Since the formation of our company KAYU has pledged a percentage of each sale towards causes we are passionate about. We donate 2% of each sale towards one of the non-profit organizations listed below –
Charity
Unite for Site
KAYU works with the non-profit organization Unite For Site to provide sight-restoring surgeries to people in developing countries. Unite For Sight partners with local eye clinics to provide eye examinations, diagnosis and care for all treatable conditions, education and prevention.
To date, Unite For Sight has provided eye care services to more than 1,200,000 people worldwide, including more than 43,700 sight-restoring surgeries and trained 7,900 fellows to eliminate preventable blindness in their local community and abroad.
Awareness Cambodia
KAYU works with the non-profit Awareness Cambodia to help purchase backpacks and school supplies for students in rural Cambodia.
Awareness Cambodia has been working on the ground in Cambodia for the last twenty years, not only providing school supplies to children but also running an orphanage and medical program in the region.
Education in Cambodia
The current structure of Cambodia's education system stems from the chaos that enveloped the country in the aftermath of destruction caused by the Khmer Rouge regime. For every one thousand students who begin primary school, only twenty-seven will graduate from upper secondary school. Children in rural villaes in Cambodia lack the funds needed to procure basic school supplies in order to attend school.
KAYU donates part of every sale towards purchasing backpacks + school supplies for children in Cambodia.
It's a simple way of sharing the good fortune we enjoy with Cambodian children who are in desperate need for the basics.
Our Trip to Cambodia
In October of 2010, KAYU traveled to Cambodia with the non-profit Awareness Cambodia to deliver backpacks and school supplies to a school in the Kompong Spue province, one of the poorest provinces in the country.
Cambodia experienced heavy flooding during our time there which delayed our journey to the school, but when we finally arrived we were greeted by hundreds of smiling children. We were so happy and excited to give them backpacks filled with notebooks, pencils, erasers, rulers and glue.
Despite not having electricity or even access to basic toilets, the children were like children all over the world -- riding their bicycles, laughing and playing.
We gave out sixty backpacks and school supplies that day, but there are many more than a thousand students in that school.
Our mission? To one day return with backpacks for every single child.
