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Looking Out for Each Other

09/01/2010
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This is not your happy back-to-school story. But it is a hopeful one.

Starting in May 2010, ChildFund partnered with Union de Banques Suisses and the Bernard Van Leer Foundation to implement a program geared toward improving school enrolment and retention rates in 25 communities in Liberia.  Martin Hayes, ChildFund Child Protection Specialist, visited some of those schools. “They were surprisingly empty,” he says. “I was worried that we might be trying to get kids into already over-saturated schools.”

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Case Studies: Child and Youth Involvement
09/01/2010

A central premise in how ChildFund functions is that we work in concert with young people to break the cycle of poverty. We listen to children and youth, taking what we learn from them and blending it with the best practices in the industry to create programs that meet their needs effectively and meaningfully.

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 ChildFund Netbook Project Helps Brazil’s Children
09/01/2010

For the past several weeks, ChildFund team members have been working in Brazil to implement two pilot projects testing the use of netbooks at the local level as a tool for streamlining sponsorship processes. We are collaborating with NetHope and partner companies Intel and Agilix on these projects.

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 A Classroom Tour Around the World
09/01/2010

Visit schools in ChildFund communities and see where lifelong learning begins.

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