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Child Protection · Ending Violence · Goal 3 - Good health and well-being · Pacific · Papua New Guinea · Youth · Oct 22, 2021

ChildFund's project on rights, respect and resilience for Papua New Guinea youth

ChildFund New Zealand is implementing a five-year project in PNG with funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and supporters. The project will train teachers at 17 high schools to teach their students about gender equality, violence prevention, consent, and building respectful relationships. We call the programme Rights, Respect, Resilience.

Goal 3 - Good health and well-being · Health and Nutrition · MFAT · Pacific · Solomon Islands · Youth · Oct 01, 2021

Strengthening youth mental health and wellbeing in the Solomon Islands

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.

Pacific · Team Updates · Sep 14, 2021

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori: It's Māori Language Week!

Kia ora koutou... Did you know? It's Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori! All week, we're promoting the use of Te Reo Māori at ChildFund, and we hope you'll join us! Join us and make history... At 12 pm on 14 September, we'll...

Child Essentials · Child Sponsorship · Community Sponsorship · Future Fund · Pacific · Team Updates · Oct 07, 2020

Summer weather is here, and with it comes a few updates from ChildFund

The weather is getting warmer, and so our thoughts begin to focus on the Christmas season and all the joy that it brings. For many of our supporters, Christmas includes reaching out to their sponsored children with cards, letters and...

Kiribati · MFAT · Pacific · Papua New Guinea · Press Releases · Solomon Islands · Team Updates · Timor-Leste · Vietnam · Jul 02, 2020

ChildFund New Zealand and MFAT partnership to have a positive impact in Pacific communities and Southeast Asia

New Zealand and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) have today announced a partnership to increase the social and emotional wellbeing of vulnerable children, youth and their families in the Pacific and Southeast Asia region.

Learn more about the partnership through this press release, and a video from our Programme Director, Quenelda Clegg.

Ending Violence · Pacific · Papua New Guinea · Press Releases · Jun 16, 2020

"Zero tolerance on family violence", ChildFund PNG

High profile rugby player and brave domestic abuse survivor Debbie Kaore has gone public about a vicious assault on her this month by her partner, highlighting the issue of domestic violence in Papua New Guinea. ChildFund Papua New Guinea and...

Child Essentials · Child Sponsorship · COVID-19 · Emergency Response · Kenya · Kiribati · Pacific · Papua New Guinea · Sri Lanka · Timor-Leste · Vietnam · May 07, 2020

How ChildFund donors are helping children and communities around the world to tackle COVID-19

Thanks to our monthly donors and sponsors, ChildFund is responding to COVID-19 in 60 countries worldwide. Having established, solid local partnerships in place and being part of an international alliance is key to ChildFund New Zealand in helping children thrive....

COVID-19 · Kiribati · Pacific · Press Releases · Mar 27, 2020

ChildFund's Response to COVID-19 in the Pacific

ChildFund New Zealand is working in the Pacific region to support some of the world’s most vulnerable communities amid the COVID-19 crisis. “COVID-19 has presented us with one of the biggest humanitarian crises we have ever seen and new challenges...

Child Participation · Health and Nutrition · Pacific · Papua New Guinea · Jan 06, 2020

Delivery kits saving mothers and babies in PNG

When ChildFund staff found Theresa, she was lying on the side of the road with her newly delivered baby in her arms. Family members had assisted Theresa as she gave birth in the middle of the night without medical instruments,...