“She sells four tortillas for 13 cents,” Ralldy said. “This is how she raised me and put me in high school.”
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Today is Universal Children’s Day. The United Nations chose November 20 as the observance date to mark the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959. It was created to make a promise to the children of the world — that we would do everything in our power to protect and promote their rights to survive and thrive, learn and grow, and that we would make their voices heard and help them reach their full potential.
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Tomorrow, Oct. 17, is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty set forth by the United Nations.
This year’s theme is “Building a sustainable future: Coming together to end poverty and discrimination.”
Regina Mburu, communications liaison for Unbound in Africa, with twins Jackson and Jackline at their home in Tanzania.
When you send in your sponsorship contribution, how does that money get to your friend? How do we tailor benefits to meet the needs of each sponsored friend and their family? In this photo essay, we’ll show you how one family in Kenya gets the sponsorship benefits they need.
Sponsored children and their classmates stand outside their school in Guatemala.
Microsoft Windows recently launched its #UpgradeYourWorld campaign to celebrate nonprofits doing good work around the world. They’ve selected nine and they’re searching for one more international organization to fill the last spot.
Unbound wants to be the 10th nonprofit picked to win $500,000 to support our work — part of a $10 million Microsoft Windows investment.
The 10th organization will be chosen by the people and the number of votes collected via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook so we need your help!
Here are 10 reasons why Unbound should be one of Microsoft Windows’ global nonprofits.
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Sponsored elder Rogelia in the community garden she helps tend in Payatas, Philippines.
The Unbound office in Valparaiso, Chile.
Amanda Heter, Ximena Pacheco-Diaz and Paul Pearce, employees at Unbound headquarters in Kansas, traveled to Chile to meet the Unbound team in Valparaiso and to meet the families in our program. They shared a few highlights from their trip, photos and told us about some of the things happening in Chile.
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An estimated 2.5 million people across the globe — many of them children — are victims of modern slavery in the form of human trafficking. Some are forced into brutal manual labor, while others become captive to the sex trade. Still others are forced to act as soldiers and, in some cases, participate in war crimes.
Unbound believes we have a special role to play in combating this epidemic.
Manish spent a good part of his childhood stationed outside the East Gate of India’s famed Taj Mahal.
By the age of 5 he was working long days peddling trinkets: bracelets, beads or cheap keychains.
Selling on the streets is dangerous work for little kids. They can become easy prey for thieves or victims of speeding cars and motorcycles.
But Manish had little choice. He is the youngest of seven. His father works, but doesn’t make enough money to feed every child in the family.