WORKING WITH CHARITIES

SWANS SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL MARBELLA

Swans School supports a range of charities – local and global - wherever appropriate, and not just in response to the CAS component of the IB diploma.

Current incentives include money raised for locally placed Cudeca and los Claveles, and further away - the Young Focus Foundation in the Philippines, offering care to young children brought up in the notorious rubbish belt of Manila, and the Deep Griha Society – an independent charitable organization working to better the lives of people in the slums of Pune, in India, with particular emphasis on empowering women to work and look after their children.

CAKE SALE

Towards the end of last term, Year 6 were visited by Dr Patricia Moore who came to speak about some of the work she has been doing with Deep Griha (meaning “lighthouse”), an organisation working to better the lives of people living in the slums of Pune, India.

This term, nearly €350 was raised for the charity through a cake sale organised by Swans students. The money has been donated towards the construction of “City of Child”, a community development project to provide a safe home for destitute women and children.

PAD

PAD is a privately run charity in the Mijas/Fuengirola area that specialises in the rehabilitation and rehoming of abandoned dogs and cats. Since our shelter opened in December 1998 we have found new homes for 5000 dogs and cats.
Over the past four years, Swans Primary have raised over 20.000€, through their sponsored spell.

For more information, please click on to their website: www.padcatsanddogs.org

CUDECA

Cudeca’s mission is to take care, relieve, accompany and offer the specialist care that is involved in treating patients resident in the province of Málaga, who are suffering from advanced or terminal cancer, which includes giving support and comfort to their family.

For more information, please click on to their website: www.cudeca.org

BLUE HORSES

The Blue-horses project started by the end of 2004 and aims to help horses that, without any fault of their own, have been badly treated, abused, neglected, or even simply abandoned.

For more information, this is their website: www.blue-horses.com

ANCRAA

This is the National Association of Breeders of the Andaluz Donkey, or in Spanish, Asociacion Nacional de Criadores de la Raza Asnal Andaluza. This particular breed of donkey is in danger of extinction as recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in year 2001. The above association ANCRAA was formed so that with the help of like minded people, this almost extinct breed can be saved and slowly increased, thereby saving a little bit of heritage for future generations to enjoy.

For more information, please click on to the website: www.ancraa.org

LOS CLAVELES

“Los Claveles” is a recently formed charity, whose aim is to raise enough money to purchase a Radio Therapy unit for the Costa del Sol hospital so that the many cancer patients do not have to travel all the way to Malaga every day for treatment.

For more information contact the President.