More on Intrepid Foundation record year
The Intrepid Foundation’s funds distribution this year is so BIG that we are telling you about it over two articles. In 2012 we’re giving away a total of AU$427,333 with thanks to Intrepid travellers and matching donations from Intrepid Travel. Following on from last week’s Asia announcements, here are details of more beneficiary organisations, their fabulous projects and the amounts they will be receiving…
Egypt
- Animal Care in Egypt (ACE) – improving the lives of the working animals of Egypt. AU$7,691
Morocco
- Handicapped Project Horizon – supporting the rehabilitation, health and social and economic empowerment of persons with disabilities. AU$8,482
Tanzania
- Amani Children’s Home – providing a loving home, education and medical care for street children and orphans. AU$27,996
- Village Education Project – improving primary and vocational education. AU$6,030
Kenya
- New Hope Children’s Home – providing a home, care and education for disadvantaged children in the Limuru region. AU$7,596
- Saidia Children’s Home – providing a safe place for disadvantaged children and helping them break the cycle of poverty. AU$2,796
South Africa
- Thusanani Children’s Foundation – helping prevent and treat developmental delay in orphaned and vulnerable children in children’s homes. AU$9,014
Peru
- Living Heart – health and nutritional support for disadvantaged communities in the Sacred Valley area. AU$10,180
- Escuela Winaypaq – providing free primary bilingual education and nutritional support to needy children from villages around the Taray District of the Sacred Valley. AU$6,232
Ecuador
- Charles Darwin Foundation – supporting the restoration of the habitat of Floreana Island and the Floreana mockingbird project in the Galapagos Islands. AU$2,766
Russia
- Nochlezhka – working with homeless on the streets of St Petersburg and supporting their Night Bus project. AU$2,210
Czech Republic
- The Fund for Children in Need (Fond ohrožených dětí) – helping children in need with temporary shelters, foster homes, holiday camps and guidance. AU$2,691
The Intrepid Foundation donations now total over AU$3 million in the last 10 years. For details of ALL funds distributed for 2011-12 financial year, please see the beneficiaries on The Intrepid Foundation website.
Photo: © Village Educations Project, Tanzania
