Casa Do Caminho

Within Xerem, many families live in conditions of extreme poverty.

Primary and Secondary education are also of a very lower quality due to a lack of resources and teachers, but also a lack of support and development of the local infrastructure including transport routes and economic opportunities. Many of the families and children have also experienced violence, gang-related or otherwise.

Globally, there are significant gaps in health and education between rural and urban settings.

Casa Do Caminho gives the opportunity for children coming from these disadvantaged and troubled backgrounds to be part of a community that fosters health and education.

Run and operated by locals with local volunteers, we are able to provide educational support in the key areas of the local curriculum including math, Portuguese, science, geography, history and extracurricular areas including sport, health art, computer literacy and more.

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Community Engagement

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Rescue Centre

Globally, there are significant gaps in health and education between rural and urban settings.

Eldoret in Kenya is no different. Whilst also facing the struggles of a rural environment, many of the members of the community live below the poverty line. If this isn’t enough of a disadvantage, the children of the Rescue Centre are orphaned or abandoned children who have been brought to the Rescue Centre by the local authorities or community. The Rescue Centre acts as a home and shelter for these children, but also as a family for the children. 

What do we provide?

The Rescue Centre is not an orphanage. Whilst it houses these orphaned and abandoned children, the Rescue Centre works with the local authorities and agencies to find the closest living family member or relative of the children and develop a transitional program in which the child can move back to a family home whilst the family is also supported, mentored and resourced to take the child in.

By developing health and education within the Rescue Centre, we hope to:

  • Have every child return to a family home
  • Maintain the health and wellbeing of the children
  • Provide an environment suitable for fostering good health and education
  • Provide extracurricular activities including agriculture, skilled-apprentices, agriculture, computer literacy, music, sport, drama and art
  • Aim to have every child in the Rescue Centre able to go to university or have skills to work after high school

The Rescue Centre looks after over 100 children at any given time, aged 6-18 years of age.

Almost all the children who are received by the Rescue Centre are previously street children. Following their abandonment or orphaning, the children unfortunately end up on the community streets. Without social support services, these children experience sexual assault, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse to name a few hardships. Many children suffer from conditions including AIDS and HIV. The Rescue Centre not only works to provide counselling, therapy and treatment for these children, but also maintain and improve the health and wellbeing of these children long-term.

Find out about our other initiatives in community
engagement or global enlightenment here

Community Engagement

A platform where we unite communities around the world together through workshops and events aimed at improving the health and education of participants

Global Enlightenment

A platform where we provide digital health and education resources for all citizens of the world to progress and transform their own health and understanding of the world.

Sunsar Maya

Sunsar Maya in Kathmandu, Nepal provides educational opportunities to better the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children in Nepal.

Sunsar Maya believes in the power of education to improve lives, but also recognizes that education systems in developing countries do not often meet the needs of growing children with active minds and bodies. Traditional education often focuses on rote, repetitive learning, and does not give children a chance to make discoveries, ask questions, or embrace their own natural creativity—essential tools for learning how to think, reason, and find the joy in learning.

What this project aims to do

The goal of the Sunsar Maya project is to provide children with a safe and caring environment that will provide them with the emotional, physical and academic support they need to grow out of their circumstances and be successful in life.

The early childhood education program was started because it is the foundation for future learning, and because it was the first place children are truly encouraged to play freely, to explore and question, and to inhabit their joy. Many children in orphanages may be past this age biologically, but developmentally have never been given the chance to explore through art and music and play and so may be developmentally or emotionally delayed.

Find out about our other initiatives in community
engagement or global enlightenment here

Community Engagement

A platform where we unite communities around the world together through workshops and events aimed at improving the health and education of participants

Global Enlightenment

A platform where we provide digital health and education resources for all citizens of the world to progress and transform their own health and understanding of the world.

The Magic Room

In India, there are many levels of inequality from gender to income 

The Magic Room in New Delhi, India is an after-school and weekend project made for young girls who live in the urban slums of the Jahangirpuri and Adarsh Nagar region. Supporting 30-40 girls at any given time, ranging from 7-to-16 years of age attend the Magic Room out of their own will.

What do we provide?

PTW provides long-term and free support in these projects and provide the resources which these projects require. Some of the outcomes
which PTW have achieved through our Grassroots Development work include:

  • Providing free, regular and consistent tutoring and learning programs
  • Implementing education programs and resourcing projects for these programs such as Computer Literacy with computing hardware such as computers and tablets and extra-curricular activities such as music education programs and provide musical instruments
  • Building and creating learning centres and libraries for children to learn in a safe and secure environment that are resourced with text-books, literature books and learning materials
  • Running physical education and sports activities, and provide the required sporting equipment
  • Develop leadership programs that empower disadvantaged children to be leaders within their own homes and community
  • Provide sustainable resources such as solar-energy kits and clean-water kits for projects to use

The Magic Room is run by local volunteers coming from a range of backgrounds in teaching and education with the support of other skilled volunteers.

These volunteers provide routine and free learning opportunities for young girls who are not only disadvantaged by poverty and income inequality, caste, social and gender inequality.

The volunteers support and develop the children based on the local curriculum in areas of: math, Hindi, English, history, social civics, science and geography, but also bring extra activities to the Magic Room including computer literacy, health, personal development, music, sport, art and drama.

Find out about our other initiatives in community
engagement or global enlightenment here

Community Engagement

A platform where we unite communities around the world together through workshops and events aimed at improving the health and education of participants

Global Enlightenment

A platform where we provide digital health and education resources for all citizens of the world to progress and transform their own health and understanding of the world.