Community Relations - China
The following organisations are supported by British Airways and receive complimentary tickets, cargo and excess baggage.
Children in Crisis
Children in Crisis exists to improve the lives of children around the world affected by conflict, deprivation, poverty or other hidden crises, by working with local partner organisations and communities to provide education, healthcare and protection.
In its overseas activities, Children in Crisis seeks to work with 'forgotten children'; children living in difficult circumstances who have little or no chance of improving their lives without intervention. Children who are not receiving assistance from other agencies for whatever reason or whose living conditions are ignored or neglected.
Children in Crisis programmes encompass health, education and protection projects and support programmes in the UK, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, China, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Ecuador, Kenya and Tanzania.
Visit www.childrenincrisis.org.ukCare for Children
Care for Children works in partnership with the Chinese Government on a nationwide incentive to move children out of orphanages and into local Chinese families. Care for Children has a vision to see 1 million children placed into families by 2010.
Care for Children has worked with educational establishments in China and the UK to introduce a comprehensive set of training programmes that cover all aspects of child development and foster care. Now working in 27 provinces and directly with over 200 state orphanages, hundreds of thousands of children's lives have been transformed as they experience the love and care of a Mum and Dad for the first time.
Visit www.careforchildren.comRoyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a world class institution whose mission is to 'explore and explain the world of plants'.
The Jade Dragon Field Station & Lijiang Botanic Garden in the eastern Himalaya, is RBGE's flagship project and the UK's first joint scientific laboratory in China. Experts from RBGE and their partners in China are working together to undertake the conservation of the natural habitat of the Yulong Xue Shan (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) in South West China. They are also working closely with the mountain-dwelling communities on sustainable land management and development of the environment to ensure their continued livelihood for future generations.
Visit www.rbge.org.uk