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Annual Report 2014-15

WHY CHILDFUND EXISTSWe work diligently, with passion every day on behalf of our New Zealand supporters to create better futures for the world’s most vulnerable, deprived and excluded children.

OUR VISION A world free from child poverty.

OUR PURPOSE We connect New Zealanders with children in need to bring change for a better future for children, their families and their community.

CHILDFUND NEW ZEALANDBOARD OF DIRECTORSGeoff Copstick Director, Gallagher GroupChairperson

Rob Campbell General Manager, Dilworth Trust Board

Alastair de Raadt Group Marketing Director, Business Owner and Managing Director AsureQuality Indoma

Daniel Fielding Commercial and Public Law Solicitor at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts

John Holley IT Management, School Trustee, and Board Member of Accelerating Aotearoa Taskforce

Michael Prasad Specialist Chartered Accountant

Sumi Subramaniam Principal Development Manager at the New Zealand Aid Programme, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Sean Triner Founder Director Pareto Fundraising

Patrons Lord and Lady Farrow

Members David and Jean Taylor, Ron and Denize Hooton

Photography credits: Jake Lyell, Vlad Sokhin, Live and Learn and Kate Holgate

CEO Paul Brown at a school in Timor-Leste

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MOMENTS OF CHANGEGandhi said: “There is more to life than increasing its speed”. It’s true that the faster we go, the slower we must become.

It is only when we slow down and escape the noise that we can really appreciate the power of people and organisations like ChildFund. Power that’s fuelled by YOU.

It has been another frenetic year. We only just seemed to catch our breath after responding to Cyclone Pam which struck our Pacifi c neighbours in Vanuatu, when moments later we were helping thousands of families whose lives were destroyed by an earthquake in Nepal. In both of these emergencies your generosity was incredible – and I sincerely thank you.

You have made time in your busy lives to respond to our appeals for children, to read and smile at a heart-warming letter from your

sponsored child, to receive a call from our hardworking team looking to you to help us in our efforts to improve the lives of people in the communities we support.

These are all special moments that in isolation may seem small, but together are bringing about a positive change in the world. (You can see the impact that you have created through these moments in the following pages.)

Moments like 11-year-old Isla, who visited our Auckland offi ce to hand over $250 she had raised baking cupcakes and selling them to support the Nepal earthquake appeal.

Moments like hearing Castro, an apprentice builder in Timor-Leste, describe his plans to grow his new business – kick started by training funded by you. You could hear the optimism in his voice, you could see the entrepre-neurial spirit sparkle in his eye.

Moments like Stella, ululating with joy as one of the Kenyan women brimming with self confi dence in the MaKa Emali craft project, funded by the Government of New Zealand’s Aid programme – she is thriving with the opportunity to run her own business with her friends.

Moments like Puwaneswari, beaming as her daughter Rashmi’s weight reached healthy levels as part of ChildFund and Fonterra’s ENHANCE project in Sri Lanka.

Moments like 10-year-old Dien from Vietnam, one of 6,500 brave children from around the world, who took part in our Small Voices, Big Dreams Survey, who successfully challenged global leaders and governments to include child protection in the Sustainable Development Goals that were ratifi ed this September.

This year we reached 25 years of connecting New Zealanders with children in need. That’s a quarter of a century of moments – each of them catalysed by you.

From the board, staff and your family at ChildFund we would like just one more moment: a moment to slow down and say a special thank you for being such a great supporter of our work. We cannot do this without you.

Chair Geoff Copstick in Timor-Leste

Paul BrownCEO

Geoff CopstickChairperson

With thanks

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SUMMARISED STATEMENTOF ACCOUNTS* Year ending 30 June 2015

Income in $000s This year 2014 2013 2012Child Sponsorship

Total received 9217 9821 10,467 10,166

Remitted overseas 7374 7857 8,374 8,133

Gifts specifi cally pledged for children - 100% sent overseas 712 742 802 830

Donations and Other Income

Special appeals/bequests 1598 1406 1057 1539

Project Liberty/Child Essentials/Global Neighbour 563 502 506 480

Government/other grants 1766 2806 3284 1431

Total 3926 4,714 4,847 3,450

Remitted overseas 3062 3951 4,174 2,566

Other funding designated to be spent in New Zealand

Grants 0 0 268 113Other donations 1060 1109 1157 1106Investment and sundry 376 296 265 156Total 1,436 1,405 1,690 1,375

Total income 15,291 16,682 17,806 15,821

Net income available for expenditure in New Zealand 4,144 4,132 4,456 4,292

Expenditure

Administration 608 597 565 653Operating expenses 271 270 388 271ChildFund International 162 176 160 166Supporter communications 93 81 84 72Fundraising/Programme development 2894 2394 2,998 3,178

Total 4,028 3,518 4,195 4,340


* The above information has been extracted and summarised from the 2015 audited accounts of ChildFund New Zealand Limited, which has been audited by KPMG Chartered Accountants.A full set of accounts is available upon request from the Auckland Offi ce of ChildFund New Zealand Limited

Revenue and Remittance in $millions

18.016.014.012.010.08.06.04.02.00.0

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Revenue

Remittance

Each Dollar earned was made up ofGifts5%

Sponsorship61%

Child Essentials/Global Neighbour

3%Appeals9%

Major Donors2%

NZ Government Grants

9%

Corporate Donations

2%

Chief Financial Offi cer

Unrestricted Income

9%

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WHAT YOU ACHIEVED IN 2014-15In the past year your commitment to a world free from child poverty has given clean water, nutritious food and healthcare to children, and meant self-suffi cient livelihoods for youth and parents.

With ChildFund you have responded in the worst of times to keep children safe in the aftermath of natural disasters, helping them to recover and rebuild.

Above and beyond each nutritious meal, each immunisation, clean water point or tarpaulin distributed, your support has helped create safe and supportive communities for children. Training on child protection and child rights, nutrition, education, disease prevention and job skills has given children, parents, teachers, and community members the knowledge to lead positive change.

ChildFund’s focus on children from pre-birth to early adulthood ensures that children have preschools, schools, good quality teaching and job skills training. More than memorising facts and fi gures, children are learning how they can contribute to having great communities to live in.

Your greatest achievement is in giving children the opportunity to realise their dreams of a better world.

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YOUR HELP TO CHILDREN IN EMERGENCIES

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CARING FOR EBOLA-AFFECTED CHILDREN

In Sierra Leone, children were left to fend for themselves when parents became sick or died from Ebola. Afraid of catching the disease, people shunned them. Your support ensured these children were cared for, protected and accepted back into their communities. ChildFund also helped others learn more about the disease so they could protect themselves against it.

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FLOOD RELIEF FOR SRI LANKA

In Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, fl oods wiped out crops and property. With your help, ChildFund gave pregnant women and babies the nutrients they needed. Food packs and resources were supplied to early childhood centres, while families who had lost everything were helped back on their feet with income support packages.

HELPING THE CHILDREN OF NEPAL

After the devastating earthquake in Nepal, your generous support ensured that families had emergency food rations. We helped to build temporary learning spaces so children could return to school. We also provided psycho-social counselling for children traumatised by the event, and led disaster risk reduction training to community members to keep them safe. It will take many months, if not years, to rebuild what has been lost in Nepal. ChildFund will continue to help communities in the hard-hit district of Sindhupalchowk to ‘build back better’. Our special thanks also to the New Zealand Government’s Disaster Response Partnership Fund, which provided $97,410 to help us in our efforts.

REBUILDING SCHOOLS IN VANUATU

After Cyclone Pam destroyed homes and schools in Vanuatu, ChildFund partnered with Vanuatu-based agency Live and Learn. With your help, we supported the reconstruction of early childhood centres.


KIWI PARTNERSHIPSThanks to the support of a number of generous individual donors we provided 20 wheelchairs and three ramps for children with disabilities in Sri Lanka; built a new dormitory for girls at a board-ing school in Zambia; supported new water projects in Zambia and Kenya; and built a new classroom in Vietnam, a youth centre in Timor-Leste, and an early-childhood centre in Zambia.

In Sri Lanka and Indonesia, we have been grateful for the fi nancial support from Fonterra. Building on an earlier two-year project, its support has seen many early childhood centres established, and children’s health improved.

Thank you to everyone who has responded to our appeals. Thank you for helping to fi ght malnutrition in Kenya; set up a Cow Bank for income gen-eration in Vietnam; and provide safe access to water in Zambia, so children are no longer vulnerable to crocodile attacks and bilharzia.

We thank the New Zealand Aid Programme, which provided signifi cant support for our work.

In February, a small group of local ChildFund colleagues (pictured) from our six partner countries came to New Zealand to share lessons about what is working well; improve what’s not working so well; and learn more about New Zealand and New Zealanders. A noho marae experience at Te Hana Te Ao Marama was a great way of ending a week of intense workshops.

We would like to acknowledge and thank all our partners globally for their dedication and invaluable work.

ChildFund New Zealand works directly with ChildFund offi ces in-country, who in turn work with local partners based directly in the community. We would like to acknowledge the tireless commitment of these in-country partners.

ChildFund’s six ‘dedicated programme areas’ and local partners

• ChildFund Kenya and Emali Dedicated Children’s Agency• ChildFund Papua New Guinea • ChildFund Sri Lanka and Vavunathivu Development Organization • ChildFund Timor-Leste and local partners Hamutuk, Bobonaro

District and Graca, Colvalima District• ChildFund Vietnam• ChildFund Zambia and Luangwa Child Development Agency


UPDATE: FREEING CHILDREN FROM VIOLENCE Children have been heard! From 2016, the new global Sustainable Development goals set by world governments will include targets to eliminate violence and exploitation of children.

New Zealand children joined other children from other ChildFund countries to tell us how violence against children is unacceptable and how it affects them. We took their message to world leaders who have been deciding what to focus aid and development support on for the next 15 years – and they have listened.

These new goals will make a difference

The previous global goals, known as the Millennium Development Goals (eight global targets set by the United Nations in 2000), have come to an end. Their success in halving global poverty; in fi ghting malaria, tuberculosis and child mortality; and in reaching 90 per cent of school children with education, proves that when countries unite in a concerted effort, we can achieve wonders. So yes, these goals can and will make the world a safer place for children.

With ChildFund, you are already making the world a safer place by supporting our work on reducing violence against children, including child rights and child protection training for children, youth, parents and teachers in our ChildFund countries. In the past year, work has continued on the free-to-call hotline for survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea, which went live in August 2015.

DID YOU KNOW?The approach that ChildFund uses in working with families in our project areas is called “strength-based development”: building on all the good that currently exists in a community, and ensuring community members themselves are creating ‘more good’ – especially as this benefi ts children.

NEW WAYS TO GIVEChildFund New Zealand launched Global Neighbour – a giving programme where you receive regular information from your ‘global neighbours’ to support specifi c projects – and we also brought on board a number of Change Creators – an initiative where donors giving more than $5,000 a year can pool their money to contribute to one high-cost priority development activity.


COUNTRY INFOKENYAEmali, Kenya is home to our largest child sponsorship project with more than 2,800 children sponsored by New Zealanders. Which is why you are likely to be greeted with a “Kia ora!” if you visit.

In the past year your support has helped build early childhood

centres and given children and families access to water for drinking

and for crop irrigation in an area prone to droughts. Your support

helped train families to manage their water supplies, improve their

crop growing and animal rearing skills, and set up voluntary savings

and loans schemes.

Last year, we updated you about a comprehensive study by ChildFund

and researchers from the University of Otago and Kenyatta University

in Emali that highlighted major health issues in young children. In the

past year ChildFund has been implementing the recommendations

to improve the health and nutrition of these children:

• More than 1,500 children have been regularly fed at early child-hood centres with nutritious githeri (maize and beans) and a fortifi ed unimix porridge, supplemented with vegetables, eggs and poultry, which children help grow and raise

• 4,000 children under fi ve years and 300 expectant mothers were provided with medical care including deworming, vitamin A supplements, immunisation and treatment for minor illness

• Training for 72 caregivers and teachers on child growth, nutrition and food preparation

In the coming year, to support healthy nutrition for under-fi ves, safe

energy-saving stoves and nutrition training will be provided to 18 early

childhood centres, thanks to a project funded by Dilworth School in

Auckland.

COUNTRY INFOPAPUA NEW GUINEAWith the support of the New Zealand Government, we have been improving schools, implementing an immunisation and health-upgrade programme, training students and farmers in modern gardening techniques, and organising birth registration for children in seven communities in the Rigo District, Oman Province of Papua New Guinea.

ChildFund has also pooled donations with a $2.6 million grant

from the New Zealand Government’s Aid Programme to set up and

maintain Papua New Guinea’s fi rst-ever national, toll-free hotline

that will deliver a comprehensive counselling and referral service for

survivors of gender-based violence.

It is estimated that two-thirds of women and girls experience physical

or sexual violence in their lifetime in Papua New Guinea. The country’s

lead national body for addressing gender-based violence, The

Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC), has long

advocated for more services for survivors. ChildFund has worked

closely with FSVAC to develop the hotline.

ChildFund is working with the University of Papua New Guinea on a

counselling qualifi cation to ensure that there will be trained counsellors

to continue and expand the work of the service into the future.



COUNTRY INFOSRI LANKASome communities go through more than their fair share of trauma – and so it has been for Batticaloa, where many children sponsored by New Zealanders reside in Sri Lanka.

This coastal district has been hit by civil war, a tsunami, and

frequent fl oods – including a signifi cant fl ood in December 2014.

Despite the fl ood, families reported that they were able to recover

more quickly than in the past because they had savings and skills

thanks to the large livelihoods and savings project that you have

supported.

In the past year, more than 1,500 mums, dads and young people

have received small loans, business mentoring and training to start

their own businesses including ginger cultivation, mushroom

growing, food processing, sewing, gardening, and animal husbandry.

For children the focus was on nutrition, health and education

including:

• Cooking demonstrations and nutrition awareness sessions for more than 260 parents and health volunteers to improve children’s nutrition

• More than 600 families given vegetable seed packs

• 328 children under fi ve years in 11 early childhood centres had their health and weight monitored

• More than 1,500 packs of education materials given to school children

• Extra school lessons for thousands of children

With severe fl ooding last year, followed by droughts this year,

ChildFund will be developing sustainable agriculture activities that

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COUNTRY INFOTIMOR-LESTETimor-Leste, or East Timor as many people know it, is a young country determined to grow. With a poor infra-structure, little business and a mostly young population, its government struggles to secure and allocate the income needed to provide services to its people.

With your support ChildFund is focusing on setting up early-child-

hood education centres and training teachers; improving children’s

health; and helping youth to earn a living.

• 590 children at 15 early childhood centres benefi ted from teacher training, learning materials, and improvements to the centres

• More than 1,000 parents, teachers, student and health volunteers trained in child rights and protection, hygiene, and disease prevention including malaria, diarrhoea and HIV

• 125 youth had vocational training for jobs in construction, agriculture, tourism and business, and 41 youth gained internships in Dili

Farmer fi eld schools and poultry farming groups were set up for

families and youth to receive training and resources. As well as

agriculture, aquaculture is thriving, with three new fi shponds

constructed, stocked with young fi sh.

Next year, ChildFund will be working with communities to

rehabilitate four more youth centres to operate as sites for training

and employment information.

COUNTRY INFOVIETNAMIn the far north of Vietnam, in the mountains on the border with China, you will fi nd the Hmong people. Living so remotely, they have been cut off from improvements in living standards that much of Vietnam has enjoyed.

With your support ChildFund works closely with families, schools

and communes (collections of villages) to improve children’s health,

family incomes and infrastructure.

• More than 1,200 children were regularly monitored and weighed, with more than 350 receiving extra vitamins and minerals

• Agriculture training for better practices in raising chickens, pigs and cows benefi ted more than 100 households

• 310 villages received technical assistance in the construction and installation of water tanks

• Water supply and storage systems constructed benefi ting 637 people

In Vietnam there is also a special focus on including children in

decision-making and helping them to understand their rights.

Your support is helping to build confi dent, engaged young people

who will actively seek out ways to improve their own lives.

In the coming year, micro-credit and saving schemes will be

established for women and youth.

Planning is underway for an exciting trip for donors and supporters to visit Vietnam in 2016. Participants will help us fundraise for clean safe water for families in Cao Bang, while visiting the

projects to see how they work.

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COUNTRY INFOZAMBIAThe community of Luangwa, Zambia, is set in a stunningly beautiful African landscape on the banks of the Zambezi and Luangwa Rivers. It’s a setting which masks the multitude of problems faced by families in ensuring their children are safe, healthy and educated.

In the last year, your support has gone a long way to keeping children

safe and healthy, including:

• More than 13,000 children reached by a bilharzia prevention programme, including 5,000 children screened and dewormed

• HIV and AIDS education, testing and counselling for more than 500 youth. Testing also for malaria and diabetes

• 200 households connected to the Lusaka Water and Sewerage system meaning clean and safe water for 1,200 people

• More than 1,000 people educated in how to avoid the Ebola virus

If you visit Luangwa you will see young children in 25 preschools

fi lled with education resources and furniture. You will see 26

children with disabilities attending school because of your support.

You will see goats, chickens, and fi sh farms. Protected from wild animals

by kilometres of electric fencing you will see crops of maize, and

plantations of orange trees.

Next year is the fi nal year of the Luangwa Integrated Agriculture

Activity: the fenced area is to be irrigated providing an integrated

agricultural system that will further increase the quantity and

diversity of food in Luangwa.

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LIVES CHANGED IN 2014-15 – THANKS TO YOU

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VIETNAM ZAMBIA KENYA SRI LANKA TIMOR-LESTE

Nine-year-old Mai couldn’t wait when she heard her family was to receive a cow. Now every day after school, Mai helps her grandmother take care of the cow, and collects grass with her sister for the cow to eat.

Mai’s mother: “The cow brings hope to my family because when it has babies, we will have more assets. If we sell a calf, we can generate our family income.”

Natasha’s parents farm and sell the vegetables they grow. In the past they lost up to 80 per cent of their crops to animals. Now an elephant-proof fence protects their fi elds, her parents are happy they can farm safely with bigger plots to grow maize, pumpkin, and other vegetables.

Natasha is thankful to everyone who helped put up the fence. “Now, our parents don’t need to worry about paying for school expenses and necessities.”

The nutrition project for young children in Emali is ensuring fi ve-year-old Arthur has a nourishing balanced diet at school. Children are also enjoying gardening and feeding the chickens at the school. So much so, that when Arthur is asked what he wants to be when he grows up, he says, “I want to be a farmer.”

Arthur loves having a lot of maize around him. He raises seven chickens at home and takes care of their cowpeas crops.

When Batticaloa was hit by fl oods, 13-year-old Thanusha was afraid as the waters rose outside her house. She and her family had to stay at the local school for fi ve days. She lost her schoolbooks, uniform, and clothes. Thanusha enjoys school and wants to be a teacher.

“ChildFund has given us new school-books and food while we wait for our crops to grow again. Our family is much happier now that we have this help.”

Now that 15-year-old Ellie’s school has water for handwashing and training in good hygiene, she always washes her hands. Before training she never washed her hands.

Ellie is teaching her younger sister what she has learned to keep her safe from harmful and potentially life-threatening diseases. Now at home, they always use soap and water to wash their hands after using the toilet, which was built by her father.

If you would like to lodge a complaint against ChildFund New Zealand please contact us on 0800 808 822. Alternatively you may lodge a complaint with The Council for International Development by emailing offi [email protected]

ChildFund New Zealand measures the effectiveness of our work through ongoing monitoring, evaluation and refl ection with our partners and our communities to ensure that your support makes the biggest impact possible.

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