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The Disability Detect App: how a phone app is changing children’s futures

Chance for Childhood is rolling out an innovative mobile phone app, Disability Detect, to identify children with disabilities and additional needs....

From institutions to inclusion: new film shows how we’re giving children with disabilities brighter futures

Following the closure of many of Rwanda’s orphanages in recent years, children have been returning to their families and communities. Yet many of...

Wild Hearts art exhibition

Wild Hearts art exhibition Hazel Soan, friend of Chance for Childhood, is hosting an evening at her studio-gallery in London this month to...

Runners take on the Rwanda Impact Marathon

In May 2025, the Rwanda Impact Marathon brought together a group of intrepid runners to spend a week visiting life-changing projects, before running...

Two runners complete epic run in Sahara desert for Chance for Childhood

The legendary Marathon des Sables (‘Marathon of the Sands’) is the toughest footrace on earth: a 250km, six-day ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert....

Time for Change: Leadership Transition at Chance for Childhood

Nicoletta Gopsill-Piccolrovazzi, Chair of Trustees at Chance for Childhood, explains why it's time for a change in leadership For many years I kept...