About Us
Charitable Support
The First Group is proud to support:
Reaching U
The Reaching U program was created to bring awareness of children with special needs to the community of the UAE. Furthermore, the program works towards creating a fun and positive environment promoting health and fitness to children with special needs.
Christel House
Christel House helps children around the world break the cycle of poverty, realize their hopes and dreams, and become self-sufficient, contributing members of society. Christel House transforms lives by providing impoverished children with education, nutrition, health care, a nurturing environment, and by empowering their families and communities through outreach services.
Andrew Flintoff Foundation
The AF Foundation, set up by Andrew and Rachael Flintoff, is a children's charity raising funds to build, develop and improve Child Rehabilitation & Physiotherapy Units throughout the United Kingdom.
SOS Children's Village
www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk
SOS Children's Villages are the world's largest orphan and abandoned children's charity. Child sponsors and donors worldwide provide a new family and home for more than 78,000 children in 490 unique Children's villages in 124 countries.
Foresight
Foresight is a Dubai-based organization helping to accelerate a cure for blindness caused by hereditary eye disease which affects millions of people worldwide, particularly Retinitis Pigmentosa. In partnership with Tamkeen, we also aim to improve the lives of people with visual impairment in our community and raise awareness of the difficulties they face in their everyday lives.
Food for Life
Food for Life Vrindavan is a humanitarian association officially recognized by the Indian government. For the last ten years, Food for Life Vrindavan has worked in the poorest villages in the Vrindavan area (120 Km south of New Delhi).
Download Food for Life Vrindayan's annual report here.
FEDA
FEDA helps alleviate the poverty of the people of the Chher Teal, Kompong Seima, Ksach Poy, and Chrab Krasaing villages in Wat Kor Commune in Battambang. Over 800 children voluntarily attend the FEDA School.
Taman Senja Wangi
Taman Senja Wangi is a registered Balinese charity which supports elderly, destitute people on this island in two ways: firstly, by sponsoring an old people's homes in Bali, the Wana Seraya, for many years with money, food, medicine and other necessities, and, second, by paying for cataract operations for elderly people via the John Fawcett Foundation.
Kanu Heart Foundation
The Kanu Nwankwo Heart Foundation is a charity organisation established by the Nigerian International and English Premier League football striker, Nwankwo Kanu (a.k.a Papilo) -MON, OON, who is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. The foundation was established in 2000, to help underprivileged African children and young adults, living with different heart ailments in Nigeria and other African countries respectively, obtain the cardiac surgical operations needed.
Red Crescent
Acting to support official authorities in times of peace and of war, Red Crescent offer educational programs, first aid and protection for the victims of accidents and disasters.
