Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    Blossom Hill Foundation, Inc.Form 990 2020Program Service AccomplishmentsDuring 2020, Blossom Hill Foundation provided operating grants to four organizations:1 - Helping Hands: The program uses art therapy, puppetry, and theater to provide psychosocial support and remedial, as well as informal education to Syrian refugee children who suffer from the effects of war. The program enrolled 65 children (45 boys and 20 girls ages 6-15). Children go through deep feelings through this technique to overcome trauma and express deep memories.2 - Project Lift - Hold My Hand: This program supports the increasing need of psychosocial services for refugee children living in Turkey. Her program uses art, music, and dance modalities as a form of therapy to support refugee children and creates a safe environment for them to heal from the trauma of war. Over 200 children are benefiting from one or more sessions provided including one-on-one homework support, creative art therapy methods used to discuss important topics that ensure childrens short-term and long-term safety and well-being, and a drop in time for positive and creative activities where children spend 15 minutes per day in the center to draw, read books or play some creative games. $ 30,000During 2020, Blossom Hill Foundation sponsored thirteen programs implemented by 16 fellows:1 - Youth Empowerment Program: This program is designed to prepare refugee high school students for higher education in the United States. This program provides TOEFL and SAT preparation classes, as well as one-on-one mentoring, to guide 140 students through the college application process. 2 - Entrepreneurship and English-language Instruction: This program conducts classes in business entrepreneurship and English-language teaching methodology for young Afghan boys and girls, ultimately aiding them in starting their own careers. The program enrolled 65 students boys and girls. Classes are taught after school. 3 - Science Kits: This program provides science experiments with practical outcomes knowledge and take-home science kits. The program delivered 5000 kits to refugee camps in Greece and conducted workshops with educators. The kits included videos, translated science vocabulary documents in four languages and activity plans. 4 - Azraq School: This is an Early Childhood Center to support early academic and behavioral needs of young refugees and other vulnerable children through alternative education activities inspired by Montessori methods. The Blossom Hill Early Education Center enrolled 60 children ages 3-5 in Azraq. 5 - El Sistema - Blossom Hill Beginners Orchestra: This is a beginners orchestra that promotes the social inclusion of refugee children in Greek society. 75 students have enrolled, 35 girls and 40 boys. The orchestra performed online concerts due to Covid.6 - Recoded: This is a Coding Bootcamp and Workshop for conflict affected youth in Yemen and Turkey. 188 students enrolled (173 in Turkey and 15 Yemen).7 - ANKAA Project: This program creates sustainable livelihoods for displaced people through the provision of workspaces that are self-led to provide education, vocational training and skill exchange. The program enrolled 272 students who are taking 1-3 classes. Students are offered English and Greek classes, computer, media, cooking as well as workshops in tailor, carpentry, metalwork, screen-printing, jewelry, electricity, and bike repair. ANKAA students made masks for hospitals and organizations working with vulnerable groups, camps, detention centers, etc.8 - Sports for All: This program brings refugee children and youth from all parts of the world together with Jordanians to play soccer and basketball. Through their love of sports, this program is working to unify them on a common ground. A total of 150 children enrolled in the program. They will lead teams and do exercises with the kids. 9 - Supergirls: This is an after-school program that supports 28 refugee girls with their academic and emotional development to ensure they remain engaged in school and broaden their horizons.10 - Mobile Info Team: This program provides vital information, clarification, and assistance in the most relevant languages (Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu, Sorani and French) for the full duration of their users asylum procedure and beyond.11 - Marhub International: It is a digital platform that enables refugees to navigate bureaucracy and connect with assistance through a reliable and empathetic chatbot. At the same time, the platform helps organizations responding to refugee needs expand their reach, build capacity, and improve services through user feedback.12 - Formally: It is an intuitive form-filler translated into 100 languages, including Arabic and Farsi, to break these bureaucratic barriers and make immigration, safety, health, and education accessible for refugees and displaced people. 7,000 clients benefited from this platform.13 - Makan Initiative: This program helps 90 children through interactive play to heal from the trauma of conflict. These children will have the opportunity to explore, examine, and express their imagination and process their feelings.Total $144,000
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    $213K

  • Program 2 [2020]

    Program services, which are not allocated to grants.
    Geographies
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $60.3K

  • Blossom Hill Foundation Programs

    Between July - December 2024, Blossom Hill Foundation sponsored 13 programs implemented by 16 fellows:1 -Sports for All and Fearless Girls in Jordan: This program brings refugee children and youth from all parts of the world together with Jordanians to play soccer and basketball. Through their love of sports, this program is working to integrate them and promote inclusion. So far, 96 children have participated in football, Taekwondo and table tennis. 2 - Girls SOAR in Syria: Using a UN-approved curriculum, this program seeks to empower 60 Syrian girls internally displaced in the northwest part of the country. Through various consecutive modules, girls learn their rights, build leadership skills, and gain self-confidence. The goal of the program is to get them back/keep them in school or attend vocational training and to prevent early marriage. 3 - Literacy and Tailoring program in Afghanistan: This program aims to empower internally displaced girls in Kabul, Afghanistan to become literate and earn a livelihood through tailoring.. The program's goal is to bring positive change and alleviate poverty in their lives. A total of 192 girls have enrolled in the program. Girls who completed the program are already earning income of an average $110/month; many are just starting their own businesses. 4 - Blossom Hill Pads in Afghanistan: To address period poverty, which prevents many Afghan girls from attending school and other activities, this program employs Afghan women to create reusable environmentally-friendly pads that are distributed to marginalized girls in the country. The program will benefit 10,000 girls.5 - Makan Initiative in the West Bank: This program provides critical group and individual therapy to children in 6 refugee camps in Bethlehem and Hebron with children, caregivers and CBOs. Individual play therapy counseling: 70 children in 6 camps, Sensitization and group counseling: 200 children, Structured ventilation and recreational activities: 6/36 conducted, Individual/group caregiver counseling: 60 reached, Training CBOs on mental health and PSS techniques 80 organizations trained.6 - Healthy Children Program in Afghanistan: This program provides health care services in hygiene and preventable illnesses (malaria, malnutrition, diarrhea) in two clinics serving the most marginalized populations near Kabul. They expect to reach 950 children and 55 trainees. 7 - Coding for Girls in Afghanistan - The first, one and only coding school for girls in Afghanistan provides courses in graphic design and coding for 400 girls in Herat, Afghanistan. The girls are able to earn well above the minimum $150 average monthly salary in Afghanistan, thereby avoiding early marriage and earning a livelihood. 8 - Montessori Early Childhood Center in Jordan: This is an Early Childhood Center to support early academic and behavioral needs of young refugees and other vulnerable children through alternative education activities inspired by Montessori methods. The Blossom Hill Early Education Center enrolled 60 children ages 3-5 in Azraq, Jordan.9 - College Coaching Youth Empowerment for Syrian and Iraqi youth: This program is designed to prepare refugee high school students for higher education in the United States. It provides TOEFL and SAT preparation classes, as well as one-on-one mentoring through the college application process. A total of 636 students enrolled in this program.10 - Science United Project in Greece: This program provides a science curriculum with science kits that transcend language barriers. The program delivered 2500 kits to 480 students and completed training sessions for 30 teachers. 11 - Mobile Info Team in Greece: By using technology, including FB, this program provides vital information, clarification, and assistance in the most relevant languages (Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu, Sorani and French) for refugees seeking asylum and family reunification. It also handles individual cases through their lawyers. MIT has 35 families reunified, 4,000 asylum seekers, 500,000 on FB. 12 - Sleeping Bags for refugees: Prototyped sleeping bags in Greece and Afghanistan; chose to conduct pilot in Afghanistan based on feasibility of prod. and dist., the lowest cost, and the opportunity for greatest impact. 30 bags were done by December and the goal is 200. 13 - REFUGYM Community Centre, Sama: The center provides services from for 1000 refugees adults and children 300 children (200 girls and 100 boys) current program offers English.German and Arabic lessons; asylum support; sports for women; open gym sessions; women only days; activities for childrenTotal $288,095
    Geographies
    Not indicated
    Dates
    Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
    Source
    990
    No causes provided
    No populations provided
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    $288.1K