Helping Children Worldwide

About HCW

Helping Children by Strengthening and Empowering Families and Communities

Who We Are
How We Work

Financial Integrity

Reports, accountability, and stewardship.

900 million children live in multidimensional poverty, without adequate water, food, shelter, safety, or healthcare.

50% of children in Sub-saharan Africa live in households surviving on less than $3 a day. 412 million of the world's children (20%) live in extreme poverty.

Child poverty is not limited to developing economies. In 37 high-income countries, 50 million children (23% of their child population) live in poverty. In the United States, 20% of children live in poverty.

Poverty during childhood equals lifelong issues - poor health, shorter lifespans, and reduced opportunities that transmit poverty to the next generation.

Progress in ending poverty has stalled due to rising conflict, climate change, and global funding cuts.

We Fight the Fire - Not the Smoke

Our Work

Programs, alliances, and networks organized by place and purpose.

Africa

Programs and alliances with local leaders.

North America

Partners, volunteers, supporters, and mission team members.

Global Networks

Field-shaping alliances and communities of practice.

HCW research and publications
Resources

Research, publications, media, curricula, and essential resources.

Topics of Interest

Our Impact

Impacts on children, families, resources, communities, and systems of care.

People

Stories of individual growth and change.

Resources

Data, research, publications, media, curriculum, worship materials, and essential resources.

Sample

Sample of mega change.
Systems and Community

Empowerment approaches to development, locally led collaborations, respectful alliances, ethical practices, and sustainable progress.

Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS)

Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS)

CHAMPS

Advancing Knowledge to Save Children’s Lives

Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) is a global surveillance network that generates and shares accurate information on causes of stillbirths and child deaths in high-mortality settings in Africa and South Asia. Working closely with communities and their leaders, CHAMPS teams work quickly to identify deaths and, with a family’s consent, use innovative diagnostic methods to investigate the causes. Findings help families improve the health of their children. CHAMPS provides data to local, national, and global health leaders to improve policies and programs and drive investments to save lives.

CHAMPS is a TGH Member Organization, and has been featured on our podcast.

Their work informs the global picture and they don’t stop with informing – they work with partners to begin to develop solutions based on the evidence of the data they collect.


CHAMPS DASHBOARDS – IMPORTANT DATA		Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) works in Mali, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique to uncover the causes of stillbirth and death in children under five. ​CHAMPS works to close these gaps by gathering scientific evidence needed to save young lives. Envisioned as a long-term program supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CHAMPS seeks to identify definitive causes of stillbirths and child deaths through community engagement, mortality surveillance, diagnostic and laboratory innovation, and rapid, open access to data. CHAMPS transforms data into action, working with partners to use our findings to inform evidence-based solutions to save lives.

CHAMPS