Charity Partners in Asia

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is a national charity of the Australian Book Industry that aims to raise literacy levels of Aboriginal and Torres Strait children living in remote Australia. Their core focus is to instil a lifelong love of reading from the earliest age and their three programs focus on: book supply – the delivery of free books to more than 250 remote communities across Australia; publishing books with communities (where possible in language); and an early literacy project called Book Buzz which provides quality board books to communities (some in First language).

The Indigenous Literacy Foundation works to build strong, ongoing relationships with the local community organisations.

HKRU Community Foundation was established in March 2013 with the aim of providing a separate identifiable vehicle to manage the HKRU's charitable activities. This was done to achieve the dual objectives of promoting the positive influence the HKRU has on the community and encouraging corporate and social responsibility funds to assist in these programmes to allow their continuation and expansion.

The Hans Andersen Club - Hans Andersen Club Limited (HAC) is a pioneer on promoting creative storytelling and reading activities. Established in 1963, HAC got six centres located at Quarry Bay, Wong Tai Sin, Lamma Island and Lantau Island, serving more than 100,000 people every year. Storytellers of HAC served over 200 schools and libraries in recent years. HAC takes underprivileged children & families as our service target and purport to provide adequate trainings and readily accessible resources on storytelling. The Club’s goal is to enable children to enjoy a holistic development and to adapt to a knowledge based society.

Since 1997, Aseema Charitable Trust a Mumbai-based non-governmental organization has been working with the vulnerable section of the society – children living in slum communities in Mumbai and remote tribal communities in Igatpuri, Maharashtra.

Aseema’s mission is to equip children from marginalized communities with high quality, value based education enabling development of their limitless potential. In Mumbai, Aseema works in partnership with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai(MCGM) to create centres of excellence within the public education system. In addition to academics, the children enjoy a wide range of co-curricular activities, excursions and festival celebrations. Nutritious meals are offered on a daily basis and health camps are organized as required.

Through these and other initiatives, Aseema reaches out to over 4000 children annually.

Fight Hunger Foundation was created in August 2012, and is a not-for profit Indian organisation that promotes community based approaches for the management of acute malnutrition and works towards prevention, detection and treatment of malnutrition. It is India’s only foundation exclusively dedicated to child malnutrition.

Severe acute malnutrition, the most serious form of hunger, is deadly if left untreated and threatens millions of lives each year. For young children, the consequences of acute malnutrition are particularly severe and reach far into the future. Fight Hunger Foundation detect, treat and prevent acute malnutrition  in children so they can regain their health and fulfil their potential.

Fight Hunger Foundation’s goal is to reach 3 million children and mothers by 2017.

Muktangan was set up in 2003, in a partnership between Paragon Charitable Trust and the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM). Muktangan is an innovative model of education located within mainstream Government schools providing quality, child-centred, inclusive English-medium schooling to thousands of underprivileged children in Mumbai. They are truly “Education for the Community, by the Community”, developing teachers from the same neighbourhoods as the students, who then become empowered change agents.

Mission: To evolve sustainable, replicable inclusive models of quality child-centred teacher education and school programmes in partnership with marginalized communities and to advocate them to the larger system.

The Indian Rugby Football Union is a non-profit organization incorporated under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act. It is the sole Governing Body for the sport of Rugby-Football in India and recognized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India.

The awareness of Rugby as a sport is very low in India. The mission of Indian Rugby Football Union is to spread awareness and increase participation to improve the overall playing standard and competitiveness of Rugby across the country.

 The World Rugby ‘Get Into Rugby’ (GIR) Programme is a global initiative to spread awareness of the sport and increase participation in India. The ‘Get Into Rugby’ (GIR) Programme in India has been introduced across all centres by targeting the youth through schools, colleges and the community.

In partnership with Rugby India, Societe Generale will help nurture talent and fuel interest for Rugby in the country from the grassroots, improving the overall playing standard and competitiveness of the sport. This partnership is part of the “Citizenship Programme” developed by Societe Generale, aiming to support underprivileged communities through education and sports in all countries where it operates.

Beyond Social Services("BSS") was selected on 15 April 2015 as the locally sponsored charity for Societe Generale Singapore for 2015/2016. BSS is a charity which guides children and youths from less privileged backgrounds and steers them away from delinquency and other poverty related problems.

BSS works at supporting neighbourhoods to be caring communities which provide guidance, care, protection and resources to keep young people in school and out of trouble. Societe Generale Singapore staff has partnered with BSS on a number of activities, including:

• Fund raising food & fun fair with staff and family
• Cycles for Community to repair bicycles for the children
• LIFE Program where children are tutored in their studies and learn though sports
• Rugby clinic with the children
• Kayaking event with the children

Societe Generale Singapore supportsh Passerelles Numeriques in Danang, Vietnam. PN is a non-profit organisation which is dedicated to helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds obtain an education and qualified employment in the Information Technology sector.

Established in Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam, PN currently trains 545 students and hopes to train 750 over the next 3 years. It employs 75 people based in those countries and also has a small team in France. Soceiete Generale Singapore has partnered with PN in the following initiatives:

• Cloud services evaluation and strategy
• Guidance on setting up a computer lab room
• Evaluation and assistance in establishing an IT security policy
• Financial literacy education for students, which includes topics such as personal budget management and banking ecosystems
• Professional Life Training Course for students to help them prepare resumes and for job interviews
• Fund raising and donating books to establish a library
• Improve their English through learning in the English Club

Taiwan Fund for Children & Families - TFCF - is a non-governmental organisation that dedicates itself to  supporting needy children and their families with welfare and benefits.
TFCF  is an independent organisation whose mission and vision remains on the  consideration of needy children's benefits.TFCF is helping children in  dire need not only within Taiwan but also in 34 other countries  worldwide.