All the best.

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Buona fortuna... ba arezooye piruzi va shadi.. man az tarafe khodam va dokhtaram..;mozhgan , va sholeh ghazinoori

Buona fortuna... ba arezooye piruzi va shadi.. man az tarafe khodam va dokhtaram..;mozhgan , va sholeh ghazinoori

Buona fortuna... ba arezooye piruzi va shadi.. man az tarafe khodam va dokhtaram..;mozhgan , va sholeh ghazinoori

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Piruz bashid

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happy to see all these votes for such a wonderful organization. makes me happy to be a sponsor.

couldnt help but to get into the discussion. i'd love to clarify and tell you why i sponsor multiple children...the "meat and potatoes" I think that patrick is referring to, or rather the monitor and evaluation of this organization's programs, can be seen right on the first page at the very bottom. click on charity navigator link to see a 4/4 star rating--the highest possible. other organizations that take pride and are 4/4 include the clinton foundation and save the children. for the child foundation i think this is greatly due to the organization's ability to keep its administrative and management costs under 10%...i think the exact number is 8.5%. ask around, that is an incredible number for what they do. the only organizations i know that have lower numbers are those that have been in the sector for twice as long and have gained many years of accountability--something CF is doing well for its age. off the top of my head, i know IRC is around 4-6%--another great organization. you can get these numbers for CF by clicking on their guide star report at the bottom of the same page. this provides a level of transparency that the best nonprofits love to share because they know they do great work.

in many ways, CF is a hidden gem in the sector for what it does--educate children in underdeveloped areas. not sure how anyone can be uncomfortable with that. is it because of the region that CF works in? if so, i think its particularly these regions that must be targeted now. keeping kids off the streets in these areas will allow them to focus on helping themselves down the road, rather than rely on aid. providing primary education is one of the most efficient ways of helping such communities. helping educate young girls, to ultimately gain a level of womens empowerment, is one of the greatest ways of building opportunities for community development [just ask mohammad yunus and the grameen bank org], greater gender equality, better public health, etc. if child foundation is portraying children as charity cases, then outreach programs and marketing by kiva.org, world vision, unicef are also disrespectful, and so is the majority of ngo's/npo's focused in underdeveloped communities.

in this case, both donors and those receiving the donations are on the same page--to educate the children. the only issue more important than that [under UN millennium goals] is ending poverty, but interestingly enough, they fall hand in hand and CF is doing work for that too.

in regards to food, there are many factors that are involved and too many quick decisions are being made on wall none the less. most of my development work comes from working in one of the largest townships in the world--khayelitsha--and when you begin to break down the supply chain, and how resource intensive that process is, it really doesnt matter what the content/food of the shipment is. tuna or grains, the most important task in giving food is to make sure the food goes to the people in need and not side tracked to soldiers, etc. [look up north korea's famine] in this case, it is not an issue because CF does grass roots level work and has connections with schools, one of the safest distributors.

CF, best of luck. i hope you get a "new face"/new website in this manner. for not putting donations towards fixing up the site is a noble move, and I recognize that. I hope others will help and vote for your cause. best of luck.

Dear Patrick
Child foundation's mission is to help children in need to attend/ remain in school. We do not want them to drop out because of poverty. Does it work? Yes, because they are in school. If they fail or their grades drop, we will not support them and replace them with those who take school very serious. Almost 25% of children we supported ended up in universities. That's much much higher than national standard, what better evaluation system you like?
Our goal is not distribution of meat or potato, our priority is education of children in need.
Best

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The idea of this project makes me very uncomfortable... I cannot comment on your actual work programs, I don't think there is enough information about program evaluation or how you track progress on your website to make a call there. (yes, testimonials and letters are nice, but where are the meat and potatoes of evaluation? What has worked well, why? What projects have failed? why? what have you learned? What do you use to measure progress?)

I will say that I believe portraying children as charity cases for western families to select based on subjective criteria makes me feel uncomfortable. Yes it is hard to get support for projects, especially during these economic times. But is it not important to look deeper into how we portray the people we serve? I know the family I lived with in Zambia wouldn't be comfortable with this.

Is it the first priority of your organization to "serve donors and sponsors" or serve your stakeholders overseas? I've seen situations where the two pull in opposite directions..., it is not always the case that helping donors will help the most important people in these projects: the people on the ground who we "aim" to serve. Until there is more information available on your website about the evaluation of your programs, outside of these testimonials, and some more information about how you believe this data base will help provide better service to children I cannot vote.

Sorry.

Dear Masoud,
The information is from your website:
http://www.childfoundation.org/OurPrograms/HungerRelief/tabid/84/Default.aspx
"Each food package contained...Tuna Fish - 24 ounces"
"In November 2003, 3,000 families in 10 provinces received packages of meat"
"Private donation to distribute meat became a very popular project among Child Foundation volunteers"

Vegan food such as lentils and grains is much cheaper than meat or tuna, both in terms of cost per weight, calories or nutritional value or environmental cost like land, water, energy and pollution. Delivering meat and fish is a wasteful usage of your financial resources and educating those receive it for wasteful behaviour.

Dear Amnon Jones
For your information we provide rice, lentil and other commodities to our sponsored children. I don't know where id you get the idea that we deliver meat and tuna! The reason is not that we are vegan, its because its too expensive.

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