Climate resilience
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.
Newest
With our Sierra Leone-based partner, Center for Advocacy and Sustainable Empowerment (CASE SALONE), we are honoring the incredible legacy of CASE SALONE’s founder and executive director, Rassie Bah, who tragically passed away a year ago at the age of 40.
Education
The issue of pregnancies in school remains a major challenge in Côte d'Ivoire. In June 2024, the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) recorded 4173 cases of pregnancies among girls in school, including 408 cases in the Tonkpi region. These alarming figures highlight the urgent need to act to protect girls' education.
La question des grossesses en cours de scolarité reste un défi majeur en Côte d'Ivoire. En juin 2024, le Conseil National des Droits de l’Homme (CNDH) a recensé 4173 cas de grossesses chez des filles scolarisées, dont 408 dans la région du Tonkpi. Ces chiffres alarmants mettent en lumière l'urgence d'agir pour protéger l'éducation des filles.
In October 2024, Global Fund for Children supported adolescents and young people from our partners’ programs in Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, along with their team members, to participate in the Hearth Wellbeing Summit in Senegal run by Tostan. Among those present was GFC’s Program Officer for West Africa, Remijus N. Iweobi. Here, he reflects on his experiences.
Three members of Global Fund for Children’s Africa team recently attended the Tostan Advanced Seminar to deepen their knowledge of the community led approach (CLA). In this blog, they share their key learning and reflections from the seminar.
As part of Global Fund for Children’s strategy to foster cross-regional collaboration and learning, the Africa team invited a colleague from the Asia team to join them at the recent Tostan Advanced Seminar. The opportunity was taken by Indrani Chakraborty, Regional Co-Director, South Asia, allowing her to deepen her knowledge of the Community Led Approach, while sharing learning and exchanging best practices with her colleagues.
To bring growth and the promise of a brighter future to the Bede community – a minority group in Bangladesh living on boats – GFC’s youth-led partner Alokito Kori stepped in with education, financial, and social support, all through a community-led approach.
Safety and wellbeing
In the ever-evolving landscape of trafficking, community-based organizations are playing the long game, focusing their primary efforts on prevention to keep children and young people safe.
It all started as a casual conversation over lunch. The founders and leaders of four community-based organizations in East Africa had met in Uganda at a convening organized by Global Fund for Children. The convening was aimed at bringing community leaders to share knowledge, generate learning, fuel advocacy, and build movements for social change.
Gender justice, Safety and wellbeing
Existen numerosas pruebas que demuestran la interrelación crucial entre la violencia de género (VG) y la violencia contra las niñas y los niños (VAC). Estas problemáticas están interconectadas y se refuerzan mutuamente, cruzándose con otras formas de opresión sistémica que afectan de manera desproporcionada a las poblaciones vulnerables, en particular a las mujeres, las niñas y las personas no conformes con el género de grupos marginados (ONU Mujeres, 2021; UNICEF, 2020).
