A terra não é recurso — é vida
Justiça climática não é só sobre salvar o planeta, é sobre quem pode viver nele com dignidade.
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A terra não é recurso — é vida
Justiça climática não é só sobre salvar o planeta, é sobre quem pode viver nele com dignidade.
Climate resilience
The land is not a resource — it is life
Climate justice is not only about saving the planet. It is about who gets to live in it with dignity.
Conheça as organizações vencedoras do Prêmio de Sustentabilidade 2026
As organizações vencedoras deste ano, Instituto Mãe Lalu (IMLA) e Otros Dreams en Acción (ODA), respondem a desafios distintos em seus contextos locais. Ainda assim, ambas compartilham a mesma convicção: mudanças duradouras acontecem quando as comunidades lideram os processos e quando as vozes de crianças, jovens e das pessoas mais diretamente afetadas são colocadas no centro das soluções.
Education, Safety and wellbeing
Meet our 2026 Sustainability Awards winners
This year’s winners, Instituto Mãe Lalu (IMLA) and Otros Dreams en Acción (ODA), are responding to distinct challenges in their communities, yet both are grounded in the same belief that lasting change is built when communities lead and when the voices of children, young people, and those most affected are placed at the center of solutions.
Gender justice
Beyond Toxic Masculinity: How GFC Funds the Future of What It Means to Be a Man
At GFC, we do not use the term “toxic masculinity” to describe our work with boys and young men. Instead, we focus on healthy masculinities, agency, and systems change as part of broader gender justice work. This blog explores why language matters in global development and how framing shapes impact. Through GFC partner examples, we highlight approaches that support boys and young men as part of the solution, fostering reflection, dignity, and positive ways of being.
Safety and wellbeing
LEEDO’s Story: Standing with children in the face of adversity
Supporting children on Bangladesh’s streets: how LEEDO provides safety, education, and long-term support to help young people rebuild their futures.
Gender justice
8 Things to Know about Supporting Healthy Masculinities in Boys and Young Men
This article explores the urgent need to support healthy masculinities in boys and young men in a digital age shaped by online influences like the manosphere – highlighted in Inside the Manosphere. Drawing on over a decade of experience from Global Fund for Children and its community-based partners, it shares eight practical insights on how to engage boys with empathy, build positive role models, and create safe spaces for connection and growth. From fostering critical thinking to strengthening real-world communities, this piece offers a hopeful, solutions-focused perspective on raising a generation of boys who define masculinity on their own terms—rooted in respect, care, and equality.
Gender justice, Safety and wellbeing
Hadja’s vision: How one young leader sparked a movement to protect girls across Guinea
Discover how Hadja is transforming her community by empowering girls through education, leadership, and opportunity—driving change for the next generation.
Stories that stay with us: our favorite stories for Women’s Month
This Women’s Month, I asked my colleagues at Global Fund for Children to share books, films, and stories about women that stayed with them long after they experienced them. The recommendations they shared are a celebration of compassion, belonging, resilience, identity, and the many ways women show up for themselves and for others. I hope you enjoy exploring them, and that they inspire you as much as they inspired me.
Climate resilience
Huong’s story: Turning environmental stories into children’s books with Spark Funding
"GFC’s Spark Fund gave me stability. It gave me community. It gave me the confidence to act without fear of uncertainty. Today, I am not trying to change society in one sweeping gesture. I am helping children step lightly into the world with curiosity, care, and courage about climate. And that, I believe, is how change truly begins."