CHILD Trust
CHILD works better and costs less
The CHILD Trust is a new UK based not-for-profit organisation that has been established by the people who wrote CHILD. Our joint Programme with CHILD Ethiopia will act as a springboard for wider implementation of the approach in Ethiopia and internationally.
The CHILD Trust 2009 Trustees' Annual Report is now available to download here.
A real future for children !
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! |
As part of our initial work, the Trust have made Through the Eyes of Children: the struggle for change freely available to download for anyone.
Approach
The way we work:
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 ‘Child-friendly Schools’ approach. That means that your money can achieve up to 70x more! |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 :-) |
Have more impactMoney 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 changeWe know we can’t do everything. So we help schools to become magnets: drawing in lots of other people (and money) to help them. |
Case Studies
- Gerbi School in Amhara
- Chorissa School in Ahmara
- Dugum School and Gerhuseknaye School in Tigray
- Damota School in Ambassel Woreda of Amhara Region