By Susan V. Poats | Vice President CGRR Randi Randi
To all our wonderful supporters, collaborators and volunteers for the GlobalGiving project # 24509 “Library Empowers Girls & Women in Coastal Ecuador”:
Well, we did it!!
Hi, my name is Susan Poats and I am the vice-president of the Corporación Grupo Randi Randi (CGRR) in Ecuador. We are part of GLOBAL GIVING and have been supporting project # 25409 since November 2016. Though CGRR figures as the institutional or fiscal sponsor, the project has always been operated and managed by Fundación A mano manaba or FAMM. This small NGO based in Don Juan began in response to the massive April 2016 earthquake affecting coastal Ecuador. When FAMM first approached GLOBAL GIVING it was too new to qualify as part of the platform. So I proposed that CGRR, with 20 years of experience and project management in Ecuador, partner with FAMM and provide an “institutional umbrella”. GLOBAL GIVING approved and we were off, using our combined talents to reach out to all of you to help support the FAMM intercultural library in Don Juan. Beginning as a portable children´s library on the back of a pet donkey, today the library is a 2 story seismic-resistant bamboo structure where FAMM offers a wide variety of programs not only to help children improve their reading and schoolwork, but to empower young women and men, and their parents and family, to become active, supportive, egalitarian, mindful citizens in a community that has long been overlooked by the outside and dominated internally by destructive, violent patriarchal patterns.
3.6 years as an institutional lifespan is short. Many NGOs are still just getting started at this point. But FAMM has pushed hard to create the legal, organizational and fiscal structure necessary to create and conduct innovative programs. CGRR has always been ready to help with these structures, and provide guidance or oversight when necessary. We recognize that this arrangement has been not only appropriate and expedient but fruitful. We raised the funds needed and we have all learned a lot!! CGRR is proud of the work and accomplishments of FAMM in Don Juan, and for the impact, the library and its programs are having on the immediate community, and increasingly in neighboring communities that are following the example.
So, we are very pleased to report to all of you that CGRR has completed its role, and now is the time for FAMM to become independent on GlobalGiving and take full responsibility for the work you support. Together with the GlobalGiving staff, we have navigated a process to hand over the original Library project to FAMM’s new location in the platform at NGO # 40234 and transfer most of the credit and recognition, as well as the funding process. We invite you to visit the project now listed as # 46889. The project reports and history will remain under CGRR and #25409 for the time being until we can make all the information available on the FAMM website. All the funds raised as #25409 to date have been received by CGRR and transferred to the FAMM bank account. GLOBAL GIVING will now channel new donations bi-annually directly to the FAMM account.
CGRR relinquishes its fiscal sponsorship with delight and now becomes an equal collaborator with FAMM as we develop new ways to support learning and empowerment in coastal Ecuador. COME VISIT US!!!
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