Charity profile – Child’s i Foundation www.childsifoundation.org
Uganda has over 2.3 million orphans. Searing poverty and the horror of HIV/AIDS results in hundreds of babies as young as a few hours old being dumped by their desperate mothers – in toilets, car parks, or on roadsides.
With all the current care homes full, life often looks bleak – and short – for these very young, vulnerable babies.
Child’s i Foundation was founded two years ago by Lucy Buck who’s part of Seth’s community Triiibes. Together with everyone involved in Child’si, Lucy’s developed a ‘Baby Abandonment Project’ to tackle the crisis of child abandonment in Uganda on a number of levels.
Child’s i’s ’Malaika Babies Home’ is providing life-saving care for up to 24 abandoned babies. Next month we’re opening up a mother and baby crisis home and drop in centre to give vulnerable mothers the chance to keep their children instead of feeling they have no option other than abandoning them.
We want to teach them to be good mothers and give them the vocational skills to enable them to keep their children.
We’ll also be implementing a family placement programme, so children who are abandoned get the chance to grow up in a loving family, rather than living out their childhood in an institution.
Child’s i’s and ‘charity 2.0′
We don’t ask people simply to put money in an envelope and forget about them.
We want to create meaningful relationships and a connected global community of support with people who are giving love, time or money for a cause we all share and care about.
As an unstructured kind of organization everyone can get involved with the Child’s i Foundation. Our supporters help us complete our to-do lists, volunteer their skills, raise funds and are a part of what we’re doing.
They can see change happening right in front of their eyes though our website, through videos, emails and blogs.
We’re constantly connected as a community of purpose and can physically show our supporters just where their efforts are going. Please come join in, your vote would be brilliant and it would be wonderful to have your support. Thank you!
www.childsifoundation.org
[...] Charity 1: Child’s I Foundation Lucy Buck set up the Child’s i Foundation as an interactive charity in 2008 to create a centre in Uganda providing life saving care to abandoned babies. Ultimately, the aim is to enable early rehabilitation of abandoned babies, either back into the child’s natural family or by finding foster or adoptive families who will care for them in the long term. The success of this project relies on an online community, a tribe, working together, giving love, time and money to help these abandoned babies have their natural right to a loving home. Our first centre, the Malaika Babies Home, was opened four weeks ago. We’re already now looking after 8 babies and teaching their mothers skills which they can use to help fend for themselves. Malaika means ‘angel’, a name chosen by Child’s i supporters. The Child’s i community is coming together around the world as one community helping to look after another, helping to make this promise a reality. [...]
[...] won with a 15 vote lead. Thank you to all 2,608 of you who cared enough to vote. Thank you also to Child’s I Foundation for campaigning so hard and with such passion. [...]
[...] because it was one of 3 in a vote for a the Linchpin Magazine’s Charity partner. Lucy Buck of Childsi is a dear friend, so I knew that was a Linchpin shoe-in. I have heard and seen all the great work [...]