When crucial healthcare is out of reach,
a mother’s love and determination may not be enough to save her child.
Your donation will go to where it’s most needed and could be used across these vital initiatives:
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Will you help mum’s protect their children from infectious disease?
The world’s most vulnerable children need your support now, more than ever. Children living in extreme poverty in Papua New Guinea, where the health system was already stretched beyond capacity before the COVID-19 pandemic began, are at a higher risk than ever before.
In PNG, even diseases that can be easily identified, like measles, polio and tuberculosis (TB), can go undiagnosed and untreated in children, because their parents have no way to access the information and healthcare they need.
There is a severe shortage of doctors in PNG, especially in remote areas. Community health workers at local health clinics can only treat basic injuries and illnesses.
We need your support now more than ever to protect children from infectious diseases
No child should miss out
Many children miss out on crucial and life-saving immunisations because their parents can’t access remote health centres, or they aren’t aware that a vaccine is available. Some children are too unwell to be immunised when an outreach clinic visits their local area and miss this valuable chance to protect their health.
Covid-19 could devestate PNG
All this means that infectious disease can spread through communities with dizzying speed. In recent years, outbreaks of both measles and polio have overwhelmed PNG’s already overstretched health system – a system that is not equipped to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some children will not survive
After the chaos caused by COVID-19, children in PNG will still be living with the constant threat of debilitating disease and permanent disability. Some children will not survive their illness. No child should spend their childhood battling infectious disease.
The Latest Data From Papua New Guinea
These children will be among those most at risk from COVID-19
where they have trouble accessing health care.
(including 205,000 children)
Esther’s Story:A Mother’s Love
Parents like Esther face overwhelming challenges in trying to protect their children from infectious disease.
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Meet Olive Oa
ChildFund Health Program Manager, PNG
“As ChildFund’s Health Program Manager in PNG, I work on the early detection and prevention of infectious diseases in children, especially those who are most vulnerable.
With your donation, we can run outreach programs in remote communities, where we can quickly identify potential cases of infectious disease in both adults and children and refer people to the nearest healthcare facilities so they can get treatment.”
Olive and the team in Papua New Guinea need your support more than ever
“Right now, we need your support more than ever before to help prevent the spread of infectious disease.
Health systems are already overstretched, and many children are already weakened by illnesses like TB, making them especially vulnerable to COVID-19.”
– Olive Oa
ChildFund Health Program Manager, PNG
Where your money goes
79 cents
in every dollar goes directly to helping children in poverty
13 million
children and families being supported in over 60 countries
Frequently Asked Questions
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If you’re filing your tax return for the first time, have never claimed donations or donated at all, you’re probably wanting to know more about how you can claim donations to charity on your taxes. We’ve answered some of the most important questions about tax deductible donations below.
Tax deductible donations are about giving back, to get back. Donating to ChildFund Australia will help children in urgent need of support. You’ll be helping the most vulnerable children across South East Asia and Africa, and you yourself will be able to receive a greater refund on your tax return.
You can submit any tax deductible donation over $2 as part of your tax return.
You can only claim for donations which are monetary gifts, given without the promise of something in return. Raffle tickets, charity chocolates, events and other donations of this kind, are not tax deductible.
At ChildFund, all regular giving donations over $2 are tax deductible including child sponsorship, community sponsorship and donations to appeals. A few donation categories are not tax deductible, for example, birthday gifts to your sponsored child and are not included on your annual tax receipt.