Did you ever wonder how our sponsorship funds are spent? Excluding school fees, our budget is 4400€/ month and this is how we spend it! We like to show 100% transparency and will show our accounts to anyone who asks. We have a team of 3 long suffering volunteers handling the accounts in Europe and […]
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A letter from Uncle Dominic
We’d just like to share these lovely photos with you as they made our day! Here is little Latif with a letter from his sponsor Dominic O’Nions. He was also really happy to see a photo of him and his family and know there are ‘real’ people to whom he writes regularly and who follow […]
Christmas Day in the Chances for Children Family!
The children had a very busy day on Christmas Day as they had a gig in the afternoon… there’s no rest for the wicked! The entire team went to the local hotel for their performance but it also meant that they got to have their special Christmas lunch there and have great fun on the […]
The large box of Christmas presents arrived!
Here are some lovely shots of the children with their very large box of gifts from the sponsors around the world! The children were so incredibly excited! 🎁💕🎁💕🎁💕🎁 #thankyou #christmas #santa
Marta and Edu our fabulous volunteers
Flashback to last year when we have lovely Martha and Edu from Barcelona volunteers with us! They fell in love with the children and are coming back this August for 2 weeks to bring a loads of books they have raised money for, we are very lucky indeed.
We are planning to build volunteers accommodation in our new campus so that our visitors are well looked after and can spend as much time as they can sharing this love with the children! #dirtyfeet#messyhair #sparklingeyes
We have bought new minivans for the children to go to school!
BIG NEWS!!! We have yet some more amazing news to finish the week! A giant thanks to Rod and Karen Gancas, we have now been able to buy 4 vans to take the children to school and on trips to performances and everywhere they need to go!!! They are 2016 models with very […]
Daddy Martin’s Birthday hugs!
Last weekend it was Daddy Martins birthday! He was so happy to come back to a surprise of cake, home made chips, and party hats and balloons as well as a gift from Auntie Gabs and Uncle Russell and various birthday letters that the children wrote too!
A great Easter performance
Happy Easter to everyone around the world from Chances for Children! Our children were very happy to enjoy a special meal of plantain banana, chicken rice and beef today! They had an busy afternoon performing at the children’s Park for the Easter celebrations!
Feasibility studies!
This morning the feasibility studies started for our campus! This feels like the first day of a very exciting new journey as we start working with Teach a Man to Fish and Orkid studios. This morning the guys from these companies, Martin and Gabrielle had a video call to explain their goals, objectives […]
A speech by our President Gabrielle Crump
Last night Chances for Children Monaco was the beneficiary of the Vivanova annual gala, along with the Prince Albert of Monaco Foundation and The Animal Fund. We were very proud to have 2 tables of wonderful supporters and friends with us. Here is a video of Gabrielle Crump presenting the charity and where we […]
Happy International Womens day!
This is a big shoutout to all the fabulous ladies that make this ‘family’ run every day of the year. All these girls are growing up to be fierce,fearless, determined young ladies!! Thanks to all the women that make our organization run like Mummy Jane, Amanda, Alexia, Martha, Aunts Anna and Maureen, Jemima, Sharon and Jackie. And a big shoutout to the sponsors and supporters that are giving us so much help to keep build these children’s futures. EVERY SINGLE DAY. 👭👭👭👭👭👭👭
Dance practise… so much improvement!
This evenings practice… watch to the end!! The children are improving so much… Martin has been building a cover for the children’s practice area with our local staff and the older boys!! We just need to figure out a way to drain the rain water off it now 🤔🤭… African style! #fabulous#surprise #dancing #alwaysdancing #dancingfeet […]
Our own house – Thankyou Aunt Karen and Uncle Rod!
Thanks to Karen and Rod Gancas, we have been able to buy our own home for the children which is a giant step for us! We will start feasibility studies to ensure that the property and nearby land is the correct place to build our new campus and then we will set to work to […]
Another fabulous Christmas at C4C!
The children had a fabulous Christmas as Chances for Children, even though sadly their gifts from their sponsors that were sent from the Uk arrived rather late due to bad weather and customs issues! On Christmas Eve they had a great time going for a big picnic in the country with a BBQ, which they […]
Singing class!
Today the kids at Chances for Children are starting singing class! Here you will see their new teacher Jemima teaching them the basics and warming up!
A reminder of where our children started…
As the charity grows and we make small progress each day, we always see how much more we have to do. But sometimes it’s really great to look back and remember how far we have come!!! Many of our children were rescued from the slums, which we visited back in 2015. We witnessed acute poverty, […]
A Treat for the Supermen
On this rainy cold day in Monaco… I get this pics through! Our volunteer Amber has generously paid for the kids to all have chicken today as a treat because it’s Sunday and as we are nearing the end of the month cash-flow is a bit tight! Here you can see ‘ Superman’ Allan Ibra […]
Little Moses Returns from Hospital
Great news! Our little Moses finally got out of hospital yesterday!! He’s looking really well thanks to the fantastic care he had. He’s going back to his new surrogate family today and will live 4 minutes drive from our orphanage so that he can come and play with his old friends whenever he feels strong […]
We Can now Accept Cheque Donations
We just cashed our first cheques at our partner bank Societe Marseillaise de Credit! What a great moment after such a struggle…online payment platform is well on its way… Get your credit cards at the ready everyone!
Little Moses Fights for His Life
Good morning everyone! Our little Moses who suffers from HIV was taken into the intensive care on Friday night having contracted the Maburg virus (which is like a strain of Ebola). This costs 100$/night. He has been in and out of a coma all weekend and seems to be fighting his way through as usual […]