Global Eyes is a new initiative working with children and young people in the developing world from 2010. Sarah Gooda will be spending a month in two communities in 2010, working with some of the poorest children, on a range of educational activities through the performing arts, in order to improve their knowledge in areas such as hygiene, disease prevention and locally important issues such as HIV, landmine awareness and community regeneration.

The topics for each project have been chosen in consultation with a local leader within the developing country, and will involve the use of local cultural traditions, dance and musical styles, as well as working to give the local people a voice and showing the children that their opinion is important.

Another part of the project is cultural exchange, which will be achieved by working with primary school children in the UK, setting up an exchange of letters or drawings, and teaching the children in each country about the culture of their exchange school.

In the developing country, the work will lead to a performance by the children at the end of the month, which will be open to the whole community and which will also be filmed to be watched by the UK children, placed on the global-eyes website, and used for archive and future fundraising purposes.

The communities Sarah will work with in 2010 are a camp for returnees in the north of Burundi and a children's home in Burma.

The sponsor would have their logo prominently displayed on the global-eyes website and on all marketing material and information stands for fundraising events. They would also receive a monthly newsletter informing them of the progress of fundraising and of the project itself, and they would be entitled to presentations on the project for their staff or clients at any time before or after the project.

They would also receive a DVD copy of the performance and workshops in the developing country, and would be able to use this project as a case study for their sponsorship work.

"This project is designed to be ongoing", says Sarah, "working with more communities in the future and building cultural links between children in the developed and developing world. For the first year, I am looking for funding in the range of £4,000, but am also interested in 'in kind' sponsorship - particularly the use of venues for fundraising activities, or donations of equipment such as art materials, toothbrushes, soap, etc. to take to the developing countries".

Contact: Sarah Gooda

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