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NEW INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP TO OPEN DOOR TO EDUCATION IN AFRICA
June 30, 2008
"RWANDAN FARMERS" COFFEE LAUNCHES IN EUROPE
June 26, 2008
Clinton Hunter Development Initiative facilitates international sales of premium coffee from Rwanda
£19M Long-Term Cash Boost to Radio Charities
May 12, 2008
Sir Tom Hunter has pledged £4 million over the next ten years to Bauer Radio station charities in a move that consolidates all of their charities under one brand - Cash for Kids.
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A Message from our Founders
It’s our belief every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, to be all that they can be.
That success should not be postcode or country dependent – whether a child grows up in Cumnock or Kisumu they deserve the right to exceptional health, vibrant education and real career opportunities.
There are basic human rights no person should be denied and the chance to succeed must be one of those rights…We cannot go on funding high dependency interventions around the world. Our view is a simple one – equip everyone with the ability to succeed and the conditions in which they can apply that ability. Offer fishing rods not fish.
In the developing world we cannot continue to promote external intervention, the people there have their own positive solutions and we should act as catalysts to help them deliver on those solutions.
And in the developed world we must break the vicious cycle that sees the children of second and third generation unemployed become, all too easily, the fourth generation unemployed.
No-one ever wakes up and deliberately says to themselves, ‘I must fail today’ but sadly not enough of us go to school or work and say, ‘Today, I’m really going to make a positive difference.’
Success for us is enabling every child to be all they can be, as simple and as challenging as that sounds. We will succeed, one way or another.
Tom and Marion Hunter
Latest Projects
UNICEF UK & The Hunter Foundation Partner In Northern Uganda
March 31, 2008
The Hunter Foundation is to partner UNICEF to support children affected by war and poverty in Kitgum.
Watch budding Jeremy Paxman's and Kirsty Warks from Oakgrove Primary School grill the THF Chairman
January 11, 2008
Band Aid Trust & The Hunter Foundation To Fund Unicef Niger Response
July 31, 2005
The Band Aid Trust is to use part of The Hunter Foundation (THF) £6 million commitment.
New drive to improve school leadership
April 22, 2005
A new team of education experts to strengthen leadership in Scotland's schools is to be set up.
