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Guide Mothers Teach Parents to Promote Children’s Development
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5/23/2012
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Blanca knocks on an open front door and walks right on through, as if she’s strolling into her own home. ... She is one of several “guide mothers” in Ilama, a small community high in the mountains of northern Honduras where most of the 3,000 residents live in extreme poverty. Trained by ChildFund in early childhood development, guide mothers are volunteers who perform home visits with several families each, teaching mothers various ways in which they can support and enhance the development of their children from newborn to age 6. More than 2,000 volunteer guide mothers are working in Honduran communities today. Read more.
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Sponsorship and My Dreams
5/09/2012
On a Friday evening in 1988, a bouncing baby girl called Penda was born at a small ward in the outskirts of a little town in The Gambia. That was me.
Before long, our family would include seven children — three boys and four girls. My father earned a small income as a radio mechanic, not enough to meet our basic needs. Very few people at that time had radios or televisions, much less damaged ones to repair. My mother was a very resourceful housewife who grew vegetables in the backyard to feed our family. But she was not working, so the family depended on my father's earnings. Read more.
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Face to Face at Last
4/9/2012
ChildFund's Experience of a Lifetime Facebook promotion winner, David Levis, a high school teacher from California, recently traveled to Uganda to visit five of the 14 children he and his family sponsor. He also got a chance to see some of ChildFund's programs up close. Watch Video.
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After the Typhoon, a Filipino Youth Heals in Helping
5/23/2012
A month after Typhoon Washi, Dens stood in a ring of children and crouched to reach the two toddlers nearest him. Their small palms were warm, and they trembled with excitement as their fingers squeezed his hand tight, signaling him to begin.“Sisira ang bulaklak, bubuka ang bulaklak,” Dens sang — “the flower closes, the flower opens.”
Dens was leading the game as part of ChildFund’s psychosocial support initiatives for children displaced by the storm. Read more.
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