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59 Club

The 59 Club started as a Church of England-based youth club founded in Hackney Wick on 2 April 1959, in the East End of London, then an underprivileged area suffering post-war deprivations.

Boaz Zippor

He has supported several projects in Thailand, including Camillian Hospital, Rotary Club Bangkok South, Baan Unrak, Baan Prakart, Newsmakers Clutter Sale, and Bangkok Opera Education Fund, most of which are projects in the field of education for underprivileged children.

Catherine Filene Shouse

Born into a wealthy merchandising family, her grandfather William Filene founded Filene's department store, her father was the founder of the Boston Symphony and her mother started the Boston Music School for Underprivileged Children.

Charlie Llewellyn

Born out of wedlock in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and a black Saint Helenan mother, the dark-eyed and dark-skinned Llewellyn had an underprivileged upbringing in Natal being considered of mixed blood.

Country Boys

They attended the David School, a non-denominational private high school with a mission to serve underprivileged and struggling students.

Faiza Seth

Soham for Kids is a non-denominational charity school for underprivileged and orphaned children based in the village of Mallapur, near Hyderabad, India.

Josh Gaines

Gaines is one of 11 children: when he was six years old his mother, Wilma, and stepfather, James, adopted six children from an underprivileged home in their hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Kenny McEntyre

He also participated in a school supply collection drive for underprivileged kids, worked with his wife on a Christmas project to collect toys for kids, was a member of the AFL Army Boot Camp – which paid visits to area high schools to teach importance of education, team work and physical fitness, visited schools as part of Orange County Career Day and served meals to homeless at Salvation over Thanksgiving as part of an off-season full of community relations activities.

Kings of Devon

The box office revenues from Kings of Devon went to raise money for Shishu Bikash Kendra, a school for underprivileged children in the Dhanmondi district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Massimo D'Amico

But will the knowledge, (one of which, with Francesco Clemente made in a bar in Brooklyn) and long visits to MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), then replace it very soon with the long sessions of sketches made in the subway, in the square of Union Square on the 14th Street, in the crowded streets of Manhattan and outlying stations and other underprivileged suburbs of New York, which will lead him to launch his personal style of painting.

My Brother, My Executioner

At a young age, Luis was taken by Don Vicente from his underprivileged mother and half-brother, Victor, who were both living in Sipnget, Rosales in Pangasinan, a province in the Philippines.

North Wilkes High School

Many of the clubs engage in different aspects of philanthropy, such as sponsoring Red Cross blood drives, hosting Christmas parties for underprivileged children, and collecting money for donation to various local charitable organizations.

Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

2005: Connie Schultz of Plain Dealer, Cleveland, "for her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged."

Ricky Lynn Gregg

Gregg has also begun a charity called Trail of Hope, which provides clothing for underprivileged Cherokee, Choctaw and Sioux Indians.

Shaun Pollock

He is friends with golf icon Gary Player and regularly plays in the Gary Player Invitational charity golf series to help raise funds for underprivileged children.

Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor

Established in 1851 in the parish of All Saints, Margaret Street in London, the sisters were employed in parish work, particularly amongst the poor and underprivileged.

Steven George Mandis

CNN reported on Mr. Steven Mandis volunteering to teach underprivileged high school students in Harlem, New York about financial responsibility.

The LifeSkills Center for Leadership

Founded in 2001 by 'Famous' David W. Anderson and his family, the LifeSkills Center for Leadership began its work of providing leadership and personal development programming to at-risk and underprivileged Native youth.

Wings of Evolution

Wings of Evolution is a 2007 documentary film about the revolutionary educational system of the Siragu Montessori School, a school for homeless and underprivileged children, located in the outskirts of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India.


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