ChildFund Success Stories

Imagine coming face-to-face with the child you sponsor for the first time! It is a life changing experience.

"Meeting Jawamumu was an experience I'll never forget. She was shy at first, but soon we were chatting like old friends. This is an experience I'll carry with me all my life!" - Mrs Jocelyn Brown, Whakanui

Read some of our sponsor's stories about their trips below.

You can also read how New Zealanders' donations to our emergency appeals and purchases of Gifts That Grow have helped children and communities.

Mukupi - from ruin to high-performing school

3/09/2010

In helping a poor rural community to rebuild its school and improve the quality of teaching, ChildFund New Zealand supporters have laid the foundations for a better future for generations of children.

A Strong Confident Voice in Uganda

20/07/2010

Thanks to the support of a ChildFund sponsor, Kathrine Ageno is doing what she dreamed of as a little girl living in poverty and giving a voice to the voiceless.

Report Back: Africa Orphan Rescue - July 2010

5/07/2010

More than 1,100 New Zealanders are already helping children through ChildFund Africa Orphan Rescue. Read the latest report back to see the amazing improvements in the lives of orphans like Molly and James thanks to their support.

Haiti Emergency Update

17/05/2010

The latest update from our partners on the ground in Haiti.

Report Back: Library in a Box - Timor Leste

17/05/2010

Thanks to generous New Zealanders, ChildFund has been able to distribute an incredible 5,000 books to children in Timor Leste as part of the Library-in-a Box project.

Report Back: Kenya Drought Emergency

14/01/2010

Thanks to the generous support of New Zealanders who donated over $180,000, life-saving food and clean water was provided to some of the neediest Kenyan children and many lives were saved.

Report Back: Africa Orphan Rescue

14/01/2010

Around 1,000 New Zealanders have joined ChildFund Africa Orphan Rescue to date, and their support is already making a huge difference in the lives of orphans.

This little piggy went to Guatemala

13/10/2009

In the past three years, generous New Zealanders have bought nearly 350 pigs for families in need.

Saving lives with a net

13/10/2009

Malaria can be fatal yet only two per cent of Angolan children under five years of age sleep under a treated mosquito net.

A cow that gives so much Mooore

13/10/2009

Thanks to generous friends like you the Chiway family received a cow.

Report Back: Goats for Zambia

5/10/2009

Thanks to generous donations from Kiwis that were matched by funds from NZAID, children and families in Luangwa, Zambia are looking forward to a better future.

Progress in Sri Lanka: Ruwan's story

4/09/2009

With New Zealanders' support ChildFund has opened 10 Child Centred Spaces in the north east camps where people are struggling to survive in make-shift camps.

Report Back: Ethiopia Hunger Crisis

17/04/2009

Thanks to New Zealanders' Christmas donations children and families caught up in Ethiopia's drought have received emergency feeding, recovered their livelihoods and improved their ability to cope with future droughts.

Mukupi students benefit from Kiwi help

16/04/2009

Mukupi School in Zambia is an example of what a community can achieve with help from New Zealanders. The rehabilitation of the school and teacher training have transformed the lives of the students and teachers of Mukupi.

"We can defeat poverty"

17/03/2009

Read a good news story from ChildFund Ethiopia about how a simple solution has made sure one family won't have to go hungry again and how they've gone from surviving on handouts to self-sufficiency all year round.

Update: Kenya Post-Election Violence

4/02/2009

A further update on how your donations are helping to ensure a long term peace in some of the communities worst affected by post-election violence in Kenya.

Report Back: Sri Lanka IDP Camps

9/01/2009

In March 2008, escalating conflict in Sri Lanka killed thousands and displaced 200,000. ChildFund entered the makeshift internally displaced persons camps where children were starving and traumatised to set up safe spaces and provide basic help and support.