Lotus Children’s Centre, Mongolia
Shelter and Education to
Vulnerable Children
The Lotus Children's Centre is a
Mongolian non-profit organisation working with vulnerable children
and families, providing them with shelter, food and education. It
cares for up to 105 abused, orphaned or abandoned children. The
three goals of Lotus are:
- To provide primary care to all sheltered children: food, health
care, clothing and accommodation
- To provide the children with developmental care so that they
can break free of the poverty cycle. For example, Lotus aims to
give each child a quality education, counselling, self esteem
building exercises and the access to life skills
- To provide the children with support in their "post-Lotus"
lives, so that they have a safety net and are able to find
employment and tertiary education placements.
Lotus believes, and so does the
Foundation, education is a key tool for the development of each
child. Classes are organized for children with special needs,
vocational training for the manually minded and access to a good
quality academic education for all.
In 2009 the Trafigura Foundation
has granted Lotus a donation over a 3-year period.
In order to offer a safer
environment to those children and teenagers, Trafigura
Foundation also support the MCAF
Foundation which initial project is to build a brand new centre for
Lotus.
http://www.lotuschild.org/
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