For the Children's Sake Foundation

Each grant FTCSF makes is intended to help the receiving school in its effort to become self-sustaining. Organizations that receive grants from For the Children’s Sake Foundation must meet certain requirements: registration with their government as a charity; present a convincing case of how the grant will help to increase self-sustainability for the organization; sign a grant agreement; and provide documentation for the use of funds. Grants are given in installments after satisfactory documentation of each stage of the project.

Nursery School Curriculum Grant

The Uganda National Approved Nursery Curriculum was provided to all participants of the July 2009 Nursery training session.

Kibera Teachers Committee, Curriculum Grant

Kibera Teachers Committee, made up of teachers elected from our training cohort, was provided with $1327 to purchase the following materials for use by teachers in our training program: one copy of the Kenyan National Syllabus for each of the 22 participating schools, and one complete set of teacher guides to be shared.

Compassion Children’s Centre, Nutrition Center Grant

Compassion Children’s Center was provided a grant of $4000 to be used to

purchase four rooms to be used as a nutrition center for orphans, to bring in

water, to build a toilet, and to purchase cooking implements and dishes to be

used in the nutrition centre.

Servant’s Heart Relief Organization, Curriculum Grant
Servant’s Heart Relief Organization was given a grant of $1000 to be used

for purchasing and transporting teacher guides to those trained by Dr. Price

working at three Servant’s Heart Relief Organization schools in Southern Sudan.

Rookmaaker Orphanage and School, Building Grant

Rookmaaker Orphanage and School received a grant of $2000 to be used to

build an additional latrine, to do much needed work on the kitchen, and to make

dorm improvements.

Rookmaker Orphanage Electricity Grant

The first grant given by the foundation was used to provide electricity to a large

orphanage in Uganda. In equatorial lands it get dark early, yet the students have

quite a bit of studying to accomplish after the sun goes down. For light they had

been using small kerosene lanterns. Sadly, many children in orphanages are

burned and killed through the use of these “candles”. The grant enabled

Rookmaaker Orphanage to re-connect to electricity, and to provide a safer

environment for the children.

St Catherine’s School Feeding Center Grant

The second grant was used to purchase buildings to provide a feeding center for St.

Catherine’s School in the slum of Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya. This school has a

majority of students who do not receive adequate food at home due to extreme

poverty. Organizations that provide food to schools require certain facilities, which

St. Catherine’s was unable to afford. As a result of the grant, the school is now able

to serve morning porridge and a meal of vegetable, beans, maize or rice to the

children for lunch. For a number of these children, it is the best or only meal they

receive that day. Attendance has increased significantly since students are eager to

attend school to receive food, and are not truant looking for scraps of food or trying

to earn money to buy some.

Curriculum Grants
Grant funds were also used to purchase teacher resource materials, providing the syllabus for each subject in the Kenyan curriculum for each level of primary school, Standards One through Eight. We also provided teacher guides for each subject and each level. The teachers who were trained in December have been very grateful for the provision of these materials, which they have used to better prepare their lessons.