www.cncf.org

An international non-government organization dedicated to serving the world's oppressed and marginalized children. The Foundation has a number of programs in Mongolia, including work with vulnerable street children, a prison education scheme and healthcare initiatives.

Mongolia has particularly harsh winters. A large number of street children are forced by the cold to seek shelter in the sewers beneath Ulaanbataar. CNCF is not only working to help these children but is addressing the root causes of this problem.

CNCF Mongolian Initiatives include:
The Sunshine Ger Village Project
The Foundation established a shelter for street children and orphans in Ulaanbaatar. The shelter consists of 11 gers and a kindergarten.

Prison Education Project
The prison system in Mongolia owes much to the Russian concepts of punishment, and largely ignores ideas of rehabilitation, even for children in prison. CNCF are working with children in these prisons. As most children arrive in prison illiterate the focus is on reading, writing and mathematics.

Healthcare Project
In 1998 CNCF renovated the paediatric wing of the Charity Hospital, the only hospital in Ulaanbaatar, which provides free healthcare to people without money or health insurance. CNCF operates a clinic here five days a week, to provide free health care and medication to the children in the sponsorship program and street children.

The Foundation operates a mobile night clinic for street children that travels the city's streets, visiting manholes where children are known to congregate.

Send a Cow

Reg. Charity no. 299717

www.sendacow.org.uk www.cowforce.com

Send a Cow is a charity that enables poor farmers in Africa to become self-reliant by providing them with livestock, training and advice. They work with some of the most vulnerable groups in Africa, including children orphaned by war, families affected by AIDS, and disabled people.

In East Africa 85 per cent of the people depend on small-scale farming to survive. Send a Cow provides families with a cross-bred cow whose milk yield is very high this provides a lasting solution, enabling them to combat malnutrition with protein-rich milk and earn an income from the sale of the surplus milk. Manure from cows and other livestock is used as a natural fertilizer enabling an increase in harvest yield.

Families are able to improve their diets with milk, eggs, meat and honey, and sell the surplus to bring in desperately needed income. Many families invest some of this income in other money-earning ventures, such as more land and livestock or a small shop. Most use it to keep their children in school.

The initial gifts go on multiplying indefinitely, as each person who receives livestock passes on the animal's first female offspring to another poor farmer, who will do the same in turn. Send a Cow are now working in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Lesotho.

In 2005 over £43,000 was raised for charity by Participants in the Mongol Rally, with monies still coming in. With an increase in team numbers we hope to raise over £200,000 in 2006!