KIDS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY
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Mission Statement
K.I.D.S. was founded by Adrianne Dartnall and Rick Lennert after their only child, Danielle, was killed in a car accident seventeen years ago. This tragic event caused them to reassess the ways in which they could make meaning of their lives. They began to look towards how they could improve the lives of children living in the most dire and challenging situations. As a result of much hard work, a dedicated Board of Directors K.I.D.S. became a Registered Canadian Charity in 2004, through a groundswell of community, business and foundation support, K.I.D.S. has worked in Myanmar, India, Vietnam and now mostly works in Cambodia.
About This Cause
Adrianne and Rick travel to developing countries where, using their own funds as well as funds that have been donated, they assist with the basic needs for the communities they work with including: housing, clean drinking water, medicine, schools, educational supplies, transportation and small business grants. They work in communities in Southeast Asia, where people face poverty, unemployment, high infant mortality and diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. They oversee and manage all funds donated and evaluate and oversee the management of programs and projects. The activities undertaken by Adrianne and Rick in their work for K.I.D.S. benefit families and communities in very real and direct ways. K.I.D.S. projects have included: - building schools and small clinics for isolated areas - building clean drinking water systems for rural schools and communities - providing medical, educational and household supplies for children and families living in poverty - building, operating and providing teachers for a small village school in Stung Treng, Cambodia - supporting Stung Treng Women’s Development Centre, a women’s weaving center, by improving water - supplies and infrastructure as well as providing kindergarten teachers for the Centre’s on site kindergarten - providing solar lighting systems for schools and household solar lights for families in rural areas - operating a Girl’s Home in Siem Reap, Cambodia that ensures that thirteen girls, who were previously - -orphaned or living on the street, are provided with a good education, health care, and a loving environment What we do in our local community: What we do in our local community:K.I.D.S. also helps raise awareness of students through presentations in schools regarding: social justice, humanitarian work and global issues related to poverty in developing countries. Over the past 4 years K.I.D.S. has partnered with the VIU Child and Youth Care program to support the development of Social Justice leadership through their community outreach program.