Here are the grants the SD USA Board of Directors made this year (2018) at our recent granting meeting in Sacramento.
(Specifics about the grants coming soon)
| A Child’s Garden of Peace (USA) AGP works to develop gardens where children can work with nature to learn, grow. These gardens produce food for both body and soul. |
$1,835 |
| Camp Badger (USA) Camp Badger is a summer camp for low-income children and teens in Central California. |
$2,294 |
| Elderberry (USA) Elderberry helps Subud elders who need help getting to Subud congresses, gatherings, or just to do their latihan with others. |
$500 |
| Inner City (USA) The Inner City Schools project provides art supplies and books that are not normally available to children in low income schools. It also provides some meal assistance. |
$3,000 |
| Quest Center for Integrative Health (USA) Quest Center for Integrative Health is a wellness-focused, nonprofit healthcare clinic striving to strengthen those diagnosed with chronic or life challenging illness. |
$2,000 |
| The Women Worldwide Initiative (USA) Inspires and educates young women in low-income communities in New York City and in the developing world. TWWI have initiated an after-school leadership, educational and personal development program called Young Women Rock!, for high school girls in local communities. |
$4,588 |
| Fundación de Beneficiencia Privada, Casa Cuna (Mexico) Casa Cuna is a free of charge nursery/day care facility for children that are in a vulnerable condition since they come from dysfunctional families, with a very low income, many of them from of single mothers families. |
$1,000 |
| International Child Development Programme (ICDP, International) | $1,835 |
| Tijuana family outreach (USA) Run by Subud San Diego, the Tijuana Family Outreach Project supports children and their families in the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico, where there are very few resources for them. The project provides community integration for many families who would otherwise be isolated, and offers opportunities for families to receive resources to improve their lives and build relationships with neighbors. |
$1,743 |
| Usaha Mulia Abadi (UMA, Mexico) UMA a Nutritional Program that has served about 1000 children eight years and under since 2008 in San Miguel Atlautla, a marginalized community in Mexico. It has now been expanded to Puebla. |
$2,753 |
| Venezuela Food Connection (USA)
This is an effort to send food to hungry families (including many Subud families) who are victims of the current economic chaos in Venezuela. |
$1,652 |
| Wawa Illari (Peru, formerly, Saving Brains) Nurses in Peru are the frontline health workers, yet their studies do not cover the specific psychosocial or nutritional needs of the developing brain in children under the age of three. This project combines enhanced caregiver-child interactions, improvements in nutrition, and creating community gardens, this project reshapes the care context for poor families. |
$4,000 |
| Anisha (India) an effort create a sustainable economic and environmental model for villagers and to slow the flight of families from impoverished areas in the countryside into the hugely overcrowded urban areas. |
$5,190 |
| Anisha Travel | $1,500 |
| Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM, Cipanas, Kalimantan, Indonesia) For over 30 years the projects of the Foundation for Noble Work (YUM) have helped thousands of Indonesians, from the tiniest babies to elderly people struggling to survive the trauma of disease, malnutrition, abandonment, economic difficulties, lack of education or training, and natural disasters. This grant goes to YUM’s Cipanas project in Kalimantan. |
$4,588 |
| I Protect Me (South Africa) I Protect Me has worked since 2013 in schools in Cape Town to teach children how to protect themselves from sexual and gender-based violence. |
$4,588 |
| Susila Dharma International Association (SDIA, International) | $7,340 |
| Funding Project Directors travel to the World Congress | $2,250 |
| Bina Cita Utama (BCU, Kalimantan, Indonesia) …an innovative educational community in the Palangka Raya district of Central Kalimantan, offering challenging programs of study and a high-quality environment for learning. BCU seeks to nurture individuality, self-worth, a sense of humanity, and to educate children to become adults who will make a positive contribution to the development of their communities and the world. Our grant to BCU is going to purchase computers for the kids. |
$4,588 |
| Borneo International Football Foundation (BIFF, Kalimantan, Indonesia) …provides a healthy environment and quality assistance to children and youth in football training, health promotion and nutrition, school support and basic English education. Our grant this year is going to support BIFF’s nutrition program. |
$4,300 |
| Yayasan Permakultur Kalimantan (YPK), Kalimantan, Indonesia Permakultur Kalimantan Foundation (YPK) provides permaculture education and training in Central Kalimantan to improve land management, increase community resilience and food security, support sustainable livelihoods and help to conserve the natural environment in the region. |
$3,670 |
| Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta (YTS, Kalimantan, Indonesia) Using participatory rural appraisal techniques, YTS assisted communities in Palangka Rya district to make village development plans; and started providing an annual village development fund to support local livelihoods. The project is helping villagers to develop successful micro-enterprises—raising poultry and fish. SD USA’s grant this year is going to help develop a market for the fish being raised by village farmers. |
$4,588 |
| SD DRCongo, Mother and Child Hospital at Kwilu Ngongo (DRCongo)
The Mother and Child Hospital at Kwilu Ngongo focuses on the health of mothers and children under the age of three—a group that has a mortality rate that can be drastically reduced with application of basic hygene and early diagnosis and intervention. The project has so successfully worked toward sustainability that this year they ddi not apply to us for a grant from SD USA. But this is a very important project for the SD Network and we will continue to report on it. |
$200 |