To Love Children Educational Foundation International Inc.
Expanding Children’s Horizons Globally through Local Education
We are a 501c(3) non-profit, non-governmental organization
Newsletter
Volume 2 Issue 8 Summer, 2004
Informational
Newsletter and Resource for Our Volunteers, Friends, and Board Members.
To Love Children Educational
Foundation International, Inc. is dedicated to
creating sustainable educational development for girl children in the Global South. We are committed to actively assisting girls in
achieving their highest potential by providing equal access to educational programs,
curricular and skills training, and increased access to economic and health resources.
A
Message from Our Founder and CEO~
On
July 25, 2004 To Love Children Educational Foundation International, Inc. will be
two years old. We have accomplished a lot in our young history. Our accomplishments
include:
v Opening
of two libraries in India and the planning
for a third library in Uganda.
v Creation
of new partnerships with NGO’s in Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya, and the continuation of
our work with partners in India and Senegal.
v Partnership
with Afterschool, Inc. in Maryland to begin our Child Ambassador Pen Pal Program.
v Collaboration
with Sui Generis Productions to generate
partnerships in Brazil.
v Publication
and distribution of the Global Child Journal.
v Establishment
of a Grant Writing Team and the expansion of our Volunteer Program.
We also established the Walk
for Education Worldwide initiative. This
annual event will take place in November to coincide with the International Week of
Education. This will be our way of publicly campaigning for world wide quality girl
education.
It is important to acknowledge
that without the commitment and energy of our volunteers, none of this would be possible.
In an effort to thank our volunteers and to encourage more volunteer participation, this
summer edition of our newsletter is focused on volunteer opportunities.
We invite you to contribute to this newsletter and to see it as a
tool to communicate with each other in order to create a strong team of like-minded and
goal-oriented people working towards sustainable educational development.
We encourage you to contact us anytime with any suggestions,
proposals, or ideas. We look forward to
another exciting year of working with our volunteers and creating positive change for the
global child.
Sincerely yours,
David Kenneth Waldman
Get Involved with Walk
for Education Worldwide…
November
14-19, 2004
Ideas
for Your Community:
v Collaborate
with other local non-profits and organize a community cultural festival for increased
awareness and community involvement.
v Organize
community volunteers to participate in a cross-cultural read aloud day at your public
library.
v Encourage
your local politicians to acknowledge the Walk for Education Worldwide.
v Work
with your local art musuem to offer a one-day class on global cultures.
v Find
a Sister City/town overseas and carry out a joint activity during WEW.
v Sponsor
a local panel of experts to discuss the importance of educational development.
v Organize
a fundraiser and feature educational and cultural activities for families and children.
v Coordinate
a community walk and teach students about community activism and the importance of their
voice.
v Assign
students to produce a booklet of essays, a recording or a video about the importance of
education and global understanding.
v Contact
local media and have students create a public announcement in support of global education.
v Collaborate
with local international visitors councils to arrange visits by international guests to
local schools.
Walk
For Education Worldwide
Walk for Education Worldwide is an international project run by To Love Children Educational
Foundation International in San Francisco, California in the United States of America in
partnership with other child-centered organizations, institutions, individuals, and
colleges in different parts of world. This
project through To Love Children "TLC" and partners is conducted annually. The
major purpose is to mobilize children around the world to give them an opportunity to
speak and gain support for the 130 million children not able to go to school.
Services of WEW:
v Create global awareness campaigns and educational support for the
girl child.
v Foster activities to promote education throughout the world.
v Promote education as the general reduction method of the
transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child.
v Develop and strengthen the capacity to combat illiteracy amongst
girls in the developing countries at local, national, and regional levels.
Objectives of WEW:
v Mobilize children around the world. Create opportunities for the world and media to
see their support for the 130 million children not able to go to school
v Organize events to raise funds needed to support TLC’s
mission and programs.
v Lobby governments, legislators, UN agencies, and other
organizations to promote equal education for all children, including girl children in the
Global South.
v Develop global
partnerships for educational development.
v Promote the full
participation of children in society at a national and international level.
v Provide information about access to quality basic education, including free and compulsory primary education
v Create
opportunities for girls and boys to express their opinions, reflections, and ideas.
v Educate teachers to
the proper methods of engaging in educational development and to properly challenge
established explanations to early childhood education.
v Identify the
current limitations and barriers that women face such as, illiteracy and economic
resources, and confront these limitations.
v Empower women with the resources to promote education for their
children.
Partnership News…
Letter
from David Lubaale – Director of Global Child, Uganda
July 25, 2004 is an occasion of great joy as being the second
anniversary of To Love Children’s existence. It
is a special day of thanks to our volunteers, board members, donors and partners in the
USA and all over the world. We appreciate
their unreserved support and promotion of To Love Children Educational Foundation
International.
To Love Children through its African office here in Uganda, East
Africa, through all the months, has attached a very special importance to education and
child development. We have realized that
stress has been placed not only on intellectual development of the children and women, but
also their moral and educational development. This
is what To Love Children and her partners have endeavored to do by establishing Resource
Centres and Libraries, Micro-Loan Schemes, Walk for Education Worldwide, among others to
repel and arrest the causes of educational stress, which we may call
“illiteracy” at hand!
I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks again, to all our US
supporters, donors and volunteers who have played a big role in setting up and running
strategies of supporting the organization in their country.
These brave men and women do forego a lot in order to make the children of the
world served by TLC, to be what they are today and what they will be in time come.
We Africans, cannot even forge stronger words to express our
appreciation to them, nor can we find a weighing scale to measure their contributions; our
duty is as usual is to ensure that the seed sowed in us continues to grow through the
generations to come. As we face this New
Year and many more years to come, the organization, with a lot of optimism expects greater
contributions from our donors in the USA and Europe.
I would also like to thank our African volunteers, organizations
and Parliamentarians in Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana
for their unceasing interest and desire to ratify and implement our programs. We will greatly serve jointly with you as we draw
all possible parameters to reach the children also in Sudan. We can’t easily estimate your generous
contributions toward TLC.
Our partners in India-Asia and Brazil-South America, many words
won’t justify your outstanding work with TLC. You
have showed us the real purpose of partnership with a vision. We will never put and place your support in a
limited container of achievements. Let us get ready to face the new challenges in the New
Year.
Indeed, the journey forward appears to be uphill, but we move
with hope. In this land of greenness and
warmer greetings, development for the “Future” is sustainable education and
child development, by breaking the cycle of poverty.
A girl with education is the living hope towards global development.
Sincerely,
David Lubaale
Additional Services and Programs where
We Welcome Volunteers…
v
In cooperation with Rebecca House Publishing
International, children, experts on children, and the public will be invited to stretch
their imaginations and provide solutions and hope in the field of educating children
through: publishing of materials; books;
educational workbooks; children’s literature; cassette story tapes; videos; and
online publishing so that child advocates and the public can encourage and promote
education for girl children throughout the developing world.
Global Child Journal -“No Child is
out of Reach”
v A new
multidisciplinary journal providing articles to help specialists and non-specialists keep
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 this summer on the Web, will be entitled: “The Future Lies in
the Hands of the Global Child.”
Child Ambassador
Pen Pal Program
v Opportunities to create global friendships between children and
to promote literacy in various languages and cultures.
21st
Century International Club -“Expanding
Learning for our Future”
v Opportunities to create geopolitical awareness through Leadership—Philanthropy—and Outreach into the local community. Open to children in grades K-12 and guided by the Youth Advisory Board (Kids Council)
Volunteer Corner…
In the future we will include features of our various volunteers so that you can begin to network with each other locally and internationally and learn about the different work that is being done. In this issue, however, we would like to first welcome all of our volunteers. You are the backbone of our organization. To Love Children is developing a Volunteer Based Organization and will create many positions that will enable volunteers to take on leadership roles. Some of these opportunities include marketing, publicity, grant-writing, and fundraising to name just a few. We thank you again for your support!
Please send stories and photos about the work you are doing for TLC and international educational development to: davidkennethwaldman@tolovecholdren.org
To Love Children is preparing for field work in Brazil, Uganda, and India. Stay tuned for further details…
To Love Children Educational Foundation International, Inc.
1550 California Street 6L/#330
San Francisco, CA 94109
USA
415.567.0394