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The JADE Foundation is a non-profit organization formed by Drs. Jacob Gelt Dekker and John Padget dedicated to enhancing education and providing assistance to the children around the world. |
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The Jacob Gelt Dekker Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies Opened in December 2000, The Jacob Gelt Dekker Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies, also known as The Dekker Institute, serves as an international exchange center for people and ideas relating to cultural developments in the Atlantic Rim. |
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Centrally located in the southern Caribbean on the Netherlands Antilles island of Curacao, The Dekker Institute provides an environment of direct association and involvement with major universities, researchers and postgraduate students from Europe, Africa, North and South America and the Caribbean. |
The Dekker Institute is an international scientific center of learning that organizes seminars, produces publications and allows for an atmosphere that stimulates the free exchange of ideas among scholars and researchers.
The Institute tackles serious and pertinent issues in the region today, and brings historical perspective to modern problems. In April 2001, the institute hosted the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) lnter congress on the African Diaspora and in March 2003 it will serve as the site for a major conference on cultural heritage an tourism.
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A primary focus of The Dekker Institute is African Studies and the African Diaspora. In addition, the institute serves as a prominent research center for the multi-cultural aspects of human diversity in the region. Curacao, with its range of 60 nationalities among a population of 147,000, is a prime example of a multi-cultural society with a strong African heritage influence. |
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Ieder kind heeft recht op een huiselijke omgeving, op onderwijs en gezondheidszorg. Om goed te integreren in de samenleving hebben kinderen ontwikkeling nodig en zelfvertrouwen en het besef van hun eigen menselijke aardigheid.
Starchildren vangt kinderen op die tussen wal en schip geraakt zijn en die geen medische zorg of scholing zouden krijgen.
Door minimale organisatie en direct contact met onze partner ter plaatse wordt het rendement van uw bijdragen ten behoeve van de kinderen zo hoog mogelijk gehouden. Communicatie met andere betrokken organisaties moet leiden tot een doelmatiger samenwerking en onderlinge steun. |
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Het verbeteren van het lot van kinderen door ter plaatse de beginselen van de Conventie van de Rechten van het Kind van de Verenigde Naties in praktijk te brengen: geen discriminatie op grond van kaste, geslacht of godsdienst. |
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Child’s Dream Association is a charity organization dedicated to unconditional help for underprivileged children in the 'Mekong Sub-Region'. Our office in Chiang Mai / Thailand serves as a base to select local humanitarian projects providing relief to street children, AIDS orphans and, in general, to children exposed to extreme poverty. Please visit our ‘Mission Statement’ to understand more about the way we select and support projects. |
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| In order to reach out across borders, the following entities were or are about to be set up (all entities follow the same objective and only differ in the legal way they have been set up to cater to the respective tax and charity law). |
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