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![“He’s my whole life,” says Ruth (23). “He’s the reason I struggle day after day. I tell myself: ‘Even if I don’t have enough to offer him luxuries, the little I can give him, I do it with much affection and much love because I am a father and a mother to him.” Dylan’s father disappeared when Ruth became pregnant at the age of 19 and has since never had a role in either of their lives. Ruth, the oldest of four, still lives with her mother and siblings in the house where she grew up – a small two-room concrete house at the end of a dirt road in rural Imbabura Province, Ecuador. Her own mother – also a single mom – has chronic illness that at times keeps her from performing household duties. The family farms potatoes as their staple crop on the land around their house, but the region has experienced drought over the last couple of years and the harsh equatorial sun has withered much of their crop. Ruth occasionally earns money as a cook when the work becomes available, once or twice a week if she’s lucky. With this meager income she supports her mother, her son and younger siblings. “If there’s no income for food and everything else, the little we have we give it to the children in the house,” says Ruth. For the first year after he was weaned, Dylan’s (now 4) diet consisted mainly of potatoes and rice as the family struggled to find any other food in the harsh highland climate of the Andes Mountains. “[My mother and I] do not have food every day and we don’t have enough for clothes. The little I have I give to my son, and if I can’t eat, it doesn’t matter,” says Ruth. Perhaps it was Dylan’s low-nutrient diet. Perhaps Ruth couldn’t breastfeed him as much as she needed to without enough food for herself. Likely it was both these factors, but by age 2 and a half, Dylan was severely malnourished and under-developed. “He was very weak, he was always sleeping. The little food he ate, he would vomit it up, he had constan](https://charity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ChildFund-International-01-24.jpg.webp)
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Education Fund
250 million children between the ages of 6 and 18 worldwide are not in school. Support multiple charities in one pledge working on education.
Through this education fund, you will join millions of people working to provide access to safe schools, trained teachers, and supplies that can help break this cycle of poverty.
Your dedicated contributions benefit our charity partners’ meaningful work around the world, including distributing educational materials and providing training to nurture employee skillsets.
Your dedicated contributions benefit our charity partners’ meaningful work around the world, including distributing educational materials and providing training to nurture employee skillsets.
Success Stories
The concept of home is something that most of us take for granted. But for 125,000 refugees and asylum seekers living in the Palorinya Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda, it’s something they have had to fight for. These families have fled conflict and upheaval in neighboring South Sudan, seeking safe haven in the settlement. Here, they are assigned a plot of land to build a home and grow a small vegetable garden. However, life is far from easy. Many child-headed households exist in the settlement, as caregivers leave to find food or work elsewhere. Even adult caregivers often venture outside the camp to search for their livelihoods, leaving children vulnerable to gender-based violence and violations of their rights. ChildFund is working to address these challenges by providing child-friendly spaces for children and youth, and by training community leaders on gender-based violence and child protection issues. The spaces are fenced-in compounds...
“Being a recipient of the HOPE scholarship is really a tremendous help for our family,” says Razel, a 23-year-old college student in Bicol, Philippines. Razel and his five siblings were orphaned four years ago. Today, he lives with two of his siblings in a government-subsidized house that lacks electricity and water.
Going to school used to be a difficult task for Aleni. The walk, 6 to 7 km, took at least three hours each way. The river on her route in Ntchisi, Malawi, sometimes became uncrossable.