Making Waves

At the end of the day, the real impact of our work is out there. We appreciate that it will take great effort and time to build the evidence. We are actively looking for ways to develop and/or join a learning platform, yet another partnership that helps us stay the course. Meanwhile, it is clear […]

Right from the start, End Child Poverty was conceived as an initiative that sits in between other formations. We are a strategic operational initiative of Arigatou International with a specific charge to catalyze faith resources and actions to eradicate child poverty. As a standalone initiative with operational autonomy, one aspect of our core capital is

The End Child Poverty Knowledge Centre Sarvodaya, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Launched on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on 17 October 2014, the End Child Poverty Knowledge Centre is a global faith-inspired hub for research, resource gathering, networking, experience sharing and knowledge dissemination. The Knowledge Centre also serves to build the capacities of

In Colombia, End Child Poverty through the GNRC Colombia has worked with the Mennonite Church to support economic and social empowerment of extremely poor women. Similarly in Juba, South Sudan in partnership with Hands of Grace, we have provided economic and social skills development training to women care givers.

Launched in 2012 in partnership with End Child Poverty, India Poverty Solutions is a children and youth-led initiative of Shanti Ashram, a Gandhian organisation based in India. It unites children and youth to work together and find simple and effective solutions to child poverty. The initiative aims to mobilise at least 1,000,000 children and youth

In Kenya, together with the GNRC we have provided support to CAP Youth Empowerment Institute (CAP YEI). CAPYEI has equipped over 6,000 young people to graduate with critical life skills, crafts and in entrepreneurship. The out-of-school youth from economically disadvantaged and poor communities are trained in crafts and trades such as carpentry, tailoring, security guarding,

End Child Poverty, working together with its partners, has partnered with local agencies to provide education scholarships in South Sudan, Kenya, Pakistan and among the Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Pupils benefit from this partnership by receiving uniform, books, school fees contribution, among other material items. Through this effort we are also gradually building a pool

At the outset, and partly in response to unending demand, we identified the need to walk with partners on the frontlines providing critical services to poor children, We work with selected flagship projects that must have a clear, replicable and scalable scope. These projects should aim to enhance quality education and retention of poor and

End Child Poverty is addressing Gender Based Violence and its negative impacts on children with a focus on 5 countries: Burundi, Rwanda, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and South Sudan. Our approach lays emphasis on gender based violence as a root driver of child poverty and includes sexual violence towards children, and violence against

Through the Regional Peace Program, End Child Poverty is working to promote peace in 12 countries in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa. The programme is a collaborative initiated by the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and for regional partners Arigatou International—Nairobi (AI—N). The programme is intended to enhance collaborative relations, sustain-able peace, peaceful and

In South Sudan, End Child Poverty partnered with The Umbrella of South Sudan Women Association in Kenya (USSWAK), to commission 42 children from each of the 10 states of South Sudan as Peace Ambassadors. The Children’s Peace Ambassadors work by equipping children as agents and coworkers in transforming the violent conflict in South Sudan. The

The International Day of Peace is marked on 21 September, every year, as a global day dedicated to consolidating the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. End Child Poverty, has recognized the potential for faith groups to mobilise around peace day and use education to inspire young people to get

Perhaps the worst form of child poverty must be that brought about by violence. Violence against children and poverty are interlinked, it is not possible to end one vice without confronting the other. Children who have been severely abused or neglected often stagnate in their development, experience learning difficulties and perform poorly at school. They

Transforming IDEP -the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – into an international grassroots platform for advocacy and organizing against child poverty. Far and away, one of the most enduring imprints of our work has been the transformation of the IDEP- the International Day for Eradicating Poverty – into a global platform focusing on

The Africa Interfaith Initiative on the Post 2015 Development Agenda is an advocacy platform comprising of pan-African, regional and nation-al Religious Coordinating Bodies (RCBs), interfaith organisation, Faith Inspired Organisations (FIOs) and religious leaders. The initiative was formed as a response to the growing need for African faith communities and their leaders to speak into the

First convened in 2015, the Moral Imperative to End Extreme Poverty is facilitated by the World Bank Group and brings together religious and faith based organisations. This forum has adopted a faith based framework to end child poverty organised on three pillars: Evidence, Advocacy and Collaboration and corresponding working groups. End Child Poverty is active

In 2015, End Child Poverty joined The Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, an initiative that describes itself as “a network of like-minded organisations deeply concerned with the devastating effects of poverty in childhood on children and societies across the world, and dedicated to raising awareness and supporting global and national action to alleviate it”(visit

Mainstreaming Child Poverty within the Process and Outcomes of the Sustainable Development Goals As the period for the Millennium Development Goals came to an end in 2015, the global community was engaged in long and impactful consultations on a successor mechanism and the priorities for poverty eradication in the coming era. End Child Poverty saw

Faith Communities have incredible scope, capacity, and tenacity and longevity. We have, however, identified critical gaps in interfaith efforts to combat child poverty; these include a knowledge gap on poverty, a lack of clear focus on child child poverty and the absence of common interfaith tools to fight child poverty. In response we have produced

In slightly more than three years, we have reached 37 Countries, through the Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) and other partnering organisations. These include: Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Chile, Cuba, Comoros, Croatia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mauritius, Malaysia, Moldova,

End Child Poverty seeks to achieve impact through four key strategic actions: Mitigating Human Root Causes of Poverty through Theological Reflection, Prayer and Action; Combatting Structural Causes of Poverty through Interfaith Advocacy and Lobbying; Supporting Grassroots Projects with promising outcomes for child poverty and Building our internal capacity to deliver on mission. The pursuit of

Mobilizing Faith Inspired Resources Faith has an enduring, constitutive and immeasurable value. Faith communities have a lasting commitment to developing the human person. Faith communities bring significant and unmatched competences to local, national and global efforts to end child poverty. Faith communities have a unique constitutive role as conveners’, amplifiers, participants and informed experts on

“With grave and heartfelt concern, we – people from all the world’s great religions and so many of its nations – commit to you, in solidarity, that we … will strengthen our efforts to eradicate poverty, the root cause of the deteriorating environment that children face, giving attention not only to external causes, but also

The Charge “The UNICEF estimates that 22,000 children are dying each day due to a host of deprivations because of poverty. Many die quietly in some of the remotest and poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and of the watchful eye and the conscience of the world. So many children losing their

The Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty (End Child Poverty) is the multi-faith, child-centred, global initiative of Arigatou Interna-tional that mobilises faith-inspired resources to eradicate poverty affecting children. We aim to create a world free of child poverty, by addressing the root causes of poverty in the human heart and the structural causes of poverty

At the Fourth Forum of the Global Network for Religions for Children (GNRC) in Dar es Salaam, June 2012 the task! Not long after this meeting, the Interfaith Initiative to End Child Poverty (End Child Poverty,) the strategic and operational response was launched in Nairobi, Kenya. Right at birth, we were cautious that child poverty

Foreword by Fred Nyabera 3 About Us 6 The Big Picture 7 How we measure Impact 12 Our Impact 14 Of Footprints and Imprints The Interfaith Guide 16 Voices for Children- Global Partnerships and Coalitions 18 Voices for Children- Community Organizing and Advocacy 21 Growing Peace: Making the World Safer for Children 22 Crystalizing Grassroots Initiatives 25 Building