CHILD Trust

We want to help CHILD Ethiopia to support 500 primary schools in Ethiopia through a new CHILD programme. This will help communities to improve access and quality of education for 250,000 children and make schools more healthyand enjoyableplaces for children to be.

Using the evidence from Ethiopia we will spread the idea of CHILD to other organisations working around the world. This will mean that even more children get to benefit.

You can help to get us started by clicking on our 10K campaign to see how a little bit of money can go a long way with CHILD!

Africa - first

The CHILD Trust exists to help CHILD Ethiopia change lives. So we keep things simple in the UK. Any capacity we need to build up, we do it in Ethiopia, so it keeps being useful exactly where it is needed.

Cost less, do more

It would cost £23 million to do CHILD in every primary school in Ethiopia. It would cost up to £1.6 BILLION to do the same using a ‘Child-friendly Schools’ approach. That means that your money can achieve up to 70x more!

Children - centred

It can be hard to get people to work together when nobody agrees on what comes first. But everyone wants to see their children grow up into a better world, so by putting children and schools first we can help make a start.

Work directly

CHILD Ethiopia work directly with communities, so there are no expensive overheads with other organisations to worry about.

Technical Excellence

As everyone knows, doing things well means a lot of hard work. But we think getting it right is worth it. We never stop striving to help people find what works and to do it better.

Stay on target

It’s easy to get distracted by all the problems the world faces. That’s why we are only going to do CHILD and nothing else. And when we are finished we will close the Trust: so you know that we are focusing on this job and not the next one.

Build on what exists

All people have skills, creativity and energy to make change. We work with this, bringing out what is best in people and starting from things that are already happening

Open source

Lots of people have great ideas (we know because we used loads of them to help write CHILD). So we are going to encourage others to keep contributing to building something even better.

Set our ideas free!

We would really like it if other people were doing all this cool CHILD stuff. The good news about CHILD is that when other people hear about it they want to do it too. So it spreads a bit like a virus (but a good one).

Work smarter

We are building a web-based information system that means we can work in the places where people really live instead of being stuck in the office. Oh, and that means we save money too :-)

Have more impact

Money spent on CHILD increases in value because it leverages other resources. So even though we have to spend money on stuff like transport and computers, your money actually has more value on the ground than the amount you give us. Which we think is pretty cool.

Be a magnet for change

We know we can’t do everything. So we help schools to become magnets: drawing in lots of other people (and money) to help them.