What We Do
Through child sponsorship and government & corporate grants, ChildFund Ireland supports projects throughout the developing world but primarily in Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Brazil, Mexico, India, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Each country programme is comprised of a consistent, holistic, locally relevant set of education, health, livelihood, nutrition and food security, water and sanitation, HIV and AIDS, and child protection projects. Put together, these projects form programmes which build the assets (health, education, income) of poor children, youth and adults, reduce their experience of exclusion and invisibility, increase their power and protect children.
ChildFund involves children, the families of the children, and the communities, in the work of its projects. This not only encourages self-reliance on the part of everyone involved. Â We work with partners in the field. We employ locals, we train locals, and overall we try to build capacity so that the locals can become self-sufficient. The community including children and youth are actively involved in every stage, including the setup and implementation of programmes. Progress of projects is continually monitored and the results evaluated.
The ultimate aim of ChildFund is for its projects to become self-sufficient and to have a lasting and meaningful change.
