I have met personally with the Global Angels CEO and can assure everyone that she is committed to truly making a difference in the lives of children around the world. That is why we have put our support behind the Global Angels. Every day they work tirelessly saving children from terrible conditions including slavery. I strongly encourage all of our Culminis family to support the organization and find ways to participate. EVERYONE can be an Angel. Go HERE to start the process to Step Up and be an Angel.
Thanks!
Dave Sanders
Culminis CEO
Global Angels is an innovative international children’s charity championing the needs of children around the world. Founded by Molly Bedingfield (mother of Natasha and Daniel Bedingfield), Global Angels is quickly becoming the charity of choice for celebrities and the public alike. Ambassadors include the likes of Natasha Bedingfield, Lemar and Daniel Bedingfield.
THE GLOBAL ANGELS PROMISE:
A unique charity in itself, Global Angels promises that for every pound of public money donated to their causes, ALL will go directly to support projects working with children at a grass-roots level.
Global Angels main aim is a simple one:
TO MAKE THE WORLD A SAFER AND KINDER PLACE FOR ALL CHILDREN
In aiming to make the world a safer and kinder place for all children, there are 5 areas on which Global Angels focus its efforts:
- Food and education for children living in extreme poverty
- Trafficked children and child slaves
- Street kids and orphans
- Children living with disability or illness
- Providing clean safe water
Global Angels champion and fundraise for best practice projects making a significant impact in the following areas.
Programs operate in Mozambique, Sudan, Angola, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Costa Rica, Brazil, Nepal, India, and Cambodia
FIVE AREAS OF FOCUS:
1. To Feed and educate children living in extreme poverty
FACT: 1 billion children in the world today live in extreme poverty; 130 million children lack access to education (Unicef)
Global Angels have a goal to feed and educate 1 million children in Africa, Asia and Latin America through their school feeding program. Providing 70% of a child’s daily food through a school feeding program encourages parents to send their children to school for the first time. Through providing education to children who would not otherwise be given the opportunity to go to school, the charity is empowering children and their families to break the cycle of poverty for themselves. Knowledge opens the door to choices, giving children a real hope for the future.
2. To Empower Street children, orphans
FACT: There are estimated to be 150 million street children around the world
(UN 2001)
FACT: In Sub-Saharan Africa alone there are at least 48 million orphans (UN 2006)
Millions of children live and work on the streets, without protection from traffickers, pedophiles, criminals and abusers. Millions of children do not have food or education, adequate shelter, or a loving family as we know it.
3. To provide freedom, rehabilitation and protection for trafficked children and child slaves trapped in sex slavery, debt bondage or slave labour
FACT: 8.4 million children work as slave laborers, child sex slaves or soldiers worldwide
(The Int. Labor Organisation)
4. To provide access to safe and clean water for all children, and protecting those that are under the ravages of environmental change – and educate children on how to respect our planet and help other children suffering the effects of climate change
FACT: 21 per cent of children in developing countries are severely water deprived, living without a safe water source within a fifteen minute walk of their homes (UNICEF)
FACT: Lack of safe water is the world’s single largest cause of illness
FACT: 4,500 children die every day from unsafe water
5. To support Children living with disability or life threatening illness.
ensuring they are given the proper care and attention they deserve – best practice
FACT: 30 million children die each year from preventable diseases (World Hunger)
SOME PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT…..
School Feeding Program in Mozambique
In Guludo, Mozambique, Global Angels has partnered with NEMA to provide food for 300 children this year in a new school-feeding program. Because of living in extreme poverty, 200 of these children previously had no opportunity to go to school. The village is being transformed.
Feeding Program for Street Kids and Impoverished children in Costa Rica
50% of the Costa Rican population is under the age of 15. Thousands of children grow up hungry, without daily nutritious food. Unable to focus in school and fatigued from the lack of food, these children grow up with all the difficulties associated with malnutrition. A network of child focused soup kitchens and feeding centers feed 1,500 children a daily nutritious breakfast.
School for street kids and orphans in Kenya
MCF, in Kenya is home to over 1,000 former street children from the slums of Kibera, Nairobi. Global Angels has provided 4 homes for 240 boys and a water purification plant for 600 children and their surrounding community. The MCF school is now number 26 in the top 100 schools in Kenya. This project represents one of the many outstanding street kids and orphans projects on our website.
Kids Behind Bars, Philippines
A Jubilee Action and CNN investigation revealed that kids in the Philippines are being held in cramped, overcrowded cells, detained with hardened criminals and pedophiles, in conditions some call torture. Global Angels is helping Preda with funds to build a new Home where boys released from prison can receive the care and personal attention they deserve. The centre will provide medical services, appropriate therapy, educational and social skills training. It will also act as a contact point between the boys and their family.
Children Rescued from the Child Sex Slave Industry in Mumbai, India
Global Angels has teamed up with human rights charities, Jubilee Action and Teen Challenge Bombay, as they rescue and rehabilitate orphaned and abandoned children from the red light district, of Mumbai, India. Global Angels is are fundraising to support children in two residential homes which now house over 100 children rescued from the red light district. The children can grow up in a loving and caring environment, rehabilitated, educated and equipped with the skills which will enable them to break the cycle of poverty and slavery.
Fresh Water in Mozambique and Cambodia
In Mozambique, Global Angels has helped to provide fresh water wells for 15,000 people whose only water supply was to drink from water holes shared with elephants and other animals.
In Cambodia, Global Angels has just provided 18 water filters and 11 wells for families through Hagar in Phnom Penh. Hagar, works with disabled, exploited and vulnerable children. When a child is returned to their family of origin, they are each given a Bio Sand Filter. Due to its simple technology, low cost, easy maintenance and proven effectiveness, a vast improvement is seen in each family and surrounding families, as the water is shared with everyone in the village.
Abandoned Disabled Children in Thailand
After winning ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’, Lydia George donated all her prize money to set up 4Life, in support of children in Thailand that are abandoned because of their disabilities.
Living in appalling conditions, many of these children exist in an environment where the most basic human needs of physical touch, care and stimulation are simply not provided. 4Life runs Day Care centers, a community based care program, a home and school for disabled children and orphans.