Member Spotlight

Misozi Sambo, a bright young woman from Zambia, is following her dream of becoming a teacher thanks to the intervention of our CEO Michael Kiely and friends back in Ireland who will now support her education.

Extreme weather has been threatening communities in Ethiopia as this second drought in as many years dries up farmland, forcing people to abandon their homes in search of food and income.

If you ask parents what’s most important to them, they will probably say the safety and well-being of their children. However, what can parents do to protect their children against violence? Do they have what they need to help their kids stand up to abuse, bullying, cyberbullying and other risks? Do they know what to do and who to contact?

A billboard-sized sign along the road from Udaipur through the Aravalli Mountains shows two scenes — one is of a burly man with a bandana around his neck reaching out from behind a tree to grab a young girl’s shoulder. She looks away as if to run in the opposite direction. In the other scene, looming shadows of hands grasp for a girl clutching a stuffed bear. The headline in Hindi reads: “BT cotton has destroyed the childhood of children.” Below is the familiar logo of ChildFund India, which is campaigning against child labor in this region.

Early childhood education has been shown to improve school achievement and success later in life. It lowers primary school dropout rates by enhancing children’s preparedness to cope with the formal school environment.

This photo essay shows how ChildFund Rwanda, a program of ChildFund Korea, is making this a reality in several communities.

Child­Fund Rwanda, a program of ChildFund Korea, was established in 2016. It supports vulnerable children and their families.

ChildFund Alliance are responding to provide urgent care and protection for children who’ve lost homes and loved ones in the powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday.

This second major earthquake came less than two weeks after a deadly 7.8 magnitude quake devastated the country, killing over 8,000 people.

The latest quake has triggered more landslides, further isolating rural communities desperately in need of emergency aid. The coming monsoon will make the job of getting aid to remote communities by road near impossible. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Asia estimates that as many as 315,000 people already live in communities inaccessible by road, and with coming rains this figure is likely to rise.

One month on from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April, aid agencies including ChildFund are working hard with local authorities to help children and families across the country who’ve lost homes, schools and loved ones.

Children who came through the Kelekula Interim Care Center in Monrovia, Liberia, welcome President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who came to celebrate the end of the Ebola outbreak throughout the country.

Liberia is the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to be declared free of Ebola, 42 days after the last confirmed case.

Since March 2014, the Ebola outbreak has claimed more than 4,700 lives in Liberia and caused more than 11,000 deaths in West Africa overall. Neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone continue to see infections, although at a much lower rate than before. In Liberia, the last confirmed Ebola death was March 27, and there have been no new cases since April 23.