Boost for Charities Working with Children and Youth
Leeds (UK), June 2010 - Safeguarding Children eAcademy, a UK-based provider of online child-protection training courses donates a sizeable percentage of its revenues to child-related causes annually. Since 2007, it has handed over £54,000 to child-related charities, the majority nominated by the eAcademy's growing 65-strong UK membership, predominantly Local Safeguarding Children Boards.
Part of online training pioneer Virtual College, based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, the Safeguarding Children eAcademy has donated £2,000 to nineteen further charities in support of their work to date this year. Among them is the Great Mercy Orphanage in Kenya, the first overseas recipient, which provides a refuge for some sixty children. Another is the Janeve Foundation, a small volunteer-run charity in Malvern, Worcestershire that helps poor and marginalised people in southern India by providing healthcare, education, and training.
They also support Zoë's Place Baby Hospice in Normanby, Middlesbrough, one of only two baby hospices in the UK, offering specialist respite and palliative care to babies and infants from birth to five years old. A further recipient is Leeds-based Community Links, which provides community mental health services.
Abby Dacres, Safeguarding Children eAcademy manager, says, "We continue to make donations to child-related charities at home and abroad and take pride in seeing that our efforts are making a real difference to deserving children, young people, and their families in extreme need."
