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What we do
Our mission to help
We provide educational opportunities and disaster relief assistance to poverty-stricken children in developing countries.
Through relief efforts and academic resources, these children become empowered to grow into independent adults who will then become supportive leaders in creating a self-sustaining community.
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The mission of Child United is to pursue the following principles:
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Empowerment
Child United wants to inspire the younger generation through educational opportunities and advancement and to instill a sense of hope for their future.
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Education
The focus is on learning and helping youth establish goals and following through on their commitments for education.
Child United promotes education as a means of getting out of a cycle of poverty.
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Passion
Child United wants to expand the perspective of young people to make them aware of life and its possibilities.
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Support
An individual is dramatically influenced by their support system including family, friends, and the overall community.
Child United hopes to surround youth in a caring, inclusive learning environment.
Where we've helped
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Child United has helped children and their families in the following countries:
Cambodia
Laos
Philippines
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Nigeria
Uganda
What we've accomplished
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Personally delivered more than ten thousand relief bags to devastated survivors of natural disasters in the Philippines, 2009-2014.
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Fundraised and helped build a learning center in Cavite City, Cavite, Philippines.
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Monetarily assisted and provided shoes to children in a devastated orphanage in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
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Provided roofing materials to more than 350 households in devastated areas of the Philippines.
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Provided a dozen Philippine schools with thousands of educational books for study.
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Personally delivered school supplies to children in Uganda, Cambodia and Laos.
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With the help of hundreds of volunteers, Child United sent two shipping containers filled with donated supply goods from the U.S. in 2009 and 2013.
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Sponsored and provided monthly scholarships to 14 children in Pangasinan, Philippines.
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Provided more than a dozen laptops and computers to a children’s center in the Dominican Republic.