Wells Mountain Foundation, Inc

supporting education, literacy, and the arts

Grants


YMCA of Senegal

The Senegal YMCA was founded on November 21, 1982. Like other YMCA's around the world, the Senegal YMCA is a non-profit and non-political movement, devoted to serving local communities through various, relevant programs. Among those programs are: The Reproductive Health (A.R.H.) Program, Daycare and Kindergarten Center, Literacy Program, Prisoners Re-integration Program, Internet Cafe and IT Program, Youth Entrepreneurship Program, YMCA Driving School, Camp Berdine, Youth Work Camps.

Magicians Without Borders

Magicians Without Borders first began five years ago when Tom Verner, a magician, and Janet Friedricks, an artist, performed a magic show in a Roma refugee camp on the Kosovo Macedonia border. It was there the seed was planted to begin their work of bringing love, laughter and magic to refugee and orphan children. Since then they have performed for 150,00 children. They have traveled to some of the most ravished and war-torn areas of the world, including Uganda, Sudan, and Palestine.
www.magicianswithoutborders.org

YMCA of Haiti

The need for a YMCA in this ever-struggling country was met with principal support from the Canadian and Quebec's provincial governments and through the YMCA of Montreal. The YMCA in Haiti is essentially a mission program. The people it serves have very little ability to support the YMCA through income-producing programs. Yet in its first 5 years, the YMCA has been able to set up a computer program, an after school program, a summer soccer camp and an English library.

Jerusalem International YMCA (JIY)

The Jerusalem International YMCA actively strives to foster interfaith, interracial and intergroup understanding and is committed to these goals in its day-to-day programs. The building of houses, a fitness center and swimming pool, Jewish-Arab kindergarten, 600-seat auditorium, library, restaurant, hotel and conference center. Almost a half-million people visit the YMCA annually.

Project Espwa

Project Espwa is a multi-faceted program serving the needs of over 1,000 children in the impoverished nation of Haiti. Located in La Caye and Castel-Pere, Haiti, Project Espwa includes a shelter and orphanage (Kay Espwa), three schools, a dispensary, a vocational training program and a farm (Villaj Espwa) where more than 350 children live. The 140 acres provides for a myriad of activities and services, all with the goal of providing the residents the life skills needed to become productive adults, who can contribute to their families and country.
Proje Espwa