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In addition to encouraging businesses around the group to play their part in improving their local communities.

China

Children's Home

G4S China has developed a partnership with Nan Hui Tao Yuan Orphans Foster Home in the Pudong district of Shanghai. The Home provides education for local children with physical handicaps or learning difficulties. Since 2007 G4S has equipped three classrooms and pays the salaries of three teachers, enabling 36 children aged between eight and twelve to learn life skills, numeracy and literacy. G4S China hopes to expand the programme to cover up to 82 children at the home. Mrs Gong Binbin, director of the Children's Home, said: "We are very pleased with the support G4S has given us. It has made an enormous difference to our work here and been a great help."

 

Malawi

Tree-planting programme

For the past three years G4S Malawi has been working with villagers in a remote area of the north of the country on a tree-planting initiative. The scheme provides fuel for the villagers and a source of income by selling the wood. So far more than 90,000 trees have been planted and 70 families living in eight villages helped to develop this new income stream. The project provides seeds, bicycles for transportation and a salary for team members, which gradually decreases as the income from the trees grows. Most of the villagers involved in the programme are women, many with dependant children. The scheme provides a valuable income, often enabling them to send their children to school.

 

Jamaica

Gifts 4 Schools

G4S Jamaica has focused on helping children from low-income families attend well-equipped schools. The key activity has been supplying 2,400 chair and desk units to schools across the island, to help tackle a shortfall of furniture which means tens of thousands of students have nowhere to sit in class or have to share with two or three others. Other initiatives including providing 200 school bags containing basic study equipment to needy children. Staff have also built a new toilet for children at one school and donated equipment to another. G4S Jamaica has also made donations to community centres, homes for children living with HIV, and an adult skills training centre.

 

India

School for underprivileged children

G4S India is building a school in one of the poorest parts of Delhi. When completed it will provide a high standard of education for dozens of children living nearby who currently do not attend school. G4S will pay for teaching materials and teachers' salaries while the curriculum will be designed by leading educational NGO the Hope Foundation.

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