Welcome to the Website for Children's Helpers Worldwide!
Children's Helpers Worldwide aims to improve the lives of children who are desperately in need of help, due to poverty or illness. Take a look around our website to see our work, meet the children who benefit, and learn how you could make a difference to the lives of some of the world's most vulnerable children.
Could you help the children?
Seawind Educare, South Africa
We work in partnership with local organisations, because this means we can work together with people who truly understand the needs of the children. We are sent appeals from the local organisations. Right now we hope to fundraise for the following projects:
Ghana: New Life International Children's Home provides a home to around forty children. It runs a school which is attended by these children, and also by around one hundred and fifty more children from the surrounding villages. A few years ago, we bought some play equipment but it is so well loved it has become worn! We want to repair and extend the playground at New Life. Please see more information on our Ghana page. If you are able to help, you would be bringing happiness to a lot of children!
Argentina: Talleres Apadro has a range of projects for people with physical and mental disabilities. They want to start a children's music therapy project at their rehabilitation centre and have asked CHW for a donation towards this. This will be of great benefit to the children there. It would be great if you want to help make this project happen!
If you were able to fundraise for or donate to any of these projects, you would be making a BIG difference in the lives of some of the children who really need your help. If you want to make a contribution, please go to our "Donate" page. For more info on any of these projects, you can look on our country pages.
School Bus Project in Ghana
We are supporting the project at New Life International Children's Home to raise the funds to buy a school bus. The school is run for children living at the Home, and for children from the surrounding area. Having a bus would mean that children from further away could be collected and taken to the school and be driven home again once classes have finished. This will give these children access to an education, which is so important.
The director of New Life, Derrick Fletcher Gaise, has spoken to us about the school bus and it is possible to give donations to support this project through CHW. A facebook group is being run for this project by Derrick and former volunteers who have been to New Life. You can see it by clicking here. If you want to make a contribution through CHW, all the details are on our 'donate' page.
A group of schoolchildren at New Life
Coin Collection Total for School in Argentina!
Many thanks to everyone who donated their small change to our coin collection! We raised four hundred and fifty pounds. This will be used to buy resources for the school we support near Cordoba, in Argentina. We will keep you updated with the project at the school. A big thank you to everyone who collected their coins and to Jana Liebau for arranging a collection at K-International and to Emma Hughes and Steven Macey for arranging a collection at Swansea University. Thank you also to the volunteers who helped count the coins donated to us in London - Hannah, Jana, Ling, Victoria and Wenetta. It is very much appreciated that you gave up a Saturday afternoon to help with the counting!
Some of the volunteers at the coffee shop where we counted the coins!
News from the Carpentry Workshop Project in Romania!
We completed the funding for this project a while ago, through the Ten for Ten Campaign, and other fundraisers. The carpentry workshop will allow Sorin to start a family business and enable him to give each of his eleven children a better start to life. The local Romanian organisation, FAST, is overseeing the building of the workshop. Many thanks to FAST's President, Daniel Hristea, for keeping us updated and sending us photos! The workshop is nearly finished, as you can see from the following photos. Sorin and his oldest son, Lucian, have been helping to build the workshop. Thank you to everyone who helped with this appeal.
The carpentry workshop so far
Sorin with two of his children at the workshop
Donation towards a Baby's Surgery in China
Following our Chinese Tea Party fundraiser, we were able to make a donation of two hundred and twenty pounds to the Baobei Foundation, in Shanghai. It went towards the medical fees for Baby Rose, an orphan, who needed surgery for teratoma. Baobei also provides aftercare for babies who have had surgery and have told us that Baby Rose is recovering well!
Thank you so much to everyone who took part with the fundraiser, as this will be life-changing for Baby Rose.
Baby Rose
Chinese Tea Party Fundraiser!
Thank you to everyone who took part! People from around the UK either drank a cup of tea and made a donation or held a tea party for the fundraiser. Also, thanks to Diana Rodwell, people in Sydney, Australia, also took part!
In total we raised four hundred and forty pounds. This was split between the two children's medical organisations we support in China: the Shanghai Bo Ai Rehabilitation Centre and the Baobei Foundation. We will keep you updated with how the donations are used.
Yan and Marie-Lise at one of the CHW Chinese tea parties in London
Cake Sale at the College of Law and Art Project in Romania!
CHW was able to raise one hundred and twenty-five pounds at a cake sale just in time for the summer programmes run by the Atelier Sacelean Association in Romania. The Association helps underprivileged children in Sacele. Thank you to everyone who baked cakes and cookies, and to the College of Law, Bloomsbury, for letting the fundraiser go ahead. The money raised was used to buy art materials. Oana, a Romanian volunteer at the Association, ran the art project, and has also sold some of the items made, to fundraise for the Association! This is great as local fundraising is more sustainable and, also, Oana has been able to pass on her artistic skills to others.
One of the many pieces from the art project.
Local Transport Business Supports a Cape Town Creche
Charmaine Alexander, who runs a transport business in Cape Town, has donated clothes and food to Seawind Educare Creche. Charmaine mostly drives volunteers and found out about Seawind Educare when driving CHW's founder, Catherine, to the creche. The creche is run for children who live in townships and the Cape Flats - the most disadvantaged areas in Cape Town. Charmaine wants to be involved in supporting the children. Catherine recommends Charmaine and her other drivers. If anyone (not just volunteers) wants to visit Cape Town and needs transport services, we would be happy to put you in touch with Charmaine.
Charmaine, who donated clothes and food to the creche
Toys and Clothes for Two Orphanages in Ghana!
Children at New Life International Children's Home with the clothes and soft toys.
Thank you to everyone who donated children's clothing. The clothes went to New Life International Children's Home, in the village of Ansapatu. Thank you to our Appeals Assistant, Marie-Lise Despeghel, who accepted a donation of soft toys on behalf of CHW. These toys went to the youngest children at the Home. We are also grateful for a donation of knitted teddies which were given to the children at Sankofa Mbofra Fie, which runs a school and orphanage in the village of Eguafo. Thank you to everyone for your generosity!
One of the girls at Sankofa with her new teddy
Baby Clothes and Special Sensory Toys for Organisations in China!
We were able to donate the clothes and toys to two organisations in China. Many thanks to Sarah McGee who donated some gorgeous baby clothes! The clothes were given to the Baobei Foundation which helps orphans, born with critical neurological and gastro-intestinal disorders, to have the surgeries they need and also provides them with the necessary aftercare.
The special sensory toys went to the children’s rehabilitation centre we support in Shanghai. The centre mainly helps children with cerebral palsy and autism. Below is a photo of the centre’s director, Gao Ya Li, accepting the donation.
Gao Ya Li with the special sensory toys
Thank you to everyone who made these donations possible.
Ten for Ten Campaign Complete!
We have now finished the Ten for Ten Campaign, which we ran to help support a family in Romania living in abject poverty. The family has ten children and live in the Roma village of Tarlungeni. Their father, Sorin, desperately wants to work to support his children, but communities like his are often cut off from the local economy. The Romanian organisation, FAST, works with families and children in the villages around Sacele, and appealed to us to raise the funds to build a carpentry workshop, so Sorin could start a business. Through this, he will be able to support each of his children, bringing them out of the cycle of poverty. When the children are grown up, they could also join the business and provide for themselves, so this project will have an impact through the generations. Daniel, the President of FAST, will keep us updated with the progress of the project. A big thank you to everyone who supported this appeal and made it possible to raise the £2,500 needed. Thank you to our Patrons, Steve Parkinson and Ottilia Saxl for their support.
Sorin and his wife, with nine of their ten children
Bag Packing Fundraiser at Sainsbury’s in Camden!
A big thank you to all of the people who volunteered, and to Sainsbury’s for letting us hold a fundraiser there. The photo below shows people who were volunteering on the last ‘shift’ but we want to thank everyone who helped: Agnieszka, Anna, Emma, Ilias, Jana, Kelly, Lisa, Louise, Mara, Mark, Sarah and Yitao. Special thanks to Emma, Jana and Mara, who were there all day and to Emma for helping to count the coins! We raised four hundred and twenty pounds which will go to our projects in South Africa and Romania.
Some of the volunteers who helped at the bag packing fundraiser