The aims of the charity are to help provide children of the Third World get a better start to life. To do this we help to build schools, hospital clinics, orphanages etc. 

We also help maintain our projects until they become self-sufficient.

The schools we help to build are in rural areas, where the children would normally have to walk for several miles to get to a school. It would probably be overcrowded  with 60 or more children to a class, with not enough desks, and many  classes being held under a tree; so if it rains there is no school that day.

By building schools near to the villages, the children are not tired when they get there, and with classes of fewer pupils they can all get the attention they need to pass their exams & go on to further education.

The nearest hospitals may be days away, and having to carry a sick child along dirt tracks and open ground is not easy, and many times the child does not survive. The mother herself  often becomes ill with the effort she has put in trying to get her child there. By building clinics near to local villages, medical help is close to hand and more children and families can receive the care they need.

There is still a big problem of HIV, AIDS and Malaria in Third World countries, with many children becoming orphans. We help to build orphanages to give them shelter and food, and help them attend school. Hopefully they have a better life than living on the streets begging, falling victims to drugs, alcohol and prostitution.

Island Aid for World Children has also helped to build training centres for children once they have left school. These help them to learn a trade and how to run their own business. ( see ''Adankwame 2006'' page)

We also provide money for boreholes to be dug to enable people to have fresh, clean water. 

To help build these projects, Island Aid for World Children gets volunteers together of various ages and occupations. They all pay for their flights, accommodation, food, vaccinations etc, and use their annual leave to join us on the project.

Our next project is in October 2010 to build a school for disabled children in the SOE district of Bolgatanga, Ghana.

Island Aid for World Children always provides continuous funding for the projects it helps. We buy the equipement and furniture needed to run the training centres, schools,and orphanage. We also provide funds to help with the daily costs of all the projects we undertake. 

Island Aid for World Children is always looking out for new projects to help, as children are the future and should all be given every chance possible to have a good start to life.