Campaigns
Free The Children has developed dynamic fundraising campaigns for you and your group to take part in. These campaigns are a wonderful way for you to make a lasting difference in the world. Sign up today and we’ll send you a campaign kit to get you started. It’s fast, fun and easy.
Why do campaigns matter? Without campaigns we could neither provide schools for children nor alternative income resources for their families. Our programs and projects are holistic in their design and implementation, focusing efforts on schoolbuilding; health, water, sanitation and alternative income projects; and on peacebuilding. These activities, which our campaigns support, are carried out in Kenya, Sierra Leone, rural China and Sri Lanka.
Campaign Registration Form:
Adopt a Village
Adopt a Village began in 2004 when Free The Children responded to the South Asia tsunami disaster. The campaign has since evolved into an effective tool for helping communities in need. The program delivers holistic community development to children and their families in Kenya, Sierra Leone, rural China, and Sri Lanka.
Through this new and ongoing campaign you can buy important resources for a family in need, help a mother support her children, and build a future for a smiling child. Working with Free The Children, you can help provide impoverished families with access to:
- Education
- Alternative Income
- Health Care
- Water and Sanitation
Through these programs, we provide families and communities in need with access to quality primary education, micro-savings and credit initiatives, health care services, safe and clean drinking water, and sanitation systems.
In partnership with Aidmatrix, Free The Children hosts the Adopt a Village Virtual Drive website. To learn more about how you can make a lasting difference in the lives of children and their communities, visit the Adopt a Village page. Sign up today and Adopt a Village.
We will provide you with great fundraising kits for each section of Adopt a Village:
For schoolbuilding, the Brick by Brick Resource kit below is very useful!
Brick by Brick Schoolbuilding Kit:
Brick by Brick Poster (click on image to enlarge)
Alternative Income Kit:
Alternative Income 'How to' guide
Alternative Income Poster (click on image to enlarge)
Clean Water Kit:
Clean Water Poster (click on image to enlarge)
Adopt a Village PowerPoint Presentations:
Campaign Registration Form:
Halloween for Hunger
Started by Professor Jonathan White, Halloween for Hunger is an annual
campaign whose goal is to help alleviate hunger while raising awareness
of global poverty. First adopted by Free The Children in October of
2000, the campaign pushes people to think globally but act locally.
Poverty exists all around us. It is neither a desired reality nor
a necessary component of either society or community; yet still it
persists and people go hungry. Poverty and hunger are universal challenges
that need to be met head-on by youth, community groups and governments
alike.
Halloween for Hunger addresses poverty at the local level by encouraging
youth to collect non-perishable food items instead of candy on Halloween
night. In the first year alone, the Greater Toronto Area Youth in
Action group collected more than 10,500 pounds of food.
The Halloween for Hunger campaign gathers community efforts to strengthen
the capacity of local food banks, and increase community involvement.
Instead of trick-or-treating for candy, why not get together with
friends and family, and trick-or-treat for canned goods instead?
Halloween for Hunger Resource Kit:
Campaign Registration Form:
The Vow of Silence
March 1st, 2006, will kick off our new Vow of Silence campaign. In
recognition of youth around the world who don’t have a voice,
this school-based campaign will raise awareness and encourage dialogue
on the importance of upholding the rights of children.
Why was March chosen? In this month in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone; a mass means for global communication. Through
technological innovation, communication between people has never been
easier. Why then are so many children kept silent?
You, your friends, and classmates, who are taking a vow of silence,
will collect pledges from sponsors for each hour you are silent. The
quieter you are the more people will listen; our 24 hours of silence
will speak to the world.
This is the opening year for this new and exciting campaign, so stay tuned, information will be posted on-line before the end of the summer. We will give you all the information you need to get started with your Vow of Silence.
Vow of Silence Resource Kit:
Vow of Silence 1 page Description
Vow of Silence Posters (click on image to download all 3 posters )
Videos
