News and Stories
World Rugby has announced the appointment of international development agency ChildFund as the principal charity partner for Rugby World Cup 2021, playing in 2022, a first in the history of the premier women’s 15s event.
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As part of the global ChildFund Alliance, our programmes reach some of the most vulnerable, excluded and deprived children in the world. In this letter, Dina Taddia shares about the recent situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and what ChildFund is doing.
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Thanks to nearly NZD $155,000 from New Zealand's Disaster Response Partnership programme, ChildFund will reach 2,000 vulnerable people in Timor-Leste.
In September 2019, before COVID-19 closed borders all around the world, long-time ChildFund New Zealand child sponsor Juliet Wensley travelled to Uganda to meet her two sponsored. Here's Juliet's story.
“I am so happy and excited that my family and I have water right near our home. My children and I will now be spending more time together reading and playing. Earlier fetching water was such a stressful chore as one would be required to make/dig small wells on the river in order to get water. I am grateful for the water brought close to us.” Mwelu, mother of 5, Emali.
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More than 6.7 million people have managed to escape from Syria since the beginning of the war, which started on 15 March 2011. On the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Syrian conflict, ChildFund Alliance member WeWorld tells the story of its protagonists through a multimedia project and the photographic exhibition.
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We all have a part to play in keeping our environment safe and protected. At ChildFund New Zealand, we are dedicated to maximising our positive impacts and reducing our negative impacts on the environment through the programmes and projects we...
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ChildFund International Kenya has been awarded up to $100,000 by Google to further develop online child protection work in Kenya. As part of Safer Internet Day this month Google recognised ChildFund’s work in preventing online sex trafficking which includes national research, training in communities, schools and media-based training and policy development. The funds will go toward...
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For most child sponsors, the biggest reward is watching their sponsored child grow up healthy, happy, and able to transform their own community. One of the ways ChildFund supporters know their donations are making a difference is because of the...
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Due to COVID-19, children and their families in our dedicated communities have been faced with unexpected hardship. Because of these new priorities, our work has changed and some life-changing community projects are still waiting to be implemented. Right now, we...
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