Listen & document
Select one real event with local partners. Gather evidence, lessons and anonymised experiences from children, families, practitioners and communities.
The CHILD Initiative · Founding pilot
One real event.
One story.
A new way to learn.
A focused demonstration of how CHILD can connect evidence, professional knowledge, lived experience and creative learning—then turn what humanity learns into wiser action for the next generation.
Make the whole vision visible at a human scale.
Rather than trying to build every part of CHILD at once, the founding pilot will follow one carefully chosen real event from lived experience to connected intelligence, from intelligence to story, and from story to practical learning.
The event could relate to an earthquake in Nepal, the tsunami in Banda Aceh, a cyclone or flood in Sri Lanka, or another situation proposed by a founding partner. Selection will depend on local relationships, ethical access and where the work can add genuine value.
The approach
Five connected movements.
Connect & challenge
Build a focused Living Wisdom Review, test claims across evidence and experience, and identify what children and adults most need to understand.
Create with care
Translate the learning into one culturally grounded Earthtronauts story and practical activities, reviewed for accuracy, dignity and child sensitivity.
Test in real life
Pilot the story and activities with children, caregivers and educators. Listen closely to what engages, confuses, helps or needs to change.
Learn & pass it on
Publish an accessible learning brief, improve the prototype and show how one community’s lessons can help the next.
What the pilot producesTangible enough to test.
Tangible enough to test.
Useful enough to grow.
Living Wisdom Review
A concise, traceable synthesis of evidence, experience, context and lessons around the selected event.
Earthtronauts story prototype
One child-sensitive story treatment or short animated proof of concept grounded in real events and anonymised lives.
Learning & action kit
Practical activities for children, families and educators that connect understanding with preparedness, care and agency.
Field Signals test
A safe, small-scale way for participants to share observations, questions, lessons and feedback.
Pilot learning brief
What worked, what did not, what changed and what should be carried into the next place or generation.
Non-negotiables
Reality—with dignity.
- Informed participation and safeguarding
- Anonymised identities and personal details
- Local knowledge and cultural review
- No sensationalising trauma or disaster
- Age-appropriate truth, agency and hope
- Transparent sources, uncertainties and learning
An invitation to founding partners
Help fund the first complete proof.
We are looking for one or more mission-aligned partners able to contribute catalytic funding, local access, evidence, safeguarding expertise, research capacity, creative production or pilot settings.
Scope, timeline, governance and budget will be agreed with founding partners before implementation. No tax-deductibility claim is made at this stage.