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Brazil faces a public health problem. Adolescent pregnancy.  Figures from the Health Ministry in 2020 indicated that there were nearly...

For the last five years Happy Child International has partnered with Brazilian NGO Instituto Solidare  supporting it financially to...

In February 2024 I was in Recife visiting some of Happy Child International’s partner projects. One of the projects that I really like...

Amanda Verusk leads The Gathering Project which this year has followed 18 young vulnerable mums between the ages of 16 and 21. It has...

The Worldwide Weekend of Prayer for Children at Risk is a global initiative held during the first weekend of June every year, uniting...

Join us on Saturday June 17th 2023 Happy Child International has been operating for 30 years. Despite the turmoil of our times I believe...

Sueleide is the second on the left wearing glasses. Jenyffer, her niece is on the far right wearing glasses. On November 23, 2021,...

Below is a report submitted by Elsie Gilbert. She talks about her experience in visit to Coque, a very poor neighborhood in Recife where...

April 12th 2023 is International Day for Street Children all around the world. Initiated in 2012 by the Consortium for Street Children, a...

Jefferson, 16, is the eldest boy in the house. He lives with his mother, a stepfather and brother Johanes, 14, Ulises, 11, and 4-year-old...

Recently, I spoke with Dr. Patricia Santos Pimentel, an Ear Nose and Throat Specialist who volunteers at Ammar Transforma, Happy Child’s...

When we visited this lady, back in October of 2021, she told us about her struggles with her children. One of her children, an adult...

Recife, PE, the focus of Happy Child’s activities, is a city which attracts migrant populations who want to move from the impoverished,...

In August Board Director João Martinez da Cruz was able to visit one of the Christian organisations Happy Child International partners...

Every year, several thousand of the poorest families in Recife see dirty water seep and rise into their homes, sometimes taking a lot of...

Both at home and out on the streets, the impoverished children of Recife are exposed to the rain, both the water that comes from the sky...