# CHILDREN OF THE MEKONG

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1116375
- **Other names:** THE MINERVA TREEHOUSE
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Oct. 13, 2006
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1116375


## Contact

- **Address:** 13B Taylors Green, LONDON
- **Postcode:** W3 7PE
- **Phone:** 07412692254
- **Email:** info@childrenofthemekong.org
- **Website:** www.childrenofthemekong.org



## Activities

**Objects:** The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are to engage in projects and initiatives to advance the education, training and development of disadvantaged children and young people in Southeast Asia, to enable them to improve their material living conditions and to develop intellectually, emotionally and morally.

**Activities:** Children of the Mekong is the UK branch of Enfants du Mekong, a French charity founded in Laos in 1958. Our mission is to educate, train and mentor the poorest children and young people.We run sponsorship programmes, developments projects, education centres and foster houses in six countries of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

**Area of benefit:** COUNTRIES AND REGIONS OF THE WORLD.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
- **Who:** Children/young People



## Areas of operation

- Burma
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Vietnam



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | £336873 | £346953 | — | — |
| June 30, 2024 | £297033 | £338207 | — | — |
| June 30, 2023 | £262275 | £213410 | — | — |
| June 30, 2022 | £230985 | £221308 | — | — |
| June 30, 2021 | £239762 | £236486 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **JEAN-MARC DEBRICON** (Chair)
- ANDREAS BOLSTAD POVLSEN
- Anthony Joseph Olufemi OSIJO — appointed Sept. 25, 2019
- CAMILLE BURGERHOUT — appointed July 1, 2015
- Guillaume d'Aboville — appointed Dec. 9, 2017
- JULIA GOH — appointed Oct. 4, 2011
- MARCUS FEDDER — appointed Oct. 31, 2012