ANNUAL REPORT 2003
‘Expanding children’s horizons globally through local education”
Our Second year…
A new program in India with our first Educational Library and Resource Center
To
Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc.
1550 California Street
Suite 6L/#330 San Francisco Ca 94109USA
Table
of Contents
Dedication
Our mission and this annual report are dedicated to the girl
child in India
where our first library and resource center is located.
Educational
Development
Message from the Founder
Building a Global Educational
Foundation for Girl Education
India
Educational Library and Resource Center
Shaping the future of To
Love Children
Accomplishments
Chief Financial Officer
Financial Development
Building new Connections
to the Future
First Annual To Love Children Recognition Award
Global Outreach to volunteers
Memberships
Website Development
Youth Advisory Board
Board of
Directors
Biographies
Future
2004 and beyond, our expectations
David
Kenneth Waldman
Founder/President/CEO Annual Message
Sustainable Education for the Girl Child
The opportunity to
write a message for the Annual Report allows me the luxury to look back and report where
we have made inroads and how best to express our purpose so in the next year volunteers
and donors will come join our family of dedicated individuals. During the course of 2003
we have seen the start of our work in India and experience allowed us to fine tune our
mission and direction in order to find the best way to create a sustainable educational
development program for girls. Personally for me it brought about incredible hands on
experience of working for a month in India with Shantidhara Social Service Society where
To Love Children opened for ten villages the first educational library and resource
center.
We were not alone in 2003 and through the help of Care Bags Foundation, Randi Taran
our board member and her daughter Zoe along with her school class mates, a high school
club; JOY a club of philanthropy run by Gary
Fox a high school student with his fellow high school club members; 250 books, shelves,
cassettes, globes, cassette tape player and school supplies and school bags. This is the
achievement I am most proud of as it marks for To Love Children a viable model that can be
replicated through out the world. Working together with youth as well as a NGO we were
able to create our early steps in the beginning life of our new International non
governmental organization.
“Till now we do not know of books other than our class textbooks and today I have seen many wonderful books in our children library and resource center. Hearing this library and resource center is for us I am very much excited.” (Tamadapu Chinna, a student girl from K. Santhapalem a village in India.)
We have developed and solicited articles
for the publication of our Global Child Journal due for online publication in early 2004.
The Global Child is a theme centered Journal of international scope committed to a
serious, ongoing discussion of children’s education in the developing and developed
world. The Global Child Journal will be a new multidisciplinary journal that will provide
articles that will help specialists and non specialists alike while keeping up with
research on and developmental efforts to improve educational opportunities for
children. Each issue will cover a specific topic from various perspectives.
The first issue, to be published on the Web, will be entitled: The Future Lies in the
Hands of the Global Child.
It will include articles on demographics,
on education, and on the link between the education of girl children and the economic well
being of the community. It will also include reports from the field and from academia on
work that is being done to educate children. An exciting new development that will
enable To Love Children to better advocate and share information concerning the global
child.
Our focus and our reason for being is on the sustainable
educational development of girl children and we will in 2004 through our new updated web
site, newsletters, the Global Child Journal and our work in the field expand our efforts
to be educating the public, education, business, social, political sectors why girl
education is the center of our mission. We agree with Carol Bellamy the Executive Director
of UNICEF when she says,
“In study after study, girl’s education emerges as the single best investment that any society can make.”
Working for girl education has many benefits as you will see from our 2003 report on India in our Annual Report. We are inviting volunteers and investors to come and work with us to help us further develop the work we have started in 2003. This is an exciting moment in the life of our organization. We are slowly expanding and making new partnerships and working back in India to make a difference in girl education. 2003 also brought new relationships and friendships with the NGO Empower the Children founded by Rosalie Giffoniello and Janet Grosshandler-Smith. Empower the Children brings new life to abandoned, multi-handicapped and street children of Calcutta, India. We donated $500.00 to help restore a library with new books and resources for a all girl school ‘Buniadi Bidyapith’ a kindergarten to 12th grade student body in Calcutta ( Kolkata) .D. Samuel Chandra Mohar of the Rural Reconstruction Society in Kavali, India traveled for 13 hours by train to met with me for a very productive long morning and afternoon on how best to develop a program to serve his children. We donated several hundreds of dollars worth of calculators and school supplies as the first step in our relationship.
David Kenneth Waldman and Rosalie Giffoniello of Empower the Children and friend in Calcutta
Our present world is faced with terrorism, environmental
degradation, pending ecological disasters in our rain forests, biological extinctions,
global warming, globalization, as well as local cultures and groups demanding sovereignty,
clean drinking water shortages, regional wars, pollution, genetically modified foods
disrupting the food genome, unemployment, poverty where a billion people live on less than
a dollar a day, SARS, HIV/AIDS, and other communicable diseases, and weapons of mass
destruction to name some of the impending problems that can reach into everyone’s
lives and disrupt or destroy our quality of life. Education of all the young and the 65
million girls according to UNICEF that are left out is crucial now more than ever in order
for each society to be able to make informed decisions about our increasingly
interconnected world. Education is the tool for making informative decisions to live in
health and peace with your neighbors, community and the society and community of nations.
To Love Children Educational Foundation International is
committed to supporting and creating programs locally to educate our youth in order to
understand the global impact of their actions. This is important in order to participate
locally in harmony as that will directly affect others in the global village we all live
in. In this light 2003 has brought us to create a 21st Century International
club and we are working with Project Spera in San Francisco to support educational
programs that educate youth and children on how their understanding of global events can
help them make better decisions as adults to break the cycle of poverty and war and
hunger.
Our primary mission
and program is dedicated to create sustainable educational development programs for girls
all over the world that will help to break their cycle of poverty. By concentrating our
expertise and resources on educational programs for all youth and children along with
countless other organizations, governments, educators, individuals and non governmental
organizations dedicated to reaching all children with an education we become stronger and
accomplish more. We have started this journey of partnership in 2003 with
JOY—Southern California, Shantidhara Social Service Society--India, Rural
Reconstruction Society--India, Care Bags Foundations—Iowa, Empower the
Children—New Jersey and we look to be adding others in 2004.
Donating gifts to Rural Reconstruction Society
A promise and a right was granted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (www.crc.org) that will one day ensure a global educated world that will be able to collectively reach out to all children. To Love Children believes that in order to solve our collected global and local problems education is the means that will allow society to become prosperous in health and quality of life as defined by that society. In 2003 I’d say that the best investment we made was in opening our first Education library and Resource Center. A. Yerakamma a woman leader from the village KK Agraharam, in rural South East India, “We didn’t have a ‘we’ feeling before. We were not thinking very much about community.” Education and support of women’s groups allows women to break out of the isolation that a lack of education harshly imposes on girls and women. The sense of community brings about a cooperative and concerted effort of the women of the village to improve their lives by demanding more education. The result is that families economic well being is increased and improved health for the family and the community is some of the profound changes that To Love Children have noted.
“Persistence
and Determination alone are Omnipotent” Woodrow Wilson,
Education alone is not the single answer in solving the
world’s problem. There needs to be also at the same time a grassroots and volunteer
campaign that mobilizes people into action utilizing the knowledge they have gained. In
2004 we will build on our volunteer and grassroots base that we started in 2003.
Volunteering in your local school, donating resources, time, money, expertise to the group
or project that you feel represents your best interests is the key.
To Love Children has started also in 2003 to advocate for
education for girls to other organizations to solicit support and to overcome obstacles we
have encountered. We are looking for innovative ways of getting resources and education to
those that need it the most. Terry Lane of www.do-gooder.org
is working with us to find ways of delivery in India to overcome the restrictive custom
procedures. This is one example of how To Love Children is creating our grassroots support
system to solve the difficulties inherent in a mission of the education of girl children
in developing countries. We are stronger together and speaking for the Board of Directors
we acknowledge all the people and organizations in this message with the highest order of
appreciation one can bestow we say thank you all!
There are as many ways to help as there are people wishing to
make a difference. Trust your own ideas or join those that have a program that resonates
with your heart. Reach out and write letters to newspapers, newsletters, groups on line
and have your voice be heard. There are children that are literally not seen by many and
they need someone to see them in order to get the education they need so they can create
their own voice. Talk up at your parent-teacher organization meetings of how you can bring
educational opportunities to the developing world, to the inner city in your state that is
lacking the resources and could use your encouragement and support. Or contact To Love
Children and we can together find a way for you to contribute and get involved as much as
your time and desires dictate.
Education unlocks the door and allows for all children the potential to become self actualized. It can start with a simple step like a small donation of time or money. We are now expanding in 2004 to join partnerships with like minded non governmental organizations and individuals to expand our programs and mission. We are looking for people that want to make the best investment one can make by investing in education. We are a registered 501(c)3 non profit in the State of California. Come join us, make the best investment—Education.
David Kenneth Waldman
Building a Global Educational Foundation for girl Education
INDIA
Celebration in song of To Love Children Educational Library and Resource Center
Report from A.M. Jojayya of Shantidhara Social Service Society
The President of
To Love Children Educational Foundation International—USA during his visit went to
our target villages and worked for 24 days with the children and the women’s groups.
He organized meetings for women groups in order for them to be able to discuss their
problems. The women were happy with his meetings and came out so boldly to discuss even
their family problems. Mr. David Kenneth Waldman had also organized training programs for
staff and women leaders and presented them with calculators. The Children Library and
Resource Center initiated by To Love Children Educational Foundation International has
also become very useful to our women adult education centers. With the visit of David
Kenneth Waldman—President—TLC the people especially the children and women in
target villages felt assurances that they had a friend to care for them.
“Many
children and some of the teachers constantly requesting for the books...”
“After long
thinking I purchased two bicycles yesterday. I have fitted two small tubs on front and
back wheels to fill with library books. One of the staff members is still learning to ride
the bicycle…”
Message from A.M. Founder and President of Shantidhara to David
Kenneth Waldman Founder and President of To Love Children Educational Foundation,
November, 2003
While he was in India, David Kenneth Waldman conducted a training program for the staff and some village—level women leaders of Shantidhara
He provided the staff of Shantidhara education kits for their use.
“The
Children’s Library and Resource Center is a big boost to our village children. It
really helps our children to upgrade their knowledge and know the outer world.”
Mr. Naidu, Government Mandal Resource person.
“Till now
we do know of books other than our class text books and today I have seen many wonderful
books in our Children’s Library and Resource Center. Hearing this library and
resource center is for us I am very much excited.” Tamadapu
Chinna, a student girl from K.Santhapalem Village, India
Honored by a boy after receiving his gift.
“The staff of
Shantidhara, the village level women leaders and the other leaders have awaited with
enthusiasm for the inauguration of the children library and resource center for a long
time. It was really a day of festivity for all the people of K. Santhapalem village and
the other 20 villages of K.Kotapdu Mandal. Mr. David was given a warm welcome by the
people, leaders of the Mandal and in a special way the children. The entire function took
about 2 hours and the Presidents of To Love Children and Shantidhara with tears filled
with joy for the enormous success of the program. David’s welcoming address in Telugu
(which he prepared with the help of the family members of Mr. A. M. Jojayya) was
enthusiastically welcomed and was very much appreciated.
A.M.Jojayya November,2003
To Love Children
Educational Library
and Resource
Center
After meetings
with the Mahila Mandal (women’s groups) we learned of the many needs that the people
are faced with in day to day living. Below is a partial list but the more important items.
As an organization we have learned that in order to create sustainable educational
development for girls the list of needs will need to be part of our long term strategic
thinking. We have started the process of building partnerships and alliances that will be
helpful in meeting these needs. Some of these alliances such as Wheelchair Foundation
which donated funding to To Love Children and Care Bags Foundation that also donated
funding as well as contacts that have proved important to our growth as an organization
will be necessary in order to break the cycle of despair and be able to qualitatively
document our steps forward in providing educational opportunities for girls.
LIST
of Needs August 3, 2003
(from a Mahila Mandal meeting 8:30 pm to
11:00 pm—80 women from the Jana Chaitanya Seva Mahila Mandal)
· Eye problems
· Health
concerns—malnutrition, vitamins
· Generators to
produce lighting in the huts for study at night.
· Tutors
· Teaching materials
for children
· Micro Lending
Opportunities
· Cooperative
Banking
· Bikes for
transport to school
· Small building for
children—Day Care-Library a multi purpose community center
· Agricultural
Assistance and Technology
· Adult Education
for Women
· Wheelchairs
· Clothes
· Shampoo and soap
· School Bags
· Children’s
books on different careers
· Sewing Machine for
small business
· School Uniforms
· Sandals
LIST
of Donations (August, 2003) For
the Children of Ten villages that Shantidhara Social Service Society is responsible for.
Shaping the
Future of To Love Children Educational Foundation
BUILDING a Foundation for the Future of sustainable Education for girls in the developing world
Accomplishments
New Educational Library and Resource Center opened in India that is serving over a 1,000 children.
In the course of a year and five months since we incorporated we have started a new program that will enable us to create a model for girl education through the establishment of Children’s Library and Resource Centers. Our G.I.R.L. (Girl International Resource Learning –educational program) will allow To Love Children to take the systemic steps necessary in 2004 to continue to provide the tools and create the volunteer base and partners to continue our work.
Listing accomplishments was limited to our opening of this new resource center as to illustrate a very important fact. To Love Children like this illustration is putting down our roots in establishing educational opportunities as the first step in order for us to branch out into the myriad of programs that will emerge as a consequence of our building these centers. We use established space and the cost of books and creating opportunity and accessibility is cost effective and thus we can best utilize the donations we receive to their maximum good and potential.
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. Since this information is important we have reprinted it again from our first annual report. We will be creating a more in depth Charitable donation guide in 2004 and will add it once it becomes available to this Annual Report.
Financial Development
Our anticipated sources of financial support for 2005 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
2004 Funding Breakdown
100% Total
Sponsors 5% 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 60% 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 3% 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 5% 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.
First Annual To Love Children Recognition Award
This year Care Bags Foundation started by Annie Wignall a few short years ago when she was 11 years old. Annie and her mom Cathy have donated money, offered moral support to a new NGO, and opened the way for new contacts and new relationships. It is the hope of To Love Children in offering this Award that other organizations and individuals will take a closer look at the work done by this Iowa non –profit organization www.carebags4kids.org
WEBSITE www.tolovechildren.org
The 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.
The Board of Directors
David Kenneth Waldman is the Founder/President/CEO
of To Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc. a new non profit
organization dedicated to educating the girl child in the developing world to reach higher
education opportunities, as well as Rebecca House Publishing International a
children’s literature company that will allow children to have a voice through
published literature. David has over 28 years devoted to expanding children’s
horizons as an educator, curriculum specialist, consultant, TV and Radio host and producer
for children’s programming as well as author and publisher of children’s books.
David always looks to create unique learning environments in order for children to learn.
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 will be going 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.
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.
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.
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.
Future
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)
What are the next action steps to take in India? This question comes out of the 24 days the Founder and President David Kenneth Waldman spent in India. As a new organization the temptation is always there to expand into new areas and programs before we have established a working model. The need is so great and the appeals that come from all over the world are that enticing. We have decided that 2004 will be a time for us to gain more experience and expertise by doing follow up work as the list below indicates and to build our fund raising ability and volunteer and partnership base.
DREAM—a poem written by David Kenneth Waldman on July 30, 2003 in India to express the range of emotions after the opening ceremony of the first To Love Children International Educational Library and Resource Center in India
As if
waking from the hand of the divine,
I now
found myself standing in front of fire…
Songs
warmed the day.
Eyes
showed the way
The
gift—books and for the children pointing at them to look.
The
Center is open to all.
Our
task is now to call…
To
reach to the heart.
Our
work has just begun.
Flowers
and Fire opened the door.
Knowledge
will keep it safe…
And
give us a way for now.
We
place our fire into the hearts of minds of children.
My
DREAM—for children to begin to dream the impossible.
The
door is open.
Come
inside!
© Copyright David Kenneth Waldman July 30, 2003
Founder David Kenneth Waldman presenting one school bag
to
one of the hundred of girls that received this gift.
“Eyes showed the way…”
