Projects
Projects - introduction
The projects ASK supports have a wonderful story to tell. It’s a story of individual courage, commitment, and love. From staff who never give up on children to the effort and bravery of the children we care for who overcome the most horrendous backgrounds.
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Many of the project staff your support helps fund risk their lives to work with children who live in their communities. In Cape Town, Ingrid is often shown safe routes to her community centre by gang leaders when fights are in progress. Occasionally she walks to work with gun fire going on around her.
In Thailand, Jah leads the Child Protection Team. He is regularly threatened and has been shot at by pimps and gangs involved in prostitution of young children. ASK bought him a flak jacket and a new motor bike some years ago.
In Baghdad, just leaving your house puts you at risk of abduction, torture, being blown up or maimed, or shot. Salem goes out each day to ensure that the Baghdad Shelter has the diesel, food and medicines it needs to look after 12 children.
Our aim is to work with local people in local communities many of whom live and work in the some of the most dangerous places in the world. Places where violence, despair and poverty are the norm.
Street children wherever they are experience a lifetime of negative values such as hate, suspiciousness, intolerance, hunger, poverty and seeing and experiencing the worst in people. Our projects work because we show them a different life. Children are helped to love and respect themselves and others, to act with tolerance and with kindness and shown how to see the good that is in everyone.
Across the world, through these values, children’s lives are saved and rebuilt and in doing so people and communities are improved.
The inspiring story our projects tell is that it is positive values that work not negative ones. The true story of Baby Jaks on page XXX is a perfect example of our project staff never giving up believing in the children they work with and care for.
And it shows that the values of love, kindness, tolerance, compassion and discipline are more effective at changing lives and communities than hate, selfishness and intolerance.
These values are the foundation of our work.
