Every child holds the potential to lead, inspire, and shape a better tomorrow. Yet for millions of kids worldwide, basic needs like food, shelter, safety, and education remain out of reach, dimming the light of their future possibilities.
But what if changing lives didn’t require a grand gesture — just an hour of your workday? Your workforce can collaborate with a nonprofit leading the way for a brighter future, making a difference for kids in need.
ChildFund International helps deprived, excluded, and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities. In 2024 alone, ChildFund reached 23 countries and 14.8 million children and families. It’s all part of their vision for a world where every child realizes their rights and achieves their potential.
Your employees know the value of uplifting the next generation. Many are parents themselves, and all remember what it was like to have someone believe in them when they were children. Partnering with ChildFund is an impactful way to connect with employee resource groups (ERGs) for caregivers or to celebrate upcoming events like Take Your Child to Work Day (April 24).
ChildFund makes it easy for you to add a boost of impact to your workday with an activity that all employees can find meaningful.
Employee Engagement Offering: Messages of Hope
ChildFund’s Messages of Hope program is designed to inspire, empower, and engage your employees while making a real difference in the lives of children in need. The heart of the program lies in colleagues — teams, ERGs, or the whole company — coming together to create cards, handwritten notes, or digital creations with encouraging words for children living in vulnerable situations around the world. These messages can be simple, playful, heartfelt, or even include artwork from employees’ children.
ChildFund staff will host the event virtually or in person for your employees, leading the message-writing exercise and sharing insights on the children and families they’ll be connecting with. Children from their programs will express their gratitude to your company through a personalized thank you video, showcasing the positive impact your contribution has made on their lives. ChildFund will also share their annual Children’s Greatest Needs report for your own reporting efforts, which describes how your team’s contribution is used to create lasting change.
This event makes a real impact on children around the world while uniting your team through the opportunity to give back. Build your team spirit and inspire collaboration and creativity in your colleagues while you uplift kids in need.
Exploring the Impact
Dylan’s father disappeared when Ruth became pregnant at 19 years old and has never had a role in either of their lives. Ruth is the oldest of four and still lives with her mother and siblings in a small two-room concrete house in rural Imbabura Province, Ecuador. Ruth’s mother, also a single mom, suffers from a chronic illness that at times prevents her from performing household duties. The family farms potatoes as their staple crop, but the region has experienced drought over the last couple of years, and the harsh equatorial sun has withered much of their field. Ruth occasionally earns money as a cook when work becomes available, and with this meager income, she supports everyone in the home. In the first year after Dylan was weaned, his 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. The little I have, I give my son, and if I can’t eat, it doesn’t matter,” says Ruth.
Perhaps it was Dylan’s low-nutrient diet, or Ruth couldn’t breastfeed him as much as she needed to without enough food for herself, but by age 2, 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 a constant fever,” recalls Ruth. When Ruth took Dylan to the local government health center, she was told his condition was dangerous. It was then that Dylan’s name was placed on a referral list to participate in ChildFund’s Growing with You program.
Almost immediately, Ruth received a visit from an outreach worker with FOCI, ChildFund’s local partner organization. The worker brought a kit of much-needed food for Dylan and his mother which contained nutritious foodstuffs like eggs, powdered milk, lentils, fortified flour, oats, cooking oil, and cans of tuna. This was the first of many supplies to help get Dylan healthy. After the initial visit, Ruth began attending regular workshops put on by FOCI for parents of children under six-years-old, like herself. These workshops focused on themes like child health and nutrition, development, child safety, and positive parenting. Regular visits to their home would also occur, where field workers from FOCI would assess Dylan’s physical, emotional, and cognitive development. With increased knowledge and nutritional assistance, Dylan gradually began to put on weight and grow stronger over the next several months.
Today, Dylan, who just turned four, is attending pre-kindergarten and defying expectations for a child who recently experienced severe acute malnutrition. Thanks to supporters of ChildFund’s work, Ruth will continue to attend workshops and receive nutritional kits as needed until Dylan leaves the Growing with You program. Lit up like a firecracker, “He has told me many times that he wants to be a doctor,” says Ruth. “Since my mother is sick, he wants to be a doctor and treat his granny.”
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Want to set up a Messages for Hope event with your team or partner with ChildFund on another project? We’re here to help. From free resources to event planning support, Global Impact is the expert in workplace giving and we’d love to connect you with ChildFund.
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