Little Elephants - New Zealand Supporting Friends for all Children

Little Elephants - New Zealand Supporting Friends for all Children

Your gift can help abandoned babies and toddlers in Thai orphanages to get a good start in life. You can lift the hearts of vulnerable kids.

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What is Little Elephants?

Little Elephants – New Zealand Supporting Friends for All Children (FFAC) is a group of families in New Zealand who have adopted children from FFAC and are deeply appreciative of the care provided for their beloved children before they joined their families.

Little Elephants has a close relationship with FFAC. Since 2007 over 50 children in FFAC’s care have been adopted by families in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

What is FFAC?

Since 1977 a special charity called “Friends for All Children” (FFAC) has been dedicated to the welfare of Thai children in need of help. FFAC runs small child care centres in both Bangkok and in the north of Thailand, which provide a variety of services to local children and their families:

• Abandoned infants and toddlers require care and adoption planning in the orphanages or foster homes before they can join their forever families.

• Families in poor, remote communities require milk and food aid to support their vulnerable young children.

• School age children need educational support such as a nutritious daily lunch, books and a uniform.

• Children living in remote, isolated areas of Thailand where there is no school transportation need bikes to enable them to travel to school each day and gain access to an education.

FFAC Director Mrs Saovanee Nilavongse and her wonderful team of staff and volunteers work tirelessly to meet all these needs through their child welfare programmes, helping give less fortunate children in Thailand an opportunity of a better future. “We shall never desert you as orphans or for being poor” is FFAC’s pledge to the children.

Every child deserves a family, a home, an education and love; wherever possible FFAC strives to provide these to vulnerable children in Thailand.

Our Mission

Little Elephants’ mission is to raise awareness of Friends for All Children’s work and to inspire action to raise funds for FFAC so it can continue its vital work in helping give less fortunate children the opportunity of a better future.

Our Aim

As a community fundraising group Little Elephants aims to raise $10,000 NZD every year for FFAC, so that we can ensure that all the children in their care have the food, clothes and accommodation they so desperately need. $10,000 allows FFAC to provide food, clothing and accommodation for 12 children in their care for a full year.

We need your help now more than ever

FFAC have recently had to move premises and this additional cost has had a major impact on the crucial work of FFAC as it strives to stretch already very limited resources to provide for the babies and toddlers in their care. Consequently FFAC’s need for financial support is currently greater than ever.

Please make a donation. THANK YOU for your support

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We provide much needed funds to Friends for All Children orphanages to care for abandoned and poverty-stricken children and families in Thailand.

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Latest update

When family hearts unite <3 <3 <3 <3  25 November 2015

“I’ll never forget those first moments when Friends for All Children connected us with our children. The moment when our daughter became our Thailand Princess who instantly warmed our hearts with a sense of family. And then our son who made our family bubble grow larger with love and laughter. They reached up to us for what will always be the best cuddles in the entire world. We could see that our children were well fed, nourished and happy. There were many tears and laughter.

We often talk about Friends for All Children in our family, the special place where our family became united, and this helps our children form their sense of identity. We enjoy supporting them and hearing updates about their amazing work to help the many children in their care as well as their educational and other vital children’s support programmes. Friends for All Children will always be part of our family”.

Ian and Sandy McFadyen-Rew, parents to two children adopted from Thailand in 2008 and 2012.

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