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After hearing about ChildFund Australia’s Start Strong, Stay Strong project in Zambia, the students at Kingston School in Medan, Indonesia were inspired to take action. Each grade decided to raise money in their own way to support children in Zambia.

Vicki, a teacher at the school and a long-time sponsor with ChildFund Australia, says: “The children were very moved by the statistic that about 300 children under five die every day [in Zambia] – this is the size of our school. They found it hard to believe that a child could die from a high fever, which they just go to the doctor for and take an aspirin. That put everything into perspective for them.”

Monica, Nicole and Ira are in Primary Five. They shared their experience with us:

“We, Primary Five students, started fundraising from October 2012 to help Zambia, especially the babies and mothers. We had a donation box and each of us donated money. P5N raised about Rp 1,000,000 ($100AUD) and P5E raised Rp 600,000 ($60).

On the 7th December 2012 we had a Christmas celebration and we had a bazaar, fundraising for Zambia. We sold toys, which we made ourselves at home, food and drinks made by us, and flashlights. Our total effort came to Rp 4,000,000 ($400).

We enjoyed donating and selling because it was so exciting and like our parents in real life! We also think this is a good thing because we helped mothers and children in Zambia. And we did it as a team.

We want to encourage more people to donate. Go Zambia! Start strong! Stay strong!”

The seniors at Kingston School also commented on the event:

“We had fun selling for the Zambian children and mothers. This was a great experience for us and it’s good to help others. We learned how to sell and appreciate teamwork. We hope that our donations will be useful to improve the health and education system there.”

A special thanks to Monica, Nicole and Ira for sharing this story with us, and to all the teachers and students at Kingston School for supporting our work – together you raised almost $3,000 to help young Zambian children have a healthier start to life. Thank you!

In 2012, seven incredible ChildFund supporters set themselves a dual challenge – to run an international marathon and raise significant amounts of money to support health programs in Timor-Leste.

Some runners chose the Paris Marathon in April, while others opted for Dublin’s ‘friendly marathon’ in October. Although divided in geography, they were united in their fundraising efforts to improve healthcare in a country where children die far too often from preventable illnesses. All up, they managed to raise over $62,000 – no small feat – to help educate community health volunteers to spread essential healthcare messages.

With the money raised, 538 community volunteers in the district of Cova Lima have been provided with healthcare training relating to malaria, diarrhoea, dengue, nutrition and malnutrition. Such knowledge is vital in poor, rural communities where access to health services is limited and families may not otherwise know how to identify, prevent or manage disease.

These hard-working volunteers have already started to share what they have learned with their communities. Over 43,000 people have attended outreach sessions in their villages, while another 16,000 have benefited from home visits.

ChildFund has also distributed over 4,000 anti-malaria bed nets to support the work of the volunteers, helping them to educate families about the importance of malaria prevention.

ChildFund Australia and ChildFund Timor-Leste would like to send a heartfelt message of thanks to our 2012 marathon runners for making this work possible. Hayley, Terry and Tom, thank you for running the Paris Marathon. Anjelique, Deni, James and Karly, thank you for running the Dublin Marathon. Your hard work and endless fundraising events are paying off right now for families and communities in Cova Lima, Timor-Leste.

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