Yes. GiveLight Foundation is a USA 501 (c)(3) organization with Tax ID: 562500794. Contributions to GiveLight Foundation are tax exempt.

GiveLight Foundation

1879 Lundy Avenue, Suite 226

San Jose, CA 95131

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We focus only on helping orphans and we stay in their lives from the moment we take their small hands until they go to college. We invest in their education, social and spiritual development. We build personal connections with each child. Our founder regularly visits all of our children and they all call her “mother”. We also send volunteers to teach, which reinforces the personal touch and feeling of family for the children. Our connection with the kids is critical to their development and our passion for the cause. We emphasize the importance of education and good character. A few examples of what set us apart:

1. We provide private tutoring for our children. This gives them a competitive advantage. After school they study either English, Computer or Arabic/Quran.

2. They have banks accounts. Some have saved up to buy a motorbike and some have $500-800 in savings, which is unheard of for most orphans.

3. We buy them new clothes, shoes, and backpacks and don’t accept hand-me-downs. This affects their self esteem and confidence.

4. We run campaigns like “Soul to Sole” and we take them shopping to choose their very own pair of shoes.

5. We do regular competitions in math, story telling, Quranic memorization.  This allows our kids to have more confidence and encourage a healthy competition.

6. We take them on special outings to water parks and picnics by a lake or ocean.

7. We send volunteers to teach and stay at our homes. Interactions with these volunteers are prized by our children.

When we started Givelight in 2005, our youngest child was two years old. She lost her father and older sister in the tsunami. Today, as we expand to other countries we bring in children aged 6-12 years. The kids love their homes and they feel a sense of security and warmth. They all go to school and some are extremely bright. We teach them to dream big, to work hard and get good grades. The children in the Aceh home are older, with some in High School and College and a few on scholarship. Three of our children have gotten married and two have kids of their own.

One of the criteria for partnership is that our local partner must be willing to be our Management in the field. We rely on them to form a local Givelight team consisting of individuals who share our passion and philosophy. The team has to be able to execute our strategic planning with the well being and education of our children at the center of everything we do. Each home has a live-in mother and/or father, a cook, security and treasurer/secretary who work part time.

Our long term goal is to care for 10,000 orphans around the world. Our goal is to get at least 80% of them to complete High School and 60% to College. We also plan to establish a Global Scholarship Fund and bring some of the brightest orphans to study in U.S. Universities.

There are many ways you can help. You can volunteer for different projects here in the U.S. or go to teach in one of our homes. Here’s the link to the volunteer page. You can sponsor a child for $1 a day or contribute to the cost of maintaining our homes. You can throw a tea party or a birthday party to benefit our children. You can suggest other ideas to help us raise awareness around the U.S. and around the world. We have been blessed to see our growth mainly through word of mouth. We believe in the power of many individuals doing small things and we look forward to spreading our light to every corner of the world, with God’s mercy and your help.

Thank you for your interest and support.  We look forward to doing more beautiful work for humanity. 

Email us at info@givelight.org for any additional questions you may have. We would love to hear from you!