The Global Fund for Children

This year’s charity works to transform the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children.

Global Fund For Children, FT Seasonal Appeal, Haiti. A reading takes place in the community hall with the Li, Li, Li staff, Port-au-Prince. ©cHARLIE bIBBY Feb 6, 2013

FT raises $4.89m for children’s charity

Fund works with 500 organisations in 78 countries

MBA Challenge logo From MANAGEMENT May 17, 2013

Students apply their skills to help children

Teams of business school students are working with partners of the Global Fund for Children in the FT’s annual MBA Challenge

©Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos From LIFE & ARTS Jan 30, 2013

New York photography auction

FT Seasonal Appeal in association with Christie’s: Event raises $250,000

Children eats evening snacks at Prerana Night Care (PNC) center at Kamathipura red light area in Mumbai, India ©Dhiraj Singh From WORLD Jan 24, 2013

Making a big difference with a small grant

FT Seasonal Appeal: Dan McCrum reports on how charities are doing more with less in straitened times

Rewrite Hackney ©Rosie Hallam From UK Jan 3, 2013

Second chance for disenfranchised youth

Charities battle gangs and help foreign children to integrate

Haitian girls walk along a canal in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince ©AFP From WORLD Dec 26, 2012

Light in darkness of Cité Soleil

Global Fund for Children aids Port au Prince slum dwellers

From WORLD Dec 21, 2012

Reaching the hardest to reach children

Support from the GFC changes children’s lives

Global Fund for Children: Ghana A volunteer at Street Library Ghana ©Rosie Hallam From WORLD Dec 13, 2012

Children’s fund scouts for partners in Ghana

Charity searches for projects to support

From WORLD Dec 10, 2012

Children given way out of red-light area

Care centres provide shelter, food and safety

Joao Pires ©Rosie Hallam From LIFE & ARTS Jan 21, 2013

Bid for a top sommelier

Nicholas Lander previews the auction for top sommeliers

ABOUT THE APPEAL

The FT's chosen charity for the 2012 seasonal appeal is the Global Fund for Children. The FT will promote the charity both in print and online throughout December to raise money and increase awareness of its work.