Charity Partner - EduKid
Edukid is a Christian UK registered charity that helps to remove the barriers to education faced by children living in poverty and conflict.
In the territories we support Edukid avoids imposing 'western ideals' by partnering with local people and organisation, helping them to develop project born out of their deeper cultural understanding of what is needed and likely to be effective.
Many of these local partners are themselves living in poverty so Edukid acts responsibly and ethically in the way it financially supports their effects.
Vision
Edukid's vison is of world free from the effects of war and poverty, where each child has an education and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.
What Edukid to
- They link UK schools/teachers to their counterparts in our projects aboard
- They provide primary, secondary and vocational training, university scholarships, and schools packs for children affected by war and poverty
- In particular they encompass the following groups:
- Former abductees (child soldiers)
- Ophans and child led families
- Those with disability or illness (HIV/AIDS)
- Those unable to support themselves or their families as a result of war
History
Edukid was born out of a youth work trip to Cambodia in 2002.
The youth workers realised that parents were going to huge personal risk in order to send their children to school. When they found out how little it costs to enable this, the youth workers returned home and started the charity.
Since then Edukid has realised this is a world issue and a key component to tackling poverty.
A child that received an education in the developing world will live on average 7 years longer.
Edukid now helps hundreds of children in Asia, Africa, and the The Middle East.
A core value of Edukid has been to film the children we work with, and let them tell you the issues as they see them.
