CHILDREN OF THE MEKONG

Children of the Mekong is a UK branch of Enfants du Mekong, a French charity founded in Laos in 1958. Their mission is to educate, train, and mentor the poorest children and young people. They run sponsorship programmes, development projects, education centres, and foster houses in six countries of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. They help children grow through child sponsorship and education projects. The charity focuses on ethnic minorities, rural populations, education for girls, disability, slums, refugees and early childhood. Children of the Mekong was awarded the IDEAS label for good governance, transparency, and monitoring of the effectiveness of its actions in 2011, which was renewed in 2015, 2019 and 2024.