Better Futures Foundation Inc

The learning experience will create agents of change and teach moral responsibility. It will build tolerant attitudes, cooperative and collaborative behaviors, compassion as well as further skills encouraging civility.
The historical context of the White Bus rescue action in World War II offers a clear example of courageous, moral advocacy in the face of systemic injustice.
The students will be introduced to the perspective of life goals, purpose and passion, thereby further develop:
Awareness – Learn from our past.
Empathy– Place us in the shoes of others.
Intervention – Discuss the actions of ordinary heroes.
Responsibility – Create a unique call to action (culminating activity)
Compassionate actions & self-compassion.

1. Develop learning experience & Create learning material
2. EdExploreSRQ
3. Deliver program to schools
4. Fundraising

1. Board diversity and board members’ substantial human capital, with a consistent community Involvement & engagement for many decades.
2. Board Advisors; Local and International capacities.
3. A program with exclusive educational materials teaching about a uniquely important, yet little known, historical event during WWII, supplementing mandatory Holocaust education [Florida statue 1003.42(g)] and educational standard CPALM SS.912.A.6.3

Our program is available on EdExploreSRQ and have been approved by Sarasota County School District staff to meet the Florida Standards , so teachers and principals can reserve them with confidence.
2017:
White Bus For Better Futures™
IMPACT STATEMENT
"Save One Life...and Save The World"
We might just have done that last year. Keep on reading to learn more about it.
Fostering agents of change and inspiring one soul at the time by sharing the story about the historic rescue action which is the symbol for our Mission, White Bus For Better Futures™!
The Swedish Red Cross White Bus rescue action was the largest rescue action during WWII were a few hundred volunteers rescued 15,500 Holocaust victims of different nationalities and religious background.
Life Changing Events
Elsie & Grace
Last year we facilitated a life changing event for Grace, a 17 year old Holocaust denier, to meet with Elsie, a 97 year old Holocaust survivor.
Elsie spent 6 months in Auschwitz and another 4 months in Ravensbruck concentration camp where she was rescued on April 24th, 1945 by the White Buses.
After 3 hours around Elsie’s kitchen table Grace realized she had been misinformed. Elsie and Grace are now close friends and stay connected through letters, over the phone and face to face visits.
Helga & Ursula & Margit
Helga, an 89 year old Holocaust survivor from our area, was reconnected with her long lost host family in Sweden where she recovered after being held captive at Bergen Belsen concentration camp
Helga travelled to Stockholm last June where she met her Swedish "sisters" face to face for the first time since 1946.
It was an incredible reunion that we are proud to be a part of.