The Superkids Foundation improves education in Paraguay by utilizing 4^th-6^th grade children as “Kid Teachers” to teach younger kids to learn to read.  In early 2023, the AllPeopleBeHappy foundation awarded a fourth $10,000 Project Grant to support this “Mobilizing Children as Agents of Change” program.  In the 2022 program, the 100+ Kid Teachers (4^th to 6^th graders, age 10 to 14) engaged in peer-to-peer tutoring of 2,100 younger students (age 5-10), resulting in 23,000 hours of learning instructions.  The 2023 grant is providing salary to youths to be the facilitators and coordinators to the Kid Teachers.  The first quarter of 2023 started with a summary camp training for 174 Kid Teachers.

Saha Global works in Ghana to set up entrepreneurial women with a chlorinating business that provides clean water to the public at a price that all can afford.  In early 2023, we renewed, for the 6^th year, our $10,000 Project Grant to Saha Global.  They currently have 389 water businesses, run by 1,109 women, serving more than 127,000 people in Ghana.  In 2022, Saha Global started 102 new water businesses which were run by 284 women, serving 18,400 people.  Our 2023 grant will be used to open 24 more of these businesses, providing livelihood to 77 women each year.

A sixth $10,000 Project Grant has been awarded to A Breeze of Hope for its work on “School-based Sexual Violence Awareness Education Project” in Cochabamba, Bolivia.  In 2022, through classroom workshops, A Breeze of Hope reached 8,846 participants, consisting of 5,642 students (138 workshops), 1,507 parents (13 workshops), 367 Educators (31 workshops), and 1,330 professionals and justice officials (33 workshops).  In 2023, they plan to reach 5,000 middle and high school students, 500 parents, 300 educators, and 500 professionals & justice officials by continuing these awareness raising workshops.

The AllPeopleBeHappy foundation has been a long-time supporter of Global Emergency Care (GEC), working in Uganda.  In late 2022, the Foundation began funding a pilot program for “Training Ugandan Emergency Care Providers in Pre-Hospital Care to Save Lives.”  The city of Kampala, Uganda currently has 200 ambulances, but no EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians).  The project endeavors to develop a short course training program for EMTs by having GEC’s Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) ride on ambulances to develop the protocols, and then initiate the training of EMTs.  The goal is to train 80 EMTs per year for 10 years. 

A Project Grant of $7,827 has been awarded to Yspaniola for Menstrual Health Training for youth in the Cibal Region, Dominican Republic.  The program, done at a high school, consists of first training 2 facilitators, then implementing 16 workshop sessions (50 min long): 8 in mixed groups, 4 for girls only, and 4 for boys only.  Finally, the female students will receive free, sustainable menstrual products.  This project will provide a high-quality, comprehensive menstrual health training program to 140-160 students between the ages of 11 and 14 and will cover menstrual health topics aimed at reducing school absenteeism due to menstruation, and empowering young people, especially girls, to make informed choices and exercise agency in defining their life path.

The AllPeopleBeHappy foundation has awarded a 3-year (2023-2025) $100,000 Challenge Grant to Project Alianza for expansion into Guatemala training of local women as Community Educators.  Specifically, Project Alianza will 1) partner with local organizations in Guatemala to co-sponsor and house community educators who will teach reading and writing foundational skills to children either during the school day working along regular schools or after school in tutoring sessions, and (2) infusing rural homes with literacy content by way of radio broadcasts and hands-on activities.  The goal for the program is to hire, train, and deplore 3 Community Educators in year 1, and in years 2 and 3, deploy 27 more Community Educators.  The hoped-for result is to improve the educational outcomes of 20,000 Guatemalan children through Community Educators and the radio programming.

The AllPeopleBeHappy foundation has awarded a 3-year (2023-2025) $60,000 Challenge Grant to Little Sisters Fund for “Teacher Training Academy (TTA),” working in Nepal.  Since 2013, Little Sisters Fund (LSF) has been conducting teacher training workshops in child-centered teaching methodologies at Nepali schools.  In this step-out project, LSF will be training new teachers at a set location, Niketan Secondary English School in Kathmandu.  The program consists of two 3-month long workshops each year for 8 to 10 trainees each, led by lead educator Sangita Adhikara and 3 subject specific trainers.  Each teacher-trainee will receive a monthly stipend and a certificate upon completion.  The continuation of LSF’s in-school Basic Educator Training program, already impacted well over 100,000 students, coupled with the addition of the Teacher Training Academy will meaningfully influence the Nepali education system.

The AllPeopleBeHappy foundation conducts 5 programs.  In 2022, we initiated our second Opportunity Project that we entitled “Solar for Tanzanian Clinics,” and provided solar powered electricity and clean water to the Kayanga Health Center and Rugu Health Clinic in Tanzania.  We funded year 3 of our Challenge Grant to Green Empowerment for the installation of solar systems in rural health clinics in Uganda.  We renewed 10 Project Grants to Little Sisters Fund, Sunflower Global, Indego Africa, Pangea Network, LifeNet International, Education Across Borders, Sunsar Maya, Project Alianza, Maji Safi Group, and Ugandan Water Project.  We funded 4 new Project Grants to Into Your Hands Africa, Magpie Community Foundation, Global Emergency Care, and Tandana Foundation.  Due to the Pandemic curtailing overseas travel, we did not award any Volunteer Service Award.  We did award two Fellows grants, one to Katya Diaz Salcedo with Green Empowerment, and the other to Qaasim Ali with Collateral Repair Project.

Barbara Steen Tang, co-Founder and Executive Director of the AllPeopleBeHappy foundation, passed away on January 23, 2023, at the age of 72.  Barbara was a true force for good in the world.  As a mother, a spouse, a worker bee, and a lover of cats, she was kind and gentle to everyone she met.  As a volunteer grief counselor for 17 years, she listened and helped many, many victims of tragedies.  As a philanthropist, she was relentless, keeping in touch with multiple organizations through e-mails, phone calls, lunches, and meetings for 15 years.  Her body of work made the world a better place and her legacy will live on in the countless lives she had such a positive impact on.  She was truly “Building a World Where All People Can Be Happy,” one day at a time.

In July of this year, the AllPeopleBeHappy foundation initiated a new Opportunity Project titled “Solar for Tanzanian Clinics”.  In the Karagwe and Kyerwa districts of Tanzania, which have a combined population of 750,000 people, there are 2 hospitals, 6 health centers, and 69 health clinics.  The health centers and clinics and all operating on low or zero degree of electrification, utilizing intermittent grid power or generators.  After an initial survey by Mavuno Project and a needs assessment by the solar company OffGridBox, we decided that Phase 1 will be the solarization of the Kayanga Health Center (53 rooms) and the Rugu Clinic (25 rooms).  The solar/clean-water equipment was shipped in from Italy and installed on-site in November.  For Kayanga, we used three OffGridBox Mini 5-1200 (total 3 kWp, 3.6 kW inverter, 14.4 kWh batteries, 5L/sec ultrafiltration), and for Rugu, we used one Mini 5-500 (0.25 kWp, 0.5 W inverter, 1.2 kWh batteries, 5L/sec ultrafiltration).  From now on, the up to 400,000 patients per year at Kayanga, and the up to 10,000 patients per year at Rugu will have 24/7 electricity and purified water for the foreseeable future.