Club Penguin Projects
 The New Horizon Foundation, a charitable
organization created by the founders of Club
Penguin (www.clubpenguin.com),
is dedicated to relieving poverty and
improving the health and general wellbeing
of children and families around the globe.
Club Penguin, a division of Disney
Online, provides one of the largest and
fastest-growing virtual worlds for
children. Club Penguin is a snow-covered
virtual world where children can play games
and hang out with friends. It has developed
a reputation as a trusted provider of safe
family fun due to its rich, imaginative play
environment, filtering technology and live
moderators. It contains no third-party
advertising and is free to use and
enjoy, however a subscription membership
provides access to additional features
that enhance the play experience. Club
Penguin is headquartered in Kelowna, BC,
and can be played in English,
Portuguese, French and Spanish.
The foundation and the subscription
members of Club Penguin have become enthusiastic supporters
of Partners
over the past few years and we are very
thankful for their support. They have
built entire schools and library
additions and funded ongoing support for
education, play therapy and activities
for orphans of AIDS and for our
micro-financing programs.
Their "Kids Helping Kids" and "Coins For
Change" programs provide a unique way
for their paid subscribers to support
our projects and have raised the profile
of Partners immensely
around the world.
Libraries for 50 Gojjam Region Elementary
Schools
In the summer of 2009,
Club Penguin and
the New Horizon Foundation generously
committed CDN $900,000 to fund the
Partners' portion of this six year
project which will benefit about 50,000
elementary school children in the Gojjam
Region giving them the use of libraries,
books and reading rooms over the 8 years
they attend grade school. This is commitment
of $150,000 per year for Club Penguin, which
will be combined with the contribution from
the local Ethiopian communities totalling
$32,000 per year for an annual project cost
of $182,000.
>> Read more about the Libraries for Gojjam
Elementary Schools project
Dembecha Elementary School
In the summer of 2009,
Club Penguin and
the New Horizon Foundation generously
committed to fund the Partners'
portion of the Dembecha Elementary School
project. This will virtually rebuild
the existing school, add a library,
latrines, bio gas digester, bakery and tea
room to the benefit of 1975 students, and
provide income generating activities for
orphan and vulnerable students.
The total estimated cost of the school
project is CDN $135,232, with Club Penguin
funding $100,956 and the community donating
$34,276 of the cost with labour and
materials.
>> Read
more about the Dembecha Elementary School
project
Gubaya High School
The Gubaya High School, built in 2008, was
funded by
Club Penguin and
the New Horizon Foundation along with the
people of the region.
The total cost of the project was CDN
$240,000, with $200,000 coming from Club
Penguin and the community donating $40,000
of the cost with labour and materials.
Also of
note is that Gubaya High School is the
largest project that Partners
has ever taken on.
>> Read
more about the Gubaya High School project
Coins For Change 2008
 In
December 2008, the second annual Coins for
Change campaign encouraged the kids who play
Club Penguin to learn more about charties
working to help children around the world,
and to donate the coins they earn playing
games within the Club Penguin virtual world
to in effect vote for their charity of
choice.
As a result, Partners received $30,000 to
support education, play therapy, and
structured activity programs for AIDS
orphans in Ethiopia.
>> Read more at Club Penguin's website
about Global Giving
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