Here’s a great holiday gift idea: Charity Gift Cards.  You decide the amount to donate and the recipient decides the charity.

Introduce your friends and family to the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Buy a charity gift card and suggest that CNCF gets the gift.  Or send an “Honor Card,” and designate CNCF as the recipient.

Just click onto http://www.charitygiftcertificates.org/ and support programs such as the Sunshine School in Vietnam, our school that provides primary education to street-Children and Children from under-privileged families. Our Sunshine Children also receive on-site medical assistance and extracurricular activities, such as sports, arts, music, dance and drama. This Holiday season, give these Children the opportunity to learn, laugh, and play.

Customize gift cards with your company logo for your office party. Put them in your Holiday cards. Tip your mail carrier, doorperson or hairdresser. Send a thank you gift to a teacher or secretary. Ask for one for Christmas! They make great stocking stuffers.

Teach your Children the value of giving. Purchases are 100% tax deductible, and cards never expire!

Charity Choice also lets you redeem old retail gift cards; you receive a tax deduction and any balance remaining is donated to CNCF. 

The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation-USA is up and running! CNCF-USA joined the 5K Run/Walk for Education in Miami last month, marking its second major fundraising event in Florida. The fun, health-promoting event was a huge success. Team Noble-USA runners raised more than $10,000.

One runner in particular wowed the crowds: Cannelle, the Bull Terrier. Sporting a Christina Noble Foundation tank top, Cannelle was soon crowned as our very own four-legged ambassador. She was a great crowd-pleaser, and drew in the attention of many onlookers who then wanted to learn more about the foundation and about the great work CNCF does in Mongolia and Vietnam.

The money generated by the race will go directly towards boosting educational programs. That means more Children will go to kindergarten, continue their studies, and graduate from high school or college. One of our main programs in Vietnam is our amazing Sunshine School, which each year serves 150-200 Children who are denied access to community schools. In the province of Tay Ninh, CNCF also educates approximately 75 blind or visually-impaired Children annually.  

In Mongolia, each day approximately 25 pre-school-age Children in our Blue Skies Day Care Centre are educated in a nurturing environment while their parents work. We also run an Education Reintegration Program in Ulaanbaatar for more than 100 children who have dropped out of school or never had the opportunity to enter school in the first place. In this way we are able to help the students prepare for their exams, which would ultimately allow them to gain access to regular state school, something that is completely unattainable for most children growing up in poverty. We also provide full-time education to approximately 75 imprisoned boys per year  who would otherwise remain illiterate.

As well as educating Children at our Sunshine Schools and Kindergartens in Vietnam and Mongolia, we also operate our Educational Assistance Program in both operational centres to offer scholarships to students in mainstream schools. In Vietnam, 341 Children were able to go to school because of CNCF’s support in 2013.   

We offer more than just basic schooling. We provide art and music classes to more than 200 Children in Vietnam and to around 150 Children at our Blue Skies Village in Mongolia. We strongly believe in the transformative power of the arts; we have witnessed at first-hand how our Children grow in confidence and develop into happy, productive members of society. Our programmes are designed to meet the whole needs of the child, body and mind.. More than 100 Children also participate in sports programs.  

Thanks to our wonderful supporters and the efforts of Team Noble-USA, more Children will get the care, attention, and educational services they deserve.   

Many Children have never gone to school as a result of poverty. Help us change that! Get involved in our next big event or start a fundraiser yourself. Contact usa@cncf.org and we’ll help you get started. Or GET INVOLVED online. Donate, Buy a Child a Gift, Support a Project, Sponsor a Child, or Volunteer. There are so many ways to help.