Caroline in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1999 Dear Friends, At the start of 2026 Happy Child International continues its mission to serve children and young people at risk in Recife, Northeast Brazil. We want to thank all our supporters for being faithful to us and helping us to deliver this important work. This year after much consideration and reflection I am stepping down from my role as Head of Operations of Happy Child International.  After serving for over thirty years I received my MBE...

It makes more sense here to begin at the end rather than the beginning,  as it's the things that have been learned on the way that open doors to the future. The word that 20 year old Ainõa Leticia  chooses to define her own path on the Mentoring and Skills Training project is “Resilience”. It orginates from the Latin meaning “to leap backwards”. When the opportunity for selection on the Mentoring and Skills Training project came up it wasn’t exactly what Ainõa Leticia  was looking for. She...

One day I was listening to a Podcast, and it said something like:  “Recharging our self esteem and confidence helps us set new challenges and see that what may seem impossible isn’t.  Hope for a better world can energise us”.  In Brazil almost twenty million people have never had a dental appointment, and half of the population do not annually visit the Dentist. In 2024, more than 30% of the Brazilian population did not go for a dental appointment * . With conviction Docter Simone Pontes...