Social Responsibility of InstaForex

Nowadays, more than 290 million children worldwide cannot get an education due to an increased number of students in schools, distant locations of educational organizations, or a lack of infrastructure.

The Thinking Huts fund helps solve the global shortage of educational organizations by means of innovative technology, namely construction 3D printing.

While traditional construction methods take months or even years, 3D printing shortens this period to one week, thus considerably reducing spending.

In the spring of 2022, Thinking Huts presented its first completed project. A school built by means of 3D printing opened its doors to 2,500 students in the city of Fianarantsoa, Madagascar.

This region was chosen as a launching pad for a particular reason. The fact is that 45% of children, who live on the island, do not attend school. Thinking Huts considers as a priority those countries where the need for educational organizations is especially acute.

Our company has also participated in this noble mission. Together with Thinking Huts, InstaForex strives to make education more available since it is the key to a better children’s life and a basis for the sustainable development of society.

Every year, 20,000 children are treated at USM Hospital in Kelantan state.
Most of the patients come from other states such as Terengganu and Pahang.
The way to the hospital takes more than 2 hours, and most children are from low-income families.

Moreover, the cost of treatment is high.

Parents cannot afford to visit their children constantly.

But in 2019, the problem of many families was solved.

At the USM Hospital in Kelantan, a comfortable house has been built for families of children who need treatment.

Now, parents and children can be together during therapy, which has a positive effect on the health of children.

Millions of deprived and abandoned children across the world need medical support and protection from violence, exploitation, and poverty. For this reason, charity has become a common social phenomenon. Responding to the children’s needs is our chance to make a little miracle happen. What is most important is not to remain indifferent because together we can do a lot of good.

Our company regularly participates in various charity events and projects that require financial aid and other forms of support. This time we chose to cooperate with Peduli Anak, an independent non-governmental organization which was founded in the Netherlands and expanded into Indonesia. For the past 15 years, the foundation has been working to improve the children’s lives and provide them not only with accommodation, but home comfort. Thousands of children receive education, medical help, and legal advice.

Peduli Anak is actively engaged in various projects across Indonesia. A large development center for children from low-income families has been built on Lombok Island. There are three orphanages, an elementary school, a kindergarten, a technical school, and a medical center.

Today, we can also feel our involvement in a good deed. We get a huge reward in the form of acknowledgement from the organization and feel good that our contribution helps children to recover and restore their ability to laugh again.

Hello, I am Mr. Kim Ny, 36 years old, from Cambodia and my nationality is Cambodian. I am a disabled man who sits in a wheelchair all my life. My mother passed away when I was a baby. I don't know how beautiful her face was and did not play with her as a kid.  My father abandoned me when I was 1 and a half years old. Then I lived with my grandmother but she was blind and she did not have money to support me. My first sister was quite lucky as my uncle adopted her.

My second sister left school when she was 9 years old and then tried hard to make some money to feed me and my grandmother and take medical care of my grandmother.

The roof of the house where we lived was broken. We slept under the rain because the roof of the house was licking.

When I was young, I had difficulties to get to school. I went to school on my knees and my hands when the sun was burning, I also got under heavy rain in rainy seasons. I never had school uniform and school bag like other children. 

I created CPOC because I don't want to see children having hard life and sad life like when I was young. I want them to have enough food, good roof, go to school and live a healthy life.

The main reason of creation CPOC is that I want to give them good life now and gift bright future for their families. Now I rent a house to run the CPOC center project. In the future we plan to build the house for children, computer school, library, animal farm and vegetable farm, as well as university for poor student and cover their expenses for university fee.

Currently the World Vision organization, along with other humanitarian institutions, takes part in relief efforts for the devastating earthquake that hit western Nepal on April 25, 2015. InstaForex stepped in to support the victims and transferred money to the organization's fund as a charity.

The money that comes into the fund will be used to provide temporary shelters for those who had to leave their homes, as well as medical care, food supplies and access to clean water.

One of the most severe earthquakes in the past 80 years of 7.8 magnitude occurred in Nepal leaving almost 8 thousand people killed and over 16 thousand, injured. It nearly destroyed more than 288 thousand buildings in the country, another 254 thousand need emergency recovery. Today people from all over the world take an active part in fund raising to help the victims.

InstaForex hopes that its contribution will help the citizens of Nepal recover from this terrible tragedy.

World Vision is a religious non-profit organization aimed to provide aid and promote development worldwide, as well as fight poverty, hunger and injustice. Its regional UK office is a member of Disasters Emergency Committee.

The Malaysian Red Crescent (MRC) is a voluntary humanitarian organization, contributing to the conservation of human values and to the prevention and softening of people’s sufferings. Also this organization helps people injured in natural disasters and military conflicts. The Malaysian Red Crescent, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, is a part of the independent International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Red Crescent also supports people in peace time as branches of the first medical aid and as humanitarian programs. Members of the Red Crescent took an active part in the recovery operations after the flood in the northern Malaysia in 2010. They also corresponded to tsunami, occurred in the Indonesian province Aceh and in the Malaysian state Penang in 2004. MRC also provided emergency cover to victims in Palestine, Japan, Pakistan, Burma, and China.

Nowadays, Malaysian branch of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement reaches out to people to cope with the aftermath of the strongest flooding over the last 50 years that hit in the eastern and northern states of Malaysia. Siba, where the river Rajang overflew, was damaged most. Evacuation centers, which got refugees through, were deployed in the disaster area. Among the members of the organization there are young volunteers, who are students from schools and universities.

Following the moral laws and the humanitarian principles InstaForex cannot stand aside when more than 400,000 people need support. Consequently, the company makes generous contribution to the MRC fund to mitigate and relieve suffering of the inundation victims on the Malaysian eastern shore.

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc is a nonprofit charitable organization which supports spreading and development of free information, including the first free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The project is targeted at collecting and evolvement of educational content, and its effective and global distribution. The foundation is fully supported by donations of individuals and organizations.

Every day the main fund project Wikipedia free encyclopedia is visited by more than 12 million users. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. offers you an uninterrupted access to helpful and verified information that makes knowledge free and easily accessible. Year after year, the company continues providing its users with an opportunity to learn the accumulated experience of the mankind. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc and its global projects make enormous contribution to the development of the information dissemination and availability. Everyone, regardless of location, has a right to get the access to the checked source of information any time. The public online encyclopedia Wikipedia guarantees that.

Assistance and participation in social and charitable projects is one of the main InstaForex principles of work. Helping those who need it and participating in social life of society make it possible to fit the civilized patterns of business, human morale and honor.

InstaForex considers this project to be very important. Thus we were glad to answer to a request for help published by the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, and made a considerable donation.

InstaForex believes that in the contemporary world everyone should have an open access to information.

One of the largest charitable organizations SOS Children's Villages was established in Austria in 1949 for children, who had no families or relatives.

The peculiarity of the model used by SOS Children's Villages is maximal similarity to usual family life. Today about 500 SOS villages are located in more than 133 countries of the world where orphaned children have found their homes.

SOS Children's Villages exists due to charitable contributions exclusively, supporting kids psychologically, educationally, and materially. New foster families help the children to adjust to living in society

As part of social responsibility project, InstaForex supported one of the SOS children villages in Indonesia – SOS Village Semarang. There are 14 cottages in the village, every house is for one family with 6—8 children of preschool and school age, a mother (child minder) and an aunt (babysitter). The kindergarten is attended by about 90 children from the SOS village and neighboring towns.

Children go to public and private schools, then go to colleges with a possibility to live in youth hostels.

The main task of the organization is to take care of children, to preserve the idea of family and to attract the attention of society to problems of children who do not have biological families.

The children’s charity fund “Happy World” was established in October 2005 in the Russian Federation with the mission to find financial assistance for seriously ill children and their families. The capital of the foundation is directed to children with the purpose to help them overcome cancer, neurological diseases, cerebral palsy, epilepsy as well as for rehabilitation, medical treatment, wheelchairs and other facilities.

Funds are also allocated to the relatives by way of material aid. Since the establishment, the charity foundation has supported over 400 families. The charity fund "Happy World" also renders financial assistance to medical centers for purchasing pharmaceutical and medical equipment.

The foundation accepts donations from private bodies and commercial establishments. Charitable events are also held for attracting the funds: concerts, theatre parties, auctions, exhibitions etc.

InstaForex Company is the partner of the charitable foundation “Happy World” and provides financial support to seriously ill patients. We consider it very important to help children, as this can be the only chance for them to overcome illness and survive.

The Foundation for Mother and Child Health (FMCH) has started its activity in Jakarta (Indonesia) in 2001. The fund helps the population of the country, more than a half of which lives below the poverty line. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country by population. 250 million people live there on 17,000 isles. About 145 million people (52%) live on less than 2 USD dollars per day, and 35 million people (14%) - on less than 0.65 USD. 28% of children under 5 suffer from constant malnutrition; 20,000 deaths happen as a result of unaccompanied labour or the consequences of it. Over 100,000 people in the country die of tuberculosis each year; more than 9,000 people die of AIDs. Only 6% of population live to be 65.

The Foundation, the employees of which are volunteers, contributes to solving the prior task of Indonesia - the reduction of poverty, i.e. it grapples with malnutrition, high rate of mothers' deaths, and low level of education.

The FMCH in co-operation with the local medical institutions organize meals for weak of starvation children. Often parents have no means to buy healthy food for correct babies' diet. Even simple hygiene norms are not observed which leads to often illnesses and sometimes even to fatality. For children aged 3-6 pre-school education is organized where children are taught to speak well, read and count, as well as to analyze and retell texts. There is also a scholarship programme for primary school students. The Foundation helps to purchase textbooks, school uniforms and stationery.

Mothers attend courses which provide the basis of healthcare, hygiene and good nutrition. The women are also trained different handcrafts which can help to increase the family income, including tailoring classes. There is also a special loan scheme for those women who would like to purchase a sewing machine. Special training programmes are opened for workers of medicine and school teachers.

With the help of the Foundation’s means educational and healthcare centers have been opened. In the medical centers the children are examined, and receive medical care in the time of floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters as well.

In accordance with the principles of social responsibility, InstaForex Company is glad to help this Foundation to achieve the collective mission of overcoming poverty and related to it problems.

For more information one can download the presentation of the FMCH or visit its official Facebook page.

TitianВ FoundationВ (TF) (the word "titian" means a "small bridge") was established by the volunteers in 2006 on the donations from private parties and large companies in Jakarta with the purpose to rebuild Lamreh Village in Aceh that was destroyed by tsunami in 2004. After the reconstruction of the village, the foundation continued its activity building schools, and focusing on helping the Indonesian children from poor families to get good education.

The education for an Indonesian means finding a well-paid job and giving the family the good standard of living. The authorities of the fund are sure that acquiring professional skills guarantees successful future of a person and of the nation on the whole.

That is why the foundation is missioned to create favourable conditions for educating children and grown-ups.

Today the donations to the fund are spent for various programs, including:
- building schools, libraries, educational centers and providing technical facilities and books;
- making IT classes;
- scholarship programs;
- advanced training for the teachers;
- organizing courses and seminars for adults;
- supporting the population suffering from natural disasters.

The foundation organizes different hobby groups for schoolchildren where the children are attended to by the professional teachers.

The fund also provides material support to schools which they have opened and have a scholarship program for talented kids whose families have no money to send them to school.

The foundation is run by the volunteers and 100% of the donations received are directed to projects.

You can find out more about the Titian Foundation and its activity at their official website or in social networks: FaceBook and Twitter. 

St. Petersburg charitable foundation AdVita (i.e. for life) was established in 2002. The mission of the donation center AdVita is providing financial assistance to children and grownups suffering from cancer. The donations made to the fund are directed to treatment, rehabilitation, purchasing medicines and medical equipment, paying for medical services and difficult surgery.

AdVita is searching for donations in favour of those people who need urgent help, looking for blood and bone marrow donors, trying to cure as many patients as possible. Moreover, the charitable organization AdVita is employing volunteers who are tending to help ill people with no ability to cope with disease on their own.

InstaForex international Forex broker generously renders financial assistance to the charitable organization AdVita, thus, attempting to provide healthy and happy future to children and adults fighting against cancer.

The charitable foundation of GN-OTA movement was started by the government of Indonesia in co-operation with the national adoption movement GN-OTA (Gerakan Nasional Orang Tua Asuh – National Movement of Foster Parents) on May 29, 1999 in Jakarta. The foundation’s mission is to decrease the number of children who left school because of being unable to pay for education. Thus the main activity of the organization is providing financial support to children who need to obtain a 9-year basic education. The budget of the foundation consists of donations made by private bodies, social groups and non-governmental establishments and also by the government. The money is distributed among those children who need it in the form of targeted subsidies and scholarships for orphans, children with limited abilities and children from low-income families or one-parent families, aged between 7 to 15, so that they were able to purchase school supplies and books. The foundation co-operates with educational institutions that give the lists of the children who need help in order to study and pay for education. The application form for receiving scholarship can be submitted by every child in trouble.

In 1996 the Ministry of Social Affairs in Indonesia reported about 6 million children who left schools because of financial problems. In 2010 the indicator exceeded 13 million. Meanwhile annually about 60.000 children receive grants from the foundation.

You can find out more about the activity of the charitable foundation and possibilities to participate in their programme at the official website of GN-OTA.

The Russian Aid Fund is one of the largest charitable foundations in Russia that accepts donations from private individuals and organizations in order to collect the amounts needed for treatment of seriously ill children. The Russian Aid Fund was established in 1996, among numerous awards it received the national award “Silver Key” in 2000.

The stories of children with dramatic diseases, who need direct aid, are published on the website of the fund, on other web-resources and printed in business publications, as well as appear on the radio. The fund co-operates with the major medical centres and hospitals of Russia, where the collected by the foundation money goes for curing the children with oncological diseases, congenital heart diseases, infantile cerebral paralysis, diabetes, unsoundness peripheral nervous system disorders, musculoskeletal disorders etc.

The Russian Aid Fund also holds aid campaigns during the periods of national and natural disasters and catastrophes, provides help to the families who suffered from terrorism and other emergency situations. The donations can be received by the children from Russia as well as from other CIS countries.

InstaForex cares for lives of children with poor health represented in the fund and sincerely hopes that the financial assistance made to the foundation will change the children’s lives for the better.

MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization, which renders help to people, who have suffered from armed conflicts, epidemics and natural disasters. The organization MSF offers assistance to all people irrespective of their gender, race or religion and political views and adheres to the principles of medical ethics, loyalty, neutrality and objectiveness.

MSF was established in Paris in 1971 as non-commercial and self-regulated entity. The basic principles of its functioning are enclosed in the MSF Charter. Today MSF is a worldwide movement including 23 associations. The organization is 90% financed by private funds.

Thousands of medical as well as administrative professionals are working in MSF. The great majority of MSF medical workers are from the countries, where the organization is providing aid. All in all, people from 60 countries of the world are the team of MSF.

MSF are against the opinion that population of poor countries can only get low level of medical service, it tends to provide high quality of care after all patients. In 1999, when MSF was awarded Nobel Prize, the organization declared that the money which was received together with the award, will be spent for educational work concerning curing the illnesses spread in poor countries.

Recently, MSF pays much attention to the problems of citizens from countries of the third world, who live in slums without any medical services at all. For example, Bangladesh and its capital Dacca, where 80% of the population live in slums without clear water, electricity etc. MSF could not stay away from this severe problem, and in 2010 opened in the slum district Kamrangirchar of the Bangladesh capital Dacca a centre for health and nutrition, which has by now become home for 400,000 people. At the moment MSF continues working in this direction, helping people, who live in slums, to receive medical treatment. MSF is opening new centres not only in Bangladesh, but in other countries, where the issue of extremely low living standard is as much critical. You can find out more about the programs of MSF at the official website of the organization.

InstaForex deems it its duty to help the organization Médecins Sans Frontières, and consequently, all people who are deprived of due medical care. Doing this we consider, that people of the poorest nations, who live in the countries involved in military actions, can obtain a chance to be healthy.