CHILDREN with CANCER UK 

CHILDREN with CANCER UK is the leading national charity dedicated to the fight against childhood cancer.  The charity funds life-saving research into the causes, prevention and treatment of childhood cancer.  We also fund innovative welfare projects to provide better care for young cancer patients, and their families. We campaign to raise awareness of childhood cancer, to protect more children and to improve the lives of young cancer patients, today and for future generations.

We hope that one day it may be possible to prevent children from developing cancer altogether. We are only able to fund the necessary work to achieve this goal, thanks to your kindness and generosity.

How your donation can help:

 For more information on our work, please visit www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk

Allambie Orphanage

Allambie Orphanage cares for orphans in the capital of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City and is run by Suzanne Thi Hein Hook who herself is a Vietnamese Orphan from the Vietnam war.

Now 42 years-old, Suzanne was abandoned as a baby and found under a bush in 1969 during the country’s conflict and was taken by a Policeman to a local orphanage. A family in UK then adopted her and bought her to safety in 1972, and almost forty years later, Suzanne has dedicated the rest of her life to helping other orphans in her birthplace.

In 2010, she visited a number of children she had been sponsoring for some years, but realised their care in the orphanage they lived in was not suitable and the conditions had got worse. The children’s education was suffering and they were not being looked after or feed well. This caused Suzanne to take action. When arriving back to the UK, she had already decided to sell her house, business and sports car to fund an orphanage to care for the children herself and give up her English life and friends.

Allambie was the name of the orphanage Suzanne was homed in when she was found in 1969, so she decided to dedicate her project to the nurses that cared for her when she was a baby. The new Allambie has been open almost six months now, and looks after children who have either been orphaned or their parents are too poor to look after them. Suzanne is hoping to develop their education by employing private tutors outside of their normal schooling and give the children extra-curricular activities such as piano, dance and art, as well as give them a normal life as they have spent all their childhood in other orphanages.

Aged from seven to eighteen, the children feel thankful they have been rescued from the dirty and overcrowded conditions they were used to. Now, they can concentrate on their education, and feel wanted, loved and looked after; the older children were forced to look after the younger ones, so they had no time to study.

Allambie is a privately run orphanage and is a registered UK charity. There is no large organisation providing funding and it is run on the money that was obtained from the sale of Suzanne’s personal belongings plus fundraisers and donations.

Sponsors are being sought to support the children’s future. Funding is needed to keep the home running and help the children catch-up with the education they have missed in the past. It costs £30 per month to sponsor a child and all money goes directly to the individual children’s education, clothing and food.

For more information on Suzanne’s Allambie project, visit www.allambie.co.uk

International Childcare Trust

International Childcare Trust (ICT) 

believes that all children, regardless of socio-economic background, have the right to enjoy their childhood and reach their potential.  We partner with NGOs in Africa and Asia - managed and staffed by local people - that protect children’s rights; in particular, organisations that address both the causes and effects of child poverty. 

The problem
The need to protect the rights of some of the world’s poorest and most marginalised children is vast.  Hundreds of thousands of children throughout the world have lost their parents to AIDS, suffer from ill-health and malnutrition, or have been forced to flee their homes due to natural disaster, armed conflict, violence and family breakdown.  Others may find themselves pushed to the margins of society due to the stigma and discrimination associated with having a disability.  Many of these children find themselves living in refugee camps, squalid slums or on the streets where they are vulnerable to harassment, abuse, exploitation and premature death. 

Our approach
ICT believes that local NGOs are best placed to respond to the needs of these children.  There are many local NGOs across Africa and Asia, which are extremely dedicated but lack adequate resources to be fully effective.  ICT therefore develops partnerships for up to 15 years with local child-focused NGOs in Africa and Asia with the aim of supporting them to grow into strong, sustainable organisations that can make meaningful and lasting change to the lives of vulnerable children.  We collaborate with other NGOs and civil society to ensure there is no duplication of work and that our efforts are complementary.

What makes us different?

• All our partners are independent of ICT and are managed and staffed by local people.
• We support grassroots NGOs at the early stages of their development, enabling them to fully achieve their potential.
• We focus on the sustainability of our partners by investing in their organisational development.
• We encourage full participation of children, families and communities in all decisions that shape the programmes we support.
• We focus on rural areas, towns and secondary cities, where there are greater opportunities for a preventive approach and fewer international NGOs already operating.
• We encourage intra-learning by connecting all our partners through an Annual Consultation Meeting and exchange visits.
• We only deduct 5% for our own admin costs from the grants we secure.