TPRF Real Stories

TPRF volunteer Lisa Rossetti recently fulfilled a lifetime ambition of returning to her childhood home in Ghana. She shares her moving story with us in this week’s post. I was a colonial child, brought up in the Gold Coast in the early 50’s. We lived in the British colonial quarter on [...]

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In 2011, TPRF agreed to match funds for an ambitious initiative organized by The Adventure Project to raise funds during the week of World Water Day (March 22) to repair broken water wells in northern India.  137 bloggers participating around the world helped make the fundraising initiative an overwhelming success.  Here [...]

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After the earthquake in Japan, TPRF funded a vegetable gardening project organized by its partner, AmeriCares.  This first-hand report from Ramona Bajema, Senior Program Manager/Japan, describes the project and the health and well-being effects it had on a group of evacuees relocated to temporary housing after the quake. Date of event: [...]

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Linda Pascotto reports on Prem Rawat’s recent visit to Food for People, Otinibi. Some Background: “You’re going where for Thanksgiving?” “Ghana?” “You mean Africa?” “Can’t you leave after Thanksgiving?” “Can’t you go just a few days later?” The American tradition of gathering family and friends together during the 4th Thursday in November, [...]

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Bruce Keenan, founder of the Himalayan Children’s Charities (HCC) in Nepal, forwarded these letters from college students who recently visited Food for People in the village of Tasarpu, Dhading District, forty kilometers from Kathmandu. The students live in an HCC group home called Kushi Ghar (happy home) while they are attending [...]

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Last year, TPRF  partnered with The Adventure Project to help transform fifty farmers into profitable entrepreneurs in Kenya. We are proud to report that those farmers have moved from poverty to the middle class, and are sending 75 of their children to school for the first time from the money they earn selling [...]

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Ariane Kirtley is the Founder and Director of Amman Imman: Water is Life, a nonprofit organization that brings sustainable water sources and other development assistance to West Africa’s Azawak region. As a Fulbright Scholar, Ariane lived with families in the Azawak region and discovered the human face of climate change: people [...]

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Bruce Keenan acts as chief financial advisor to TPRF, donating his time and valuable experience as a non-profit financial executive. He founded the Himalayan Children’s Charities (HCC) in 1999. The 501(c)3 organization provides quality education to orphaned and abandoned children in Nepal. Bruce grew the organization from two donors in 1999 [...]

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Kathryn Bright is a volunteer grant reviewer for TPRF. Kathryn’s interest in one of TPRF’s clean water grants inspired a recent visit to a small village in the Andean mountains of Ecuador, where she discovered an amazing story of cooperation, ingenuity, and initiative that has powerfully enhanced the lives of the [...]

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Recently published results of Nepal’s School Leaving Certificate Exam revealed the dramatic impact the Food for People program has had on the students attending Adarsha Secondary School at Damechaur, Tasarpu, near the FFP facility. The national exam tests students in the tenth grade. Sixty-one percent (61%) of the Adarsha students passed [...]

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