Special
Programs Supported by the Giving World
Concern
India Foundation is an organization that helps the underprivileged
of India. The following projects are supported with the generous
financial assistance from April Cornell through the Giving World
Foundation.
April Cornell and Cornell Trading have fully funded the Sai Siksha
Sansthan School since its inception in l99l. At this time there
are 350 first generation learners (children whose parents do not
read or write). The total teaching staff is 29, just 12 students
per teacher. The founder of this school is Ms. Anjina Rajagopal,
a spirited woman who herself has adopted 16 orphaned or abandoned
children.
 Ekta
Mahila Kendra program helps to empower women from the slums
of South Delhi. It has helped at least 500 women become self-reliant.
Skills such as Madhubani painting are taught to women and are
then transferred into jobs by creating greeting cards and posters.
Kala Kutir program helps educate and train children in
becoming proficient in arts and crafts. Giving children these
skills allows them an alternative from their family’s profession,
which maybe ragpicking at the local city dumps. The Gali School
concept reaches out to children of the streets and schools by
organizing a class that is conducted in the street itself. At
present there are 50 Gali schools functioning with l500 students.
Navjyoti-Balwari helps with daycare programs for children
between the ages of 3 and 5. Prayatn is a new project working
to help the underprivileged elderly living in slums. This program
offers a daycare, which includes health care, nutrition and recreational
services. Sakhya is a counseling center which facilitates
women’s lives primarily in areas of domestic violence, sexual
harassment, sex education, alcoholism and dowry harassment. This
center has been helping to promote women’s empowerment since
1987. A crèche or daycare for the children of slum women, where
children are provided with teaching, toys and a snack while their
mothers are developing job skills.
 New
Life is a voluntary organization working with the children
of prostitutes and child prostitutes in Calcutta. There are an
estimated 3000 child prostitutes in Calcutta. This project aims
to provide children alternatives for their future with appropriate
skills and role models. Mobil Crèche provides daycare for children
of laborers on construction sites, many of these children are
unattended amidst the rubble and dirt of a construction site in
Delhi. At present there are twenty centers helping out over one
thousand children daily.
 CHINA:
Through Le Project Grand Mères d'Aide aux Enfants des Orphelinats
Chinois, a Montreal-based group, April Cornell/La Cache is helping
to fund orphanages in China. Our goal is to provide funds for
extra staff, refrigeration, and basic amenities to improve conditions
in orphanages there.
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