The Power to Play — From Trash to Treasure

ChildFund International has long recognized that play is essential to the healthy development of children. Play helps them discover and explore, solve problems and test new ideas. Through play, children experience friendship, cooperation and teamwork.

The self-confidence and enthusiasm built through the power of play will transition with children into their adulthood, helping them become leaders of enduring change.

In celebration of our 70-year history of helping children, we communicate their strength, fervor and imagination with 350 hand-crafted toys in an exhibition entitled, The Power to Play: from Trash to Treasure.

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Tropical Storm Agatha Challenges Guatemala

While the Pacaya Volcano continues to spew ash and sand across Guatemala, Tropical Storm Agatha brought an even more challenging situation with strong rains flooding the country, making it extremely difficult to access communities to gather information on damages caused.

ChildFund Provides Nutritional Supplements and Agricultural Training to Guatemala Families Affected by Drought

Guatemala is experiencing a nutritional emergency caused by the 2009 drought in the country’s eastern region, known as the coredor seco — the dry corridor. The drought has destroyed family farms and caused unemployment in the agro-export sector.

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An introduction to the survey by Anne Lynam Goddard, President and CEO of ChildFund International.

“Follow us on Twitter, help change a child’s life.” That was the simple message behind a campaign to give gifts from ChildFund International’s Gifts of Hope and Love catalog to four countries in Africa.

The Mungu Gender Livelihood Group in Zambia uses sunflower seeds to produce a cooking oil to sell in their community. They use profits to buy books, pens and uniforms so that children can attend school.

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