HUB-In Aid – A “Full Package” Product
FOOD + WATER + EDUCATION + MICROCREDIT
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When giving aid, HUB works to combine these four critical components, also known as a “full package”, delivering powerful results and moving entire families from survival to sustainability. HUB works with the finest products and partners to develop, manufacture, and distribute the needed elements for HUB-In Aid. HUB's “full package” product partners include:
Food:
Feed The Children is the world's finest distributor and provider of food. In 2007, Feed The Children provided a total of $1 Billion of aid, goods and services. Founder Larry Jones has worked closely with the HUB founders during the last few years in Africa.
Water:
Founded by Jack Rose, the position of RainCatcher is that there is enough water on the planet. It rains; we just need to catch it and purify it. The RainCatcher is effective, economic and easy to maintain. RainCatchers will be installed on all HUB school roofs. Kenya Water Wells Trust is one of the most established well diggers in Africa with over a 95% success record in drilling.
Education:
HUB has various education partners in different multi-native-language countries to support various strategies of empowerment to move students from survival to self sustainment. Our education partners and their needs varies in each location in Africa and the USA. Yet we see common themes with extraordinary teachers in each location and curriculum supported by art supported by music, visual and movement modules. HUB also recognizes the need to connect learning being cities and continents such as 3rd Grade class in Las Vegas or Portland being connected to a classroom in Nairobi being connected to a class in Delhi, India
K-12 Grade: In April 08 HUB commenced Impact support with K-12 grade programs in Nairobi Kenya in both the Jubilee School with the Child of Destiny and also in schools supporting 2000 students in association with Feed The Children. A further impact support has been granted to a Uganda school project.
Vocational Training and Empowerment Outreaches: To best support youth and women moving towards sustainment with the support of micro credit, HUB looks to support vocational training. In association with Youth Action International HUB also started vocational training for former child soldiers in Liberia commencing with tailoring and crafting.
Microcredit:
Micro Credit is now granted to over 190 million women by over 3,000 agencies worldwide and is looking at ultimately supporting over 2 Million people that currently exist on less than $2 a day. HUB recognizes the long term brilliance of counsel from The Microcredit Summit, that monitors and reports on the worldwide progress and the microloan non profit and for profit entities.
HUB endorses the work of The Green Children and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Grameen Bank. HUB establishes micro loan programs directed at its monthly impact partners to support the overall goals of the memorandum of understanding with each partner to support change of environment and the way giving is made.
For example in Nairobi women of the slums are to be taught tailoring in order to make school uniforms. In Liberia and Uganda vocational training and micro loan program is projected by Youth Action International to both reeducate and rehabilitate up to 300,000 former child soldiers.
Spotlight on some Partners for Impact
Youth Action International (YAI)
Youth Action International and Humanity Unites Brilliance have formally launched a new project called ENABLED. The project is geared at identifying and providing training and economic support to young people in Liberia who became physically disabled as a result of that country’s recently ended civil war.
YAI was started and inspired by acclaimed youth activist Kimmie Weeks, a survivor of the Liberian Civil War. At age nine, after nearly being buried alive as a result of disease, hunger and suffering, Weeks pledged to spend his life helping children. At age 16, Weeks successfully headed Liberia’s Children’s Disarmament Campaign, an effort to lobby the disarmament of approximately 20,000 Liberian child soldiers. Two years later, his work led Liberian President Charles Taylor and his government to attempt to have Weeks assassinated. As a result, Kimmie was forced to flee to the United States.
While in the U.S., Kimmie continues to grow his vision and invite other youth to partner in the mission. YAI focuses on post-war countries that have faced the worst situations of all - they are beyond the need of international emergency services, but not yet advanced enough to have a self-sustaining commercial economy. These countries face the daily realities of hunger, and a lack of basic needs such as clean water, safe schools, parks and medical care.
Kimmie Weeks accepts Bricks Award
Child of Destiny - Jubilee Center in Nairobi, Kenya
Children:
HUB provides for the rehabilitation and education of an initial 400 orphan children whose parents have both died of Aids in the Nairobi slums. Kenyan natives, Joe and Alyce Symmon founders of Child of Destiny have 7 centers in Kenya (one was burnt down in the recent atrocities). Children coming into the center are 3-7 years old and are taught through 12 grade.
Women:
We are implementing a micro-credit stimulated cottage industry with a first group of women from the slums starting school uniform business. A child can not go to school without a school uniform and so this business impacts the orphans and other HUB and 3rd Party school centers.
