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Our Partners
Since 1999, Babushka Adoption Foundation has been working on strengthening its managerial and organizational capacity and expanding its fundraising activities, in order to become less dependent on external support. It organizes fundraising and public relations activities and maintains strong partnerships with local and international organizations, civil society organizations and local government organizations.
Babushka Adoption Foundation has sister organizations in Europe that assist in attracting sponsors and facilitating fundraising activities for Babushka Adoption Foundation in Europe. Babushka Adoption Association Switzerland was founded in 2002 and Babushka Adoption Verein Deutschland in 2008. Both these partnerships enable Babushka Adoption Foundation to operate local bank accounts for the convenience of Swiss and German sponsors.
Babushka Adoption Foundation began a partnership in 2004 with Elnura Foundation. Elnura Foundation helps to attract new Babushka Adoption Foundation sponsors from the Netherlands and draw attention to the plight of the elderly in Kyrgyzstan.
Babushka Adoption Foundation also works locally with GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) since 2008. Babushka Adoption Foundation has implemented projects funded by GTZ, and both organizations have co-sponsored humanitarian aid projects.
 In autumn 2009 Babushka Adoption started working with Charity Department of AsiaUniversalBank (AUB), which provided a grant for strengthening of the marketing skills of 15 Babushka Adoption Self Help Groups in Batken region. Namely, Charity Department of AUB allotted monies for development of the SHGs and for training sessions on strengthening the marketing capacity so that our SHGs would produce competitive stuff.
In order to develop closer partnerships with other social protection organizations in Central Asia and to combine regional efforts to improve the living conditions of many vulnerable elderly people in Kyrgyzstan, Babushka Adoption Foundation joined AgeNet - Central Asia Without Borders in 2005. This regional network consists of 35 social protection organizations. One of the main aims of AgeNet is to promote the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing. The organization works also with local and national governments and international organizations to ensure that ageing issues and the rights of elderly people are adequately considered in development policies. Some of the member organizations in Bishkek that Babushka Adoption Foundation works in partnership with include HelpAge International, the Resource Center for the Elderly, Public Association of Social Protection of the Population, and Adventist Development and Relief Agency Kyrgyzstan.
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