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Why a Foundation and Charity?
If Rick and Wendy were to help kids, no one else is helping, to have the right and opportunity to get a high school education, then it needed a formal structure to facilitate this. A structure that would be self-perpeuating and functioning, long afer Rick and Wendy (who are in their late 60's) are no longer there.
YouMe Support Foundation and Child Trust Fund was first formed in 2007, when Rick and Wendy discovered the URGENT NEED for education in the communities of the archipalego of Vanuatu, (New Hebredes), one of the South Pacific's Lesser Developed Countries. YouMe Support is registered as a Charity in Vanuatu, as well as being registered in Delaware, United States of America.
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Children in the isolated tropical islands of Vanuatu are left without a future, unable to enter the 21st Century, because many of their parents live on under $1 per day. These kids will never see the inside of a high shool classroom, unless you help them. They have dreams of becoming doctors, nurses, teachers and flying a plane, just like any other kids anywhere in the world. |
No Free Education In Vanuatu
In 2006 Vanuatu was named the Happiest Country on Earth on the Happy Planet Index. However, the Daily Post tragically reported on the 1st September 2007:
Prime Minister Lini admits lack of service delivery in outer islands.
Prime Minister Ham Lini has admitted that the government has not done enough to provide service delivery to 95% of the population in the islands. During a visit to the islands PM Lini received a lot of requests to help fund things like school buildings. "Some of these requests are nothing more than Vt50,000 ($US500). Some schools just needed maintenance, while others lacked basic school materials such as blackboard, exercise books and text books. In some cases there is no medicine available and no fuel for lighting. Residents on the islands are forced to rely on ancient custom methods.”
Statistics:
- Only 55.8% of children get to year 6
- Only 18.2% go to High School
- 26% never go to school at all.
- Some spasmodic education is available through volunteer organizations
- Some primary school teachers are provided by the government
- Everyone has to pay school fees
- The teachers lack resources - An exercise book is divided between several children
- Pencils are cut into three, with no blackboards or chalk provided
- Many parents are unable to read or write
Helping the villagers through the Community Project by providing some essential day to day requirements, was not enough. It was like feeding a black hole. There was never enough money to meet the needs. It needed a lot more. After speaking with government ministers, school teachers and parents, Rick and Wendy knew there was a desperate need to help educate the next generation. Dedicated, high achieving students are hungry for more education.
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world," Nelson Mandela said.
High School Education Grant
YouMe Support Foundation provides non-reapyable high school education grants to these kids. The first student entered the programme in January 2009, as was promised as far back as May 2008. More kids are anxiously waiting to hear if they too will get a grant. They don't want to spend the rest of their life just sitting under a coconut tree, all because their parents couldn't afford to educate them.
Desperate mothers plead with politicians at election time: "I will vote for you if you will educated my child." One politician reported that his wife and his income is badly taxed in trying to help as many kids as they can.
YouMe Support Foundation Child Trust Fund, is one of the few Foundations assisting these kids, as we liase with the Education Department and other organizations working in the area from Peace Corp through to the European Union and Australian and New Zealand Aid agencies.
The goal is to eventually get Donor Funders to assist in this project. Only education will help the Lesser Developed Countries break through the Chiefly system and the 'wan-tok' system (jobs only for the families and friends of influential people).
Only YouMe Support Foundation is giving the lesser privileged kids a chance.
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Our first student entered the program in January 2009, as the Independent Newspaper in Vanuatu, reported in February. Other kids wait anxiously, hoping to hear if they too can have a chance to go to high school, |
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These kids' dreams will never be realized without YOUR help.
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