Emily Sandall Foundation

The Emily Sandall Foundation is very proud to donate to the PAVE methodology training . Diane Mull ,Executive Director of the International Initiative to End Child Labor, is the developer of the PAVE method.Diane had originally hoped to train Emily in this method and have her travel with her to implement it.

“We had included Emily in the proposal for a project and had planned to provide her with the PAVE training as part of her orientation and training. She would have been trained to replicate the training elsewhere. I think she would have been great at that. Working with the staff of small community-based organizations providing them with training, in my view, would have been right up her alley. She did so well working with the families and children and the staff working with them.”
Diane Mull,August 2010

PAVE stands for “Pathways Advancing Viable Education/Employment.”

The PAVE approach is designed to equip staff to work with children to identify and make appropriate interventions to ensure that children enroll, persist and complete education and/or skills training, and do not enter or re-enter child labor or exploitive labor situations. It also enables staff to identify those children most at-risk and their family’s circumstances that contribute to this. The methods used help staff to identify those services appropriate to prevent children from not entering school or dropping out of school and entering child labor. It also affords staff an early opportunity to consider alternative educational strategies for children who are not progressing well in formal school.
Ms. Mull has trained thousands of staff across the US and abroad on using different aspects of the PAVE approach based on the organization’s needs and the goals planned for the targeted beneficiaries. Ms. Mull, working under contract with the Academy for Educational Development, provided technical assistance using the PAVE methodology to World Vision and International Rescue Committee staff in four East African and two West African countries with the program objective of recruiting, educating and preventing child labor.

For more information re: PAVE, visit the IIECL web-site: http://www.endchildlabor.org

Emily Sandall Memorial Grant Awards Spring 2010
visit. www.endchildlabor.org

North America – United States: Aryn Calhoun

Aryn Calhoun is being funded to produce a quality song with lyrical depth and musical emotion to help address and raise awareness about child labor issues.
Emily Impressions: Emily would be really excited about using music to increase the visibility of the child labor issue. She used music in her own life as a powerful and compassionate tool.

Latin America – El Salvador: Co-Partners of Campesinas

Co-Partners is being funded to conduct a leadership training program with a focus on combating child labor for 15-20 members of a new women’s hub group.

Co-partners is receiving an Emily grant to conduct a leadership training program for 15-20 of the members of this new group. This training will be different from the training conducted in Ilobasco last year where participants were asked to analyze and solve general community problems. In the forthcoming workshop in Apastepeque, members will be asked to focus on the problem of child labor and school drop-out and for their action plans to address these issues. They will be asked to coordinate with schools to monitor attendance and enrollment in 2010. Just under half of the grant will be used to finance the training. The other half will be used to support small programs or contributions for prevention of drop-out of specific at-risk children.

Emily impressions: Emily would love the “prevention” aspect of this project and supporting the importance of education. She felt so passionately about this with her work with street children in Mexico.

Asia / Near East – India: SCORE

SCORE is being funded to conduct a project that provides educational support for children and youth, through clubs. Through the clubs, children will have the opportunity to be nurtured and enhanced with personal growth and development experiences.

Emily impressions:

Emily would be so pleased to have a project that supports education, children and youth clubs in India. She had a degree in education and was always very active promoting fitness and self-esteem with children. She had hoped to travel to India to work with street children and to help combat child labor.

Congratulations to the current 2010 Spring grantees.

Two Emily Sandall Camperships have been awarded this spring at YMCA Camp Menogyn.
I know that she would be so pleased to know that we have combined a scholarship to honor two of her greatest passions- the wilderness and community service. This years applicants are a sensational group.They sing of all of the good things-compassion, a love for Menogyn and the wilderness, kindness towards the disadvantaged and wonderful solid values.
They would make Emily proud.
We are honored to offer these camperships to such exemplary campers.
Emily’s dad, Paul, has also requested that the award winners write us a short paragraph after their trips to let us know how their Menogyn experience and their campership award might inspire their future interest in community service.

We are very proud to again donate to the Summer Arts and Leadership Camp sponsored through WORD in Missoula, Montana and run by a friend of Emily’s,Joshua Lisbon.The camp is for homeless and at-risk children. It is a free camp that provides breakfast, lunch, transportation and a bunch of great programming including rafting,backpacking,ropes course programming,Native American games, African dance,music, art and horseback riding.Emily would have loved this concept and camp.
It is the goal of SALC to provide a safe, structured and fun summer free of charge to homeless students and those at-risk of homelessness who would otherwise be unable to access such resources. This camp combines so well Emily’s passion for the wilderness and helping disadvantaged children.

We hope that SALC and its staff and campers have a wonderful and successful summer.

Colleen Beebe from Advocates for Human Rights made a trip to the Sankhu-Palubari school in Nepal and carried with her our pictures and greetings from the Foundation. Here is the note below:

I just returned from my trip to Nepal to visit the Sankhu School. I visited the school a week ago today (last Tuesday). The children planned a program for the visitors to the school that day. During the program we spoke of Emily and sent greetings on your behalf to the students and staff. The older children, staff and folks in the community remember Emily very much. During the program, at the students’ initiative, they stood for a minute to honor her memory. I am sending you some photographs with the children holding a sign thanking you for your support. Also, I am sending you a photograph of Emily’s host father. I didn’t know that Emily had lived with his family (I’ve known him since first visiting the school). I also learned that Emily was known as Monisha (a Nepali name).