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Operating Principles
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The Six World Children's Fund 'People Helping People' Operating Principles
The World Children's Fund follows a six-fold programme for helping indigenous child care programmes grow stronger and achieve long-lasting improvements.
We focus primarily on 'people to people' projects that mobilize voluntary, worldwide sharing of finances, materials, and other resources.
The six 'People Helping People' principles of the World Children's Fund:
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Try to empower grassroots, indigenous movements – We realize that in most critical situations, there are usually already skilled and trained local people who are ready to help, if only they can receive emergency assistance to meet the needs. We will never send in costly, foreign specialists until we have helped the local people first.
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Try first to assist established, successful local programmes – We avoid competing with existing local programmes by helping start new local programmes until we have already done our best to help the existing agencies do their best.
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Try to promote freedom from dependency on foreign aid – We give short-term assistance, not long-term funding or finances for operational budgets. The goal is to help liberate local, indigenous agencies from dependence on outside help.
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Try always to provide strategic aid at the right time and place for maximum benefit to all - Through strategic alliances with corporations, individuals and other non-profit organisations, we seeks to multiply the size of donations. Sometimes a small, carefully planned gift will unblock aid and enable a programme to expand.
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Try always to simplify reporting while maintaining strong accountability – We provide aid to children in need as directly and quickly as possible while maintaining integrity and responsibility through audits and on site inspection, without adding exhaustive paperwork and wasteful levels of bureaucracy and agencies.
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Try to provide total care for children regardless of race, religion, and gender – We support childcare projects and programmes that are non-sectarian and non-discriminating. However, we are also looking for programmes that address the whole needs of the child – physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. We support programmes that promise to give abandoned children the moral strength to be good citizens and to develop a strong work ethic so that someday they will be able to care for themselves and their children. | |
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What is the World Children's Fund?
The World Children's Fund is a donor funded organisation that helps rescue needy children who are abandoned, distressed, endangered, exploited, homeless, hungry, sick or suffering.
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