donors choice
Communities decide what they need, you decide what to support and how much to give.
Communities tell you what they need,
you choose how much to give
Locals know best about what gets in the way of their children attending school and learning, so they can succeed in life.
And it’s different for each community. Donors Choice puts you directly in touch with community leaders.
Fit-out the Learning Centre in Kiribati
“Help me give young people the opportunity to learn carpentry, computer skills, business skills and more to give them opportunities for employment and brighter futures”.
- Teima Onoiro, ChildFund Country Manager, Kiribati
Provide Community Freezers in Solomon Islands
“Help me feed children nutritious food so they grow up healthy and able to learn and play like all children should. We need to construct a building for community freezers so children have locally grown food all year round”.
- Paul Taka, Programme Lead, Solomon Islands
Keep the helpline running in Solomon Islands
“Lend a hand to support a worthy cause – Please help me keep mothers and children safe by giving them access to help. We need to buy equipment for our helpline so we’re able to support families experiencing violence 24/7”.
- Pauline, Sief Ples Project Coordinator, Solomon Islands
Bring clean water to Kiribati
“Help me to stop children getting sick and even dying from drinking unsafe water. By installing water distillation units in schools and community buildings we can make clean safe drinking water available to more families.”
- Teima Onoiro, ChildFund Country Manager, Kiribati
Support children to keep learning
“Help me support Ukrainian refugee children with special needs to continue learning with assistive equipment like hearing aids and specialised educational resources.”
- Lucie Ménard, Head of Programmes, WeWorld Moldova
Build demonstration farms for steady incomes and better nutrition
“Help me teach families how to grow climate-resilient fodder for their cattle, ensuring they can feed their livestock during dry seasons. This will provide families with a steady income for food and school fees, while also ensuring that cattle continue to provide milk for children's healthy growth.”
- Victor Aduda, CEO, Emali Dedicated Children's Agency, Kenya
give Another way
Gifts that Grow represents the life-changing projects currently underway in the communities ChildFund partners with.
When you give a Chicken you’re giving a donation to Farming and Income projects, if you gift a Bicycle, you’re giving a donation
to Education and Learning projects.
FAQ's
Tell me about the Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands is home to around 740,000 people across 992 islands. ChildFund works with communities in Napir Village in Temotu Province which is located at the far east of the Solomon Islands. The province is made up of three islands - Santa Cruz, Reefs Island, and the Duff Islands (Outer Islands).
What is Food Insecurity?
Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.
For remote communities like Napir Village in the Solomon Islands, many factors like climate change impact the availability of good, nutritious food.
How will the Garden to Table project help?
The range of accessible and affordable food is limited, particularly in rural areas. The lack of nutritious food results in health problems like diabetes and malnutrition. The less nutritious food available, the more severe malnutrition is which causes stunting and wasting.
The Garden to Table Programme at Mona School will teach children how to grow more climate-resistant, sustainable, local food and move away from a reliance on expensive, imported food with little nutritional value.
What is the Garden to Table programme?
Garden to Table is a curriculum-linked programme for primary school children. The aim of the programme is to help children learn core subjects while getting their hands dirty in the garden and kitchen.
Each Garden to Table session usually last 90 minutes. The class is divided in two, with half the class working in the garden and half working in the kitchen for the first hour. The whole class then come together to share the prepared food in the last 30 minutes of the session.
The programme encourages children to work together and fosters community connectiveness by celebrating the preparation and sharing of nutritious food.
Who is involved in this project?
Different local implementing partners and teachers and parents will be involved to make sure this programme is a success.
- Greenergy Pacific will coordinate garden build and online training.
- Garden to Table NZ will provide training and online resources.
- Mona School will provide teachers.
- Napir Village will provide land for the school garden.
- Napir Village community volunteers will assist with Garden to Table lessons.
- And you! Your support greatly helps this project (and future ones!) to be successful in helping children grow, learn, and ultimately to thrive.
What impact will this project have?
Short-term outcomes: All members of the community have equal access to household and community gardens and seed banks, and the knowledge to use and maintain them.
Medium-term outcomes: Communities are growing and consuming nutritious food from household and community gardens. Women and youth are actively involved in making decisions and running the gardens.
Long-term outcomes: All members of the community have sustainable climate-resilient food systems and additional family income.
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