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Cameroon: The Western Union Foundation offers $200,000 to help children from SOS Children’s village

Cameroon: The Western Union Foundation offers $200,000 to help children from SOS Children’s village
  • Comments   -   Wednesday, 07 October 2015 02:42

(Business in Cameroon) - The Western Union Foundation, the charitable arm of the world’s money transfer giant, just offered a 200,000 dollars check (around FCFA 100 million) to the heads of SOS Children’s village, a non-profit organization which takes in and train abandoned and vulnerable children all around Africa.

The Western Union Foundation said this grant which is the result of contributions from Western Union agents worldwide would help support education of children from SOS Children’s villages in 15 African countries including Cameroon. Patrick Gaston, President of the Western Union Foundation, said, “The Foundation is dedicated to creating a better world, where the ability to make dreams can come true through economy opportunities is not restricted to a few but is a right for all”.

“This donation will directly impact more than 700 orphaned and other vulnerable African children by, increasing their educational access through scholarships and distribution of essential school supplies; improving the quality of education at the primary and secondary levels through the construction of new facilities and the provisioning of new activities; and the inclusion of new technology in the curriculum”, he adds.

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