'If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.' — Mahatma Gandhi

Action Clubs

Action Clubs encourage and facilitate children and young people into community volunteering all over the world. Please click the above Shanti the Grass-eating Lion banner for more information.


Shanti Lion Children's Trust

We have established the Shanti Lion Children's Trust in order to earn money for the following work:


Orphanages

We intend to open orphanages all over the world. All children will receive a normal education, as well as specialist education in morality, dispute mediation, constructive problem solving and leadership. They will also be encouraged from a young age into community volunteering, so they may acquire a strong sense of community belonging. Once they reach a specific age, they will be offered the chance to move to our other orphanages in other countries and mixed with children from our other orphanages all over the world. This way we hope they will develop a 'Global Citizen' type mentality as they get used to living with other children from many different cultural backgrounds. When they graduate, if they choose, they may return to their place of origin where it is hoped they will have the potential to become pillars of the community. This way they may help resolve the world's problems beginning at a community level.

Money and resources will then be directed toward those graduates who demonstrate sufficient hunger toward achieving social objectives. This will bypass the problems encountered when money and resources are given to achieve social objectives in needy countries, end up in corrupted people's pockets.


Child Slavery

We intend to become involved in work to locate and identify child slaves, free them and finally rehabilitate them. We will also be looking to extend our work to adults.


Child Soldiers

We intend to become involved in rehabilitating former child soldiers.



Our other works paid for separately include or will include:

Micro-Credit to Help End World Poverty

We intend to become involved in directly helping to pull people out of poverty using micro-credit. To learn more about micro-credit please click here.


Mobilising the Private Sector into Constructive Action

We are currently involved with sending our 'Grameen Bank - Micro-credit' article to the thousands of Banks and Credit Unions around the world. We think that within each Bank there will be a percentage of people with a strong social conscience. We wish to empower and inspire them with the example of how the Grameen Bank has used innovative banking to help millions of people pull themselves out of poverty. The message we are sending the Banks and Credit Unions can be read by clicking here. (For the US version, please click here)

If you know someone who works within a Bank or Credit Union, we would be particularly grateful if you would make the above article known to them. If you work within Banks or Credit Unions we would be most grateful if you would read this message and personally champion its publication within your Bank's or Credit Union's Internal Staff Newsletter or Intranet. It will only cost you a small amount of your time and effort. Please let us know if your efforts reach a successful conclusion.


Renewable Energy Investments

We are very interested in acquiring land for the purpose of electricity generation through renewable energy resources, such as solar and wind generation. We are at an advantage with this work as we only need to make enough profit to meet each project's costs as well as, ideally, a small profit for expansion purposes.


Sharing Technology

We intend to become involved in spreading technology more evenly around the world. Many people in impoverished countries suffer today unnecessarily as they cannot access existing technology that could help them utilise their own resources more efficiently.


Investment Banking

We intend to start an Investment Bank. Unlike many existing Banks, all profits will be going toward social objective maximisation, through helping to fund the above works. An amount of profit will also be put aside for expansion and continued development.

Please note we do not accept donations. To fund all this work we intend to rely on our own hard work, ingenuity and prudent financial management to earn the money we need.

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