USA Projects
- Project YES
- Project Read
- Homeless Drive
- Project Hope
Africa Projects
- Project I AM
- Broken but NOT forgotten
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mohandas Gandhi
Our Projects
USA Projects
Project YES
Yes, I want to read, Yes, Teach me to read. Yes, I can Read.
Change 1 Child has partnered with a public school in a disadvantaged community in New York City to bring readers and reading materials into the classrooms.
The children are from low income families and will say Yes, if we ask the question: Do you want to Read? Change 1 Child will read to the children each month
and will distribute reading books to each child in order for the children to start an at-home library. The children will keep a log of all books that they
received and read. Please ask the question to a child, listen to the answer and Change 1 Child.
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Project Let's Read
Teach me to Read.
Project Let's Read, got started in February of 2009. Change 1 Child has partnered with a "need improvement," school in Brooklyn, NY to read to each early childhood classes.
Many of the children in this school are special needs children. Many of the children are coming from foster homes and low income families. We will read to all children in
Kindergarden through 2nd grade and become reading buddy's to these children; teaching them to read.
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Project I AM: Orphans in Ghana, West Africa
I AM motherless, I AM fatherless but I am NOT hopeless.
Change 1 Child has partnered with two orphanages in Ghana. Change 1 Child's coordinator in Ghana, will visit the orphanages twice a month. We will read to the children,
provide books, clothing and school supplies to each child. Our goal is to enrich the children lives and help them to dream of a hopeful future.
Why this is needed -
40% of Ghana's population is made up of children.
55% of children in Ghana have never attended School.
20,000 children work on the streets of Ghana, a large % of these children live on the streets of Accra.
75% of children who live on the streets of Accra are girls.
The International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (IPECL) estimates that there are 800,000 child laborers in Ghana.
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Homeless Drive
Change 1 Child will reach homeless children in New York City. We will encourage these children to dream. We have partnered with a homeless shelter in New York City to
encourage the homeless children to dream again. We will read to the children, provide reading books, school supplies and other items from their "wish list."
You can help a child dream again.
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Project Hope
Change 1 Child has partnered with several failing schools in disadvantaged communities around New York City. Volunteers will visit each school monthly to read to all children
in grades PreK-3rd grade. We will also distribute reading books to all children in the focused grades in order for the students to create an at-home library. Our goal is to
encourage and motivate these children to create a love for reading.
Our USA project is needed because 4 in 10 preschoolers, 5 in 10 toddlers and 6 in 10 babies are not read to regularly.
40% of American children have difficulty reading or learning to read
43% of American children with low literacy skills live in poverty.
88% of American children who have difficulty reading at the end of the first grade display similar difficulties at the end of fourth grade.
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AFRICA Projects
Project I AM: Orphans in Ghana, West Africa
I AM motherless, I AM fatherless but I am NOT hopeless.
Change 1 Child has partnered with two orphanages in Ghana, West Africa. Change 1 Child's coordinator in Ghana will visit each orphanage twice a month to read to the children, provide books,
clothing and school supplies to each child.
The Orphanages that we have partnered with are located in Osu and Teshie. Osu Children's Orphanage house a total of 196 abandoned and needy children from birth to eighteen years. The Teshie
Orphanage which is also located in Accra, Ghana, has a total of 40 children from ages 6 months to 18 years old. We will reach all children between ages 3years to 8 years old through a
literacy base initiative. We will also provide clothing, shoes and other support to the older children.
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Project Broken but NOT forgotten: AIDS in Uganda, East Africa
Change 1 Child has partnered with a nonprofit organization (Organisation for Good Life of the Marginalized, OGLM). This organization houses children orphaned by AIDS.
OGLM works for/with the Orphan & Vulnerable Children, Sex Workers, Grandmothers, Youths and Women. There are currently 72 children that are orphaned by AIDS at this orphanage.
We will work with our program coordinator in Uganda to provide books, school supplies, clothing and medical care for these children.
Our goal is to show the children that they are loved and not forgotten.
Why this is needed -
By the end of the 2004 there were:
39.4 million people living with HIV or AIDS worldwide.
2.2 million of these people are children under age of fifteen.
12.1 million orphaned children living with AIDS reside in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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