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Past Projects
Through the years, the Ann Foundation has had the opportunity to provide assistance to 18 schools and trusts across India and Cameroon. Software donations were given to all of the locations [...]
Samaritan Help Mission
The Samaritan Help Mission, in Kolkata, is the only educational institution accessible in the citys semi-slums, and aside from its educational mission, serves as an important mentoring service for young people who [...]
Working in Sundarban
In July 2011, the Ann Foundation launched an educational project in Sundarban, West Bengal. While the area is rich in natural resources, fisheries, honey production, and timber, there are no major [...]
Chakshumathi School for the Blind
The Chakshumathi School for the Blind–in Trivandrum, Kerala, is leading the effort to research, develop and adopt the latest technologies for the empowerment of people who are blind or visually [...]
Online English classes at Arakkonam
The Society for Rural Education and Development in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu provides, through its women’s training center, care for 47 children who are too poor to stay [...]
The English Club in Ukraine
“In the World with English” was launched March 25, 2012 in the city of Kherson, Ukraine. This project was a pilot for this city’s Children’s Library as part of their [...]
Rural empowerment program in Gujarat
In October 2012, the Ann Foundation worked with the All India Rural Empowerment Program (AIRET) in the village of Paldi Kankaj in Gujarat. Three dedicated volunteers worked to help a [...]
Empowering exploited children
Vite N Hope has been catering to the needs of underprivileged and exploited street children in Lahore, Pakistan, since 1992.Under its president, Dr. Ikram ul Islam, the school provides around [...]
Uhuru Mchanganyiko Primary school
Uhuru Mchanganyiko primary school is one of the oldest educational institutions in Tanzania. It was established in the city of Dar es Salaam in 1921, and was the first to [...]
Freeing Bihar’s young from child labor
Our partnership with the Gayatri Foundation in Bihar, India, began when a local man, Vishal Bhimrajka, applied to volunteer with the Ann Foundation. Although the position that Vishal applied for [...]
Empowering the children of Vizag
Located in a town close to Vizag in India, the Kadesh Welfare Society was started five years ago by retired mechanical engineer Nutan Nicodemus. With the help of local pastors, [...]
Year 2000: Hearing in India
Along with a few Canadian delegates, Ann visited Hyderabad and Bangalore, India in 2000. During the visit, the Ann Foundation conducted a 10-day workshop on “hearing healthcare” in various schools [...]
Year 2004: Computer center in Uganda
During its 2004 mission trip, the Ann Foundation directed its focus on another part of the world, helping establish a computer learning center in Luwero, Uganda. The center was the [...]
Year 2005: Mercy Home in Bangalore
In 2005, Ann Moideen traveled with Ann K. Parsons, a teacher with visual impairments from Rochester, N.Y., to the Mercy Home orphanage in Bangalore. Parishioners at Parsons church, Our Lady Queen of [...]
Year 2006: Revisiting Bangalore
The Ann Foundation kicked off 2006 with a mission trip to follow up on many of our earlier projects in India: In January we launched a computer workshop for visually [...]
Year 2007: Girls Upliftment at Nirmala Bhavan
Sister Lucy invited the CEO Ann Moideen to visit the Nirmala Bhavan, after visiting the institution Ann decided to help the girls with computer Literacy. Nirmala Bhavan, a safe haven for [...]
Year 2008: Braille workshops in Belgaum
Along with five educators, Ann visited the Maheshwari School for the Blind in Belgaum, India, to conduct workshops on “Braille and Technology Tools for Empowerment”. This marked a big breakthrough [...]
Year 2010: Prototype wheelchairs in Hyderabad
Our mission trip in 2010 took the AF to Hyderabad, India, where board member David Zane met with students of Muffakham Jah, a college of engineering and technology. David conducted [...]
Year 2013: Sustainable income for sustainable Education
On November 23rd 2013, Ann Foundation set up an organic dairy cattle farming operation for the IELC blind school in Burgur in the province of Tamil Nadu, India. Cattle-farming is [...]
Year 2014: Improving conditions for visually impaired students
Ann Foundation for a number of years has been cooperating with the Indian Evangelical Lutheran Church (IELC) School for the Blind. The IELC School, located in Burgur, Southern India, has been empowering many blind and [...]
Year 2014: Empowering young women
In November 2013, Ann Moideen, Founder and CEO of Ann Foundation, along with Bud Watson, board member of Ann Foundation, visited Nari-O-Sishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK), an Indian based organization that was established in 1979 [...]
The Bargur project
Our Bargur project started as a collaboration between the Reverend Sabhapathi, Director of the Indian Evangelical Lutheran Society, and AF founder Ann Moideen. This project concentrates on developing the English [...]
The Sowbhagya Illam Orphanage
After visiting the Sowbhagya Illam Orphanage in Dindigul, India, Ann saw an opportunity to provide the orphanages children with vital English language and computer literacy classes, helping prepare them for [...]
Teaching young Mijwan women
In 2011, the Ann Foundation began a promising project which involves providing spoken English and personality development classes online to students and teachers at the Kaifi Azmi School for Girls [...]
Classes for the visually impaired
On International Disability Day (12/3/12), the Ann Foundation started our first class for visually impaired children at Tekla Kagera. Located in the Kagera region of Tanzania, the organizations purpose is [...]
Working with NOSKK
The Ann Foundation recently partnered with Nari-o-Sishu Kalyan Kendra (NOSKK), a women’s and child welfare center that works in 451 villages in the Uttar Dinjapur, Dakshin Dinjapur and Murshidabad regions of [...]
Disabled children in Kolkata
The Ann Foundation recently started a partnership with the Institute for Handicapped and Backward People (IHBP), an organization based in the busy city of Kolkata, West Bengal that serves as [...]
Kasargod School for the Blind
The Kasargod project began in 2013 when Anil, a teacher from the Chakshumathi School for the Blind, referred us to a headmaster in Kasargod, having been so impressed by several [...]
Orphans at the Antyodoy Anath Ashram
The Antyodoy Anath Ashram is an orphanage established in a remote district of Purba Medinipur, in West Bengal. It provides food and shelter primarily to orphans, or to the children [...]
St. Mary’s International School, Tanzania
The Ann Foundation recently began providing English and computer classes to the students at St. Mary’s International School, in the Tanzanian city of Mbeya. Though Tanzania is a developed nation, [...]
The orphans at the Voice Trust
Based in Trichy in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Voice Trust provides classes to more than 40 orphaned children. The two organizations teamed up in 2014 when the [...]
Quilon Social Service Society, Kollam
The Ann Foundation is collaborating with the Quilon Social Service Society (QSSS) in Kollam, India, to teach English to underprivileged children who have been subjected to neglect and abuse. Established [...]
Saving Children from Exploitation
Joyland Prime Academy provides free quality education to abandoned, orphaned and vulnerable children in the Mombasa region in Kenya, providing a loving school environment in which these children can grow [...]
The Khadijatul Kubra Girls Mission
In April 2015, the Ann Foundation inaugurated a new computer center at the Khadijatul Kubra Girls Mission (KKGM). We donated five desktop computers to the center, with plans to donate [...]
Ahmed Educational & Welfare Society
The Ann Foundation began a new partnership with the Ahmed Educational and Welfare Society after working with the Gayatri Foundation, in Bihar. Farhat Nasim applied to teach with the Foundation, [...]
Aadharana Orphanage
Aadharana is an orphanage established in 2003. It is located in the city of Hyderabad in Ranga Reddy district, Telangana, a state in the southern part of India. Aadharana provides [...]
