GFC Capabilities Deck

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Contents

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Our Focus Areas

Where We Work

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Our Model

Our Partners

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Our Impact

Our Stories

Our Focus Areas Our work advances the rights of children and youth across four focus areas and five regions. We have a deep commitment to courageous organizations that support young people facing poverty, injustice, and discrimination. Š Kimlong Meng

EDUCATION

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

We work to secure equal access to high-quality education for all children, no matter what obstacles stand in their way.

We prepare young people to shape their own futures, advance their rights, and lead healthy, productive lives.

135 grassroots partners

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countries

Key initiatives • Early childhood development • Girls’ education • I nclusive education for children with disabilities • I nnovative models to reach child laborers, refugees, indigenous children, and other excluded populations • V ocational, life skills, and entrepreneurship training for youth

GENDER EQUITY We defend the right of all children and youth to enjoy equal resources and opportunities in society, and we support efforts to define new social and cultural norms that do not discriminate based on gender identity.

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grassroots partners

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countries

Key initiatives • Girls’ education • Leadership, entrepreneurship, and vocational skills training • S exual and reproductive health and rights • Redefining masculinity • E radication of harmful traditional norms, including child marriage and female genital mutilation • R ehabilitation and safe spaces for survivors of gender-based violence, sexual abuse, and exploitation • A dvocacy, counseling, safe spaces, and health information and services for LGBTQ youth • A dvocacy and community outreach on gender justice

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grassroots partners

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countries

Key initiatives • Leadership, entrepreneurship, and vocational skills training • Life skills development • Microcredit and microfinancing programs • Human rights training • P olitical and civic participation and civil rights • Peer education and mobilization

FREEDOM FROM VIOLENCE & EXPLOITATION We seek to prevent and end violence that keeps children and youth from reaching their full potential, and we work to heal those affected.

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grassroots partners

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countries

Key initiatives • Identification, rehabilitation, and reintegration services for trafficking victims • S ecuring legal identities and birth certificates • Child protection training • P reventing sexual abuse and violence • E nsuring access to education and healthcare • T ailored programming to meet the unique needs of refugees, child laborers, trafficked children and youth, and other populations at risk of violence and abuse • A dditional prevention, training, and advocacy activities, including training public service providers

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We partner to build a world where all children and youth are safe, strong, and valued.

Our Model We create partnerships, not dependencies. We scout out grassroots organizations with bold ideas and dedicated leaders. Then we help them deepen their impact to transform children’s lives, their communities, and the world.

We find.

We research, explore, and identify innovative, earlystage organizations working with young people around the world.

We fund.

We invest wisely, funding our partners’ life-changing programs for children and youth and keeping a watchful eye on how those funds are put to use.

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Together we strengthen.

We advise, mentor, and guide our partners. We build mutual trust, accountability, and enduring relationships.

Through targeted capacitybuilding services, we help our partners grow stronger and more effective in their work.

We build networks.

We connect our partners to each other and to national and regional networks.

We bring together brilliant minds to share knowledge, fuel advocacy, and build movements of social change.

And when our partners graduate, we stand proud.

Our greatest joy comes from knowing that we played a part in helping our partners grow strong enough to continue their important work for children and youth without our financial support.

After graduation, they remain a vital part of our growing global network.

Our Impact

In the last 20 years, Global Fund for Children has transformed millions of children’s lives by supporting meaningful change where it stands to do the most good: in the heart of the community.

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total grassroots partners

children served

$39.9M

91%

in cash grants

On average, our partners’ budgets triple during their GFC partnership, enabling them to expand and improve their programs for greater impact on children’s lives.

success rate

Roughly 91% of our graduating partners meet or exceed our expectations for growth in the areas of visibility, organizational capacity, and budget.

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10

CNN Heroes Awards

World’s Children Prizes

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Ashoka Fellowships

3x budget growth

10M

With and For Girls Awards

Our partners become national leaders in children’s rights, and influence government policy to defend and protect hundreds of thousands of children worldwide. They have received hundreds of national and international awards, including those listed above.

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Where We Work Global Fund for Children currently supports 171 grassroots organizations in 48 countries. Our network of graduated partners includes more than 600 organizations across the globe.

The Americas NUMBER OF PARTNERS: 37 Bolivia 2 Brazil 3 Colombia 2

Africa & the Middle East NUMBER OF PARTNERS: 59 Burkina Faso

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Burundi 2 Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Egypt 2 Ethiopia 1 Ghana 5

Dominican Republic

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Ecuador 2 Guatemala 5 Haiti 3 Honduras 2 Mexico 6

South Asia

Nicaragua 3

NUMBER OF PARTNERS: 28

Peru 4

Bangladesh 6

United States

India 12

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Nepal 5

Kenya 8 Lebanon 3

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Pakistan 3

Liberia 1

Europe & Eurasia

Nigeria 4

NUMBER OF PARTNERS: 24

Rwanda 4

Kyrgyzstan 6

Senegal 2

Moldova 1

East & Southeast Asia

South Africa

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Romania 1

NUMBER OF PARTNERS: 23

Swaziland 2

Serbia 5

Cambodia 6

Tanzania 4

Tajikistan 2

China 5

Togo 5

Turkey 3

Indonesia 4

Uganda 6

Ukraine 3

Mongolia 2

Zambia 6

United Kingdom

Thailand 6

Sri Lanka

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Global Distribution of Current Partners The Americas

22%

Africa & the Middle East

35%

Europe & Eurasia

14%

South Asia

16%

East & Southeast Asia

13%

From Bangladesh to Kyrgyzstan to Zambia, we go the extra mile to find promising, innovative programs that will thrive with our support.

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Our Partners

CURRENT PARTNERS The Americas

Resilient. Dedicated. Homegrown. Our partners equip children and youth with the tools to lead lives of dignity and independence. They have the passion and local knowledge to transform their communities.

We help them achieve that goal.

Bolivia Fundación Centro Una Brisa de Esperanza Brazil Diaspora Solidaria Onda Solidária Viva a Vida Colombia Corporación Correcaminos Fundación Dar Amor Dominican Republic 180 Grados para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Fundación La Merced Unión GTH Vegana Ecuador Asociación Comunitaria Hilarte Fundación UBECI Guatemala Asociación AMA Asociación Civil Defiende Asociación Generando Asociación PASOS Asociación Pop No’j Haiti Association Zanmi Timoun Organisation Haitienne pour le Développement Durable Pax Christi Ayiti Honduras Cooperativa Mixta Juvenil Emprendedores Solidarios Organización para el Empoderamiento de la Juventud

© Giovanni Okot

Our grassroots partners are…

Promising We invest in high-potential, early-stage organizations.

Local Our partners are experts on their communities’ cultures, concerns, needs, and resources. ur partners challenge assumptions and paradigms, Innovative O bringing a fresh perspective and approach to deep-rooted cultural problems.

Nimble From natural disasters to political unrest, our partners adapt quickly to changing context.

Growing We seek out organizations with the potential to deepen and replicate their programs to achieve maximum impact.

Courageous Battling complex problems with limited resources, our partners do whatever it takes to improve children’s lives

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Mexico Alianza para la Integración Comunitaria UTOPIA A.C. Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres Chantiik Taj Tajinkutik Colectivo Seres México y Caribe Jóvenes A.C. Red + Posithiva de Quintana Roo Nicaragua Asociación de Sordociegos de Nicaragua Asociación Movimiento de Mujeres por Nuestros Derechos Humanos Fundación Fénix Peru Ashanti Perú – Red Peruana de Jóvenes Afrodescendientes Asociación Civil Los Pioneros Asociación Educativa Kusi Kawsay Un Millón de Niños Lectores

United States Courtney’s House Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso Project Create Africa & the Middle East Burkina Faso Association Aide à la Scolarisation des Enfants de Familles Démunies Burundi Initiative pour la Promotion de la Santé Rurale et le Développement Intégré au Burundi Observatoire Ineza des Droits de l’Enfant au Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo Georges Malaika Foundation Egypt Alwan wa Awtar Future Lights for Development Organization Ethiopia Fregenet Kidan Lehitsanat Ghana A Ban Against Neglect Achievers Ghana Education Center for Development Initiatives Ghana Women’s Voices Foundation Street Library Ghana Kenya Boy Child Initiative Girls Leading Our World Initiatives Heshima Kenya Kito International Little Rock ECD Centre Nyanza Initiative for Girls’ Education and Empowerment Samburu Girls Foundation Springs of Hope Children’s Centre Lebanon Insan Association Nawaya Network Tahaddi Liberia Children Assistance Program Nigeria Bo Sita MADE Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection Child and Youth Protection Foundation Linking the Youth of Nigeria through Exchange

Rwanda Centre Marembo Hope for Rwanda Les Enfants de Dieu Point d’Ecoute

Hand in Hand Our Voice Ravenstvo

Senegal Association Jeunesse Espoir Maison de la Gare

Romania Asociatia pentru Libertatea si Egalitatea de Gen

South Africa Jelly Beanz Inc. Vumundzuku-bya Vana | Our Children’s Future Swaziland Compassionate Swaziland Young Heroes Foundation Tanzania Action for Children Faraja Young Women Development Organization Shalom Centre for Street Children Zanzibar Female Lawyers Association Togo Action pour le Développement Durable: Le Rônier Fondation Secours Universel Homeland Kids and Family ONG Dedome Amis du Père Franck Organisation pour la Femme et le Développement Uganda Children of the World Foundation Foundation for Inclusive Community Help Hope and Peace for Humanity Life Concern Rural Initiative for Community Empowerment – West Nile Rwenzori Information Centres Network Zambia Chimwemwe Organisation for the Promotion of Childhood Rights, Education and Development Dackana Home Based Care Hope for the Needy Zambia Kachere Development Programme Youth First Development Youth Support Initiative Europe & Eurasia Kyrgyzstan Beypil Bishkek Feminist Initiatives Center of Economical Education

Moldova Youth Media Center

Serbia Asylum Protection Center Danica Exspecto Know How Center Stav + Tajikistan Iroda Young Generation of Tajikistan Turkey Aile Danismanlari Dernegi Mavi Kalem Social Assistance and Charity Association Young Disabled Sports Club Ukraine NGO Parity Orphan’s Future Pravo Vibora United Kingdom asphaleia action Leaders in Community Mosaic Youth South Asia Bangladesh Alor Pothe Nobojatray Foundation Local Education and Economic Development Organization Sanjog Bangladesh Shobujer Ovijan Foundation SOHAY Voluntary Association for Family Welfare and Social Development India Aarohan Arpan Chehak Trust Divya Down’s Development Trust Equal Community Foundation Foundation for Initiatives in Development and Education for All LeapForWord Masoom Sahyog Care for You Social and Development Research and Action Group Society for Participatory

Integrated Development South Kolkata Hamari Muskan Nepal Asha Nepal Center for Awareness Promotion Gentle Heart Foundation International Child Resource Institute – Nepal Partnership for Sustainable Development Nepal Pakistan Grace Association Roshni Research and Development Welfare Organization Sanjog Pakistan Sri Lanka Educate, Advocate, Support, Empower Foundation Rural Economic and Community Development Organization East & Southeast Asia Cambodia Advanced Centre for Empowerment Aziza’s Place Jom Hean Anagod Khemara Self Help Community Center Sports and Leadership Training Academy China Hong Kong Unison Jiuqian Volunteer Center Shanghai Ming De Charity Fund Shanghai Qingai Health Center Teen’s Key Indonesia Fokus Muda Yayasan Mitra ImaDei Yayasan Sahabat Kapas Yayasan Satu Karsa Karya Mongolia Children’s Ger Foundation for Empowerment of Rural Women Thailand Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Abuse Center Baan Nana (Childlife) Center for Girls Child Rights Protection Centre Friends Without Borders Foundation Karenni Further Studies Program

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Our Stories

Š Kimlong Meng

Tahaddi – Lebanon

Finding Refuge in a Foreign Land

After a family escapes war-torn Syria, GFC partner Tahaddi helped them rebuild their lives.

© Rose Khouri, Tahaddi

Six-year-old Flona and her family fled Syria in fear of ISIS. Bringing only what they could carry, they traveled to Lebanon in search of safety.

The family of five settled into a one-room apartment in a shantytown in the southern suburbs of Beirut. They didn’t have enough money for food or blankets. Flona began suffering from terrifying nightmares.

Fortunately, they were introduced to Tahaddi, a local organization whose caring staff provided the tools, support, and nurturing environment Flona’s family needed to get back on their feet.

Tahaddi runs an education program and health clinic—two essential services that are otherwise inaccessible to most refugees because they lack legal status. Thanks to Tahaddi, Flona could attend preschool—a safe place where she had the chance to learn, play, and make new friends.

Along with her parents and siblings, she received free medical care and counseling to help her recover from the traumatic journey. Tahaddi also helped the family cope by providing blankets, mattresses, monthly food vouchers, and more.

In 2017, Flona and her family immigrated to Canada. Though Tahaddi’s staff were sad to see her go, they are overjoyed that her future—once fraught with danger—is bright.

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Today Flona is filled with hope.

Focus Areas: Education; Freedom from Violence & Exploitation Partnership Highlights: • P artner for six years; now a member of GFC’s Step Up program • Grew annual number of children served from 68 to more than 400 • 150% budget growth • Impressive resilience: modified and expanded programs amid rapidly evolving humanitarian crisis

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Teen’s Key – Hong Kong

The Keys to a New Future

Teen’s Key empowers survivors of exploitation to advance their rights and lead healthy, productive lives.

© Michael Kistler

Like many of Hong Kong’s poor, Connie's family was saddled with debt. To help pay it off, she felt she had no choice but to start working at a nightclub. She was only 15 years old.

At the nightclub, Connie endured terrible hardship, including a violent attempted rape. Caught up in a tough world, where young girls like her were exploited against their will, Connie was arrested at age 18. Then she reached out to Teen’s Key for help.

The only organization of its kind in Hong Kong, Teen’s Key offers individualized, life-changing services to teens in the sex industry.

Through a combination of legal advice, health services, peer support groups, and academic and occupational counseling, the organization helps each girl to understand her rights and shape her own future.

In Connie’s case, Teen’s Key educated her about her legal rights and accompanied her through a yearlong prosecution process.

Now, at age 21, Connie is studying to pass the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exam. She then hopes to apply for a degree in psychology, which she wants to use to help girls like her.

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This is Connie's story.

Focus Areas: Education; Freedom from Violence & Exploitation Partnership Highlights: • P artner for six years; now a member of GFC’s Step Up program • Grew annual number of children served from 68 to more than 400 • 150% budget growth • Impressive resilience: modified and expanded programs amid rapidly evolving humanitarian crisis

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Rural Initiative for Community Empowerment – Uganda

Unlocking Opportunity for Aspiring Entrepreneurs When she was 10 years old, her father was killed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that terrorized areas of northern Uganda for more than 20 years.

Left to raise her children alone, Alomo’s mother didn’t have enough money to feed them or pay for their school fees. Alomo was forced to drop out—and lose sight of her dreams—before finishing high school.

Though the LRA has been driven out of the region, its impact endures: the war orphaned thousands of children, disrupted education, and destroyed livelihoods. Uganda’s youth are eager to contribute to their country’s economic and social transformation—but they struggle to get back into school and gain the skills they need.

Our partner Rural Initiative for Community Empowerment— West Nile (RICE-WN) is working to change that. Through its community outreach programs, RICE-WN heard about Alomo and encouraged her to apply for its empowerment program.

Specifically designed for girls affected by conflict, the program offers a combination of educational support, counseling, entrepreneurial and leadership training, and community engagement activities. Together, these initiatives lay the foundation for independence.

With support from RICE-WN, Alomo enrolled in a vocational training school. Today, she runs her own hair salon and supports her mother, siblings, and herself.

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© Giovanni Okot

After years of violent conflict in northern Uganda, young women like Alomo find renewed hope.

Alomo has a lot to be proud of.

Focus Areas: Education; Gender Equity; Freedom from Violence & Exploitation; Youth Empowerment Partnership Highlights: • Partner for three years • Numerous GFC capacity building inputs, including an organizational development grant to fund strategic planning • 300% budget growth • GFC has leveraged an additional $195k for RICE-WN from other major funders

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Khemara – Cambodia

A Strong Start—and a Bright Future—for Cambodia’s Children

With dedicated teachers, young children get a chance at breaking the cycle of poverty.

© Kimlong Meng

If you met any of Kong Sunly's students at Khemara’s childcare center, you would never guess the hardships they face at home.

Working as traditional weavers on Cambodia’s “Silk Island,” their parents sometimes do not have enough income to buy food, let alone healthcare or school supplies.

With help from Khemara and caring teachers like Sunly, these children have the opportunity to reach their full potential and shape their future.

Sunly teaches the children to read and count, and to speak English and Khmer—skills that lay the foundation for success in primary school and beyond. Because malnutrition, hunger, and HIV/AIDS are real threats for these kids, the center provides nutritious meals and regular health checkups, and connects the children to free medical care.

Khemara runs nine of these childcare centers in and around Phnom Penh; through the centers and its services to families affected by HIV/AIDS, Khemara reaches more than 4,000 children each year.

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Sunly loves her kids.

Focus Areas: Education; Gender Equity; Youth Empowerment Partnership Highlights: • Partner for five years • Received GFC opportunity grants to support professional teacher trainings • Shared its successful fundraising and donor management strategy with other GFC partners in Asia • 89% budget growth

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Equal Community Foundation – India

Shifting India’s Gender Paradigm, Starting with Boys

Along with thousands of other boys in Pune, India, Siddesh has pledged to be an ally for girls and young women—thanks to the work of Equal Community Foundation (ECF).

"Equal rights for both, equal treatment for both, and equality in business.” This is Siddesh’s definition of gender equality.

Through its flagship program, Action for Equality, ECF trains male professionals with a background in social work and places them as program mentors in low-income communities. Each mentor leads weekly, interactive training sessions for teen boys.

By working with boys and young men, ECF tackles gender-based violence at its core, addressing an issue that has deep roots in Indian society. The curriculum first focuses on helping boys think critically about their own prejudices and harmful behavior.

Participants then acquire the skills to mobilize and influence their families and peers.

Working together, the boys launch events, rallies, and campaigns with the goal of reducing violence and discrimination in their own neighborhoods.

Nearly 5,000 boys across 19 communities in Pune have participated in the program. During the past two years, ECF trained 12 organizations in West Bengal in its methodology and curriculum, thereby scaling up its impact and teaching thousands more boys to be leaders in gender equality.

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© Equal Community Foundation / Rucha Satoor

Equal Community Foundation uses a groundbreaking approach to combat violence against women and girls.

Siddesh is learning.

Focus Areas: Gender Equity; Youth Empowerment; Freedom from Violence & Exploitation Partnership Highlights: • Partner for four years • Received GFC organizational development grant to strengthen fundraising, financial management, and board engagement practices • 205% budget growth

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Un Millón de Niños Lectores – Peru

Through the Power of Books, a World of Opportunity

Un Millón de Niños Lectores has a simple but powerful mission: to build libraries in low-income public schools so that more children can learn to read.

© Estrella Vivenca-Stevenson

Diego didn't hold a reading book until he was 8 years old.

In Peru, two out of three schoolchildren lack basic reading and comprehension skills, and 80 percent of schools are without a library.

GFC partner Un Millón de Niños Lectores (UMNL) is working to change that, one school at a time. After completing a competitive selection process, Diego’s school underwent rigorous preparation to engage the entire community around the project. Parents, volunteers, and school staff came together with UMNL to create the library out of recycled building materials.

Once the library was established, UMNL helped the school develop multiple strategies for using the materials and the space, including a weekly two-hour reading program designed by UMNL. Teachers read to their classes every day, and each class visits the library twice a week. Last year, UMNL built libraries that reached nearly 8,000 children, giving them the tools to read and write—and to end the country’s cycle of illiteracy.

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Diego loves to read.

Focus Areas: Education Partnership Highlights: • Partner for two years • 54% budget growth • In 2016, UMNL started working with districts instead of individual schools to maximize impact

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Little Rock ECD Centre – Kenya

Pioneering Inclusive Education in Nairobi’s Kibera Slum In a country where children with disabilities are often institutionalized, Little Rock ECD Centre is raising the bar on education.

© Kevin Ouma

In 2003 Lilly Oyare was working as a teacher in Nairobi when the Kenyan government made primary school free for all children. Suddenly, she had an influx of students who were entering first grade without any preparation. The children who faced the most challenges were from Kibera, an informal settlement where public schools and social services were virtually nonexistent.

In response, Lilly quit her job and founded Little Rock—the first inclusive early childhood education center in Kibera.

Little Rock is dedicated to providing a nurturing environment for all young children, regardless of the challenges they face, and to helping them reach their potential. Students include children with disabilities, orphans, and children affected by HIV/AIDS. In addition to getting a high-quality education, the children at Little Rock receive medical checkups, occupational therapy, and nutritious meals. Graduates of the program return to Little Rock for after-school tutoring and mentoring to help ensure their success in primary school and beyond.

Today, Little Rock is known throughout the region as a thought leader in education and is one of the founding members of the Early Childhood Development Network for Kenya.

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Meet Lilly's kids.

Focus Areas: Education; Freedom from Violence & Exploitation Partnership Highlights: • Partner for six years • 198% budget growth • Grew annual number of children served from 500 to 900 • Used GFC organizational development grant to strengthen finances, fundraising, and human resources • Serves as a mentor to new GFC partners

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Association of Roma Danica – Serbia

Standing Up for Roma Girls’ Rights

Discrimination and harmful cultural norms prevent many Roma girls from shaping their own futures. One NGO is working to change that.

© Petar Markovic

Sara and her mom attend community workshops led by Association of Roma Danica, where nothing is taboo.

Sexual abuse. Domestic violence. Child marriage. Reproductive health. Through informal gatherings, staff and trained volunteers lead conversations on these topics with the goal of driving social change within and for the Roma community.

The workshops are about more than conversation—they serve as an entry point for providing Roma women and children with counseling, resources, and assistance with accessing social services.

Roma encounter routine discrimination and are frequently denied basic services like healthcare and education. Roma girls face the added challenge of cultural norms that encourage early marriage and early childbirth.

Co-founder Danica Jovanovic understands these challenges firsthand—and that it’s possible to overcome them. At 13, she was forcibly married to a man she had never met. Danica broke free of the marriage as a young adult, went back to school, and dedicated her career to helping Roma women and girls regain their rights.

“We exist to give Roma women and girls the right to personal choices and freedom of movement,” Danica says. “We share the vision of Roma women and girls empowered, free, and equal.”

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This is Sara.

Focus Areas: Gender Equity; Freedom from Violence & Exploitation; Youth Empowerment Partnership Highlights: • P artner for three years • 88% budget growth • Received GFC organizational development grant to develop strategic plan and fundraising strategy • Attended a regional Knowledge Exchange for networking and learning with other GFC partners

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