OUR CHARITY PARTNERS 2022
This Christmas we’ve partnered with Children on the Edge; The charity has been continuously supporting some of the most marginalised children around the world since 1990.
During this year’s Christmas period, we have partnered with Children on the Edge. Since 1990 we’ve been continuously working alongside the Global charity to find creative solutions to support vulnerable children for over 30 years.
Today, the “edge” takes them into refugee camps, slums, and warzones where they support Rohingya, Congolese, and Syrian refugee children, and those facing internal displacement, caste discrimination, poverty, and exploitation.
Every time you shop with us or donate your reward vouchers this Christmas, we can help fund up to 195,000 days of education, to build brighter futures for refugee children.
Ben Wilkes, Children on the Edge Chief Operating Officer
“Your support this Christmas will be changing the future for young refugees. It will create opportunities for children to not only learn in their own language, but also help them to tell their own stories; through play, creative lessons and their own video blogs. You’re helping to create hope, and to give children a safe space where they can thrive”
WHO ARE CHILDREN ON THE EDGE?
Children on the Edge is a child rights organisation that works hand-in-hand with communities to support some of the world’s most marginalised children. They help to transform the lives of these children by creating safe spaces in which they can safely live, play, learn, and grow.
Anita Roddick sparked the beginnings of Children on the Edge in 1990, in response to the Romanian Orphanage Crisis.
MUAYAD
Muayad fled the war in Syria with his parents and five siblings and is now in Lebanon, where refugee children struggle to access education. His parents were never given the chance to learn to read, and his older siblings were sent out to work.
A Brighter Future:
Since he started the school supported by children on the edge, Muayed has not only learned to read and write but has classes in maths, science, history, geography and English. Muayad would now like to be a teacher when he grows up. He has dreams for his future, which he didn’t think about before. He hopes that with the school’s help, they will come to pass.
“I love learning and am so happy to be learning how to read and write. My father cannot read very well, so I am excited to be able to do this”
