Dear Friends of Global Share, Greetings!

Your continued support afforded us to add three countries assisted in 2007: A vocational school in the remote village of Chaparron, Guatemala; advancing healthcare training by Hope for Healthier Humanity (www.hopeforhealtheirhumanity.org) in Honduras; and promoting HIV/AIDS awareness clinic in Haiti by the Diaspora Community Services (www.diasporacs.org). More significantly, GSRF ventured a piggery farm laboratory as a start-up entrepreneurial project with the indigenous community of Sanglia, 60 kms south of Cuenca, Ecuador. It is a great privilege that my farm can be used for the piggery project. This gives me the opportunity to invite you all to visit the farm.

The 2008 global economic instability will be a challenge to provide sustainability to our projects. We will be laying the groundwork for this sustainability by gearing the projects increasingly with built-in self-help component. It will be a daunting task, but another small step to get closer to realizing their potential towards sustainable economic and social growth.

I invite you to join us in vigorously "Helping the Poor Respond to Opportunity" through 2008. Thank you!

(Rev.) Douglas Grandgeorge
President

GSRF ASSISTED PROJECTS 2007

I. Continuing Projects

Afghanistan : Aymini School – From the rubbles came up a school house which the OAAW initiated with cooperation from the USAID and the Afghan Ministry of Education. The 2-storey building houses 20 classrooms and opened for classes on March 29, 2007 with 4,000 boys and girls ranging from 7-18 years old enrolled. ($2,000)

Afghanistan : Moshwani Clinic – Another project of OAAW, serving the Kalakan region providing health care to 9 villages, treating daily 40-50 patients - men, women and children. Dr. Tahira Homayun was in Afghanistan twice in 2007 visiting and assisting at the clinic. ($1,300)

Ecuador : Vocational School in Babahoyo – The project is run by the Basque Missionary complementing secondary academic education with vocational education. The project is housed in the property of the parish church, Nuestra Senora de Fatima. Cheryl R. Lehman and Marie Luarca-Reyes visited the site in February 2007. ($1,200)

Madagascar : Water Purification – The 3-year project is a partnership between the 1 st Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Manakalavy Hospital, Manakalavy School and Living Waters of the World (www.livingwatersfortheworld.org). It involves the installation, maintenance of water purification system, and training of 4 community members to operate and maintain the system and training of 6 community leaders to carry out health hygiene program. ($2,200)

Nicaragua : Hogar Luceros del Amanecer ( http://thesunrisefoundation.org) -- A for at-risk children and their families in Camoapa , Nicaragua . The program provides supplemental education to enable students to enter and stay in school. A social worker also provides assistance to families of students, and HLDA is in the process of developing a farm where students can live, learn, and produce food and income for the project. ($2,000)

Philippines: Gawad Kalinga (www.gawadkalinga.org) – This is a nationwide community housing project in the Philippines and GSRF over a 3-year period, GSRF can claim to have “built” 3 houses out of the slums of Manila's inner city and relocated to a nearby town a reduction in population congestion. ($1,800)

II. New Projects:

Ecuador : Piggery Farm in Sanglia -- This is the first start-up project being assisted by GSRF and hopefully could set the model for future endeavors. The intention is organize the indigenous community into an entrepreneurial association by raising, selling and distributing hogs. The indigenous community is located near the farm of Douglas Grandgeorge, on whose farm the pigs are being raised. The project is coordinated by Marcelo Carrion , farm manager of Douglas . The project was an offshoot of a town meeting held with the indigenous community assisted by Cheryl Lehman and Marie Luarca-Reyes. ($4,000)

Guatemala : Vocational School in San Manuel, Chaparron -- Fr. Anton Grech, a Maltese works in a remote village in Guatemala for the last 11 years, trying not only to be a spiritual shepherd, but to improve the lives of the villagers through projects in farming and fishing. He is the parish priest of the parochial school teaching trade skills to the young people, http://www.chaparron.com ($3,000)

Haiti : Diaspora Community Services – The organization has been in existence for the last 25 years committed to the Haitian Community in New York (www.diasporacs.org). GSRF assisted to set up a clinic the neighborhood in Port-au-Prince servicing 4 health areas to provide emergency services, women's gynecological needs, pediatric immunization and general screening and testing for TB and HIV. Local staff will be trained for clinic maintenance and technology transfer. ($1,000)

Honduras : Hope for Healthier Humanity – The organization, provides technical and clinical education and training to medical, dental and nursing students and other healthcare providers in developing countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America . They partner with US-based donors of medicine, medical and dental equipment http://www.hopeforahealthierhumanity.org. ($1,000)

III. Philippine Projects Specified by Donor:

Lorenzo M. Tanada Foundation, an organization which, among other objectives, help poor but deserving college graduates to pursue graduate courses in the field of law, government, economics, science and history or to provide university scholarship to poor and deserving students in the secondary educational institutions. ($3,000)

Mt. Carmel Foundation, a Philippine non-profit organization providing academic education to deserving scholars in the Philippines (Camarines Norte and Bulacan). ($10,000)

Chosen Children Village Foundation ( www.chosenchildrenvillage.com), a school for the education of handicapped children and providing long term placement in a healthy home and community environment. ($2,000)

Funding Breakdown By Activity Type
2007