Breastfeeding can be tough, wherever you live. Many mums find it more difficult than they expected - and trying to breastfeed can be a painful and stressful process.  In the UK, there is an enormous a...

For young mums like Makena Pamela, the pregnancy support groups funded by last year’s Team Mum campaign have provided vital health advice and support. Pamela and her newborn baby, Shantel Wendo, live...

Together we are encouraging people to List it. Sell it. Donate it and asking you, our brilliant supporters, to rummage through your house for items you no longer need or use, list them on the Shpock a...

From now until the 20th January we will be raising £65,000 to fund some of our Team Mum programmes next year, including a new Baby Box project! The 2019 campaign made a big impact by funding Pregnancy...

In a survey that Child.org conducted as part of our Pregnant Women’s Groups, we asked mums what items they thought were most important to take care of themselves and their newborns. The overwhelming a...

Despite the unexpected challenges that Covid-19 has presented to us, we’ve had an extremely successful first year. We want to share our progress with you and show you the difference your money is maki...

The following updates come direct from members of our Kenyan team and community, I'm publishing them from me in the UK because at present there are some government restrictions on publishing informati...

The Kanga is a traditional garment mostly used in African regions by women to tie around their waist as a wrap skirt, carry babies on their backs, folded to form a base to carry luggage on the head am...

At The Shindig last week, we invited our supporters into our Bright Ideas Lab - where the walls were covered with 60 discoveries, opportunities, solutions and projects - all generated by Child.org in...

Next year we're coming back - bigger and better than ever. In 2020, Team Mum hope to raise enough to bring pregnant women's groups to a new area of Kenya, this time working specifically with very youn...

It's vitally important that the Team Mum Pregnancy Support Groups form part of a joined-up healthcare journey for new mums. We always want to work in partnership with existing health services to suppo...

As Technical Advisor in the Child.org programming team based in Kenya, my work is to help design and implement programmes. It is to shape programmes in a way that gives them the best chance at succeed...

Donata lives in rural Kenya with her two children, Maxwell and Victor. She was married at 19 and had her first baby, Maxwell when she was 20. The pregnancy was unexpected -Donata was relieved that her...

...in fact I have only two memories of me cycling. One was as a twelve year old trying to ride a black mamba bicycle. This is a bike obviously meant for grown people because of its height, but as chil...

New mums in Winfred's community lack status. This makes it difficult for them to make decisions about their own health or the health of their babies, and means that many young mums don't seek help whe...

When her son, Victor was born she walked a long way over uneven roads to the hospital to give birth: Before she gave birth, Conzolata was unaware that she could travel to attend clinics and find out...

In this 2016 TED talk, lactation researcher Katie Hinde talks about how breastfeeding has not been a research priority (more studies are done on coffee, wine or tomatoes than on human breast milk!) -...

It's become popular for people to shower their most vital friends in love and appreciation on 13 February, acknowledging that friendships are as important as romantic relationships, and not to be take...

Imagine you are riding in a nature documentary with an inspiring group, with no MAMIL’s (middle aged men in lycra) to spoil the landscape, then experiencing first-hand the area and meeting the familie...

Child.org's strapline is "We Do What Works." That means we're always assessing what we do to improve our impact. It means we're not married to one specific type of intervention - we seize the best opp...