Child Foundation was established in 1994 and is an international non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 with the objective of helping children stay in school.

As of 2005, Child Foundation has special consultative status with ECOSOC, with offices in four countries (USA, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

)

Objectives

The children sponsored through Child Foundation programs are high achievers, and many of the children they assist are orphans or children living in emergency situations.Over 3,000 families and children are currently receiving assistance through sponsorship programs. Approximately 25% of these children are enrolled in college or have graduated from college programs. Child Foundation currently assists children living in Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia and the United States.

Child Foundation supports three of the United Nations 2015 Millennium Development Goals: to eradicate poverty, to achieve universal primary education and to promote gender equality in the classroom.

Programs

Child Foundation is currently focusing on 7 sponsorship programs (Individual sponsorship, college sponsorship, corporate sponsorship, emergency fund, blind

Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...

 children, cancer

Cancer

Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

 children, hunger relief) with different aims that help children in need improve their quality of life.

Individual sponsorhip

Currently, there are over 3,000 families, under coverage benefiting over 5,000 children talented needy children are identified through schools and local charity

Charitable organization

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 organizations.

Blind children

The Blind Children Division of Child Foundation (BCD of CF) is a fund created to help blind children living in various educational institutes. Their mission is to eliminate severe visual impairment as a barrier to the fulfillment of lives of individuals with sight loss. Through proper education, training and equal opportunities as those of their able-bodied equals, the Child Foundation aims to create an opportunity where blind children can grow up and live, work and function as responsible independent citizens when they are adults; having their visual impairment

Visual impairment

Visual impairment is vision loss to such a degree as to qualify as an additional support need through a significant limitation of visual capability resulting from either disease, trauma, or congenital or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive...

s being seen as just a minor physical disability

Physical disability

A physical disability is any impairment which limits the physical function of one or more limbs or fine or gross motor ability. Other physical disabilities include impairments which limit other facets of daily living, such as respiratory disorders and epilepsy....

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Children with medical needs

Child Foundation has a long history in supporting children needing major surgeries

Surgery

Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

and fighting cancer. Children with medical needs receive help towards the required treatments. The Children with medical needs program also provides relief for families who are burdened by having to care for the special needs of their child fighting cancer. In most cases, families are not able to provide for the needs of their other children.