NON-PROFITS ORGANIZATIONS who have worked with Kids Across the World

The Galapagos Islands:
Galapagos ICE Organization: Immerse Connect Evolve is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to improving the health and educational systems of the Galapagos Islands.

Cambodia:
The Sunrise Children Home
For Cambodian orphans and needy children, founded by Geraldine Cox AM, and is run by the Australia Cambodia Foundation.

MULTICULTURAL SITES CREATED FOR KIDS

• Action without Borders
• Youth in Philanthropy http://fdncenter.org/focus/youth/kids_teens/
• Childreach – Helping children shape their world http://www.childreach.org/
• About play www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/wakeup/play.htm
• Global Youth Service Day – an annual global event involving 32 Int’l organizations. www.gysd.net
• Kids Korps - Started by a mother - enlists 5-18 year olds in a range of voluntary activities, from visiting the elderly to building houses in Mexico. www.kidskorps.org
• A children’s version of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child www.hri.ca/children/youth/writeon/david/part28.htm

ORPHANS AND STREET CHILDREN

• Guatemala Childhope. www.allforyouth.org
• Cambodia www.sunrisechildrensvillage.org/home
• Habitat for humanity www.habitat.org
• Homeless children Int’l www.homelesskids.org
• Educating homeless kids
  www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/apr/homeless
  www.shelternetwork.org
• A Place to Call Home – set up by a teenager concerned about the plight of homeless people http://aplace2callhome.tripod.com/homeless

KIDS WITH DISABILITES

A website set up by a young disabled Russian to collect donations to pay for the treatment needed by children with serious diseases and disabilities (click on American flag in upper left hand for English translation) www.deti.msk.ru

CULTURE

• Circus in Ethiopia – is made up of children aged 8 – 21, and incorporates Red Cross health messages with its free circus shows. www.lefourneau.com/circusethiopia
• South Africa: Zip Zap is a school of performing arts teaching kids of all races practical circus skills www.zip-zap.co.za/
• The Multicultural Youth Club Vukovar aims to create an environment where young Croats and Serbs can come together. www.ypgd.org

EDUCATION

• Cool Planet www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/wakeup/school.htm
• South Africa: Volunteers with vehicles needed to distribute reading material to children in rural South Africa www.fm.co.za/rallytoread

HEALTH

• The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, a UN project, aims to prevent the death of 3 million children every year from diseases which can be avoided with existing vaccines. www.vaccinealliance.org
• www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/food/htm
• Save the Children’s web pages on water – Fair Shares for All
  www.savethechildren.org.uk/fairshares/index.html

KIDS AND THE RAINFOREST

• Kids saving the rainforest www.kidssavingtherainforest.org
• Children’s Tropical Forests www.tropical-forests.com/
• The Rainforest Foundation www.rainforestfoundation.org/
• All About Rainforests for kids and teachers. http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Rainforest/

WAR

• The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers. www.child-soldiers.org