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2018

RCF is supporting Autism parent empowerment

Rainbow Child Foundation are concerned for all well being of children, and autism is one of them as it has become an epidemic through so many external factors that has a massive impact on family and siblings.
RCF is proud to help and support the great work that has being done by Jo-ann D Costa Manuel and her team at Autism parent empowerment
Please support their mission and spread their message by donating if you can, as your change will make all the change. Thank you
http://www.autismparentempower.org

2019

Mental Health

Chico, Lalla-Khira and Junior have all suffered terrible bullying at school so they know first hand what it’s like to go through it. Now more then ever with social media bullying has become an epidemic which causes 22% of suicides amongst teenagers.
Chico and Junior have been the face of anti bullying before and the biggest problem has always been the stigma attached to talking about it. From personal shame or simply not wanting to be called a “SNITCH OR A GRASS”
This is especially prevalent in boys and men where 75% take their lives as apposed to 25% women.
Boys and men seem to find it hard to express their feelings or cry. This has inspired Lalla-Khira single “Boys Cry” to reach out to them and say it’s ok to cry that way we know you need help and we can do something about it.
The statistics are shocking and we are hoping to raise as much awareness to this cause as possible. You can download Lalla-Khira’s single now. All proceeds go to the charity
Chico said: If by highliting this problem saves one or two lives it would have all been worth it
Mental health statistics: suicide

Summary of the key trends contained in this report.highliting
In 2017 there were 6,213 suicides in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
5,821 suicides were registered in the UK and 392 occurred in the Republic of Ireland.
In the UK men remain three times as likely to take their own lives than women, and in the Republic of Ireland four times more likely.
The highest suicide rate in the UK was for men aged 45-49.
The highest suicide rate in the Republic of Ireland was for men aged 25–34 (with an almost identical rate for men aged 45–54).
There has been a significant decrease in male suicide in the UK, and the male suicide rate is the lowest in over 30 years.
The suicide rate in Scotland decreased between 2016 and 2017 – this appears to be driven by a decrease in the female suicide rate.
Suicide in young men in Scotland increased for the third consecutive year in 2017.
Suicide has also continued to fall in both males and females in the Republic of Ireland.
Rates in the Republic of Ireland have fluctuated more than in the UK in recent years, but it is currently at its lowest since 1989.

Teenage Suicide Statistics:

Data from the Office for National Statistics shows in 2015 there were 168 males aged 10 to 19 and 63 females in the same age group who took their own lives.
The total figure of 231 is the highest it has been since 2001 when 240 youngsters committed suicide.
A study last year found 22 per cent of young suicide victims had been bullied and 15 per cent had suffered abuse or neglect. There was also a link to social media and exam stress.

2019

Block Fit annual charity party

Chico and his master trainers came together to raise money for our annual rainbow Child Foundation charity ball in Manchester.

Thank you to all who helped out and came to support our great cause raising money for the James Bulger Trust and Balls for cancer.

2019

Junior Cuthy Thai Boxing Academy

The Rainbow Child Foundation is proud to sponsor Thai Boxing equipment for juniors kids to keep them off the streets and into learning an art of fitness and discipline. This project is run by the amazing utrinque Paratus and to change one person’s life is changing the world they are doing this for the whole community and I couldn’t be prouder. Well one to one and all.

2017

A little help for Joseph

RCF has helped Josef with his special swimming lessons.
Josef Tucker, who has cerebral palsy and uses a computer to speak, said what an incredible help Rainbow Child Foundation has been with his specialist swimming lessons.

2019

Children’s Steyis Larnaca Cyprus

One of the most fantastic days we had was was seeing this children’s home where they had children from all walks of life, mostly abused by their parents, or guardians physically and emotionally, we bought them a Large TV, singing set and other electronics so they can finally watch their favourite movies on.

Seeing their faces light up as though it was the best thing that they have ever received was a sight we will never forget, We couldn’t take any pictures for obvious reasons which is security for their protection from the abuse they suffered at the hands of their guardians at the time, some stories were heart breaking but to just give them a moment of unconditional love and seeing their little faces light up was priceless.

As the lady in charge said; When you receive something your hands are full, but when you give something your heart is FULL. Our hearts were certainly full. Thank you, you certainly melted our hearts

2019

@Fams

I met this young lady in a town in Scotland, she stopped me and just wanted a picture with me. She was collecting for FAMS which is a charity they started to help people who’ve gone through murder and suicide. The Rainbow Child Foundation always helps those people in serendipitous moments where we meet people doing good and just feel that RCF was destined to help them out, so we did. What a great job they are doing, and thank you for stopping me to say hi which lead to this. Thank you for the great work you are all doing.

2019

Care To Dare & Pakama Charit

We are proud to help out this amazing charity ran by Mark Muhler in Cape Town South Africa, the... like rainbow child foundation help many other smaller charities. We are glad to play a small part in making a little difference to help the Panama charity to help repair the children’s home from the winter’s weather damage.

2019

Dar Alatfal Tangiers Morocco

Rainbow Child Foundation went to see an orphanage in Tangiers and was proud to be of help, they look after many kids from the age of 4 to 18, they all get a good education, and are housed in the campus, the children’s background from abandoned to orphaned. We are proud to be of help and be part of the solution to a big problem.

2019

L’enfance C’est L’espoir

This was one of the hardest trips for us, seeing this wonderful orphanage and the amazing job they do which is never ever refusing a child. The biggest problem in Morocco is people having children out of wedlock which in a Muslim country is a big taboo, so the mothers just dump them in the street or at the door of this orphanage, they take on disabled kids too and they truly give them a start in life until someone can adopt them into a good family.

2019

Merrill Osmond and the Olive Osmond Hearing Fund video

RFC donates £5000 to the Hearing Fund UK

2019

Lion’s Heart a charity event for the British Heart Foundation

Chico is proud to showcase his Block Fit class to raise money for the British Heart Foundation through Elena for a Lion’s Heart. We are also proud to donate monies to help this great cause

2017

Rainbow Child help build a children's disabled playground.

Rainbow Child Foundation are pleased to help "No Limits" to build a children's disabled playground.

https://www.facebook.com/lucybickerstaffs.net

2017

Somalia well project

RCF is proud to work alongside the light house community foundation to provide water wells in Somalia. Water which is so abundant and taken for granted in the west is a life force for these villages, which allows children to go to school instead of walking ten miles in treacherous terrains to fetch water. your help is paramount and anything you can do to support us is greatly appreciated.

2017

Rainbow child visits the Tsunami orphanage

Rainbow child visits the Tsunami orphanage in Phuket Thailand. Suzan and husband what an amazing couple losing their two children in this crazy tragedy yet found the courage to start an orphanage to help 32 children. thank you light worker.
Please check out their website and help this amazing cause.

2017

RCF donates to the Entertainment workshop

RCF donates to the Entertainment workshop RCF donates to the Entertainment workshop 37 Hadley Wood Primary receives much needed funding from RCF

2017

Hadley Wood Primary receives much needed funding from RCF

2017

Eugen Kvaternik School is helped by RCF

2017

RCF sends Cerebral Palsy sufferer Kyan to healing centre

What Amazing people with hearts of gold. Kyan was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and as parents we were looking for treatment anywhere in the world that would better Kyan's life. We met a lovely couple Chico and his wife who really felt our pain and without a shadow of doubt these wonderful people wanted to help this little boy who was suffering very much. At the age of 18 months, Chico and his team arranged for kyan and his parents to travel to Serbia for 3 weeks at a specialist rehab centre for Cerebral Palsy.

It was a dream come true we are forever in debt to Chico and his team. Kyan has shown amazing progress, without people like this we would have been lost and it has shown us there is a God out there who sends amazing people like Chico to do wonderful work and make a change to peoples lives. May god bless you for all you and your team have done.

Our sincere love always, Kyan and his parents

2018

RCF donates 50 water pumps in Pakistan

We are very proud of this project reaching thousands of people to access clean drinking water and for children to spend their day in education instead of fetching water in the blazing sun. Children deserve an education and the little things in life that we all take for granted.

2018

Noah’s Ark Hospice

After visiting Noah’s Ark hospice by the panto cast in Cardiff in December 2017. Chico was so moved by the plight of the children there and the hard work and the amazing service Noah’s Ark provide. we decided to fully support their work and what they are doing to change lives.

2018

Barnhem Orphanage Phuket

Rainbow Child Foundation is supporting Barnhem Orphanage Phuket.

2018

Proud to support the feeding programmes - Sanctus Home

Rainbow Child Foundation’s main aim is children’s future and education is at the centre of what we believe in as it gives the chance for children to thrive. Our amazing friend Mariam has worked tiressley and selflessly bringing her vision into a reality and RCF are proud to support her mission.
Please support their mission and spread their message by donating if you can, as your change will make all the change. Thank you
www.ekumfitrust.org

2018

Supporting hurricane Irma hit Caribbean and the Virgin Islands

Worldwide catastrophes have devastated many countries, and non have come more severe then hurricane Irma that hit the Caribbean last year and the Virgin Islands.
Rainbow child Foundation was there to help with aid that we hope made a small change in the colossal devastation it cause to the inhabitants of this wonderful little island.

2015

RFC helps Syria's Refugees in the cold winter

2015

RCF receives a cheque of £43,562.19 in Paris

Chico receives a cheque of £43,562.19 in Paris.

Thank you to all at Face of the Globe for your hard work and fund raising, I am proud to affiliate myself with this great company, and though pageants are perceived to only be beautiful on the outside, this cheque shows that its all about the beauty on the inside..... Thank you!

2015

RFC donates £5000 to Daniel Rhys Trust

To view more information about the trust, please click on this link

http://www.rhysdanielstrust.org/home-from-home.html

2015

Merrill Osmond and the Olive Osmond Hearing Fund video

RFC donates £5000 to the Hearing Fund UK

2015

Feeding program in Malawi - RCF sponsored

2015

New soup kitchens in Malawi funded by RCF

2015

Rainbow Child Foundation donates 22 laptops to schools in Sabac

Education Education Education! Rainbow Child Foundation donates 22 laptops to schools in Sabac, The cities Mayor Nebojsa Zelenovic and his team, plus 22 directors of the schools came to celebrate the occasion by inviting the press and TV alike to thank Rainbow Child Foundation for it's donation. No mater what goes on in the world, one thing no one can take away from you is education and we hope that this small gift make a big difference in the children's future.

2016

Rainbow Child Foundation donates 36 TVs to a Children's Hospital

2016

Rainbow raised £770 for The Grand Appeal

Chico brings his revolutionary fitness workout Block Fit to Nailsea. He performed a master class to a packed house & raised £770 for The Grand Appeal - Saving and transforming lives since 1995. Support us and help sick children in Bristol Children’s Hospital today.

2016

Rainbow child helps "Mercy world"

Help the Syrian refugees. Please visit their website to see their work.
www.mwtrust.com

2016

The Rainbow Child Foundation is proud to help The dream foundation

The Rainbow Child Foundation is proud to help The dream foundation. This is a non profit charity who's aim is to inspire and support young people at a disadvantage to believe in themselves and their dreams.
www.livingthedreamcompany.co.uk

2016

Chico and Richard Branson raising money for the charity Big Change

We are so proud of Chico. He takes on a cycle tour in Italy with Richard Branson raising money for the charity Big Change www.big-change.org . A charity that helps young disadvantaged teenagers by empowering them with entrepreneurial skills to strive and thrive in life.

Chico took this challenge Having cycled only 12 miles in total. He managed 500 miles across the Italian mountains. So a massive congratulations on his incredible effort.

Richard Brandon said "Chico is a a great character with an infectious personality. This goat herder's good"

2009

2010

Trip to South Africa to film the installation of water pumps

Video to follow

2011

Donations allow the build of two new play pumps

2011

Rainbow child’s annual ball 12th November

Rainbow child’s annual ball 12th November at the prestigious Lowry hotel in Manchester.

2011

Our Trip to Malawi

Our Trip to Malawi - video to follow

2014

Rainbow child’s annual ball has raised 27K

OMG £27K was raised at our latest Rainbow child’s annual ball, we are so excited about our future plans for 2012, there will be more pumps and finaly we can launch Rainbow child village project, more news to follow. THANK YOU to everyone who helped and donated.

2014

Chico is in ITVs Dancing on ice

Chico has been asked to take part in ITVs Dancing on ice. Chico, who has never skated in his life is taking on an enormous challenge, he is hoping that appearing in the show will raise the profile of the charity.

2014

Rainbow Child Foundation announce Charity Certification

The rainbow Child foundation is delighted to announce that we have finally received our own charity number (CCTM Certificate Number 2009/09/0052.)

We would like to take this opportunity to thank charities trust for all the years we operated under their umbrella, and all the people who helped make the rainbow Child Foundation what it is today. Thank you

We look forward to the future, and the amazing help we will offer children around the world.

Yours faithfully

Chico