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Child's Dream (Child’s Dream Foundation) is a non-profit charity organization for helping underprivileged children in the Mekong subregion, incorporated in Canton Zurich, Switzerland, and based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It was founded in 2003 by two Swiss men, Marc Jenni and Daniel Siegfried.[1]
It provides support to street children, AIDS orphans and all children suffering from poverty; sponsors building schools, medical treatment and the supply of medicines; and so on. By November 2009, Child's Dream Association had helped more than 150,000 children in Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Cambodia. Since 2003, the Foundation has supported more than one hundred projects and gathered more than 3,000,000 USD in donations.
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Principles
The association declares the following as its principles:
- Providing support to projects caring for children living in poverty
- Unconditional support
- Fund allocation with integrity
- Fundraising through personal relationships and trust
- Maintain independence and diversity
- Financial transparency
- Minimal administration expenses
Current projects
Among the projects current active are the following:
- Construction of school infrastructure in Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand at a cost of more than 1,000,000 USD per year.
- Children Medical Fund (financial support for medical treatment of children with special needs), annual budget - 250,000 USD.
- Scholarship Program (sponsoring study of stidents), annual budget - 440,000 USD.
- Stationery Bank (supply school materials to migrant schools), annual budget - 150,000 USD.
- Malaria Control Programme, annual budget - 200,000 USD
References
- ^ Gerber, Regula (2009-08-28). "Child's Dream Foundation Helps Mekong Region's Needy". Credit Suisse Online Publications. http://emagazine.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenArticle&aoid=266781&lang=EN. Retrieved 08 November 2009.
External links
Categories:- Non-profit organisations based in Switzerland
- Children's charities
- Non-governmental organisations based in Thailand
- Organisations based in Zurich
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