Established in 2006 to help children who ran away from home due to abuse and poverty. These children are particularly vulnerable to foreign paedophiles offering money for sex. Phuket is Asia’s number one tourist destination with 4 million tourists yearly.

Urgent Need:
At least S$85,000 is needed each year to help at risk children aged 6 to 18 by providing compulsory, formal education, counselling and rehabilitation, and medical aid to increase health services and awareness including HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections prevention.

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Partnering with Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, an NGO in Vietnam, World Vision is helping disadvantaged children in Hanoi and children who are abandoned by their parents due to their disabilities. Child sex tourism, lately a thriving industry in Vietnam is threatening the lives of thousands of young children in Hanoi. Many are trafficked to neighbouring countries such as Cambodia, Thailand and China. Children as young as 12 are sold to brothels as slaves.

Urgent Need:
At least S$105,000 is needed to help support the children’s needs in the Centre.

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Set up in 1993 to help the increasing number of street children in Phnom Penh City. For these children to survive, some are driven to begging on the streets from tourists, glue sniffing so that they can forget their hunger and pain. The older ones sell their blood to buy drugs in desperation.

Urgent Need:
At least S$75,000 each year to enable the Centre to reach out to more than 7,000 children a year.

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Started in 2005 to help abandoned, disabled orphans living in dilapidated governmental institutions in Uzbekistan. Due to tremendous neglect, many are unable to reintegrate into society and have slim chances of surviving adulthood. Girls from these institutions are especially vulnerable to child prostitution as it is extremely easy for pimps to sell these orphaned girls to the sex trade.

Urgent Need:
To help some 1,500 disabled orphans and families at risk of abandoning their children, World Vision is committed to support the Centre S$96,000 each year.

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An increasing number of some 130,000 children are living with severe disabilities in Nepal. A large percentage of these children are abandoned on the streets as parents cannot afford their high medical fees of caring for their children who become extremely vulnerable to child trafficking.

Urgent Need:
Helping some 400 children a year, World Vision requires S$51,000 to increase healthcare levels and provide medical treatment to these disabled children. World Vision also ensures children receive protection in their homes and away from potential child traffickers.

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Girl children, uncared and unwanted, suffer gender discrimination particularly in the remote parts of China. It is common to see abandoned girl babies left on the streets to die each day especially those with disabilities. In 2006, World Vision started the Shaanxi Children’s Project to support disabled children and protect them from exploitation and abuse.

Urgent Need:
Each year, World Vision requires at least S$120,000 to ensure these disadvantaged children receive the basic needs of life and that they are provided with medical assistance to treat their deformities.

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