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RAILWAY CHILDREN MOSCOW

Location:

Moscow, Russia

Number of children who will benefit annually:

85-100

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Railway Children (UK)

LOCAL PARTNER:

NO TO ALCOHOL AND NARCOTICS (NAN)

This project will provide residential care for younger children new to the street who are picked up at Moscow's Kursky railway station. It involves local partner No to Alcohol and Narcotics (NAN) a Moscow-based NGO. It will also include drug de-addiction of homeless children willing to leave the street, and the training of professional care workers in the rights and needs of street children, including the placement of social workers on Kursky station.

The aim is to implement recommendations from the findings of joint action research work carried out by Railway Children at a number of stations with three partners in Moscow and Siberia (Chita).

ALBANIA STREET KIDS AND CAMPS PROGRAMME

Location:

ALBANIA

Number of children who will benefit annually:

190

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

RED INTERNATIONAL (UK)

local partner:

Om ALBANIA

This project is designed to help Albanian street children who are often not orphaned but take to the streets because of threats within their own families, such as alcoholic or abusive parents (especially gypsy children). They are at high risk of involvement in child trafficking, the drug trade or organ smuggling.

Red International operates two day-care centres for these children in Durres and in Lushnje. They receive meals, literacy classes, crafts time, painting therapy and story reading. They can also attend summer camps which typically serve 30 to 40 children for one week each, allowing them to come out of their normal environment.

LAURA HOUSE FOSTER CARE

Location:

Constanta, Romania

Number of children who will benefit annually:

Six

Administered by:

Fundatia Osana (Romania)

The programme is designed to support six HIV-positive teenagers (aged between 14 and 19) with the aim of self-sustainability and social integration in order for them to achieve a certain degree of independence. Two of the teenagers have been reintegrated into their natural families while four are with foster families.

They were originally abandoned as children at Constanta's Hospital for Infectious Diseases. According to the law, when they are 18 they have to leave the protected system. But due to the time they have spent in institutions they lack real-life experience and the ability for social integration.

HOT MEAL FOR ALL

Location:

Germany

Number of children who will benefit annually:

1,500

PROPOSING AND REPORTING AGENCY:

Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk (Germany)

This initiative supports facilities that offer poor children free meals at regular intervals. Many underprivileged children in Germany who live close to the poverty line are ill-nourished. At home they receive insufficient breakfast and hardly any hot meals.

AID FUND FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN NEED AND THE VACATION CAMPAIGN

Location:

Germany

Number of children who will benefit annually:

600

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk (Germany)

The aid fund supports individual families which are in hopeless financial situations through no fault of their own. It helps where state institutions are incapable of providing quick, non-bureaucratic assistance and of abating the most serious consequences.

The vacation campaign offers grants to attend holiday camps for children from encumbered or underprivileged families who have never gone on vacation - due to their parents living on welfare or insufficient incomes. Such trips further the children's social development, boost their self-confidence and provide them with the strength to cope with their difficult everyday life at home.

Azimut

Location:

Verona, Italy

Number of children who will benefit annually:

250

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Instituto Don Calabria (Italy)

This project supports minors who are seeking to leave situations of organised crime, working or sexual exploitation and/or exploitation and violence in general.

The halt point is a safe place that receives minors who need immediate help, providing protection and social guardianship functions. This primary form of reception, which can last for a maximum of five days, is intended to check minor's situation, private conditions, to signal eventual physical mistreatment or sexual abuse and to inform the relevant institutions.

BUCHAREST DAY CENTRE

Location:

Bucharest, Romania

Number of children who will benefit annually:

40 in each day centre

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Care and Relief of the Young (UK)

This project is designed to help children from impoverished and deprived communities in Bucharest to have opportunities to develop their education, learn life skills and be equipped to lead useful lives.

For more than 10 years, Care and Relief of the Young has been providing residential care, foster care and independence training to the many needy children in Bucharest. In 2006, it successfully launched a day centre in a local school. So far this has provided assistance to more than 40 children and their families. It offers a basic education, creative and artistic activities and vocational training with further help to gain employment.

Children of Chernobyl

Location:

Ukraine

Number of children who will benefit annually:

300

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Antoniano di Bologna (Italy)

The project provides services to children affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Some of these are guaranteed in hospital (food integration, sanitary consumables, psychological services, educational and art-therapy activities), others through the opening and the managing of a multi-service centre for families near to the hospital (psychological support for parents, parents self-help groups, free legal assistance and counselling, etc.).

The organisers are seeking to improve the diagnosis and treatment capacities in hospital, through elements such as the purchase and provision of diagnostic and surgical equipments, as well as scientific training on paediatric oncology at international level for Ukrainian medical staff.

Equal Opportunities from the Start

Location:

Germany

Number of children who will benefit annually:

500

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk (Germany)

This project is aimed at poor children living on welfare level, who are increasingly losing out in education. The basis for equal opportunities in school education is books, exercise books and other basic school equipment. The education fund and the action 'supply for school start cornets' (cardboard cornets filled with little presents and sweets given to children in Germany on their first day of school) give these kids a good start at school.

Home of Hope

Location:

Albania

Number of children who will benefit annually:

200+

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Care and Relief of the Young (UK)

This project will establish a day centre to provide deprived children and their families with a decent daily meal and to supply the children with basic education and training in life skills, giving them opportunities of a more purposeful life in the community as they grow up.

The Home of Hope has provided care for about 50 children since 1992, and currently has 20 children in residence. Some of the children have been reunited with parents of wider families, others are now reaching the age of independence. The Home of Hope cooperates closely with other agencies in preventing family breakdown, child abuse and countering child trafficking. This residential work will continue alongside the development of the day-centre operation.

Fit with Leo and Loupe

Location:

Germany

Number of children who will benefit annually:

750

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk (Germany)

This project targets elementary school pupils. It helps in a playful way to inject a daily dose of fitness into their lives at school and at home.

The aim is to combat the effects of poor or insufficient nutrition and lack of exercise, which lead to physical deficiencies such as tiredness, concentration problems and obesity.

Every seventh child in Germany today is obese, and the trend is growing. Affected children often display inhibited development, ill health, bodily injury through accidents and tooth decay.

A NEST FOR EACH CHILD

Location:

Various locations in Italy

Number of children who will benefit annually:

114

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Antoniano di Bologna (Italy)

This project aims to increase the possibilities for the poorest children to attend kindergartens in order to enable their mothers to go to work. It is designed to produce a general improvement in living conditions for children belonging to poor families, single mothers in precarious economic conditions and immigrants.

THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN A FAMILY

Location:

Brasov, Turnu Severin, Ramnica.Valcea and Braila, Romania

Number of children who will benefit annually:

600

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

ANTONIANO DI BOLOGNA (ITALY)

The primary target of the project is to prevent children from being abandoned, thus giving them the chance of growing in their own family rather than an institute.

There is a day-time centre in Ramnicu Valcea for children of pre-schooling age who are at risk of abandonment. A similar centre is planned in Braila. In Brasnov, the organisers support the activity of the Foundation Inima Pentru Inima as well as one of the maternity wards of the Brasov Hospital, to aid women who might otherwise abandon their children immediately after birth. In Turnu Severin the project provides financial and pyschological support to families.

AID FUND FOR STREET CHILDREN

Location:

Germany

Number of children who will benefit annually:

250

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk (Germany)

This project aims to help street children in Germany by providing information, shelters and hostels, re-unifications and outreach services.

Every year, between 1,500 and 2,500 children in Germany take to a life in the streets. They attempt to escape mistreatment, abuse and neglect and mostly rely on begging, prostitution and petty crime for their sustenance. They dream of a normal, protected existence. These children come from all walks of life. Their behaviour is often inconspicuous.

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMME - ROMANIA

Location:

Sighisoara, Romania

Number of children who will benefit annually:

150

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

VERITAS SIGHISOARA (ROMANIA)

This project aims to improve children's lives by supporting 150 at-risk children in their educational and social development, preventing child abuse in the form of domestic violence and trafficking, and providing children with an opportunity to receive a nutritious hot meal each day.

The current programme for disadvantaged children and their families includes a pre-school, after-school programmes for kids and teens and social assistance for their families including distribution of material aid. It also runs a community programme against domestic violence, abuse and trafficking. Educational programmes offer computer, language and art courses.

CHILDREN'S EDUCATION CENTRE AND SPORTS FIELD

Location:

PEJA, KOSOVO

Number of children who will benefit annually:

200

Proposing and Reporting Agency:

Red International UK

LOCAL PARTNER:

Om KOSOVO

The centre provides children with a warm and safe environment where they can receive assistance with learning in various subjects and life skills. It aims to encourage respect and understanding for one another and so sharpen skills through classes in English, computer, music and art (which are not offered by public schools). This develops improved self-esteem and more positive attitudes, giving the children a greater sense of hope in their future.

The organisers have rented one level (three rooms) of a building in Peja (which does not have a public library). This is opened before and after school hours as a complimentary learning and culture centre.



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