tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71864144792518234262024-03-05T09:13:37.943-05:00CCF in the fieldCCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-68697802076148719932009-07-01T15:25:00.002-04:002009-07-01T15:26:12.197-04:00We've Moved!This blog has moved! Click here to access the new ChildFund International blog.CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-75989931371093514592009-06-30T11:18:00.000-04:002009-06-30T11:19:30.164-04:00Remembering Our PastBy David Hylton,Public Relations SpecialistAs we look forward to the next chapter in our history, today marks the last day that we are known as Christian Children’s Fund. At our International Office in Richmond, Va., we are celebrating CCF Day today. Employees are wearing CCF shirts, showing off CCF memorabilia and sharing their memories. Here’s a look at some of the CCF items on display: We CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-44199704728679402422009-05-30T09:08:00.002-04:002009-05-30T09:08:00.323-04:00Looking Ahead By Nguyen Thi Hong Phuong, ChildFund Vietnamand David Hylton, Christian Children's FundThis is the final entry in a series of blogs detailing the day in the life of Nam, an 11-year-old boy. So far Nam has gone to school and helped his mother prepare lunch. The rest of the day is a busy one as he continues to help his parents and ends the day studying.2 p.m. Nam follows his parents to the field, CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-48951821374601391282009-05-29T09:00:00.002-04:002009-05-29T09:04:38.630-04:00Helping at Home By Nguyen Thi Hong Phuong, ChildFund Vietnamand David Hylton, Christian Children's FundThis is the second in a series of blog entries detailing the day in the life of Nam, an 11-year-old boy in Vietnam. After a morning at school, Nam returns home to help out his family. His fathers offers an insight to how Christian Children’s Fund and ChildFund Australia have made a difference in their CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-67500514639092811772009-05-28T16:30:00.003-04:002009-05-28T16:38:33.242-04:00Time for School By Nguyen Thi Hong Phuong, ChildFund Vietnamand David Hylton, Christian Children's FundThis is the first in a series of blog entries detailing the day in the life of 11-year-old Nam. Nam is one of more than 18,000 children in 16 communities in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam, where ChildFund Vietnam is working to create better lives with programs in education, water and sanitation, CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-53201993155027290182009-05-08T12:22:00.000-04:002009-05-08T12:48:12.552-04:00Opposite Sides – A Time to ReflectBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program DevelopmentNote: This is the final entry from Jason’s recent trip to the Philippines.I've been in a time warp for almost two weeks, delving into CCF's past, trying to understand the challenges past generations came up against. We stopped organizing orphanages when we realized that mothers were giving up their young children to them. When we were perceived CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-43911588002385235912009-05-08T08:16:00.001-04:002009-05-08T08:16:00.124-04:00Seeking a BalanceBy Mark McPeak,Consultant to CCFNote: Mark helped facilitate the workshop in the Philippines. After day five of the workshop, Mark sent us this blog entry.We’ve just returned from a field immersion that was, for most of us, a real highlight of the workshop so far. Not only was it good to reflect about CCF’s program principles with community members and partners, and colleagues, but staying for a CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-85098166867171073852009-05-07T08:37:00.000-04:002009-05-07T08:37:00.711-04:00Sleepless in TalibaBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program DevelopmentNote: This is the eighth entry from Jason’s trip to the Philippines.My brother is a journalist, and he's sleeping on the sofa of an unemployed family living in the Midwest on an assignment to profile one family's plight in order to comprehend the economic meltdown impacting all of our American lives. In a brotherly coincidence, I'm sleeping on aCCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-60009923186183379182009-05-06T08:23:00.004-04:002009-05-06T08:23:00.534-04:00Overnight Lessons in the PhilippinesBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program DevelopmentNote: This is Jason’s seventh entry from his recent trip to the Philippines.Having spent the day talking with different groups in this small community in the Philippines, I met the family that would be hosting me for the night. This was part of the week-long workshop to reflect on CCF’s programs. The mom and her four daughters picked me up at CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-88236411680890896502009-05-05T08:31:00.003-04:002009-05-05T08:31:00.292-04:00A 'Power Walk' to Understand PovertyBy Martin Hayes,Child Protection Specialist for CCFNote: Martin traveled with Jason Schwartzman to the Philippines recently for a workshop to discuss CCF’s programming. Martin is one of the workshop facilitators.Christian Children’s Fund’s new core programs are tried and tested methods to assist with children’s successful transition through the life cycle. Through the support of the core program CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-26912494547042724382009-05-04T09:26:00.004-04:002009-05-04T09:33:05.579-04:00Immersing Ourselves in the CommunityBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program DevelopmentNote: This is the sixth entry from Jason’s trip to the Philippines.At 7:30 a.m., our group set out for the Taliba community where we would spend the day; each of us would then spend overnight with a host family. Our group represents Sri Lanka, India, Timor L'Este, Indonesia, the Philippines and the United States. Joining us were a number of CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-13352055267365454582009-05-01T08:05:00.002-04:002009-05-01T08:05:00.722-04:00Asking the Tough QuestionsBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program DevelopmentNote: This is the fifth entry from Jason’s trip to the Philippines.In my last blog entry, I shared a few quotes from a retired colleague who was reflecting on how Christian Children's Fund learned over time the importance of working with families as a group, to organize them so they could do for themselves. That colleague's name is Jim HostetlerCCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-4181531437385987232009-04-30T08:42:00.008-04:002009-04-30T16:39:17.830-04:00History LessonsBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program DevelopmentNote: This is the fourth entry from Jason’s trip to the Philippines.It’s amazing what you can learn from history, and how relevant those lessons can be for today. The challenges are constant, but the people trying to break through those challenges changes over the years. Separated by generations, it’s only through historical records that we can CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-70242867356508674892009-04-29T15:47:00.002-04:002009-04-30T08:51:33.692-04:00The First Program (R)EvolutionBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program Development (Note: This is the third entry from Jason's trip to the Philippines.)"Verent Mills (pictured above) had been the American Advisory Committee’s field supervisor of famine relief in the unoccupied region of Sz Yup since 1941. In his work, he came across hundreds of children – sometimes alone, more often in small groups – wandering the countrysideCCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-55213781981755570472009-04-29T09:00:00.006-04:002009-04-30T08:51:52.274-04:00Stepping Back into CCF's PastBy Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program Development(Note: This is the second entry from Jason's trip to the Philippines.)So I'm in the airport pickup van, racing to this workshop where each National Office in Asia has sent four or so staff to participate in what we've called "Integrating the Bright Futures Approach with CCF's Core Programs - A Pilot Course in Asia." Bright Futures is the name CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-69655643458108002662009-04-28T15:40:00.010-04:002009-04-28T15:55:51.913-04:00Scrambling for the Philippines By Jason Schwartzman,Director of Program DevelopmentNote: Jason Schwartzman, CCF’s director of Program Development, traveled to the Philippines recently for a workshop to discuss CCF’s programming. This is the first of several blog entries from Jason’s experience.For the past five months, I've been part of a team headed by the Christian Children’s Fund Asia Regional Office that includes CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-74118325424998154252009-04-24T10:16:00.000-04:002009-04-24T10:18:35.557-04:00It's All About the ChildrenChildren in today’s world need help more than ever. The World Bank estimates that 53 million people around the world will fall into poverty this year – that’s the total population of California and Florida combined. And that’s on top of the 1.5 billion people already living in poverty. To address the problems, this is a critical time for Christian Children’s Fund to meet the growing needs of CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-76990122155008597372009-03-16T16:47:00.003-04:002009-03-16T16:49:25.107-04:00Take the CCF World Water Day Challenge!Do you think you can live off 5 gallons of water or less for a day? Then take CCF's World Water Day challenge. Click here for all the details.- David Hylton, Public Relations SpecialistCCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-75510415662030139132009-01-24T10:53:00.001-05:002009-02-20T10:56:59.065-05:00Farewell DominicaBy Jack and Barbara Clarke, CCF Donors and Rick Falco, President and Creative Director of Vision ProjectToday, we're up early and packing. We thought we'd have plenty of room with so much of the equipment being left behind, but Barb seems to have bought so many woven baskets. A total of 7!Gelina picked us up and delivered us to a taxi stand in Roseau. It was a long 1 ½ mile winding ride to the CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-37839514983520055102009-01-23T13:21:00.001-05:002009-02-19T13:25:29.091-05:00Exhibition Day!By Jack and Barbara Clarke, CCF Donors and Rick Falco, President and Creative Director of Vision ProjectWe arrived at the school early and set up the posters in the auditorium so that the kids' classmates could view their work. Everything was on display from 9 a.m. to noon and many of the school's students and teachers came to see the posters. Afterwards, we took all of the posters to the Old CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-70954268644595687032009-01-22T12:33:00.001-05:002009-02-18T12:37:56.968-05:00Print, Cut, Decorate, Repeat - Preparing for the ExhibitionBy Jack and Barbara Clarke, CCF Donors and Rick Falco, President and Creative Director of Vision ProjectWednesday we worked all morning on the computer, reviewing the work they did during the field trip, cataloging pictures and choosing the best work to be showcased on each child’s poster. In class, Jack reviewed the most recent work they have done.Today we finished the poster prints and each CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-64869056582866225202009-01-20T12:53:00.001-05:002009-02-17T13:05:30.918-05:00A "Merry" Day at Coal Pot SoapsBy Jack and Barbara Clarke, CCF Donors and Rick Falco, President and Creative Director of Vision ProjectWe head back to Grand Bay today and thankfully the fire is gone. We worked on the computer all morning and then went down to the school with some trepidation.Upon arriving, we are told there had been a shooting in the village and that one person is dead and three others wounded. The shooting CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-69832054062701365302009-01-19T17:02:00.000-05:002009-02-16T17:05:45.948-05:00Field Trips and FireBy Jack and Barbara Clarke, CCF Donors and Rick Falco, President and Creative Director of Vision ProjectWe picked up the cameras at the school following the weekend shooting but didn’t find many pictures to download; we'll have to see about that in class. We have a field trip planned to Grand Bay and are hoping that the second field trip will result in more interesting pictures than the first CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-85055525148465467602009-01-18T14:41:00.002-05:002009-02-12T14:51:25.051-05:00Mini-Adventure to "Paradise"By Jack and Barbara Clarke, CCF Donors and Rick Falco, President and Creative Director of Vision ProjectOn Saturday we set off on our own adventure, within the scope of our otherwise “Big Adventure.”Gelina took us up into the mountains to an "eco-resort" (in quotes for more than one reason as it turns out). It was a very steep and winding drive up into the mountains; the roads are not well CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186414479251823426.post-56996696257966648952009-01-16T16:11:00.001-05:002009-02-11T16:34:59.579-05:00Hope for the Future of "My Community"By Jack and Barbara Clarke, CCF Donors and Rick Falco, President and Creative Director of Vision ProjectWith no cameras to download, we are picked up early by Gelina and head to CCF's office for real Internet service. We are told our meeting with the local photographer has been cancelled, but shortly we hear it's back on for later in the morning.The Internet works well and we get some work CCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261784363425277239noreply@blogger.com0