Kids Company, UK
Care and Education to Vulnerable Children
Kids Company is a charity founded in 1996 in
order to provide practical, emotional and educational support to
vulnerable inner-city children and young people.
Many of the 13,500 children reached by Kids
Company’s services have experienced severe and multiple trauma.
Often these are ‘lone children’ living in chronic deprivation, with
little or no support from the adults in their family. Some are
young carers struggling to look after younger siblings or parents
who are unable to care for them, and many have been forced into
drug running, gangs, or prostitution as the only means of survival
in their depleted communities.
Kids Company operates through a street level
drop-in centre (the Arches II), a post-16 educational institution
(the Urban Academy) and a therapy centre (the Heart Yard) in South
London, as well as offering therapeutic and social work services in
over 30 schools.
Kids Company has been elected “Charity of the Year” by the
Trafigura UK staff in a poll organised by the London Charity Committee. therefore, the
Trafigura Foundation decided to support their projects in 2010.
On this occasion, several of our colleagues in London have
enthusiastically spent some Saturdays to paint and decorate
the children’s bedrooms/garden with the “Color a Child’s Life”
project.
http://www.kidsco.org.uk/