Free The Children Ecuador

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About Free The Children

• Free The Children is the largest network of
  children helping children through education in
  the world, having directly impacted over one
  million children in 45 countries through our
  programs.
• The organization was founded in 1995 by Craig
  Kielburger and a group of his 12-year-old
  classmates.
• The organization is the lead NGO partner with
  the United Nations Office of the Special
  Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
• Free The Children has been profiled on Oprah
  (four times), 60 Minutes (twice), CNN (many
  times) and in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star,
  NY Times, TIME, People, The Economist and many
  other news and print media.
• The organization has received the Roosevelt
  Freedom Medal and the State of the World Forum
  Award. It has been nominated three times for the
  Nobel Peace Prize.
• Free The Children is a registered charity in
  Canada, The United States, Mexico, China,
  Ecuador, and Japan.

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Free The Children Impact

• International Development
• Built more than 500 schools in Asia, Africa and
  Latin America providing education to more than
  50,000 children every day
• Delivered 207,500 school and health kits to
  students around the world
• Provided access to health care, clean water and
  sanitation facilities to 660,000 people
• Implemented alternative income projects helping
  more than 23,500 families
• Has worked in 16 countries
• Youth Empowerment
• Youth In Action Groups (youth who fundraise and
  build awareness on child labour issues ) 2000
• Provides leadership training to over 350,000
  youth in Canada and the USA every year in order
  to empower them to become socially active

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Free The Children In Ecuador

• Located on the western coast of South America,
  Ecuador is the smallest country in the Andean
  highlands. Ecuadors people face great
  disparities in access to education and income
  levels. In Ecuador, one in three children fail to
  complete primary school, nine out of ten children
  in rural areas do not go on to secondary school
  and two out of ten schools have neither
  electricity nor clean water.
• Free The Children concentrates its efforts on the
  province of Chimborazo, since it is a region
  where indigneous communities are underserved.
• The communities we work in are chosen based on a
  variety of factors including high incidences of
  child labour, multiple barriers to education,
  often marginalized and rural populations. In
  every place we work, Free The Children has a
  strong history of working in partnership with
  community members and we will only initiate
  projects where the support and relationship is
  welcomed by the local communities.

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Ecuador at a Glance

• Population 13.4 million (Population in Canada
  31.6 million)
• Average life expectancy 74.7 years (Life
  expectancy in Canada 79.3 years)
• Population under the age of 15 13.4 million
  (Population under 15 in Canada 5.69 million)
• Average yearly income 2,840 US (Average yearly
  income in Canada 24,470 US)
• Human Development Index (HDI) 89/177 (Canadian
  HDI 4/177)
• This index measures how well a nation is doing,
  taking into account three aspects of human
  development life expectancy, education and
  standard of living (the amount of income earned
  by an individual).
• Gross domestic product (GDP) 40.8 billion US
  (Canadian GDP 1.3 trillion US)
• In one year
• One-third of all children in Ecuador dont finish
  primary school.
• Sixteen per cent of people in Ecuador are living
  on less than 1 a day.

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Ecuador Lack of Opportunity
Chimborazo, the province where Free The Children
works, has one of the highest indigenous
populations of all the provinces in Ecuador.
The Puruha people, native to the area, face
significant challenges, which threaten the
survival of their vibrant agricultural culture.
They have little access to education and health
care services. Many of the Puruha children who do
go to school start their education late because
schools are too far away from their communities.
Lack of economic activity in local communtiies
has been a cause of much hardship for indiengous
communities, causing migration to cities and
other countries which results in well high
incidences of child labour, separation of
families, and low school enrollment. In 2006,
according to the Human Poverty Indicator measured
by the United Nations Development Program, 27.6
per cent of Chimborazos population (including
the organizations beneficiaries) lived in
extreme poverty.

Building currently used as a school in the
Chimborazo province
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Ecuador Free The Childrens Response
In response to this need, Free The Children has
engaged 23 communities in various locations in
the Andes region and has built 23 schools,
repaired 15 schools, provided latrines, clean
water proiejcts, alternative soures of income and
community gardens.
The majority of Free The Childrens projects were
constructed between 1999 and 2001. As the
organization grows we are now in a position to
return to Ecuador to provide support to
communities through our Adopt a Village program,
providing long term and holistic support that
will empower communities to break the cycle of
poverty.
New school built by Free The Children
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Adopt A Village Development Model - Proposal

• Free The Children supports holistic community
  development for marginalized children and their
  families through its innovative Adopt a Village
  campaign. The model provides communities in
  developing countries with access to the
  following
• Quality education
• Health care services
• Water and sanitation
• Alternative income
• The Adopt a Village Development Model is
  important because
• Without a reliable water system, girls would not
  be able to attend school as their free time
  would be spent on domestic duties such as
  fetching water
• Without alternative income, there would be no
  reliable source of income for families and
  communities children would be forced to work
• If health education, basic supplies, and
  nutrition are not provided, are often sick and
  not be as productive in school or not be able to
  attend at all
• The lack of a safe learning environment and
  school supplies will result in low attendance and
  an inadequate learning space for students

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Education Adopt A Village
Education is a human right with immense power to
transform. On its foundation rest the
corner-stones of freedom, democracy and
sustainable human development. Kofi
Annan, United Nations Secretary General

• Free The Children believes that education,
  particularly for girls, gives the highest return
  of any social investment in the developing world.
  
• In the Education phase of the Adopt a Village
  campaign, you will share the gift of education by
  raising funds for
• building schools
• supporting teacher training and/or resources
• furnishing classrooms

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Alternative Income Adopt a Village

• Alternative Income projects provide poor
  families, especially women, with a source of
  income to support their families and to send
  their children to school.
• In the Alternative Income phase of the Adopt a
  Village campaign, your fundraising efforts will
  provide families, especially women, with a
  sustainable source of income through productive
  resources like
• business and literacy training
• micro-credit programs
• animal husbandry programs
• agricultural training and tools

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Water and Sanitation Adopt a Village

• Clean water and sanitation projects are vital to
  develop healthy communities. Safe water and
  proper sanitation helps reduce the prevalence of
  preventable diseases.
• In the Water and Sanitation phase of the Adopt a
  Village campaign, students will support the
  construction of
• a clean water system
• latrines
• sanitation workshops
• hand washing stations

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Health Care Adopt a Village

• Health care programs are essential to any
  community's development. Proper health care helps
  reduce the prevalence of preventable diseases and
  allows people to lead healthy and productive
  lives.
• In the Health Care phase of the Adopt a Village
  campaign, your fundraising efforts will support
  
• family and health education
• shipping of essential medical supplies
• nutritious lunch programs
• community gardens

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Sustainability of Free The Children Projects

• All our programs are designed to empower
  communities to break the cycle of poverty and
  support themselves over the long term. By
  identifying and creating interventions that
  address the needs of the community in a holistic
  way, the sustainability of the programs begins at
  the outset of the program planning. It is
  incorporated into our actions beginning with the
  needs assessment and development of partnership
  with the community. Key considerations include
• Community Participation and Capacity Building
  is at the heart of our sustainability strategy.
  We work over a number of years to build the
  capacity of the participants, develop community
  leadership, and sustainable income generation
  strategies
• Alternative income programs, which build the
  capacity of women to provide for their families
  for years to come, are essential to the success
  of objectives set out for the program
• Partnership building locally is a key
  component. We work to build strong relationships
  and commitments from local governments,
  Ministries of Education, and community
  leadership. In Ecuador our partnership with local
  governments ensure schools have educators and are
  maintained through government funding.

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Adopt A Village Budget

Your support will provide children and their
families with the following opportunities
Years two and three for the budget can be
provided at a later point.
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Create a world of change for one community!

• Adopt a Village and help the children of rural
  Ecuador!

For more information on how to get involved with
Free The Childrens programs, please contact
Ashley Hilkewich by calling 416.925.5894 ext.124
or by e-mail at ashley_at_freethechildren.com Visit
our website at www.freethechildren.com!