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2 CEO’s TheGettingWelcomeStartingmorewecan do together How we make the needed change happen Preparing for the unexpected Securing long-term family livelihoods Education for greater economic security Making clean water and hygiene a normality Keep vulnerable children safe, long term And then we leave Your FutureChild membership report back plan FutureChild Events Our FutureChild pledge to you Your next step to becoming a FutureChild member10.9.8.7.5.4.3. 18.17.15.14.13.12.11. Contents
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reality is that the world continues to impose poverty-producing stress on children in the form of wars, famines, and social breakdowns. They should be preventable. They keep re-occurring.
This proposal explains how FutureChild members will magnify our strategic impact beyond just ‘firefighting’ emergencies. While always providing the essentials first, FutureChild funding is about being able to boost the long term work of our expert partners in these challenging places. To achieve that, we apply globally proven best-practice development support led by our experts in that field. And our Childfund experts often report to me that there is so much more they can do.
Mark Collins Childfund CEO
Parents – particularly fathers – are travelling thousands of kilometres across borders so they can send money back to buy food for their Wechildren.have
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Yes: when there are emergencies, Childfund will be there. But, with 80 years of experience behind us, we know dealing with emergencies is not enough. The future that impoverished parents and families want is the future we also want for them. They too believe that it is a fundamental human right that every child should experience a childhood in which they are nurtured, protected and given access to opportunity.
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work to do, and I am asking you to help us do it.
It means thousands more disadvantaged and vulnerable children otherwise caught in extreme poverty can secure more fulfilling futures. Thank you for agreeing to consider this proposal. I hope you can join us.
For more than 80 years, ChildFund has helped millions of impoverished children thrive into adulthood. It starts with the belief that I suspect you and I share: that every child should experience a childhood in which they are nurtured, protected and given access to
This poverty-producing stress currently overwhelms more than 10% of the world’s parents. Those parents also share our belief that their children should experience a childhood in which they are nurtured, protected and given access to opportunity. Climate change brings property-destroying floods and crop-destroying storms. War forces parents to leave everything behind and run with their children. Parents are starving themselves to feed their children.
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Since 1938, Childfund has focused its energies on helping the most impoverished children in our world. To this day, Childfund works so that every such child can experience a childhood that leads to a thriving adulthood. Thriving means being free to flourish. To excel. To be supported towards a prosperous and full adult life.
Getting started
Over the years, the work of Childfund has had a positive impact on millions of children and their families. However, in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, it has been estimated that in less than two years, 100 million more children have fallen into poverty. That’s a 10% increase since 2019. Of a total estimated population of more than 700 million now living in extreme poverty, an estimated 356 million are children.1
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ChildFund has established a worldwide reputation for consistent professional, well-measured and effective international development work. Extra effort is now required to get our world back on track to achieving the United Nations’ goal of irradicating extreme poverty by 2030. To help achieve this goal, we ask FutureChild members to pledge their financial support using the pledge form enclosed with this proposal. Every dollar will help us further empower our child-poverty-reducing projects.
3. Protection – we help to protect children and youth, and their sense of well-being
1. Assets we help to meet the basic needs of children
How we make the needed change happen
4. Systemic change – we make sure we are working on systems and relationships throughout the regions in which we work, as well as global policies, regulations and agreements.
We operate locally led development. This means we always work in conjunction with local partners. We work with them to chart the best pathway to thriving lives for a community’s most vulnerable children.
2. Voice, power and agency – we help children and youth participate in every aspect of the progress made
We work in five child-centric interlinking areas:
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Our development experts and frontline teams apply these strategies in the following project categories.
5. On the ground directly with local people – our frontline team members are only one handshake away from the mothers, fathers and children representing 10% of the world’s population who are currently experiencing poverty-producing stress.
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Preparing for the unexpected
That’s why, right from the get-go, Childfund plans for the worst while also planning for the best.
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In developing countries, emergencies can devour life and opportunity. Of all deaths from weather, climate, and water hazards, 91% occurred in developing economies, according to the United Nations country classification from 1970 through 2019.2 The imbalance is obvious. Many of that 91% are children. And then that statistic only gets worse when you introduce war.
A constant vital element of our FutureChild projects is working to better prepare for emergencies. Alongside our local partners, it’s about preparing ahead of the need. Childfund bolsters our local partner’s capability to respond when emergencies arise. This saves lives and retains the stability needed for the children at the heart of why we are there. With that in place first, the scene is more stable for the next areas of our focus to be applied.
2 Disaster Risk Management Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank7
Sudden traumatic events can produce a devastating lingering impact on children. People in poverty have fewer resources to respond and recover than people in developed countries have in times of disaster. They feel the impacts more acutely. This can very quickly undermine or destroy the pathways for children towards a thriving adulthood.
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• Providing food for school feeding programmes
• Providing regular health checks for children
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Compare that to only 3% of children in North America considered stunted and 0.4% wasted. Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa have the next highest overall malnutrition prevalence, with 38% and 32% of children stunted and 9% and 7% of children wasted, respectively.5
• Distributing anti-malaria bed nets
Ensuring long-term healthy children
Child health is about more than food. ChildFund has helped create new healthcare centres similar to those we are familiar with in New Zealand. This means more than a building and some medical equipment. ChildFund works with local communities and local authorities to ensure there are medical professionals and supplies to make the facility work. The health systems we co-design must go on working into the future. They are systems run by passionate and caring local people. They are systems and people established to save lives day in, day out, for years and years to come. Malnutrition in Developing Countries - The Borgen Project While stunting is a low height for a child’s weight, wasting is a low weight for a child’s height.
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• Improving access to quality health clinics
• Providing seeds and livestock
• Training parents on how to cook nutritious meals
Childfund improves health and nutrition by:
Poor nutrition causes 45% of child deaths ages five and below. Malnutrition causes the death of 2.6 million children every year.3 As of 2018, South Asia had the highest prevalence of child malnutrition, with one in three children defined as “stunted” and 15% “wasted”4
Even today, malnutrition remains a leading cause of child sickness and death worldwide.
For example, in Kenya, we helped establish a dairy processing factory. This has put an estimated US$6 million (NZ$9.8 million) extra into the local economy via local farmers.
Without localised livelihoods, life is precarious. ChildFund supports families with training in farming techniques.
Securing long-term family livelihoods
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We help families by: Training farmers Providing livestock Improving irrigation Establishing savings and loans programmes Creating alternative income sources Distributing small-scale loans for new businesses
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This includes seed redistribution, livestock management and business skills. ChildFund helps them create and maintain secure livelihoods.
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We have stories to tell about schools we have built all over the world where we have seen the pupils go on to thrive.
Education is a leading factor towards gaining a better life. But there are millions of girls and boys who don’t even get to complete primary school. Or start it. In the communities where ChildFund works, education is a priority, and here is another reason why. In developing countries studies show that for each year of schooling, girls can increase their lifetime earnings 10-20%.2
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A better education can quite literally be life-saving.
Education can not only save lives. It can transport a child and their family out of poverty and into a brighter and more prosperous future.
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In developing countries, children of mothers with secondary education or higher are twice as likely to survive beyond age 5 as those whose mothers have no education.6
6 UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013/4, Page 156 to 159.10
Making clean water and hygiene a Accessnormalitytosafewatershould
never be a luxury. Yet, for millions of people, getting enough of this bare essential is one of their biggest daily worries.
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works in communities where access to clean water is severely limited. Women and children often walk for hours to collect it. That results in children missing out on other important opportunities, like school.
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More than 40% of the people on Earth don’t have access to sufficient clean water. Up to 80% of illnesses in the developing world are linked to inadequate water and
Here, again, we’re making an impact beyond the immediate. In Kenya, we’ve helped to establish community kiosks providing piped, high-quality water. Crucially, these are operated by local people, who pay a small fee to get access. This creates income that supports the maintenance of the system for the long term. It means people are trained to keep the operation going. The nearby schools no longer have to pay to have water delivered each week. And then – no pun intended – there are other downstream benefits. With the money saved, they’re providing breakfast for all their pupils. And more children are attending. They no longer need to spend their days collecting water. They can learn instead.
• Support counselling and referrals for victims of violence
• Give girls and boys the chance to participate
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Childfund aims to ensure children are free from all forms of violence and exploitation.
ChildFund New Zealand is part of the 11-member ChildFund Global Alliance. This means that global goals to end violence become concrete actions on the ground. Collectively, the Childfund Alliance advocates in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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This work is about the protecting part.
• Help children become aware of their rights
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• Provide safe spaces for children in emergencies
• Educate children about online safety
Do you recall that belief we believe you share with us: that every child should experience a childhood in which they are nurtured, protected and given access to opportunity?
Around 79% of children between the ages of 1-14 in least-developed countries experience either physical punishment or psychological aggression each year.7
At the same time, on the ground, we:
• Provide adults with non-violent parenting techniques
Without exception, locally led development from that point on is the best way for previously vulnerable children to grow up to have thriving adulthoods.
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Everywhere we work, we work to create independence, not dependence. We work with local communities on initiatives they can then take over themselves without further help from us.
That gives Childfund the scope to then move on to where our help is next needed most.
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As a FutureChild member, you choose how you hear from us.
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• Subscription to member-only quick updates via your prefered digital platform
The content you can choose from includes:
• A FutureChild Annual Report sent directly to you. This will also feature in Childfund’s Annual Report
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• Opportunities to meet our experts from the field through FutureChild events
Mindful of how busy our members often are, we deliver the information to you in ways that suit you best via your chosen channels.
• A quarterly email progress update from your chosen areas of interest
• Always available access to the phone of our FutureChild manager
The FutureChild programme is built around a dedicated reporting system. It is designed to ensure members are fully appraised of how their support is making a difference. The latest updates from the projects receiving FutureChild investment are circulated and available on request.
As a FutureChild member, we also remove you from other Childfund appeal calls and mailouts unless you instruct us otherwise.
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will schedule some meetings well in advance, others may be announced at relatively short notice. For example, a returning team from the field may have exciting updates to share with you.
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FutureChild represents a dedicated philanthropic community. We believe that the better we know each other, the more good we can do together. One of the benefits of FutureChild is the opportunity to unite like-minded people committed to tackling child FutureChildpoverty.
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The focus will be on being brief but informativekeeping you close to how your pledges are being applied and the difference you’re making to the FutureChild children, youth and communities.
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members will be invited to our rolling update gatherings. These will be small intimate meetings to share specific elements of our FutureChild projects and provide open forums for questions. These small meetings will be a chance for face-to-face conversation between fellow FutureChild members and our ChildFund programs
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Our FutureChild pledge to you
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CEO,SignedMark
We acknowledge that becoming a FutureChild member is a significant Tocommitment.honourthat, we make the following commitments to you in return:
• We commit to reporting routinely and transparently in a timely manner on all aspects of our work in which you have invested.
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• FutureChild members will have open access to information specific to the FutureChild projects in which they have made an investment by way of their own internal representative, the Childfund New Zealand Head of Supporter Relations, Malcolm Sproull.
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• Childfund New Zealand commits to applying your investment in the FutureChild group in such a way that it yields the best possible outcome for children caught in poverty and injustice within the sphere of our projects.
• Our program staff will exercise their highest levels of professional skill in order to achieve the above commitments.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this FutureChild proposal.
Malcolm Sproull will contact you soon to hear how you feel about this opportunity. Or, if you are happy to do so, you can complete the enclosed pledge form and send it back to Malcolm, who will confirm receipt of it directly with you.
Your next step to becoming a FutureChild member
If you have questions, you can always call Malcolm on 021 777 672. He will be delighted to help in any way he can.
Thank you so much. Your support of our work in any form is deeply valued.
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Please review the enclosed pledge form to see if it might be a pledge you can make. But also please be aware that even if you are unable to make such a pledge, we remain deeply grateful for your support of our work otherwise. Plus, we are deeply grateful you have given this proposal your consideration at all.
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Your commitment will change lives. Thank you. .
Many thanks for taking the time to consider whether FutureChild is right for you.
Mark Collins, CEO ChildFund New Zealand
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They will be in touch to confirm your membership and welcome you to FutureChild as soon as it is received.
If you’re ready to join us, all you need to do is fill in this simple form.
Our FutureChild manager XXX will contact you soon to hear how you feel about this opportunity.
“Everywhere we go, we work to paint ourselves out of the picture. For more than 80 years ChildFund has been putting communities in the driver’s seat. We help people reach the point where they don’t need organisations like ours anymore. But we can only do that with consistent support from people like you.”
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