Future Partners has donated NZ$5,000 to ReliefAid's Bounce Back 4 Syria programme, which gives children in displacement camps education and psychosocial support.
Future Partners has donated NZ$5,000 to ReliefAid, a New Zealand founded registered charity. The donation has gone to Bounce Back 4 Syria, a programme of education and psychosocial support for children living in displacement camps with no access to formal schooling.
Trained local educators, who live in the communities they serve, run play-based sessions three times a week over six weeks. Games, storytelling, drawing and sport help children build confidence and cooperation, and give them a chance to work through what they have been through. For many, it is the only structured learning they get.
ReliefAid's Communications Director, Anne Bulley, recently spent a day with the education team in Syria alongside Founder and Executive Director Mike Seawright:
"What struck me most was the children's hunger not only for food, but for learning, connection, and anything that offers hope beyond the daily reality of camp life."
The team, she says, helps children rebuild confidence, develop new skills and begin to see possibilities again: "a small but profoundly important step away from the isolation and trauma of displacement, and towards a brighter future."
This donation rounds out Future Partners' giving for the year, alongside our support for Karunai Illam Trust, Anglican Missions and Take My Hands.
You can read more about Bounce Back 4 Syria on the ReliefAid website.
