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Kellogg Provides HOPE Through Education to Poor Teens in Honduras
18 Nov 2008 14:20:00 GMT
 Source: Children International - USA
Dolores Kitchin

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Children International is helping teens living in poverty with a chance for a brighter future.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has approved a $40,000 grant to help the HOPE scholarship program through Children International, a Kansas City-based humanitarian organization. The grant will help 200 impoverished teens with scholarships to prepare them to become self-reliant, working adults. The 15-month grant will provide financial support for vocational training or university education.

This support allows teens to further their education and ensures that they will have marketable skills to compete in the job market one day. This grant also helps to lay the foundation for Children International's new Youth Program initiative. The initiative is reaching out to corporations and individuals to support the program's activities.

Without the scholarships, most of the teens, whose families live on about $3 a day, would otherwise leave school and work to support their family or marry to escape the crushing blow of poverty. With the scholarship, many of the youth will attend an additional year of college or vocational school.

Thanks to the past generosity of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Children International has received approximately $100,000 since 2005 to help refurbish a community center for 5,000 poor children in the Dominican Republic and fund education and youth leadership programs.

James R. Cook, President and CEO of Children International said, "The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has repeatedly shown its commitment to helping children, teens and their families living in poverty. The Foundation should be commended for helping youth become self-reliant adults."

About W.K. Kellogg Foundation: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 to "help people help themselves." Specifically, the organization supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.

For greatest impact, the Foundation targets its grants toward specific areas, including health; food systems and rural development; youth and education; and philanthropy and volunteerism. Grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the southern African countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. For further information, please visit the Foundation's website at www.wkkf.org.

About Children International: Established in 1936, Children International is a nonprofit organization with its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. Children International's programs benefit over 300,000 poor children and their families in 11 countries around the world, including Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Zambia and the United States. If you would like to help, Sponsor a Child today at www.children.org.


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