More About Me: I am the founder of Wema Centre a community and rehabilitation program for street children and orphans in kenya. I have a dream that Kenya will soon be rid of street children and orphans will live in families. I work hard to contribute towards that change and I look for people who share this hope. Please contact meand let us share ideas to see a better world for all disadvantaged children happen | Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 Matches    Page: 1 Try also: Teresa Cheptoo established Anti-Female Genital Mutilation/Early Marriages Advocacy Clubs in Kenya and, with the help of teachers and classmates, recruited approximately 200 boys and girls in 13 schools to educate the community about the negative consequences of Female Genital Mutilation. Cheptoo has represented Kenya on a youth panel regarding protecting the right to education for girls during the 51st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women., Nancy S. Harris, M.D., has worked for fifteen years to reverse the life-threatening health challenges affecting the lives of nearly one million underserved Tibetan children in the remote Tibet Autonomous Region and adjacent Tibetan ethnic areas of China. Harris first noted unusual growth stunting in children while visiting the region in 1990. For seven years, she and her tri-cultural team of Tibetan, Chinese and Western health workers weighed, measured and examined several thousands of children. The resulting data, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in 2001, documented that these children were not "short but healthy" as previously believed, but were in fact severely malnourished and chronically ill. As a result these children are at high risk of death from easily preventable and treatable conditions such as diarrhea, pneumonia and tuberculosis. To prevent this needless mortality Harris, Founder and President of the Terma Foundation, worked with local traditional elders, women, and villagers to develop six integrated child and community health programs. Programs are implemented by local Tibetan staff as meaningful, culturally acceptable and sustainable community-based interventions, with emphasis on health education. The survival of these children is the greatest hope for the future of this fragile indigenous culture, which remains geographically excluded from significant large-scale health assistance. Spending six to eight months a year in the field, Harris continues her dedication to generate awareness and direct resources to address this dire situation, which now includes emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Field programs, based in Lhasa, reach over 300, 000 child and community beneficiaries per year. To learn more please visit www.terma.org, Cheryl Perera's high school project on the exploitation of children changed the course of not only her life, but also the course of the lives of countless children abroad who fall prey to the horrors of commercial sexual exploitation. At age sixteen, she was enraged to learn that Sri Lanka, the land of her own heritage, was a perilous trap for nearly 40, 000 children forced or conned into prostitution. Perera wasted no time, and at seventeen years, she played the main role of the "DECOY" in a treacherous undercover "STING" operation, removing a dangerous pedophile from the streets of Sri Lanka. Her breadth of knowledge and bravery attracted the attention of dignitaries, and she was offered employment at the Presidential Secratariat, as the President Nominee on Child Protection. Now age twenty-one, an honors undergrad at the University of Toronto, Perera has broken tremendous ground to turn the tables on the child exploitation industry where few would dare to tread. Teaming up with other young people age 13-19, she founded the OneChild Network Systems upon the principle that "One child exploited is one child too many." In 2005 OneChild was established as a non-profit NGO for the rescue and continued support of exploited children. Taking it a step further, Perera arranged for OneChild to partner with Air Canada to create a video spot for all passenger flights overseas in order to spread awareness of the tragedy of child sex tourism. Additionally, she has been involved as the Co-founder and Director of her school chapter of Free the Children. Currently, she is spearheading a project with the Philippine PREDA foundation, raising funds to construct a rehabilitation center for victims of sexual exploitation. She is a dynamic orator, recently delivering the keynote presentation at the 2006 "Top 20 under 20 Awards Celebration" as well as an address to the Canadian Senate committee headed by Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire. Her goal is to spread OneChild Chapters across the globe, and she continues to address business groups, government bodies, educators, universities, schools and communities personally and through newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. For more information, please visit www.one-child.ca., Carol Sasaki founded the International Humanity Foundation (IHF) to help women and children escape sexual slavery. Today, IHF works in Kenya, Thailand, and Indonesia to provide shelter, food, clothing, medical care and education to orphaned and at-risk children; foster survival for tribes facing drought; enable youth from enemy tribes to live together and develop solutions for peace; and connect children in the U.S. to students in need abroad., Dr. Samir Chaudhuri founded the Child in Need Institute (CINI) in Calcutta in 1974 and, as Director, developed the "Life Cycle Approach" to improve child health by encouraging breastfeeding, childhood immunizations, and adolescent and reproductive health, and education. CINI has reached an estimated 500, 000 Indians over the past five years., For more than a decade, Susan Scott Krabacher has dedicated her life to the well-being of abandoned and impoverished children in Haiti. Traveling through the poorest areas of this country which are plagued with violence and disease, Krabacher, with the support and assistance of her husband, Joe, was moved to start her first orphanage in 1994. From this she founded the Mercy and Sharing organization, which she established to better the quality of life for Haitian children. Since the beginning, Krabacher's compassion was unyielding to the threats of peril such as civil unrest, gangs, and devastating living conditions. And, because she wanted to identify with the children whose lives were haunted by these dangers every day, she chose to spend her first days in Haiti in downtown Cite de Soleil, one of the most dangerous slums of Port au Prince. Krabacher spends six months of every year working in Haiti on behalf of children, and, every time, she must hire personal security guards to accompany her. The other six months she spends contributing to the functions of Mercy and Sharing from her home in Colorado, ensuring that the children are provided with quality medical care and living conditions as well as the opportunity to obtain a home and family of their own through adoption. Throughout the year, Krabacher delivers numerous presentations to spread awareness and generate support for Mercy and Sharing. Additionally, she and her husband are creating an endowment for the ongoing, long-term support of these children, contributing an annual amount of over $100, 000 of their own income. Krabacher has not only come to aid six thousand children over the years, but has also made great strides to develop effective relationships with the Haitian people. Her compassion and determination has gained the respect of those in power and the kinship of those in poverty, particularly the children who call her "Mama Blanche." For more information, please visit: www.haitichildren.org., In eighth grade, Jordana Alter Confino decided to do something about her passion for providing the opportunity of education to girls around the world. As a young girl herself, she was staggered to find that two-thirds of the world's uneducated children were girls. In 2003, she responded by collaborating with her mother and sister to form Girls Learn International, Inc. (GLI), an organization opening doors for not only those young women in severely limited circumstances, but also for hundreds of students in America to be a part of positive social change for young women on a global scale. The goals of the organization are to aid in universal education for female children, involve American students, spread awareness of human rights among middle and high school students, and develop stronger cross-cultural communication and understanding worldwide. To date, there are over forty GLI chapters throughout the U.S. which each support and correspond to one partner classroom in an area of the world where girls have been denied access to education in the past. Jordana currently directs activities for the Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey which has raised $3, 000 to provide the Muktar Mai school in Meerwala, Pakistan with computer and internet access. In addition to her local GLI chapter, she chairs the Junior Board for the organization nationwide. She is an effective orator on the subject of difficult issues facing girls around the world, having inspired schools around the U.S. to join GLI by spreading awareness through magazine and newspaper articles as well as television spots including ABC and NBC Morning News, and personal speaking events including the annual GLI Chapter Summit. GLI is rapidly expanding, and looks forward to the impact of twenty new chapters during the 2006-2007 academic term. Now a junior in high school, Jordana has been ardently studying social psychology and international relations and involving herself in other organizations such as Equality Now in NYC. As a result of her dedication the world is becoming a better place for young women and their communities. For more information, please visit www.girlslearninternational.org., I am the founder of Wema Centre a community and rehabilitation program for street children and orphans in kenya. I have a dream that Kenya will soon be rid of street children and orphans will live in families. I work hard to contribute towards that change and I look for people who share this hope. Please contact meand let us share ideas to see a better world for all disadvantaged children happen, Inderjit Khurana started developing schools on railway platforms for children who live next to the railroad tracks in 1985; her program now reaches 4, 000 kids through 12 "platform schools" as well as 63 additional schools in India's underserved slums. The Ruchika Social Service Organization (RSSO), as Khurana's organization is called, also provides health, nutrition and sanitation services., Since the early nineties, Jane Aronson, M.D., has been actively involved with orphans throughout China, Vietnam, Russia, Romania, Ecuador, Eastern Europe, and Ethiopia. In 1998 she launched the Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO). WWO's mission is "to enrich the lives and enhance the physical, emotional, social and intellectual well-being of children living in orphanages throughout the world." Specializing in pediatrics and infectious diseases, Aronson has been able to significantly improve, prolong, and save the lives of thousands of children. WWO facilitates numerous services for the mental and physical well-being of orphans, treats them for infectious disease (including HIV/AIDS) and provides them with homes, communities, education, and opportunities. Aronson has worked tirelessly to eliminate the stigma of HIV/AIDS from communities throughout the world, where parents will abandon their children infected with the disease. She has provided public information as well as medical reports to teachers and adoptive parents of the children. She fully informs adoptive parents of risks, medical treatment and information available, linking orphans with loving families prepared to take on complicated medical issues. Aronson has plowed through countless difficulties. For instance, in Vietnam, the local communities would not allow HIV-positive children to return to school, though these children were receiving medications and were healthy enough to return. Aronson rose to this challenge, equipping WWO orphanages with on-site schools, hiring teachers from the community and creating programs for students such as the Orphan's Soccer League and the Children's Theater Project. The Children's Theater Project is currently in the process of launching the Arts in Education Program to empower children through creative and innovative thinking and to give them a voice. Aronson's work has involved the expertise and contribution of a worldwide community of professionals as well, organizing extensive research on issues such as HIV/AIDS and orchestrating the first pediatric HIV/AIDS training ever hosted in Vietnam. These and other phenomenal breakthroughs for the lives of orphans have gained worldwide recognition including the Angels of Adoption Congressional Award in 2001 and the Resolve Friend of Adoption Award in 2006. For more information, please visit www.wwo.org., In 1980, David Lynch, a public school teacher from New York, planned to spend a month as a volunteer serving the 35 families whose means of survival was scavenging at the municipal garbage dump in Tijuana, Mexico. After returning for two more summers, Lynch, struck with the conviction that education could lift the children there out of poverty, decided to stay and has been educating children there for 26 years. Leaving his tenured teaching position behind, Lynch set up a tarp near where the children worked with their parents at the dumpsite. Here he offered an English class which eventually became a complete education system, called Responsibility, Inc., serving 400 children per year. As financial support for buildings and teachers became available, Responsibility grew to provide classes for children ages 3 to 7 and a computer lab and art school for all the children living around the city dump. Lynch also set up a program whereby students from all over the United States have the opportunity to help the less fortunate. This is often an integral part of the high school and college experience for students to do social service hours or get classroom teaching experience for those majoring in child development or education. Annually 2500 US students devote their time in some way to help the poorest of the poor. Despite cynicism from the general public and no financial assistance from the government to support the education of the preschool /kindergarten children in this poverty stricken area of Tijuana, Lynch has worked to bring his students' learning capacity to a step above that of the surrounding government funded schools. From inception in 1992, Lynch's program has placed a majority of its kindergarten graduates a full year ahead on the entrance exam provided by the Mexican public school system, Lynch's efforts have served to significantly better the lives of thousands of Mexican students, involve the lives of thousands of American students, and inspire the lives of countless others. In 2003 a musical play was created documenting Lynch's life service, followed by a children's book tentatively called Armando and the Blue Tarp School coming in 2007. For more information, please visit www.responsibilityonline.org., Harry Leibowitz was born September 7, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. Both his parents were immigrants to the USA. His father arrived from Vienna, Austria at the age of 6 months with his mother but he was soon orphaned and placed with an orphanage on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He was adopted at the age of 4 by a couple named Leibowitz who were late 30’s and childless. Harry’s mother was born in France but was not French. Her parents were emigrating across Europe to escape the ‘pogroms’ taking place in Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Their families got stuck in France awaiting visas to the USA and a marriage was arranged between his grandmother who was from Kiev, Ukraine and his grandfather who was from Poland. They arrived in New York City when she was only 1 year old in 1915. Harry’s family was quite poor and all during WWII and into the early 50’s they lived in an old bungalow in Coney Island where 10 families shared the common bathroom facilities. Harry’s father worked during the War as a longshoreman loading Liberty Ships at the Brooklyn Docks while his mother worked as a presser in a commercial laundry in Manhattan. At age 11, after getting a permanent job with the U.S. Post Office driving a truck, his father was able to move the family to a modern high rise in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. His mother got a somewhat higher paying, albeit tougher job, in a meat packing plant on the Lower West Side of Manhattan. When Harry was just 14 his father died in his sleep, leaving Harry, his mother, one sister and an elderly grandmother. Within weeks the County Sheriff came and repossessed all their furniture as it had been acquired on a weekly pay plan which, now, could not be maintained. Thus at age 14 Harry went to work. Since he was under-age and the law only allowed 3 hours a day of work for minors, Harry got a cash paying job working nights and weekends so he would not be easily seen. He worked full-time in a neighborhood bakery in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn where he started out cleaning pans and floor and doing "set-up" for the professional bakers. He held this job all through high school and college. Harry attended Brooklyn College of The City University of New York where he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Theater and Broadcasting. He then went on the Wayne State University to pursue his Doctoral degree. After receiving his undergraduate degree, Harry was married to his high-school sweetheart. Two children, one daughter and one son were produced in this marriage. The marriage ended in divorce in the early 1990’s. Upon completing his Doctoral studies, Harry was hired by The Procter & Gamble Company of Cincinnati, Ohio to work in Brand Management/Marketing. Harry left P&G in 1972 and went to work for the Playtex Company which was then part of ESMARK. He lived and worked abroad for Esmark in Europe and Canada and left after 8 years with the title of Executive VP. Harry next went to work as President and COO of a Japanese company, Myojo Foods, which was building a plant in the US and intending to enter the US market. The company aborted this plan after 18 months and sold its factory. At this point Harry started his own business called Partners In Marketing which did specialized consulting and research for a variety of well known companies such as Kroger, Eli Lilly, Bank of California, Medtronics and many others. Harry sold the business in 2002 as part of his retirement plan and to work full time on World of Children. In 2003, Harry re-married to Ms. Kay Isaacson who is one of America’s leading fashion merchants/executives. She had held positions as President of Accessory Lady (division of Melville, Corp.), Acting President of Banana Republic and EVP/GMM of Victoria’s Secret from which she retired in 2003. Currently Kay sits on the Boards of 2 publicly traded fashion retailers – GUESS? (NYSE) and COLDWATER CREEK (NASDAQ). Harry and Kay split their time between residences at Lake Tahoe, Nevada and in Tuscany, Italy where they restored a 500 year-old farmhouse. In 2007 Harry received the Procter & Gamble Alumni Humanitarian Award. In 2006 he was honored with the Reclaiming Youth International Child Advocacy Award, and in 1999 he received the Starr Commonwealth Award for Service to Children., While working as a plastic surgeon in Santiago, Chile for the Roberto Del Rio Children's Hospital, Jorge Rojas Zegers, M.D., was compelled to commit his life to the youngest burn victims in Latin America. Rojas realized that the need extended beyond medical care for the burns, and that these children would need psychological and emotional care for the long haul. In Chile, long-term treatment was scarce, and many burn victims were unable to complete their education, obtain employment, and return to society to lead fulfilling lives. Therefore, in 1979 he founded Corporacion de Ayunda Nino Quemado (COANIQUEM), which means Corporation to Help Burned Children, to provide the necessary treatment free of charge to allow these children to lead healed, productive, and fulfilled lives. Since its inception, COANIQUEM has benefited the lives of 75, 000 children, providing treatment for over 9, 000 annually. Rojas' contributions have stretched beyond Chile to many other countries in the Caribbean and Central and South America. His vision of quality burn treatment, involving plastic surgery, scar compression, physical therapy, and treatment of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorder, has been a model for others in the field as well. Rojas has also worked to generate consciousness of the causes of severe burns and has provoked Chilean legislators to initiate a law prohibiting the domestic use of fireworks and pyrotechnics. Today, COANIQUEM hosts two burn rehabilitation facilities in Chile, but is raising funds for four new COANIQUEM centers in Latin America. These new centers will be like the first two with surgical rooms, dining rooms, and living spaces including hospitality services provided for the families of the burned children. A room is provided for one parent of each victim, so that he or she can stay the entire duration of the rehabilitation process with their child. The new COANIQUEM centers will be sponsored through Rojas' tireless fundraising. For more information, please visit www.coaniquem.cl., While studying psychiatric social work in college, Sunitha Krishnan, Ph.D., acquired a fervent desire to save and to better the lives of the oppressed children in India. And, fourteen-years-ago, at age twenty, she began to make strides to undo the tight network of sex-offenders that continues to flourish to this day, an industry that enslaves and exploits hundreds of thousands of children. A study of the major cities throughout India revealed that nearly one million children under 18 have been sold, tricked, or kidnapped to work in the dangerous brothels of the red light districts. A majority of women over 18, who had been rescued from prostitution, were trafficked as children. Krishnan decided to take matters into her own hands and created an organization called Prajwala, which means "eternal flame." Prajwala's programs account for every aspect of the rescue and rehabilitation of victims of child exploitation. Krishnan works with a complex association of informers who have infiltrated the prostitution industry to detect and identify when children who are being trafficked. Once the children are rescued, Prajwala provides a home for them, where they can be reunited with their parents who often stay to support them during the rehabilitation process. There they are surrounded with everything necessary to reintegrate them into society including therapy, education, vocational training, and practical essentials such as government housing and ration cards. In addition, many who come to Prajwala suffer from HIV and are given medical and psychological treatment. As soon as the children move back out on their own, they are connected to reintegration programs on the local level to prevent them from being victimized again. To date, over 5000 children have been helped through Krishnan's efforts to obliterate the exploitation industry. Her example has impacted other red-light districts throughout South Asia, where the government has begun to facilitate a state rescue policy. She has also spread international awareness, by contributing to numerous documentaries including "Anamika-The Nameless, " which won the Action Cut International Film Festival award for Best Foreign Film in De Cine Granada. For more information, please visit www.prajwalaindia.org., Carmen Masias has fought youth drug abuse through research, services, public relations, and policy advocacy. Masias' organization in Peru, CEDRO, serves 300 Peruvian children annually through three youth homeless shelters, a community service learning initiative and a youth journalist program. Not only has Masias rescued children from drug lords at great personal risk, but forty percent of CEDRO program participants are ultimately reunited with their families and an additional forty percent remain with the program until age 18., Dr. Ricardo Bennun serves underprivileged children in his native Argentina. His organization, Asociación PIEL, provides free surgery to babies born with cleft lips and palates, offers services to strengthen babies for surgery and combat widespread malnutrition and starvation, and delivers long distance care, family-to-family counseling, and pre-surgical treatments for infants. Asociación PIEL has served 2, 183 children over the last five years., Dr. Mark Manary, a pediatrician at St. Louis Children's Hospital, developed "Project Peanut Butter" to help children recover from starvation and malnutrition in Malawi, Africa. Ninety percent of children who have been fortified with his peanut butter formulation have made a full recovery. Over the last five years, an estimated 20, 000 children have been saved, and his solution is now being integrated into the Malawi health care and social service systems., Meghan Pasricha founded the Anti-Tobacco Action Club at age 16, recruiting over 4, 000 Delaware youth to pass the Clean Indoor Air Act that banned smoking indoors. Pasricha then traveled to India and trained a group of youth leaders who in turn educated over 4, 500 children and villagers about the risks of smoking. Pasricha also founded Global Youth H.E.L.P. (Health, Education, and Leadership Program), a nonprofit that seeks to educate, train, and support youth to make positive change in the world., Hello everyone. I am one of the community administrators. If you have any question or need some help on how to use the site, megu@snappville.com.&category=More About Me"> feel free to email me at: megu@snappville.com., Jane Howell joined the Resort Equities team with over 15 years of successful sales and business development experience in companies that include Fortune 500 Disney and Levi Strauss, as well as high tech ventures such as Infoseek. Prior to joining the Resort Equities team, Jane spent five years building a luxury real estate business in San Francisco, and recently achieved the Top 1% ranking of real estate professionals in the US. Jane has her broker's license, is an active member of the NAR, CAR, and SFAR, and is currently pursuing her international license (a CIPS designation). Her previous business experience includes building and managing internal and external international teams, successfully negotiating contracts with partners and clients, and generating repeatable and scalable business models and strategies for continued growth. Her professional, personalized service combines knowledgeable marketing with sophisticated technology and progressive sales techniques. Jane has made her home in the California Bay Area after living in Costa Rica, Sweden, and Australia. Before completing her MBA at Thunderbird Global School of International Management, she graduated from the University of Cincinnati with degrees in Psychology and Criminology.

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