Small Grant’s Program
Announcing Small Grants!
Empowering Local Actions for Global Results
Small Grant’s Program Launches JUNE 10th in Brazil!
We are pleased to Announce the Launch of our Small Grant’s Program on June 10th at the International Convention on Climate Change for Youth: “Lets Take Care of the Planet”
Small Grants are awarded to children between the ages of 10 and 17
in Developing Countries around the world. Each Awardee will be selected by their peers from the community at “Let’s Take Care of the Planet” and The Virtual Learning Community
The mission of this program is to inspire and grow sustainable activities that help heal the planet. To encourage Local Actions that Create Global Results.
Small Grant Program Empowers Sustainability
Part of Earth Child’s Mission is to educate, empower and teach sustainable practices to help heal our planet. We believe this type of grant is a “Hand Up” not a “Hand Out” Our grants inspire and help to continue activities that already working and may have the potential to impact an entire community.
Additional Benefit’s
Not only will Each Small Grant Recipient receive the funds to help take their program to the next level. They will receive the guidance and expertise of Earth Child institute and be connected with the International Virtual Learning community. ECI will also assist in providing resources, education, contacts and valuable guidance to make sure the grants can be used in the most effective way. We may also connect the grant recipient to one of our many partners or associates around the Globe this alone could be the “Hand UP” needed to assure the work that is already being done GROW exponentially and expand rather than Die because of Lack of resources, funding or education.
Receive Recognition
ECI will document the activities of each award recipient making their amazing work visible to the larger global community via the World Wide Web and Social Media. This has the potential to bring in even more resources, assistance and possible funding to each Grant Recipient and their communities at large. Most of all we believe as other youth around the Globe see what’s possible they will be inspired and empowered to “Be the Change” Inspiring even more action, education and idea’s creating a ripple effect around the world!
One Child + One Local Action = Global Results
Earth Child Institute is a resource
We truly wish that we could give a Grant to EVERY child around the world who needs it but, this is not possible. However, Earth Child Institute is here for all Children who are trying to make a difference and we want to know about your activities. We may still be able to assist in some way. So, please send us your story and tell us about you. Even if you are not awarded or do not qualify for the Grant we may feature your story or share resources, information that may help you and your project.
How to Apply
After June 10th you can Apply for the Grant Here at the “Lets Take Care of the Planet’s” Virtual Learning Community
Visit the Virtual Learning Community Here
Donate to this amazing Program
ECI’s Small Grant Program is made possible in part by the generous contributions from The Betsy and Jessie Fink foundation
19 Comments
I am writing email from Mongolia. Mongolia is a poor country located in East Asia. I am a manager of the NGO named ” Sain Tus ” Center.
We would like to apply small project to your organization.
Please give us information about small grants / application form, deadline such, news /
Best regards
Uugan – Erdene
Dear Uugan,
We are responding via email to your request. Thank you for your interest and most of all thank you for helping the world be a better place. If you do not receive our email contact us again via our contact form at http://earthchildinstitute/contact
Your Friends at Earth Child Institute
I love it!
Dear Sir,
Its a great opportunity work for children through your assistance. Social Reconstruction Action (SORA) is a small NGO working for children, women and Elderly people for their socio-economic development. SORA would like to apply for small project for the betterment of the children.
Please send us your funding guideline or Formate.
Best Regards.
Md. Kamran Chowdhury
Executive Director, SORA
We are NGO “The Child’s Crossroad” from Tbilisi (Georgia). Our history is not long. We founded in October 2008, after army conflict in Tshinvali and Gori. After this time we are working on psychological and social rehabilitation of children, who was suffered in this conflict: who lost their parents or who was internally displaced and social poor. Our main goal – to help every child in their integration in “adults’ society as civil education persons, who will be acquaint with their rights and know ways – how to protect them. In frame of our organization we founded Children’s University of Democracy, University already started its program. We had some trainings on democracy and civil thematic – “ABC of Democracy”, “Democracy as style of life” and other.
In the end of July we had 5 days trainings in Batumi – we won small grants program competition of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Baku. We play interactive game “Elections of mayor of Dreams City”, help them became familiar with Convention on the Rights of the Child, election terminology and election law, and one more thing – longtime project “We for Nature –
Nature for us”
May we applay for small grant?? How we can do it?
With best regards
President of NGO
Member of IFJ
Rita Dolidze
United Science of Africa (USA) is an innovative, voluntary, a democratic, charitable independent; Community based organization, established in 2002 and registered with Kenya Government. The plight of Kenya population was in many aspects appalling. The socio economic situation coupled with environmental deterioration, the green house effects, global warming, the reduction of biodiversity and the alarming depletion of Kenya’s natural resources prompted the Binti Akimwai to conceive the idea of the United Science of Africa (USA).The United Science of Africa (USA) was established to strive to promote environmentally sound development, reduce poverty, hunger, diseases and illiteracy.
MISSION STATEMENT
To provide better life for all through strengthening local communities in promoting environmental conservation to better support the economic pillar’s aspiration, to plant trees, adopt and to care for tress and to initiate viable sound environmentally projects in the field of community health,nutrition,sustainable agriculture,education,human rights, water and sanitation and micro-finance
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
USA’S major activities are in the areas of:
1. Carrying – out small projects to help local people use sustainable natural resource well.
2. Conserve the environment through control of soil erosion, preparing on – farm tree nurseries, planting and protecting indigenous trees, forests, and water sources.
3. Help local people to plant 200,000 trees and establishing beekeeping and manage shrimp ponds, developed organic livestock as part of environmental protection and economic development programs.
4. Networking with Government ministries,NGOs and other stakeholders in District for project co-ordinating and monitoring of organization activities
5. HIV/AIDS awareness in rural schools and sponsorships to 4 AIDS orphans
FUTURE ACTIVITIES
1. To train volunteers in making energy-efficient charcoal ovens and wood clay stoves which smokeless
2. Establish 50 community tree nurseries in two districts
3. Initiate community forestry through planting 2 million indigenous trees and fruits
4. Run Rural Micro-finance support programme United Science of Africa (USA)
5. To Promote TLUD gasifier cook stoves and five biogas planter in Western Kenya
6. To train schools and communities on energy conservation and use of renewable energy technologies.
7. To develop an energy equipment workshop for production, service and sale of improved cook stoves and energy saving equipment
Send us your funding guidelines soon, register to receive your newsletter. Thank you
Binti Akimwai
kenya
Dear Sir
I shall be grateful if you put our request into your consideration by sending us your funding guidelines, we are based in Kenya in East Africa, and we hope also that we can network on global warming initiatives, thank you.Find details about our organization and project
Cecilia Wesonga
ABOUT ORGANIZATION
Sebe Educational Trust (SET) is charitable Youth organization with the primary goals of increasing public awareness of environmental, health and social problems, promoting environmental, health, social and education in schools and rural communities.
Sebe Educational Trust (SET) vision is to promote the development of an environmental, healthy, social-economically, secure, gender-sensitive and peaceful society that fosters sustainable grassroots development. To this end, SET’s primary aim is to use environment and health to promote socio-economic development and transformation in rural areas by addressing core community problems and challenges such as:
• environmental degradation and declining soil productivity; and
• high levels of illiteracy, poverty and unemployment;
• limited access to healthcare services in rural areas and rural people’s limited ability to promote and maintain their own healthcare systems;
• the psychosocial and economic effects of HIV and AIDS on rural communities;
• the plight of orphans and vulnerable children who are unable to continue with their education;
• food insecurity and malnutrition
SUMMARY OF PROJECT PROPOSAL
The backbone of Kenyan economy is subsistent and rain-fed agriculture. 85% of the population livelihood is contingent upon this sector. But, climate extremes shackle the livelihood and economy of the country as it is closely linked to recurrent drought. Compounding the problem, drought and flood dictates our lives. Food is unsecured; poverty and health problems are prevalent. Climate change makes this situation more serious.
The decline in soil fertility in turn is mainly caused by removing or not planting the trees, notably, the indigenous trees which are important for nitrogen fixation. In order to promote the fertility and productivity of the farmlands, one of the feasible intervention areas is the introduction of on-farm and homestead forestry practices. It is therefore imperative to opt to multipurpose large-scale to Combat Climate Change through Promotion of Afforestation and Agro-forestry project ameliorate the impacts of recurrent drought in the country through Legume-based agro-forestry also serves multiple purposes such as fixing nitrogen (increased crop production) and enhances carbon pool and counter balance desertification. Pods and leaves can be used as fodder for livestock. Vegetation cover increment on farmlands enhances carbon sequestration, and climate mitigation. Moreover, intensification of agricultural practices is one of the priorities in the National Action Plan to combat desertification Convention in Kenya. The project has the following objectives to achieve it desired goals to tackle climate change in Kenya.
Objectives
• To build the capacity of the farmers for improved soil management through the promotion of awareness, raising or availing indigenous and multi- purpose trees and provision of technical advice on the indigenous trees seedling production and planting;
• To promote legume-based agro-forestry and the growing of fruit trees as a way to contribute to the reduction of poverty, improvement of the welfare of the rural populations and sustainable natural resources management towards viable sustainable development in the region.
• To identify high-risk areas for immediate soil erosion control using a geographic information system;
• To realize food self-sufficiency and food security of population in the region.
The activities we want to carry out, first is to get detail assessment of needs and current situation in whole region, undertake consultations with all stakeholders, create awareness, identification of potential and target areas; acquisition of facilities; Capacity building in terms of development of skilled human resource, infrastructure and facilities including institutional strengthening is a prerequisite for planning and implementing adaptation to climate change.
Specific human resource capacity needs required includes short and long term training including specialization in the areas of agroforestry, forestry. High-risk areas of soil erosion, environmental management and awareness program to farmers and forestry and agricultural extension workers, establishment of community tree nurseries in Busia district.
HOW IT IS CONNECTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
This project is most important asset, if supported and implemented it will provide the basis for human survival and development, and contribute to global biodiversity. How it is connected to climate change, it will reduce the greenhouse effect (through their capacity for sequestrating and retaining carbon); stabilize microclimates; sediments; minimize natural disasters such as drought and floods; recharge ground water and help the country to pursue sustainable development that contributes for the protection of the earth’s climate.
WHAT YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE
This project initiative, which is in response to the needs commonly expressed by rural communities, will significantly advance economic development by increasing family income by over 150 percent, help meet environmental objectives by improving soil and water quality, improve health by offering a more diverse diet of fruits and nuts, mitigate urban migration and improve community relations, and tackle climate change.
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES
School going children, youth and women
Greetings from Centre for Promotion of Equal Rights (CPER)!
I take this opportunity to introduce CPER- Centre for Promotion of
Equal Rights. This is a new initiative, dedicated to reach out the
Dalit children and women.
The founder- director has been in the field of Dalit Human Rights
Activism from his collage days where he, himself been under the attack
of caste based discrimination. After several years of working with
NGOs and Human Rights organizations, he understood Dalit Children &
Women are being used by such organizations in the project but there
too was discrimination while implementing such projects/programmes
held. He being a Dalit, he had to confront with the non-dalit NGOs
heads who exploited his skills and popularity among dalit children and
women.
In this circumstance, the founder of CePER, Mr. Thomas Alva. Edison,
decided to register an organization by which he can work for the
emancipation of the Dalits in the most backward district of Tamil
Nadu, Cuddalore.
As young organization, at present 5Child Development Centres (CDCs)
are being run by his own contribution, in order to sustain and
establish more such CDCs, CePER is in need of your support and so
kindly send me your funding guideline or Formate.
Best Regards.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Mr.Thomas Alva. Edison .A
Founder-Director (siragu foundation fellow honored by EX president of
India and National felloship Dr, Baba sakip ambedkar awared)
CPER-Centre for Promotion of Equal Rights
150/14 1st Street, Dr.Ram Doss Nagar,
Aladi Road, Vriddhachalam-606001
India. 91+9442442287
Dear Team,
I am a cameroonian and i run an association of children `little angels of the environment cameroon` `LANEC` we have been carrying out lofty projects in the environment sector, yet we have never received any grants can you kindly inform us how we can apply for this grants, we will equally be delighted to have your email to forward activities of what we have so far been doing for the earth since 2005 thanks Priscilla
I would like to know that does this organization also work in underdeveloped nation like Nepal in the field of climate change and environment protection especially for the student .
If it would be possible how to reach your organization.
Apologies to all for the delay in response. Our web administration was unattended for several weeks. Please stay tuned for updated information on how to apply for small grants.
Please note that applications will only be accepted from children between the ages of 10-16 years of age who are affiiliated with a youth organization or school club.
Thanks for visiting and very best wishes from the team at ECI!
Dear Ranjeev, thank you so much for contacting ECI. Yes, we are keen to support your work in Nepal. Soon we will be posting a number of interactive lesson plans and guidance for facilitators. You can reach us at info@earthchildinstitute.org
Dear Mr. Edison, you will find many resources for participatory rights based programming for children. We wish you luck in your endeavors.
Dear Cecilia, many blessings on your amazing work in Kenya. The ECI small grants programme is directed to support the local actions of children and adolescents themselves. We grant up to $50 for a project. Please refer to the Climate change Take Action Now guide which is now published on our home page, you can download it as a pdf. Grant applications should be submitted by the children in association with your NGO and to propose the project within the suggested format of the Take Action Now guidebook. We will be developing a more simple online application in the coming weeks. Please visit us again and feel free to share photos as well. We are keen to count the trees you are planting as part of the Power of One Child + One Tree campaign. Keep up the great work!!!
Dear Binti, many blessings on your amazing work in Kenya. Do you and Cecilia know one another? If not, it would be great for you to join forces since you are in the same country!!! The ECI small grants programme is directed to support the local actions of children and adolescents themselves. We grant up to $50 for a project. Please refer to the Climate change Take Action Now guide which is now published on our home page, you can download it as a pdf. Grant applications should be submitted by the children in association with your NGO and to propose the project within the suggested format of the Take Action Now guidebook. We will be developing a more simple online application in the coming weeks. Please visit us again and feel free to share photos as well. We are keen to count the trees you are planting as part of the Power of One Child + One Tree campaign. Keep up the great work!!!
Dear Rita, thank you so much for sharing your important work in Tiblisi. It sounds like the Child’s Crossroad is really making a difference in Georgia. Our small grants programme is to support the local environmental actions of children in their communities and are up to $50 each. An online application will become live in a few weeks time, but until then, I would suggest referencing the Take Action Now publication which is now posted on our home page and for the children in your group to consider the goals and objectives for their project. Very best wishes from the ECI team!
Dearest Priscilla, of course we are familiar with the Little Angels of the Environment in Cameroon, I believe that we met in Yaounde at the UNEP Children’s Conference in 2007 and we’ve featured a picture of your chidlren singing on the site (not sure if it is presently there!) Please take a look at the Take Action Now guide which is now posted on the home page. Grants are up to $50 and need to be submitted by children between the ages of 10-16 affiliated with a youth organization. So, indeed, your NGO can support a team of child applicants. An online application will be available here in a few weeks. Until then, perhaps you can follow the guidebook and support the kids to set their goals and objectives for the project. All the best!
Dear Sir,
We are a small CBO based in Kisumu City working for children for their socioeconomic development and their child rights. Our CBO was founded after the 2007 post election violence that left abount 1500 people dead and 600,000 homeless.After the post election violence we have been involved in psychosocial rehabilitation of children who lost their parents, guiardians and who were displaced internally and in the process of this we try to intergrate these children into the society.
I am writing this email to give us information about small grants and how and when to apply for it. Also kindly provide us with application forms.
Quick response to this email will be highly appreciated.
Best regards-
Bernard Ogweno
Excecutive director
Dear Mr. Ogweno, God bless you for your important work. Unfortunately our Small Grants Programme is for child-initiated environmental projects and resources are quite limited. In coming days we will be launching new partnership pages by region and would be pleased to include your organization if you would like, you can send a logo, website and/or contact information and a short description (approx. as long as your message herein). With blessings and best wishes, from the team at Earth Child Institute