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.
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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."
Youth power
Youth Voices at the Table: Reflections from GFC's Africa Team Retreat
Youth Leadership Council members Nagawa, Michael, and Chidinma joined Global Fund for Children’s Africa team in Kenya to explore how youth perspectives can actively shape regional strategy—beyond consultation and into action.
Safety and wellbeing
Finding strength through creative expression: Ali’s story with YOH
With few spaces where he felt understood, Ali kept much of his pain to himself. YOH exists precisely for young people like Ali. YOH was created to support marginalized and at-risk children and young people through activities that build skills, confidence and positive life pathways.
Narrative Practices in Educational and Community Work
Global Fund for Children partnered with the Tsikbal Collective in Mérida, Yucatán, to host a Narrative Practices workshop with youth and community-based partners. Through storytelling and deep listening, participants discovered how everyday narratives can strengthen trust, education, and community connections.
Prácticas Narrativas en el quehacer educativo y comunitario
El Global Fund for Children se asoció con el Colectivo Tsikbal en Mérida, Yucatán, para realizar un taller de Prácticas Narrativas con jóvenes y organizaciones comunitarias. A través de la narración de historias y la escucha profunda, las y los participantes descubrieron cómo las narrativas cotidianas pueden fortalecer la confianza, la educación y los lazos comunitarios.
Education
Hope, Joy, and Complexity in Honduras
Global Fund for Children’s Co-CEO, John Hecklinger, reflects on a recent visit to Honduras, where partners in the Supporting Early Education and Development (SEED) initiative are tackling profound challenges to early childhood development with courage, collaboration, and community-led solutions.