Same as you.
In rooms you will never enter.
For 35 years, in 30 countries, we have done one thing about that.
Despair was never the point.
Welcome to Children of the Earth.
Since 1990, Children of the Earth has helped young people in 30+ countries find their voice, find each other, and change what's in front of them.
Every camp, chapter, and project for 35 years has followed the same shape. It's simpler than it sounds.
Young people begin by looking inward. Who am I? What matters to me? Confidence isn't taught — it's discovered.
Then they meet — across languages, cultures, borders, faiths. Different is not other.
Inner change becomes outer change. Community projects, peer support, disaster response. Small. Local. Real.
In 1990, at the World Summit for Children, the Dalai Lama blessed a torch. Nina Meyerhof carried it home.
She has been tending the flame ever since — through 30 countries, three decades, two generations of young people. From Vermont to Rwanda to Kenya to the Lincoln Memorial.
She's still here. Still listening. Still pointing forward.
We are not a big organization. We are a real one. Three scenes from the last year.
Children in conflict zones receive a teddy bear — each carrying a handwritten note from a child somewhere else in the world. Because children care about other children.
Young people from across Africa met across borders and languages — and discovered they were not alone in wanting to change the world.
Chapters across Africa run youth programs rooted in the same three movements: reflect, connect, act.
Not franchises. Living communities of young people, held together by trust and personal connection.
Each chapter started the same way. One person caught the flame and brought it home.
19 monks. 2,300 miles. 108 days barefoot. Nina Meyerhof gifts the sacred Torch to Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākaro.
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Dr. Nina Meyerhof visits the educational center in Rodi, Homa Bay County. A safe environment where children believe in each other.
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Each bear travels with a personal note made by a child from another part of the world. Children care about other children.
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