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Jonas Foundation helps social inclusion of Armenian children with disabilities
The Jonas Foundation, a Swiss charity that supports people with disabilities and other marginalised groups, has established a partnership with the Human Dignity and Peace Foundation (HDP), an Armenian NGO involved with work for children with disabilities. Through a grant from the Swiss charity,...
Earthquake Disaster Reduction in Turkey
In 2000, following a major earthquake in Turkey, Arup joined five other British engineering and construction firms operating in the country to form the British Earthquake Consortium for Turkey (BECT). Together the companies undertook a series of studies in a district which had suffered seriously...
The Veolia Foundation helps to improve conditions in Cambodian orphanage
A French NGO based in Lyon, the Association Droit, Développement et Partenariats Francophones (ADDPF), is working with the local Cambodian community to improve conditions in an orphanage on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. In addition to working to improve the the educational facilities at the...
The Veolia Foundation assists children with disabilities to access education in Calcutta
Two Indian NGOs, Calcutta de la Rue a l'Ecole, and Tomorrow's Foundation, have received a grant from the Veolia Foundation that will enable them to install a mobile education unit on a bus which crisscrosses Calcutta every day. Both NGOs work with children with physical and mental disabilities...
Hong Kong Bank Foundation supports training and accommodation for people with disabilities
Yu-on is in her 20s and she has muscular atrophy. Every day Yu-on's mother pushes her wheelchair to the street outside their housing estate to meet the van going to the Hongkong Bank Foundation Fung Tak Centre.
Hong Kong Bank Foundation helps support speech therapy services for children
The Hong Kong Bank Foundation has made a grant of HK$258,000 to Benji's Centre, the only charitable organisation in Hongkong currently providing specialised speech therapy for children. The grant will be used for the establishment of a parent resource corner and toy library.
Hong Kong Bank Foundation supports dyslexic students
The Hong Kong Bank Foundation is supporting the renovation of a learning and development centre for dyslexic students with a donation of HK$3.7 million. This will provide Hong Kong with the first one-stop service meeting the needs of some 1,000 dyslexic students and their parents in the community...
Beijing Rotary donates wheelchairs to NGOs in China
The US$ 75,000 Wheelchairs Project is one of the five matching grant projects the Beijing Rotary Club is involved in. It's partner club in this project is the Club of Burlingame, California. The wheelchairs are supplied by the Wheelchair Foundation Shanghai Office and are manufactured at a...
Hong Kong Jockey Club sponsors homes for people with disabilities
The Hong Kong Jockey Club sponsors the running costs of three Casa Famiglia houses run by the Hong Kong based NGO, Hong Fu, a charity that provides services and support for people with both physical and mental disabilities. Casa Famiglia houses provide accommodation in the community for 6 - 8...
The L'Occitane Foundation helps to fund an eye care centre in Bangladesh
ORBIS, an international NGO fighting against avoidable blindness in developing countries, is working with the L'Occitane Foundation to establish an opthalmology unit in Bangladesh. The unit will be established in an urban hospital and will have three satellite centres which will provide eye...