Global Partners for Development

Filing Period

Apr 1, 2009 to Mar 31, 2010

Signed

Feb 2, 2011

Return Version

2009v1.7

Gross Receipts

$1,753,778

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Education: construction and rehabilitation of classrooms, school equipment (e.g. computers, home economics equipment), scholarship program for secondary school for girls in rural areas, continuing education for young women, and university education for young women. In rural East Africa, parents know that education is the way out of poverty; they want what every parent wants - good quality education for their children. And, education is not a guarantee for all children, especially those in rural areas. Building classrooms reduces class sizes, increasing access to the basic tools and supplies so that students have a higher success rate and brighter future. A rural African schoolgirl faces many educational challenges as well as copes with the burden of her responsibilities at home. When graduating from primary to secondary school, she attends classes taught in a new language-English-instead of her native tongue, walks long distances to and from school, takes care of her siblings, hauls water, cooks food, and works in the fields. When chores are finally done, she studies her lessons by the feeble light of a candle. Her graduation from secondary school is a victory in the face of overwhelming odds. Now she has opportunities that were undreamt of by her mother and aunts. To support these girls and help them realize their dreams, Global Partners created the Marlene Assell Education Fund.

Activity 3

Water & Sanitation: construction of clean water supply systems, protection of water supply, hygiene education, latrine construction. Water is never taken for granted in East Africa. During the dry season, water supplies are inadequate or non-existent in many villages. Dirty contaminated water is responsible for a myriad of health problems including dystentery and malaria. Women and children walk miles each way carrying heavy containers of water. Gathering just 20 liters of water can take up to nine hours a day; this amount is only sufficient for one household for two days and just for cooking food. Reducing the amount of work that women have to devote to water collection improves the economic situation by giving them time to use in other more economically useful purposes. Hygiene education teaches people to avoid diseases that currently flourish because of lack of water. These include eye diseases such as trachoma and skin diseases like scabies.

Filer

EIN

94-2537375