Beneficiaries

The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (Singapore)

The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund was launched in 2000 by The Straits Times to provide children with pocket money for school. In affluent Singapore, thousands of children have problems attending school every day. This is because their parents cannot afford to give them pocket money for recess or even the transport fare to school. Some students – as young as seven years of age – sit though classes on an empty stomach and guzzle tap water to ease their hunger pangs. In the last 10 years, the fund has lifted the lives of about 86,000 children and it is now Singapore's largest financial aid scheme for children.

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Project Happy Feet

Every year, Project Happy Feet will identify organizations located in developing nations that are in dire need of financial and organizational support. The team at Project Happy Feet will conduct audits and perform checks and balances to ensure the integrity of these organizations before pledging support.

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This year, Project Happy Feet has identified the following organizations to support:

Blue Dragon Children's Foundation (Vietnam)

Blue Dragon is a grassroots foundation working with kids in crisis throughout Vietnam. Its residential facilities, centres and programmes give children and youths a new chance in life. With Blue Dragon, these children now have the chance to have shelters over their heads, a good education and a happy, stable life. It aims to break them out of the poverty cycle by offering education, training and job opportunities to those who need them the most. The Blue Dragon Children's Foundation have transformed lives of children at and youths at risk, such as street kids, child victims of trafficking, runaways, children with disabilities, young rural-urban migrants, kids affected by drugs and HIV/AIDS, homeless families, child prisoners and the rural poor.

Blue Dragon believes that the best way to end the poverty is through education and training. It provides children in rural and urban areas with a chance to study wherever they are.

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This Life Cambodia (Cambodia)

This Life Cambodia is a not-for-profit, non-government community development oragnisation with a focus on education. It provides technical advice and support to individuals, communities and non-profit organisations in Cambodia. This Life Cambodia works to improve the quality of and access to education in Cambodia by listening to, engaging with and advocating alongside communities. Its ultimate goal is to help local people and groups become fully self-sustainable by providing educational and training opportunities, securing project funding, building infrastructure and creating networks to support their needs.

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