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"Alive Moments" June 2025 - powerful moments of healing, growth, and transformation from the Kids Alive family around the world

This is the first of our monthly 'Moments' series, which provide snippets of impact, news and hope from each of the countries we work in. Read more...

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How your support enables us to identify, prevent and treat trauma for the children we serve

Why would one Zambian boy who has just had a great day suddenly have a meltdown and refuse to eat?

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Can you sponsor a child at risk of working in a quarry?

Due to the incredible poverty in the Karundas region of rural Kenya, many children are at risk of having to work long hours in the nearby quarries.

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In one of the toughest rural regions of Kenya parents celebrate their little ones 'graduating'

In one of the toughest rural regions of Kenya, parents are brought to tears as we celebrate their little ones 'graduating' from pre-school to year 1....

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How you're preventing thousands of traumatised children being labelled as 'naughty'.

We are thrilled to announce that our teams in Kenya and Haiti have recently provided trauma awareness training to almost 100 teachers across 15 partner...

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How UK supporters helped *Peter from Peru back to health with life-changing medical treatment

When Peter was referred to Kids Alive in Peru, he needed prompt surgery. Thanks to our supporters, he can now run, play football, and laugh like other...

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A thank you message from six grateful students in Kenya as they receive their new laptops

Thanks to our wonderful UK supporters, we’ve been able to provide laptops to six young adults from incredibly challenging backgrounds in Kenya.

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Not even a pane of glass was broken at our New Horizons project in Lebanon

Following the recent ceasefire in Lebanon our staff and children have been able to safely return to our New Horizons project in southern Lebanon.

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How UK supporters have provided livelihoods in tailoring to some of Zambia's most vulnerable families

Funded by generous UK donors, the tailoring project has helped families in Zambia escape the poverty trap by selling clothes they can make themselves.

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How UK supporters helped us begin a Sunday School programme in the slums of Nairobi

Thanks to generous donors, including Hymns Ancient & Modern Charity, for supporting a Sunday school programme in the Kenyan slums.

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How your support is empowering child victims of sexual assault to give evidence in Guatemala

Our wonderful supporters in the UK helped fund the printing of a comic strip workbook called "Soy (I am) David" to help prepare girls to give evidence...

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How your support has helped girls like Sofia* continue their education without fear of sexual assault

Sofia*, a 17-year-old girl, has been able to continue her education in safety through Kids Alive Guatemala, overcoming the challenges of sexual assault.

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How holistic intervention at Kids Alive in Guatemala helped Liza and her family live in safety

Introducing Liza*, a 16-year-old from Guatemala who suffered sexual violence at the hands of a community member.

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An update on Rania, a Syrian refugee who was forced to flee to Lebanon on foot with her family when she was little.

Your support has helped us provide specialist catch up education and care for Rania and others like her.

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How our supporters are helping to transform the life of an abandoned girl in the slums of Nairobi

Your support enables us to have life-changing impacts for vulnerable children like Mary who was abandoned in the slums of Nairobi because of her poor...

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Babies and toddlers incarcerated with their mums in Zambia released from prison!

The President of Zambia recently pardoned and released 45 incarcerated mums who have young children, as part of his annual pardons.

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Watch a wonderful short video to celebrate our 75th anniversary working in Lebanon

Take a look at our short video charting the history of our work in Lebanon specially put together to mark the 75th anniversary of our serving vulnerable...

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A celebration at Kids Alive Guatemala as five girls from our Oasis Residential Programme make the decision to be baptised.

Watch our two minute video from Kids Alive Guatemala as the girls take this step of faith in their walk with God. Very inspiring!

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Some of the key successes our supporters have enabled us to achieve in recent months

Thanks to our wonderful supporters, we have been able to show God's love and care to thousands of extremely vulnerable children around the world.

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How your support helped us to influence the authorities to stop child labour and focus resources on vulnerable families

Child labour is still endemic in many impoverished regions of Kenya but influencing the authorities to focus resources can help vulnerable families.

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How your support enabled Lydia to undergo life changing operations and treatment to save the use of her leg

Our kind and compassionate supporters helped fund two operations for this lovely young woman in Kenya called Lydia.

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A moving short video about our work in Guatemala serving child victims of unspeakable sexual assault with love, care and justice.

Watch a moving 3 minute video explaining our work in Guatemala, which is so reflective of Kids Alive's work in general.

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How your support enables us to celebrate the remarkable bravery of child victims of sexual assault

Giving evidence in court is one of the toughest things that child victims of sexual assault in Guatemala have to do as part of their restoration process...

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How your support provided six of our students in Kenya with new laptops

In 2022 Kids Alive were able to give laptops to six extremely grateful young adults from our projects in Kenya.

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Urgent appeal for essential maintenance work at our Dar el Awlad site in Lebanon, serving vulnerable Syrian refugee children and their families

Following a recent visit to our ‘Dar el Awlad’ centre in Lebanon, it became apparent just how desperate this wonderful project is for some basic maintenance...

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Please pray for Susan* and children like her to help prevent early child marriage

Our courageous team in Kenya is working with community leaders to prevent the child marriage of an 11-year old girl.

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How a starving child came into our care and is now a doctor!

The remarkable story of a remarkable girl serving a remarkable God in the Dominican Republic.

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Urgent appeal to help fund a people carrier in Lebanon

As the economic crisis continues in Lebanon, we urgently need a new people carrier to help us care for the most vulnerable.

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The Gift of Giving

If you’re having trouble deciding on a present for a loved one this Christmas, why not think about buying your friends and family a gift that will positively...

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Join us for our upcoming webinars, including our 'Introduction to Kids Alive' events

We sometimes provide webinar updates about our work, often with our teams out in the field. Here is a list of what is coming up.

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An award towards our work in Lebanon from the World Day of Prayer England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We are thrilled to announce that the World Day of Prayer England, Wales & NI have partnered with us by donating £2,000 to our work in Lebanon.

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Urgent appeal for our work in Lebanon

As the crisis worsens in Lebanon, our teams are working in darkness from 4pm onwards every day. Can you help us raise £12,000 to help us install solar...

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We are now called Kids Alive International!

Ever since we came into existence in 2011, Hope for Kids International (our old name) has been the UK partner of the Kids Alive family, a wonderful Christian...

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We have two projects in Haiti, neither of which has been affected directly by the earthquake.

Thank God, our projects have not been directly impacted, mainly because they are located in the north, whereas the earthquake occurred in the west.

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Thank you for helping us to fund Maria’s* eye operation!

One of the Syrian refugee children we serve at our Dar el Awlad school in Lebanon is in urgent need of an operation on her eyes to stop her from going...

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Waiting to have a new family and a new home

In Guatemala, this young lady is spending her last few minutes with us before moving home.

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One of our young adults from the Dominican Republic graduates from university

This is a remarkable story of transformation for this charming young man who attended one of our schools.

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When doing chores is fun in the Dominican Republic - especially when it involves food

On Wednesdays, food is purchased and received at all our residential homes in the Dominican Republic. Children and adults alike join in to help out.

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A new playground for our children at Dar el Awlad in Lebanon

Finally, after a long wait and a lot of effort, our Kids Alive Lebanon kids have the play equipment up and running!

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Arts, crafts and computer skills for impoverished Lebanese children at our New Horizons project in Lebanon

The children who come along to our New Horizons Care Centre in southern Lebanon are from extremely impoverished backgrounds, including Bedouins and ...

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Laptops for our Independent Living students

We are delighted to have been able to give laptops to a number of the students in our Independent Living programme in Kenya. With lockdown continuing...

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Our work in Lebanon - webinar update

Click through for details of a recording of an extremely helpful and inspiring online presentation from our Lebanon Country Director, Denise Deghar. Denise...

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Our schools in the Dominican Republic have started to reopen

Our schools in the Dominican Republic are beginning to reopen, with small groups of children present in person for a limited number of hours each day....

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Our work in Zambia - watch our webinar

Click through for a link to a recording of a webinar we held on April 12th 2021 where our Country Director for Zambia, Chantry Mweemba, provides an update...

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Urgent Spring Appeal

Our Country Directors around the world have asked if we can help raise urgently needed funds for a number of additional costs that are being incurred,...

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Catch up with our work in Guatemala

We recently had an excellent catch up with our Guatemala Country Director, Victor Lopez, about the amazing work God is allowing us to do, as his team...

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Some wonderful news from Lebanon

At our Lebanon webinar update in November 2020, we were told about this lovely young lady, Maria*, who attends our Dar el Awlad school. As a result of...

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Our award from The World Day of Prayer England, Wales & Northern Ireland (WDP)

We are thrilled to announce that the World Day of Prayer England, Wales & Northern Ireland have partnered with Hope for Kids by donating £3,000 to our...

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The explosion in Lebanon

Fortunately none of our children or their families were injured. Here is a brief update on how the explosion has impacted us.

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Kids Alive has a new President!

As you probably know, we are the UK partner of Kids Alive, which is based in the USA. They have been recruiting for a new President and we are delighted...

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COVID updates - watch our webinars

Just about all of the countries we work have been in lockdown. Click through for a series of webinars with our country directors taking us through how...

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How the pandemic is affecting the children we minister to

Here is an update on how the pandemic is affecting our work in the field, as well as an invitation to prayer.

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