Talk:ChildFund

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I removed the section on Sri Lanka that was poorly cited because I couldn't find secondary sources and it had already been flagged by editors. Preserving it here in case someone disagrees:

ChildFund International in Sri Lanka

Since 1985, ChildFund International has been providing child-sponsorship in Sri Lanka. Despite its primary focus which is targeted on children, it has also provided much assistance in many other areas such as providing safe water storage containers for more than 3000 families after the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka. Child Centered Spaces (CCS) were built and located in tsunami areas and area with much conflicts and instability so as to provide an avenue for children to turn to and to provide them with a formal education system. In addition, they have reached out to more than a thousand children, providing them with many opportunities in areas such as education, sports, health and nutrition.

They also provide trainings to women and teachers so as to give them a proper understanding of the right way to take care and to educate children. This is extremely important because they both play a very crucial role in influencing child’s decision to receive education. There are also child protection policies which helped to prevent children from discrimination, exploitation, prostitution, sex trafficking, abuse and neglect. These factors are highly relevant to child labour as they affect the inducement of children to work at young ages. The most recent campaign brought up by the ChildFund International would be the "Children First" programme which was launched in April 2007 and aimed to further equipped the children in Sri Lanka with better protection and rights. Better protection is one of the effective ways to curb child labour. All these are done to educate the children of other the better alternatives to child labour and how they can protect themselves from further exploitation.

Also removed the following paragraph that seemed irrelevant, given the age and the name change:

In May 2004, ChildFund (then known as Christian Children's Fund, or CCF) became the subject of some contention when Christian charity watchdog group Wall Watchers sent a "donor alert" via e-mail to about 2,500 subscribers, informing them that the name of the charity—Christian Children's Fund—was designed to intentionally mislead its donors into thinking it was a faith-based missionary group. Howard Leonard, a chief executive of Wall Watchers, was quoted by a magazine as saying, "It isn't Christian in the way we look at it. If you're going to be bringing help to these children, you should be bringing the Gospel." A spokesperson for the group said that the organization does not proselytize any person to a faith, rather its name is derived from its founder, a Presbyterian minister who believed in "Christian principles," such as "love thy neighbor as thyself."

Onemoregain (talk) 20:10, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Why is the name change irrelevant?

Slothman32 (talk) 11:52, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

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Any details on the domestic chapter of CCF?

I know the CCF Domestic HQ was in Oklahoma (near Tahlequah) in the late 70s and early 80s, run by Vern Pickard (or at least he was a steward of the operations).

Actually the CCF HQ is in Richmond, VA, it's now run by the new President Anne Goddard.Soupytrish 02:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I was referring to the (now apparently defunct) domestic chapter, not the global HQ. --Windsor 04:56, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

There has never been a "domestic chapter" in Oklahoma, but there is a service office.

Does CCF still sponsor domestic children? --Windsor 05:55, 8 Dec 2007 (UTC)

Errors in CCF Content as currently displayed

As Assistant Director for Interactive Communications for CCF, I have been working with my team to monitor our listing on Wikipedia. Soupy is another employee in my department, and we have both been working on this task. That is why there are two accounts associated with our domain.

There are some factual errors and biased implications that are of concern to us:

1 - "In 2005, CCF reported $20.6 million in advertising expenses & 13.7 million in management expenses for 13 board members [1]" - This sentence implies that we pay our board. The fact is that our entire board serves on a voluntary, unpaid basis. Furthermore, the footnote does not relate to the sentence. The sentence is correct on the spending for advertising and spending for management expenses. However, it should not relate management expenses to board members. I'd like the sentence to include the fact that all board members are unpaid volunteers.

2 - The contributor to this page selects one out of about five rating organizations to state "CCF does rank considerably lower in efficiency than other charities receiving only 3/5 stars [2]." This is a biased statement that does not reflect ratings from other organizations. The footnote links to a page that does not exist - HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. We would like our rankings from other organizations including BBB, AIP and Interaction to be included to provide the full picture.

3 - The contributor includes the following information - "Upon pledging support, a donor is provided a packet of information on a specific child who is allegedly receiving food, medical care & education on behalf of the donor." The use of the term "allegedly" is biased and actually factually incorrect. We do indeed provide information on a real child in real programs receiving real benefits.

4 - In a recurring theme, the following statement is included and footnoted to an article that has no relevance to the statement - "CCF claims that they do in fact associate a specific child with a specific donor, but in practice this level of service is difficult and costly to implement [3]"

5 - How does the following statement use a footnote reference to a Human Rights Watch article on Child Soldiers in Uganda? "While CCF's fundraising advertising attempts to address this by only showing the single mother case, this is contrary to the demographics of developing countries where mothers have an average of 3.7 children (2003) [4]." The HRW report has no reference to demographics of developing countries.

6 - Instead of referring to an anonymous "spokesperson for the group" we would like the person's name to be included. The "spokesperson for the group" was our former Communications Director, Toni Radler.

We would also like to add a section on Accountability to inform on our validation tools and standardized reporting mechanisms.

There is clearly strong bias against CCF in the current content. We are simply requesting that the items above be reviewed and that we then be allowed to make appropriate changes. The fact that several statements are not even related to the footnote links is a problem. If a statement is made with the appearance of being a fact, provide the reference.

I hope these items will be reviewed and we have the opportunity to contribute our information as well.

Bill Cavender —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ccfcommunications (talk • contribs) 14:07, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

Our official policy is: Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages. No need to wait for a review if it's wrong. Anyway, I've deleted the suspect material with unrelated "references". Clarityfiend 22:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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How are children in Africa over 19 helped

Help girls over 19 with single parents Hilda K N (talk) 10:39, 15 July 2022 (UTC)