of our operation to have the resources, and tools needed to educate the public on estate planning as a means of establishing income for our future operational needs.
Building new Connections to the Future
Global Outreach
Memberships/Volunteerism
Goal is to become a vibrant and productive voluntary based organization.
To Love Children offers free memberships to all children under the age of 18 years old. Our purpose is to create an organization that all children can freely participate in regardless of where they live or ability to pay. It is our intent that we become an outlet for their voice and help to channel them along the bridges they will need to build to be a successful adult in the twenty-first century.
WEBSITE
www.tolovechildren.orgThe website will be dynamic in order to meet the needs of children, educators and the community in building a grassroots constituency through education, providing information and tools to take action to develop sustainable educational programs in the global south. To meet the needs of our members, constituency, volunteers, Youth Advisory Board and Board of Directors we have created for teachers, educators, community, and children a site that will provide thousands of links and information to learn about the issues surrounding the global child and education with its complicated related issues. We will update information on our programs in order to facilitate a strong voluntary organization as well as other program information.
Youth Advisory Board
This board supervised by a Youth Liaison who sits on the Board of Directors and reports to the Executive Committee is responsible for the safety and support of the youth. The board is comprised of youth ages 8 to 17 years of age. On your eighteenth birthday you become an honorary advisor to the board to keep the continuity of experience and knowledge with new members. The Youth Advisory Board will make all decisions concerning the running of our International Pen Pal program and will help to promote literacy with children throughout the world. This board will also take on fundraising responsibilities to help model sustainable action that also allows for a voice for youth.
Most recently To Love Children has collaborated with Shantidhara Social Service Agency and Care Bags Foundation in order to provide humanitarian aid for the first time to girls living in a rural village outside of the town Visakhapatnam, India. A recent graduate with a Master’s degree in International Relations from Golden Gate University San Francisco, CA specializing in human rights for children in the winter of 2001, David will use these new skills in the field of girl education in the developing world. His love of children has led him to travel to the developing world to learn about the challenges that girl children face in different cultures and societies in the twenty-first century. David has learned how important it is for children to be given a voice and help sustain them in order to overcome the social and economic difficulties these girls face in day-to-day living.
Janice Carter (Vice President) as a librarian committed to furthering educational opportunities for all, Janice has followed the development of the To Love Children foundation with great excitement. Janice is currently Head of Information Services at the University Library, Golden Gate University, San Francisco. She was previously in the Foreign Service and, prior to that, worked at the Library of Congress. Janice has a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University, a Masters in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Minnesota. She went to China in August 2002, with others in the Evergreen Educational Foundation, to provide workshops for Chinese teachers and librarians on Information Literacy.
Ronald Chang (Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer) has worked in the financial services industry including Banks for over twenty years. In his current capacity with Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, a 150 year old diversified services company, he provides financial planning so that businesses and individuals may achieve their financial goals. His skills extend to investment portfolio management, retirement and educational fund planning, employee benefits and estate planning and trust services. A devoted father Ronald is married and has a wonderful little boy.
Monica Oliva (Executive Director/Secretary) has been involved with International Related issues for over 15 years. In her current capacity of President of the Salvadoran Bay Kiwanis club, she is helping coordinate various sustainable development programs for several villages in rural El Salvador, and building a 300-home community for earthquake victims. Monica is the former Executive Director of Airline Ambassadors International during which the organization quadrupled in size and delivered millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to over 44 countries. Her passion for education of girl-children is a natural next step in her commitment to significant educational global change. As Executive Director of To Love Children Educational Foundation International, Monica Oliva will be in the forefront of sustainable educational and economic development projects to break the cycle of poverty for developing communities all over the world.
Marlena Greene (United Nations Liaison) was educated in France and England and with an art background. She has been an independent curator for the countries of Peru, Venezuela and Africa and will conduct National and International Children’s art fundraising for To Love Children. As a fundraiser to promote cultural liaisons she successfully promoted art to generate sales to benefit non-profits. Marlena was also a Development Director and promoted creative projects to raise funds. With an extensive background in public relations she has many national and international contacts in the United Nations as well as the private, public and non profit sectors. A strong belief in peace and the promotion of respect and aid to developing countries that she believes is a strong of wisdom yet to be shared with the world as is an untapped world resource.
Margaret Leahy (Editorial Board). Margaret E. Leahy, PhD, is a professor of International Relations. Her specialties are Latin America, Gender and Third World Development. Margaret is a member of the International Studies Association and has served as an officer in numerous national and regional capacities. She is a founding member of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies section of ISA, a member of the Society of International Political Economy section, as has held elective office in the Women's caucus of ISA. She is a founding member of the International Feminist Journal of Politics and sits on its editorial board. She has been an educator at universities and within her communities for over 25 years.
In addition to her academic life, Margaret is married and has raised twins, a boy and a girl, so she also knows a thing or two about children and has personal experience in this regard.
Joe Guerra specializes in the curriculum and assessment arena advising educators on their needs. The education business has allowed him to meet many interesting people, and an excellent opportunity to work with administrators, teachers, and students. Working in the education business has also exposed him to a variety of other related opportunities, including: The Minority Advisory Council, Campus Leadership Team, and Bond Task Force Committee, for his local school district, board of director member for the "Early Word" reading initiative (founded by Quality Quinn), and a national organization based in Austin, TX.
My family and I live in the Austin, TX area. My wife Jackie and I have two sons, James and Jonathan, they are both in college. My family by far has been my biggest life accomplishment; they will be my lasting legacy. As a native Texan born and raised in San Antonio, I'm a second generation American. I have enjoyed a diverse family culture, which has proven to be very useful in utilizing my bilingual skills, and understanding the value of cultural differences. In the future, I look forward to continue sharing my time and knowledge to help others.
Randy Taran founded Spring Communications to develop and produce various TV and film projects of interest, including MOW (movie of the week), docudrama and weekly series. She has co-written "65 Roses - The Kimberly Myers Story" which has been optioned by Hallmark Entertainment. She has also produced for corporate clients such as Wells Fargo Bank, and for the non-profit sector. Current projects reflect the international focus of To Love Children, and the expression of the universal traits we all share.
Previously, Randy was a children's clothing designer with her creations in major department stores and boutiques in the US and Canada. She holds a BA in Communications and an MBA in marketing and international business from NYU. Randy is married and very involved with her three spirited children, who also care a great deal about how we can help shape the world and raise awareness for the good of all.
Lourdes Inga earned an MA in International Relations from Golden Gate University, San Francisco and her BA in Latin American studies at California State University, Hayward. She is a member of the Grant Manager's Network and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. Lourdes has been serving as Summer Camp Counselor at "Nuestra Herencia" Peruvian Camp since 1998. She was born in Peru and speaks English and Spanish.
Cathy Wignall has been an educator for the past 25 years. She has dedicated her life to children and currently holds two jobs working as the Child Abuse Prevention Educator for Jasper Country and the School Based Mentoring Coordinator for Big Brother Big Sisters Newton Branch. Cathy is married to Mike and has three children, one of whom is Annie (also a Board Member), Founder and Director of Care Bags Foundation.
Annie Wignall (Honorary Youth Liaison) (14 years old) is the founder and Director of Care Bags Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing Care Bags filled with essential, safe, fun and age appropriate items to displaced, abused and disadvantaged children worldwide. She has received National recognition for her work, which she began in Jan. 2000, but feels the best reward she can ever get is knowing she has helped someone. In the summer of 2002, the White House asked Annie to meet with President Bush for her volunteer work for children. She is the youngest member of the Board of Directors for To Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc.
A. M. Jojayya is a graduate in education and a postgraduate diploma holder in Personnel management and labor welfare. Along with many years of teaching experience, he has worked with the rural and tribal people in the district of Srikakulam, through which he gained a lot of experience. He is the founder and director of Shantidhara Social Service Society, a registered voluntary organization working for the education, health and agricultural development of underprivileged rural people in the district of Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh state in India with special emphasis on Women and children. Right now he is working with the women and children of 10 rural villages in the district of Visakhapatnam with the help 12 staff members through implementation of pre-primary education centers, woman adult education centers, health programs.
Our Mission for 2003 and beyond
Our mission is
"To educate girls in the developing world, by creating sustainable educational environments that enables girls to break the cycle of poverty.
In order to become a world class organization and our mission we hold to our Core Purpose:
To ensure the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all girl children to education, economic freedom, justice, health and peace.
we seek to look at the world with determination and perseverance to take make the most efficient use of our time, resources, human capital to help develop the girl child that is left behind. Our five integrated programs is designed to enhance our ability to make a difference in working through the complex issues surrounding our ideal of allowing girls to break t he cycle of poverty.
The future is where you will find To Love Children Educational Organization, poised to grow from these early days into a future that benefits the children we serve.
To Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc.
supports the principles and articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, where our purpose and values derive.(Source: Convention on the Rights of the Child, United Nations, September, 1990)