CHILD Trust
We all appreciate our education. After all, education sits at the centre of both our personal and social development. The CHILD Trust (UK Charity 1136141) is our way of giving something back.
- The CHILD idea came from inside Ethiopia. It is a common sense, proven, and value-for-money way of supporting positive change.
- Yemi and CHILD Ethiopia requested our support to create a joint programme that will act as a springboard for wider implementation of the approach in Ethiopia and internationally.
- We co-design all our projects with the participants.
- CHILD works better, and lasts longer, than spending the same amount of money on just giving people stuff (we know because we have tried both).
- We are 100% transparent and put all our data online.
The CHILD Trust 2009 Trustees' Annual Report is now available to download.
The CHILD Trust have made Through the Eyes of Children: the struggle for change freely available to download for anyone.
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Africa - firstThe 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 moreIt 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 ‘traditional handouts’ approach. That means that your money can achieve up to 70x more! |
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Children - centredIt 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 directlyCHILD Ethiopia work directly with communities, so there are no expensive overheads with other organisations to worry about. |
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Technical ExcellenceAs 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 targetIt’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. |
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Build on what existsAll 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 sourceLots 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. |
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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 smarterWe 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 |
