SKIP - Students for Kids International Project

Registered Charity- England & Wales: 1099804 Scotland: SC040556

What is SKIP?

Students for Kids International Projects (SKIP) is a healthcare student-led organisation founded in 1999 which has branches in 11 UK universities. SKIP branches work across the world developing sustainable community-based projects in conjunction with identified local partner organisations.

Our vision is two-fold. Firstly, we aim to improve the health, education and welfare of communities through interventions including health promotion, water and sanitation, nutrition, education and facilitation of the enablement of children with disabilities. Secondly, we aim to empower students by delivering training to advance their skills, developing them into globally and culturally aware healthcare professionals.

We have two clear aspects to our work:

FOR THE STUDENTS

We aim to provide multidisciplinary teams of healthcare students with a global health experience that allows them input into a development based project. We hope to improve their personal and professional experince as well as their cultural sensitivity and understanding.

FOR THE COMMUNITY

We aim to establish community integrated projects in developing countries focused on supporting and improving the helath welfare and education of vulnerable children. We hope to acheive sustainability for all our projects through initiating interventions through needs assessment in conjunction with local partners and encouraging handover of information, education and responsibility to local communities.