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Category: Stories

Boots, Love, & Resilience: Hope for a Nation Neighbored by War

December 12, 2025

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Team CERI, alongside dedicated global volunteers, have been in Moldova working to put warm boots on children during the grip of winter. The history of putting boots on children at CERI goes back to a miraculous moment in 1998.

Family: Where Children Find Their Heroes

June 27, 2025

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Watch as children share who they admire most—a reminder of how deeply family matters.

Experience Childhood Everywhere

January 3, 2025

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Watch children around the world experience the magic of being safe, happy, and full of wonder. Together, we help children everywhere experience the joy of childhood.

Joining forces in India to safeguard children

August 24, 2023

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CERI trains professionals in India and around the world to ensure quality services are provided to vulnerable kids and families.

The story behind CERI’s beginning

August 18, 2023

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"I wish to share with you a personal story about love and commitment, a story about a child in Moldova that changed my life forever."

Strong family: A Grandma’s hope

April 10, 2023

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Meet Mhambi. At 85 years old she cares for three great grandchildren and a granddaughter who is HIV positive.

Hope after loss: Kannan and Shana’s Story

April 6, 2023

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Kannan and Shana in Sri Lanka have experienced unimaginable loss in their young lives. Through CERI's case management program, they have a team fighting by their side.

Real-life heroes among us

April 4, 2023

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If we live in a world of parentless children, perhaps there are childless parents living among us as well, quiet heroes who give all they have so that children might see all they can be.

Roma refugee family’s struggle for education 

April 3, 2023

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Luli doesn’t know how to read or write and was married before her 18th birthday. She is a member of the Roma community, where girls only go to school one or two years.

One year in: Helping Ukrainian refugees rebuild their lives

February 28, 2023

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One year ago, the Petrenko family fled Ukraine after the war broke out leaving Artem and his three children displaced in neighboring Moldova.
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