Our history

In 2002 two youth workers took some young people to Cambodia to educate them in third world issues. Working alongside an organisation called Care for Cambodia they visited a village on the Meekong River just outside the capital Phnom Penh. 

Several things struck the youth workers and young people. Around 70% of the village were children (a lot of adults having died during the Pol Pot regime, or through ill health). Most families were very large and often only one parent was still alive. There was little paid work and huge risks were often being taken to enable children to have an education (loans taken to grow crops out of season, etc). There were/are many issues in the village such as no clean water, but education was what the villagers held dear. On finding how little it costs to provide a child with an education for one year, the youth workers and young people decided to tell people back home of the situation and give people the opportunity to help.

Support grew and four months later it was decided to form a charity, to make this a long term committment to help these and many other children around the world in a similar way. The Charity Commission for England and Wales granted charity status to Edukid in August 2003. In it's first year Edukid managed to support 100 children and two students.

The charity seeks to empower people from the UK to directly make a difference, by a simple direct debit scheme that lasts the length of a childs education. It encourages people to get involved, and make long term committments. Edukid is keen to support children in the third world, through education so as to increase their job opportunities, and give hope of a better quality of life for them and their families.