A small girl
participating in the Walk for Education World Wide
In
Kolkata, India Disha Foundation
Our third year…
Outreach—Partnership—Growth
To Love Children Educational Foundation International
Inc.
1550 California Street Suite 6L/#330 San Francisco CA
94109 USA
Dedication_ 3
Annual Message_ 4
Report from our African Director 12
TLC Current Achievements in Africa_ 15
TLC Emergency Relief and Peace Program_ 18
Report from our Country Director-Kenya_ 22
Progressive Youth Alliance_ 25
Spotlight on Volunteer 26
Report from CFO_ 28
Financial Report 30
The Work of our Volunteers 33
Walk for Education World Wide TM_ 37
Global Child Journal 41
Universal African Resource Library and
Center Uganda_ 41
Youth Advisory Board_ 42
Report from our Executive Coordinator 42
The Board of Directors 44
Our Future_ 46
HIV/AIDS curriculum ‘Healthy and Safe’ 48
GEOTOP™__ 50
Membership_ 51
Mission_ 54
Listen to your Children_ 56
This
annual report is dedicated to Hon. Rebecca A. Kadaga, Deputy Speaker of
Parliament of the Republic
of Uganda,
for her commitment and dedication to the children in her country.
Standing on an imaginary line at the
Equator
David Lubaale and David
Kenneth Waldman look north and south, east and west for
solutions for sustainable educational development for the girl child. It is a
global as well as a community-based approach that To Love Children brings to our perspective of development
in 2005.
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From
the Founder/President/CEO
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David Kenneth Waldman
Founder/President/CEO
Planting Trees
Shaping the future of To Love Children
Building a Model Sustainable Global
Educational Development Program for Girl Education
“The best time to Plant a
tree is 20 years ago. The next best time
is… now.”
–
African Proverb
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Major
Accomplishments – 2004
- Universal African
Resource Center
and Library in Gulu, Northern Uganda
- First Walk for Education World Wide
TM: over 22,000 children and adults in
four countries
- Successful Micro-Loan Program to
support our sustainable education development program for the girl child
- A new Information Technology Team
- Global Child Journal Premier
Edition Published online and hard copy
- New partners, staff and volunteers
- Financial Development improvement
in donations and a new CFO who comes to us with over 10 years of
non-profit financial management experience from one of the world’s
leading child sponsored non-profits in the field
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Dear Partners, Donors,
Volunteers and Friends:
For me it seems apparent yet again that the enduring value of an Annual
Report exists in its ability to show your friends, volunteers, staff, partners,
donors and prospective donors that we have added value to our mission of
creating sustainable educational development for girls in the developing world
in order to break the cycle of poverty. Our 2004 Annual Report will show with
pride how our new programs have made an impact on children and teachers in
concrete ways that allowed us to further our mission.
2004 was a time for our vision to take root and a
time for us at To Love Children to plan for our goals for the coming year. Vision needs opportunity,
resources and volunteers to carry out the work. We were blessed with an
abundance of each of these things. While we have already reported many
achievements, it is the expanded outreach that we expect for To Love Children in 2004 to point to with the
greatest satisfaction, as that outreach has enabled our new growth. With that
said we are mindful in this annual report of the many troubles we still face: the
pandemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa, the abducted children by terrorist groups to
use as sex slaves and child soldiers, the slow growth in sub Saharan Africa in
reaching the Millennium Development Goals and the State
of the Worlds Children 2004 as reported by UNICEF.
Millennium Development Goals were set by all the
nations of the world to achieve universal primary education by 2015. Other developmental
goals for the impoverished of our world include addressing the lack of
immunizations for children: the continued level of poverty and local wars; and
the needs of the 121 million children (of which 65
million are girls) who are not able to attend school. The total world mortality
rate calculated by the UN showing that there are still 29,578 children a day
that die from preventable causes is intolerable, and the time for change is now.
Our work has just begun. Our commitment is grounded in the research and proven
strategies for development, and our dedication to children is firm and based on
the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
WHAT WERE SOME OF THE IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS OF 2004?
2004 brought To Love Children many new partnerships, programs and an improved, clearer and more
focused understanding of our unique position among the thousands of Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOS) volunteers, governments,
schools, parents and businesses that are making brilliant engines for
developmental change at the grassroots level. We have emerged in our third year
of working in the field for children with a number of additional assets that
include resources and friends that cannot be calculated on our financial
statement in terms of dollars and cents.
One such example taking place in Uganda is that we have selected
David Lubaale as our first ever African Director of To Love Children Global Programs. David has
opened numerous doors of support from the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, the Hon
Rebecca A. Kadaga, to His Royal Highness Waako Mulooki, the King of the Busoga
Kingdom. He has also
engaged the ex Ambassador to France
from Uganda,
numerous volunteers, NGOs, schools, teachers and various youth groups. Most
recently, he has involved the Kampala Youth Brass Band, which will perform plays and
music to heighten awareness on issues concerning HIV/AIDS, Education and Human
Rights and Peace.
Kampala Brass Band WEW Uganda
This overwhelming and overarching new underpinning
shifted our focus from just opening individual Resource Centers and Libraries
to creating partnerships with children, NGOs, government, communities, families,
schools and the health and education sector as a more viable model for our
sustainable educational development program. With the help of our Information
Technology Team volunteers, we can now also expand our program to include a
technology and video conferencing center along with our Universal African
Resource Center
and Library, which will support community and international links of
partnership in educational development.
Once we establish this model we can individualize
our Centers to meet local needs and concerns anywhere in the world. It is with
local support and input that we base all of our work on. Our intent is to
become community based and let each community become the major stakeholder in its
educational development.
Consider our growth by reflecting back on Tamadapu
Chinna’s quote from our 2003 Annual Report below.
“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.)
The TLC focus on sustainable
educational development for the girl child is now making a lasting difference
by having identified and addressed the issue of sustainable education through
the support of governments, educational institutions and NGOs. Consider the
statement from the RT.Hon Rebecca A. Kadaga Deputy Speaker of Parliament of the
Republic of Uganda, regarding TLC’s growth as an
emerging specialist in educational development for the girl child.
“I wish to recognize that TLC 's programs related
to HIV/AIDS, support of micro-finance business, etc., are timely and in step
with the focus of sustainable educational development in Uganda and Africa as a
whole.”
Deputy Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of Uganda Hon Rebecca A. Kadaga
David Lubaale, David
Kenneth Waldman, Hon Rebecca A. Kadaga
To Love Children
is positioned to take even greater strides in the coming year 2005. We cannot,
however, take this journey alone or without your support. TLC’s concept of
sustainable programs includes the stability of our own organization. By
positioning ourselves to run programs that are profitable while also meeting
our mission, we can become a true model for sustainable development.
To Love Children’s
primary goal is to show that investing in girl education proves to be the most
substantial and productive development strategy. To Love Children is committed to
breaking the pattern of non-profits that constantly struggle for
funding and have to fight the top 400 non-profits for funding dollars. If run
poorly, non-profits can end up cutting programs and staff due to lack of financial
support. In order to create a sea change for educational development worldwide,
one that creates a positive and sustainable methodology in educational
development,
we need to find a model for growth and sustainable funding that we can teach to
others. Inside this report we have described our GEOTOP™ Global Educational Outreach Travel Opportunities
Program as one of our most important tools to achieve this goal.
To Love Children
declares that, as a profit-oriented non- governmental
organization creating a sustainable, efficient and 100% accountable organization, our hope is to remain unburdened with using most of
our resources, talents and time in raising all of our money from the good
will of our donors but instead it is best that we focus on our mission and
devote the preponderance of our profits, resources and talents, minus
our administration and operating expenses that are reasonable and in line with
the highest standards set in the non-profit industry, to channel back our
profit for the public good of girl children, people of the developing world and
boys in need of educational development and opportunity.
-Photo 1000
chicks Uganda—Micro-loan program for
sustainable educational development
Future Victory
School 2004
To Love Children
is positioning our programs strategically to maximize our resources through a
more efficiently run organization. We aim to use our volunteers’
best talents and experiences, and to educate about girl education beginning
with the release of our first Premier issue of the Global Child Journal,
published in December 2004.
To Love Children’s
Cornerstone Strategies for 2005 is to provide:
·
early childhood
education training and provide early childhood educational development centers
·
vocation
education
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micro loans to
create sustainable income for women and their families
·
peace education—conflict
resolution workshops and curriculum
·
HIV/AIDS Healthy
and Safe Curriculum— including all health, water conservation, safety,
pre-post natal care workshops and education training
·
literacy
education including agricultural, environmental, sustainable development, science,
technology and arithmetic along with critical thinking and problem solving
skills
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