The Children'S Initiative Inc

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“To provide support and services to poor, rural villages in asia and africa. The activities are dedicated and focused on improving the current and future standards of living for the children in these areas. Specific focus includes supplementing the inadequate health and education infastructure in these areas.”

“Honduras is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere. Family income averages about 500 a year in the countryside where a majority of hondurans live. The country is wracked by drug wars, corruption, very high unemployment, and a general lawlessness that pervades all aspects of society. It has the highest per capita murder rate of any country in the world. Other than multinational food companies and a growing garment industry, honduras produces little for export. Exacerbating the dire situation are increasingly inconsistent rainy seasons that put subsistence farm families at tremendous risk. Tcis mission statement positions us as making long term, systemic investment in the developing world. Investment is the key word. We dont give, donate, or spend on things that wont have a return. We try to be strategic, but human at the same time generous, but not naive or easy. Here are the bullet points in no particular order of value, cost, or impact. Reforestation overall, in partnership with the honduran government and the eu, we have been given 10,000 valuable mahogany seedlings to plant in the el rosario valley. The positive ecological impact aside, the income generated by the clearing,planting, and maintaining of these trees will produce a secondary income to very poor farm families between the planting and harvesting seasons. While tci has planted more than 5,000 trees with the resulting harvest going directly to landowners for those trees planted on privately owned plots. Cash crops the main economy of rural honduras is subsistence farming, mostly in corn and beans. All cash crops are to provide social profit. Any revenues generated are returned to the honduran families. School maintenance we have built a 7th-12th grade school in el rosario that serves 120 students. Each student receives a full scholarship at a cost of 40 a year. The curriculum is state-sanctioned, with graduating students receiving a honduran high school degree. Tci assumes all costs of running the school except for teacher salaries, which are paid by the government. Library tci built a large library stocked with books, dvds, english language materials, projectors, computers and printers. The library serves as a meeting place for the community, home for culture nights, and a special place for sing-alongs, group reading, and literacy training. Partnerships in partnership with acts honduras (americans caring teaching and sharing) a 501c(3) organization, we continue to provide scholarship money, agricultural improvements (water catchment, cover crop costs, etc), school building repairs, and acillary costs for transportation, school uniforms, soccer teams, etc.”

“Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and one of the poorest in the entire world. Although much international aid and numerous ngos flooded the country following the massive earthquake in 2010 and subsequent hurricanes, the country still struggles with basic issues of governance, inadequate resources, a poor economy and extreme poverty. This is particularly true in the neglected northeast where government involvement and international aid efforts are all but non-existent. Phaeton we are active in phaeton, a small village of approximately 3,000 located along the northeast coast of the country. Since the close of a sisal plantation in the 1980s, there has been no industry, little opportunity for employment, and people subsist on a variety of small scale informal commerce and fishing. There is no electricity, no reliable water system, or decent sanitation. The village exists in severe poverty, with 70% living on under 1.00 us per day, and although over half the population is under 24, there is virtually no organized schooling, job training, or social programs to support the community. Our remote location, far from the turmoil that has spread throughout most of the country, is our saving grace. In general, our village is insulated from much of the chaos that dominates most of the country, but life is increasingly difficult for the village. Nevertheless, we are currently able to hold to our mission and successfully run an elementary school with 120 kids and operate a medical clinic with a doctor. Here are some of our recent accomplishments: - currently, we provide basic schooling and a hot lunch which represents the only substantial feeding for most of the children. In collaboration with local leaders who are dedicated to creating better opportunities for their children, tci is working to improve the conditions and expand the school population to serve more children in need. We recently graduated our first 6th grade class of three students now attending private middle school in terrier rouge with tci's ongoing support. Plans remain ongoing to increase classrooms to make space available for more students. - we recognize that children cannot prosper if they and their parents are malnourished, have no reliable source of clean water, receive no basic medical care, and live in unsanitary conditions. And so we partner with other ngos who bring capabilities to address these challenges. - established and are now expanding a dynamic school garden. - worked with a local doctor to address the village medical needs by supporting his clinic and coordinating medical missions. A small medical clinic has been established in phaeton, haiti. Like any other place in the world, the people of phaeton want better lives for their children. By empowering, collaborating and supporting the local population and its leaders, tci is helping secure a brighter future for this community and its children.”

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