Big Kids often have the time and the will to help others in the community. Below are some links to different charity organisations that need your help:


www.dreamscanbe.org (USA)

Dreams Can Be Foundation is a US 501 c3 nonprofit charitable supporting organization and a Brazilian NGO dedicated to aiding street children and impoverished youth in Brazil. We work in partnership with local organizations and NGOs to provide: education, moral and social development, humanitarian relief, and the offering of opportunities where there were none before. We envision all children of Brazil having the means to realize their hopes and build their dreams.

www.servingourworld.org (USA)

Serving Our World is a nonprofit 501© 3 International charity dedicated to providing care to orphan and abandoned children in developing countries, with current projects in East Timor, Thailand and future the first Children’s AIDS Hospital and Clinic. Together we are providing homes that have a loving family environment as well as caring for all physical and educational needs. Our vision is to care for and work together with local communities to help build a future as a whole. We also provide Relief from disasters, such as the Tsunami, by building homes and giving ongoing care to reestablish the family. Our areas of relief include providing meals and education, medical clinics and preschools along with hygiene facilities.

www.nationalmssociety.org (USA)

MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn't. We help each person address the challenges of living with MS through our 50 state network of chapters. We fund more MS research, provide more services to people with MS, offer more professional education and further more advocacy efforts than any other MS organization in the world. The Society is dedicated to achieving a world free of MS. We are people who want to do something about MS now. Join the movement.

www.concernchallenge.org  (Ireland)

Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Our mission is to help people living in extreme poverty achieve major improvements in their lives, working with the poor themselves, and with local and international partners who share the organisation’s vision, to create just and peaceful societies where the poor can exercise their fundamental rights.
Part of our fundraising strategy is for our supporters to take on physical challenges and raise funds through these events. Our main events are overseas treks to places such as the Inca Trail in Peru, The Great Wall of China, and The Himalayas, to name but a few. We also encourage supporters to run marathons, take on bungee jumps and skydive, and have even had supporters cycle to China and cross the Atlantic Ocean in specially designed rowing boats. All these events would be great for Big Kids. For more information visit our website.

Time to spare?

As the world’s largest orphan charity, SOS Children cares for over 60,000 children in 123 countries. We give children an SOS mother and family where they have lost their own through war, famine, disease or poverty.

To provide love and a long term family to these orphans and support a further 1 million children and adults in the wider community, we need volunteers to help us to continue to achieve this.

People who can spare time to help us at our office in central Cambridge or from home (with PC access). Support our fundraising and we can support children who are looking after siblings where parents have died from HIV/AIDS; give hot food and support to children living on the streets and give orphans a full time mum with brothers and sisters.

Could you help us by volunteering and give children a family for life?

www.makeachildsmile.org  (USA)