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GRANTS CATEGORIZED BY CHILDREN’S PROBLEMS
January 1 – December 31, 2006
I. PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
♥ Al Sigl Center - Rochester, NY
$ 25,000
To support children’s programs.
♥ Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired – Rochester, NY
$ 4,730
To fund an art-therapy program for children who are blind or visually impaired.
♥ The Center for Curative Pedagogics – Moscow, Russia (funded through Chamah, New York)
$ 5,590
To support an 18-day physical therapy camping session for disabled children and their families living in Russia.
♥ Center for Music by People with Disabilities – Missoula, MT
$ 3,368.95
To purchase three instruments and a lap top computer benefiting handicapped children living in Montana.
♥ Children’s Care Foundation – Sioux Falls, SD
$ 32,376
To purchase various physical therapy equipment for a new Children’s Care Rehabilitation Center.
♥ Clarke School for the Deaf – Northampton, MA
$ 11,975
To purchase one Verifit System real ear/hearing aid analyzer.
♥ Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption – Merrifield, VA
$ 12,606
To purchase one playground for an orphanage in Romania, the Sibiu Community Services Center, benefiting 140 disabled children.
♥ The North Country Mission of Hope – Plattsburgh, NY
$ 30,565
To purchase physical therapy equipment for the Pajarito Azul Disability Center, a home for abandoned, disabled children living in Nicaragua.
II. SERIOUSLY ILL/INJURED
♥ American Friends of Georgia – Truro, MA
$ 6,184
To renovate a children’s chemotherapy treatment room and to purchase three electronic infusion pumps at The National Cancer Center in Georgia.
♥ Kagando Mission Hospital Foundation – Dorset, VT
$ 20,752
To pay for three pieces of equipment to be used by the pediatric ward at Kagando Hospital, located in Uganda.
♥ The National Children’s Cancer Society – St. Louis, MO
$ 5,000
To pay for 7 shipments of medical supplies to benefit children with cancer being treated at Hospital Nacional de Ninos Benjamin Bloom, located in El Salvador.
♥ Physicians for Peace – Norfolk, VA
$ 12,590
To purchase equipment and supplies for the prosthetics and orthotics rehabilitation program at Hospital Infantil de Infectologia y Rehabilitacion, located in Guatemala.
♥ Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Buffalo, NY
$ 5,000
To support a mobile medical clinic operating on the Island of Mindanao, Philippines.
III. LEARNING DISABLED
♥ Hope Hall – Rochester, NY
$ 15,000
To partially fund the annual Phil Chamberlain Memorial Art and Music Program.
IV. RAISED POOR/DISADVANTAGED
♥ Catholic Social Services – Alberta, Canada (funded through St. John the Evangelist Church – Clyde, NY)
$ 25,500
To renovate, expand, and upgrade two pre-schools attended by “dump” children in Quezon City, Philippines.
♥ Concern Worldwide – New York, NY
$ 32,500
To pay for the construction supplies, furniture, and labor to build an eight-classroom primary school that will benefit 857 children living in Pitaw Roo, Afghanistan.
♥ Educate the Children – Ithaca, NY
$ 13,889
To provide scholarships to 300 Dalit children whose mothers are involved with the Women’s Development Program in Nepal.
♥ Edgerton Child Care Services – Rochester, NY
$ 3,595
An emergency grant to purchase a commercial freezer for the child care center.
♥ Himalayan Healthcare – New York, NY
$ 4,400
A second year grant to pay the salaries and travel expenses of two midwives, as well as medical supplies to benefit women and children living in rural villages in Nepal.
♥ Immaculate Heart Sisters of Africa – Buffalo, NY (funded through Church of Christ the King – Amherst, NY)
$ 19,230
To support various medical outreach programs for a mobile medical clinic run by Baraki Health Center in Tanzania.
♥ International Rescue Committee – New York, NY
$ 17,400
To provide a six month supply of medicines to 8,500 children living in refugee camps at the Thailand-Burma border.
♥ Joining Hearts and Hands – Fairport, NY
$ 24,728
To construct two 2-classroom blocks at the Mbaka Oromo Primary School located in Maseno, Kenya.
♥ The Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus – Baltimore, MD
$ 35,000
To build a girls’ hostel in a remote village of India benefiting 130 girls annually.
♥ Mnamatha Primary School – South Africa (funded through New York District Kiwanis Foundation – Utica, NY)
$ 9,474
To purchase kitchen appliances and eating utensils, water tanks, tables and chairs, small playground, and to renovate the library for this poor school located in Hillcrest, South Africa.
♥ Our Lady of Nazareth Primary School – Nairobi, Kenya (funded through The Marianist Province of the U.S.)
$ 15,000
To expand the counseling services at this school by extending the office, purchasing new equipment, and paying a one year salary for an additional school counselor.
♥ St. Peter’s Girls High School – Kaptere, Kenya (funded through The Catholic Diocese of Nakuru Mission Office – Mattydale, NY)
$ 47,362
To construct a girls’ dormitory that will accommodate 200 girls living at St. Peter’s Girls High School in Kenya.
♥ Save the Children – Westport, CT
$ 50,000
To support the Early Childhood Educational Program, on-going in Guatemala.
♥ TibetanAid Foundation – Ojai, CA
$ 16,808
To pay for medical supplies that will benefit 900 children and pregnant women at a new health clinic located in ChaZhu Valley, Tibet.
♥ Wilson Commencement Park – Rochester, NY
$ 3,280
To purchase a new dishwasher for the Early Learning Center, a program offered at Wilson Commencement Park.
V. ABANDONED/NEGLECTED
♥ Alternatives for Battered Women – Rochester, NY
$ 3,007
To purchase new carpeting and furniture for the children’s playroom.
♥ The Blue Valley Trust – Tamil Nadu, South India (funded through New York Province of the Society of Jesus - New York, NY)
$ 15,044
To establish a small dairy farm and vegetable garden in order to become self-sustaining at a home for abandoned girls and unwed mothers in India.
♥ Franciscan Sisters of St. Bernadette – Tanzania (funded through Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers – Maryknoll, NY)
$ 17,800
To pay for school fees, school-related expenses, and medicines for 50 children living at an orphanage run by the Sisters in Tanzania.
♥ Hope for the Children – Lindale, Texas (funded through Garden Valley Christian Center – Tyler, Texas)
$ 4,500
An emergency grant to complete the installation of a new heating system for an orphanage in Beijing, China; and to purchase warm clothes for these children.
♥ Miller Home of Lynchburg – Lynchburg, VA
$ 2,980
To purchase 20 mattresses benefiting non-delinquent girls who are living at Miller Home, a residence for emotionally and/or physically abused or neglected girls.
♥ Rehema PEFA Home – Nairobi, Kenya (funded through Elim Fellowship – Lima, NY)
$ 18,000
To purchase a generator, change-over switch, and materials to construct a generator room for this orphanage in Nairobi.
VI. ORPHANED (BY NATURAL DISASTER)
♥ Miracle Garden Tsunami Children’s Home – South India (funded through Jesus India Christian Schools – Bloomington, MN)
$ 40,000
A challenge grant to construct a dormitory at Miracle Garden in order to take in an additional 100 children who currently live in refugee shelters due to the tsunami of 2004.
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