Awards and Achievements:
Program Successes:
Free The Children has a remarkable record of achievement, initiating community-based development projects around the world and inspiring young people to develop as socially conscious global citizens. Since 1995, we have:
- Built more than 500 schools-providing education to more than 50,000 children every day
- Established Youth in Action groups in more than 1,000 schools across the United States and Canada, engaging more than 20,000 young people in total
- Distributed more then 207,500 school and health kits sent to children in need
- Reached more than 350,000 across North America through our motivational speaking tours
- Shipped more than $15 million US worth of medical supplies and built health care centers, impacting the lives of more than 512,500 people around the world
- Developed an efficient administrative model that allows 91 cents of every donated dollar to go to programs that directly benefit children
- Equipped 23,500 women to be economically self-sufficient
- Improved access to clean water and sanitation for 138,500 people
Awards and Recognition
Free The Children has been recognized with the following awards:- 2006 World Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child, also know as the Children's Nobel Prize
- 2006 Human Rights Award from the United Nations/World Association of Non-Government Organizations (WANGO)
- 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
- World Economic Forum Medal
- State of the World Forum Award
- Roosevelt Freedom Medal
- Staff members have been honoured with Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100, Canada's Top 40 under 40, Canada's Top 20 under 20, as well as the Order of Canada.
