Making a Difference

Youth Education support Services Youth Education Support Services (Y.E.S.S) is a charity based in Camberwell, London providing City & Guilds and GCSE courses.  Our objective is to advance the education and improve the life conditions of young people in South London.  A drop in centre, on the borders of Camberwell and Peckham, Y.E.S.S provides education and support to a growing number of disadvantaged young people who have been excluded from their secondary school, helping them build a better future.

Y.E.S.S offers a sympathetic and professional ’first point of contact’ within an informal setting, taking into account the individual circumstances and difficulties of the young people who use it.

Through a combination of moral and emotional support, linked to practical resources in association with other support agencies, Y.E.S.S is helping many of South London’s disadvantaged young people build a better future for themselves.

Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK) The Chernobyl Children’s Project UK (CCP) was launched in Manchester in 1995 and each summer it provides recuperative holidays in the UK for about 400 children from Belarus.  The project also organises holidays in clean parts of Belarus for children who cannot come to the UK.

CCP (UK) also delivers medical supplies and other humanitarian aid to Belarus, supports a children’s hospice, trains orphanage staff to prepare children for fostering and works with partners in Belarus to establish better care for children and young people with disabilities.

Street Child Africa

Street Child Africa is the leading UK charity devoted to helping street children across Africa. We work in partnership with African organisations who adopt a street-based approach to seek out and befriend street children; offering them guidence from trustworthy adults, education, medical care, baby care, skills training, vocational sposorship, a place in the community, and a chance to choose a different path in life.

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