METAdrasi – Action for Migration and Development, was founded in December 2009 with the mission to facilitate the reception and integration of refugees and migrants in Greece. As a prominent transit and arrival country for refugees and migrants entering Europe, Greece faces many challenges to the protection of children on the move. Read more
The Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) helps support vulnerable children, with a special focus on children with disabilities. CSID was established in Bangladesh in 1997 with the aim of reducing discrimination against marginalised people, and addressing barriers to accessing rights. Read more
Children Assistance Program (CAP) advocates for the rights of women and children in Liberia. Its mission is to rehabilitate the lives of Liberia’s war affected children and youth towards sustainable futures. Through its services, CAP creates access to a safe living environment and sustainable and equal opportunities for women, youth and children in Liberia. CAP is one of the largest and oldest local child protection agencies in the country. Read more
First Step Cambodia work with boys who are survivors of sexual abuse and children who display harmful sexual behaviour, as well as their families, carers and communities. Read more
Voice of Children (VoC) work with children living on the streets, and have increasingly started to work with families and wider communities in the urban slum communities where many children on the streets come from. The goal of their work with street-connected children is to enable sustainable reintegration back into families and communities. Read more
Guatemala has one of the highest rates of income inequality in the world, and in 2006 had the second highest rate of children growing up in poverty. CONACMI works in Guatemala, with a focus on the prevention of violence against children and young people; particularly sexual abuse. Read more
Community Based Rehabilitation Jamaica supports children with disabilities and their parents, preventing them from separating and assisting them in staying together as a family. In Jamaica children with disabilities are often discriminated against, and for families that are already struggling to live under the poverty line, the pressure can often prove too much. Read more
Semya Kazhdomu Rebenku works to prevent children with disabilities from growing up in residential care. They work closely with local authorities and the Kyrgyzstan government to ensure that these particularly vulnerable children receive the specialist care they need, in loving families. Read more
In 2010, 55% of Zimbabwe’s population were living below the poverty line and there were more than one million children who had been orphaned as a result of HIV and AIDS, in 2012 alone this number increased by 890,000. FOST supports and protects vulnerable children in Zimbabwe’s farm worker communities. Read more
Naba’a supports children at risk of violence and neglect in refugee camps and marginalised villages, across Lebanon. They work to empower local communities so that they can uphold the rights of children and young people; enabling them to play an active and healthy role within their society. They envision a society built on respect of human rights and one in which individuals are able to take control of the decisions affecting their lives. Read more
CINDI was founded in July 1996 as a multi-sectoral network of over 300 South African civil society and government agencies (non-governmental organisations, community based organisations, faith based organisations, local and regional government departments). Read more
Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an independent national non-profit NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya. USK works to improve the care of children and youth living and working on the streets in Nairobi and beyond. Read more
The five-decade long conflict between government forces, paramilitary groups and guerrilla groups has devastated the lives of many children and families in Colombia. Taller de Vida works with children affected by the armed conflict in Colombia. It strives to keep them safe and to protect their rights. Read more
The Jordan River Foundation (JRF) envisions a Jordan where solutions are homegrown, where the opportunity to prosper is for all, and where the wellbeing of Jordanian children shapes society’s future. Established in 1995 by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, JRF’s overall aim is to promote child safety and empower communities. Read more
ChildLinK gives orphans and vulnerable children who are separated or at risk of being separated from their families or communities a safe and secure future. ChildLinK’s vision is a Guyanese society where every child has the right to grow up in a safe and secure family and community protected from abuse, exploitation and violence. Read more
Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE) was established in 1989 by a group of social development professionals who worked in child-focused organisations.Its establishment was a response to the increased number of orphaned and abandoned children in Addis Ababa caused by the drought and famine of 1984/85. Read more
Challenging Heights brings unique expertise in rescuing children trafficked within Ghana for exploitation in the fishing industry. In Ghana, fishing communities are responsible for recruiting a large number of children, who are either sold or involuntarily taken from their communities, and exploiting them as child labourers. Read more
Uyisenga Ni Imanzi was established in 2002 in response to the high number of children and young adults who became orphans and heads of their households as a result of the Rwandan genocide and HIV/AIDS. Today Uyisenga Ni Imanzi carries out holistic, community-based interventions to help create protective and caring environments for children and young people. Read more
Partnership for Every Child has worked in the field of family separation for over 20 years. They focus on preventing loss of parental care for children and ensuring that where children do have to leave, they are protected in a safe, secure family environment. Partnership for Every Child aims to make a contribution to reducing the proportion of children without parental care in Russia as a whole, and more directly in St Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast. Read more
Hope Village Society (HVS) cares for children in difficult circumstances, orphans who have been abandoned and those deprived of family care, especially street children. Read more
Muhammadiyah is an Islamic organisation in Indonesia founded in 1912 as a reformist socio-religious movement based on Al-Ma’un, one of the surahs (chapters) in the Koran. The main value of the surah is to help those in poverty and orphans. Read more
Working with street and working children in Delhi since 1989, Butterflies believes in the right of every child to protection, respect, opportunities and participation in his/her own growth and development. Programmes are carried out in 12 contact areas in Delhi at points where there is a high concentration of street/working children such as at bus terminals, markets or railway stations. Butterflies also runs three night shelters in Delhi. Read more
Associação Brasileira Terra dos Homens (ABTH) works with children and families in violent situations to prevent separation and provide a continuum of care options, including reintegration support, temporary foster care, and institutional reform. Approximately 80% of children in institutions in Brazil have some sort of recoverable family bond. Specializing in a holistic, well tested, systemic approach, ABTH works directly with children and families. Read more
Projeto Legal is a Brazilian non-governmental, human rights organisation working for the promotion and defence of human rights, especially those of children, adolescents and youth. Read more