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Column 1: Asian Women's Welfare Association, Singapore

Aims to help the disadvantaged to lead normal lives. The TEACHME Inc. program tutors physically disabled youths in the skills required to secure jobs in open employment.

UBS assistance: Financial sponsorship of a center to help school leavers with severe physical disabilities start-up businesses; funding of TEACHME programs; employee volunteering, typically to teach the skills necessary for the physically disabled to secure jobs; employment of disabled students as interns; mentoring and hands-on work experience.


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Column 1: Youth Outreach, Hong Kong

Takes at-risk youngsters off the streets and helps them to get jobs and become self-sufficient.

UBS assistance: Generic job training in the practical aspects of working life, basic business and office practice through a one-year period of paid work in the YES! Express document delivery service.

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Column 1: Financial Quotient Council, Korea

A not-for-profit organization dedicated to broadening the financial knowledge of Korea's young people.

UBS assistance: Arranging lectures and seminars; publishing textbooks; employee volunteering, including mentoring.

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Column 1: Chinese Children Shelter Association, Taiwan

Provides care for orphans up to the age of 18 who are in children’s homes.

Chinese Children Shelter Association, Taiwan

UBS assistance: Assistance in the development and establishment of a dedicated website to provide counseling, share resources and experience and recruit volunteers.

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Column 1: ORBIS

A charity to eliminate avoidable blindness around the world through training, education, and treatment. At the heart of their work is a team of world-class medical professionals, who volunteer their time to pass on their skills to local doctors and nurses.

UBS assistance: Sending four specialists to Bangladesh; donations for anaesthetist training in Ethiopia and Vietnam; paediatric ophthalmic training in Pakistan; funding work in rural Ethiopia; employees have also donated more than 100 pairs of spectacles and raised funds through charity events.


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Last update: July 29, 2005, 9:12 AM 
 

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