Children In Crisis
Mission: "To improve the lives of children around the world affected by conflict, deprivation, poverty, or other hidden crises, by working with local communities to provide education, healthcare and protection." In China since: 1998
Number of staff: 1 national and 1 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Tashi Tsering 13139087320 13139087312 Tel: +86 (0) 971-8128890
International Contact:
Liz Lowther Programme Manager 5th Floor, The Tower 125 High St,Colliers Wood London SW19 2JR United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0) 208 542 2000 Fax: +44 (0) 208 542 2299
Activities in Other Countries: Afghanistan, China, East Timor, Ecuador, Kenya, Poland, Russia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ukraine and the UK.
This British organisation’s work in China began in 1998 with support for an orphage in the ethnic Tibetan pastoralist county of Dritog, in Qinghai’s Yushu prefecture. The following year, after a winter of ‘snow disasters’, Children in Crisis received a grant from the European Union to provide emergency relief and rehabilitation to people in Dritog. Since then, the organisation has supported basic education in the same county by providing five ‘tent schools’ in remote areas, along with wells, kitchens, latrines, greenhouses to grow food for the children, and yak and sheep for the schools. A complementary project offered informal family health education to people from 20 remote communities. In 2004, Children in Crisis began to support a midwives training programme managed by the Jinpa Project, a charitable organisation based in Yushu.
Children in Crisis receives funds from individual and corporate donors, grants from Trusts and grants from the British government, the European Union and the national lottery.
Links
http://www.childrenincrisis.org.uk
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