This is just one of many similar stories
that fuel people like Mark Lukowski, CEO
of Christian Children’s Fund of Canada
(CCFC). Lukowski joined the Markham,
Ontario-based organization in 2009, trad-
ing a long history in the business world
working for companies like Hewlett-Pack-
ard and Motorola for a role in the not-for-
profit sector.
“I really enjoy it. Every day, I try to help re-
duce poverty in developing countries and
communities where we work. My focus is
to help as many children as possible reach
their full potential,” Lukowski said.
In the 1930s, American Presbyterian mis-
sionary Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke and England-
born Dr. Verent Mills began working with
Chinese war orphans, which led Clarke to
create the China’s Children Fund in Rich-
mond, Virginia in 1938. Mills, who had
been a missionary in South China since the
early ’30s, joined the group a few years lat-
er as regional director in Shanghai. In the
late 1950s, the organization was renamed
the Christian Children's Fund (CCF) and
expanded its work from Asia into the Mid-
dle East. By the 1960s, CCF had become
a global organization and growing support
in Canada prompted the creation of CCFC.
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