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EDUCATING SMILING CHILDREN

Educating Smiling Children (ESC) works in Cambodia.

Mission statement: to set up schools in remote areas of the country and ensure their operation.

ESC works in partnership with the Cambodian Department of Education to build schools in remote areas. ESC also takes care of the supervision and operating costs of these schools (teacher salaries, classroom furniture, learning material and school uniforms for the children).

At the start of the 2017 school year, 30 teachers and about 50 classes will host around 1,400 pupils in 14 schools, 10 kindergartens, 2 primary schools and 2 computer centres.

ESC also works in the sanitation area by building wells and toilets in public schools.

The Albatros Foundation has been supporting ESC since 2010.

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Maison Chance

The NGO Maison Chance works in Vietnam.

Mission statement: to help the most underprivileged children from Ho-Chi-Minh as well as handicapped people to become autonomous and integrated in society.

Maison Chance works in a very disadvantaged part of Ho-Chi-Minh. This is where it created a community for disabled people: the “Village Chance”. At the Village, these people have the opportunity to learn a trade which enables them to become financially self-sufficient and integrated in society.

The poorest children of the neighbourhood can attend the Village Chance elementary school for free. Upon leaving this school, they are supported financially to be able to continue their education in the public system.

Fondation Albatros supports Maison Chance since 2009.

The fact sheet for this organisation will be online shortly. In the meantime, Fondation Albatros is happy to answer any enquiries about it.

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Fondation Les Enfants de Huê

The Fondation Les Enfants de Hué works in Vietnam.

Mission statement: to provide the most disadvantaged children and young people from the Huê province (Vietnam) with human and intellectual training enabling them to build up their lives.

The Fondation Les Enfants de Huê currently provides 792 children and young people with scholarships. The latter are selected by the Amantes de la Croix religious congregation. Each child is given a scholarship until he graduates from secondary school. Scholarships can therefore last up to 12 years!

Fondation Albatros supports Fondation Les Enfants de Huê since 2009.

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POUR UN SOURIRE D’ENFANT

PSE currently helps more than 6,000 children who where previously street and out-of-school children, abused or orphaned children, child labourers, scavengers, stone breakers, etc..

PSE has its own school in Phnom Penh where the remedial schooling curriculum it developed is taught to around 650 children.

In addition, more than 3,500 children are schooled with PSE’s support in Cambodian state schools.

Furthermore, 600 children benefit from specific educational programs: classes for children with a disability, day-care centers and infant welfare.

Finally, about 1,500 youngsters study at the PSE Vocational Training and Higher Education Institute in Phnom-Penh.They can choose between a preparatory class or one of the three curriculums: Hotel & Tourism, Trade & Technical* (construction, mechanics, audio-visual) and Business – the higher education level which deliver them bachelor diplomas.

Each year some 400 youngsters graduate and become cooks, mechanics, electricians, receptionists, salespeople, accountants, administrative assistants, …They join the 4,000 graduates from the PSE Institute who already have successfully integrated the job market with a real qualified position. Thus they can live with dignity and help their family.

*the training courses give them qualifications recognised by the Cambodian Ministry of Work and Vocational Training

PSE aims to work like a “destitution-destroying machine”, as Christian des Pallières, co-founder, liked to say.

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IRIS- International Resources for the Improvement of Sight

IRIS works directly in Cambodia, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It also supports programmes managed by other NGOs in India and Thailand.

Mission statement: to prevent blindness and restore vision.

IRIS was founded to meet the need for ophthalmological care in among the poorest populations of Cambodia. Over the years, the financial support was extended to ophthalmological care programmes in Nepal, Laos and Sri Lanka. .

Fondation Albatros supports IRIS from 2009 to 2013.

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HOPE AND HOMES FOR CHILDREN-ROMANIA

Hopes and Homes for Children-Romania (HHC) works in Romania.

Mission statement: to be the catalyst enabling the complete eradication of institutional* care for children in Romania

*For HHC, this type of care means that a child becomes part of a very large institution (several hundreds of children), which does not leave room for creating the significant loving bonds essential to the healthy development of a child. During communist times in Romania, many such institutions were created, leading many children to develop severe psychological and psychiatric disorders.

HHC works simultaneously in three areas:

prevention of institutionalisation
deinstitutionalisation
reintegration of children coming from closed structures into their birth or extended family, a foster family, an adoptive family, a small family home

HHC has succeeded in considerably reducing the number of institutionalised children by facing the problem from all angles.

Fondation Albatros supports Hopes and Homes for Children-Romania since 2013.

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Phillip House Foundation

Philip House Foundation works in Romania.

Mission statement: to improve the physical, mental and emotional well-being of disadvantaged children and their parents in Bucarest, through educational and psychological support, social and medical assistance.

The Foundation’s main areas of activity are:

to facilitate the children’s integration in the school system
to prevent school drop-out
to improve parental education
to prevent family abandonment and child institutionalisation

Fondation Albatros supports Philip House Foundation since 2012.

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VOIX LIBRES

Voix Libres is a swiss humanitarian association which allows children working in mines, garbage dumps and streets to become self-entrepreneurs once they have completed their studies supported by the association. These actions allow a united and sustainable development of the concerned communities.

Mission: To improve the autonomy and dignity of marginalized populations by:

1. Developing alternatives to the inhumane living conditions these children face.

2. Working to eradicate intra-family violence

3. Encouraging entrepreneurship.

Since Voix Libres was founded in 1993, around one million people have been direct beneficiaries of its support. Some 120’000 persons have received interest-free credits and 22 community centres have been financed, comprising foster homes, day-care centers, schools and skills workshops as well as shelters for battered women.

Seventeen united enterprises have been set up. A direct fair-trade economy between Bolivian producers and Europeen consumers has been introduced to help the poorest of the population. This economy continues to grow.

All donations and micro-credits are allocated to financing projects. Over 80% of the beneficiaries of micro-credits are women.

Through these micro-credits, beneficiaries become responsible and learn a trade that matches their vocation.

Furthermore, the beneficiary communities learn about commitment to the common good and about the importance of ethical values.

Programmes: “Fait treatment” campaigns; prevention and eradication of child labour; education and training; food self-sufficiency; health; micro-credit; creation of small enterprises; creation of infrastructures.

Fondation Albatros is supporting Voix Libres since 2008.

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TOUTES A L’ECOLE

“Toutes à l’école” works in Cambodia.

Its school, Happy Chandara, founded in 2006, provides free schooling for girls who live in peri-urban communities around Phnom-Penh.

The school includes a primary school, a junior high school, a senior high school (under construction), a vocational training centre, a boarding school and a health centre.

Mission statement: to provide assistance to children in difficulty, by participating in the establishment and development of education, school and training activities promoting the integration of girls and young women, and activities to support their families.

“Toutes à l’école” provides education to around 1000 girls, currently taking them through to the third year of junior high school (education through to the last year of senior high school is already scheduled to start) or to a choice of occupation through the professional training programmes offered by the organisation.

Every year, around a hundred girls start school at Happy Chandara.

The organisation also supports public schools by providing English and computer courses to public school children. It also provides public schools with one-off material assistance (renovating classrooms, new toilet facilities, donating school supplies).

Finally, the organisation supports the girls’ families through the regular distribution of food parcels and hygiene kits. They are regularly visited by social workers to assess their needs.

Objectives:

To offer a high level education to the most underprivileged young girls to allow them access to a job that will give them freedom and dignity.
To support the girls until they get their first job, whether they choose the university route or vocational training.
To enable young Cambodian women to access occupations requiring a high level of skills.
To help the girls’ families who live in particularly precarious conditions.

The Albatros Foundation has been supporting “Toutes à l’école” since 2015.

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As’trame Foundation

Fondation As’trame is active in Switzerland, in the cantons of Vaud and Geneva. Its mission consists in supporting families in crisis situations where family relationships have been broken down due to sickness, parental separation or death, since all break downs are dangerous to the physical and/or psychological health of children and adults.

As’trame offers a psychosocial non-medicalised approach to address the troubles resulting from the breakdown of family ties.

As’trame accompanies families, more specifically children, through individual and group therapies built around siblings or children of the same age.

Objectives of the therapeutic work:

Lay the foundations of a healthy process of dealing with family breakdowns
Avoid the negative and potentially pathologic consequences of the breakdown of family relationships for the lives of children or adults.
Support adults or families going through difficult situations due to marital separation, serious illness or death of a close relative.
In parallel, through training modules, As’trame puts its experience to the service of professionals facing this type of situation within the framework of their practice.

The foundation has created a specific tool allowing it to offer a brief and mentored therapeutic support to relief suffering and prevent the risks triggered by family relationships’ breakdowns: the reliance path. Through 6 sessions including an assessment session, it allows to lay the foundations necessary for a healthy grief process to take place and to start it during the path through the stimulation of the resilience capacity.

Fondation Albatros has been supporting Fondation As’trame since 2015.

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EDUCATING SMILING CHILDREN

Maison Chance

Fondation Les Enfants de Huê

POUR UN SOURIRE D’ENFANT

IRIS- International Resources for the Improvement of Sight

HOPE AND HOMES FOR CHILDREN-ROMANIA

Phillip House Foundation

VOIX LIBRES

TOUTES A L’ECOLE

As’trame Foundation

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