Your support transforms lives.

Together, we can remove the barriers that kids face, so they can live to their full potential.

To help a local kid,

you need local help.

For many children in Kiribati, life is at risk from dirty water, poor sanitation and the lack of nourishing food. To help them, we need the help of their communities.

Working with local partners means that we can ensure children get the clean drinking water, nutrition, and schooling they need, so that every child has access to the bright future they deserve.

ChildFund has been working this way since 1938, and we know it's effective. Our approach builds self-reliance, strengthens communities and empowers change so children throughout the Pacific become the leaders, engineers, teachers and business innovators of tomorrow, shifting dependance off aid and charities.

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Our impact

100k

Children and young people reached

19k

People reached with education projects

100

Communities in the Pacific and beyond.

237k

Children, youth and adults kept safe

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Almost

36 Million

Children

and family members across 66 countries

have been recently supported by the

ChildFund Alliance.

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Pacific drug trafficking surge puts children at risk

The Pacific

28 Apr 26

Pacific drug trafficking surge puts children at risk

Fuel price surge hitting families in the Pacific up to six times harder than in New Zealand

The Pacific

8 Apr 26

Fuel price surge hitting families in the Pacific up to six times harder than in New Zealand

Water at risk in Middle East War - on World Water Day

The Pacific

22 Mar 26

Water at risk in Middle East War - on World Water Day

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Our focus areas

Every child should have access to water that doesn’t make them sick, and without walking for hours to collect it. When communities have access to safe water it has a ripple effect – children don’t get sick, they can attend school and learn life-saving hygiene and sanitation practices.

In parts of the Pacific, child malnutrition is a serious health issue. To address this, ChildFund NZ works with local communities to establish school and community gardens, install solar powered freezers to store surplus crops and support mums with infant feeding programmes.

When children have access to education and skills training, they can become the leaders, teachers, engineers and business innovators of tomorrow to achieve not only their own ambitions, but also to help shift their communities dependance off aid.

All children have a right to grow up in an environment free of violence and exploitation. Through education and support, communities are given tools to keep children safe - and we actively campaign to stop child marriage. We also provide helplines and safe places for families escaping violence.

When disaster strikes, it is children that suffer the most. Through our partners on the ground, we’re able to get food, water, shelter and psychosocial support to children that need it most.