Child’s i Foundation is a charity and worldwide community aiming to build a home for abandoned babies in Uganda.
Link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bw4MG7nXZA
In this video Lucy Buck (Child’s i Foundation Founder and Project Director) tells us why she set up the charity and how, as a community, we intend to succeed in our ambitions.
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Why we are not an orphanage.
The term “orphanage” might be a good way to pull in money but we would rather describe ourselves as ‘short-term transitional home’. We will provide specialist care to safeguard the lives of infants whose might otherwise be at terrible risk. Ultimately, our aim is for early rehabilitation …
Child’s i Foundation partners with Hope for Children.
One critical success factor in our plan has been to partner up with an established charity who have a proven track record of working with children specifically in Uganda. We are very lucky to have now formed a partnership with Hope for Children.
Matthew d’Ancona, editor of The Spectator, talks to us about becoming our Child’s i Foundation patron.
Matthew also gave us more background on his interest and belief in the digital revolution, which forms the foundation of our project, and how it is changing the world as we speak.
Deborah Meadon gives us the nod to launch our site.
Lucy posed the question to Dragons’ Den Deborah Meadon: Should we launch Child’s i Foundation to the world without an online donation mechanism?
The Home
65 wonderful students from the University of Bath Department of Architecture spent a term working on designs for the Home. Find them here on Flickr:
Designs for the Babies' Home
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January 7, 2009 at 12:24 pm
James Mugford
hi there,
my dad says you need help/ assistance with your website? doesent look like you need it atall, this 1 is supergood!
i’m always interested in giving my 10% so anything you might need help with then i can only do my best.
James
January 7, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Lucy Buck
James there is definitely loads you can help us with. We’re going to start a meetup group – 1st meeting is provisionally in the diary for 28th January. We’d love you to come along, discuss ideas and see how you can apply some of your expertise to help us expand our digital network.
We’ll be in touch. Meanwhile join our Facebook group if you haven’t already and that way you’ll receive the event invites too.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100198310303
January 9, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Lucy Buck
Hi James, the meet up we mentioned before is now going to be on 4th February. Hope you can make it. If you can would you RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/childsifoundation/
Hope to meet you soon.
January 28, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Hannah Jones
Hey Lucy,
Just thought i’d say I love the website, but I do have a suggestion to make things easier for viewers – maybe having a Search engine within the website to help people find things.
The reason I say this is because I can’t find the Frequently Asked Questions sections you told me about earlier, and thought it would be useful if you had a “Search the website” box at the top of each page where I could type in “Frequently asked questions” and it would come up straight away!
Another thing which I didn’t say in the focus group but since looking more at the website thisevening have noticed I think things would be clearer as you scroll down the page if they were put into clearer sections with bold titles, so you know exactly what you’re looking at as you scroll down.
Anyway just thought I would give my opinion
Love Hannah xx
January 28, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Tom
Rock on C.I.F i’m already clocking up the miles on my bike!
January 28, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Sophie Phillips
^^ I agree! The website is really useful, i like it a lot. Keep working guys its looking great!
Rock on C.I.F for sure!!!! Sophie xXx
January 28, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Lucy Buck
Great ideas Hannah – we totally agree with you and will add them to our list of things to think about as we develop the site.
January 28, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Lucy Buck
That’s what we like – motivation and enthusiasm. Nice one Tom. x
January 28, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Lucy Buck
Thanks Sophie, we appreciate your support. Rock on C.I.F. – too right x
February 15, 2009 at 10:02 am
Tom
Hey Lucy
I heard you mention to Hannah about having a meet up in Rotherfield about Run to Kampala, whats going on?
February 16, 2009 at 9:42 am
Tom
Dont worry, must have been a problen with email as i just got about 8 messages through from you! Sat 28th sounds good.
April 9, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Moju Project
Lucy,
You’re doing an amazing job with this website. I’m really impressed. Keep up the great work! Are you up and running in Uganda yet?
Thanks,
Gerrid
April 10, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Lucy Buck
Hi Gerrid and Jessica,
Thanks for your support. I had a look at your great website http://www.mojuproject.com – the concept of buying a shirt and feeding a child for a month is really powerful and a great idea.
We are not up and running yet but off to Uganda in 4 days time to go on a planning trip. When we get back we want to raise the money as a community and if it all goes to plan we will be out there in September.
It would be great to keep in touch.
Lucy
April 20, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Tom
Hey Lucy
How many babies are in the orphanage, are we planning to fund a new building?
April 21, 2009 at 9:52 pm
monika
hey lucy – i just watched your day 6 video. goodness girl. that one made me out-and-out cry. i can’t imagine the emotion you are going through.
one of my kids’ questions was about who’s getting pregnant and why. gosh. i wouldn’t have ever imagined the answers you gave. not wanting to die alone. no words for that.
i’m growing to love you dearly lucy buck. your heart must be ever so kind – and – (this is a big and) – you’re acting on it.
sending you energy.
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