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Nhimbe Magaya Preschool

Location: Magaya, Zimbabwe

Website: www.sundborn.org/nhimbe.htm
Program Established: 2001
# of Children: 80Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:

As materials have to be hand-carried to Zimbabwe, financial donations are requested:

  1. $250 will feed the children a daily snack.
  2. $35 to sponsor a preschool or special needs child to attend school for a year.
  3. $25 allows a sick child to receive health care in the clinic.
  4. $15 pays for an orchard tree that will yield much needed food or plants and seeds for the children's garden.
  5. $100 towards the cost of chalkboards, woven mats and books written in Shona, the indigenous language.

Contact Person: Karen Madsen-Barton
Contact Information: NhimbeSchool@sundborn.org

The Nhimbe Magaya Preschool is a project inspired by Karen Madsen-Barton. It began through a connection to the world of Zimbabwean music, in particular Dumisani Maraire who brought Shona music to the west coast of North America. After he passed on, Jaiaen Beck of Ancient Ways traveled to Zimbabwe and with the village headman, Cosmos Magaya, began a development and sustainability project to serve 7 villages in a rural community. Karen asked if they had any interest in a school for their 3 to 6 year olds and the answer was a resounding YES.

In 2001 the parents of the Oregon Sundborn Children's House under the guidance of Karen, the Director, funded the construction of a school building in Mhondoro. For these villages, it is the first indigenous preschool and enjoys widespread community support.

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The House of Flowers

Location: Kabul, Afghanistan

Website: www.mepoonline.org
Program Established: 2002
# of Children: 28Ages Served: 6-13
Immediate Needs:
  1. Operating Funds for basics such as food, shoes, clothing, building costs, etc.
  2. Program Funds to allow for Going Out experiences.
  3. Elementary Montessori materials
  4. Art supplies and indoor and outdoor educational games for 6 – 12 year olds.
  5. Ideas and suggestions for projects that would stimulate and inspire teachers given the very limited resources.

Contact Person: Allison Lide
Contact Information: mepo_hope@yahoo.com

The House of Flowers is a Montessori-based orphanage and school, a small oasis in the rough and often child-unfriendly environment of Afghanistan. It was founded by a small non-profit organization, MEPO, (Medical, Educational and Peace Organization) in 2002. Its founders, Allison Lide and Mostafa Vaziri, knew that children coming from such decimating backgrounds were most needful of the soul-strengthening effects of a Montessori environment.....

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TCV: Tibetan Children's Villages

Location: Dharamsala, India

Website: www.michaelolaf.net/motcvproject.html
Program Established: 1960
# of Children: 300Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:

  1. Sponsor a child at US$50 per month
  2. Send donations towards the following projects:
    1. School Improvement
    2. Medical Fund
    3. General Fund - to be used where the need is the greatest
  3. Send used warm clothing for both children and adults.
  4. Sensorial Materials - particularly binomial and trinomial cubes, globes and puzzle maps.
  5. Language Materials - pictures for phonetic words and phonograms.

For information on how to send donations, click here.

Contact Person: Susan Stephenson
Contact Information: www.michaelolaf.net/motcvproject.html

From its humble beginning forty five years ago, Tibetan Children's Village has today become a thriving, integrated educational community for destitute Tibetan children in exile, as well as for hundreds of those escaping from Tibet in recent years. TCV schools have adopted the Montessori teaching of methodology which emphasizes the inner development of children...

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Asha Mahatma Gandhi-Montessori Project

Location: Sevagram, India

Website:
Program Established: June 2006
# of Children: 35 Ages Served: 2.6-4

Immediate Needs:

  1. Funds to sponsor willing and able local  residents of the village to receive basic training in Montessori philosophy and pedagogy and if possible, AMI training.
  2. Donations to purchase Montessori materials.
  3. Used materials in good condition.
  4. Funds for child size furniture and shelving.
  5. Trained volunteers to support the project.

 

Contact Person: Grace Musumeci
Contact Information: grace_sevagram@yahoo.co.in
The Asha Mahatma Gandhi Project was started in June 2006 to serve the poorest young children in rural areas of India. The first Casa opened at the Gandhi Ashram with 20 children ages 2.6 to 3 years old. Another 20 students joined the class in 2007, including some with severe disabilities. Grace Musumeci, who founded this program, donates her time to guide the children as well as to train the local women to assist in the classroom.

Her hope is to help establish Montessori Casas in rural India, which means providing the basic materials – hopefully for local tradesmen to use as models to make themselves, and to train the local village women to become teachers.

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Sirjanaa Sansaar, A Montessori School

Location: Kathmandu, Nepal

Website:
Program Established: April 14, 2008
# of Children: 6 and growing Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:
  1. Funds for Scholarships
  2. Montessori math bead materials
  3. All the puzzle maps
  4. The globes
  5. Books (Picture books and ones with simple English)
Contact Person: Bhola Dhital, United States contact - Allison Lide
Contact Information: sirjanaasansaar@yahoo.com | allisonlide@yahoo.com
Throughout Kathmandu, Nepal, Montessori schools seem to be everywhere – but in fact they are rarely, if ever, truly Montessori. In addition, the name “Montessori” has become synonymous with “expensive” and these schools are only affordable to rich families. When Bhola Dhital, a very experienced Nepali educator, received his AMI primary diploma from Chennai in 2007, he returned to Kathmandu with a wish to establish a true Montessori environment based on his training. He hopes to provide the best education possible for the local children.

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Casa Montessori

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Website:
Newsletters: Read Newsletter1 HERE, Read Newsletter 2 HERE
Program Established: September 2000
# of Children: 15Ages Served: 3-6
Immediate Needs:

  1. Financial donations to commence construction of a new Montessori School
  2. $ 500.00 to sponsor a special needs child to attend a class for a year
  3. Two complete sets of Sensorial and Mathematics Materials
  4. Furniture for the classroom
  5. Furniture for outdoor and a playground structure
Contact Person: Victoria Iliescu
Contact Information: viviliescu@yahoo.com

A Primary classroom called “Casa Montessori” was opened in Bucharest, Sector 4, in September 2000, by the “Copiii Lumii – Bal Jagat Children’s World Foundation”, a Romanian non profit organization.

The Foundation opened “Casa Montessori” in an orphanage where individualized education addressing each child’s potential was much needed. The initial target group was children from the orphanage “Sfantul Vasile”. The program proved to be very successful....

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NRC Montessori Preschool

Location: Richmond, Virginia, USA

Website: www.nrccafe.org
Program Established: June 2006
# of Children: 13Ages Served: 2-5
Immediate Needs:

  1. $30,000 to maintain the full day program.
  2. A sustainable sponsor.
  3. Grant writers, volunteers to seek applicable grants.
  4. Volunteers to help form a capital fund committee.
  5. Materials
Contact Person: Salome Fernando
Contact Information: nrcl@comcast.net

The Neighborhood Resource Center (NRC) is a grassroots, non-profit organization located in the east end of Richmond, Virginia in a neighborhood called Greater Fulton Hill (GFH). The center was established to provide community members with resources that are not yet in place in GFH. There is no preschool, no library, no adult education center, and no healthy cafe. Truancy, poverty, gun violence, domestic violence, and substance abuse are common obstacles found in the neighborhood. In an effort to provide the youngest citizens of this community with a healthy beginning, the NRC partnered with some local Montessorians to open a Montessori preschool in June 2006. The first summer "pilot program" was an overwhelming success! The preschool received a grant from a local source, The Robins Foundation, to operate for the academic year and summer, Sept. 2006 - August 2007....

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Otoch Paal Montessori Community Center

Location: Akumal, Q. Roo, Mexico

Website: No Website
Program Established: April 2004
# of Children: 30Ages Served: 18 months-6 years
Immediate Needs:

  1. Financial donations to finish construction of the Community Center.
  2. A complete set of sensorial materials.
  3. A complete set of mathematics materials.
  4. Stands to hold the materials.
  5. Tables and chairs.
Contact Person: Gabriela Ortega
Contact Information: otochpaal@prodigy.net.mx


Otoch Paal Montessori Community Center is a labor of love designed to educate the indigenous children from the Mayan Riviera. The specific goal is to build a non-profit school which will serve the Mayan community of Akumal, where it is common to find lonely children, who are semi-dressed, walking barefoot or playing around the town, while their parents work in the local tourist hotels. The older children cannot attend school as they must take care of their younger siblings....

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Liberty Children's Home

Location: Belize, Central America

Website: www.libertyfoundation.org.uk
Program Established: July 2005
# of Children: 40 Ages Served: Birth-8
Immediate Needs:

  1. Financial Donations
  2. Dressing Frames
  3. Practical Life Equipment
  4. Metal Insets
  5. Color Box 1 & 2
  6. The Land and Water Globe
Contact Person: Marcelle Delahaye, Founder/Director
Contact Information: mdelahaye@libertyfoundation.org.uk

Liberty Foundation believes in providing an environment in which children ‘at risk’, and those with disabilities and special needs can gain access to rehabilitation, care and the educational tools they will need to build healthy, successful lives....

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