Students from Queen Mary's College will be embarking on a Global Citizenship Programme in 2023. The students on this programme will be working with the FutureSense Foundation and its local teams to support rural, disadvantaged communities.

FutureSense Foundation is grassroots, international development charity that works in six countries around the world, with the aim of supporting disadvantaged communities to help them build a better future and ensure that no one is left behind. As part of this programme students will get involved with a range of activities, working with local children supporting the FutureSense Foundation’s Educational programmes, running workshops on STEM, conversational English or raising awareness on environmental issues.

The FutureSense Foundation programmes are guided by the United Nation's Goals for Sustainable Development and it’s local in-country teams work around the year to understand the local issues and look for creative ways to address these. Each year the charity delivers 15,000 workshops, reaching over 5,000 children and a further 3,000 adults in these rural communities with the aim of improving the quality of education, ensuring the health and wellbeing of the community members and looking to provide opportunities for improving livelihoods.

Students from Queen Mary's College will have the opportunity to learn about some of the challenges faced in the world and be able to contribute directly to the effort to find a solution. With a large percentage of the global population still living in poverty and hunger without basic health, quality education or clean water and sanitation, it’s now more important than ever for us all to come together as a global team and work together to find solutions. We are looking forward to the students on this programme returning as empowered Global Citizens.

As part of this initiative, we are also fundraising for the FutureSense Foundation to help the charity to not only continue the work it does but also to grow its impact. As a small charity they have a very small team in the UK and 90% of the money raised is used towards delivering its programmes overseas.

Here are some examples of how your donations can help:

£15 provides one month of free supplementary education for a student in Cambodia (includes supplies and a healthy snack, and clean drinking water)

£50 enables an entire school to have access to clean drinking water for a month

£100 will enables us plant 50 trees

£200 enables the delivery of a series of 20 workshops covering one theme