The ChildFund Team
Why do you want to help children? I hate the way poverty deprives children of an opportunity for them to be who they were meant to be. Every child contains so much potential that is too often repressed because of...
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As a senior leader in marketing, advertising and customer experience, Michele Teague adds significant governance expertise to the ChildFund Board of Directors.
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"From my earliest years, my family instilled in me the importance of giving back with my time, talent, and treasure. ChildFund is a wonderful opportunity to optimise impact in an broad area that is of key importance to me. The World’s future success is dependent on; health, wellbeing, and opportunities to thrive; for all children and young people. ChildFund is an organisation that is distinctively focused in this area of need."
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"ChildFund's mission of helping children and communities to thrive is very close to my heart, my wife Jaya and I adopted our children from an orphanage in India and they spent their early years in the most difficult circumstances imaginable..."
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"At the end of 2019, just before Covid-19 stopped overseas travel, I visited one of our dedicated communities, Luangwa in Zambia. From early morning to late at night, I saw first-hand and heard all about the wonderful work that is being done for...
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"Child suffering and poverty is an issue that is close to my heart, as all nations around the world can do more to nurture and protect children and so it is an issue that must be acted on now to create a better and more dignified future for all."
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“I remember sitting on the wooden floor of a one-bedroom pole home in a remote village in Southern Laos holding a six-month old baby who, with shallow breaths and high fever, was slowly dying from malaria. The local staff of the...
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“I had dreamed of meeting her for 13 years, and finally there she was standing in front of me. When I first started sponsoring Akullu, her grandfather was corresponding with me on her behalf as Akullu was only a little girl. I had watched her grow up through her letters, she’s grown into this incredible young woman.”
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“We all have a limited time on this journey of life. We come with nothing and we go with nothing. I believe it's important to be able to make a difference to the lives of others and to be able...
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“I come from Kiribati, a country where children are facing a lot of social issues including poverty, domestic violence and malnutrition. Poverty and violence are major social issues in a lot of countries and impact negatively on many children’s lives. They are our future and...
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