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Congratulations to the 2010 FAWCO Foundation
Development Grants Recipients!
The FAWCO Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Development Grants. This year, 23 projects were nominated in eight categories. We thank the FAWCO Clubs for helping to make the world a better place by casting their vote for these worthy projects!
Category: Effects of Violence and Human
Trafficking,
co-sponsored in part by the AWC the Hague and AWC Hamburg
 Ae Ran Seumter
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: 3 years
Parent Organization: Ae Ran Won
Website: http://www.aeranwon.org
Funding Breakdown: 85% Private Donations, 15% Korean government
Purpose of the Grant: Ae Ran Seumter gives young unwed women who have elected adoption a place to rebuild their lives after giving birth. They come from backgrounds of mental, physical and sexual abuse. Korean society shuns them and it is legal to discriminate against them. Without support, they are at risk for repeat pregnancies and further abuse. They need training, education, support and a safe living environment. Each young woman at Ae Ran Seumter finishes high school and receives counseling and job training. She gains the tools for an independent and successful future life, and leaves feeling love for the first time in her life. She is instilled with these values: “I am dignified. I want to exercise my just right by performing my duty. I am Infinite. I want to have opportunities to develop my potential ability. I am Important. I want to be respected and to respect all people.”
The DG will be used to fund one year of high school education and training in hairdressing for one student.
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Category: The Right to Food and Water, sponsored in part by AWG Paris
 Water Well Protection and Improvement Project
Location:
Oyani Village, Kenya
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: 1-2 Years
Parent Organization: None
Website: http://kenya08-gaido.blogspot.com/2008/11/kenya-2008.html
Funding Breakdown: 100% Private Donations
Purpose of the Grant: The Water Well Protection and Improvement Project
is part of a larger community-based project that aims to improve local
health and water quality by altering land-use practices and restoring
the natural environment. The DG will be used in Phase 2 of the project
to help purchase and install a solar water pump and 50,000 gallon
water-tank that will service water-points away from the fragile Oyani
River watershed in western Kenya dangerously degraded by human and
livestock traffic. In Phase 1, well-heads, seen as a health threat due
to contamination during rainy season flooding are being improved. The
project is a joint-effort, initiated and executed by the local
population, managed by Oyani Community Women Integrated Development
Group. Outside aid is in the form of strategic consultations respectful
of local knowledge and needs, provided by a former Peace Corps volunteer
intimately familiar with villagers needs, and who has worked on small
scale development projects in his free time for a number of years. |
Category: Critical Health Concerns, sponsored in part by AWC of Basel
 Fistula Foundation
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: 3 years
Parent Organization: Fistula Foundation
Website: www.fistulafoundation.org
Funding Breakdown: 100% Private Donations (Fistula Foundation is a 501c3)
Purpose of the Grant: A fistula is a hole between a woman's birth passage and one of her internal organs. This hole develops over many days of obstructed labor or a result of sexual violence from being raped or butchered by bayonets, wood or rifles. Obstetric fistula occurs when the pressure of the baby's head against the mother's pelvis cuts off blood supply to tissues in the region. Fistulas result in permanent incontinence of urine and feces. Women are abandoned by their husbands and ostracized by their communities because of their inability to have children and they smell foul. A donation of 4500USD provides ten women with a fistula repair operation, high-quality postoperative care, a new dress, and bus fare home. This procedure restores women with their dignity, hope for their future and a desire to want to live. |
Category: The FAUSA Hope through Education, co-sponsored by AWC of
Zurich
 School Aid
Location: South Africa
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: 4 Years
Parent Organization: School Aid
Website: www.school-aid.org
Funding Breakdown: 60% Grant Giving Trusts, 40% School Aid
Purpose of the Grant:The FAWCO grant will pay the import cost of four shipping containers with 95,000 books and other educational materials benefiting desperately underprivileged schools in the townships of Johannesburg and Cape Town and in the rural region of Limpopo, South Africa during 2010 and 2011. Each school will receive a basic school library, textbooks, school laboratory science equipment, arts and crafts materials, stationery and sports equipment. School and classroom libraries will be set up. Learners will have access to books for school work and for personal use. Teachers will be able to use materials for lesson planning. School sports and primary play schemes can be developed. These essential school resources help an African child to get an education, to fulfill their potential and to prepare them to play their part in the future economic and social development of their country.
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Category: The Edith Beyer A Place to Learn, sponsored in part by AWC
of Denmark
 Tsarang Nunnery School Mustang
Location: Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: 12 Years
Parent Organization: HimalAsia Foundation
Website: www.himalasia.org
Funding Breakdown: 70% Private Individuals and Organizations, 30% Governmental or Public Organizations
Purpose for the Grant: This proposal seeks support for the construction of a building to house an extension school (both Buddhist and secular) in Kathmandu for the Tsarang Nunnery School. Currently there are no facilities for higher education of any kind for girls in the area. With a lack of local options, the only adequate opportunities to continue their studies require moving to India. If the girls conduct their higher education in India, the likelihood of their not returning to Tsarang is statistically very high. This would further impact the already difficult socio-economic conditions faced by the people living in Mustang.The establishment of a local extension school for higher education for girls is expected to counteract this tendency and make a significant impact on the future of the region by empowering girls and promoting educational parity between boys and girls.
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Category: American Women of the Eastern Province Skills for Life, sponsored in part by AILO Florence
 Teachers Without Borders South Africa (TWBSA)
Location: South Africa
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: 1-2 Years
Parent Organization: Teachers Without Borders (International) 501c3
Website: www.teacherswithoutborders.org
Funding Breakdown: Teachers receive no stipend, transportation funded by private donations.
Purpose of the Grant: Teachers Without Borders South Africa (TWBSA) is an organization of volunteer teachers and educators who spend their school holidays in rural South African schools to improve the level of learning and teaching in the fields of mathematics, science and information technology. The workshops held for the local teachers are particularly inspirational for the women as the inclusion of TWBSA women facilitators in math, science and leadership is designed to discredit stereotype and inspire confidence and growth among women teachers. This is a greater benefit for the many students attending the schools. Computer labs have also been installed in many schools with the relevant instructions for use and maintenance. Higher education for South African students comes from the impact of their own teachers by TWBSA. The DG will be used to sponsor the airfare of a woman facilitator and setting up TWBSA computer lab # 8. |
Category: Around the Corner, A World Away, co-sponsored by AWA Vienna
and AWA Dubai
 Spread the Sunshine
Location: Moscow, Russia
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: 7 Years
Parent Organization: Nastenka Foundation
Website: contact the American Women's Organization of Moscow
Funding Breakdown: 50% Raffle, Sales of Alphabet Poster, Dictionary and Living in Moscow and 50% Donations
Purpose of the Grant: Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian national health care system has been struggling to cover the costs of medical care for its needy citizens. Because staffing at the Pediatric Oncology Hospital is at a bare minimum, one parent accompanies the child to perform the basic nursing care. The child receives a disability stipend of $15 - $20 a month, which must be extended to cover food, toiletries, and hygiene materials such as bed pads and diapers for the duration of his stay. The sponsoring club has provided these items for the Pediatric Ward for the past 7 years, through item and petty cash donations. In the past year, donations have not met Spread the Sunshine’s monthly budgeted expenses of 7000 rubles. The grant will cover this budget for a year.
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Category: AW Surrey Ending HIV/AIDS
 Mothers Averting Aids
Location: Khayelitsha, South Africa
Sponsoring Club’s Length of Affiliation: Since 2008
Parent Organization: Art Aids Art (a registered US-based 501c3)
Website: www.artaidsart.org
Funding Breakdown: 35% Individual Donations, 65% sales of the US Fair Trade South Africa Art and Crafts
Purpose of the Grant: Women in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa face tremendous challenges of extreme poverty, spousal abuse, unemployment and skyrocketing AIDS infection rates. Many have become sole breadwinners, while others, at their peril, have been dependent on male support. Mothers Averting AIDS is designed to increase women's financial independence with the goal of reducing the spread of HIV. Women artisans will receive training in product development, marketing and the fundamentals of operating an independent small business, while earning income from sales of their handcrafts. In addition, they will participate in classes to promote health, parenting and life skills, increase awareness of available medical, counseling and other support services, and build a support network among women. The self sufficiency gained through this program will also build self respect and confidence that are deeply needed in individuals who have experienced the trauma of extreme poverty and physical abuse.The DG will be used to launch the pilot program which will provide training and support for 50 women over 12 months.
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Past DG Recipients
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