2011 CHARITIES

Each year Mark Eaton and Brian Hymel review a variety of charities that go above and beyond serving public interest. We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients are ANASAZI Foundation & Shaktikrupa Charitable Trust. If you would like further information about the charities please call us at 801-381-7033 or email us.

ANASAZI FOUNDATION

Founded in 1988, ANASAZI Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3), world renowned and nationally accredited outdoor behavioral healthcare provider serving youth 12-17, young adults 18+, and their parents.

With remarkable results, the caring staff at ANASAZI provides treatment for substance abuse, depression, family conflict, and other concerns. ANASAZI's unique, wilderness-based approach prepares parents and children to turn their hearts to one another, begin anew, and walk in harmony in the wilderness of the world.

The ANASAZI family is grateful to Mark Eaton and the many sponsors, participants, and volunteers who contribute through the Mark Eaton Golf Classic. Funds raised via this tournament will provide scholarships to financially challenged families seeking help for a struggling son or daughter. For more information, visit www.anasazi.org.

Shakti Krupa Charitable Trust

Pushed to the fringes by poverty, the future of these poor children often ends in darkness. In India 70 children out of every 1,000 do not live to see their first birthday and 2.3 million children do not survive to see their fifth birthday. Out of these devastating losses, 60 percent of the children could be saved if adequate care was given at the right time. This requires proper infrastructure of healthcare in rural areas.

Over the past two decades, the Shakti Krupa Charitable Trust has worked in and around the rural areas of the Mota Fofalia village. The trust initiated by Shri Chotubhai Patel, is looked after today by his sons and chief patrons, Dr. Kiran Patel, Dr. Dinesh Patel and Mr. Pradeep Patel.

The trust has built a 50 bed hospital covering an area of 20,000 square feet in the Mota Fofalia village. This hospital caters to the healthcare needs of the rural people. The hospital provides laboratory services, has four operating rooms, X-ray screening, diagnostics, sonography, emergency rooms, an ambulance bay, and a medicine dispensing department.  The doctors provide specialized care in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, General Surgery, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, and General Medicine. 

Since its inception, the hospital has treated over 500,000 outpatients and 100,000 inpatients. So far, more than 18,000 surgeries have been performed and 3,000 child birth deliveries have been conducted.

2010 CHARITIES

Each year Mark Eaton and Brian Hymel review a variety of charities that go above and beyond serving public interest. We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients are Habitat for Humanity  & Shaktikrupa Charitable Trust. If you would like further information about the charities please call us at 801-364-9400 or email us.

Habitat For Humanity

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a non-profit affordable housing developer. Since 1975, Habitat has built 300,000 homes, benefiting over 1.5 million people around the world. Currently at work in 100 countries, HFHI builds, on average, one house every 21 minutes. In 2009, HFHI was ranked No. 8 among home builders in the United States.

Habitat for Humanity of Summit and Wasatch Counties (Habitat) is an independently organized local affiliate of HFHI. Now celebrating its 15th anniversary, Habitat has completed 10 homes for working families that might not otherwise have had access to permanent, affordable housing. Habitat plans to complete an additional two homes in early 2011.

Habitat is not only a developer, it is also a mortgage lender. Through the generosity of individual, corporate and foundation donors, Habitat is able to provide financing at 0% interest and for a modest down-payment. Based on recent figures, Habitat estimates that as many as 16% of families in Summit County, and 22% of families in Wasatch County, may meet its lending criteria.

Shakti Krupa Charitable Trust

Shakti Krupa Charitable Trust provides health, education and social services to the needy and lower income communities of India.

The Trust was established in 1983 by the Founder Trustee, Shri Chhotubhai A. Patel. The Trust was originally created as a funding agency for health and education. After a period of about ten years, the Founder Trustee thought it fit to establish the office of the Trust at Mota Fofalia village, with a view to undertake rural development activities to uplift the people socially, educationally and culturally by providing facilities which are available to the people of urban areas. As a result of their sustained awareness program regarding the various projects being undertaken by the Trust, the villagers were ready to cooperate and take advantage of the benefits designed for them. However, the Trust faced opposition from certain quarters who were interested in maintaining the status quo of an unequal social system which prevailed in their society.