Get Involved
There are many ways to contribute to our mission of ending child poverty. Every action, big or small, brings us closer to a world where all children can thrive. Join us today and be part of the change.
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Your donation today will help us provide essential services and implement sustainable solutions to end child poverty.
Become a Champion
Become an Ending Child Poverty Goodwill Ambassador and use your voice, platform, and influence to advocate for children’s rights and welfare.
I am #TeamEndChildPoverty
Join our network of passionate advocates who use their voice and platform to raise awareness about child poverty. As an ECP Goodwill Ambassador
Make an Action Pledge
Commit to taking specific actions to support our cause. Your pledge can be tailored to your skills, interests, and availability
Make a Pledge
Volunteer
Volunteer My Skills
Volunteer your time, skills and expertise, give your resources, funds and other useful donations for the well-being of children affected by poverty in your community. Volunteer your time to visit or serve children affected by poverty.
On-the-Go
You can also be part of our End Child Poverty online volunteers team, “On-the-Go”, by volunteering your skills towards communicating to the world about ending child poverty. Visit our online volunteers page for more information. Join On-the-Go, and get a chance to contribute to our work in: Photography, Videography, Editing, Design, Blogging, Gathering news stories, Developing or managing social content, Translation or Interpretation, Crowd sourcing, Crowd funding, Other communication skills
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Stay Connected
Be part of the End Child Poverty conversation on social media, through our website, newsletters, and by contacting us directly. We’re happy to hear from you
- Learn more about Arigatou International, our 4 initiatives, and and the work we do.
- Sign up to receive End Child Poverty newsletters
- Spread the word on social media by using your available spaces to communicate facts about child poverty, what communities can do to eradicate it. Share the message, “Together To End Child Poverty”and tag us through your social media. Use the hashtag #EndChildPovertyat10 and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and our End Child Poverty website.
- Invite your friends and followers to connect with End Child Poverty on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram
- Retweet, Share, Like and Comment on the End Child Poverty posts.
Tell Your Story
Share your story and let us know how your community is tackling child poverty, so that many others can get inspired.
- Tell us about your work to end child poverty in your community.
- Invite children and other young people in your community to share their story on what they are doing to end child poverty.
- You can share these stories through our Facebook and Instagram, write us an E-mail and Contact Us through our website.
- You can also share with us a brief report of your End Child Poverty activities through E-mail or through our website.
Visit our exhibition
Visit the Faith in Action for Children exhibition, and see what children, faith leader and many other have to say about ending child poverty and promoting children’s wellbeing. Also consider contributing to the exhibition.
Photo Contest
Take part in the annual End Child Poverty #SnapsforChange photography contest.
Visit our IDEP page for more information
Share Knowledge
Visit our Knowledge Centre for more resources on ending child poverty, and also contribute knowledge resources such as research papers, reports, policy briefs and other such content relevant to ending child poverty.
Whilst poverty hurts all human beings, it is more threatening to children. Childhood is a time of unique opportunity and vulnerability, and experiencing poverty in its various dimensions can be particularly damaging to a child’s development. Poverty denies children their right to grow up free from deprivation and want, and develop healthily to their full potential.
Over the years, drivers of poverty including; conflicts, climate change, violence against children, and lately the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly escalated child poverty. Experts have observed that children who were already disadvantaged by poverty and more vulnerable are being affected even more gravely by the pandemic and their very development and even survival are threatened. In 2020, as COVID-19 turned into a global crisis, the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty estimated that the global downturn in economic growth could push 117 million more children into poverty by the end of that year alone, 2020. The world bank in a report in 2021 further noted that the Covid-19 pandemic could increase learning poverty among children by an additional 72 million to 454 million.
To date, 1 in 2 people living in poverty is a child. More than 250 million children suffer from 2 or more deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, while 75 million children are living in relative poverty in the world’s richest countries.
The statistics are endless and all tell a sorry state of the world’s children. We need to change this. Lifting children out of poverty will make a huge difference in their lives, and those of the families, communities, and countries in which they live.
At Arigatou International – End Child Poverty, we are committed to mobilizing faith-inspired resources towards building a world free of child poverty by addressing both the human and structural root causes of poverty through; theological reflection and action, advocacy, knowledge generation, and mobilizing grassroots actions towards ending child poverty.
