SOCIAL WELFARE

While our core focus remains on creating long-term, sustainable and replicable change, we’re also committed to providing people with short-term, specialised support in times and areas where it is needed most.

Cambodian Children’s Trust

With the aim of helping some of the most disadvantaged children, while also steering away from traditional approaches of institutionalisation, we formed a cohesive partnership with the Cambodian Children’s Trust. This extension of the ‘Village Hive’ programme, empowers families to stay together and mobilises communities with a diverse range of members to protect children from adversity, like facing life in an orphanage or on the street. Holistic interventions and a dynamic network of services that are included in the programme have achieved transformational change in children’s lives – taking families from a place of vulnerability to empowerment. Our Foundation ambitiously continues to source and support such unique solutions, avoiding correlated complications with traditional approaches.

Fundación Proyecto Union

Child abandonment is prevalent throughout hospitals in Colombia – often a last resort for families who have no financial means to facilitate treatment or care for their children. In partnership with Fundación Proyecto Union (FPU), the Foundation funded the purchase of a large home in Bogota city to be run as a hospital, by its lead doctor. Dr. Fernando was able to take in, treat and provide shelter to seriously ill children, previously abandoned in hospitals across Bogota.

Throughout our partnership with the FPU, we have successfully supported the medical needs specific to each child’s illness, provided them with shelter, food and parental visiting rooms – creating an environment of support and care. Ten years on, the project continues to expand and has recently been relocated to a larger premise with increased facilities to cater for more families and children who require support.