Hilton Foundation alleviating suffering around the world
By David on May 13, 2008 in World
What is the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation doing globally? Conrad Hilton was one of 7 children born to a Norwegian immigrant father and German-American mother, and was the founder of the international Hilton hotel chain. He directed that his wealth be eternally reinvested to alleviate human suffering throughout the world, and when he died in 1979, left virtually all of his fortune to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, which was founded in 1944.
Barron Hilton (son of Conrad, and Paris Hilton’s paternal grandfather) is currently the Chairman of the Foundation and has directed that 97% of his entire net worth, estimated at over $2-billion, be donated to the foundation at the time of his passing.
More than 50% of its grants annually are directed to international initiatives, including water and sanitation systems for villagers in developing countries, blindness prevention and treatment, and other good causes. Since its inception, more than $560 million has been committed to charitable work around the world.
In the USA, the Foundation supports programs for housing for the homeless, drug abuse prevention, early childhood education for children with disabilities, and other programs.
A special emphasis of the Foundation is supporting health care, education and social service projects of Roman Catholic Sisters around the world through the Conrad N. Hilton Fund for Sisters. Projects must directly serve the economically disadvantaged. The Sisters Fund also awards emergency grants in response to natural disasters and political crises.
Grants of the Sisters Fund include projects for:
- poultry raising projects in Uganda
- sewing machine grants in Vietnam for vocational training
- HIV/AIDS programs in Haiti and also in Africa and Asia
- communication projects in Eastern Europe.
- sustainable agricultural projects in Togo, West Africa
- requests for food, clothing, school supplies and medical equipment are often funded.
Since its founding in 1986, the Sisters Fund has awarded over 3,600 grants totalling more than $38 million.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is also the chief architect of the West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI) to increase access to safe water in Ghana, Mali and Niger. By 2008, WAWI expects to provide a minimum of 825 wet wells with hand pumps reaching more than half a million people; 100 alternative water systems; 9,000 household and public latrines; and constructing maintenance and repair centers. Partners and grantees of Hilton funding in this project include World Vision, UNICEF, Helen Keller Worldwide, The Carter Center, USAID and others.
Another similar project is the Alternativas y Procesos de Participacion Social for the development of potable water sources in the semi-arid Mixteca region of southern Mexico. To date, more than 100 towns and villages and more than 100,000 residents are benefiting from the water projects.
To fight global blindness, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation supports the Perkins School for the Blind that focuses on program development for the blind, including work in 44 countries in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Other programs support trachoma research and program activities in 15 countries in Africa and Asia, employee training for the visually impaired, and supports the publishing of the Journal of Community Eye Health, which is valuable to eye health workers in developing countries.
The Foundation does not encourage unsolicited funding requests, but information on all their activities can be found on their website.
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Dennis Waiswa | Jul 11, 2008 | Reply
Greeting, this is Dennis from (SPHU) SEND A PREGNANT HEIFER UGANDA.
Our organisation is in a drive of sharing and making ourselves known to other stake holders in order to widen our outreach scope , learn from other organisations and improve our target groups’ funding and literacy capabilities by out sourcing.
Our main reason of contact with stakeholders is to seek partnership and funding for the projects we are starting up in various vulnerable communities with in Uganda.
Examples of these projects include training people in the breeding of Boer goats, pregnant Friesian/jersey/Guernsey/ashier heifers/ cows , pigs. We further construct the barns and or houses/ sheds for these animals and give the new trained farmers parent stock of healthy animals to start farming projects. Once these farmers progress to the stage of having products for sale eg, milk and or animals , we sensitize them on the best marketing strategies so that they can ensure quality produce that will fetch them good prices. We also offer to market their animals on our website and send customers/ other NGOs seeking animals for distribution to their small farms so that they can get competitive prices and other incentives that they would not find anywhere else on the market, hence riding them of the scourge of poverty.
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NB: SPHU handles large distribution drills of donated animals, including procuring animals, transporting them to their destination, providing records of the animals, training and monitoring farmers including writing progress reports for particular projects.
1) SPHU has published a good hand book on Goat farming; we give out free copies to farmer for whom we start goat projects, and to all private persons/ companies that buy Boer goats from our farmers in and around Uganda.
Stakeholders will find Send A Pregnant Heifer Uganda’s approach helpful in providing practical ideas , enough to improve house hold health and income by creating a new dimension in livestock farming and promoting wise trading in livestock products.
2). SPHU is also involved in providing energy solutions for communities, schools, institutions and hospitals. This includes installation of solar energy packs, biomass, biogas plants, incinerators etc. we also train communities on how to save energy and make energy saving stoves.
2). SPHU offers training in the areas of children’s rights and needs, outstanding legal attributes, projects management, we also train disabled persons in handling and or running self help projects.
3). SPHU has created a trained “Outsource Voluntary Backup Team” which can temporarily be accessed by any organisation that is either over whelmed by a training drive or simply understaffed. To travel with and offer training, monitoring and or counselling services following the principles of the receiving organisation. These are well travelled and trained persons.
We also train farm helps/ balalo in handling livestock and or provide farmers with trained farm helps to help them with farm work especially those practicing zero grazing.
4) SPHU has a standby team of 9 skilled personnel that are available 24/7 online to answer questions and offer assistance to farmers and other persons about livestock farming, energy (solar energy, biomass, biogas, incineration and waste disposal), counselling and legal consultancy in the shortest time possible and to the best of their ability.
Dennis Waiswa. S.K
Country coordinator SPHU
The writer has been actively involved in breeding and supplying exotic livestock animals and energy systems to Government projects, NGO restocking projects and private farmers for nearly eleven years. Over this period of time, he has trained farmers and technical officers in different parts of Uganda, authored books and prepared numerous practical aides and reference materials for the benefit of his classes.
dennis@sendapregnantheifer.com
info@sendapregnantheifer.com
P.O.BOX 22149
KAMPALA