Challenging Heights Competes to Win GlobalGiving's Open Challenge

Challenging Heights today joined GlobalGiving’s Open Challenge, a fundraising challenge for non-profits who are doing impactful work around the world.
Challenging Heights is also eligible for a permanent spot on GlobalGiving’s website, http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/transform-lives-of-former-child-laborers-in-ghana/, the internationally recognized marketplace for philanthropy that connects individual donors to the causes they care most about.
Through this challenge, Challenging Heights has the chance to raise funds to support its child trafficking prevention and education programs via innovative online marketplace for philanthropy. All donations made during this challenge will go to Challenging Heights.
GlobalGiving is opening up its network of donors and corporate partners in an effort to support non-profits like Challenging Heights that are providing much needed support to their local communities throughout the economic downturn.
“We are excited for the chance to tap into GlobalGiving’s network of committed donors and corporate sponsors who can support our efforts to eradicate child trafficking and the worst forms of child labor,” said Challenging Heights.

Open participants will raise funds through http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/transform-lives-of-former-child-laborers-in-ghana/ from September 1 to September 30. The three projects that raise the most will receive awards of $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000, respectively; the project receiving the most individual donations will receive an additional $3,000.
Organizations participating in the challenge can also earn a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving website if they successfully mobilize supporters to raise $4,000 from at least 50 unique donors through GlobalGiving during the contest.
If Challenging Heights wins, it will also gain free access to innovative web 2.0 fundraising tools and connect to a broad network of thousands of donors and corporate and foundation partners already engaged in the GlobalGiving network.
“Non-profits like Challenging Heights are deeply important to the wellbeing of communities all around the world, especially when folks are struggling,” said Mari Kuraishi, President and Co-Founder of GlobalGiving. “Many of our donors are looking for new opportunities to give back and we want to do everything we can to match the demand with the unbelievable need around the world. It is especially the small, grassroots efforts and creative innovators that do not have the institutional support from bigger institutions that we hope to help.”


About Challenging Heights

James Kofi Annan is a survivor of child trafficking. Despite severe poverty and abuse circumstances, James rose to become a university graduate and later became manager at Barclays Bank of Ghana. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Challenging Heights. James, the last and only educated out of twelve children of his illiterate parents, worked as a child fisherman in more than 20 villages along the Volta Lake between the ages of 6 and 13, before he liberated himself. In April 2007, he resigned from Barclays Bank of Ghana in order to devote full time to mobilizing resources to promote the mission of Challenging Heights. The mission of Challenging Heights is to ensure a secured, protected and dignified future and life for children and youth by promoting their rights, education and health. James is the recipient of 4 international awards – Frederick Douglass Freedom Award winner, World Education Promoter of the Year, Barclays Bank Africa Community Award winner, Barclays Bank Global Community Award winner.

You can help us win this Challenge by donating to Challenging Heights at http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/transform-lives-of-former-child-laborers-in-ghana/. Please kindly forward this press statement through your networks.
Contact – James Kofi Annan, Executive Director, Challenging Heights (jameskofiannan@yahoo.com)

Leah MacLennan
Development Officer
Challenging Heights
+233 020 705 5269
www.challengingheights.org