Mission: Founded in 2005, Baal Dan Charities was formed to support the basic needs and social welfare of impoverished and vulnerable children.
baal dan [baal dahn] Hindi • donation to children
Federal EIN: 20-4658983
You can help alleviate child poverty, hunger and lack of access to education.
When you make a donation to a large nonprofit or NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), how much of your donation do you really think really directly helps a child in need? The larger the organization, there is a likelihood that your donation may get lost in administrative costs or absorbed by other priorities verses directly providing aid to children in need.
We help children impacted by broken systems and funding models.
While there are many organizations focused on reducing poverty, too many mothers and children who are the purported focus of these programs never feel the impact of these resources in their day-to-day lives. Funding is often diluted or lost by the time it gets to the individual beneficiaries in the community – the single mother, householder or small day care centers, drop-in centers/youth programs and orphanages. As a result, many children living in extreme poverty and vulnerability never “feel” the impact of the large-scale aid programs directly as those programs focus at the “area” or systems level.
baal dan [baal dahn] Hindi • donation to children
Federal EIN: 20-4658983
You can help alleviate child poverty, hunger and lack of access to education.
When you make a donation to a large nonprofit or NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), how much of your donation do you really think really directly helps a child in need? The larger the organization, there is a likelihood that your donation may get lost in administrative costs or absorbed by other priorities verses directly providing aid to children in need.
We help children impacted by broken systems and funding models.
While there are many organizations focused on reducing poverty, too many mothers and children who are the purported focus of these programs never feel the impact of these resources in their day-to-day lives. Funding is often diluted or lost by the time it gets to the individual beneficiaries in the community – the single mother, householder or small day care centers, drop-in centers/youth programs and orphanages. As a result, many children living in extreme poverty and vulnerability never “feel” the impact of the large-scale aid programs directly as those programs focus at the “area” or systems level.
OUR VALUES
OUR PROVEN MODEL SINCE 2006
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At Baal Dan Charities, we have years of experience in getting funds directly to children in need – directly, efficiently – through their own communities, to get them what they most need with a personal approach and process – not dictated from afar. We have a proven model and almost 20 years of experience in identifying organizations who are filling that gap and providing fundamental support to children in need at the grassroots level. |
CURRENT GRANTS [2024/2025]
Baal Dan is a charity for impoverished children that focuses on making grants to grassroots child welfare organizations to provide basic needs for children.
GLOBAL IMPACT AT A GRASSROOTS LEVEL
GRANT HISTORY
Since 2005 we have provided grants to projects in 14 countries. The countries where we grant funding change on an annual basis. Current 2024/2025 grantees are indicated on the map below in red and include India, Nepal, South Africa, Ethiopia and Ukraine.
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Examples of our grant impact include the provision of food, education, supplies and more!
We have a special focus on helping orphans with special needs
We have a special place in our hearts for orphans with special needs and over the years have supported children with special needs with grants for wheelchairs, Braille books, construction of accessible toilets and bathrooms, clothes, education supplies and support. Many of these children will need care and support for their entire life and not "age out" of the programs, orphanages and centers that care for them.
Jagriti School for Blind Girls, India
Lighthouse Stimulation Center, South Africa
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Baby Joe receives life-saving surgery, Haiti
CBR, Nepal
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Jagriti School for Blind Girls, Nepal
CBR, Nepal
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Examples of our impact over the years...
Cini Asha, India: Building infrastructure for Girls’ home and then Boys Home – enabling care for 50 orphans and organization is still going strong 10 years later. Baal Dan provided the complete set-up costs (furniture, supplies, clothes, essentials) for two orphanages.
RK Homes, India: Funded Latrines, Electricity Generator & Daily Food - home has massive running costs 200 + residential children so funding the basics (food, water, electricity) with an electricity generator that is still going strong!
Child Haven, India, Nepal, Bangladesh & Tibet: Funding for a "soya cow" machine that provides protein rich soy milk, funding to improve latrines, building structures, education support and more - all to help offset costs overall. If you visit today, you can see physical evidence of improvements made at several orphanage locations.
Haiti Children, Haiti: Food funding to help supplement daily needs, rising costs/inflation and stability for 5+ years. Funding for a water well ensured water access for not just the orphanage but the community when the village hand pumps were broken and damaged. Food funding for emergency rations ensured the survival of over 300 families post-Earthquake in 2021.
VOC, Nepal: Food funding to reduce running costs for several years. Working with extremely hard context - street children (boys), runaways, drug-addicted, gangs, drop-outs and rehabilitation programs, reintegration with families and social support + education.
dZi, Nepal: Post-earthquake support for 33 temporary learning centers as schools had been destroyed. School access enabled less trauma for the children, access to learning and schools were gateways in the community for further support.
EBZEF Zambia: Community partnership to enable a pre-k school in the campus of the girls’ school and library. The pre-school enabled access to education for children and Baal Dan also funded a school garden, for seed, soil, supplies to help ensure more food supply.
Casa de Esther, Honduras: Funding for food and supplies to offset high cost of running home (security, safety, counselling, social support for victims of abuse) for several years.
Lighthouse, South Africa: The founder’s passing left the home in need of a buffer of funding for food to ensure the nutrition of the children (some adults with severe special needs). Giving this extra funding ensures not just enough resources but peace of mind for the staff who must focus on caregiving for severely disabled children.
Look Forward Creativity Center, South Africa: Support for infrastructure, playrooms, building improvements, food, and capacity to scale to take in more children were part of a five-year commitment to this project which is now established with local donors.
RK Homes, India: Funded Latrines, Electricity Generator & Daily Food - home has massive running costs 200 + residential children so funding the basics (food, water, electricity) with an electricity generator that is still going strong!
Child Haven, India, Nepal, Bangladesh & Tibet: Funding for a "soya cow" machine that provides protein rich soy milk, funding to improve latrines, building structures, education support and more - all to help offset costs overall. If you visit today, you can see physical evidence of improvements made at several orphanage locations.
Haiti Children, Haiti: Food funding to help supplement daily needs, rising costs/inflation and stability for 5+ years. Funding for a water well ensured water access for not just the orphanage but the community when the village hand pumps were broken and damaged. Food funding for emergency rations ensured the survival of over 300 families post-Earthquake in 2021.
VOC, Nepal: Food funding to reduce running costs for several years. Working with extremely hard context - street children (boys), runaways, drug-addicted, gangs, drop-outs and rehabilitation programs, reintegration with families and social support + education.
dZi, Nepal: Post-earthquake support for 33 temporary learning centers as schools had been destroyed. School access enabled less trauma for the children, access to learning and schools were gateways in the community for further support.
EBZEF Zambia: Community partnership to enable a pre-k school in the campus of the girls’ school and library. The pre-school enabled access to education for children and Baal Dan also funded a school garden, for seed, soil, supplies to help ensure more food supply.
Casa de Esther, Honduras: Funding for food and supplies to offset high cost of running home (security, safety, counselling, social support for victims of abuse) for several years.
Lighthouse, South Africa: The founder’s passing left the home in need of a buffer of funding for food to ensure the nutrition of the children (some adults with severe special needs). Giving this extra funding ensures not just enough resources but peace of mind for the staff who must focus on caregiving for severely disabled children.
Look Forward Creativity Center, South Africa: Support for infrastructure, playrooms, building improvements, food, and capacity to scale to take in more children were part of a five-year commitment to this project which is now established with local donors.