In Kenya, food packs typically contain 24kg of maize, which is a staple food used in many dishes. It also includes 10kg of nutritious beans, peas or lentils and 2L of oil for cooking. In addition to food, vulnerable families also receive clean water, soap and other basic necessities.
Goats are one of the very best ways to help children and families in need. Your gift could provide fresh milk, yoghurt and more for children. And parents can sell the surplus dairy products for much-needed income.
Handwashing can slow the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19. But children in many communities lack access to clean water or soap for washing. Your gift of a handwashing station could help keep children safe and encourage lifelong, lifesaving habits.
Prevent suffering and save lives. Every two minutes somewhere in the world, a child dies from malaria. Countless more suffer needlessly from this devastating — and preventable — disease.
The gift of chickens could make a lasting impact for families and children. Raising their own chickens means that families have eggs for nutrition and extra income for other needs like their children’s education and health care. Even the chicken manure is valued as a terrific fertiliser for crops.
Sleep is essential for the mental and physical development of all young children. A simple gift of blankets and mosquito nets will keep them warm and safe from the threat of deadly malaria carrying mosquitoes.
Cows help families by producing milk for nutritious food. What’s not used can be sold to provide a steady income for families. Now that’s a powerful way to change a family’s future.
Health stations are often the only nearby source of essential health care for sick children and families. Your gift could help restock a health station with desperately needed medicines, medical supplies, personal protective equipment and other necessities to ensure that children and families have ready access to the care and resources they need to stay healthy.
Keep nutritious and delicious gardens growing. Your gift of fruit trees and vegetable seeds is needed now more than ever. You’ll help provide a lasting source of nutrition and income for families. This is a tremendous way to keep positive change growing for children in need.
Imagine having to sleep on a concrete slab or hard dirt floor. That’s the cold reality for far too many children living in poverty. Your gift of a blanket and pillow will help keep a child warm and comfortable.
For many parents, school supplies like pens, pencils and notebooks are unaffordable. Your gift gives a student the essential items they need for a successful year of learning, along with a backpack to carry them in.
Your gift could help feed six families for six months. Your donation can help families who have been most affected by disease or disaster, specifically families with children under the age of five, people with medical conditions, and families who have lost income.
In the communities where ChildFund works, family finances are often not enough to cover the costs of school fees. Your gift to provide scholarship assistance to a student can help them stay in school and on the path out of poverty.
Create a legacy of lasting change. Imagine your impact when you give the gift of clean, safe water that a whole school — or even an entire community — can rely upon. The positive change you could create with this gift is remarkable.
Hand pump wells are urgently needed in many communities to provide safe drinking water for children and their families. Thanks to your gift, children may no longer have to make long, dangerous journeys on foot to collect water from unreliable, contaminated sources.
When you were growing up, did you aspire to be a doctor, a teacher or perhaps a scientist? Every child has dreams of a brighter future. This Bright Future Bundle represents gifts that could help a child achieve an education.
Your generosity could provide a reliable source of nutritious milk, eggs and more for families, and you’ll also help them become self-sufficient. Each Furry Friends Bundle comes with two sheep, five pigs and a dozen chickens.
This bundle includes a hand pump well and 25 fruit trees and vegetable seeds. The well could benefit the entire community for generations to come, and a steady supply of seasonal fruits and vegetables could ensure a child has the nutritious diet they need for a healthy childhood.
Imagine the joy you’ll bring to a family with the gift of pigs. A single sow can provide up to 16 piglets per year, making pig farming a profitable business that can really improve a family’s future. Even the manure can be turned into rich fertiliser, making pigs a favourite of farmers. The impact of your gift could grow quickly!
Birthing kits with medical supplies help pregnant mothers living in remote communities give birth safely at home while hospitals and health clinics are closed or overwhelmed, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.
Many children have no choice but to sleep on concrete slabs or hard dirt floors at night. It’s a cold reality for far too many children living in poverty. You can change that with the gift of a bed where a child can rest comfortably and be ready to learn each day.
Help students who travel long distances to school. Bicycles help aspiring students get to class safely, and stay in school, spending time studying and not travelling!
Keep nutritious and delicious gardens growing. Your gift of fruit trees and vegetable seeds is needed now more than ever. You’ll help provide a lasting source of nutrition and income for families. This is a tremendous way to keep positive change growing for children in need.
Communities in rural areas often lack access to basic health services because they are so remote. Community Health Volunteers play an important role in bridging the gap between remote villages and health care centres by providing basic health services, including prenatal and antenatal care.
Effects of malnutrition, particularly during the first 1,000 day period (from pregnancy to a child’s second birthday) can have long lasting impacts on cognitive development, school attainment, lifelong productivity and earning potential of individuals. This nutrition package aims to tackle malnutrition by addressing behaviour change training for parents, providing a kitchen garden kit and deworming medicine and immunisations.
One of the biggest barriers to addressing the abuse and exploitation of children is a lack of trained and equipped frontline workers able to provide essential medical, legal and psychosocial support to children and their families. By investing in social services, you are investing in the development of a protective community environment who will be able to respond to the needs of children in a sustainable way.
Connection and reliance on connectivity access to essential life opportunities such as education, civil participation and the job market is opening up unprecedented opportunities for children but also exposing them to new risks of harm, abuse and exploitation. Training teachers and equipping them with skills to provide online safety education will not only support their current students to engage with the online world safely but will benefit thousands of children over the course of their career, creating generational change.
Women and children in Papua New Guinea (PNG) experience very high levels of violence and SGBV (Sexual and Gender Based Violence) continues to be a serious problem. It is important that all survivors of SGBV can access holistic essential support services such as medical, legal and psychosocial support. Funding will allow for training of a full cohort of counselling and operational staff to run a national helpline that provides essential support and services.
Equipping teachers and youth peer educators to deliver life-skill curriculum to promote adolescent wellbeing on respectful relationships, sexual and reproductive health, non-violence conflict resolution and online safety.
Establishing and supporting youth groups to raise their voice on child rights and lead their schools and communities on issues relating to early marriage, school dropout and gender-based violence. This work can give voice to the difficulties adolescents face, and meaningfully participate in decisions that affect their lives.
Through sport, young people from vulnerable communities are equipped with the life skills to overcome challenges, inspire positive social change and take active leadership roles within their communities. Players will undertake 48 sessions and compete in 2 competitions.
In times of crisis and disaster, children are the most vulnerable and are at risk of exploitation, hunger and disease. By purchasing this humanitarian kit, you could help to ensure children and their communities have access to clean water, food and shelter, along with child friendly spaces which help support and protect children and restore a sense of normality and continuity to their lives.
Families play an important role in supporting schools to ensure that their children have a safe space to learn at home. Unfortunately, many parents and caregivers aren’t equipped with the skills and knowledge around the importance of learning at home, to achieve this. Through training and workshops, parents and caregivers will have the skills to support their child’s learning and literacy.
With ongoing school closures because of COVID-19, children haven’t been able to access books, and schools rarely have access to age-appropriate and culturally relevant books. Each kit is specifically developed to build a strong foundation for a love of reading while meeting cultural and academic needs.
Rural schools often receive less funding from the government because of low enrolment numbers. By providing teachers with the necessary educational tools, they will be able to create meaningful learning opportunities for the children they work with.
Every year, millions of children around the world don’t have access to vaccine programs that would protect them from disease. This campaign will raise awareness about the importance of vaccination against life-threating but preventable disease, while also providing important child health checks at outreach clinics across rural communities.
Create a legacy of lasting change. Imagine your impact when you give the gift of clean, safe water that a whole school — or even an entire community — can rely upon. The positive change you could create with this gift is remarkable.
Just think of the impact you’ll have when you give students a safe, clean and engaging classroom where they can learn in a safe, protective environment. This is a gift that can help break the cycle of poverty for countless children. This is a great way to create a legacy of lasting change for an entire community.