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Thirteen worthy causes from across the globe have been selected to receive support from TFWA Care, the association’s charitable initiative, in 2017, representing a total of €500,000 in donations.

As always, the charities were nominated by TFWA members prior to approval by the TFWA Management Committee. TFWA Care assesses the nominated causes according to a number of strict criteria, including the tangible benefits they bring to people in need. Priority is given to projects that TFWA can support from day one and continue to aid as the venture is completed to ensure that the support has a lasting legacy. In addition, organisations that support women and children, and those that help the recipients to help themselves in a sustainable way, are also top of the list. Efforts are made to select organisations that have a particular connection to TFWA’s members.

‘The point that ‘good things only happen if we make them happen’ was a focus for us when we launched TFWA Care back in 2005, and that belief remains firm today,’ said TFWA president Erik Juul-Mortensen. ‘Thanks to the support of TFWA’s members and other stakeholders in the industry, we have been able to bring about positive change to the lives of many vulnerable people across the world.’

TFWA is supporting four new charities this year:

Folohaiti works on disaster relief after Hurricane Matthew destroyed much of the island of Haiti. Supported by TFWA Care, the association is rebuilding a primary school in the town of Cherettes, whose young children have had little or no access to education since the devastating hurricane of 2016.

Kampuchea Balopp provides free access to sports and group activities to more than 600 boys and girls in Phnom Penh, Cambodia every week. With the virtues inherent in sportsmanship and camaraderie in athleticism, Kampuchea Balopp uses rugby as its main tool to promote gender equality and civic values among young Cambodians.

LittleBigHelp’s goal is to improve the lives of slum children in Kolkata, India, providing them with schooling, improved hygiene and healthcare. TFWA Care is supporting the creation of three new community centres in Kolkata, helping to break the cycle of poverty in the city’s slums.

OneSight created a market-based solution that equips and empowers local authorities in developing countries to establish self-sustaining ‘vision centres’ within their existing healthcare systems. With TFWA Care’s support, this year OneSight is to launch the project in Rwanda, with the opening of around 40 new vision centres across the country.

TFWA will also continue to support the following charities:

Les Enfants du Mékong educates and trains young people in Southeast Asia to enable them to improve their living conditions. It now operates in seven different countries in the region through sponsorship programmes and the development of infrastructure for education.

Lotus Flower Trust is dedicated to changing children’s lives through education. The trust builds schools and homes and provides access to education for disadvantaged young people in remote areas of India. Since its creation in 2008 the trust has completed more than 40 projects changing the lives for thousands of children.

Nosy Komba Solidarité is tackling malnutrition and fighting endemic infectious diseases in the rapidly expanding villages of Ampangorina and Antitorono on the Madagascan island of Nosy Komba. Their goal is to improve the living conditions of local people and contribute to the sustainable and ecological development of the area.

Toutes à l’école is committed to developing education for young girls living below the poverty line in Cambodia. The charity set up the Happy Chandara school for girls in Prek Thmey in Kandal Province, near Phnom Penh, which now welcomes 970 pupils from primary school through to school leaving age. This year TFWA Care will continue to sponsor the girls of class 7D at Happy Chandara.

The Hope Foundation rescues children from the streets and slums of Kolkata, India. The charity offers the children protection, education, training, healthcare, food and support, helping to improve their quality of life and give them a better future. Thanks to TFWA Care, the charity is building and equipping a new training room and computer unit at its centre at Panditya Place.

Streethearts Haiti provides a community care centre for street children in Cap-Haitien in the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation. The safe house gives children a clean and protected environment in which they can study, take part in sports and eat well, alongside becoming involved in community service activities and a social work programme.

Cosmetic Executive Women Foundation provides beauty therapy to cancer patients whose appearance and self-esteem have been severely affected from chemotherapy. Its main charitable activity is the operation of beauty centres at hospitals, supporting the important role that confidence can play in women’s recovery from serious illness.

Self Help Community Centre provides educational and vocational opportunities to over 1,500 disadvantaged children and young adults in the Kro Bei Riel Community, Siem Reap, Cambodia. SHCC also provides sustainable development initiatives and programmes to the wider rural community, educating and empowering the community to become self-sufficient.

Aide et Action runs educational programmes across over 25 developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Since 2013, the support of TFWA Care has helped Aide et Action’s iLEAD project successfully train hundreds of young people in the Indian cities of Trivandrum and Bilaspur, placing them in employment and thereby helping them to improve their living conditions and those of their families.

For more information please visit www.tfwacare.com.