What is Crossing Borders?

We support children and young people in less-developed regions by improving their educational opportunities

Taking the statement "We change the world for the better" as its motto, Crossing Borders is focused on making a sustainable contribution in less fortunate regions of the world.

Education enables children and young people to lead a better and more independent life. If knowledge and experience are passed on, a sustainable and self-perpetuating effect is achieved that allows families and whole communities to progress. By focusing our efforts on poor regions, we achieve the most comprehensive effect with our available resources.

As an independent association, we have currently 190 members worldwide. Up until now, we have supported projects in 34 countries and on four continents.


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What do we do?

Financial assistance and organizational support for projects

Crossing Borders offers financial assistance and organizational support to projects that improve the education opportunities of children and young people in disadvantaged regions of the world. In special cases, projects in other regions are also supported. More rarely, we support the charitable engagement of our associations members financially through donations.

Additionally, we also try to foster networks of knowledge exchange and communication activities that aim at enhancing social awareness and social competencies.

How to support us?



Support the idea

By sharing our passion, spreading the word and actively bringing in your thoughts and ideas, you are making a contribution. We are always looking for fresh ideas, networking opportunities, interesting project proposals, and motivated people sharing our commitment.

Spread the word and help us to reach more people!

Donate

We guarantee that donations are used in order to improve the education opportunities of children in less-developed regions of the world. All donations are used exclusively for supporting our partner projects.

It is straightforward - you donate and we make sure your money goes directly to the cause.


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Support the projects

What counts in the end is that children receive support in order to live a self-determined and happy life. Support for this cause does not necessarily have to go via Crossing Borders, we are happy to create opportunities for direct engagement within the projects

Check out the section "What does Crossing Borders do?" in order to learn more about our projects and their concrete support needs.

MUSOL - SOLidaridad con las MUjeres (Bolivia)

The MUSOL project is trying to provide women in the mining sector of Potosí with a stable livelihood and an improved future.

The mining industry is the most important economic sector in the poor region of Potosí. The substandard working and living conditions of the miners are largely neglected. The project is focused on widows and underprivileged women in and around this industry. MUSOL provides psychological care, legal counseling, opportunities for participation and opportunities to earn additional income. Aff ected people are involved directly and given an active voice. Children are supported by two daycare facilities where they receive comprehensive care and educational support in the form of counseling and scholarships.

How to support this project?

The MUSOL project is looking for people with management experience in order to develop the project further or with ideas on how to improve the production and marketing of self-produced jewelry as well as social workers, medical staff for focused therapies and people with experience in introducing new technology.

Partners:

INTERSOL - Verein zur Förderung internationaler Solidarität

http://www.intersol.at

Where:

Potosi (Bolivia)