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A glimpse of some PeaceDiviners™ grant partners All PeaceDiviners™ grant partners share the same traits of integrity, service, at times superhuman commitment to their cause, and a sincere belief that things can and should be better than they are. They cannot, in good conscience, use funds from their foundations even for legitimate administrative work or transportation because they recognize that their donations often come from people who are themselves challenged financially. The $20 donation to their project is treated with huge respect. The sacrifice the smaller gifts represent obligates them to ensure those funds are spent for the purpose they were intended, and while administration is necessary, individual donors rarely choose to put their money into that function. Here are a few of these organizations and the committed people behind them that PeaceDiviners™ seeks to help. • Imagina • Living Stones Foundation of Hope New partners – We have new strategic partners we are beginning to work with: Live and Learn Environmental Education teaches critical thinking on environmental, governance, and peacebuilding. Please take a look at the excellent work they are doing in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding through soft entry points. Know a potential partner? Please
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Kim creates community cohesion by providing activities, such as bingo for men and women, youth activities, and beach outings for women – some of whom have never seen the sea although they live in a coastal city—and runs a miniature micro-savings, microfinance program out of empty peanut butter jars. A trained elementary schoolteacher, Kim operates a preschool, a scholarship program and a feeding program for the most malnourished among the slum’s children and operates a microfinance and savings program. An intuitive fundraiser, she receives adequate donations and develops long term relationships with her donors for projects, but for her personal living expenses she is entirely self-funded, a widow with four children living frugally on a modest widow’s pension while caring for others. She also regularly visits mental institutions in her adopted city—the conditions of which are too horrible to describe—and tends to sick children, too often until they die. Kim needs financial assistance with school fees for her own children, a computer every two or three years, a living allowance, and discretionary funds for occasional rest and relaxation travel.
This ardent, yet humble woman offers hope to more than 3,000 people who have none, her former neighbors in the village of Dacudao in Davao City, who have since been cleared and relocated to three sites. Kim’s work continues with the difficulty of transition that accompanies resettlement, especially when it splits communities and creates new economic hardships. Learn more. |
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Principal:
Kim Given (Canadian) has dedicated her life to serving the needs of
the urban poor by giving them hope and smiles, as well as dignity
through the provision of water and sanitation to a southern
Philippines slum where apathy is the norm, and where she has chosen
to make her home among them. 
