Partners

Alec Johnson supported organizations and people who he investigated carefully, and whose heart and mission aligned with his own. Transforming Individual Lives Today maintains his legacy of support.

• Arts to End Genocide

  Arts to End Genocide, an NGO based in North Carolina, through its Heeling Our World project, provides training in simple shoe-making.

• Farming God's Way

  Care of Creation, a charity based in Madison, Wisconsin, is a sponsor of Farming God’s Way, a farmers-education program for equatorial Africa.

• An Evening for Africa

  Garrison Keillor, Alec Johnson’s cousin, author and creator of the Prairie Home Companion, helped raise funds supporting projects Cultivating Community supports, continuing work Alec started primarily in Uganda, as well as in Haiti, Mexico, and China. He performed “An Evening for Africa,” Friday, September 23, at 7:30pm at the State Theater in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

• Hometown Education Foundation

  Math professor Dr. Tonghai Yang founded Hometown Education Foundation to permit impoverished Chinese children in his own home town to have an education.

• Jeffrey Boone

  Jeff and Alec were friends in graduate school in Madison. In 2010 Jeff left to work in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in support of a handful of struggling churches and after-school centers. Jeff has also done occasional work with an orphanage in Romania since living there in 2005-06.

• One Gift, One Child

  Most children in “Orphanages” in Haiti are not orphans, and are subject to institutionalized abuse, including sexual abuse. Pierre Charlotin is a Haitian who became Alec’s friend while they lived in Madison, Wisconsin. He and his wife Natalie are devoting their career to the orphans of Haiti, not by building another orphanage, but by supporting families so that children are not abandoned to orphanages, providing supplies for orphans and orphanages, and building relationships and bringing accountability to the Haitian orphanage directors. Their goal is to make every orphanage a safe environment for the children, protected from physical and sexual abuse, trafficking and slavery.

• St. Augustine Community Love Programme

  St. Augustine Community Love Programme (SACLP) is a Ugandan NGO founded by Hon. Anywarach Joshua Carter. Angela Ross, a Vermont attorney, became acquainted with Joshua through giving Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts when he was a popular Ugandan disc jockey. Her family sponsored vaccination and education for his younger siblings. Then, with the help of her local church, she supported him through college and law school, after which he was elected to the Ugandan Parliament representing the Nebbi and Etrussi districts in northwest Uganda, and promotes sustainable farming and education.