Behind the scene of "Impact For Peace"

The reason I picked Kolkata our first service port is, tracing back to 2007, I participated in a summer activity in General Education Unit of The University of Hong Kong called “Project SEE – Students for Equity and Equality”. I was assigned to work on Child Rights in the famous “Mother Teresa” city Kolkata, it is also called “The city of Joy”.

Tomb of Mother Teresa, the greatest hero of mine, deeply respect

Our cooperating local NGO “FOCUS” (Forum of Communities United in Services), here is their website: http://www.focuskolkata.org/ . The main vision of FOCUS is raising the Quality of Life of Women and Children living in poverty, and mainstreaming them in Society. Do you agree proper education is the root solution of many problems in their society, or even in the whole world?? Through education, people increase competitiveness in finding a better job; their hygiene level will be improved; the crime rate will be controlled; even religious extremist will be restrained so that the developed worlds no longer live in the shadow of terrorism. We’ll discuss these issues in the later posts of our Blog. Anyway, if a big group of children cannot receive education within a community, the devastating effect can last for at least a few decades. 

Last time we only managed to do a little bit teaching in the FOCUS school (NGO school), as well as buying some basic materials such as desks, benches, cassette radios, stationeries and books for the poor kids. In July, it is the monsoon period, heavy rain and flooding halt some of our plans, but we still managed to visit most of the FOCUS schools and be given a glance about how Micro-finance works in their society. However, what we could do in a month was really limited, that’s why I promised the staff and children in Kolkata and promised myself to go back again and try to do more for their society!

Here comes the right time, me and Charlotte are setting up "Impact For Peace" and we have already started sponsoring 50 children (including those living on the street and have financial difficulties to continue studying) go to Government school.

Therefore, if you also have the same idea to provide equal education opportunities of ALL children in this world, please support us “Impact For Peace”!!

Sean