This K - 6 school and Bay Area Certified Green Business offers classes in traditional academic subjects while also focusing on arts, music and drama as essential elements of a well-rounded education. The teachers run the school, ensuring their independence, and each child is given highly individualized attention. Walden Center & School also runs before- and after-school programs as well as a summer camp.
With less of a social safety net than we enjoy here in the U.S., Chinese orphans (of whom the overwhelming majority are girls) often have few resources with which to improve quality of life. Half the Sky Foundation seeks to fill in the gap by providing foster homes to special needs children, loving care to infants, preschools to young children and individualized learning plans to older kids.
Seacology is a leading environmental conservation organization whose primary focus is on preserving the biodiversity of islands. The majority of plant and animal extinctions in recent times have happened on islands and Seacology aims to help arrest this trend around the globe. It works with local populations to come up with solutions that are both environmentally responsible and economically advantageous. To see a list of the many projects the organization has completed, is currently working on, to get involved with its educational programs or to donate, check the Web site.