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Stephen T. Watson Foundation For Life

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Privacy Statement
Stephen Watson Foundation for Life is a registered 501 (c)(3) independent private organization.

Note: The Foundation works in many environments where children and those we assist may be in highly vulnerable situations. To protect the vulnerable from exploitation, the volunteers and members of the Foundation are extremely cautious in allowing information for public distribution.

The importance of privacy cannot be understated.

Given the sensitivity of some branches of our work. Several of the Foundation involvements are not publicly displayed.
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About the Founder
Growing up in a family where his schoolteacher mother collected aluminum cans to fill the family’s dinner plates and his grandmother looked to him to be a service to society, founder Trager Watson learned from a young age that his life needed
to have a purpose. Furthermore, after being bullied at a young age for having a stutter, he became even more motivated to devoting his life to helping others.
Trager founded the Stephen Watson Foundation For Life to fulfill this aspiration of giving hope and meaning to the lives of others. At the beginning, the Foundation allocated funds to charities assisting women with breast cancer and a living center for children and their mothers who escaped abusive men. Over time, the Foundation has grown to meet new challenges created by global crises and natural disasters.

Today, the foundation works to change lives at the grassroots level, and maintains a low profile in order to protect the privacy of the people we help. Trager continues to follow his heart and travel to distant locations where joy and dispair mingle together in the lives of locals.
Areas of Focus
Areas of Focus
Natural Disaster Relief
Youth Development & Education
Refugee & Orphan Aid
Women and Children
Our Story
December 26, 2004. The day after Christmas, a major earthquake off the coast of Indonesia caused a tsunami, taking the lives of more than 500,000 people in Asia. Trains were ripped off their tracks and houses crumbled under 100 ft waves traveling at the speed of a 747 airplane. Watson Foundation founder, Trager, immediately traveled to Sri Lanka to understand what had happened and how he could help.

Once arriving in Sri Lanka, he volunteered at rebuilding destroyed homes, an orphanage that had rainwater pouring through holes in the ceiling and a home for the “Unwanted”. The term “Unwanted” in Sri Lanka refers to children and adults with malformations, disabilities and mental health issues. A cross-eyed kid that was a shame to his family (later he committed suicide), a woman whose husband tossed her into the care center because she ended up in a wheelchair after a miscarriage, and a number of victims of society who were given a mere cot to sleep on.

Trager’s experience in Sri Lanka after the tsunami changed everything for the Foundation. Trager and his philanthropic friends knew they needed to do more to expand the scope of the Foundation to other countries. Since then, the Foundation has supported, volunteered and contributed resources to thousands of people in more than twenty countries including Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Japan, Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Panama, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Ecuador, Hungary, Jordan, Syria, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Nepal, Poland, South Africa, Uganda, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Trager and his network have also indirectly contributed to a number of other countries.

Given the Foundation’s ceiling on funds, our motto is:

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but you need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
-Mother Teressa
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Mission Statement

Most mission statements tend to be boring, cliché statements of purpose without acknowledging the human aspect behind the words used to write them.We promise not to put you to sleep with legalities of a standard blueprint copy and paste statement of our commitment.

So here is what we do.

We dream of those suffering during the night when others are asleep.
The moon and the stars shining on those who have been left behind.
We help the family of the child collecting trash in the garbage dump.
The person whose shelter cannot hold back the mud from a recent monsoon.
The sexually abused girl who needs a shining light to live.
The refugee families that war has torn apart from loved ones.
We assist in the rebirth of taste buds for those whose diet is creepy,
We replace molars shattered by the torture of a bully’s fist and hammer.
Sometimes, we just feed the poor. Give them a smile. A hug. A connection of care.

Other times, we take on longer projects. By providing tools for education in remote regions of the world, far off places that are not blessed with public aid and support. We revisit countries and build relationships with the locals.
We live with the motto that we are all locals as one species on earth and hope that our sense of care and small deeds for others will make a multiplying impact.

We look at each situation within the context of a personal and a business relationship. We say “no” more than “yes” – preferring to help those who do not ask but are in the most need. And as you can tell from our privacy statement, we choose to be vague about our actions. We believe that those we befriend and assist is a private matter for them and an honor for us.

We go beyond the crisis to embolden and empower people to grow inside their own vastness and brilliance to triumph in life.

We serve to bring hope and action to the watershed of life.

We focus on children first. They are the future.

That is our mission.
Founder, Trager Watson
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Please join us in global projects and travel around the world. We want to hear about your projects, collaborations, and interests. If traveling to a foreign country and need suggestions on whose lives’ you can change or even taxi directions, don’t hesitate to ask.

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Stephen T. Watson Foundation For Life

Privacy Statement

Stephen Watson Foundation for Life is a registered 501 (c)(3) independent private organization.

Note: The Foundation works in many environments where children and those we assist may be in highly vulnerable situations. To protect the vulnerable from exploitation, the volunteers and members of the Foundation are extremely cautious in allowing information for public distribution.

The importance of privacy cannot be understated.

Given the sensitivity of some branches of our work. Several of the Foundation involvements are not publicly displayed.

About the Founder

Growing up in a family where his schoolteacher mother collected aluminum cans to fill the family’s dinner plates and his grandmother looked to him to be a service to society, founder Trager Watson learned from a young age that his life needed

to have a purpose. Furthermore, after being bullied at a young age for having a stutter, he became even more motivated to devoting his life to helping others.

Today, the foundation works to change lives at the grassroots level, and maintains a low profile in order to protect the privacy of the people we help. Trager continues to follow his heart and travel to distant locations where joy and dispair mingle together in the lives of locals.

Areas of Focus

Natural Disaster Relief

Youth Development & Education

Refugee & Orphan Aid

Women and Children

Our Story

Given the Foundation’s ceiling on funds, our motto is:

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but you need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

-Mother Teressa

Mission Statement

Most mission statements tend to be boring, cliché statements of purpose without acknowledging the human aspect behind the words used to write them.We promise not to put you to sleep with legalities of a standard blueprint copy and paste statement of our commitment.

So here is what we do.

We dream of those suffering during the night when others are asleep.

The moon and the stars shining on those who have been left behind.

We help the family of the child collecting trash in the garbage dump.

The person whose shelter cannot hold back the mud from a recent monsoon.

The sexually abused girl who needs a shining light to live.

The refugee families that war has torn apart from loved ones.

We assist in the rebirth of taste buds for those whose diet is creepy,

We replace molars shattered by the torture of a bully’s fist and hammer.

Sometimes, we just feed the poor. Give them a smile. A hug. A connection of care.

Other times, we take on longer projects. By providing tools for education in remote regions of the world, far off places that are not blessed with public aid and support. We revisit countries and build relationships with the locals.

We live with the motto that we are all locals as one species on earth and hope that our sense of care and small deeds for others will make a multiplying impact.

We go beyond the crisis to embolden and empower people to grow inside their own vastness and brilliance to triumph in life.

We serve to bring hope and action to the watershed of life.

We focus on children first. They are the future.

That is our mission.

Founder, Trager Watson

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