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WE Charity (French: Organisme UNIS), formerly known as Free the Children (French: Enfants Entraide), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. The organization implemented development programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, focusing on education, water, health, food and economic opportunity. It also runs domestic programming for young people in Canada, the US and UK, promoting corporate-sponsored service learning and active citizenship. Charity Intelligence, a registered Canadian charity that rates over 750 Canadian charities, rates the "demonstrated impact" per dollar of We Charity as "Low" and has issued a "Donor Advisory" due to We Charity replacing most of its board of directors in 202

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  • WE Charity (vormals Free The Children; deutsch „Befreit die Kinder“) ist ein international tätiges Kinderhilfswerk mit Sitz in Toronto, Kanada. (de)
  • Unis, WE Charity en anglais (Enfants Entraide / Free the Children jusqu'en 2016), est un organisme caritatif international et un partenaire éducatif dont la mission est d'autonomiser les gens afin qu'ils changent le monde localement et internationalement, tout en s'épanouissant et en transformant la vie des autres. Fondé en 1995 par le jeune , Enfants Entraide était au départ constituée de 12 enfants de 12 ans. 20 ans plus tard, Craig Kielburger et son groupe d’amis engagés se sont transformés en un mouvement international puissant, comptant plus de 2,3 millions de membres. Tandis que le volet caritatif se développe en un modèle intégré de développement international durable appelé Adoptez un village, le partenariat éducatif Unis pour agir constitue un avantage notable pour les enseignants afin d’impliquer leurs élèves dans les salles de classe. Le modèle de développement durable Adoptez un village est présent au Kenya, en Inde, en Équateur, au Nicaragua, en Chine, en Tanzanie, en Haïti et en Sierra Leone, encourageant par le fait même les jeunes des pays développés à devenir socialement engagés. (fr)
  • WE Charity (French: Organisme UNIS), formerly known as Free the Children (French: Enfants Entraide), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. The organization implemented development programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, focusing on education, water, health, food and economic opportunity. It also runs domestic programming for young people in Canada, the US and UK, promoting corporate-sponsored service learning and active citizenship. Charity Intelligence, a registered Canadian charity that rates over 750 Canadian charities, rates the "demonstrated impact" per dollar of We Charity as "Low" and has issued a "Donor Advisory" due to We Charity replacing most of its board of directors in 2020. We Charity is related to other ventures from the Kielburgers, including the for-profit Me to We, which was the title of a 2004 book by Craig and Marc Kielburger, and We Day, a series of large-scale motivational events held in 17 cities throughout the school year. A scandal arose when the charity was selected by the Canadian federal government in 2020 for a $43.53 million contract to oversee $900 million for the Canada Student Service Grant, but the decision was reversed after ties between the organization and the Trudeau family, including payments to Justin Trudeau's wife, brother, and mother, as well as the family of former Finance Minister Bill Morneau, were called into question. On 9 September 2020, We Charity announced that it was winding down its operations in Canada and selling its assets to establish an endowment that will help sustain ongoing We Charity projects around the world. The announcement also explains that the existing board of directors, the existing Canadian employees, and the Kielburgers would leave We Charity Canada. In November 2020, a Wikipedia investigation found the Wikipedia article for the WE Charity was illicitly modified by "paid agents who used deceptive online identities" from Israeli online reputation management service Percepto. The Chief Operations Officer for WE Charity, Scott Baker, denied involvement with the sockpuppetry and Percepto declined to comment. In November 2021, CBC News reported that the WE Charity misled donors about the school they built in Kenya. "Far fewer schools were built than were funded by donors, a fact that leaked internal WE documents show was co-ordinated at the highest levels of the organization." WE Charity denied the report. CBC reported that, likely in a "co-ordinated campaign", a large number of groups and individuals wrote letters and emails discouraging them from reporting the story in the months leading up to its publication. The messages largely came from educators and charities, and included a full-page advertisement printed in several newspapers in September that argued that the news report was not in the public interest. On February 8 2022, WE Charity filed a lawsuit against the CBC in the District of Columbia District Court, alleging defamation stemming from a November 2021 piece which claimed that WE Charity had misled donors who helped build schools in Kenya. WE Charity is represented in the case by New York-based law firm Boies Schiller Flexner. (en)
  • Свободу детям (англ. Free the Children; англ. FTC), Дети способны дать свободу своим сверстникам (англ. Kids Can Free the Children) — канадская некоммерческая организация — крупнейшая в мире международная сеть детских организаций, оказывающих помощь детям. (ru)
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  • Free the Children (en)
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  • Free the Children (en)
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  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada (en)
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  • Founders (en)
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  • WE Charity (vormals Free The Children; deutsch „Befreit die Kinder“) ist ein international tätiges Kinderhilfswerk mit Sitz in Toronto, Kanada. (de)
  • Свободу детям (англ. Free the Children; англ. FTC), Дети способны дать свободу своим сверстникам (англ. Kids Can Free the Children) — канадская некоммерческая организация — крупнейшая в мире международная сеть детских организаций, оказывающих помощь детям. (ru)
  • Unis, WE Charity en anglais (Enfants Entraide / Free the Children jusqu'en 2016), est un organisme caritatif international et un partenaire éducatif dont la mission est d'autonomiser les gens afin qu'ils changent le monde localement et internationalement, tout en s'épanouissant et en transformant la vie des autres. Fondé en 1995 par le jeune , Enfants Entraide était au départ constituée de 12 enfants de 12 ans. 20 ans plus tard, Craig Kielburger et son groupe d’amis engagés se sont transformés en un mouvement international puissant, comptant plus de 2,3 millions de membres. Tandis que le volet caritatif se développe en un modèle intégré de développement international durable appelé Adoptez un village, le partenariat éducatif Unis pour agir constitue un avantage notable pour les enseignants (fr)
  • WE Charity (French: Organisme UNIS), formerly known as Free the Children (French: Enfants Entraide), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. The organization implemented development programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, focusing on education, water, health, food and economic opportunity. It also runs domestic programming for young people in Canada, the US and UK, promoting corporate-sponsored service learning and active citizenship. Charity Intelligence, a registered Canadian charity that rates over 750 Canadian charities, rates the "demonstrated impact" per dollar of We Charity as "Low" and has issued a "Donor Advisory" due to We Charity replacing most of its board of directors in 202 (en)
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  • WE Charity (en)
  • WE Charity (de)
  • WE Charity (fr)
  • Свободу детям (организация) (ru)
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