McKinsey for Children

Supporting children in need around the world

The McKinsey for Children charity was established in 1995 to support children in need around the world by improving their prospects in childhood and guiding them along the path to a successful adult life.

Our supported projects

We currently sponsor 20 projects in 12 developing countries, supporting more than 15,000 children in need. All projects are devoted to helping children in need by providing education, meals, or shelter. The projects receive both financial support and professional advice.

Our criteria

Our supported projects focus on providing basic needs to orphaned, abandoned, aggrieved, abused, or disabled children. All projects are located in regions characterized by poverty. The duration of our support varies, but is always targeted at making lasting changes in the children’s situation.

Our reach

264.education

264.Education is a For-Impact Organization consisting of strategy consultants, growth hackers, techies and entrepreneurs introducing the entrepreneurial mindset to the NGO-world. 264.Education builds on local leadership, business mindset and impact beyond school.

AEC-Foyer Lataste, Cambodia

AEC-Foyer Lataste is a foster center for orphans, abandoned or abused children. Specialized in the protection and development of vulnerable children in Cambodia, the association is supporting children regarding access to education, health, culture and agriculture.

Aktion Canchanabury, Uganda

The project has the goal to give traumatized children in the post-war region of Uganda access to education.

Clinetown Educational Organization (CEO), Sierra Leone

C.E.O. SL aims to ensure every child in Clinetown, one of Freetown‘s poorest areas, has an opportunity to learn. The community-based organization invests in building educational infrastructure and creating an ecosystem for effective teaching and learning.

Desert Bloom, Kenya

Desert Bloom provides lunch and basic schools materials to poor orphaned and vulnerable children in Western Kenya and cover school fees for girls to ensure regular school visits.

Flying Kites, Kenya

Flying Kites partners with teachers in rural Kenya to transform primary schools into places where girls can thrive. Flying Kites’ programs are implemented across 9 public primary schools in 2024, serving over 5,000 students daily.

FUNDAP, Guatemala

FUNDAP helps to eradicate Guatemala’s poverty through education strategies based on equality, honesty, freedom, excellence, respect for dignity and democracy. Further the project directs its efforts to reduce school attrition, especially of girls and young women.

GESE Africa e.V.

GESE Africa e.V. is a non-governmental organization that provides sex education classes in schools of Africa´s most remote and poor areas. The topics cover contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, menstruation, and gender inequality.

Hope for Children, Moldova

Hope for Children provides education and basic support for about 80 orphaned and impoverished children aged between 6 to 16 years in the communities of Tirnova and Taul located in the rural north of Moldova.

Holy Apostles Convent St. Thomas Mount, India

Organisation’s mission is to take care of the abandoned and destitute babies and children below five years of age, render various services to the people who live in and around that area and specifically support children in completing their education.

International Volontaire en Action (IVA), Togo

IVA supports vulnerable and orphaned children in its “Centre” offering them a home, education, health care, enriching activities and hope for a brighter future. Currently 20 orphaned children live in the Centre receiving full benefits, 15 further vulnerable children are supported occasionally.

InthoKenia e.V., Kenia

The project protects children from abuse with food, accommodation security, medical care and education in Mombasa.

Masifunde, ZA

Masifunde’s social support aims at strengthening and empowering learners individually in the educational programs of Masifunde and their families who are in need through counselling and family visits, parent support groups, as well as group therapy sessions with focus on specific needs or challenges.

Mianwali, Pakistan

Mianwali Education Trust College (MET) is a non-profit institution, whose mission is to provide the right of quality education to children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Nakujali Education Partnerships, Tanzania

Nakujali is a charitable organization run entirely by Canadian & Tanzanian volunteers, that strives to support high-quality education for orphaned and impoverished children in Tanzania.

SADIL, Togo

SADIL-TOGO helps orphans and children that got involved in child trafficking in Togo to earn a sustainable income in the future. SADIL-TOGO currently supports~250 children in primary and secondary schools, and 25 children with scholarships for university or a practical education.

Sala Bai, Cambodia

Sala Bai provides hands-on vocational training school to selected bright and motivated underprivileged children in Cambodia, covering about a third of the program’s cost by operating its own training restaurant and hotel.

St. Michael’s Hostel, India

St. Michael’s Hostel offers 200 girls a safe place to live and learn. They can attend special development programs and thus find a long-term way out of poverty and violence.

Ukraine support

Helping children affected by the war in Ukraine by organizing deliveries of vital medical supplies directly to the front line or to the hospitals which specialize in treating patients wounded in the war.

ZAP, Zambia

ZAP works in one of the poorest regions of Zambia and is active in the field of education in the broadest sense. One of its programs at the Government School in Nkulumaziba is especially aimed at keeping girls in school - preventing them from being married off at a very young age and consequently foregoing further education.

Video

Christiane, an Engagement Manager in our Berlin office, talks about her work with McKinsey for Children and the Masifunde Changemaker Academy.

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We would love to help even more disadvantaged children. All children should be able to develop freely and grow in safety. Your donation helps us to realize this vision. Each new donation or sponsorship is greatly appreciated. You will automatically receive a donation receipt at the end of the calendar year. Thanks for your support!

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