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We protect childhood by providing a family environment for children through direct care, strengthening families, building up communities, and advocating for children's rights in Guatemala, India, Moldova, South Africa, and Sri Lanka.
The IDE’s mission is to achieve real implementation of children’s rights on the ground, together with more respectful changes in child-care practices. The IDE's experience of many years and the many requests it receives are proof that the challenge is great, but that discernible improvement of the systems is possible, if it is supported by political will and technical training.
Child Safe Horizons works with various international organisations including the UN, INGOs, NGOs, and faith-based organisations on developing child safeguarding policies and procedures, as well as roll out strategies to assist in the prevention of child abuse within organisations. They assist in: research; organisational policies and procedures; developing policies that are in line with donor requirements yet specific to the cultural, programmatic and country needs. They specialise in capacity building of staff and management.
Furthermore, their team includes Child…
Children's Rights International's mission is to promote, protect and advance the human rights of children, primarily in developing countries, and to promote understanding of, adherence to and effective implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC).
GOAL's mission is "to work towards ensuring that the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental rights of life, including but not limited to adequate shelter, food, water and sanitation, healthcare and education." GOAL’s Children's Empowerment and Protection (CEP) sector focuses on high vulnerability populations of children, often in the most extreme of situations (e.g. street children, child prostitutes and child migrant labourers). These are children who often fall through the cracks of even the most…
EFSCW is a non-profit Brussels-based foundation committed to the improvement of the rights and living conditions of children at risk, particularly street children. As a platform for lobbying and advocacy towards the European Union, EFSCW provides non-governmental organisations who are working with children at risk, both within and outside of the EU, with information and advice concerning all children and youth-related policies and EU assistance programmes. It also facilitates the exchange of best practice between member organisations. EFSCW aims to improve the rights and living conditions of…
All children have a right to a childhood, to safety, happiness, playfulness, and curiosity in life. All children have the right to grow up and develop socially and intellectually. World Childhood Foundation works to prevent abuse and exploitation of children. They support and implement over 100 projects around the world, assisting children who are at risk of or are victims of abuse, children who are in alternative care, street children, and families at risk.
We support and implement over 100 projects around the world, assisting children who are at risk of or are victims of abuse, children…
Kindernothilfe (German for "Supporting children in need") was founded in Germany in 1959 as a Christian organisation to support vulnerable and marginalized children and youth to develop their full potentials. Kindernothilfe Austria was founded in 1996, followed by Kindernothilfe Switzerland in 2004 and Kindernothilfe Luxembourg in 2009.
The Code (short for “The Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism”) is a multi-stakeholder initiative with the mission to provide awareness, tools and support to the tourism industry to prevent the sexual exploitation of children.
Maestral International’s target population is children experiencing, or at risk of, abandonment, abuse, neglect and exploitation. Maestral works to facilitate cross-cutting, comprehensive approaches to child welfare that are locally-owned, adequately resourced, sustainable and well-monitored and accountable.
Maestral International aims to respond to the pressing need to turn this situation around, reducing risk and enabling vulnerable children to grow up to become full members of their communities.