Invest in Education
Children in India can face significant barriers to education. By investing in education, we create opportunities for the future. Learn more about CCFC's work in this sector.
Invest in Better Health
Our work in health and nutrition means better health for children, improved school attendance, greater life expectancy, and fewer childhood deaths. Learn more about CCFC's work in this sector.
Invest in Safe Drinking Water
Investing in safe drinking water and sanitation means that CCFC can help keep children healthy, and give them more time for school. Learn more about CCFC's work in this sector.
Where We Work
Child-friendly Accountability Project
June – August 2017
Violence against children is an ongoing issue in India. And, although this generation comprises a large percentage of the country’s population, they are often left out of conversations about their safety. Through this project, children and youth learned how to advocate for their rights by understanding the legal structure and applying what they learned.
Since then, the government has trained more than 250 of its teachers and 2,560+ children on child rights and protection. And, children and youth have successfully advocated that suggestion boxes, to voice safety concerns, be placed in more than 15 government schools and nearly 50 municipalities.
Another success story...
More than 85 creative learning centres are giving children aged six to 16 new ways to analyze, evaluate, question and, most importantly, create and innovate.
“The centre helps me think differently, focus on my goals and gain more knowledge. It helps to shape my career in teaching. The students who struggle in regular class learn the same subject easily here.” — Swathi , 10
Our Work, in Action
We dream of a world where every child has a voice and the ability to achieve their full potential. That's why we team up with sponsors and local partners around the world to support children of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds.
Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke and Dr. Verent Mills start work with Chinese war orphans.
Dr. Clarke creates China's Children Fund (CCF).
CCF expands its work from Asia into the Middle East after WWII. Renames itself "Christian Children's Fund".
CCF has global reach, and Canadian support leads to the creation of Christian Children's Fund of Canada.
With over a billion people, India is the world’s largest democracy. But most of the population lives in villages and depends on subsistence agriculture. The government’s new liberal economic policies have brought a boom to the cities and to a small percentage of the population. CCFC has been working with professional, committed and competent partners since 1972, as “partners in development” rather than the “donor provider approach”, addressing the issues of children and poverty. Due to this partnership, 95% of children in CCFC program areas have had access to formal and informal education systems and there has been a tangible positive impact among their families and the communities as well.
How We Work