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Our work is so much more than just a job. It’s about being a small piece of a bigger picture we believe in: a world where all children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe. Sometimes, we’re lucky enough to see the impact we make up and close and personal. Last year, one of our fundraising team members in the U.S., Renée Ferguson, traveled to Uganda to meet children and families in our programs and help them tell their stories. The visit was “truly life-changing,” she says, bringing her day-to-day work to life in a whole new way. “Seeing early childhood programs and youth initiatives in action showed me how deeply rooted and community driven our work really is,” Renée says. “You see both the challenges and the incredible resilience of families—and how ChildFund Uganda partners with communities, not just serves them. “All of our staff, partners and families are driven by a shared desire for children to have the opportunity to thrive. Seeing that belief in action reminded me why this work matters and why I’m grateful to be part of it.” Learn more about our work at ChildFund.org!

When local organizations are trusted and in the lead, lasting change takes root. 🌱 For more than a decade, @ChildFundIndo has walked alongside Sumba Integrated Development (SID) — a community‑born organization committed to protecting children and strengthening families in East Sumba. From the beginning, the approach to partnership was grounded in co‑creation, capacity strengthening and deep respect for local knowledge. And now that the groundwork is solid, new opportunities are flourishing. “Over the past six years, SID has begun expanding its partnerships with various donor agencies outside ChildFund,” says Anto Kila, SID’s executive director. “The knowledge and experience SID gained during its partnership with ChildFund is not only a foundation, but also an asset to the organization that continues to be nurtured and utilized.” Today, SID reaches tens of thousands of children and family members in East Sumba. Read more about their journey: childfund.id/blog/story-4/b……

What do you do when the power goes out at your house? Agnes lives in a small community in Sierra Leone where there IS no power. “There is no light in my community,” she says. “At home, we have only one small lamp that everyone uses. With all the noise around, it’s hard to study or prepare for my exams.” Thanks to your support, we were able to partner with @BooksForAfrica, @unitetolight, Munafa M’Patie Federation and the government of Sierra Leone to supply more than $25,000 worth of solar lamps to 51 schools in 11 districts. 🤯 Agnes is now one of 4000+ children in this area with access to the lamps and other school supplies! “Learning has become easier, and our lives are better,” Agnes says. Thanks for—quite literally—bringing light to the world! 💡

🇺🇬@ChildFund & @AfriChildCentre's ECPC project increased children’s knowledge of child protection laws in Uganda by 15%! That’s the kind of impact we need to scale! Visit #SafeFuturesHub to learn more 👉 bit.ly/4mmGpI0 👈

Eat a lot of sweet potatoes this winter? 🍠 So did kids we work with in Turkana County, Kenya. In fact, a ChildFund program that introduced orange sweet potatoes to local farmers has helped drive down child malnutrition in the area from above 30% to less than 20%. Watch 🎥 to see how!

You know where your children are. Do you know who they’re talking to online? Knowing the signs 🛑 of online exploitation can help stop it before it happens. It’s one of the best things you can do for the kids in your life this Safer Internet Day (and every day).

Meet 13-year-old Esther. With your support, we’ve helped her and dozens of other girls at her school escape female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. 👏🏿 Esther attends a school in Kajiado County, Kenya, that caring people like you have supported for more than two decades. ChildFund currently works in the school by facilitating the Child Rights Club, providing meals for students, and running a tree planting program. Most importantly, we built a school dormitory a few years ago as a safe place for girls like Esther to learn free from the pressures to undergo harmful traditional practices like FGM and child marriage. This is her story in her own words—an affirmation that we really can end FGM when we work together.

Local Partner Spotlight ⭐ Partnership for Child and Family Development (PDEF), Senegal "When the partnership is built on trust and local leadership, it is the communities that are the real winners," says Gora Fall, executive director of our local partner organization PDEF. PDEF's story began in 2009, when four local organizations that had been connected with ChildFund since the late 1990s came together to form an umbrella nonprofit. At first, the organization had fewer than 20 staff members and relied entirely on ChildFund for funding. As the partnership grew, PDEF steadily expanded its capabilities. Today, only 37% of its funding comes from ChildFund, thanks to other partnerships PDEF has cultivated! Supporting independent local organizations is a key part of our strategy to make change for children that really sticks. Learn more about how we work through local partners: lnkd.in/eRbv7rMD

Come inside our library in Uganda! 📚 ChildFund has a long history supporting kids at this school in Kaberamaido District, thanks to your generosity … 1998 ➡️ School built 2005 ➡️ New desks provided 2022 ➡️ Library renovated & stocked Today ➡️ New literacy & numeracy program And the books are just the beginning. Together with Longhorn Publishers, we’ve launched an ambitious program to boost literacy and numeracy in more than 70 underperforming primary schools across Uganda. We’re now reaching 90,000+ students through Saturday morning catch-up classes and newly developed textbooks tailored specifically to Uganda’s education curriculum. Teachers also receive instructional guides and enhanced training to better support their students! This is how we make an impact in children’s lives for the long term: through smart partnerships, local collaboration and YOUR tremendous support. Just imagine all the doors these books will open!

Food for thought this MLK Day: One of Dr. King’s most enduring messages was that the way we nurture and protect children reveals the soul of our society. 💯 Around the world, children still face barriers that Dr. King fought tirelessly to dismantle, like inequality, exclusion and the absence of opportunity. His legacy challenges us not only to imagine a more socially just world for children but to actually build the support systems that make it possible in the family, the community, the country and beyond. We hope you’ll join us to in helping create a world where every child can learn, grow and dream without limits. The future Dr. King imagined begins with the children who are with us today.

It's National Snuggle a Chicken Day (yes, that's a thing), and we have some EGGcellent news ... a gift of just three chickens can change a child's life for the better pretty dramatically. For <$30! 🤯 We see firsthand every day how chickens can be the start of something HUGE for a family living in a vulnerable community. Even just a few can provide: 🥚Nutritious eggs to help children grow big and strong. 🥚 Extra income when families sell their surplus eggs or chicks. 🥚Long-term self-reliance for families and communities. Give now to send chickens to a family and start the new year with kindness ➡️ childfund.org/default/catego…

Who are we? Allow us to introduce ourselves! 👋🏽 ChildFund is a global community of people who care about children and take action to help them grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe. Together, we’re creating a world where all children can live at their fullest potential at every stage of their lives. ➡️ ChildFund.org Pull up a chair and stay a while. We’re so glad you’re here!

Happy World Introvert Day to the quiet ones, the not-so-quiet ones and everyone in between. Because we need each other. That’s the heart of our mission here at ChildFund—that every child is precious, no matter who they are. Agree? You’re in the right place! Check out ChildFund.org to learn more. 📍 Kapelebyong District, Uganda

Sliding into 2026 with some truly amazing news ... Thanks to your generous support, we blew our 31 Days of Holiday Hope fundraising goal out of the water! You showed up and showed out to help us raise more than $200,000 for children in the new year, supporting life-changing programs & services for children from the U.S. to Kenya and beyond. We’re so excited to see what we accomplish together for kids in 2026. Happy New Year! 🎉

We're counting down to the new year with our top photos of 2025! 🎉 Photo #1: Clean water isn't just about health or even hygiene; it's about joy, freedom and having time to do more of the things you love, especially for girls, whose job it traditionally is to collect water. 8-year-old Loricia's face says it all. As part of ChildFund’s mission to help every child grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe, improving access to safe drinking water is a critical priority. Your gift today will help us help us build more wells like this one in Mozambique in 2026. Time's almost up ⏰ to have your gift matched for the new year, so don't wait: Give now! childfund.org/campaigns/dec2…

We're counting down to the new year with our top photos of 2025! 🎉 Photo #2: Twenty years after Deb made the decision to sponsor Momodou in The Gambia, he showed up at her doorstep to say thank you. This year, she flew across the ocean to return the favor and see the amazing work he’s doing in his own community. 🌍 When we say sponsorship is a life-altering, world-shifting experience, this is what we mean. Read Deb and Momodou’s amazing story! childfund.org/stories-and-ne…

We're counting down to the new year with our top 5 photos of 2025! 🎉 Photo #3: When it comes to building a secure livelihood, EVERY young person should get a piece of the pie. 🍕 Meet 19-year-old Biyanka, who recently graduated from a food technology course at a public vocational training institute supported by ChildFund in Kegalle District, Sri Lanka. Biyanka is deaf and cannot speak, but she's found a job with room to grow thanks to help from supporters like you. @ChildfundL's Community-Based Inclusive Development program has strengthened and streamlined Sri Lanka's public vocational training system for youth with disabilities. Leveraging its connections with Pizza Hut Sri Lanka, ChildFund also worked to forge a special track where youth in the food technology course could learn specialized skills in preparation for work in one of Pizza Hut’s many restaurants across the country. Other new streams introduced at public vocational training institutions include graphic design, mobile phone repair, plumbing and retail sales. Today, Biyanka works at the back of the house doing food prep and making pizza. She communicates with coworkers using lip reading, while her shift manager has picked up basic sign language skills in order to communicate more effectively with her. "It's been a good experience. Everyone supports me on learning the things I don't know yet," Biyanka says. "There's not a lot of opportunities for people like us. So this has been a very supportive place for me." Learn more about how you're supporting youth to earn a sustainable livelihood: childfund.org/our-work/livel…

Join us in counting down to the new year with our top 5 photos of 2025! 🎉 Photo #4: This family portrait from rural Turkana County, Kenya, tells a story of deep hardship but also of profound hope. With no formal education, Margaret and her husband have long relied on selling firewood, making charcoal, weaving fans and mats, and harvesting palm leaves to provide food for their children. For years, meals were uncertain and often limited to just one per day. Food insecurity took a serious toll on their youngest child, 2-year-old Daniel, who was hospitalized earlier this year for tuberculosis and malnutrition. Participating in irrigated farming through ChildFund Kenya's Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato project has changed things tremendously for the family. With access to seeds, tools and training, they now grow the vitamin-rich sweet potatoes, cowpeas and maize—crops that provide both food and income. Today, they eat three meals a day instead of one. And Mom and Dad can pay school expenses, buy clothes and even keep a sheep as savings for emergencies. “Now we have productive farms,” Margaret says. “You can harvest one bag [of sweet potatoes] and sell it while the rest remain for the children to eat slowly.” 🍠 Learn more about how ChildFund programs bolster children's nutrition and health: childfund.org/our-work/healt…

Join us as we count down to the new year with our top 5 photos of 2025! 🎉 Photo #5: In Guatemala, children learn about digital safety as part of our online protection work. ChildFund celebrated a major online safety win this year as the Take It Down Act was signed into law into the U.S. This law protects children who are victimized by the online publication of real or deepfake nonconsensual sexual imagery, a huge step in the right direction to prioritizing children's safety. Read more about our work to protect kids online: childfund.org/our-work/prote…