OneSky for all children believes that every child deserves nurturing care and quality early education. The organization partners with communities and governments in Asia to provide young children in vulnerable circumstances with responsive care and safe, nurturing learning environments by training, mentoring, and supporting the adult caregivers in their lives. Since 1998, OneSky has been working to meet the early childhood care and education needs of individual children, while also helping transform systems of care in Asia so that all children can thrive. To date, OneSky has trained 116,502 professional and family caregivers to improve the lives of over 394,390 children in mainland China, Vietnam, Mongolia and Hong Kong SAR.
OneSky envisions a time when every child—no matter how humble her/his beginnings—receives nurturing early care and education that promotes healthy brain development and gives them the best chance for a bright future.
OneSky unlocks the potential of the world’s most vulnerable young children by teaching the adults in their lives how to provide early nurture and education and by building local capacity through a Training of Trainers approach that helps communities achieve lasting wide-scale impact.
Founder, OneSky
A former screenwriter and filmmaker, Jenny Bowen founded Half the Sky (now OneSky) in 1998 to give back to China, her adopted daughters’ home country, and to the many orphaned and abandoned children then languishing behind institutional walls. OneSky is now a trusted government partner that has helped China reshape its entire child welfare system and designed scalable programs for the millions of children left behind in rural villages. Today OneSky is bringing all it has learned in China to other Asian countries, starting in Vietnam with scalable programs that address the needs of the children of factory workers in industrial zones. In 2008, Jenny received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in. In that same year, Jenny was the only American chosen by popular vote to carry the Olympic Torch on Chinese soil, and Half the Sky became one of only a handful of foreign NGOs officially recognized and legally registered by the Chinese government. That registration was one of the few registrations renewed in 2017 under China’s new foreign NGO legislation. Among other honors, Jenny received the American Chamber of Commerce’s Women of Influence Entrepreneur of the Year Award, its Nonprofit Leader of the Year Award, the Purpose Prize, the Jefferson Award, and the International Women’s Forum/Trusteeship Meredith McCrae Empowerment Award. She serves on China’s National Committee for Orphans and Disabled Children and on the Expert Consultative Committee for Beijing Normal University’s Philanthropy Research Institute. She is the author of the memoir, Wish You Happy Forever: What China’s Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains, published by Harper Collins.
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