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Giving Back
Why We Give
Hairpin Turns has a program of giving that crosses the globe. While there are thousands of worthwhile organizations, we have selected the programs below because of their focused contributions. Our aim in giving is to help build strong children, strong families, and strong communities that will make our world a better and safer place to live.
We would like to thank our current clients who have made accomplishing this possible. And we'd like to thank our future clients for helping us continue the goal of improving the lives and circumstances of those in need around the globe.
Projects We Support
KickStart - Building Innovative Tools to End Poverty
KickStart is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. These low-cost technologies are bought by local entrepreneurs and used to establish highly profitable new small businesses. They create new jobs and wealth, enabling the poor to climb out of their poverty forever. KickStart can proudly point to these impressive figures to demonstrate the impact it has had on Africa's communities: 39,000 new businesses started; 800 new businesses per month; 37 million per year of new revenues and wages earned by new businesses established; new revenues equivalent to more than 0.5% of Kenya's GDP and 0.2% of Tanzania's GDP.
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Acumen Fund - Investing in Critical Goods and Services
to Solve Global Poverty
Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. It supports enterprises that deliver affordable critical goods and services - like health, water and housing - through innovative market-oriented approaches, to the four billion people on earth living on less than $4 a day. The Acumen Fund partners with organizations like Google.org to create important results such as investments in micro-lending to over 11,000 women to create sustainable livelihoods to support themselves and their families; 600,000 families protected from malaria; 3,500 rural farmers with access to irrigation to grow and sell crops to feed themselves; 830 small farmers surviving and thriving as members of an organic farming cooperative.
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Ruchika Social Service Organization(RSSO) -
Educating and Nurturing Children for a Chance at Life
RSSO was established in 1985 by a courageous teacher, Inderjit Khurana, to answer the desperate situation faced by children living on the brink of starvation on and beneath a train platform in Bhubaneswar, India. With its extensive networks of schools, vocational training programs, shelters, education centers, crèches and a crisis help line, RSSO helps mostly street children, child laborers, and children of impoverished families living in the slums of India. By providing basic literacy, vocational training, nutrition, medical treatment, and emergency assistance to over 4,000 children and their families, RSSO has been able to extricate street children from their apparently hopeless situations, and has given them the opportunity to grow, dream and lead safe and fulfilling lives.
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Room to Read - Giving Children the Life-long Gift of Literacy
There are 850 million illiterate people in the world, two thirds of which are women. Room to Read seeks to intervene early in the lives of children and help provide them with an education and the life-long gift of literacy. Its grants act as catalysts for community building while maximizing the local participation and expertise brought to its programs. Since its inception in 2000, Room to Read has done amazing things. It has built 115 schools; established 2,000 libraries; published over 48 local language children's books; donated over 980,000 books; established 47 computer and 17 language labs. The funds that we donate to Room To Read support the Girls' Scholarship Fund. For every $2500 we donate, one girl from the poorest villages in Nepal, Vietnam and Cambodia has the gift of 10 years in school. This education affords these young girls freedom slavery, child prostitution, or starvation. Room to Read has thus far funded 1,275 scholarships where, for just $250 per girl per year, the cycle of illiteracy, poverty, and powerlessness is ended.
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Girls For A Change (GFC) - Empowering Urban Girls to Create Social Change
GFC, a national organization with its start in San Jose, CA, empowers urban middle and high-school girls to create deep regional social change. With help from Board Members, Girl Steering Committee members, 100 Girl Action Team Coaches, 100 Project Consultants, 100 Girl Summit Facilitators, two full-time staff and one AmericaCorps member, GFC has created the opportunity for nearly 2000 urban girls from widely diverse cultural, social, and religious backgrounds to envision and enact social change. These girls are serving on boards, starting non-profits, and making social change their priority. A few of the projects, envisioned, designed, and carried out by last year's Girl Action Teams were: Educating Peers About Healthy Relationships, Teaching Middle School Girls To Be Powerful In High School, Preventing Animal Cruelty, Social Change Through Art, Raising Awareness About Cerebral Palsy, Spreading Hope For Social Change, Breaking The Cycle Of Homelessness, There's No Reason For Kids To Be Hungry, Not Giving In To Tobacco Companies. and Raising Money To Provide Education To Girls In Afghanistan.
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