The Global Fund For Children

Moscow and Orion, Russia – One of the essential parts of any GFC Knowledge Exchange workshop is a site visit to at least one nearby GFC grantee partner, so when Kitezh Children’s Community invited our Moscow Knowledge Exchange participants to visit Orion village, I was very pleased. Kitezh Children’s Community provides permanent foster care for [...]

Moscow, Russia – Today was the first full day of The Global Fund for Children’s Europe and Eurasia Knowledge Exchange. This three-day workshop, which is being held in Moscow, has brought together 19 GFC grantee partners from eight countries in this region. Although GFC has held Knowledge Exchange workshops in other regions over the past [...]

Moscow, Russia – It’s a beautiful summer evening. We are gathered on a terrace overlooking the Kremlin. There is a light breeze and a clear blue sky. There is no setting sun because it does not get dark in Moscow until almost 11:00 pm at this time of year. All in all, this is a [...]

Cahul, Moldova – GFC grantee partner Ograda Noastra (Our Courtyard) works out of a modest office in the center of Cahul, a small city in the southwest corner of Moldova. This region of the country is home to a surprising diversity of ethnic minorities, including Bulgarians, Czechs, Russians, Gagauz, and Roma (the modern term for [...]

London, United Kingdom – It takes just a few minutes of walking around London to notice how incredibly diverse this city is. At Victoria Station, in the center of the city, tourists, well-dressed businessmen, elderly couples, students heading home for the weekend, and families with strollers all pass through, providing a snapshot of this international [...]

Tbilisi, Georgia – “Many people are afraid to show their true selves,” she said. “Some of these people cannot show themselves. In my case, people look at me in a strange way when they see me. They have pity on me. This makes me feel uncomfortable, like I’m from another planet, an alien. It’s not [...]

Tbilisi, Georgia – Today, I had the chance to attend a handicrafts workshop for internally displaced children from Abkhazia. These particular children are deaf and were forced to leave their homes in Abkhazia in 1992 during the war between Russia and Georgia. Many of these young people are now engaged in making handicrafts—today, they are [...]

Kyiv, Ukraine – The temperature had dropped several degrees from the previous day, and my hands began to sting as I held my camera. The chill was biting, but the flurrying snow distracted me. The snow had a misty glow to it that brought my eye to the fields of white blankets surrounding the orphanage. [...]

Kyiv, Ukraine – As I listened to the group of teens talking about their ideas, a girl who couldn’t have been more than 14 said she wanted to share her story about HIV/AIDS. Then she paused. “And tuberculosis,” she added. She said her mother is dying of both. The mother is confined to a local [...]

Kyiv, Ukraine – If you were asked to reflect on the media that you see or hear on a daily basis—Internet ads, television commercials, or radio announcements, for example—would you consider yourself aware that these media messages are created for an intended audience and purpose? How would you rate yourself in terms of your level [...]