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Teaumai Tebuaua learnt her traditional mat weaving skills as a teenager and today she is well-known in Kiribati for her craft. The 60-year-old is now putting her skills to use in ChildFund's new youth skills programme teaching young people traditional mat weaving.
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Meet ChildFund Kiribati's Country Director, Teima Onorio. Not only does she lead the ChildFund team in the delivery of local programmes, but she is a busy mum, wife and community member.
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Participating in ChildFund Kiribati's Building Blocks basic literacy programme has been an absolute life changer for 17-year-old Tooti.
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By supporting our work in Cox's Bazar, you're helping vulnerable Rohingya refugees to access education, life-saving devices, disaster preparedness, psychosocial counselling and child protection programmes. Give today and have 4x the impact.
Like all mums, mother of four Terenga of Betio in Kiribati, wants her children to be safe. But now after taking part in local ChildFund child protection initiatives, she also wants them to be valued and listened to. Terenga welcomes all the...
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The International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women is this week but sadly the daily reality of domestic abuse still exists for 64% of women in Papua New Guinea. ChildFund Technical Advisor Sally Angelson writes why ChildFund's 1-Tok Kaunselin Helpim Lain in PNG, a helpline for survivors of gender-based violence, is not just important, it's vital.
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ChildFund has worked with the community in Emali, through local partners, with funds from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and supporters, to deliver the Agriculture Dairy and Economic Development (ADED) Project project over the past four years. The project has created around 5,000 employment opportunities in the area.
To everyone who has supported ChildFund in the past year, thank you! It's because of your incredible generosity that we've been able to have a record year helping children and youth to thrive. Let's be real here - 2020 and...
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Meet Trieu Van Hoan, from Quang Vinh, Trung Khanh who now, with help and training through ChildFund, has a small business farming buffalo. He previously worked in a factory but now feels much more positive about his future.
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This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and to mark it at ChildFund, we look at the first year of a five year programme, funded by MFAT and NZ supporters, in the Solomon Islands to improve youth mental health and wellbeing.
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