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MISSION, GOALS,
ACHIEVEMENTS.
The Gary Moser Memorial Fund for Africa (Gary's Fund) was established in 2004 to honor Gary Moser's intense dedication and passionate commitment to development work on the continent. We have honored his devotion by building schools there, providing educational opportunities for some of the world's most vulnerable children.
OUR MISSION is to support underserved communities in Africa by providing:
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Funding for the construction and/or rehabilitation of small schools, especially pre-school/kindergartens
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Teacher training
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Educational materials and school supplies
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Food and medication support
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We would like to expand our support to helping keep girls in school and to afterschool programs and are currently working with our partners to achieve these goals.
OUR GOAL is to help improve the quality of life and increase opportunities for future success for some of our world's most vulnerable people. We are focused on funding the construction and rehabilitation of pre-school and kindergarten programs because, while many communities have primary schools, they lack classrooms or teachers for children under age 7. When the youngest children in impoverished communities have access to a safe and healthy educational environment and are instructed by trained teachers, the entire community benefits immeasurably. The older children tasked with caring for the younger children can return to school themselves when relieved of their child care responsibilities.​​
​OUR ACHIEVEMENTS:
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Supported the construction and/or rehabilitation of 6 schools in three countries
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Our first school, which began as a one room kindergarten in Kenya in 2007, has grown into a full primary school and is a show piece for the region. We provided funding for several classroom buildings and our contributions were used as leverage for the county to match one of our buildings.
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Provided formal teacher training for staff at 4 of our schools .
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Began providing critical food support to hundreds of our students when our school communities experienced severe food shortages due to COVID and extreme drought conditions. This support continues today.
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As a direct result of our project our schools needing to attain required standards to register as government schools all achieved this goal, thus becoming eligible for critical subsidies and support.
LOOKING FORWARD:​
We are hoping to raise the funds to fund the construction of another school and are focusing our attenion on West Africa. Additionally, as mentioned above we would like to expand our support to helping keep girls in school and to afterschool programs and are currently working with our partners to achieve these goals.
Why we do what we do.
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When visiting our first potential project in the Mfuleni Township in Western Cape, South Africa, we squeezed into a tiny shack added on to the back of the head teacher's home. Located in this poverty stricken community which is overwhelmed by violent crime, especially against children, this shack served as a pre-school for almost 60 young children. They who shared one toilet and one sink and spent their days under a collapsing corrugated tin roof. The teacher, in the midst of these deplorable circumstances had composed and posted the list below for her students:
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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS​
All children have the right to a name, enough to eat, and a decent place to live.
​All children should be looked after when they are sick and have a right to grow up with love, affection and security.​
Special needs children have a right to a full and decent life with dignity.​
All children have a right to free education and should be protected from neglect, cruelty and exploitation.​
All children should not be made to work before a certain age and should be protected from discrimination.
​All children should never have fear of arrest and detention and should be brought up to understand that their energy and talents should be devoted to the service of their brothers and sisters.
It is in honor of these children and the incredibly dedicated adults who work hard and against formidable odds to give them what they need and deserve, that we have continued our work for almost 20 years. It is our hope that we will continue to be able to do so.
PARTNERS.
We have devoted years of careful and exhaustive research to the identification of partners and projects that meet the long list of requirements and goals for Gary's Fund. We have maintained a close working relationship with our partners in each country and are deeply grateful for the work that they do.
