Posted on November 11, 2022
By Aneesh Chatterjee
Chege Ngugi, Africa Regional Director for ChildFund International. Photo: ChildFund.
ChildFund International is a global nonprofit organization with a mission to connect children in low-income communities with the people, resources and institutions they need to live at their potential throughout their lives. Founded in 1938 and funded primarily through child sponsorships, ChildFund now partners with dozens of local organizations in 23 countries to address conditions that prevent children from achieving their potential.
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Posted on October 26, 2022
By Josie Noah, Chief Global Officer, SightLife, and Shaifali Sharma, Director of Prevention Program, SightLife India
ChandBee with Dr. Audrey Talley Rostov. Photo © Margot Duane.
ChandBee is an agricultural worker and mother living outside of Hyderabad, India. When she began to lose her sight at 25, it became increasingly difficult to work in the fields alongside her husband. Without her income, they could no longer provide for their family and her children were eventually forced to move into an orphanage. After four years of severe eye pain, ChandBee received a corneal transplant from SightLife partner, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute. With her sight restored, she returned to work and was reunited with her children.
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Posted on October 21, 2022
By: Julie Budkowski, Director of Global operations, Future of Fish
Photo: Future of Fish
Empowering sustainable fisheries is as much an effort to address food security and livelihoods as it is about environmental protection. Globally, over 3 billion people rely on fish as their primary source of protein. In many of the world’s least developed countries, where fish is often the cheapest source of protein, it accounts for over 50%. Fish is an essential food.
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