Nonprofit Year-End Needs
For Information on how you can donate to these grantees, contact Amy Carstensen at amyc@icfdn.org or visit our website and DONATE ONLINE at www.icfdn.org.
Fundacion Ayuda Los Ninos de La Paz La Paz, BCS, Mexico
Total Required Funding: $450 a year
Program: Sponsor a student to attend junior high school.
In Mexico, it is obligatory that a child attend
school until the age of twelve, at which age he/
she normally enters secondary school.
Sponsorship includes transportation costs of up
to one dollar a day to and from school, the
students need uniforms, gym clothes, shoes, tennis
shoes and school supplies. Many families do not
have the money to pay these costs. Often, if there
are several children in a family, only the males
are sent to secondary school. By sponsoring a
student you are helping keep a child in school
and helping to provide a better future.
For more information visit: www.lapazninos.org
La Gran Familia Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico
Total Required Funding: $20,000
Program: To purchase a 15 passenger van to transport orphans to school.
The Gran Familia orphanage currently has 30 children at their facility. Twenty of the students recieve a scholarship to attend a private school, but transportation is a problem for the orphanage. Their van is old and is often in the shop, when this happens the children go to school in the back of a pick up truck. Not only is it unsafe, the children are exposed to harsh weather conditions. The cost for the van is $30,000 and the Gran Familia has raised $10,000. Please help these children get to school safely!
Tijuana General Hospital Auxiliary Fund— Tuberculosis Isolation Ward
Total required funding: $52,500
Funding will support the construction of a tuberculosis (TB) isolation ward to provide safe facilities for up to 26 patients to limit the spread of tuberculosis at the Tijuana General Hospital. It is estimated that Tijuana currently has approximately 600 cases of TB a year and nearly half of these patients are treated at the hospital. Current facilities are inadequate to deal with the growing TB caseload. The proposed isolation ward is absolutely necessary. For more information visit: www.hospitalgeneraltijuana.orgUniversity of
California,
San Diego
(UCSD)
Mother Child and Adolescent HIV Program
Total required funding: $200,000 for 2007
The program provides on-going care and treatment for 50-75 HIV-infected children at Tijuana General Hospital, which has lost its critical governmental funding in the past year. We can collectively provide $75,000 in critical crisis funding critical to keeping the program going at Tijuana General Hospital. Remaining funding will pay for the necessary CD4 cells, viral load, and resistance testing for the 50 HIV infected children UCSD is following, and rapid tests for screening up to 1,000 pregnant women annually for HIV infection.
