Children's Global Concerns

		Bali Bridges [Bali, Indonesia] Today there are over 13,000 children in Bali who are orphaned or living in severe poverty. Less than 1000 of these children are receiving systematic help through orphanages. Bali Bridges assists in the provision of shelter, food and education for 500 orphans who are cared for through the Widhya Asih Foundation in Bali. This unique initiative offers UWCSEA both primary and high school students opportunities to visit the orphanages and offer their assistance while forming lasting relationships with the children living there. In addition, parents are able to participate in the Grade 4 program since this GC is also a SEAlink. This provides a great way for parents to become involved and to take action with their children to build relationships with and help the children of the Widhya Asih orphanages in Bali. For more information, please contact balibridgesgc@uwcsea.edu.sg.
		Bombay Street Kids [Mumbai, India] The Bombay Street Kids Global Concern works with three NGO's in Mumbai, India working to improve the future prospects of street children in the city. VOICE is run by a husband and wife team who have set up shelters for street children. The couple run programmes that provide education, health and some vocational training in a very caring environment. Shraddah is an organization which works with handicapped young adults to create handicrafts which they sell for profit. Mobile Creches support the health, nutrition and safety of children of construction workers who live on the many building sites that have sprung up all over Mumbai. We meet every Tuesday in Room 2S8 at 1:05pm. For further information, please contact our GC at bombaystreetkids@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		BOSCO Street Kids [Bangalore, India] BOSCO (Bangalore Oniyavara Seva Coota) helps the alarmingly growing number of working street children in Bangalore India. BOSCO provides support to children by helping street children in integrating into society, building a meaningful, social and political movement capable of challenging the situations that leave children homeless, re-installing street children back into their families, providing education, helping with drug de-addiction and treatment for medical conditions. We meet every Tuesday from 1pm to 1:20pm in Room 2S6. For further information, please contact our GC at bosco@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		Casa Alianza [Honduras] Casa Alianza GC raises money for an international, non-governmental organization in Honduras, dedicated to the rehabilitation and defence of 12,000 street children a year. Orphaned, abused or abandoned, most of these children are further traumatised by the indifference of the societies in which they live. The organization is a place where forgotten children can escape from hunger, drugs, poverty, prostitution, emotional starvation and physical danger. Instead they receive shelter, food, medical care, protection, guidance, respect and love. We meet every Monday at 1:10 pm in Room BB4. For further information, please contact our GC at casa_alianza@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN) [Katmandu, Nepal] "Education is a right, not a privilege." The exploitation of child labour is at its worst in Nepal. Handmade woven carpets are Nepal's primary export, and of the 300,000 carpet weavers about 50% are at the age of 13 years. The CWIN center in Nepal acts as a voice for these children, campaigning against the exploitation of children providing temporary shelters and rehabilitation to children rescued straight of the street, often in bonded labour. Child workers in Nepal are one of UWCSEA's oldest global concerns, active since 1993. Fourteen years down the line, we are an established global concern, in active association with the CWIN center in Kathmandu. Our short term goals include the sponsorship of 40 child workers to live in a residential school. We meet every Friday lunch time in room 47, anyone is welcome. If interested please come along, and feel free to contact Rohini Rao (11SDe) or Vicky Berman (VBe). For further information, please contact our GC at cwin@uwcsea.edu.sg.
Picture placeholder		Christina Noble [Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam] To help the Christina Noble Children's Foundation take care of orphans in Ho Chi Minh. For further information, please contact our GC at christinanoble@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		Half the Sky [China] Half the Sky GC helps to raise funds to nurture young orphans in Beijing. It is an American organisation which has set up an orphanage for abandoned children. Our long term objective is to raise awareness throughout the school about what our GC does. The name of our supervisor is Gary Smith. Meetings are held every Tuesday in room 70 at 1.15pm. For further information, please contact our GC at halfthesky@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		Himalayan [Khumbu, Nepal] The Himalayan GC is based in the Everest region in Nepal. Over the years, we have supported the construction of school buildings and the employment of a Sherpa teacher to educate the children in English and help to maintain Sherpa culture at the Pangboche School. The school only caters for children up to Grade 6. Therefore, we also help to sponsor students to board at the Khumjung High School. Recently, we have also resumed our environmental stance by planting trees and educating the population on the importance of sustainable development. For further information, please contact our GC at himalayan@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		Hope Foster Home [Beijing, China] Hope Foster Home GC raises funds and awareness for the New Hope Foundation in Beijing. The New Hope Foundation cares for abandoned babies in China. They do this by providing care and medical treatment for babies with surgically correctable deformities; these babies are looked after in their own home and are treated as if they were their own children. After the babies receive the medical treatment they need the New Hope Foundation organizes adoption for them. To support children in the Hope Foster Home and offer them vocational training. For further information, please contact our GC at hopefosterhome@uwcsea.edu.sg.
Picture placeholder		Jakarta Street Kids [Jakarta, Indonesia] Our global concern is focused on helping the under privileged children found in the Jakarta area, who have been abandoned by their parents and forced to live on the streets. We aim to raise awareness of their situations in order to help them and raise funds. Our goal is to help them by providing them with better living conditions and education. As well as this we aim to aid them in projects, in order to supply them with sustainable income. For further information, please contact our GC at jakartastreetkids@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		Kids in Cambodia [Phnom Penh, Cambodia] The Kids in Cambodia (KIC) GC works closely with Bridges Across Borders, an NGO that supports projects in several countries throughout South East Asia. Our GC primarily provides support towards three projects: Centre for Children's Happiness / Cambodian Dump Children Committee (CCH/CDCC), Tiny Toones and Sustainable Cambodia. Projects generally reach out to communities in rural Cambodia and street children. These projects bring education, break-dancing skills and hope for a sustainable future to these communities. For further information, please contact our GC at kidsincambodia@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2007-2008 Summary Report.
		Mercy Centre [Thailand] Mercy GC supports the Mercy Centre in the slums of Bangkok. The center acts as a home and schol for orphans, many of them orphaned due to the HIV/AIDS virus. The center also has a community HIV education program where educators teach people of all ages on the dangers of HIV and prevention from it. The GC also spreads awareness of AIDS within the school community during fund raising events.
		Underprivileged Children of Vietnam [Vietnam] Underprivileged Children of Vietnam Global Concern is made up of 20 Grade 10 to 12 members. Since its inception in 2003 it has raised - through fundraising dinners, handicrafts sales, bake sales and other initiatives - almost $200 000 for the following three projects in Vietnam: funding life-saving heart operations for children from impoverished families; supporting the education of ethnic minority children from rural leprosy communities; and raising awareness of the exploitation and abuse of street children, by funding several shelter and welfare projects run by NGO Blue Dragon Children's Foundation. A new project this year has been raising the money needed to construct a direly needed new school for a village of displaced Vietnamese people in Cambodia. To view UCOV website, click here. For further information, please contact our GC at ucov@uwcsea.edu.sg. Please click here to view the 2008-2009 Business Plan.
		Villa Martha [Lima, Peru] Villa Martha GC aims to improve the quality of life of the children in an orphanage in Lima, Peru. "Villa Martha Home for Children" shelters 150 children that were physically and emotionally abandoned giving them education, protection, love and moral education. In the orphanage children are taught different self-sustainment skills such as farming, breeding animals, cooking and working with wood. This GC funds to support these programs and give these children more opportunities to make them responsible citizens. For more information, please contact villamartha@uwcsea.edu.sg.